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05-16-2010, 10:40 PM | #1 |
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I have some heirloom seedlings ready for planting... its gonna rain tomorrow so it'll be soon after that. I'm gonna dry farm them... lowers the yield & fruit size, but ups the flavor many-fold:
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My Brandywines have been my best producers over the past three years, almost doubling the output of the hybrid varieties, and I've saved seeds from a Brandywine/Old German cross pollination that happened three seasons ago that is, for the past two seasons, been incredible in terms of the fruit flavor and output. |
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05-17-2010, 08:48 AM | #4 |
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05-17-2010, 10:00 AM | #5 |
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Took your advice about expanding my variety (although I do love me some Brandywines). Picked up Stripped German & Pineapple. Don't know anything about them - just saw two plants for sale & grabbed 'em. Don't even know if they do well in wine country... we get some hot days in the summer, nights are cool with fog rolling in from the beach in the morning. Don't wanna confuse the poor plants. Those Krims from the Crimean Peninsula in Russia love it here... dunno how something called "pineapple" will do...
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05-17-2010, 07:06 AM | #6 |
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I dont have as many as you do, but I have 12 plants and the varieties are
Mortgage lifter better boy brandywine sweet girl sweet 100 goliath Got them in about 2 weeks ago. Looking good but its been cool and lots of rain. |
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05-17-2010, 08:48 AM | #7 |
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Nice to hear you have some of the old true breeds .. damn hybrids don't produce plus the seeds are dead .....
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05-17-2010, 08:53 AM | #8 |
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hybrids dont produce? i beg to differ.
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05-17-2010, 09:21 AM | #9 |
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we've got blooms on all 4 topsy turvy plants...grew a lot while i was gone last week. if we could get some sun and warm weather, they'll really go to town.
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ive eaten salad out of the garden since last thursday.
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i put out two lima bean starts that the kid brought home from K science class. Thinks he is big shit.
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Should you have blooms this early or should they be removed?
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