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Wintersowing

By On 15 March 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Farmer Wannabe

preparing for spring!!

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preparing for spring!!

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Wintersowing Journal, Part 2

By On 7 March 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Farmer Wannabe

Part 1 is here.

Blue (Okame spinach hybrid) out 3/27/08!! – moved to cold frame, + 3 yogurt cups: solanum molangena (Greek Gods), Bot Int Eggplant (Chocolate Underground), sanguisorba minor (french vanilla) #201 Clear plastic soup tall – edamame Bot Int Tohya Blue Bonnet – shikaku mame/Winged Bean Kitazawa #203 Salad – Akahana [...]

Part 1 is here.

  • Blue (Okame spinach hybrid) out 3/27/08!! – moved to cold frame, + 3 yogurt cups: solanum molangena (Greek Gods), Bot Int Eggplant (Chocolate Underground), sanguisorba minor (french vanilla)
  • #201 Clear plastic soup tall – edamame Bot Int Tohya
  • Blue Bonnet – shikaku mame/Winged Bean Kitazawa
  • #203 Salad – Akahana fujimame – hyacinth bean Kitazawa
  • #204 Baby Spinach – yard long bean Kitazawa
  • #205 Green Mushroom – lemon/Thai basil Kitazawa
  • #206 Cool Whip – Thai Holy Basil, and ack! mistake: Strawberry Temptation
  • #207 Fage – Sapporo Hot Kitazawa
  • #208 clear – Coriander – out 4/2/08
  • #209 Fage – Snow Crown Cauliflower Fedco –
  • #210 Tall clear – Brassica rapa – raab – sprouted 3/25/08!
  • #211 small white yellow green – Prik Chi Faa
  • #212 salad New England Pie Pumpkin Fedco
  • 301 – stonyfield farm french vanilla – siam queen basil – out 4/2/08
  • 302 – galeux d’eysines squash x spectrum shortening
  • 303 – fairy tale eggplant – impatiens x
  • 304 – green zebra tomato – verbena venosa
  • 305 – clear plastic squat – marine heliotrope fedco x
  • 306 – Pruden’s Purple – Chocolate Sweet Pepper
  • 307 – Nancy’s Cottage Cheese – Rosita Eggplant
  • 308 – Big Salad – Black Kabouli Garbanzo Bean – sprouts 3/25/08!
  • 309 – Black Krim – Hatekana Mustard – sprouts 3/25/08!
  • 310 – Costoluto Genovese – Ruby Red Rhubarb Chard – out 4/2/08
  • 311 – Fage – Buttercup Squash x
  • 312 – Blue Mushroom – Cajun Jewel Okra
  • 313 – Stonyfield Large Vanilla – Sugar Baby Watermelon

Yena’s:

sowed 3/12/08:

  • 501 – Blue Coco Pole Bean Org – Nancy’s yogurt plain – out 4/2/08
  • 502 – Stonyfield yog plain larkspur 7 dwarfs – out 4/2/08
  • 503 – big blue mushroom – armeria maritima bees hybrid mixed x – out 4/1/08
  • 601 – impatiens tempo cancun mix – i can’t find it!
  • 602 – bok choy – out 4/2/08!!!
  • 603 – butternut squash
  • 604 carmello – lumina
  • 605 – garland chrysanthemum
  • 606 – elecampane – johnny’s x
  • 607 tiny tim tomatoes
  • 608 x brandywine -+ purple broccoli – out 4/5/08

Part 1 is here.

Note: If you’re wondering about the number and container codes, it’s something that makes sense *to me*.

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Wintersowing Journal

By On 18 February 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Farmer Wannabe

started 28 January 2008 and succeeding days:

Row 1

valeriana officinalis – valerian satureja montana – winter savory salvia officinalis – broadleaf sage rosmarinus pisum sativum – snow pea perennial oregano marrubium vulgare – horehound spearmint levisticum officinale – lovage cress fine curled inula helenium – elecampane hyssopus officinalis arugula – germinated week of 2/11/08, [...]

started 28 January 2008 and succeeding days:

Row 1

  1. valeriana officinalis – valerian
  2. satureja montana – winter savory
  3. salvia officinalis – broadleaf sage
  4. rosmarinus
  5. pisum sativum – snow pea
  6. perennial oregano
  7. marrubium vulgare – horehound
  8. spearmint
  9. levisticum officinale – lovage
  10. cress fine curled
  11. inula helenium – elecampane
  12. hyssopus officinalis
  13. arugula – germinated week of 2/11/08, some died, okay again 3/25/08
  14. carum carvi – caraway

Row 2

  1. purple top white globe turnip
  2. flowering chinese leek
  3. bellis perennis
  4. aubretia – sprouts 3/25/08!!
  5. stachys byzantina
  6. antirrhinum majus Night and Day
  7. agastache rugosa honey bee white – mexican mint – 24″ to 32″ tall
  8. tradescantia andersoniana
  9. anchusa azurea
  10. pansy black – sprouts 3/25/08!!
  11. herb thyme old english
  12. phormium
  13. geranium Black Magic
  14. polyanthus Gold Lace
  15. lychnis Molten Lava – sprouts 3/25/08!!!

