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Paul Drahn wrote:
.... Several years ago my gave up on buying packages of Blue Lake pole green bean seed. Usually 3 out of 8 plants would be some other kind of bean. So now we let some of the pods mature and save their seeds for next year. i've never had that poor of results from seed packages of any kind. i don't buy too many each season so perhaps i avoid it that ways. last year the thick podded snap peas were not very good for germination, but a few did come up, and then got repeatedly eaten by the woodchucks, so i will have to buy those again this year to try again. my eating bean varieties are wax and several types of green, but here or there within them there will be a reversion to another type (bush bean that ends up growing into a vine, pod is stringy, pod is wrong color or shape, beans when shelled are obviously not true to type). i try to keep the fresh eating varieties in their own patches separate from the other shelling or dry beans that i grow. it doesn't always work as the bees are doing their thing, but it does help. at the moment i have more varieties and cross- breeds than i'll ever be able to grow out and test. my classification and sorting work is at a stall for a while. for each named variety that i used to have i've now got a half dozen to a few dozen variants/cross-breeds. it's interesting to see what i think is going on and then try to grow them out and see if the cross-breed will grow true to the new pattern, shape, size, color, texture, form, habit, ... i need a lot more room. songbird |
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"David Hare-Scott" writes: Fran Farmer wrote: tomato plant. How sure are you that this tiny tom. has yet developed it's proper leaves as opposed to possibly more juvenile leaves? It is easy to work that out. There are exactly one pair of cotyledons which will be at the bottom. Any above that are true leaves. Technically true, but my tomato seedlings (especially the "runts") often have ill-formed true leaves early on. I'm not saying that is happening here, just that it can happen. -- Drew Lawson | Broke my mind | Had no spare | |
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Drew Lawson wrote:
In article "David Hare-Scott" writes: Fran Farmer wrote: tomato plant. How sure are you that this tiny tom. has yet developed it's proper leaves as opposed to possibly more juvenile leaves? It is easy to work that out. There are exactly one pair of cotyledons which will be at the bottom. Any above that are true leaves. Technically true, but my tomato seedlings (especially the "runts") often have ill-formed true leaves early on. I'm not saying that is happening here, just that it can happen. Nope , the leaves are perfectly formed little hearts . The second pair of true leaves have a tiny pair of leaves behind them , same as the "normals" . -- Snag |
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On 11/02/2015 11:31 AM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote: On 10/02/2015 11:33 AM, Terry Coombs wrote: One of my San Marzano tomatoes has different leaves , heart shaped rather than lobed like all the rest . Wonder what it'll grow ? Guess I'll just have to wait and see ... I have that seedling marked , and plan to keep track of where it gets planted . Pretty much everything has come up now except the anaheims and jalapenos , but they'll get there . Some of the tomatoes are almost 4" tall now . Hopefully I can get to the end of February before I have to go to the 4" pots . By then I'll have my "little greenhouse" built onto the south side of the house and will have room for them . I've read the other replies in the thread, (and certainly agree that it's possible that it could be a sport - but it could also be some other things) but at 4 inches high, that is still a fairly tiny tomato plant. How sure are you that this tiny tom. has yet developed it's proper leaves as opposed to possibly more juvenile leaves? It is easy to work that out. There are exactly one pair of cotyledons which will be at the bottom. Any above that are true leaves. I think I'll do a bit of a quibble about that, but only a minor one because of a recent seedling example I seem to recall that I had. Since I can't now remember which seeds I was raising and why I noted it at the time, or even that I gave it more of a thought than a glancing "That's a bit odd" in passing, then I do think it might be possible for the seedling to still come good and be what it's supposed to be. Sorry, I know that doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'm pretty sure I had a similar "problem" that turned out not to be a problem with some seeds I was raising recently. On that strongly stated stance, I'll pop back into my box and close the lid........... |
