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I am in San Diego and my neighbor has been growing it for 3 years....they look like mini palm trees now. I asked him for some seed and he said he has never seen seed pods in the 3 years he's had it....maybe that is why it isn't available? I have no idea. Is it possible to get a cutting and it would root?
Mine are in the basement at 50 degrees with 50% humidity lying open in huge shelves uncovered and they don't sprout. Agree 60 is way to warm. Some varieties are more suited for long term storage than others. Could be you need to figure out what variety you have, might learn which to avoid in the future.
yes, you can eat them -- just break off the sprouts, and even if the potatoes themselves are a little soft, they're still good to eat.
I store mine at 40 -- 50 degrees (the variation depending on the weather) and complete darkness. A closet is not very dark if the area it is in has light in it, so light may have added to the sprouting. But you gotta work with what you've got.
Did you choose good storage varieties? Katahdin, Green Mountain, Carola -- look for varieties that have excellent storage capabilities.
I do replant some of mine. You could try breaking off these current sprouts, and then let them sprout again (I'm sure they will!) and plant them after that, if it's time to do so in your zone (which is . . . ? did houzz forget we need to know zones? oh well -- I just got back on here, so I may have missed that part.)
agree with Dave and Dill. Say you uncover four times your plants, each time painting a male first, and then however many females you can find. That is one hour of work. Having one side of the row cover held down by a pole makes entry and exit quick (the pole lies on the ground holding down one side of the cover). also it helps having drip irrigation in place.
These are all very good points. I hadn't thought of it in that mathematical way. I suppose when it comes to pumpkins that once I have a good number of pumpkins on the vine, I can just stop pollinating, leave them covered and let them mature. I will try the hand pollinating thing again this year. Thank you all for helping me to think this through. And yes, Tahitian Melon is open pollinated. :)
One more question: How wide are the row covers you use on squash, Dave? And where do you get them?
I don't see any reason to start carrots indoors. Sow them directly into the garden and throw some bird netting over them. Otherwise the little seedlings disappear. Without the bird netting, my losses are 100%. Sow them while the soil is still cool and moist in Spring. They need a deep sandy loam soil. If you have to sow them in Summer, use a piece of shade cloth to keep the soil moist and cool. And water every day until they germinate. Take the shade cloth off as soon as they come up, but leave the bird netting on for a couple of weeks.
Definitely remove the heat pad once those seeds germinate, like dave said. If you start more seeds, have the light as close as possible to pots as soon as you see green seedling emerge from the soil. If you can't move the lights down, try stacking books or plastic containers to move the pots up towards the light. Hope that helps. Good luck!
Hi zzackey,
You posted on the other thread about us being able to message one another now, without having to 'follow' the member and vice versa,. You found your profile page for getting set up for members to be able to message you, but you still don't have a message link.
Here is the thread...Traders -> Now ANYONE can message you!
I thought you might like to know.
ADDITIONALLY , you will probably want to turn on getting email alerts whenever you get a NEW MESSAGE. On the same Advanced Setting page as noted above choose
EMAIL NOTIFICATION...(when) Someone messages me...EVERY TIME.
I know lots of folks changed a lot of their settings to receive notification on many or all things to NEVER, rather than get way too many emails.
I set up a HOUZZ folder within my Hotmail, and all HOUZZ emails are sent there directly, so they don't clutter up my inbox. That way they are all together.
Sue...rbb
Your picture that you posted above, of the red bug with black spots is, er, a "black and red squash bug", otherwise known as a cinnamon bug. As noted above, that's Corizus hyoscyami. Yep, that's it. Not sure you want to know this, but it's a bug that is allegedly edible and delicious. They attack leaves, especially cucurbits.
"heck Hubby talked to a guy we know about green beans.. he said he did not blanched just washed and dried and sealed packages....and Froze
did dehydrate other veggies back in 2011 but no greenbeans...
I bought some spanish sounding or french ..while back from a salvage store ..It looked to be like the name had "green" In it like "verde" I think verde means "green " from high school days...
But yall know I tried planting some of my own saved "cherokee" beans before and nothing happened... they would have been organic ,too.
I even gave away some Chinese long bean pods.. I wish that person would have gotten back to me and let me know what happened..
I grew Chinese long beans in my front yard back in 2011 they did fantastic...even canned some
Here in this old money pit acreage,have not tried them yet. Did so good with the Ky wonder and some bush varities.... Hubby got "greenbeaned out".. not me. ate them steamed every nite.now if I could do better on the onions....
Boy I so miss my own Organically grown green beans. Hope God Blesses Us again this year...
better get off and check my chickens and Hubby out in this blankey blank snow.....
Happy Gardening yall
Paulak4, I'm not sure that this is the same as your problem. But, I am growing a Red Robin in a aerogarden. It grew higher than the lights so I pulled them to the side and put an old florescent light above that part. The leaves got bumpy on the part of the plant that was under the old light. I got a clip on light fixture and a CFL to replace the old light and the bumps went away. So maybe it is your lighting? Just a guess!
Can't help but wonder if the OP is getting any of these replies? I assume not given no response but it would be nice to know. My first thought was just leaf edema form over-watering and inconsistent watering but an aphid infestation can have the same appearance.
Dave
Ok, there is some of the difference, that you started at the main GW page. I thought you could search the whole website from anywhere on the site, just by typing ‘in Gardenweb’ after your search.
Rodney was right. All the 8,000+ comments that were on the old GW are under Activity on everyone’s profile page. The only problem is that the only way to access them is to scroll down and look at 10 at a time. So if you wanted to get to the oldest posts, you’d have to click on ’show more’ about 800 times! They should have them in pages instead.
It’s always been prairiemoon2
I’ve noticed that for each forum when you do a search, you get ‘in Vegetable Gardening’ or which ever forum it is, in the drop down menu. And I’ve used that.
Yes, you are right, the search is only as good as the person using the search engine, but it’s also only as good as what is in the database to search for, right? So, if I can find, let’s say a post I made from 2010 in my ‘activity’ list, that was on the Vegetable forum, but it’s not now on the Vegetable forum, then my search will turn up nothing.
I did do a separate search for any posts of mine on a half a dozen forums that I know I’ve posted on and there are none there. So it seems to me, they have stored the old posts on the Activity section of every member’s profile page, but not in the forums.
And why would anyone want old posts? It’s ten+ years of content on GW. I might not have any fascinating posts that someone would want to access again, but there’s plenty of people who have spent a lot of time sharing their expertise. Not all of them are still here, either. So I think it is valuable. Otherwise, what did Houzz purchase from GW, if not ten years worth of content?
BTW, Dave, one area of GW where the old content is very valuable, is the Kitchen forum, where they had content that you could find nowhere else on the web, of completed kitchen renovation projects, documented in text and photos. Lots and lots of them. If you've ever had to renovate a kitchen, you would understand how valuable that content is.
I was just over on the Kitchen forum and evidently, Houzz has truncated those older threads and removed the photos in them. Threads, whose whole purpose was to display a completed kitchen. The forum members themselves have had to bring it to the attention of Houzz and so far, their response was to restore a set # of photos to each thread. In one case, losing 90% of the photos in the thread.