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RARESEEDS.com Catalog 

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My wife isn't sure how she got signed up for this, but I'm glad she did. We just received a free gardening catalog from rareseeds.com and it's a hoot. It's got 159 pages of vegetables and flowers that I've never seen before, and many of them are amazing. For instance, a cabbage that averages 17 to 37 lbs, up to 44 lbs. They show it next to a little boy (maybe 6 years old) and the thing is far wider than he is tall! Or carrots that are spherical. Or "bitter melon" that looks like a green eel. Or Chinese Pink Celery, Red Clover, Indian Snake Cucumber that you can drape around your neck like a scarf, corn with kernels of every color, gourds, ground cherries. You get the idea.

The cool thing is that these seeds are as cheap as Burpee seeds ($3 to $5 per envelope) but are heirloom and unusual. Maybe the stuff Burpee sells tastes better or is more productive, I really don't know, but if you're going to go to the trouble of gardening, why not grow both the conventional plants AND some that will make people's eyes pop?

For me, this year, I think it's too late to order new seeds, so I'll order a new catalog in January and get seriously experimental in 2025. I might even spend the $15 for a full catalog... four times the size.

The smaller catalog is quite nice . . . and free. If you're interested, order a copy.


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Vegetable Management Guide for New England

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http://nevegetable.org/
Vegetable Management Guide for New England




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Learning good farmership 

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How to:
Animals
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http://farmandanimals.com/
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Growing Ginger 

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Re: Nine survival gardening crops to grow

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The video made me laugh because, from the start, I can see that the blogger's "post apocalyptic" effort is doomed. His urban neighbors will surely raid the garden and steal every single thing it produces! But...

A summary. His emphasis is on calories and nutritional density.

1) The humble bean. Direct sowing is best (don't transplant). Preserve, dry, storable for many years.
2) Corn. Either the normal "off the stalk" variety, or "Dent Corn" which can dry on the stalk for corn meal or flour.
3) Squash. Nutritionally great. Helps keep the soil moist. Stores well.
4) Cabbage. Easy to grow. Retains its nutrients even when it's cooked. Great raw, preserved or cooked. Cold tolerant. Not calorically dense but pretty nutritionally dense.
5) Potatoes. You could live (for a while) on potatoes ALONE. The blogger recommends the Norland Red variety. Potato fields will reseed themselves. Grow them via grow bags, 5-gallon buckets, raised beds both with and without hilling, in-ground both with and without hilling.
6) Kale. (High in vitamin K, which I can't eat Sad ) Extremely nutritionally dense. Cold tolerant. Stores well when chipped and dried.
7) Sweet potatoes. The greens are edible. The tubers can be huge and still be edible. Great storing. Good sugar. Good calories and nutrients. Probably wouldn't work in New England's short growing season.
8 ) Lentil (a legume). Grows in 110 days. Preserve by drying. High in calories and protein.
9) Grow a ton of herbs. Rosemary, Lavender, Basil, Dill, Thyme, Oregano, Sage. (I grow chives in my garden... which has a side benefit of helping to ward off certain insect pests.) And I grow mint. Both plants are extremely hardy and live through the cold New Hampshire winters.




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Re: Six top crops to grow to at home to keep you from starving

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In case the video goes away, the crops are:

1) Potato - grow different varieties at the same time and from year to year to avoid Ireland's fate.
2) Corn - you can chip the plant when done and put it back into the garden.
3) Cabbage - highly nutritious and easy to preserve in the freezer or by fermenting/canning. Protect it with a fine net.
4) Pumpkin - Nutritious, filling, easy to grow, low in calories.
5) Beans - they grow vertical (as does corn) and don't take up much space in the garden. Plus, they fertilize the soil.
6) Tomatoes - They're nutritious, great by themselves, and add flavor to many other dull foods. Preserve by drying, pickling, canning or freezing.




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Lesson Learned - Sunflowers

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I planted sunflowers for the first time - about 30 in a 15 x 15 plot near the base of the garden. The soil was unfertilized yet they did well enough. The flowers came along about a month behind what Burpee led me to believe and they were a little smaller than they could have been. Still, not bad.

Three weeks ago, I watched some videos on YouTube and determined that the flowers were close to being ready. I picked one of them just to familiarize myself with the process and see how ready it truly was. I discovered at the time that scissors aren't the right tool for cutting the ropey stalks. I brought the one flower inside for further drying.