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On 11/02/2015 4:16 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote: Fran Farmer wrote: On 10/02/2015 11:33 AM, Terry Coombs wrote: One of my San Marzano tomatoes has different leaves , heart shaped rather than lobed like all the rest . Wonder what it'll grow ? Guess I'll just have to wait and see ... I have that seedling marked , and plan to keep track of where it gets planted . Pretty much everything has come up now except the anaheims and jalapenos , but they'll get there . Some of the tomatoes are almost 4" tall now . Hopefully I can get to the end of February before I have to go to the 4" pots . By then I'll have my "little greenhouse" built onto the south side of the house and will have room for them . I've read the other replies in the thread, (and certainly agree that it's possible that it could be a sport - but it could also be some other things) but at 4 inches high, that is still a fairly tiny tomato plant. How sure are you that this tiny tom. has yet developed it's proper leaves as opposed to possibly more juvenile leaves? It is easy to work that out. There are exactly one pair of cotyledons which will be at the bottom. Any above that are true leaves. So far there are four true leaves , all heart-shaped . Perhaps it's doing that because St Valentine's day is coming up..... |
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On 12/02/2015 1:58 AM, songbird wrote:
Paul Drahn wrote: ... Several years ago my gave up on buying packages of Blue Lake pole green bean seed. Usually 3 out of 8 plants would be some other kind of bean. So now we let some of the pods mature and save their seeds for next year. i've never had that poor of results from seed packages of any kind. i don't buy too many each season so perhaps i avoid it that ways. last year the thick podded snap peas were not very good for germination, but a few did come up, and then got repeatedly eaten by the woodchucks, so i will have to buy those again this year to try again. my eating bean varieties are wax and several types of green, but here or there within them there will be a reversion to another type (bush bean that ends up growing into a vine, pod is stringy, pod is wrong color or shape, beans when shelled are obviously not true to type). i try to keep the fresh eating varieties in their own patches separate from the other shelling or dry beans that i grow. it doesn't always work as the bees are doing their thing, but it does help. at the moment i have more varieties and cross- breeds than i'll ever be able to grow out and test. my classification and sorting work is at a stall for a while. for each named variety that i used to have i've now got a half dozen to a few dozen variants/cross-breeds. it's interesting to see what i think is going on and then try to grow them out and see if the cross-breed will grow true to the new pattern, shape, size, color, texture, form, habit, ... i need a lot more room. How many people are you feeding 'Bird? You must have a huge harvest. |
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Fran Farmer wrote:
songbird wrote: .... i need a lot more room. How many people are you feeding 'Bird? 2 here and 20-40 others at various times, not full production by far as we don't use all the space available for veggie production. we have much more space in perennials and a huge area covered by crushed limestone. perhaps 60-70 sq m total spread among many different garden patches and some of them not particularly hard pressed for production. i don't interplant intensively and i try different things and some of those trials are left for the critters or buried to feed the worms. You must have a huge harvest. not really, last year was the worst for the dry bean and most of the regular veggies, some did ok but quite a few were trimmed back by the woodchucks before they made it to productive size. some rotted. considering how little i did last year it wasn't any loss to me. my time was well rewarded by the strawberry patches and the other things i was doing and growing. i'd guess our complete harvest last year was something like: - 150kg of tomatoes of which i buried 135kg due to rot - 125kg of strawberries - 40kg green and red peppers - 15kg dried beans - 10kg of green and wax beans - 10kg rhubarb - 10kg of beets - 10kg onions - 5kg winter wheat - 5kg winter rye - 5kg turnips - 5kg rutabagas - 2kg garlic - 1kg peas/pea pods - 10 squash of various sizes - 20 fennel bulbs it was a very off year for many plantings because of the amount of woodchuck feasting we supported (often multiple raids). the lettuces and bok choi never had a chance to grow above a few inches, most of the peas too. then in the mid summer we had a lot of rain and not much sunshine. rot set in a few places. the beans i'd normally shell out three to four times what i got (30-40kg). and i didn't plant the back old grape trellis with climbers like i did the year before. i was having a hard time getting done what i did get done with my hand being broken. i may have a lot of bean varieties, but in most cases i only plant a few rows of some of them and for the new ones i've only just got them started now. to grow them out for any quantity would take a huge amount