A Seed Saver's Garden

[heirloomgal]

Hookers is a kind of slightly dirty blue I’d say, not a bright azure!

But Double Red is also sweeter and more tender if eaten before it fully colours red so perhaps the greater nutritional value is negligible. Or are the antioxidants present before the colour emerges? My understanding is completely lacking here!

I didn't realize that you're supposed to eat them when they are more yellow/white, not when they're red! Well, there goes my excuse! I guess I can't hide anymore behind eating this sweet corn because it's healthier.

 

[Rillowen]

Went to the garden centre yesterday...bad idea! Wound up with more lovely plants I felt I couldn't walk away from - a bunch of celeriac, some pretty petunias, (I'm capping myself at 2 large baskets and one small one, the deadheading just gets too much if I go over that) & a parsley since I didn't start any from seed. I also got, on a whim, a 'Ballerina Purple' angel's trumpet. Haven't grown datura in such a long time, and I only ever grew a simple white one with a single bloom.

It's amazing how reliably exhilarating it is seeing the perennial plants poke out of the soil, especially now that I've gotten rid of all that I didn't truly love. I see only a few more that will need to come out; the last shasta daisies, the liatris patch, phlox patch, a purple sedum. I did get a little saxatile alyssum plant, for a dry spot. Not sure if I'll like it or not, time will tell. I'm eager to see how well my 2025 planted delphinium starts will perform this year, they seem to develop quickly for a perennial.

I also found a packet of seeds for red orach, maybe I'll try it. I made sure it isn't the same species as magenta spreen! It sure looks pretty. And even though its in the amaranth family, it won't cross with my terracotta celosia. It might do well as a decorative edible, if the pictures are real, it's remarkable how deeply pigmented the plants are. Might make a nice contrast for all the green foliage in the edible landscape space. The plants either look purplish or reddish, not sure which one is truly representative.
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An edible landscape is exactly what I want. I would love to develope a permaculture/food forest type yard. it looks like it might be a very long project though.

 

[Decoy1]

Forgot that one

I assume it's "Dominae", because that's a real (Latin) word.

I beg to differ. Both are Latin words. Domine is more common as it comes in lots of Christian text as in ‘O domine’, addressing god. It’s the vocative, meaning ‘O Lord’
‘Dominae’ is more unusual. It would be genitive or dative, meaning of or to a female mistress or female boss of some kind.

I hope this is right. My schoolgirl Latin is a bit rusty!

 

[flowerbug]

An edible landscape is exactly what I want. I would love to develope a permaculture/food forest type yard. it looks like it might be a very long project though.

the usual progression is to do your gardens for vegetables and then to put in rows of fruit trees/shrubs, nuts and other forage trees (nitrogen fixers) scattered around in the right proportion, by the time the trees get big enough to shade out the vegetable gardens you can also trim some of them back to get more light or keep some areas more open if you do want the annual vegetable gardens to persist. keep your annual vegetable gardens closer to the house where you will be able to get at them easier (it makes it more likely you'll keep them up better and also discourage the predators somewhat - but fences are usually a more dependable thing to do as if you have a lot of herbivores you're not going to keep them from eating your fruit trees/shrubs). in time using chickens up and down the rows to keep areas open, but be careful of letting chickens forage wherever because they can decimate your beneficial insects.

that's the general ideas at least. there's layers of things going on through this whole series of plantings and your weather/climate/site is going to influence what and how you plant and if you need some level of irrigation for the plants. the biggest issue there is how to not over draft your ground water, so setting up some water capture from rains may also be needed.

there are some good books out there and also plenty of videos by people who've done it, but i always take them with some grains of salt because each site can be different and what they may be doing might not fit your preferences and abilities.

take your time in reading up on it and before making major changes as retrofitting can be expensive and a lot of work.

unfortunately where i am at now is a prime example of what not to do and so it's not a permaculture site, but i have adapted what i could and we'll see what happens next. likely i am stuck here, but i dunno...

 

[Pulsegleaner]

I beg to differ. Both are Latin words. Domine is more common as it comes in lots of Christian text as in ‘O domine’, addressig god. It’s the vocative, meaning ‘O Lord’
‘Dominae’ is more unusual. It would be genitive or dative, meaning of or to a female mistress or female boss of some kind.

I hope this is right. My schoolgirl Latin is a bit rusty!

Well, as the patient said after visiting the chiropractor, "I stand corrected".

I didn't realize that you're supposed to eat them when they are more yellow/white, not when they're red! Well, there goes my excuse! I guess I can't hide anymore behind eating this sweet corn because it's healthier.

Triple play is supposed to improve in flavor past coloring up. "Yellow showing and it's ready to eat; blue showing and it's really sweet."