ArizonaDave
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How did it taste?
let's see your veggie garden {pics}
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How did it taste?
Zucchini is a pepo and most varieties marketed as pumpkins are pepos too so they will readily cross. Likely whatever cross you made will be delicious in the zucchini (immature) stage and have a number of unpalatable traits in the mature state such as excess moisture, strings etc.
ChinaVoodoo
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It tasted like mild pumpkin. I'm going to grow it this year. As Bob explained before, if it indeed is a cross, the plants grown from seed will be different from the fruit I got via cross pollination. I'm not too worried about what it will be like. If I'm wrong and it was just a couple really ripe zucchini, then I'll have extra zucchini this year. If it takes characteristics of both, that's cool too. We grow both anyways, so I'm sure we can use whatever we get. If there's some weird unpalatable mutation, then, oh well. It's a gamble I'm willing to take
No pics yet, but today I planted my sugar snap peas. Earliest planting of peas I've ever attempted. The charts say that my last frost date is 15 May, but that's just historical fiction.
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i did some early planting also. i started my corn in seed trays. and dropped some that was 4'' tall this weekend,
and im not alone. i was at a major farm today and noticed they have thier field corn started but it wasnt even 1'' tall.
allthough my climate is a lot different than yours, i feel safe with what i did,, but you may still have some cold days still to go,??
Peas require 2 to 4 weeks to germinate (slower in colder soil), which will mean the ones I just planted will come up in early April. They are also somewhat frost tolerant. If they all die, then I'll just replant them.
The peas I planted last year were all mowed down regularly by rabbits. I didn't get a single pea. I have encircled most of the pea bed this year with box fence, and I'll add an 18" high strip of bird netting to the bottom of the fence, to keep out the low life. The box fence will also keep deer away from the peas, since the bed is too small for a deer to "jump" into.
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The peas I planted last year were all mowed down regularly by rabbits. I didn't get a single pea. I have encircled most of the pea bed this year with box fence, and I'll add an 18" high strip of bird netting to the bottom of the fence, to keep out the low life. The box fence will also keep deer away from the peas, since the bed is too small for a deer to "jump" into.
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
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I didn't know that they took so long to germinate. No wonder I've had hit and miss crops. I'll try starting them in the 1020 trays with domes outside so they don't dry out this year.
thats the reason i start my whole garden in seed trays..
i mean how many people start thier corn in a seed tray???
and ive got a lot of it dropped in at least 6 trays i got in my greenhouse,,,,,,but as stated. i had this one variety i got from a dried cob last year..
i planted a whole tray of it, and only got 4 to come up./////////// what if id wasted a whole row to '' hoping '' that seed come up.
im experimenting with corn just as i am with my bright leaf tobaccoo ....'' trying to find the perfect strains '' that do what im looking for,
but this year i will incorporate a drip==line and a liquid fertilizer holding barrell to the system....[ 35 gallon barrell ]
it's like adding more powder to your musket,,,,,,,,,,,, with all that i should have amassive crop with everything im throwing out there.. i got some tomatoes thats suppose to reach 1 == 2 ..... lbs. so lwts see what they will do. among everything else.
remember i work for a major fertilizer plant,,,,,I GOT ALL THE BASES COVERED,,,,
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Notice that there are no bees out. It's too cold and windy. Here's my temp forecast for the next few days:
All the blossoms and swollen buds will freeze solid. The branches may split.
So, no apricots for me this year.
Bob
Notice that there are no bees out. It's too cold and windy. Here's my temp forecast for the next few days:
All the blossoms and swollen buds will freeze solid. The branches may split.
So, no apricots for me this year.
Bob
greenmonster714
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Yeah I know what you mean. This crazy on and off winter weather has everything all outta wack. We've already had magnolias blooming down here and I've even had annual flowers out by the mail box blooming. I thought they were dead but they've proved me wrong. We are expecting some snow in the next few days here in AL. I can only hope it does not snow much. Folks down here have little experience driving in snow/ice conditions and there are usually a ton of accidents. A great time to just stay off the roads around here.