of space, which i don't have. the main patches of one variety beans are the pinto beans, lima beans and some greasy beans on the fence. almost every single bean plant was eaten by woodchucks once or twice. most of the strawberry harvest i was calling people to come pick because i had so many that i wasn't able to keep up. usually i'd pick them and give away what was extra. i still made 24 liters of freezer jam (that i gave away the first half because i made it the same day the small tornado came through the neighborhood and took the power out -- jam didn't set right). i think i'll be lucky to get half that this coming year because of how that back patch has been treated and taken over by other things. every season is a new adventure that is for sure. i have to be patient yet, spring won't be here for a while... songbird |
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On 12/02/2015 11:57 AM, songbird wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote: songbird wrote: ... i need a lot more room. How many people are you feeding 'Bird? 2 here and 20-40 others at various times, Wow. That is a lot of people not full production by far as we don't use all the space available for veggie production. we have much more space in perennials and a huge area covered by crushed limestone. perhaps 60-70 sq m total spread among many different garden patches and some of them not particularly hard pressed for production. i don't interplant intensively and i try different things and some of those trials are left for the critters or buried to feed the worms. You must have a huge harvest. not really, last year was the worst for the dry bean and most of the regular veggies, some did ok but quite a few were trimmed back by the woodchucks before they made it to productive size. some rotted. considering how little i did last year it wasn't any loss to me. my time was well rewarded by the strawberry patches and the other things i was doing and growing. i'd guess our complete harvest last year was something like: - 150kg of tomatoes of which i buried 135kg due to rot - 125kg of strawberries - 40kg green and red peppers - 15kg dried beans - 10kg of green and wax beans - 10kg rhubarb - 10kg of beets - 10kg onions - 5kg winter wheat - 5kg winter rye - 5kg turnips - 5kg rutabagas - 2kg garlic - 1kg peas/pea pods - 10 squash of various sizes - 20 fennel bulbs Wow. Your definiton of what is not a huge harvest and what I think is a huge harvest are very different. Just your strawberry harvest alone is huge IMO. it was a very off year for many plantings because of the amount of woodchuck feasting we supported (often multiple raids). the lettuces and bok choi never had a chance to grow above a few inches, most of the peas too. then in the mid summer we had a lot of rain and not much sunshine. rot set in a few places. the beans i'd normally shell out three to four times what i got (30-40kg). Do you mean as dry beans for eating or for seed saving? and i didn't plant the back old grape trellis with climbers like i did the year before. i was having a hard time getting done what i did get done with my hand being broken. i may have a lot of bean varieties, but in most cases i only plant a few rows of some of them and for the new ones i've only just got them started now. to grow them out for any quantity would take a huge amount of space, which i don't have. the main patches of one variety beans are the pinto beans, lima beans and some greasy beans on the fence. almost every single bean plant was eaten by woodchucks once or twice. What's a greasy bean? That's not a term I've heard before. most of the strawberry harvest i was calling people to come pick because i had so many that i wasn't able to keep up. Hummph. You didn't call me! I'd have caught a plane to get some of that harvest! The blasted Blue tongue lizards get most of mine and although I love the lizards, I do think the rotten sods could share with me. usually i'd pick them and give away what was extra. i still made 24 liters of freezer jam (that i gave away the first half because i made it the same day the small tornado came through the neighborhood and took the power out -- jam didn't set right). i think i'll be lucky to get half that this coming year because of how that back patch has been treated and taken over by other things. Well I have to say that I really admire your efforts. You seem to produce a lot of wonderful produce. every season is a new adventure that is for sure. i have to be patient yet, spring won't be here for a while... :-)) I've been buying more sugar to get ready for all the fruit glut that I'm going to have this year - pears, apples, quinces, figs, plums. |
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Fran Farmer wrote:
songbird wrote: Fran Farmer wrote: songbird wrote: ... i need a lot more room. How many people are you feeding 'Bird? 2 here and 20-40 others at various times, Wow. That is a lot of people yes, but most of them get fed maybe once a month and only a part of that meal comes from the gardens. we're not a full on CSA or anything formal like a farm. not full production by far as we don't use all the space available for veggie production. we have much more space in perennials and a huge area covered by crushed limestone. perhaps 60-70 sq m total spread among many different garden patches and some of them not particularly hard pressed for production. i don't interplant intensively and i try different things and some of those trials are left for the critters or buried to feed the worms. You must have a huge harvest. not really, last year was the worst for the dry bean and most of the regular veggies, some did ok but quite a few were trimmed back by the woodchucks before they made it to productive size. some rotted. considering how little i did last year it wasn't any loss to me. my time was well rewarded by the strawberry patches and the other things i was doing and growing. i'd guess our complete harvest last year was something like: - 150kg of tomatoes of which i buried 135kg due to rot - 125kg of strawberries - 40kg green and red peppers - 15kg dried beans - 10kg of green and wax beans - 10kg rhubarb - 10kg of beets - 10kg onions - 5kg winter wheat - 5kg winter rye - 5kg turnips - 5kg rutabagas - 2kg garlic - 1kg peas/pea pods - 10 squash of various sizes - 20 fennel bulbs Wow. Your definiton of what is not a huge harvest and what I think is a huge harvest are very different. Just your strawberry harvest alone is huge IMO. they are by far the easiest and fastest fruit crop for me here in our soils and climate. that they get ripe early in the summer is nice too. i have three patches going and two of those will need some work this year to refurbish them or to rotate part of them into other crops. one other patch is just getting established so it can run for a few years. it will be interplanted like one of the others (so i'll have two formal strawberry patches and two intermixed wandering patches). i'm hoping the new intermixed garden will work out as it will include other food plants besides the strawberries. i like that it really doesn't take much time for me to work weeding or watering because of the cover already in place. it's just a matter of getting small areas cleared for seeds and then seeing what happens. last year i put turnip and daikon radish seeds in, the turnips i never harvested many so they are worm food now under the snow (a few will survive to flower this coming year). the radishes i ate some of the sprouts and did not see any plants survive. i don't know if the critters found and ate all of them or what, but i don't think any are out there now. the sprouts and seeds were pretty good. it was a very off year for many plantings because of the amount of woodchuck feasting we supported (often multiple raids). the lettuces and bok choi never had a chance to grow above a few inches, most of the peas too. then in the mid summer we had a lot of rain and not much sunshine. rot set in a few places. the beans i'd normally shell out three to four times what i got (30-40kg). Do you mean as dry beans for eating or for seed saving? both as i do plant larger amounts of those we eat a lot of, but i have to balance that by what i want to grow and find out with the new crosses i'm discovering. and i didn't plant the back old grape trellis with climbers like i did the year before. i was having a hard time getting done what i did get done with my hand being broken. i may have a lot of bean varieties, but in most cases i only plant a few rows of some of them and for the new ones i've only just got them started now. to grow them out for any quantity would take a huge amount of space, which i don't have. the main patches of one variety beans are the pinto beans, lima beans and some greasy beans on the fence. almost every single bean plant was eaten by woodchucks once or twice. What's a greasy bean? That's not a term I've heard before. i'd call it a term of art used by the southern folks who have their own family heirloom varieties of climbing beans. our own Steve Peek has many more years experience growing them than i do. i've only put them in the past two years. they could probably use a little drier climate and longer for a few more weeks, but i'm still getting a pretty good harvest for the space they take (i put them on the fence to the north of the gardens so they don't block any of the summer sun). about all i see as trouble with them is the late season when we get rains it will turn any of the late unripe pods into useless beans with some rot and discoloration, so i have to pick what is ready and fairly dry when i can before it gets damaged if we get rains. i'd put them in the 110-120 day range for a full crop they could likely go longer as they vine quite tall (well over my head and come back down). they stand up to our weather and rains better than the adzuki and blackeyed peas (both of those seem to need at least that much time here and most of what i get is discolored or rotten). to me they are fairly bland with a very very slight