Last week, I scraped the seeds out and filled half of a peanut tin. That's a lot of seeds! I haven't counted but there could be 500 seeds from that one flower. I'd have harvested the remaining plants right then, but I discovered that my pruning snips were all at the barn (at property #2). By the time I fetched 'em, we were having a rainy spell. And that brought me to today.

I went down to the garden, snips in hand, ready to bring back the entire crop and found that the plants, the ones that were still upright, had dropped their seeds. ALL their seeds. They're spread all over the ground. Critters, clearly more attentive than me, spotted them and now there is nary an intact seed to be seen.

Okay. Lesson learned. When sunflowers are ripe, you pick 'em! And when they aren't, you check them every single day or the entire crop will be lost in the blink of an eye.

I'm not too upset. In fact, I've been laughing about the whole thing. I got 500 viable seeds from the one plant, and I didn't have any real plan for what to do with 25 or 30 times as many more. Next year, though, I could have a far bigger crop . . . and I'd be miffed to lose it all for such a dumb reason.

This year? I'm sure I made the birds and chipmunks REALLY happy! I'll get over the loss.




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Weed Killer Roundup Linked to GABA neurotoxicity, Convulsions In Animals.

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A recent report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found more than 80 percent of urine samples from children and adults in the U.S. contained the herbicide glyphosate. A study by Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern University takes this research one step further and is the first to link the use of the herbicide Roundup, a widely used weed killer, to convulsions in animals. Glyphosate, the weed killer component in Roundup, is the world's most commonly used herbicide by volume and by land-area treated. Glyphosate-resistant crops account for almost 80 percent of transgenic crop cultivated land, which has resulted in an estimated 6.1 billion kilos of glyphosate sprayed across the world from 2005 to 2014. Roundup is used at both industrial and consumer levels, and its use is projected to dramatically increase over the coming years. A major question, yet to be fully understood, is the potential impact of glyphosate on the nervous system.

Results, published in Scientific Reports, showed that glyphosate and Roundup increased seizure-like behavior in soil-dwelling roundworms and provides significant evidence that glyphosate targets GABA-A receptors. These communication points are essential for locomotion and are heavily involved in regulating sleep and mood in humans. What truly sets this research apart is that it was done at significantly less levels than recommended by the EPA and those used in past studies. "The concentration listed for best results on the Roundup Super Concentrate label is 0.98 percent glyphosate, which is about 5 tablespoons of Roundup in 1 gallon of water," said [project lead Akshay S. Naraine]. "A significant finding from our study reveals that just 0.002 percent glyphosate, a difference of about 300 times less herbicide than the lowest concentration recommended for consumer use, had concerning effects on the nervous system."

Using C. elegans, a soil-dwelling roundworm, researchers first tested glyphosate alone and then both the U.S. and United Kingdom formulations of Roundup from two distinct time periods -- before and after the U.K.'s 2016 ban on polyethoxylated tallowamine (POEAs). These conditions were selected to pinpoint which effects are specific to the active ingredient glyphosate, Roundup formulations in general, the POEAs surfactants, or any combination of these. The study found that the active ingredient glyphosate exacerbated convulsions in C. elegans and suggest the GABA-A receptor as a neurological target for the observed physiological changes. The data also indicate that there is an important distinction between exposure to glyphosate and Roundup, with Roundup exposure increasing the percentage of C. elegans that did not recover from seizure activity. The non-recovery phenotype and prolonged convulsions in C. elegans from this study have helped to set a foundation for understanding nuanced physiological effects of herbicide that occur at concentrations exponentially below neurotoxic levels.
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Sepp Holtzer Would be a Good Guy to Consult 

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http://livelovefruit.com/hugelkultur-raised-beds/

http://www.resilience.org/resources/kramerterhof-a-tour-of-sepp-holzer-s-permaculture-farm-with-his-son-josef/

He inherited land which was close to worthless. Averaging something like 5000 feet elevation and dropping down like a cliff it was no good for farming and had only scrub and near-worthless pine trees. Few/no water features, no microclimates, not much would live there.

I trained with Sepp in Montana and saw him take a mosquito infested, ugly, swamp and turn it into a series of interconnected ponds, with giant snaking hugelbeds to break the wind, providing growing area, and creating microclimates. He's the real deal. The pictures don't do him justice.
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Re: A better mousetrap?

