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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #100 on: February 04, 2011, 04:05:30 PM »
60 degrees and sunny here today.  Haven't seen snow since Dec 12th.
All our flower bulbs have just sprouted and my lawn is growing again :P

 Sorry for you guys on the rest of the planet who are experiencing weather difficulties. ;)


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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #101 on: February 04, 2011, 04:19:33 PM »
With the weather you guys are experiencing i would imagine "snow peas" would do well..... ;D ;D ;)

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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #102 on: February 05, 2011, 04:43:44 AM »
Mick you have to be careful about "Snow Pee's if it's below a certain temp, I think the cut off for me is in the -20 c but then I'm old and the blood flow to the extremities is not as good as it used to be. Also they talk if you whip into the emergency ward with frost bite.
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« Reply #103 on: February 05, 2011, 04:53:25 AM »
Cooking Daddy we this year have ordered from Veseys, William Dam, McFayden's, Terra Edibles, Stokes, and Seeds of Italy, ( they're from the states and we've had good luck with their seeds) if you want a real treat google Seeds of Diversity and look at their list of heritage seed companies, but be prepared to spend some time because there is a bunch. (http://www.seeds.ca/rl/rl.php).
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #104 on: February 05, 2011, 12:36:27 PM »
OK thanks Bill. I'll take a look at all of them.
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #105 on: February 05, 2011, 05:28:27 PM »
I have spent the last few hours going through the places you suggested Bill, thank you!

I do save seed that I have had success with or that was tough enough to put up with what me and the garden put it through. I know that does not make it heritage, but I think it is in the same spirit. Unfortunately I don't know the names anymore and I label the envelops like "Dot's Beans" and "coriander" and "red lettuce" but that's ok. My stored seeds are out in the shed with my CB750 toughing out the latest snow fall.

I am ready for some new stuff and having had problems with my tomatoes last year (I am going to plant them in another place next year on the other side of the property) I am thinking that I should try some new "heritage" tomatos. I tend to buy them at the local places as small plants in the spring. Probably not as resistant that way?
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #106 on: February 05, 2011, 05:51:23 PM »
Mick you have to be careful about "Snow Pee's if it's below a certain temp, I think the cut off for me is in the -20 c but then I'm old and the blood flow to the extremities is not as good as it used to be. Also they talk if you whip into the emergency ward with frost bite.
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And i bet it tastes pretty poor on you salad as well.... ;D :o

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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #107 on: February 05, 2011, 07:54:20 PM »
They have these at my garden center.
http://www.seedsavers.org/

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« Reply #108 on: February 05, 2011, 10:43:32 PM »
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« Reply #109 on: February 06, 2011, 04:32:50 AM »
Mick in all my years I can honestly say that the flavour has never crossed my mind, a couple of times when I was younger I thought perhaps that if I wasn't careful I might have a hard time impregnating young ladies and so suggested one or two knit me a sock for the a fore mentioned  extremity something in stripes perhaps, but preferably in tartan, at which point I was told to "piss off".
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« Reply #110 on: February 06, 2011, 05:48:40 AM »
CookinD talked to my wife and we think it would depend who grew the veg and where, we tended to experiment a lot here ( getting out of a small lot down by the beach to 4 acres with a lot of sun, we've gone bonkers) now I think we'll settle down and try and find what works best here, then save seed, not that I really begrudge the seed companies their money but my wife will retire a year September and being how both of us will have only Cpp it's best to cut costs ahead of time and practice frugality, also there is still talk of us selling veg to higher end eating establishments, don't know, but I'm also starting to brew my own suds and I have a huge amount of Pear trees that might turned into pear Calvados.  As far as the heritage stuff if they are from Ont and are 50 years old you know that they've survived the growing conditions here and thrived, unless we have a major war, plague, whatever, you know that the population will grow and food prices will rise, Now my next project is to find who'll sell me cold hardy grape vines for a reasonable price and trying to fine some one who'll trade meat for vegetables, and a coffee substitute.
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #111 on: February 06, 2011, 10:24:16 AM »
My spring excitement ended this morning.
Woke up to about 15" of snow. Snow blowed everyone around me.

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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #112 on: February 06, 2011, 04:00:28 PM »
Mick in all my years I can honestly say that the flavour has never crossed my mind, a couple of times when I was younger I thought perhaps that if I wasn't careful I might have a hard time impregnating young ladies and so suggested one or two knit me a sock for the a fore mentioned  extremity something in stripes perhaps, but preferably in tartan, at which point I was told to "piss off".
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #113 on: March 04, 2011, 05:06:07 AM »
Thank you Bill the demon.
Yesterday I ordered from terraedibles.ca four different heritage tomatoes that are supposed to be rust resistant. They have SO MANY different kinds. I didn't get much past the first page and I didn't order any of the more exotic types. The ones I ordered should resemble conventional tomatoes: a beefsteak, an early, a cherry and a paste type. I will start them indoors when they arrive next week and will plant them at the front of the house, not in the veggie garden where the tomatoes had a hard time last year. Oh ya, and I planted potatoes in the next row which I now know is a no-no.
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #114 on: March 04, 2011, 08:21:28 AM »
I haven't started my garden yet this year. I need to get some more soil first. Here in AR we don't get our final frost until somewhere around mid April. The biggest problem I've had in my garden is deer. I live about three blocks from the downtown square, but we have a group of at least 8 deer that destroy my garden. I'm tempted to get out my longbow and take them out. Have any other solutions to keep deer away? 

