Tim Horton
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Post by Tim Horton on May 17, 2020 15:42:50 GMT 10
We are still a week early of the usual last frost date here in the far north.. We are in zone 2... We have had 2 if not 3 overnight frosts in the last 2 weeks... We do raised bed gardening. Today Sweetie put in several containers of peas.. She always puts a container of edible pod peas near the gate for me to snack on..
She is so cute in her big Panama type straw gardening hat..
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Post by Tim Horton on Jul 13, 2020 13:43:40 GMT 10
I guess I should up date a little, it being mid July now... Everything in Sweeties garden looks very well and hearty, but some shorter than I think is usual for this time of year..
She put in some sweet corn this year.. There are short season corn varieties, but they would still struggle with or zone 2... Where most of North America says "knee high by the 4th of July" we got ankle high.. Which isn't bad for here..
We have been quite busy adding more raised beds and planter boxes.. Also adding local weather hearty berry bushes and trees..
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Post by Tim Horton on Dec 16, 2020 9:42:52 GMT 10
GARDEN CATALOGS......
Just a week, or less away from our "Winter Soloist" and we have got our second seed catalog now..
First one went strait to the wood stove as it was from central east coast US.. Second one is from north east Canada, so will require a review before deciding to keep it or not..
Again this year I am going to look closely at nursery stock.. We did well improving and adding to our local hearty fruit, berry orchard stock as it is. Can always use more..
Sweetie has enough garden seed to last many seasons within the limits of our zone 2..
I'm sure you have a quite diverse selection of things to grow, being zone 6 through 12... But how does that work for you for seed and nursery sources ?? Do you have mostly domestic catalogs ?? Foreign catalogs ?? Are they fussy, or how fussy are they about importing seeds ??
Canada is quite fussy about imported seeds, even from long time reputable US suppliers, for instance.. They would have an absolute snit if someone tried to share seeds individual to individual..
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Post by Tim Horton on Jan 17, 2021 7:20:36 GMT 10
Being our zone 2 season is so short, and starts correspondingly later than other zones... Of all the things I'm reading I'm worried about getting seed potatoes.. Sweetie has plenty of package seeds that do well here.. Seed potatoes we usually buy red or Yukon Gold locally.. Maybe I'm fretting over nothing, but don't want to have a problem when we finely are ready..
I know you are mid season or so now.. How was it your last "spring" and what do you see and hear there ??
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Post by spinifex on Jan 17, 2021 8:02:07 GMT 10
Our last spring saw no real problems with supplies where I live. (It may have been different in other parts of Oz though)
Garden seedlings did disappear for a while during the first panic buying wave in March. I only grow from seed (for disease management reasons) so it didn't bother me.
I also keep my own seed year to year for quite a few types.
Strange thing this year is we do not seem to be having any summer weather pattern. It is weirdly cold ... especially considering how stupidly hot the last few summers have been.
The Climate Change predictors might be right: Extremes in both directions - hot and cold.
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Post by Beno on Jan 17, 2021 9:50:41 GMT 10
We had a lack of seeds of all types including potatoes. Some of the more reputable brands are still not stocked well. I’ll check again when i’m in town. I have already used a fair bit of my own seed from last summer and they are going well. My bok choy is now an invasive species, absolutely everywhere. I have collected broccoli seed to see how that goes. With my brocc i cut them back and not pulled them out and think that they will provide another season of broccolini.
The rain has slowed and some sun getting through to dry my place out. Production is back on the rise.
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