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.

 

[LaurenRitz]

SMH

 

[SkyAJK]

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.

You are mistaken me for someone else. I would love to have grown some pumpkins and weighed in Cinderella, but I have non of those.

I found out this morning that the rotten rodents had dug up my sweet potato plants again, I threw over a few bags full of pine bark,they don't dig anywhere with pine bark.

Today I will get some more pine bark so that I can replant my sweet potato, this variety of potato has soft leaves, my chickens love them and I too. We do not eat this sweet potato fruit, just the leaves.

 

[jxp]

You are mistaken me for someone else.

Wouldn't surprise me.
@R2elk I guess this was meant for you.

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]

Wouldn't surprise me.
@R2elk I guess this was meant for you.

Yes, I knew it was.

and one Cinderella's Ride (30 lbs.).

If you look closer, you will see that I gave the weight of the Cinderella's Ride in parentheses, 30 lbs.

 

[Bsmac]

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

Exactly!

 

[Bsmac]

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.

I agree 100 %! Besides saving seeds is fun!