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You have to wait until just before the snow comes and then gather up next years seeds. I let them dry for a couple of weeks before putting them away in used envelopes.
My back is really getting alot more moveable. But I'm still staying inside doing all sorts of little things like the above. Bryan is out each day on the quad putting out sets. Snowed 2 " this morning.
I've been listening to the SBX Radio more and it's great to hear other trappers out there doing the same thing as we are. Some are not as remote but there are 2 or 3 others that are. Also heard a young couple with 2 kids that are doing home schooling out on the trapline. I just listen in on their conversations. Bryan does the talking on the radio & I do the typing on the computer.
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It is great fun to save seeds. I just finished packing up four varieties of beans for planting next year. We focus on heirloom vegetables, not the standard hybrid fare of tomatoes, beans, squash, etc. Currently I'm drying about forty large gourds for martin houses. With the seeds I may produce 400 next year! We buy many or our seeds from http://www.seedsavers.org/, a non-profit that has hundreds of unique seeds unavailable elsewhere.
Watch the back. I revisited your beadwork of the the pansies, once more very impressed. We're getting 6" of snow tomorrow and 12F on THU (MN).
Hope your back improves quickly!
Hi Art Thanks for the seedsavers sight. We've had luck with Johnny's Seeds out of maine. Beans need more warmth than we have. Ours is a cool, lots of light summer. Can have lots of rain. I really am looking for a Tomato to grow in the greenhouse that is not suceptible to powdery mildew. Our big crops here are potatoes, carrots, beets and turnip. We can grow lettuce and small squash....1" x 4". And had a few 6lb pumpkins. Do you have purple martin down wherever you are? We're going to build a big martin house for Atlin.
We do have purple martins that return each year to the same birdhouses. They love collective living. Cleaning is a hassle.
I'll check w/ my better half re a tomato recommendation.
Our short summers in zone 3 MN can be problematic, too. We had four years of little summer rain so I went crazy on watering systems. This summer it rained too much and our tomatoes, beets, and turnips rotted. It is a constant battle with deer, woodchucks, and racoons. Our resident badgers keep the woodchucks in line but I really don't like the badger encounters. All the rain produced probably a tenfold increase in rodents, too... The raptors, fox and coyotes have had a very good summer and fall.
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