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"How does your garden grow?" - Event Date: March 03 2007

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    Pen,

I bought 4 dwarf plum trees. I dont know what the company's definition of dwarf is. My largest tree would
almost fill my living room up. Most years they bloom and then get killed by the frost. I am praying this will be a good year. These are big red plums. Watch out for black fungus. I had a wild cherry tree that was eat up with fungus. I did not know what it was at the time. I planted my plum trees. The fungus spread to them. If you start getting it, the only choice you have is to prune the limb. Once you cut them get rid of them. Either haul off or burn. I have a fungicide spray I am going to try.
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Penham, if you only have one apple tree you need a pollinator - Yellow Delicious- will pollinate any type apple trees.

Good thread. Just about covers everything. Made me tired just reading it. I do differ on tomatoes. I love Atkinson, I do not stake this tomato. Break all suckers off leaving only the top three branches when set out in rows. Everywhere the plant spreads produces more runners and more tomatoes. These are smaller than beef stake types (smaller than a soft ball) -not peffy- taste wonderful. I canned 126 quarts from two small rows once. Try a couple of plants if you can find them.
Good luck to all.
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I have two rows of onions, red and white already in the ground. Plus two rows of red and white potatoes planted. I have several herb plants ready for larger pots. Just finished my raised asparagus plot - will be two years before a harvest. Still working on a garlic raised bed. Peas, carrots, radius, lettuce, turnips, spinach, several varieties of flowers (I just love them), and bunch of stuff will go in the ground in two weeks. I’m very excited about my bird flu garden.  I have been reading, buying local seeds and a few starters. Oh yes, I have five tomato plants in pots next to the house. Will plant a row in two weeks. Fortunately we’re on a well for those hot east Texas summers. Annie

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The citrus and peach trees are all in bloom and the guava has ripe fruit on it. Heck even the avocado is blooming.
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and up here we are having the cooldest night of the whole winter according to the weatherman.
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Ive got lettuce, cucumbers and peas planted in my green house. I have a door similar to a draw bridge that I can lock. It is made out of pressure treated 2 by 6, screwed together. It may not stop them but it will slow them down.
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I have not heard of that type. Maybe I can order some and start them early next year.
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There are plenty of flowers that are edible,weeds roots,natures larder has some interesting surprises food for free if you know what to look for,what looks like a weed in your garden to a passer by could actually be a meal for you,i recently bought a book called "Food for Free"published by Collins gem/HarperCollins LTD it covers the UKs wild plant food sources its a great read,maybe you have a similar book in the US.
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White clover is delicious
last year we tried green leaves cooked as spinach
dried white flower  grind you can mix it with flour for baking,
same Plantain seeds and flower dried, grind mix with flour,
flax seeds also are good
we tried this in muffins, bunnocks, pancakes
we are still kicking no harm was to us
I think it is better we get use to it in low doses

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Elderberries and dundelions honey
we had a visitor a beekeeper and I offer him some elderberries honey I made last year, he didn't believe me that it was homemade honey
Elderberries honey
2 litres of fresh elderberries flowers cover with 2 litres of boiled water, add 2 lemons cut into small pieces, mix well, cover and let stand it for 24 hours
next day filter liquid trough the cheese cloth in a big pan, add 2 kilos (4 lb) of sugar and slowly boil for 2-3 hours mixing time to time until water evaporete and liquid turn into a honey, put into a boiled clean jars ( I use baby jars)

Dundelions honey (cooking is same as elderberries honey)
400 big yellow flowers cover with 2 litres boiled water, add 2 lemons cut into a smalll pieces, mix, cover and let stand for 24 hours




400big yellow flowers of dundelions
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    May where do you get the Atkinson tomato plants? I am about 20 miles from Piedmont Ala. I thought about driving over there to see if I can find some.
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Hey Tigger2 - I don't know if you saw it, but speaking of gardens, I posted something interesting for you in your thread about "ways to water a garden?" - to see and consider.
 
If you saw it disregard this note. Thanks,
 
-Lazaras
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    I am getting together a list of heirloom seeds. I plan to buy them locally if possible. If not I will buy them online.
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Hey tigger! I just ordered 25 varities of heirloom seeds from heirlomm seeds @ verizon .net. I am really excited about them as they were really cheap(1.50 to 2.00 a pack.) I am torn because I want to plant some this year but am wondering if I should save them and plant them when I really need them!!
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Here is a question.

