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Ever visit the Baker Creek site?Tuesday and today pickins
I never heard of them until you mentioned their name. Very nice site and I will try to look a little closer at the varieties they offer, their focus seems to be on heirloom seeds. The heritage behind some of the corn and bean cultivars is really old and facinating.Ever visit the Baker Creek site?
I do not. I really just don't have time, but I have an Ag background and I love researching stuff. Hope to get a garden going in the next couple years, but it'll be a go big type deal. So I'm heavy researching now, so i have reference points.I never heard of them until you mentioned their name. Very nice site and I will try to look a little closer at the varieties they offer, their focus seems to be on heirloom seeds. The heritage behind some of the corn and bean cultivars is really old and facinating.
I tried growing a number of heirloom tomato varieties last year including Cherokee Purple, Japanese Black Trifele (actually a purple), and a couple of different cherry varieties alongside a Beefmaster. The purples (mostly originated in Russia) have an outrageous flavor but it seems the heirlooms are more susceptable to all kinds of problems and the yield is substantially less so I decided this year to stick to 2 hybrids. Nothing worse than beginning to germinate seeds in February, do your best to care for them all spring and wind up with a dismaI garden in June. I do have a Cherokee Purple that came up as a volunteer in another pot so I pulled and repotted it. It has one really nice looking tomato on it that should be ready to eat with several more small ones coming.
Do you have a garden?
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I do not. I really just don't have time, but I have an Ag background and I love researching stuff. Hope to get a garden going in the next couple years, but it'll be a go big type deal. So I'm heavy researching now, so i have reference points.
Saturday morning in the big garden applying residual herbicide. I’m going to try and remember to take this picture through the course of the crop as it develops all the way to harvest.
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Unfortunately this is the 4th consecutive season my place is in cotton, although my yields have gotten progressively better with only marginally increased input costs. I’d love to rotate to corn or soybeans but the economics just don’t work right now. If all goes to plan it will be in soybeans next year.Dang that cotton's coming on quick. What do you rotate crops with?