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Check out the "Ball Book" which has a lot on greenhouse crops of flowers, and also the magazine "Greenhouse Grower" (shd be available at your local State University library…)
You might also try laying a black (or clear) plastic mulch over the row for a week or so before planting; that could give them just enough heat to germ before rotting…..
There is a library file that lists seed companies here on the forum. Ours has 14 varieties available and is on the list. Other companies specialize in tomatoes only, and have hundreds of kinds (TGS in Florida for example).
I stop in to the cook's forum every now and then….but my day job is president of Cook's Garden, a mail order seed house that is on the line between the foodies and dirties, or something like that….
I'm interested, but don't know much about that aspect…I'm interested because I would like to find out what you uncover….
Atrazine. What effects?
Message #1107
Craig — good to see your on the forum. Shep
Try Tomato Grower's Supply in Florida….
#Garlic
Message #1105
Sounds like spring planting to me. Follow a tulip bulb schedule instead…
Chinese corn
Message #1074
Corn is on the way!
Japanese Beetles
Message #1073
One trick is to put the traps just outside your garden, not in it.
Atrazine. What effects?
Message #1072
I believe that AT is SUPPOSED to break down within a year. But I have read of cases where it doesn't. Your nearest ag school will have a copy of THE PESTICIDE HANDBOOK that lists all the properties, warnings, and breakdown times of commonly applied pesticides.
Seed Starting
Message #1071
Don — see my earlier message. All of the various sizes of plug trays are in the standard 1020 format.
Chinese Broccoli
Message #1070
Hi Ian. They are available here.
#Plant Vitamins
Message #1069
Sounds fascinating. Would like to be kept in touch with anymore news on this. Will be doing trials this summer on "non-fertilizer" plant growth treatments, and this sounds like a good one. Let me know what you find out and I'll see if I can add it to my trials….
#Mulch, biodegradable
Message #1068
We have just added the Planter's Paper recycled paper mulch to our catalog. It works just like the black poly EXCEPT that it starts to break down at the soil line (the edge where it is buried) after about a month, so for the best results, you want to cover…
#Seed Starting
Message #1067
Limestone, JW? How do they make into that stuff….every time I get hold of a piece it makes me feel like a kid again — squishing it and all. Just like bubble wrap –love to pop it while the world burns…
Seed Starting
Message #1066
The most ecologic method I know of is soil blocks, but it isn't cheap either. The park starts are way too expensive, too. The most economical is plug trays, like the professional bedding plant growers use. We have used them for ten years now. See my article in National Gardening…
#Seed Starting
Message #1065
Don — you will have more convenient control, but hardly less expensive. We grew 2,000 flats of plants a year when we were in the bedding plant business, and did detailed cost analysis of the mediums; Oasis was one of the most expensive. YOu might just want to look into…
Chinese greens
Message #1064
Please see my other message: the process of starting and hardening, and then recovering in the ground will total as much or more than the total amount of time to maturity for the Chinese Broccoli; for the pac choi, not so, though. Check Peter Chan's gardening book (I think it…
Chinese Broccoli
Message #1063
Hilary — first about the Chinese broccoli. It will bolt from transplant, and the reason it doesn't matter is that it is a very quick crop, even uicker than kohlrabi. It is really just a large broccoli seedling with a swollen stem. That is the problem; if you grow it…
#Missouri Wonder
Message #1062
I assume you've checked the Seed Saver's Exchange listings?
#New Guy
Message #1061
Here, here! Welcome Shep (Cook's)
If they got too tall, how hot do you keep your house? Put them in a cold room when you aren't actually home enjoying them…
Gardener's Supply has larger ones as well, called Northern Light. But there are any number of ads for different manufacturers in both National Gardening and Organic Gardening and Horticulture (and others) that would provide a starting point….
Research has been done on that and I believe it is only Mexican margiolds, which is a slightly different species that has a noticeable alleopathic effect on the nematodes. Anybody else on this one. Jeff Ball ought to have an opinion…he designed a plant seed mix a few years ago…
Better watch those runaway consonants…hard to tell if that is a grin or a growl, now…..
Our delphinium certainly draw notice from people that visit from mellower climates….
I don't know Schultz…you try to upload mine before I write them and you could bring down the company computer. It's the damn stress that brings down the Cook's network everytime I have a deadline looming; I know that. It happened today as a matter of fact!
Anything organoleptic is too much for me….
It's the stress concentrating all that goodness into the fruits to try and set seed…..after all it works for the herb(s).
Hi, see you found us….
Me, think about such things….not as long as I'm happily distracted
judywhite — sure hope i can make it to the rtr. think they might have frozen bathtub vodka? thanks for the tip about ws and er's….
I would start from plants, and my favorites are Tribute and Tristar, because I am lazy….
Sure does, but watch your tongue; they're sensitive about their climate out there….
Please don't be so sensitive; I meant that only in California could you even HAVE a jade tree in the yard. That was the most amazing thing we saw when we went out "there" ("here" to you, right?) was naturalized nasturtiums and geraniums, rosemary hedges (it is killed outright here,…
PRE_PUB!?!
You can buy a lot of that kind of stuff by mail if you don't want to make your own…two companies are Seventh Generation and Real Stuff.
By the way, you may want to try Principe Borghese, too. It is a bush cherry type, grown in Italy for drying, and especially appropriate because the fruits hang on the bush after maturity, which means you can hang the plants updside down to dry (if you live in the…
My favorite is San Marzano. If you let them fully mature on the vine, you can split them lengthwise, literally "shuck" out the seed , and have solid meat, no juice, and therefore, almost no boiling. That's their real advantage over the other types: energy efficiency….
Once it is established it is unkillable….we can have 39 below zero with no snow cover (we have) and it won't kill garlic!
Raised in Westbygod myself. I was hoping for more info, but here goes….the key element to me is fall planting…just like flower bulbs. Obviously, if the soil is too tight, the bulb could be constrained, but I doubt that is the problem….the place most of these bulbs came from, in…
Thanks Virginia…I guess I don't begrudge you the brewski….
Control yourself, Schultz
You can get them from Tomato Growers Supply (I think) and Seeds Blum (definitely). We (The Cook's Garden) are planning to list them next year, once we've built up our seed supply….
I do know what you are talking about with the "this side" routine, because every time I go to California they talk about Vermont as being "out East", when EVERYONE knows it is "back east"…… I'll have to ask my wife where they live…I think it is in Turramura, or…
#Perennials Posters
Message #488
Yes, the John Henry company, which produces the small pictorial plant tags that are in the nursery pots you buy at the garden center also produces a wide range of different size posters illustrating all the prennials… To get the address, visit a local garden center and ask them, or…
Chinese Corn
Message #487
If you post your mailing adress and give me a bit of time, I can send you some, called Minor hybrid. BUT — must have well prepared, fully warmed soil to grow well,
Ellen gasped when I read her that message about the jade tree….here in Vermont we have a monster jade tree (4 x 4) and the though of letting anything happen to it after 15 years….oh, california.
I believe Clando-San is a marine industry byproduct, and it is very bulky and therefore expensive to ship….but then all that watercress has gone to my head….what do I know?
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