How do you store seeds long term? I was thinking about storeing some heirloom seeds.
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    The main thing is to keep them dry. Some people store their seeds in the freezer.
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Thanks Tigger
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Does anyone know how long heirloom seeds keep?
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When the opened King Tut's tomb, they found wheat seeds.
Some of the seeds were planted and they sprouted. Every now and then I buy some seeds that just wont come up. I dont know why. I re-planted a lot of the lettuce in my green house today. It has been 2 weeks. If it was going to come up it would by now.
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Item posted under Healthy living/ Outdoor Living/www.care2.com. Also many tips for gardening and heirloom seed purchase.

Why it Matters to Buy Heirloom Plants and Seeds More Gardens Solutions
by Annie Berthold-Bond, Care2.com Producer, Green Living Channels
The loss of genetic seed diversity facing us today may lead to a catastrophe far beyond our imagining. The Irish potato famine, which led to the death or displacement of two and a half million people in the 1840s, is an example of what can happen when farmers rely on only a few plant species as crop cornerstones.



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One blight wiped out the single potato type that came from deep in the Andes mountains; it did not have the necessary resistance. If the Irish had planted different varieties of potatoes, one type would have most likely resisted the blight.
We can help save heirloom seeds by learning how to buy and save these genetically diverse jewels ourselves.

ABOUT SEEDS

* One kind of seed, called First generation hybrids (F1 hybrids), have been hand-pollinated, and are patented, often sterile, genetically identical within food types, and sold from multi-national seed companies.

* A second kind of seeds are genetically engineered. Bioengineered seeds are fast contaminating the global seed supply on a wholesale level, and threatening the purity of seeds everywhere. The DNA of the plant has been changed. A cold water fish gene could be spliced into a tomato to make the plant more resistant to frost, for example.

* A third kind of seeds are called heirloom or open-pollinated, genetically diverse jewels that have been passed on from generation to generation.

With heirloom seeds there are 10,000 varieties of apples, compared to the very few F1 hyprid apple types.

The Mayan word 'gene' means "spiral of life." The genes in heirloom seeds give life to our future. Unless the 100 million backyard gardeners and organic farmers keep these seeds alive, they will disappear altogether. This is truly an instance where one person --a lone gardener in a backyard vegetable garden--can potentially make all the difference in the world.

Here are two sources for finding heirloom seeds from seed saving organizations. These organizations represent a movement of several thousand backyard gardeners who are searching the countryside for endangerd vegetables, fruits and grains.

* The Seed Savers Exchange
The Seed Savers Exchange (SSE), is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization that is saving old-time food crops from extinction.

Kent and Diane Whealy founded SSE in 1975 after an elderly, terminally ill relative bestowed three kinds of garden seeds brought from Bavaria four generations earlier.

The Whealys began searching for other "heirloom varieties" (seeds passed down from generation to generation) and soon discovered a vast, little-known genetic treasure.

SSE's members are maintaining thousands of heirloom varieties, traditional Indian crops, garden varieties of the Mennonite and Amish, vegetables dropped from all seed catalogs and outstanding foreign varieties. Each year hundreds of members use SSE's publications to distribute such seeds to ensure their survival.

Each winter SSE publishes a 304-page Seed Savers Yearbook which contains names and addresses of 900 members and 6,000 listings of rare vegetable and fruit varieties that they are offering to other gardeners. Seeds are obtained by writing directly to the members who are listing those varieties. The Seed Savers Exchange.


* Native seeds/SEARCH
Native seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) is a nonprofit seed conservation organization working to preserve the traditional native crops of the U.S. Southwest and Northwest Mexico. For centuries Native American farmers have grown corn, squash, beans and other crops under a variety of growing conditions.

NS/S encourages the continued use of these plants in their native habitats, and also distributes them widely to home gardeners, researchers and free of charge to Native American farmers. Wild relatives of crops - such as wild beans, chiles, gourds and cotton - are included in Native Seeds/SEARCH's conservation efforts.

NS/S's informative annual seed catalog lists more than 200 varieties for sale. Each crop listing includes seed saving information as well as culture and folklore. Native seeds/SEARCH


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ThanK-you Ravendawn and Tigger! What a great article!
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