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We ordered the cheap Chinese ripoff mentioned in this thread's original post and it never arrived. That Amazon order has now been cancelled and we got our money back. It's just as well. The reviews I'm reading describe the quality as horrible, very cheap, "classic Chinese junk." The pegs on which the trap door swings are flimsy and easily break.

Rinne Corp, the American company that came up with this design, has two traps available for $40. [At least it did when we placed our order earlier this week.] Reviews all say that the trap is well made, and the trap comes with a lifetime warranty.

Some reviewers say they're catching tons of mice with it; others say the mice just ignore the trap and run right past it despite the peanut butter and birdseed bait. Hey, you can lead a mouse to a bucket of water but you can't make it fall in. I've got several locations where I could put these traps - the garage, the barn, near my wood pile, etc. - so if they don't go for the bait in one area, maybe they will in another.

I just checked the link below and Rinne Corp's 2-trap offer is now $45. I'm glad we ordered when we did. Should arrive tomorrow or Monday.

http://www.amazon.com/RinneTraps-Bucket-Outdoor-Compatible-Manufacturer/dp/B08Y166G1G/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=mouse%20trap%20rinne&qid=1630363468&sr=8-7&fbclid=IwAR2bUjh9ZbKXk9iXvSEZDHX8SX4VauHsw4XuZGzdW8y4OSrR6CpsdriJxaA#customerReviews





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I've got mice in my yard, garden and garage and am always looking for better ways to catch 'em. This one comes out on top according to at least one youtube reviewer. His video shows device catching 41 mice and rats... with no resetting and no messy cleanup.

http://www.rinnecorp.com/product-page/rinnetraps-flip-n-slide-bucket-lid-mouse-rat-trap-5-gallon-bucket-compatible

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Re: Cherry Trees from Store-bought Cherries

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My 2nd attempt at growing cherries from seed failed - I got just one sapling, shown to the left, out of 57 seeds planted, and it's still too soon to know if it will live. It's about 2.5 inches tall and growing quickly. It should be 8" tall before going into the ground. The approach I'm using, by the way, is shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbJpiVTkAk

The problem was that we had record rain in July. To keep the seeds from being overwatered, I put the pots into a translucent Tupperware bin and put on its lid. Many of the seeds were germinating at the time.

When I checked on them about a week later, moss was growing in their pots and most of the brand new seedlings were already dead. Ultimately, just one lived.

I think the moss is responsible. That or the high humidity inside the bin was more than the seeds could handle. Either way, I won't make that mistake again.

I'm giving it another try with 40 new seeds in 20 pots. This late in the year I don't think they can reach the requisite 8" height but I'll give it a shot and see what happens. Even tiny plants may as well be planted given that the alternative is to throw them away. I don't have the space or inclination to keep them indoors through our long winter.

I could change my strategy and put the cherry pits still in the fridge into the garden before I cover the garden in October. They may then germinate the natural way next Spring. Cherries reportedly like going through a winter before they germinate. It hardens them.








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I planted 57 cherry seeds today, using the methodology described in the video below. In tests I did last year, I found that 1 in 3 seeds done this way will germinate in about two weeks. In the weeks that follow, many of the seedlings will then die.

I planted 3 seeds per pot, 19 pots in total. If I get just 5 trees out of this, I'll consider this a huge success and will be happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbJpiVTkAk&t=897s

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A better mousetrap?

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I've got mice in my yard, garden and garage and am always looking for better ways to catch 'em. This one comes out on top according to at least one youtube reviewer. His video shows device catching 41 mice and rats... with no resetting and no messy cleanup.

http://www.rinnecorp.com/product-page/rinnetraps-flip-n-slide-bucket-lid-mouse-rat-trap-5-gallon-bucket-compatible

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Here's a similar one with 2 ramps and free shipping for $14:
http://www.amazon.com/Improved-Version-Ladders-Reusable-Compatible/dp/B097XMW34H/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=flip+n%27+slide+mouse+trap&qid=1625814797&sr=8-12




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I planted 57 cherry seeds today, using the methodology described in the video below. In tests I did last year, I found that 1 in 3 seeds done this way will germinate in about two weeks. In the weeks that follow, many of the seedlings will then die.

I planted 3 seeds per pot, 19 pots in total. If I get just 5 trees out of this, I'll consider this a huge success and will be happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbJpiVTkAk&t=897s




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