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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jan 28, 2015 18:46:59 GMT -5
Welcome, Annette! It's always great to have another gardener join our online family. I think it's great that you're helping to preserve heirloom beans. Maybe you could tell us about some of your favorites?
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Post by stratcat on Jan 28, 2015 21:13:17 GMT -5
Hi there, Aftermidnight. Welcome to NJT! 2OO varieties of beans. Wow!!! Hope to hear about them.
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Post by aftermidnight on Jan 29, 2015 12:09:06 GMT -5
stratcat Laura_in_FL Thanks for the welcome, finding and sharing heirloom beans is what it's all about for me. It all started when I tried to find out the history on an Italian pole bean I had been growing since 1965. A few beans were given to me by a neighbor to try and she said if I liked them she'd give me some seed, the only information I had on them was they came to Canada in the early 1900's, brought by a Italian immigrant. A few years back I started looking for more information on them. Many people on another forum pitched in and tried to help, we compared numerous bean seeds to mine, we came close with one called 'Uncle Steve' but no cigar. In the meantime one of the crisper drawers in the fridge was rapidly filling with heirloom bean seed. Of course I had to plant some of these and soon found myself turning a good portion of my garden into a bean patch or I like to call it my 'bean boutique' . Since I now grow so many varieties each year I don't grow huge amounts of anything, just enough for a taste and seed for myself and a few to share. Quite by accident I found out the history of my Italian bean so I've named them 'Emelia's Italian Pole Bean" in honor of the lady who brought them with her when she immigrated to Canada in 1911 from the town St. Peitro in the province of Udine in Northern Italy. By now I had a full blown addition to collecting, growing and sharing seeds. I try albeit in a small way help keeping some of these wonderful old heirlooms from disappearing never to be seen again. When I went looking for seed of 'Comtesse de Chambord' the little french rice bean, even with help from several others we couldn't find it being sold anywhere in North America, with some help I finally found a place in France who had this variety listed, I ordered some, grew them, spread the seed around and am happy to say it is now available commercially from several venders at least here in Canada. Mr. Tung's brought to Canada in the early 1900's fro China is another that I know is sold by at least one vender. I have a lot of favorites, some that come to mind at the moment besides the ones already mentioned are... Cherokee Trail of Tears Bosnian Pole Gigandes Aeron Purple Star .. a new purple runner developed in Wales Wood Mountain Crazy Beans Blue Jay Tennessee Cut-shorts North Carolina Speckled Long Greasy Cut-shorts Blue Greasy Grits Barksdale Tobacco Worm Seneca Speckled Egg and that's just the short list LOL I'm planning on growing about 30 different varieties this year, most I haven't grown before so it should be interesting to see how well they fare in my garden, hoping for a long growing season. Annette
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Post by stratcat on Jan 30, 2015 1:02:46 GMT -5
YVW. Interesting. I've only grown Cherokee Trail of Tears from your short list. Now-a-days, the tomato experiments won't let me grow much of anything else.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2015 9:54:39 GMT -5
Hello, I am an organic gardener from Southeast PA. I was a frequent poster to Rodale's Organic Gardening website but it is under new management and will be ending soon and turning into a Facebook page so I was shopping for a new website. I already spend a lot of time on Pro Boards new Organic Gardening Community organicgroup.freeforums.net but your site is also very nice. I hope to be back often.
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Post by paulf on Feb 21, 2015 10:18:02 GMT -5
Welcome and post often; the more the merrier.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2015 10:35:23 GMT -5
Hmmm, you don't seem to have an edit feature for posts. I posted an incorrect link to the organic gardening forum on Pro Boards. It is:
organicgroup.freeforums.net/
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Post by daylilydude on Feb 21, 2015 12:48:00 GMT -5
Hmmm, you don't seem to have an edit feature for posts. I posted an incorrect link to the organic gardening forum on Pro Boards. It is:
organicgroup.freeforums.net/ Howdy brownrexx, and welcome to our lil gardening forum. I fixed the link for you, but please explain the "not" being able to edit as I thought everyone could edit their post... I will try and figure out what went wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2015 13:14:24 GMT -5
Thanks Richard but our new Forum is not called Rodale's Organic Gardening it is The Organic Gardening Community. The Rodale site is a thing of the past and will be shut down very soon. Most of the members at Rodale migrated to the new forum.
I'm sure that The Organic Gardening Community Forum will have some overlap with your forum but I see that we already share some members but many people, including myself, like to read 2 forums.
Update - OK, now that's weird. The edit button is showing up on this post but not my ones above this. Maybe I had to make a couple of posts first before I was allowed to edit?
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Post by daylilydude on Feb 21, 2015 13:24:11 GMT -5
Sorry bout that @brownress I made the change... hmmm... I will look into this and see if I can fix this.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2015 13:37:59 GMT -5
Can you fix one other thing for me? When I registered I accidently typed brownress instead of brownrexx so now brownress is my login name and that is what I have to type to login to the site.
Looks like your edit feature is only available for a short period of time. I can edit this posting but the older ones no longer have the edit button available.
I was able to edit the previous posting right after I made it but now the edit button is gone like in the other older postings. Very strange.
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Post by daylilydude on Feb 21, 2015 13:59:42 GMT -5
Can you fix one other thing for me? When I registered I accidently typed brownress instead of brownrexx so now brownress is my login name and that is what I have to type to login to the site. I'm sorry @brownress, but that is one thing I can't do, to change your sign-in name you would have to delete your account and join the forum again using brownrexx. Looks like your edit feature is only available for a short period of time. I can edit this posting but the older ones no longer have the edit button available.
