tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post8208500322891500467..comments2023-10-21T16:38:35.007-05:00Comments on Thoughts from Frank and Fern: Growing SeedsFrank and Fernhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15570058990887565563noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post-55854927263920712422020-06-27T15:58:48.626-05:002020-06-27T15:58:48.626-05:00So Glad you resumed Posting. We have been in Quara...So Glad you resumed Posting. We have been in Quarantine to Rooms in Senior Living often for past 3 months. Very glad we have each other, Shes 89 an still quilts I Move an set up stuff to that end. We moved up last June and Got asking price for our home. So glad I move fast when She said I'm tired of cooking and cleaning. We Snow birded for 20 some years after Lighthouse Hosting for 4. Rockhounding filled in around other activities, We a lot of different Churches. we light duty Home steadied on 4 acres for 20 years and wished computer forums had existed then<br />Rosco Roscohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10943320156001038418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post-71531751862669048102020-06-26T08:11:51.296-05:002020-06-26T08:11:51.296-05:00I found a copy of the book recommendation. I'...I found a copy of the book recommendation. I've been rehabbing all the canning supplies I inherited. Lots of grandkids and a few family I consider my own to watch out for. Thank you, mom, for making me shell peas, snap beans, and can with you. It's a latent skill now. I fear for those that don't have parents that grew up poor as dirt, and learned to make and do. Or came by these old skills somehow.<br /><br />I don't worry much about GMO/hybrid seeds. Everything we see was crossed and recrossed, even if it just happened naturally. What I want is seed that germinates, and grows nutrition. Not interested in one-time plants. <br /><br />Thanks for the good, clear post. STxARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04588850178293194825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post-40058738670225024802020-06-25T22:11:21.830-05:002020-06-25T22:11:21.830-05:00Fern,
Thanks for the article on saving seeds . We ...Fern,<br />Thanks for the article on saving seeds . We try to grow as much "heirloom" seed vegetables as we can. We do not like eating GMO/hybrid food and we stay away from restaurant food because all most every bit of it is processed food. It is engineered to taste good but not necessarily good for you.<br />I will order the recommended book on saving seeds, I have found it used less than $ 5.00.It will be great addition to our home library . The "Little house" books are a treasure of great information on living in an age of no electricity or gasoline engines. I also strongly suggest them .<br />Our gopher population appears to be greatly reduced and our garden is looking better every day. Here is looking to a great harvest for all.<br />BluesmanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post-20909362959646021012020-06-25T13:19:59.080-05:002020-06-25T13:19:59.080-05:00Start with the Little House on the Prairie series....Start with the Little House on the Prairie series. Farmer Boy is the first book. Some would consider these books to be for children, but read them with an eye to the work involved in providing everyday food for the family, year in and year out. Don't just read them, study them. We have read the whole series several times.<br /><br />Research and read about the Lewis and Clark expedition. There are numerous directions these two resources will lead you.<br /><br />Happy reading, Fern<br />Frank and Fernhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15570058990887565563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post-30437624549829242852020-06-25T05:04:10.384-05:002020-06-25T05:04:10.384-05:00Hi Fern, this year all I have sow are from our own...Hi Fern, this year all I have sow are from our own seeds. For now the Parsley from last year have run to seed and the squash seeds. Taking seeds is very important to maintain the specie and for our own good, as we have seen if you depend on genetic seeds suddenly they stop selling and then what?<br />Yes, we need to sow more than our garden, sowing love and the truth are very important especial today when the lie are more pleasing to hear than the truth. Some times bad or sad news are needed to hear for us to prepare and prevent and bigger evil.<br />Well, I had water melon seeds saved from 2012 and I said to myself what a waist and ditched it all into a hole and look now they are all pupping up, will need to transplant them.<br />God bless, cswAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post-2369829098653069742020-06-24T21:47:50.566-05:002020-06-24T21:47:50.566-05:00My favorite book on seed saving is "Seed to S...My favorite book on seed saving is "Seed to Seed" by Suzanne Ashworth, published in 2002 by Seed Savers Exchange. It's a wealth of information.<br /><br />This just hasn't been a good year for us when it comes to the garden. Very poor yields from the beans, much of the potato crop is rotted, the poorest peach crop ever, just a few peppers and eggplant, and to add insult to injury - the squirrels just tore up the corn. Even the chickens aren't producing the quantity of eggs that they normally do. About the only crop that's really doing well is the sweet potato patch - oh, and the cotton is also doing well, but that doesn't put food on the table. That's a good reminder of why it's important to store food and not just grow it. In another time, my family would have gone hungry.Stephen Clay McGeheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11769659673270408310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post-68144204249401623322020-06-24T17:26:20.024-05:002020-06-24T17:26:20.024-05:00Hello Folks, thanks for this timely article. Your...Hello Folks, thanks for this timely article. Your comment: "We have read a number of books about people that lived in a time that what they grew/harvested/hunted was what they ate. No harvest, no food." I'd be interested in reading those books, too. Can you name some of them please? Thanks in advance! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7003348645601520194.post-69733385068114605512020-06-24T01:15:18.449-05:002020-06-24T01:15:18.449-05:00I don't know if its my imagination, but it see...I don't know if its my imagination, but it seems that this year, the quality of seeds has gone down. My own saved seeds germinated better, especially the carrots. I have lettuce, kale, red mustard and walking onions that seed themselves every year. And yes, growing stuff in the greenhouse to go to seed is a good idea. There's a corner in ours right now that has four fat carrots going to seed there, and in another spot, some onions that were sprouting-got planted too. We are eating cherry tomatoes right now and on a whim, I decided to plant some of the seed that I squeezed out. Darn if they didn't sprout. The variety is very early, called "42 days", and I guess that I will have a later crop of them now.<br />anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665393163965779725noreply@blogger.com