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Comments (3)Steve, many thanks. May do this - located a seed store that will sell me the pounds of seed I need. BUT since the soil is sooooo poor, thinking of getting ground leaves from the city next to me that uses a leaf vacuum machine. I'll be toting stuff to the far back for ages, but am thinking that if I can get 2'+ of already ground leaves up there, it would really benefit the soil. All opinions on this appreciated. Question: if I use huge piles of leaves, should I do simple wire cages around each of the trees to keep the leaves from the trunks? Also wondering if the leaf layer will stop the trees from getting the water they'll need over the winter....See Morepack of seeds labeled 'Red Sun' what could the be?
Comments (14)Barbe, I did find the following information: "Legend of the Cherokee Rose. No better symbol exists of the pain and suffering of the Trail Where They Cried than the Cherokee Rose(pictured at top of page). The mothers of the Cherokee grieved so much that the chiefs prayed for a sign to lift the mother's spirits and give them strength to care for their children. From that day forward, a beautiful new flower, a rose, grew wherever a mother's tear fell to the ground. The rose is white, for the mother's tears. It has a gold center, for the gold taken from the Cherokee lands, and seven leaves on each stem that represent the seven Cherokee clans that made the journey. To this day, the Cherokee Rose prospers along the route of the "Trail of Tears". The Cherokee Rose is now the official flower of the State of Georgia. " If your flower turns out to be a rose, this might be the source. The seed doesn't have a hole through the center, does it? (I love to research the web!) Bev...See MoreDo you ever wish you could just order a few seeds?
Comments (6)Christina, Different types of seeds are viable for different periods of time. Properly-dried broccoli and cauliflower seeds are generally highly viable for about 5 years whereas carrot seed is generally only highly viable for about three years. The two main enemies of seed viability when storing seeds are high humidity and high temperature. One way to store them is in freezers. They need to be inside airtight containers. All the major seed banks in the world store their seeds in cold storage units. You also can store seeds in foil pouches, paper packets, zip-lock bags (you can get tiny ones in the bead/craft aisle at wal-Mart), plastic lids with tight containers, etc. If not stored in a freezer, they should be stored in a room or closet where they are exposed to fairly constant temperatures. You don't want to store them in an uninsulated garage, garden shed, attic, etc. where they'll be very hot in summer and very cold in winter. If storing them inside, an interior closet or pantry is often a good storage area. If you have a dry cellar or root cellar, it would be an ideal place for seed storage but make sure the seeds are in airtight and roden-proof containers. You also can place packets of silica in your seed containers to absorb moisture and help protect the seeds from excess humidity. Seeds are not good today but then suddenly bad tomorrow. Instead, the seeds lose their vigor slowly over a period of time If your seeds are dried down to 8% moisture content and then sealed into airtight containers and stored in a freezer, they will maintain their normal or typical viability for ten times as long as seeds not stored long-term in a freezer. I don't keep my seeds in the freezer. I just keep them in paper envelopes placed inside zip-lock bags and stored in a plasic storage crate with a locking lid. Most of the time, the storage crate is in my root cellar with my stored veggies and home-preserved food. If you don't have room in the freezer or don't want to store your seeds there, a refrigerator works too. When removing seeds from a freezer or refrigerator so that you can open the container and use some of them, first remove the container from cold storage and let it sit all day long or overnight so the seeds can completely reach room termperature before you open the airtight seed packet. This lessens the likelihood that moisture will condense on the seeds as they thaw which can cause them to germinate prematurely. I generally try to use seeds before they are six years old or older but sometimes you can get seeds that are 6-10 years old to germinate fairly easily, and real seed pros can often germinate older ones. I don't think I've ever tried to germinate seeds older than 8 or 10 years in age. One thing you need to consider with seed packets is that they have to meet federal germination standards because every seed likely will not germinate. The germination rate is expressed as a percentage and varies from variety to variety. For example, the minimal federal germination rate for commercially-sold carrot seed is 55%, so you're unlikely to get 1500 carrots even if you plant 1500 seeds. The worst germination you can expect from fresh seed packed for the current year's use is, therefore, 55% for carrots, although often you'll find a particular batch of seeds has a much higher germinationrate than that---it is just the 55% is the minimum allowed. For cucumbers, the Federal Germination Standard for seed sold commercially is 80%. When planting, you can use the Fenderal Germination Standard for any given variety as an aid in figuring out how many seeds to plant in order to get X number of plants. You also can choose smaller packets of seed. One retailer who specializes in smaller quantities of seed is Pinetree Garden Seeds (www.superseeds.com) and some other seed companies sell 'mini' or 'sampler' packs that contain smaller quantities of seeds. If you collect and save your own seed from open-pollinated varieties, the most important thing is to make sure it has reached the proper degree of dryness before storing it. Otherwise you may end up with moldy, ruint seed. Dawn...See MoreBest Method to Obtain Quality Seeds?
Comments (6)I would like to get some NAR seeds. Should I be concerned as to the source of the seeds? Where would the safest source be? For everyone concerned, what could seeds contain that may not be desirable? ***** I haven't seen anyone complain about the NAR seeds that they obtained from the many places where they are listed so order from Sandhill Preservation, or TGS or wherever. Or you have the option of e-mailing me with your home address at cmale@aol.com and I'll send you a few since I'm the person who introduced them. Not a general offer folks. Seeds could be contaminated with certain pathogens on the outside of the seed coat but I don't know of any place that doesn't at lest ferment their seeds which reduces that pathogen burden. And since infection is a quantitative process, that usually works just fine. ((In our seed collections when the individual plants are grown out, how do you detect and "breed" out undesirable traits, so they are back to the original "heirloom" condition?)) THere shouldn't be any undesireable traits if the seeds you get are pure and match the traits known for them and match the known traits. You'll know right away when your NAR seeds, for instance, give rise to two plants that were NAR and one that was a small yellow. In that case the yellow is usually either a stray seed of another variety that got in the pack or the result of crossed seeds. So I don't think you have to concern yourself that much with breeding out anything as long as you use a good seed source and know what the traits of any individual variety are. Carolyn...See MoreSeniorBalloon
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