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Post by braided-rug on Feb 16, 2006 15:07:43 GMT 10
"Bountiful Gardens sells untreated open-pollinated seed of heirloom quality for vegetables, herbs, flowers, grains, green manures, compost and carbon crops. Offering Biointensive and Grow BiointensiveTM sustainable organic seed. Specialties: Rare and unusual varieties. Medicinal herbs. Super-nutrition varieties." Cool weather tomatoes from Martha Stewart Living. Hulless Oats. "Hulless Oats — Avena sativa — CW / Matures 13-17 / Harvest 0-4 / Yield grain 2-9+, dry bio-mass 9-54 / Spacing 5 / Cons 13.1 (1-4) / Area 75+ ***** Oats. Highest in protein, lowest in carbohydrates, and rivals wheat as the most nutritious of the cereal grains. Easily threshed for the grain, avoiding the very difficult processing of hulled varieties. Likes more water than other grains and does well on any fairly fertile soil. Holds up well in climates with moderate frosts. Abundant straw makes a good compost crop. Medicinal: straw - tonic, nerves, depression, lethargy, sleep." www.bountifulgardens.org/index.html
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Post by daddys3chicks on Feb 16, 2006 23:23:13 GMT 10
Thanks for the link br! I tried starting my veggies last year - the girls helped. But they didn't last once in the ground. I am not sure what I did wrong, but I am afraid to try again.
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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2006 23:46:06 GMT 10
Keep trying Cheryl. Gardening is trial and error and retrying again. Some years we have wonderful luck and other years, flops.
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Post by daddys3chicks on Feb 16, 2006 23:57:54 GMT 10
Thanks Cara - I think I am intimidated because at 85 my Mom still tills and keeps a HUGE garden! I mean it is 5 times the size of mine. She is so good at it - of course she has had 85 years to perfect her technique!
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 17, 2006 8:00:00 GMT 10
I heard the size of the seed determines how much you should water them when you put them in. How about seedlings, and do you have alot of snails? My Mum gardens too, I just do my own thing.
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 17, 2006 8:08:56 GMT 10
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 17, 2006 8:32:41 GMT 10
Cheryl if you put seedlings in, maybe you just had some bad luck with cut worms or something?
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Post by daddys3chicks on Feb 17, 2006 12:27:18 GMT 10
I don't know - I think I waited to too long to replant them and it was already to hot or something. I got an infestation of stink bugs that demolished my squash too!
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 17, 2006 12:47:04 GMT 10
Well we aren't impressed with our squash atm. It is acorn squash and it is a bit yellow the bush. As we are unfamiliar with growing them we are wondering why they are yellow. Apart from that they are OK and the bush is quite big.
We have green stink bugs.
I think there is a cut off date for planting seeds I think. Although maybe it is not that critical, not sure.
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 17, 2006 12:52:26 GMT 10
In Australia we mostly have patty pan squash. Here is some information about your state: "Vegetable Planting Dates* Asparagus crowns 11/15-3/15 Cabbage (plants) 2/1-4/1 Carrots 2/15-3/1 Kale 3/1-4/1 Kohlrabi 3/1-4/15 Lettuce (head) 2/15-3/15 Lettuce (leaf) 3/1-4/1 Mustard 3/1-4/1 Onions (seeds) 1/15-3/31 Onions (sets or plants) 1/15-3/31 Peas (edible podded & garden) 1/1-3/15 Potatoes (Irish) 2/15-4/1 Radishes 2/1-4/1 Rutabagas 2/1-4/1 Spinach 2/15-3/15 Turnips 2/1-4/15 *Dates shown are for the upper coastal plain and lower piedmont. In western North Carolina delay planting 10 to 20 days in spring. In eastern North Carolina plant 7 to 14 days earlier in the spring and 7 to 10 days later in the fall. (From NC Cooperative Extension Guidelines)" From: ncnatural.com/February.htmlThere is not many there though.
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 17, 2006 12:55:33 GMT 10
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Post by braided-rug on Feb 22, 2006 17:40:40 GMT 10
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