Gardening

Shirley Martin said:
My BIL has cabbage collard seeds that his family has kept since hie grandmother's days. They are a lighter green than the ones you can buy at the grocery and a thousand times better. His brother grew them to sell on his farm. People come from miles around to buy them. My BIL gave my son some of the seeds on the condition that he would not give seeds to anybody else. Now that's all we grow.

We are up to our ears in summer squash and zucchini. Dug up potatoes last week. Ummmm, new potatoes. Broccoli is done for.

We need rain badly. Sons are watering from the well. That keeps them living so far but not thriving like rain would.
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Does he harvest seeds for future planting? I guess you'd have to do that when they blossom and sacrifice those plants for the purpose. Heck, you could do that in small pots without actually having to plant them, huh?
 
Jacqueline Lindt said:
My zucchini is starting to look good . Some have flowers blooming !

Also my green beans are looking good woohoo 😂

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This year, I planted green beans in the planters by the walkway arch trellis, and they have been growing really good with all the rain. Today, I picked a nice batch of green beans, which we will be having with our dinner tonight.
 
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between May 27th and May 30th I got a delivery of 8 herb plants from Lowe's. It was a BOGO sale, I got two of each basil, peppermint, lemon balm, and lavender. I planted them in 2 gallon pots and they were all doing well except for the lavender which after a week were dead.The others are still doing well. I notified Lowe's they're willing to take them back if I ship the plants to them, or return them to the store. I was happy to see if they stand behind their product, not sure that I will return them or not, it's good to have the option.

Below is a photo of some of the plants I potted including the herbs. I'm happy that the stuff I did plant in pots and the raised beds seems to be surviving some are doing better than others and I'm hoping all will grow and be fruitful.

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Mary Stetler said:
I had planted some saved butternut seeds last year and the fruits were not normal. They were HUGE, strangely shaped, with few seeds. I must have gotten the parent at a grocery store.
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Squashes cross in the fields unless you bag them or tape the female blossoms closed after hand pollinating. It is always a surprise to see what you get if you do not bag or tape the blooms. Unless, of course, you and your neighbors only plant one variety of squash.
 
John Brunner said:
I believe there are some seeds you can put in a mylar bag (or canning jar) with an oxygen absorber to extend their lives, but I believe that there are some seeds that this will damage...I think.
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Don't use an oxygen absorber with saved seeds as the seeds do need oxygen to live, but desiccant packs are usually good. I have a drying chamber to dry my saved seed in, but for most seeds that isn't necessary unless you are saving them for long-term or freezing them.
 
Don Alaska said:
Are you using runner or pole beans?
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I just used regular pole beans. I am pretty sure that I had some red runner bean seeds somewhere, but now I can’t find them, so I just planted the pole beans.
The ones I have been picking are pretty much done, and i just planted more seeds this morning, so we should be having another crop before too much longer, and the vines look pretty over top of the front trellis.
 
Marie Miller said:
Time will tell. We had a tomatoe volunteer come up next to a water feature. Never use tomatoe seeds and no compost. Must have been our feathered tenants.
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Tomato seeds are tough. I have had tomatoes sprout up from compost that I have placed in my garden, having survived the composting process that rendered every other seed useless.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
I just used regular pole beans. I am pretty sure that I had some red runner bean seeds somewhere, but now I can’t find them, so I just planted the pole beans.
The ones I have been picking are pretty much done, and i just planted more seeds this morning, so we should be having another crop before too much longer, and the vines look pretty over top of the front trellis.
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Scarlet Runner beans are great for a decorative touch to a bean trellis. We grew them for a few years here, but the moose just enjoyed them too much. Now we have bush beans in the gardens and pole beans in the greenhouse.
 
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