Thanks PP. So after the seeds I bought are gone, no more Sugar Baby.
I'm glad I bought a melon with lots of seeds. It is a huge, but has a great taste.
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I'm glad I bought a melon with lots of seeds. It is a huge, but has a great taste.
Seedless oranges and such are raised from a tree which has been Gene-manipulated and the oranges come every year..."seedless". Watermelons are done the same in certain areas. Seeds are manipulated to make the seedless watermelons and you have to buy them each year if the plant does not survive. Seldom, but possibly, there is an occasional seed in these "seedless" fruits and even then, only about 10% can ever be used to "re-produce" any further fruit. If and when this does produce (re-produce) for 5 generations...you have heirlooms again. But not definitely "seedless" again.
BTW; if and when you save watermelon seeds (cantelopes/honeydew melons)---you need to wait a year longer to use them, I have heard they grow better than if you use them immediately next year...any corrections are welcome. Gary
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We have some baby watermelons on a couple of our vines now. Not sure if we'll get to eat any before first frost.
I'll start picking raspberries tomorrow. The plants are loaded with berry's this year. The black berry's are still a week or two out.
I'll start picking raspberries tomorrow. The plants are loaded with berry's this year. The black berry's are still a week or two out.
My blackberry harvest was probably 10 berries. They came ripe when our temp was high and no rain. I tried watering, but nope. Next year.......
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I watched you tube videos on moringa this morning and each one said the exact opposite of the other.
Water, don't water, grow in containers, don't grow in containers, etc.
I will start in container (large) and maybe plant next Spring.
Water, don't water, grow in containers, don't grow in containers, etc.
I will start in container (large) and maybe plant next Spring.
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Its so dry here that I need to water every other day. Its takes at least 8 hours to get everything watered. Starting this fall im going to work on putting in an irrigation system to make watering easier, and to insure only the plants and trees get water. Right now I'm wasting a lot of water on keeping weeds green.
Robin, I watched a video of a guy on a moringa farm dig up one about 5-6' tall just to show it's root. They have a very large tap root like a pecan tree with only a few hairy roots coming off of it. So although you can grow them in a large container (like a trash can or barrel) for a couple years to start them out, as fast growing trees, they will need to be in the ground eventually or the root will be stunted and thus the top will as well. They like lots of water the first couple years, but what tree doesn't? In addition, you'll need to be prepared to haul that heavy container into a greenhouse or garage every winter, as they will NOT take a freeze. They are Asian plants and like hot, sunny weather and humid conditions. Some people I've chatted with on garden forums with older established trees have reported they tested not moving in winter and they see die back to the dirt line in a freeze. But after pruning off dead growth, established trees have come back anew off their roots the following Spring (all but after the Feb 2021 snow/icepocalypse Texas experienced, that is). That 100 year event pretty near killed everything tropical and much more! I lost established ligustrums and a 25', 8"diameter trunk loquat that season.
I have decided to make more vegetable powders than usual. They may not taste great, but are a great, light weight way to get vitamins and minerals in times of food shortages. Plus, they will be easier to hide than quart jars and prepper wolves might overlook them altogether.
How is this possible? I just planted these sweet potatoes about two months ago. I've already found two right under the surface. No telling how many are down deep.
These are the orange sweet potatoes. The white sweet potatoes just have a bunch of thin roots all over the place, and they were planted first.
These are the orange sweet potatoes. The white sweet potatoes just have a bunch of thin roots all over the place, and they were planted first.
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Yesterday when I was watering the tomatoes a small brown snake came out from under the plants. It was nice to see something besides a rattlesnake. They are welcome here.
I have no idea how they grow food from 'seedless' food. Makes you wonder, but, I don't care enough to look it up, because I NEVER buy those food, the mystery of it not being natural is enough cause for alarm. Like you, I buy food that has seeds. I walk into a grocery store and I see seeds everywhere, not fruits or vegetables, LOL.
That's how I started all of my citrus trees, and other exotic fruits-just in case there's another world wide lock down, and stop on shipping imports,, I'll just grow my own exotic fruit. My dragon fruit is very fun to grow, right now they are about one inch tall, and look exactly like tiny cactus plants, which they are. The kiwi grows very fast, and the leaves are fuzzy, just like a kiwi! Very cute!!!