I was able to edit the previous posting right after I made it but now the edit button is gone like in the other older postings. Very strange. Ahha... I think I figured that out... please check it out for me and let me know?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2015 15:05:35 GMT -5
The edit button now appears on all of my posts.
I can't stand this brownress thing so I'll delete my account and re-join if you tell me how. I can't find a way to delete myself.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 21, 2015 15:15:20 GMT -5
OK, I deleted and re-joined.
Thanks
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Post by daylilydude on Feb 21, 2015 15:28:27 GMT -5
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Post by stratcat on Feb 21, 2015 18:10:23 GMT -5
Welcome to NJT, Brownrexx! What do you like to grow?
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 21, 2015 19:04:05 GMT -5
Thanks for the welcome. I have a good sized, traditional in-ground, organic garden and I grew 25 different kinds of veggies last year.
Right now I have started my onion seedlings and I am growing some artichokes for the first time.
Next month I will be starting tomatoes, peppers and eggplants and then the main gardening season is right around the corner. Yea, I am tired of seeing it snow!
You have lots to read on your forum and I am busy catching up.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 21, 2015 22:43:42 GMT -5
We meet again, brownrexx! Welcome to the forum. I thought that must be you, when I saw the original post with the slightly different spelling.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 22, 2015 9:06:02 GMT -5
Thanks Pepperhead. This looks like a nice forum to frequent in addition to our Organic Gardening Community.
I got a little crazy on the keyboard when registering and made a typo that couldn't be changed so I had to quit and re-join.
It's nice to see a couple of familiar faces here.
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Post by dirtguy50 on Feb 22, 2015 10:10:57 GMT -5
Welcome brownrexx! Always nice to see you on any forum.
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Post by lmehaffey on Mar 12, 2015 13:33:24 GMT -5
Well, I'm here in Shelby County -- removed from my little farm (where I was when I first joined this board), but still growing 'maters. My suburban yard generally has several yellow-flowering plants (our covenants don't allow vegetable gardening, so I grow things for their pretty blooms; this year to include Jeff Davis, Uncle Mark Bagby, Dad's Sunset, True Black Brandywine, Pink Elephant and Pink Icicle, as well as a couple of cherry-types. Seeds have been started, holes are being prepped, and my doctor has been put on notice that I will be seeing him for a strained back before long!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 12, 2015 15:42:32 GMT -5
Heehee...so if those plants with the pretty yellow blooms make fruit on the side, that's just a coincidence, right? You know, they would look extra-nice planted them next to a certain hibiscus relative with red stems and red-splashed foliage that makes pretty yellow hibiscus-like flowers...and coincidentally makes pretty purple-red seed pods that are edible if picked young and tender: davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/170779/
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Post by stratcat on Mar 12, 2015 23:10:48 GMT -5
Welcome back, lmehaffey! Sounds like you're growing some nice yellow-flowering plants. My kinda gardener.
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Post by lmehaffey on Mar 13, 2015 7:19:09 GMT -5
Not much room for the red-flowered plants here, so I let my son grow those. I'm out there a good bit during season, though, as my beehives are still at the farm; I help him with the large garden and he monitors my hives for me. It all works out.
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Post by lmehaffey on Mar 13, 2015 7:22:06 GMT -5
Yep -- decided to focus on 'maters, as I am limited in space here; it was fun last season, experimenting with a couple of heirlooms (Jeff Davis and Cherokee Purple) seed-shared from friends. This year, I thought I'd expand a bit --- some will be in large pots, some in-ground. I've already picked up a couple of ideas from this site!
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Post by trellis on Mar 30, 2015 11:30:11 GMT -5
Hello everyone,
I am trellis and I am new here. I discovered this site in a strange way and I am only sorry that I did not discover it sooner.
I have been gardening for a bit, but always have questions because I sometimes experience problems in the garden and I have a thirst to learn more.
Presently I am fixated on vegetable gardening, but have dabbled quite a bit with flower gardening.
I do have one prejudice though. I am not a fan of lawns. Too much to mow and I always envision something else growing in its place, but then again, the clippings do come in handy with the compost pile and for mulching.
Hope to chat with you all soon, but I have some reading and catching up to do now.
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Post by stratcat on Mar 31, 2015 0:05:21 GMT -5
Welcome to NJT, trellis! I'm with you on lawns. I'm always looking to dig up more yard and plant something besides grass. Butterfly Weed starts are under lights and will be set out this spring. Glad you joined.
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Post by daylilydude on Mar 31, 2015 10:53:34 GMT -5
Welcome trellis, glad you stopped in and joined our lil gardening community, pull up a chair and tell us about all your gardening adventures...
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Mar 31, 2015 13:47:43 GMT -5
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Post by aqua on Apr 1, 2015 17:07:54 GMT -5
(smiles at rexx's determination)
This is a nice place to learn about each other. Funny what we find when we look beyond those little yellow flowers, eh? Eggplant flowers are a soft lavender; squash blossoms are brilliant, too. Loved the okra pic, Laura.
Five years ago I did not know a lettuce seed from a cucumber seed. I wondered why my cukes never grabbed the trellis that year...and only two years ago did I discover I could grow broccoli. Many people have never seen a broccoli plant! it is so sad that folks don't know anything about what they put in their mouth. Food? comes from a truck, that's all they know.
Sharing the joy of the garden; we are all blessed with every little arched green back that lifts herself to the sky- every seed is a miracle- and we are so lucky to get to watch it all happen, by our hands and in front of our eyes.
peace-
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