A Seed Saver's Garden

Rillowen said:

They look like unicorn horns! my daughters would love that!

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Hahaha, that is the most creative interpretation I've seen yet re: their appearance, certainly much nicer than grubs.

I saw this tonight and thought of your salsify post @digitS', I bought seeds from 2 places and this photo is from one. So, it would appear that in fertile garden soil they can get a fair size! Kinda glad I stumbled on that.

And on that topic I found this, which I'm also kind of thrilled about because they too seem a really good size - the Blue Fiore salsify. I need to do more research on it because it's a different species and I barely did my homework when I ordered seeds for these. I like the look of 'em! The name throws me, I was calling them 'sol-sih-feye' but I guess its pronounced 'suhl-sih-fee'.

One of the hopes for this season is this rhubarb variety will finally catch, 'Holsteiner Blut'. (Ghastly name!) It will be 2 or 3 this year, geez I can't remember, but old enough to be gaining in size - which it hasn't. I have a few kinds of rhubarbs and must say that of all of them, 'Victoria' (which was developed in England), is my favorite. The stems never get huge, but they produce an obscene amount of deep red small to medium stems. Extremely high yields for a rhubarb plant. Really good heat tolerance too.


Year 3 with wolfsbane and I can't quite figure out what's happening with it. All three of the plants I put in are different sizes, but they were all the same when transplanted. Why is one so much bigger? I almost wonder if I need to remove the smaller two. And it still hasn't flowered yet!


This is the beauty of fresh onion seeds, which I got from my garden bestie. I think it's an annual, it's called Red Beard. Pouring the entire packet in 3 small pots was probably a bad idea. I knew they'd spout well, just not this well. But if anything does okay crowded its probably onions.