What edlbles are you growing this year?
kumquatlady
13 years ago
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Any varieties from last year that you won't be growing this year?
Comments (6)I had Kelvin Floodlight from 2 different sources and the one I had purchased from a local nursery really looked nothing like the tuber I had received in a trade. The flower never looked as full and the petals would often turn brown. I tossed that one. My Candlelight from Swan Island rarely looks as pretty as it does in the catalog. Mostly it looks like dirty yellow but once it awile it throws a nice orange/yellow blend. I don't really love it but I keep planting it every year, probably because it is the first one to bloom every summer and it seems to store very well since I have had that one for years. As for the late bloomers, I plan on starting the biggest AA's in the house in late March. I did that with Show N Tell last year and it was blooming profusely by July. I made a list of the ones I'm going to start early. I don't have room to start them all or I would. As for your Citron Du Cap, I would love to trade you something for that one. I have been eyeing that one for a few years and would like to try it. I have quite a few dahlias in storage and hopefully will have a lot of varities to trade in the spring. If you're interested, you can email me on my member page. Linda...See More3rd year growing hots, can you help me with my growing list?
Comments (12)@tsheets - I posted a few months ago on a couple of the different hab/fatali recipes we were fooling around with, including some cookies. Here's a link to that post: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pepper/msg0913133225559.html The recipes in that post use habs, but we mostly use fatalis in our desert dishes now, when we have them available. The absolute best thing we ever made with fatalis or habs were fatali-almond caramels. I haven't poste pics or recipes for that, but I will one of these days. We can only have them 2 or 3 times a year, because we eat all of them until they are gone, as soon as they're done, and that isn't good for the waistline....See MoreWhat are you growing in your garden this year?
Comments (9)I'm doing a landscape project at my sister's house this year - it's new construction, so there is absolutely nothing in the yard except weed grasses, a few apple trees lining the road, a lone peony and tiny iris clump - left-overs/survivors from before the construction began. I'm in Sevier county, so had to bring in all of my starts that had been hardening off outside for the past week or so due to the hard freeze last week and forecast hard freeze tonight (GRRR!). What I've got going so far: Amaranthus caudatus (Love Lies Bleeding) Borage Hyacinth Bean Cypress Vine German & Roman Chamomile Cumin Wormwood Absinthe False Indigo Threadleaf coreopsis Foxglove Sky Pilot (Phacelia sericea - this grows wild on the foothills & mountains here) She's hoping for a chamomile/creeping thyme lawn, and I as a home brewer, I'm hoping to plant some hops vines as well. I've got a ton of other seeds to consider. She's not much of a gardener, so I'm thinking easy, obnoxious even, plants: Evening Primrose Breadseed Poppy Oregano Mint Sweet Pea Blue Flax Dill Larkspur California Poppy Iris And the list goes on :)...See MoreTomatoes 2016 – What are you growing this year?
Comments (19)First off let me say that i am not a tomato person. Not because i don't like tomatoes (although i dont like bland store tomatoes anymore). But because i've had terrible luck growing tomatoes in the past. Just haven't found any good ones for my climate and soil. Although in fairness i haven't given it a lot of tries. This year i plan to change that. I have several varieties i'd like to try and i will save the best for including in my own breeding project. I will be following Joseph Lofthouse's tomato breeding progress with his adapted to Utah. I may even use his varieties in the future and probably swap any good genetics i find back with him. Breeding a tomato variety that is highly attractive to pollinators and open to natural cross pollinating would be fantastic. I am also focusing on flavor. That Burrell's Special sounds interesting. I'm always on the hunt for locally adapted varieties. Often it makes the breeding and selection much easier. These are the tomatoes i'd like to plant this year, but i don't know if i have room for all of them. It depend on how much room i save for other projects like the watermelon. Solanum Cheesmaniae Solanum Galapagense Magnus - 1900's variety Ponderosa - 1890 tomato Marhio Hillbilly vintage wine turkish striped monastary pink accordion pink berkley tie die german bicolor copia amana orange orange peach Fantome du Laos...See Morekumquatlady
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