Recent content by Mel

As mentioned, for us northern gardeners starting tomato, pepper and such is necessary or buying started plants. Years ago we had a neighbor whom was rated as a master gardener by the county extension service. She would start pepper plants very early and repot them twice before finally planting...

I am waiting on an order of several bareroot grapevines from Double A . Great to hear from satisfied customers.

Tough to grow those acid loving plants like blueberries out west. Average ph around here is 7.2 and even with years of amending I still killed many blueberry plants.Time will tell if those Honeyberry blooms survived and if fruit will set. I think a common problem with cold hardy or cold hardy...

Last year Haskap aka Honeyberry, was planted in my zone 4 (more like zone 3) garden. Needed pollinators so 5 plants of 4 varieties (potted) were planted.Touted to have the flavor of blueberries. Did not grow very much through last season however they are doing well early this season blooming...

A thousand plants yikes! I have my hands full with 100 pepper plants. Ive found that two plants together grow out about the same as one plant by it self. In the garden I put single plants in north/south rows a little closer than recommended, about 8 inches apart causing them to growing into...

The ND Sunshine did well. All picked by Aug. 29th, about 72 days. Froze about 90 ears, cut of the cob about 140 ears- 5 quarts and 12 pints . About 40 ears, with the husks, in the refrigerator. About 40 ears gifted. Raccoons took about 40 of the nicest ears of course. B@$t@d$ breached my...

Thanks for the compliments everyone. I dont get much time on the PC this time of year. Im subscribed to this thread so I do get Email alerts. The weather has been kinda cool and unsettled across most of the northern tier of the country this season and sounds like it has affected many of the "...

ND Sunshine sweetcorn has survived a nasty hailstorm in June and 80mph storm gusts in July although I had to stand it all back up, is now tasseling so I will start hand pollination daily. Time to power up the hot wire for the coons.

Passion of the Tomato Lover. You can feel it as you read each post.

Trying some homespun OP tomatoes again this season. Developed and released by North Dakota State University, the Dakota Gold ,a large yellow, sweet fruit with excellent production and the Bison, a large red fruit with good flavor and very good production Both of these did very well in my North...

Just ran across the Oaxacan info recently. Love that color but I think its suited more for southern climates. Got the Sunshine planted and soon as it quits raining, I will plant a new variety from Livingston seeds, Earthtone Dent in the "upper garden" which is like 4 miles away:rolleyes: Gotta...

Mighty corney there baymul :) Heres a picture of my corn. not planted yet ... but soon.

Sounds like a winner. So how would we do this, exchange addresses and mail the packages? What is the seed count we would send? If possible I would like 80 plus seeds. I have many saved from 2013. If not, no problem.

Long day onions grow well in this zone such as the sweet spanish or walla walla. A fellow gardener showed me how he started them from bulbs and the trick is after they get a good start pull the dirt away from around the bulb leaving little more than the roots covered. He grows massive walla...

baymule, I would gladly trade corn seed with you or anyone else that would like to. This Sunshine corn was grown miles from any other corn so purity should be there, right? lol Anyway I am looking for a flint or a flour type, preferably a shorter plant and (well) under 100 days or what ever...