I'm sure if you really want to know, you could research 'seedless fruit propagation'. Maybe they are grafting, or splitting roots. GMO.....no thank you. And I'm sure there will be more and more 'seedless' this and that, they don't want you to grow your own.
They.....want to be in control of the food you eat, when you eat it, and IF.....you eat.
Control the food.....control the people.
Strange article. It looks like it's saying it's fine to use, but to me, it seems like some sort of off-shoot of Monsanto.
killing some by dehydration? 'scratches off and absorbs into an insects exoskeleton ...which "eventually" leads to death....so it's suffering for....how long?
And then the clincher.....will kill bugs like ants, cockroaches and bed bugs?
Since when do ants eat and destroy fruits or vegetables?
Since when do cockroaches destroy fruits or vegetables?
Since when do bed bugs....destroy fruits or vegetables?
Must just be me, but I don't understand this reasoning.
So bed bugs are going out into people's gardens and farms, and destroying crops that possibly a bumble bee is flying over and may land on that same flower of the fruit or vegetable? But since the bee can fly, it's okay?.....I don't know. Cockroaches in the garden? Never seen or heard of this.
I'd say just don't use the DE if it 'may' affect the bees. If we need the bees, why even run the risk?
It's not as if it's easy to get more bees....just run to the store, buy a pack of bee eggs/seed.....and scatter in the garden, soon you'll have new bees?
Hmmmmmm.
It's a good article to read though, I didn't know DE was killing bees.
It' must be killing a lot of bees, and people are complaining about it, for someone to write this article saying no, it won't kill bees, if YOU are careful about it. hm. It's not them, it's not the DE, it's your fault if the bees die. Just be more careful next time you apply it to your garden or farm.
Amazing how it's always OUR fault, isn't it?
I wonder how much money the writer was being paid to put that article out, and by whom. The makers of DE? Perhaps?
And here's a question....so, if you have bed bugs< you're suppose to sprinkle this DE on your mattress??
And, if there are cockroaches in your restaurant<you're suppose to sprinkle this DE around the floor?
Ants? they don't hurt my garden, if anything they are helping. They open my peonies, eat bugs off my cherry tree's leaves....and other things..
I'm currently germinating some peach and nectarine seeds in my kitchen window. It's a first for me doing them. We'll see if I live long enough to eat any fruit off them downstream. LOL I had a loquat I have been babying in a pot down at the cabin the past 1½ years. It was a seedling that dropped off below my 25' loquat tree that died in the Texas snowpocalypse of 2021. I was sad to see last week its leaves had browned off in our oppressive triple-digit heat. It's in a shadier spot now and I'm hoping it will come through the summer & put on some new leaves. It has dsone that weveral times now, so it's likely it will. It's only 1' tall, so I may lose it. 
I love loquat preserves.
I love loquat preserves.
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The same thing happened to my moringa trees, but I bought the seeds from Baker's Creek.
I had 5 plants all as tall as this one in the photo, then suddenly, it started to die. Don't know why.
They've all passed into plant heaven now. Along with my 'long beans' from Baker's Creek as well. And the cabbage, none grew more than 2 inches, and my Celtuce too. Not sure what's happening.
I got my first moringa seeds off eBay a few years back and they all germinated for me in under 10 days. But the seeds I bought last year were from another vendor (don't recall where or the name) and not a single one has germinated. I've tried groups of 5 seeds three times now and none have germinated, doing them the exact same way I had success germinating them 3 years ago.
With all the seed problems people are having this year, I'm wondering if something is being done to them. Stop us from growing our own food?I got my first moringa seeds off eBay a few years back and they all germinated for me in under 10 days. But the seeds I bought last year were from another vendor (don't recall where or the name) and not a single one has germinated. I've tried groups of 5 seeds three times now and none have germinated, doing them the exact same way I had success germinating them 3 years ago.
Certainly a possibility.
Ants ate a sweet potato, i was using for slips. I remember Proud Prepper had a problem with ants eating his .
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Yesterday I turned the chickens in to the garden with the ducks. With their wings clipped they can't fly out. We have a huge amount of grasshoppers this year. Maybe the chickens can eat a few. We have 11 runner ducks, 6 chocolate runners and 5 fawn and white runners. They're kind of funny looking.
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We had a sweet potato that had really good sprouts in the house. Planted it in a pot. Raccoon got it. Dug it out and it was gone.