Row 3:

  1. sisyrinchium bellum
  2. viola odorata Queen Charlotte
  3. herb parsley wild – sprouts 3/25/08!!!
  4. four o’clock, from Bethany – sprouts 3/25/08!!
  5. monarda – Red Shades – Fedco
  6. muscari
  7. ratibida columnaris – Mexican Hat
  8. gloriosa daisy
  9. wildflowers (American Meadows) – sprouts 3/25/08!!
  10. wildflowers (Fothergills
  11. mixed sunflowers – Yena
  12. sunflower giant single – sprouts 3/25/08!!
  13. bellis perennis
  14. Wood Prairie Farm Fall and Winter Mix (salad)
  15. scabiosa black and white

Row 4:

  1. gypsophila Covent Garden
  2. ipomoea morning glory small blue – sprouts
  3. Papaver nudicale poppy iceland
  4. penstemon strictus
  5. scabiosa pink purple
  6. salvia azurea
  7. stokes aster blue
  8. scabiosa columbaria nana – germinated 3/6/08
  9. shasta daisy sprouts 3/25/08
  10. gaillardia
  11. candytuft – 2 kinds of seeds(?) — small and REALLY LARGE
  12. sprouts 3/25/08
  13. Forellenschluss lettuce sowed 3/6/08 – sprouts 3/25/08
  14. Arnica – sowed 3/6/08
  15. Lingue de Camarino Lettuce (sowed 3/6/08) – sprouts 3/25/08

Row 5, Sowed 3/6/08:

  1. Lady’s Mantle (sowed 3/6/08) – #104
  2. Lavender
  3. Sweet Valentine Lettuce – sprouts 3/25/08
  4. Rue
  5. Lemon Balm #108
  6. Borage
  7. Wild Bergamot
  8. Rose de Berne tomato
  9. Aunt Lilian’s Yellow tomato
  10. Golden Gopher Muskmelon (the beginning of trust :) )
  11. Borettana Cipollini onion
  12. Par-Cel Cutting Celery
  13. Golden Purslane (first in Fage yogurt cup) #116
  14. Chervil
  15. Sweet Basil
  16. Caraway and Early Jalapeno Hot Pepper

Part 2 here.

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In the Past Four Weeks

By On 29 January 2008 · 2 Comments · In Journaler

- we traveled twice to St. Lou/Cape and back
– I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; finishing up Mansfield Park today
– tried out Door-to-Door Organics and didn’t like it
– wintersowed roughly 46 seeds, with at least 4x more coming in the next few weeks
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- we traveled twice to St. Lou/Cape and back
- I read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle; The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Persuasion; Northanger Abbey; finishing up Mansfield Park today
- tried out Door-to-Door Organics and didn’t like it
- wintersowed roughly 46 seeds, with at least 4x more coming in the next few weeks
- changed our phone plan to something $10 cheaper and has an additional phone

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Wintersowed #1

By On 25 January 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Farmer Wannabe

I finished up the last of my seeds of the ff:

Mentha spicata – Spearmint – Plantation 2006
Rosmarinus officinalis – Fothergills
Marrubium vulgare – Horehound – Fedco 2004
Bellis perennis – English Daisy True Wild Type – JL Hudson 2004
Mirabilis jalapa unknown color 2005
Brassica rapa – Purple [...]

I finished up the last of my seeds of the ff:

Mentha spicata – Spearmint – Plantation 2006
Rosmarinus officinalis – Fothergills
Marrubium vulgare – Horehound – Fedco 2004
Bellis perennis – English Daisy True Wild Type – JL Hudson 2004
Mirabilis jalapa unknown color 2005
Brassica rapa – Purple Top White Globe Turnip – Seeds of Change 2002
Rudbeckia hirta Gloriosa daisy rustic colors from trade 2004
Wildflower Mix American Meadows 2007
Monarda didyma Panorama Red Shades Bee Balm Fedco 2004
Satureja montana – Winter savory – Fedco 2004
Inula helenium – Elecampane – Fedco 2004
Salvia officinalis – Broadleaf sage – Fedco 2004
Stachys byzantina 2004 self-gathered
Pisum sativum – Sugar Pod 2 Snow Pea – Seeds of Change 2004
Polyanthus Gold Lace – Mr. Fothergill’s 2007
Perennial oregano
Chrysanthemum maximum Alaska – Shasta Daisy – Butchart 2005
Scabiosa mix pink-purple-maroon from trade 2004
Scabiosa columbaria ‘Nana’ from Donn 2004
Penstemon strictus from trade 2005
Gaillardia Blanket Flower from trade 2004
Stokesia laevis – from Carolyn 2004

so they’re now off my exchange list, and going into my “waiting for” pile. Hopefully they’ll sprout this year so I can get more seeds.

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