A Seed Saver's Garden

[Dahlia]

Im a sucker for Sweet Peas as well and have bought from these folks for a long time. These later years i find myself gravitating to the fragrance collections.

Mike

Sweet Peas

Since we first grew flowers, antique varieties of sweet peas have been our favorites, for their scented blooms set the gold standard for sweet pea fragrance. Our selections now include modern ruffled kinds, and all have that wonderful orange blossom fragrance. They reward good soil prep with...

www.selectseeds.com

I love sweet pea blooms. They grow wild here in the Pacific Northwest and grace us with their pretty blooms every summer!

 

[ducks4you]

I would think that Sweet Peas would do quite well in your cooler climate. I am questioning why you want to grow Queen Anne's Lace. It is native to GB, but is an invasive in my neck of the woods and frequently tries to grow wild on my property. Perhaps you might consider growing yallow, which IS native and attracts pollinators.
Just a thought...

 

[heirloomgal]

I would think that Sweet Peas would do quite well in your cooler climate. I am questioning why you want to grow Queen Anne's Lace. It is native to GB, but is an invasive in my neck of the woods and frequently tries to grow wild on my property. Perhaps you might consider growing yallow, which IS native and attracts pollinators.
Just a thought...

Yes, sweet peas have always done well for me. My thought about Queen Anne's Lace wasn't to grow it, it was the fact that I want to try and plant some carrots for seeds and the carrot plant flowers can get cross contaminated by the flowers from the Queen Anne's Lace. That plant (weed) was the main reason I've not really tried carrots for seed, aside from concerns about wintering the carrots inside. That lace stuff grows all over the place in the fall, a lot on the gravelly sides of roads. I assumed I'd need a mile away from the stuff for isolation, but it turns out isolation distance required from Queen Anne's Lace is 800 metres. So, while it is around, there are probably no plants that close to where my carrots will be.

 

[heirloomgal]

Im a sucker for Sweet Peas as well and have bought from these folks for a long time. These later years i find myself gravitating to the fragrance collections.

Mike

Sweet Peas

Since we first grew flowers, antique varieties of sweet peas have been our favorites, for their scented blooms set the gold standard for sweet pea fragrance. Our selections now include modern ruffled kinds, and all have that wonderful orange blossom fragrance. They reward good soil prep with...

www.selectseeds.com

I'm envious of these great prices! I do find the cost of sweet peas here astronomical if you aren't buying them off racks at the hardware store. I near fell over last night when I saw these -

'Esme Rowena' Sweet Pea 50 Seeds

Esme Rowena Sweet Pea Seeds. 50 Seeds. A pale lavender bloom on long stems. Perfect for wedding floral work. A standout in the field this year.

sowlocalseeds.ca

And there is a tomato offered that costs $17.95 for 25 seeds, and it isn't GMO. And its actually sold out.

 

[flowerbug]

i've managed to eradicate Queen Annes Lace here on the front part of the gardens. not because i dislike it (i don't) but because we had a lot of more formal gardens with hollyhocks that Mom really liked and so i kept weeding them out when they'd sprout so they weren't competing with the holyhocks or other flowers. then after having a large amount of hollyhocks growing all over the place we were invaded by rust and so i had to weed those out. both are very tough plants to deal with in heavy soil...

 

[heirloomgal]

I took a class on this sport and knew it wasn't for me, mega speed and big trees seems a bad mix to me. Lol Maybe skijoring, but not the sled. But this is my trainer, I'm shocked the dogs didn't just keep going darn Eurohounds

 

[flowerbug]

I took a class on this sport and knew it wasn't for me, mega speed and big trees seems a bad mix to me. Lol Maybe skijoring, but not the sled. But this is my trainer, I'm shocked the dogs didn't just keep going darn Eurohounds

i love watching the sledding and the luge but i know i'd kill myself doing any of them, also why i don't downhill ski. i'd surely splat myself or run off a cliff.

 

[heirloomgal]

i love watching the sledding and the luge but i know i'd kill myself doing any of them, also why i don't downhill ski. i'd surely splat myself or run off a cliff.

I have honestly never understood that human desire for high risk speed. I'm all about self preservation, lol. I appreciate the graceful moves of the professional down hill skier - but from a chair indoors. And with dogs it's like you're combining a predator mindset and speed, a rabbit appears in the path and look out.

My trainer has been at this for years, and I've seen some videos where that actually happened, dragged right into the woods on the sled. She managed to stop them in time, but it was close. I think many years ago on a trike they pulled her into a tree and collapsed a lung. At least when she's sledding she can jump from the sled, but the bikejoring and skijoring you're literally attached to them. I've seen plenty of major wipe outs. Sometimes during the bikejoring they stop suddenly to potty, and the rider breaks hard & flies right over the handlebars.

 

[Alasgun]

On that “potty” subject when we first moved up here the Iditarod started just down the road and all we had to do was drive 2 blocks out to the frontage road and get in line with myriad others parked along the road to watch.

Having a fertile imagination is a healthy thing but mine get’s off in the ditch sometimes. As we watched them race past my mind Immediatly processed 1. How many dogs on a sled, 2. How far will they be running before they stop and then the inevitable; what if one has to poop?

My curiosity was satiated in just a couple minutes as one dog, in the middle of a string just locked up his heals, sliding on them for less than 5 feet during which time he let er fly and Immediatly came up running.

Literally in the blink of an eye, with not a second for a picture, which has plagued me all these years!

Mike

 

[heirloomgal]

On that “potty” subject when we first moved up here the Iditarod started just down the road and all we had to do was drive 2 blocks out to the frontage road and get in line with myriad others parked along the road to watch.

Having a fertile imagination is a healthy thing but mine get’s off in the ditch sometimes. As we watched them race past my mind Immediatly processed 1. How many dogs on a sled, 2. How far will they be running before they stop and then the inevitable; what if one has to poop?

My curiosity was satiated in just a couple minutes as one dog, in the middle of a string just locked up his heals, sliding on them for less than 5 feet during which time he let er fly and Immediatly came up running.

Literally in the blink of an eye, with not a second for a picture, which has plagued me all these years!

Mike

Priceless!