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WANTED: Pomegranate , Fig , Blueberry Cutting, Lemon Verbana
Comments (5)I have pomegranate (old tree, unknown variety, tasty fruit) that needs trimming anyway. I recently got some cuttings from a volunteer fig - the owner calls it 'strawberry fig', because it tastes like strawberries. She doesn't like figs, but loves this one. I have a lemon verbena, I think I can divide it, I'll have to take a look and see how it is doing. I'm looking for open pollinated zucchini, eggplant & tomato seeds....See MoreHave: Cinnamon Basil, Thai Basil, Sweet Basil Want: Foxglove
Comments (0)Have: Cinnamon Basil, Thai Basil, Sweet Basil Want: Foxglove (prefer strawberry - the large/tall deep pink kind) 2010 fresh seeds only please. Would consider trade iris tubers for the right foxglove seeds. Thanks....See MoreHAVE: Have: seeds
Comments (5)hi Rizz i'm inerested in any veggie or seed that i can grow as of now and over winter. i have nothing to trade with, but sase that's it. (after Katrina and Rita) i'm looking to start my garden again. thanks; Tin...See MoreCutflower Growers Journal for May 23 - 29
Comments (17)I need to take good notes on the bulb planting methods-- I just made my husband plant 500 field lilies for me because it's so labor-intensive, digging trenches, etc. On the other hand, we planted 3,000 gladiola bulbs this year in about a day and a half using the trench method... shallow trenches, about 2 feet wide, lay 'em in side by side, then a two-foot space, then another two-foot row. I think they were about five to seven deep in the row. It was great. I got home from market yesterday and he was FINISHED (I did the first half one morning earlier in the week). I hope they're not too close together-- I looked it up everywhere I could find and generally found that I can grow them back-to-back if I want (and don't mind risking disease). So I figure seven deep with a two-foot break is OK... It's also amazing how little space it took-- not half of what I had budgeted so now I've got room for MORE STUFF. Then today I planted 1,000 square feet of sunflowers... a lot of it (maybe half) was saved seed from last year and I'll be VERY interested to see what colors come out. I saved from my favorite flowers last summer but I'm not expecting much the same. I really think sunflower seeds are too expensive -- some of these are $3 for 50 seeds, it's crazy! Speaking of which, anyone care to share your sunflower prices? I wish we could have a price thread-- any time someone starts one, no one will really post. I'd love to hear what others are charging at farmer's markets for single stems of some things-- dahlias, peonies, glads, sunflowers, etc. I did 50 cents a stem for some large lupine this weekend and no one flinched. One woman had 50-cent stems of delphinium but another guy had delph bouquets with just five or six delph stems with some honeysuckle as filler for $10 each. Everyone sold out, I think. But I've noticed that-- people just pay what you ask sometimes at our market. I can price something double what a guy down the row is selling the same thing for, and sell out as easily as him. Anyway, all my dahlias are coming up in their pots and I've moved them into the hoophouse now that some tomatoes are clearing out... Flowerfarmer, I sure HOPE they aren't 7 feet high! That's insane! Most of them are thankfully in five-gallon pots, but a few are in smaller pots.... we'll see what happens. I can see it now-- a hoophouse filled with toppled dahlias. Ugh. Tomorrow I'm doing ALL the rest of my direct seeding, getting up at dawn and getting to work-- calendula and edible flowers (we're going to sell an edible flower mix) and some more sunflowers and broom corn and then all of the veggies (purple carrots and white carrots and bright yellow carrots, weird greens and blue dill and fennel and more broom corn). I'm sunburned-- the back of my neck hurts-- who knew I'd someday be a real true redneck??? How embarrassing. And my poor blond, blue-eyed baby boy (9 months this week) is out in the sun 80 percent of his waking hours in that glare! I'm hoping for rain this week-- there's lightning over the mountain peaks tonight and moisture in the air. And next year, darnit, I'm growing some $40 pots of dahlias. I can TOTALLY see how that would sell at our chi-chi market. They're selling single lily pots for $10. Kristen...See Moreannie1992
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