What did you do in the garden today?

[Paz]

This is the most promising treatment for diabetes that I have come across. I am following this companies progress. They just completed a proof of concept trial in Diabetic Prime Mates with positive results. They already proven that their technology works on mice and now Prime Mates. The next step is human trials.
https://www.genprex.com/news/genpre...ional-conference-on-advanced-technologies-tr/

Do you remember the last time someone invented something like that? All the bubble kids died of cancer… I would have waited at least one full year before trying that, after human experiment have started.

 

[Paz]

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We collect these and put them in salads and soups. As far as I know, it shouldn’t be in America though.

 

[igorsMistress]

Do you remember the last time someone invented something like that? All the bubble kids died of cancer… I would have waited at least one full year before trying that, after human experiment have started.

I believe that was a bone marrow transplant for the bubble boy, and he had no immune system so was doomed from the start. I would try gene therapy, or hope it’s available for my husband. When you’re at deaths door already what’s the risk?

 

[Sueby]

It can be as invasive as it wants! This land needs green, other than knot weed!
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Seems that it has many medicinal uses & is edible. They say rub it on a bug bite or pick it when small & use it as a spice. I also read if you harvest when it’s older you must cook it really well as it contains cyanide. Lol, I’d probably skip eating it & try it on a bug bite instead.

 

[Sueby]

Put in a perennial butterfly/pollinator garden in the old hoophouse. I'll still need to watch for frost/freeze, but it's got hoops so that shouldn't be an issue. The flax is coming up to the right.
The large area, 12x 4 foot across from this will be all direct seeded mass wildflower and zinnia seeds. So hopefully.
I'll also put in some luffa and cukes.
Down to 40 tonight, so I went ahead and covered them, just so I can sleep better.
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That reminds me I have a bunch of packets of wildflower seeds from a wedding last year! I need to dig them out & find something to do with them. My butterfly/bee garden got nixed & turned into a covered run when HPAI hit hard here last year. I’ll have to see if they are annuals or perennials.

 

[Sueby]

We collect these and put them in salads and soups. As far as I know, it shouldn’t be in America though.

Neat. What’s it taste like? Is it bitter? Not a fan of bitter (broccoli rabe makes me gag, lol).

 

[member 655102]

Had to drop in, question: anyone know what this is? CT zone 6a. Thanks a lotView attachment 3471593View attachment 3471594

Yes, that is garlic mustard and it’s safe for you and the chickens to eat while it’s still young. Once the plant matures and produces flowers it becomes bitter and produces cyanide as @Sueby said…Which is still safe to eat but needs to be thoroughly cooked before eating because otherwise it’s toxic.

 

[littledog]

Today, I put a cup of black rice to 3 cups of white rice thinking that I would get white rice with scattered grains of black rice, but all the rice turned dark purple after it was cooked.
I think it has visual appeal, but it still taste like rice.

I had a recent rice fail - I intended to make fried rice, the crunchy kind with peas and little pieces of egg in it. But it remained mushy, the eggs made it even more mushy - apparently I have no clue about how fried rice is made. So I added some curry spices and some dried cranberries, and made it a different thing - turned out good!

There are some coming up where it isn’t mulched, my concern is if they’ll come up through those leaves cause none have yet?

I think the way berry plants propagate is to send roots out at a bit of a distance, and new ones will spring up there. I don't think where you have the leaf mulch makes a difference in encouraging them where to come up. Maybe move the mulch to where they're coming up?

We will get to plant by May if the weather holds

That's my intention, as well. I hope I've timed it right!

I'm amazed, less than a week after I planted my indoor seeds, my San Marzano, Sungold, leeks and Dahlia seeds sprouted. No action yet on squashes, melons or luffas, but I wasn't expecting anything this early, so I need to set up my grow lights.

The dregs of last year's plants were three quarts of sauerkraut that had been fermenting, some leeks that were still in the garden, and several quarts of grapes that I had frozen. So this weekend I pulled up the leeks and used them in a recipe, made grape jelly, and filled the canner.

First cans of 2023!

 

[WthrLady]

Still waiting for the market tomatoes and the mums to come up in the seeding shed.
Everything else is up and established and some are ready to move up in pot size.
Pollen and wind have sinus' on fire today. We'll see what gets done.
I need to move the frost shield from one side of the old hoophouse, which we are calling the schoolhouse, to the other to be ready to protect the butterfly garden as we are below freezing at night from Thursday-Sunday....oc we are. I'll put some heat sinks in there too so they can warm during the day and radiate at night.

 

[CNJ]

Do you remember the last time someone invented something like that? All the bubble kids died of cancer… I would have waited at least one full year before trying that, after human experiment have started.

It can take 5 to 10 years before the FDA approves a new drug for market. There are three stages a new drug goes through, Preclinical, Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3.

In Phase 1 human trials they prove the drug is safe for humans and establishes the best dose for the Phase 2 proof of concept trial,

• Phase 3 studies begin if evidence of effectiveness is shown in Phase 2. These studies gather more information about safety and effectiveness, studying different populations and different dosages and using the drug in combination with other drugs.