I've been on vacation all week and haven't had a lot of time for our garden this week. While I've been having fun with my family, I've missed the garden (and Sarah!)!!
Sarah has been out in the garden weeding a bit this week, but I am simply amazed at how fast the weeds grow!! I just went out to take a look around and noticed all sorts of little weeds poking up! Sarah and I laugh a bit at ourselves, because we just can't let those weeds grow like some of our nearby friends, who it doesn't seem to bother.
The one night I could go out to the garden this week, Sarah and I hilled the potatoes that are really starting to take off! I don't see any new spouts this week, but I am hoping that we get a few more. Potatoes weren't on our list to plant this year, but a friend had extra and they were free, so we decided to go ahead and try them out, since we had the room.
Everything is really growing beautifully. We will soon need to set up the trellis for our peas, so I'd better get to work arranging that! :-) We did try to pick a radish, but they aren't ready yet, so we'll be waiting a bit longer. The green beans, most of the corn, onions, summer squash and zucchini are growing fantastically! I am not convinced with most of the cabbage and we were able to pick a bit of lettuce (picture to come!). We also planted more lettuce. The cucumbers (which I started inside) are my favorite, since I've known them since infancy..LOL! They look marvelous! Tomatoes and all but one pepper plant are doing well as well. I am not convinced with the melon and watermelon.
Our pumpkins and winter squash, the last things we planted are really starting to grow now! Those were the last things we planted and its sooooo exciting to have a full garden of plants! I did buy the pumpkin packet this year, but had saved the winter squash seeds from a squash I had bought at the farmers' market last year. Saving my own seeds was another one of those experiments I had really wanted to try. I hope to do more of this after this year. Does anyone have experience with this? We'd love to hear about it!
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I've tried this with some green peppers I bought from Walmart and saved them till the next year & planted them. They grew good foliage but only 6 green peppers on 4 plants. They were probably hybrids? not sure.
My aunt saved some pumpkin seed one year from her garden and gave them to me to plant. They did decently but the fruit was weird. They looked like a pumpkin flower, then had a yellow-orange skin, and inside was yellow. They lasted till December, we didn't eat them but the dog did (he liked them!).
Some responses I got was that they were cross pollinated possibly. It's something that could happen - not always though. Here's a picture of them (look at bottom for more pics) - http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=meisenheimers6&number=18&album_id=5&thumbstart=2&gallery=#slideanchor
I want to try my hand at keeping seeds too, but I got mostly hybrids this year.
the problem with saving seeds is that you have to save heirloom varieties or open pollinated varieties and not hybrids. Hybrids never run true to form and so many seeds are hybrids.
Try seedsavers.org for more info.
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