fishy aftertaste. Ma likes them as a white bean. we've not eaten many at the fresh green stage, but the pods are good even when the seeds are large, some folks dry them at that stage for later use (boil 'em with a chunk of fatty meat for hours to rehydrate and cook). i haven't canned any of them either. most of the strawberry harvest i was calling people to come pick because i had so many that i wasn't able to keep up. Hummph. You didn't call me! I'd have caught a plane to get some of that harvest! The blasted Blue tongue lizards get most of mine and although I love the lizards, I do think the rotten sods could share with me. heh, that's an expensive berry! you'd be welcome for sure. we had a lot of raiding this year, but i have so many plants that they could not get them all. in the interplanted garden they could not find them very easily either. there were trails through the patches from both me and the animals raiding and i still had some that ended up rotting. we don't have large lizards like that here to contend with. i like the approach of massively overplanting and hoping it's enough for everyone. if i were on a smaller area i'd have to resort to fencing the patch and having some shock to it too because the chipmunks and birds alone can eat quite a few berries. i wouldn't mind as much if they'd eat the whole berry instead of taking one bite out of it and leaving it laying right next to a half dozen others. usually i'd pick them and give away what was extra. i still made 24 liters of freezer jam (that i gave away the first half because i made it the same day the small tornado came through the neighborhood and took the power out -- jam didn't set right). i think i'll be lucky to get half that this coming year because of how that back patch has been treated and taken over by other things. Well I have to say that I really admire your efforts. You seem to produce a lot of wonderful produce. i'd rather garden than do much else for exercise and i always enjoy trying different things even if they don't all work out. at least i'm not spraying anything now and for all my fertilizers it is worm compost or green manure from that patch. so on the whole, for the amount of inputs per year spent we get many returns beyond me being happy out playing in the dirt. every season is a new adventure that is for sure. i have to be patient yet, spring won't be here for a while... :-)) I've been buying more sugar to get ready for all the fruit glut that I'm going to have this year - pears, apples, quinces, figs, plums. is it very expensive there? it's running about $(usd)1.00/kg here. sometimes we can get it for less. the local grown beet sugar would be great to use, but it is expensive and not the same as it was years ago (they're using M*'s GMO technology in it now). songbird |
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Once upon a time on usenet George Shirley wrote:
On 2/10/2015 6:29 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote: George Shirley wrote: On 2/9/2015 9:00 PM, Terry Coombs wrote: Gary Woods wrote: "Terry Coombs" wrote: One of my San Marzano tomatoes has different leaves , heart shaped rather than lobed like all the rest . Wonder what it'll grow ? Guess I'll just have to wait and see ... I have that seedling marked , and plan to keep track of where it gets planted . Sounds like "Potato Leafed," usually a trait of older heirlooms. Either a cross or a sport. Could be interesting... You and George both used the term "sport" . I've heard the term , but am unsure of it's meaning . These were all open pollinated seeds I got on the internet and I have been very pleased with the germination rates , easily 99% in the ones i got . It'd be nice I guess if this were a throwback . It'll be planted and monitored , it's got me curiouser and more curiouser ! A sport is a natural hybrid, one that mankind didn't breed to be different. Occurs frequently in nature. When I was hybridizing chile plants I would occasionally get a plant that was not like the parent plants in any way. Sometimes they worked out fine sometimes they were totally useless. Ma Nature works in mysterious ways to confuse humans. I think it may be deliberate. G Stay curious and you might find the latest high dollar plant for the whole world. When early man first began actually planting wild seed to grow for food he or she also started manipulating the plants to get better yield, taste, etc. It ain't over yet. That isn't my understanding of the term. You can get sports on only one part of a plant, say one branch, which says to me it is a spontaneous mutation that has happened during the growth of the plant affecting the cells descended from that mutant but not the rest. A wild hybrid would affect the genes of the whole plant not just part. Around here both of those equal a sport as far as I know. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=botanical+definition+%22sport%22 -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) |
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