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  1. Pulsegleaner

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Two major updates 1.Some of the wild mungs are getting flowers (and even the start of a pod or two) so I should be able to get seed back well within the season. 2. One of the cornstalks is just beginning to get its tassel.
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    Garden Flowers

    Problem is you never really know what is going to become a weed when you sow it. It took us years to get rid of the Japanese Lanterns, and the Peruvian Four O' Clocks. And I certainly didn't EXPECT that the senna seeds and rice beans I tossed our for the critters to eat would wind up hiding in...
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    Garden Flowers

    As I mentioned, I have seen a double sized one, so they might be bigger in other places. But if they are flat, and an all over cream color, they're probably arvensis Well, I don't think red exists in the truly wild population, it's a bred color mutation. I was simply pointing I have noticed...
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    Garden Flowers

    Well, my mead IS powerful...... And then there was the time I jacked a batch three times, winding up with a test tube full of something my cousin compared to the "homebrew" vodka he had encountered in Russia!
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    Garden Flowers

    Nah, he just is drunk (here's what I am referencing)
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    Garden Flowers

    If they're REALLY tiny (like pencil eraser sized*), that's V. arvensis, field pansy. Solid color for any of them is not all that uncommon. Pretty much anything you can find in a big pansy, you can find in a small viola (though, as I have mentioned, bright red is largely missing from the...
  7. Pulsegleaner

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Well, I harvested the first two mature pods from off the "rice bean" and, surprise surprise, it's actually a mung bean plant! Well, I guess that explains where it came from and how it go there! (the pot of soil I was using had been inside for a while; a mung bean could have easily fallen in...
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    Garden Flowers

    Probably. Could also be horned Pansy, Viola cornuta. To be honest, between the fact they cross pretty readily and have both be bred so much, telling when one is a cornuta or a tricolor is a little hard for me. That's certainly a very common color mix for Johnny Jump Ups. As far as I know the...
  9. Pulsegleaner

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    K, guess we'll find out what I have later.
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    I just realized the obvious, I can take a picture of the plant and post it to work out what it is! If you are growing it, and my plant looks like your plant, then I have what I think I have. Does this look right?
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Given how many of my seeds failed this year due to age, I think I better plan to clear a LARGE area next year and re-generate the "sticky" chickpeas. They're getting pretty old. As much as I hate to do so, it may be in my interest to also push the mini glass gem grow-out forward ANOTHER year...
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    Thought of TEG Cat Owners

    Reminds me of my plans to try and train mine to be OK with belly rubs (or rather, belly rubs when he is on his back or side, when he's standing, he has no problem with them). Once it gets cold I will start trying while wearing heavy padded winter gloves. Hopefully, eventually, he'll get used to...
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Another sign it's on the pubescens side; they all also have black seeds, of varying blackness (I've seen ones where they were dirty tan) but whether those were underripe (a lot of rocotos are sold in mixed colors, so getting red, yellow, orange and so one from one packet is normal, And at a...
  14. Pulsegleaner

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Actually, I think that IS what I am growing! I got it confused with the pseudo pepper from Japan I tried to grow LAST time, Turbocapsicum rhomboflexum . So what I have and what you have (assuming what I have is what I think I have) would be the same thing. So that's good, as I only have one...
  15. Pulsegleaner

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    7/7/24 1. There are now two fruits on one of the plants in the cherry tomato pot as well. Oddly though, (since I seem to recall planting the oval green cherry seeds) the fruits are round. Maybe I just grabbed all of the packets marked "green cherry tomatoes Westchester Farms (where I got the...
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    Garden humor thread..

    Just bear in mind he cut at least two verses, including one that is sort of essential to the plot (WHY he froze to death on the way back when he didn't have any issue coming). Here's the complete version (well, as complete as I know, I've heard people add even more verses.)
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Saw another out in the wild apple tree, though I'm not sure how to go about taking from that one (it's at a corner near to a high school by a major turn in the road. Getting to the tree would not be a problem [it's right by the sidewalk], but the question would be where to get away with parking...
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    Garden humor thread..

    I didn't know he did this one
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