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  1. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    I was digging weeds this afternoon and turned up some potatoes. Nice surprise!
  2. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    SMH
  3. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    Not Not the least of which is that sometimes the post office decides to irradiate packages for "safety." If I can grow it myself, harvest and plant my own seeds, I know precisely what I've got, how it was grown, and I have more seeds for 0 cost.
  4. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    I do as well. For the most part, the only commercial seeds that come into my house at this point are gifts. This year, when I'm starting adaptation to a new area and new soil, some of my dry sand desert adapted seeds didn't do well with cold wet clay, so I had to start over and buy some things.
  5. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    Got two surviving hot peppers this year, two of which have produced. Next year 5 survivors, the following year weed? :)
  6. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    How do you think new heirlooms or op varieties happen? A spontaneous or planned cross produces something good and someone went to the effort to replant it year after year until it was inbred enough to produce the same thing every time. Breeders (plant and animal) do this all the time. That's why...
  7. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    And yes, you can plant hybrids. Statistically about a quarter will be the hybrid variety, which you can then stabilize into an op variety, but you may find something you like even more. With the inbreeding depression removed or reduced by a generation of hybridization, it is possible thst you'll...
  8. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    If you're concerned, contact seed savers or similar organizations and see if they're willing or able to help. Realize that once they are out of your hands you have no control, but from my perspective it's worth it to preserve these old and sometimes ancient varieties. An alternative would be...
  9. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    Keep seeds for whatever did survive to replant next year. 1st year adaptation.
  10. LaurenRitz

    Need help with breed ID

    Sandhillpreservation.com
  11. LaurenRitz

    Your 2025 Garden

    The "traditional " cantaloupe that I ate today had nowhere near the flavor of those I've been eating for weeks. I found a tiny watermelon buried in the grass. The tomatoes have decided it's time to fruit. So have the peppers. Cucumbers are slowing down. I don't think I'll do a real...
  12. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I'm pretty sure my siblings would notice within a year (frequency of our contact, pretty much), but that doesn't help the animals.
  13. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    Four of the five found their way without any assistance tonight. That includes the girl I thought was night-blind! as well as the BA cross. The fifth had tucked herself in under the rooster in the big kids coop. I carried her over and she climbed up. I have two more to get up there, then the...
  14. LaurenRitz

    Possible breeding program

    Current flock. I love seeing them spread out like this in the morning. So far all the little boys are perfectly behaved. Deciding between them is going to be difficult.
  15. LaurenRitz

    Games vs Kraienkoppe

    I am still trying to figure out which is which. I have found pictures of adults for both groups, but not juveniles. I could wait, but I need to separate the game boys before they mature. These pictures are all of pullets. They are currently 12 weeks old. The first two pictures are the same...
  16. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    One of the little girls came to roost without assistance day before yesterday. Last night I armed myself with wheat and lured them over so they "found" it themselves and climbed up on their own. We'll see what happens tonight. Once they have it down I will open up the bachelor pad and see what...
  17. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    The night temperatures were running in the 80's for a while there, so if there were two or three of them it's possible, if not likely. While he does look like one of the other chicks, his comb is much brighter. There are turkeys in the area, but I've never seen them near my house.
  18. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    I begin to think that some of the chicks I thought dead might have gone feral. I mostly have the girls out in this group, along with two cockerels. The rest are in their bachelor pad. But a couple of times in the past week I've seen another cockerel, the same size as the 11 week chicks. He...
  19. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    The BA cross among the chicks (likely a pullet) put herself to bed with the adults last night. I have no objection. I'm keeping an eye on one of the game chicks (I assume) and one of the Dorking-Sussex crosses. They don't want to get down in the morning and spend an inordinate amount of time...
  20. LaurenRitz

    Landrace/adaptive breeding discussion

    My first aggressive rooster was about the same age. I talked to the family who gave him to me but they hadn't noticed anything--except that he and several of his brothers were constantly fighting. On discussing it with them, they weren't free ranging their birds. The boys had been in a bachelor...
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