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Post by klorentz on Jan 10, 2011 22:27:51 GMT -6
While the future of my tomato and pepper patches is in doubt there will be a garden never the less.Everything else including a few herbs will be planted for this year.
Pumpkins/Winter Squash: This is one of my must plant crops after tomatoes and peppers. I have several to plant this year.Atlantic Giant,Winter Luxury,New England Pie,Dickerson,Australian Butter ,Turner Faimly, Kobacha and a couple others.My sisters kids have fun watching these grow.
Green Beans: The only one I have right now is Jade.This is a fine quality green bean that grows on bush plants and takes about 60 days.
Snap Pea: Lacy Lady 2 A good semi leafless snap pea with a nice sweet flavor and is a dwarf plant which does not need a trellis.Pods are about 3 to 3 1/2 inches.
Cucumbers: County Fair
A few carrots and radishes
Watermelon: Ali baba and Congo.
Cantaloupe: Amish
Other melons are Sweet Freckles and Tiger. Maybe a couple others.
Not sure about corn.What seed I have are a few years old and are an sh2 hybrid So not sure if they are still good.Also there is the issue of preventing a cross with local fields containing Frankencorn (GMO) .
After this everything is up in the air.At least there will be a few goodies out there this year.
Kevin
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Post by Christy on Jan 12, 2011 0:14:02 GMT -6
Sounds good Kevin!! Are you gonna grow the alantic giant big? like off by its self
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jan 12, 2011 3:50:51 GMT -6
tricky with corn when there's field corn near, we are surrounded by it every other year...we plant a standard SE variety. and plant early, sometimes a wee bit early, to beat the field corn maturation dates. which has us doing some "spot" re=planting some years... the old "rule of Thumb chart... Sweet corn type | Isolate from this type | Yellow or bicolor | White kernel varieties | Yellow | Bicolor kernel varieties | Su-1 | Supersweets | Sugar enhanced (SE) | Supersweets | Synergistics (SY) | Supersweets | Supersweets (SH2) | Su-1, Sugar-enhanced, Synergystics | All sweet corn | Field corn and popcorn |
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Post by Wrennie on Jan 12, 2011 6:44:33 GMT -6
No clue what I'll be growing. Well except for GarLiC! Thats a must!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jan 12, 2011 7:30:37 GMT -6
Yep, lots of garlic here as well Wrennie.
And lots of green beans this year. I had probs with rabbits eating the plants last year, so I just ordered in either a three year supply of green bean seed or if it's another bad year for rabbit raiding, hopefully enough seed that I don't have to spend $20 buying beans at the farmers market for our freezer. Having been a farmer for 15 years, I have no problem supporting local growers, but I'd prefer to only have to buy that which I don't choose to grow at home.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Jan 12, 2011 12:54:29 GMT -6
No clue what I'll be growing. Well except for GarLiC! Thats a must! Our garlic is all safe and warm (hopefully) under a BIG blanket of snow... the fence posts are 4 ft. tall
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Post by coppice on Jan 12, 2011 13:34:28 GMT -6
Not sure about corn.What seed I have are a few years old and are an sh2 hybrid So not sure if they are still good.Also there is the issue of preventing a cross with local fields containing Frankencorn (GMO) . After this everything is up in the air.At least there will be a few goodies out there this year. Kevin Kevin, if you're not saving seed from hybrid seed, there should not be an issue of its being pollinated by franken-corn. The sh2 corn may or may not be a hybrid... if you are separated by 500 feet or more (from the franken food corn) your not going to get a starchy result out of sh2 corn. And starchy is about the worst result you can get outta this grow-out.
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Post by klorentz on Jan 13, 2011 0:37:32 GMT -6
True but this is an sh2 hybrid.The concern is not with seed saving but that if corn I plan to eat are crossed with a GMO corn the GMO gene is present in my harvested sweet corn.My concern is there is not enough independent study into the GMO issue.Therefore we do not know with absolute certainty that hybrid or OP corn crossed with GMO corn is safe to eat. Which is why I want to try my best to avoid crosses with GMO'S so that worry is of my mind.
Kevin
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Post by colorado on Jan 13, 2011 2:03:31 GMT -6
Kevin, As long as you do not spray your corn with Roundup it should be okay to eat I would think. GMO corn sprayed with Roundup is what I do not want to use. I now break out from Corn and never did before. I stay away from corn oil and corn syrup/sugar . They seem to put that in so many things, the corn syrup/sugar. Chips I see all have corn oil. It is in our bread from the store. Canned foods , drinks, Aspertame is worse yet , I think.
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Post by coppice on Jan 13, 2011 17:01:32 GMT -6
Kevin if you are in doubt of your own crop, I can't imagine there is corn you can eat and be confident about--regarding GMO problem(s).
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