Thank You BYCers For All The Seeds! NEW SEED SWAP ON THIS THREAD!

[dangerouschicken]

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I would love to try Bloody Butcher, but all I have to trade corn-wise is some Golden Bantam.

 

[holliewould]

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Good question. My basil is flowering like crazy. Gigantic.

 

[holliewould]

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Perfecto! Can't wait! I'm drying out mini bell pepper seeds right now. I hope they sprout. I tried one of the peppers today, I might have picked it immaturely. Don't know how big they are supposed to get before harvest. That little pepper must have had 50 seeds in it though.

 

[hollybird]

dangerouschicken i will send you some bloody butcher corn when it is dry. very good cold soil emergence. i ought to measure the corn this year but all i have to use is a piece of irrigation pipe.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Sweetshoplady- I have some blackeyed peas if you want them. They dried on the vine. Is that still okay? All the non-dried I've put up in the freezer already. How many would you like? I will say that these grew like crazy this year with very little effort on my part. My favorite kind of plant!

Do you have something to trade? I'd love some butterbeans or pickling cucumbers. And I am always open to new flowers.

I have some heirloom tomatoes called "black russians" (I think). If somebody can tell me how to save the seeds I'll pass those on to whoever wants them.

I also have freaky cucumber seeds. They were supposed to be red chinese cucumbers, but they never turned red. What they do do is grow to be the size of a football and turn deep golden yellow. My chickens love, love, love them! Actually I have been known to tell the chickens to go long and then throw a lateral. The cucumber smashes in a very satisfactory way and the chickens go to town scarfing it all up!

PM me an address if you want any of this.

 

[ninjapoodles]

I have tons of seeds already--some from A Cook's Garden and some more from dangerouschicken, and I'm planning out my beds, based on the little bit I learned this year about what did well where.

Does anyone know of a good gardening book for the SOUTH? Every book I've read on gardening and storing food was written by someone much farther north than I where I live, and the "rules" did NOT seem to work for me this year. I'm really a beginner, so I need help.

It is hot, hot, hot here. It gets hot early and stays hot for a long time. Our nights are only just now beginning to dip down into the 60's, and we won't have a frost for quite some time.

Where I live is very rocky, so I have to build up beds above the ground. I particularly want to plant potatoes in the spring, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do that (barrels?).

So...any resources you can recommend?

 

[momofdrew]

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Lucky Lucky you I am in Zone 3 we have had our frost already our growing season is from the new moon in June until Labor day very short...It was 40 this morning when I let the girls out...you on the other hand sounds like you could start your cole crops very early in the year My BIL in Fl starts in Jan for gabages brocolli etc then by March/April he has his tomatoes in the ground...I would check with you local agricultural collage extention service they should have a your best growing times for your area.... find out which zone you are in...check out what is heat tolerant...most seed packets have the zones on the back that tells you when the best time to plant that particular genuis...

Pam

 

[ninjapoodles]

Thanks, Pam--that's what I'm wondering about. I need a list of early crops that wouldn't be devastated by a surprise frost, because while it does get warm really early here, we typically have a sudden ice-storm in late Feb. or early March that lasts a day or so.

 

[Queen Scoot]

thank you holliewould for the seeds!

 

[momofdrew]

Hollie your seeds arrived... thank you...Pam