Tutu
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So I have this army of bugs in stationary mode on my little mango plant. They slightly look like ants, but they're definitely not ants. Their bodies are flat. They have chosen a single, rather new leaf to occupy. They're not very interested in any other leafs so far. Is there anyone who'se able to tell me what kind of bug I'm dealing with here. Would be nice to know what they do, and what they don't do. Anyone?
Looks like the bug that attack my grapevine. I think it is weevil.
Tutu
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Ah well at the old place I used to stay in Jember we had a mango tree that was definitely infected with the mango weevil because there would be larvae of the weevil in the fruits. There's no fruit on my mango yet, that will take a few years I guess. I'm not too sure though. The bugs I find have a very flat body, whereas the weevil types I've seen before are more curvy and round, if you know what I mean. Anyway, not too happy with them little fellows...
Search Google images for black bean aphid. I can't say that's what they are, but they are similar in body shape, and in their manner of clustering on a leaf.
Bob
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Tutu
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I have to say that the way they cluster on a leaf indeed looks very similar to the behaviour of mine. But Google Images tells me that their legs are light in colour whereas mine have black legs, and their bodies are still more flat than those of the black bean aphid. By the way, I snapped off the leaf and smashed them with a shoe.
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I posted some photos in my grow log of wild mustard growing in the pasture beside my house. Here's the closeup from that batch.
At this stage, you can see that it resembles broccoli.
That was about 2-1/2 weeks ago. Today, I noticed the mustard seed pods forming.
They're not as pretty, and definitely look more like the weeds that they are. They grow wild in Europe, the US and Canada, and over many other parts of the world. I know of nothing that is potentially poisonous that looks like this, with its 4 yellow petals. When I break off a smaller mid-upper leaf, and chew it raw, it tastes distinctly like a mild cabbage--like cole slaw! I've minced some and cooked it in some beans. Very tasty. Somewhat gassy--just like cabbage.
Those charming little yellow flowers transform into long, pointed seed pods. That's where the mustard seed will be awaiting harvest.
I'll post again, after I've made a small batch of prepared mustard, and sampled it.
Bob
I posted some photos in my grow log of wild mustard growing in the pasture beside my house. Here's the closeup from that batch.
At this stage, you can see that it resembles broccoli.
That was about 2-1/2 weeks ago. Today, I noticed the mustard seed pods forming.
They're not as pretty, and definitely look more like the weeds that they are. They grow wild in Europe, the US and Canada, and over many other parts of the world. I know of nothing that is potentially poisonous that looks like this, with its 4 yellow petals. When I break off a smaller mid-upper leaf, and chew it raw, it tastes distinctly like a mild cabbage--like cole slaw! I've minced some and cooked it in some beans. Very tasty. Somewhat gassy--just like cabbage.
Those charming little yellow flowers transform into long, pointed seed pods. That's where the mustard seed will be awaiting harvest.
I'll post again, after I've made a small batch of prepared mustard, and sampled it.
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
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I learned something today. I previously thought mustard was just a colloquial name for canola. But, indeed there are minor differences.
https://www.saskatchewan.ca/busines...ell-the-difference-between-mustard-and-canola
https://www.saskatchewan.ca/busines...ell-the-difference-between-mustard-and-canola
Canola is a derived version of rapeseed, which is also in the Brassica family. Rapeseed can be made into cooking (and industrial) oil, but contains high levels of erucic acid, which can be toxic if ingested in high doses or chronically at low doses. Canola (Canada oil) was specifically bred to have very low erucic acid levels.
I would imagine that canola leaves are tasty, and that the seeds can be ground up for a prepared mustard.
Bob
I would imagine that canola leaves are tasty, and that the seeds can be ground up for a prepared mustard.
Bob
ChinaVoodoo
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I have always seen canola as a weed. It comes up in my garden and it's difficult to distinguish as a seedling from other brassicas. I'll let one grow and give it a taste. Canada exports 40% ($2.6 billion) of our canola crop to China. You could almost call it China oil.
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