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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #115 on: March 06, 2011, 10:25:18 PM »
Mick you have to be careful about "Snow Pee's if it's below a certain temp, I think the cut off for me is in the -20 c but then I'm old and the blood flow to the extremities is not as good as it used to be. Also they talk if you whip into the emergency ward with frost bite.
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And i bet it tastes pretty poor on you salad as well.... ;D :o

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Before things went out of control yesterday I raked back the mulch pile and spread out some seed and turned on the water on it. Prolly could have done the cabbage and broccoli a month ago. Also put down a few packs of lettuce and carrots.  Pretty haphazzard, but at least it's in the ground. I can arrange it into rows ot thin it all later.

Onions from last year are making their appearance, kale is sprouted from the seeds thrown two weeks ago, and amazing to see that I still have two bundles of sage ready to start the season. (It's been a pretty chilly winter, below zero at points).

60 degrees and sunny here today.  Haven't seen snow since Dec 12th.
All our flower bulbs have just sprouted and my lawn is growing again :P

 Sorry for you guys on the rest of the planet who are experiencing weather difficulties. ;)



Bulbs, check.Daffodils , anyway. I got this other really nice perinnial ground cover, white flowers and looks almost like leaves of a a fern. Sure have had trouble digging it up and spreading it around , or at least getting it to take hold elsewhere.
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #116 on: March 07, 2011, 04:04:49 AM »
Well guys all are seeds are in and with the exception on grape vines coming on June 1st that,s it we've a bunch of new things to try, tomatoes mostly, but some new peppers and things like Cardoon said to be like Artichokes with out the choke, now if this white crap would go away we'd be out getting muddy. I thought that this year we'd be down to a few varieties but when the seed catalogs come in on Jan-Feb and the snow is going past your windows horizontally, vertically, and looking like dust devils or that you're in a snow globe that some one shook up it's hard to resist the lure of spring seeds, 13 new tomato varieties about 8 peppers ah well. Who would have thought that I would spend my declining years being a hooked veggy junky (shh past the Passila seed or the Sicilian saucer seed).
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #117 on: March 07, 2011, 09:04:11 AM »
I went on vacation last year in the middle of summer,  while I was gone my helpful  ::) neighbors only watered my grass once... if that.  I have a huge dead patch, and nothing i have done has been able to get rid of the weeds and bring back that grass. So I am clearing all of my grass and switching varieties.  Going to a type of buffalo grass. 

For the back yard,   I found a coupon for this:
http://www.harborfreight.com/10-ft-x-12-ft-greenhouse-with-4-vents-93358.html

Only $549 I think.  Such a good deal. 

I might have to go with this one though, for an extra $200...
http://www.harborfreight.com/6-ft-x-8-ft-greenhouse-47712.html

This should keep those pesky birds and other critters out of the tomato plants. 
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #118 on: March 23, 2011, 03:02:06 PM »
Little bitty tomato plant babies coming up in the living room and snow falling outside (AGAIN!)
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #119 on: March 23, 2011, 04:58:50 PM »
my tomato's are about an inch tall. My peppers i started early there already flowering.

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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #120 on: March 23, 2011, 05:57:29 PM »
I told my daugther to start her plants inside this week. I should take my own advise, as we got 4 inches of snow saterday and expect
more today.

Hopefully I will have a better garden than last year.

Any ideas on what would grow well in an area that is flooded under 2-3 inches of water until early June.
Arent there some plants that would grow well in this area?
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« Reply #121 on: March 23, 2011, 09:38:05 PM »
We are all in here in SC. Same as last year,peppers eggplants and herbs.
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #122 on: October 30, 2011, 09:49:54 AM »
Ok guy's how did your gardens grow this year? We had "early blight" in our tomatoes but even at that the San Marazano tomatoes produced mostly enough sauce for the winter while our our Italian peppers have done brilliantly and carrot and beans up the gigi. The other experiment that seems to have worked is the "3 Sisters" plantings in the back 40, me occasionally putting water on them and them fighting the weeds, we actually got corn, squash and beans out of it.
We were going to try to save seeds this year but my bod has developed slight "snags" this fall and precluded that experiment.
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #123 on: October 30, 2011, 02:22:42 PM »
Spent most of the day today working on the garden, clearing out stuff, mixing compost and adding a small drainage ditch. It is really wet here for fall, wet like in the spring. Went to a garlic festival in Toronto a few weeks ago and just yesterday got the garlic planted, too late I know, but I needed to make a raised bed to keep the garlic out of the water.
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Re: Gardeners
« Reply #124 on: October 30, 2011, 04:09:33 PM »
We had a wet spring, had to plant the corn 3 times, then a drought hit. So I bought a pump and hauled creek water to the garden most of the summer. Soon as the ponds finished I'm getting about 500 feet of water line to pump water up the hill to the garden.  ;) Anyway, I hauled water and we had a great garden. Most field peas put up ever, tomatoes canned, green beans canned, corn creamed and frozen, apple butter in the jars, and now the fall gardens doing fine. Turnips, kale, spinach, snow peas, some carrots, did I say turnips... ;D I reckon if I get time we'll plant some stuff in the green house too.

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