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Member since: Oct 11 | Last seen: May 13 | Years gardening: 50
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05 Apr 2013Garlic, W6 26171 -- Greenhouse Planting Out, Garlic, PI 540357 -- Greenhouse Planting Out, Garlic, PI 54033...
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The garlic that was planted indoors failed to thrive. Moving it outside.Overcast 7°C / 45°F -
18 Mar 2013Tomato, Earliest Slicer Potting Up, Tomato, Earliest Potting Up, Greenhouse garden , and Tomato, Joseph's S...
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Potted up into individual pots (72 per flat). Discarded the smallest of the plants. Soil mix was coir, perlite, compost, and soil.Clear 2°C / 36°F -
13 Aug 2012
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True Garlic Seeds Almost Here?
Garlic Landrace And True Garlic Seed and North Field gardenStorms 34°C / 93°FI have been removing bulbils from garlic scapes, so that the flowers can continue to develop. Some of the flowers are currently forming fruits.
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30 Jun 2012
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Another Irrigation line installed.
Permaculture gardenI finally got an irrigation system installed in the garden area of the permaculture garden. I started digging the trench last fall… I dug it in deep enough that I will be able to till over top of it without worrying about breaking the pipe. Next irrigation project is to install pipe along t...Sunny 33°C / 92°F -
27 Jun 2012Garlic Landrace And True Garlic Seed and North Field garden
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I am currently removing bulbils from garlic flowers. I’m expecting that this will induce a few of them to set true garlic seed. I love genetic diversity in my garden. My long-term goal is to develop a variety of garlic that can be grown routinely from true seeds just like onions can be grow...Sunny 35°C / 95°F -
15 Jun 2012South Field garden and North Field garden
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Sunny 28°C / 82°FMy garden is located in the Great Basin Desert in the Rocky Mountains. Our rainy season typically ends in May, and during the growing season we get only occasional summer thunderstorms from time to time. Not reliably enough to grow a crop. So we use irrigation water. During the spring runoff, wat...
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03 Jun 2012
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Identified 30 possible tetraploid watermelon plants.
Greenhouse garden , Watermelon, Open Pollinated Tetraploid Breeding Program , and Greenhouse gardenCloudy 32°C / 90°FToday I identified about 30 possible tetraploid watermelon plants. I attempted a diploid to tetraploid conversion on 192 seeds using various concentrations and soak times, etc… The conditions that worked best were ~26 hours soaking in the Oryzalin conversion solution. Concentration of the O...
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25 May 2012
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Peas, Blooming 3-4 weeks early.
Peas, Earliest Shelling -- Seed Patch Flowering and North Field gardenStorms 16°C / 60°FI love plant breeding!!! I have been saving seeds each year from the earliest peas in the patch… This year I have 9 plants that are blooming 3-4 weeks earlier than a pea has ever flowered for me before. Not enough peas to eat this year, but enough to grow a tremendous crop next year.
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16 May 2012South Field garden and North Field garden
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Storms 28°C / 82°FWater is in the system about a month earlier this year than last. Last year was extra wet. This year is dryer than normal.
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06 May 2012
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Potatoes, Replanted Cooked Plants
Potatoes, Seedlings Grown From TPS and Greenhouse gardenOverheated potato seedlings today. About half of them died. Replanted.Sunny 16°C / 61°F
