Your 2025 Garden

[LaurenRitz]

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Commercial seeds are a gamble!

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.

 

[jxp]

....2025 is coming to an end...so I hope 2026 I will have some vegetables grown in my garden.

We have been having excessive and prolong rain so everything is rotten, especially tomatoes, they do not like too much water.

I wish I could give both a heart smiley response for you pumpkins and a sad smiley for your maters.

Have you weighed Cinderella yet?

Your two pie pumpkins make me hungry for my favorite seasonal soup. I start with homemade chicken stock add in roasted pumpkin (or Hubbard or butternut) , cooked carrots, and baked yams. Use a stick blender to make it all smooth. Add spices and bring to a slight boil. Reduce heat. Add in cream. Simmer for a while. Enjoy. Like most soups and stews the longer it sits, the better it tastes.

 

[R2elk]

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 there are plant breeders. They do this for a living.

It's neither an accident nor a mystery. It's an entire industry.

You completely ignored my point which is that you can never stabilize a hybrid. True hybrids will never breed true. They are heterozygous. Only varieties that are homozygous are stable and will breed true.

What you are talking about is making a stable variety, not making that hybrid stable. You might end up with something similar but it will not be that hybrid because if it is stable, it is homozygous and not a hybrid which is heterozygous.

 

[R2elk]

Yes, the varients from the f1 hybrid have been stabilized for many years!

Some variants may end up stable but they are not the F1 hybrid, they are a different variety.