Just got home had to go to sisters so now i will work on the robin so I can get it out by Monday
Maybe sat that is pushing it for me I still have lots to sort through.
so back later
CLOSED: DJ'S FALL ROUND ROBIN SEED SWAP 2012 PT 8
Susie, did you find the gift that Warrior.....placed in the robin to be given for the 'closest guess?'
Yes Me I did & It will be in the Box with my gift to ALI :) Well off to play cards with the kids Pizza just got here ya all have a great eve .
Alikat your Prize is on the way should be there about wed or thrusday hope they arrive safely
Hi Everyone!
I'm still buried under SNOW! Been hibernating up here in NH and not checking my garden email...I've missed a lot! But I am back and ready to start my seeds on their life journey!
I can't believe I guessed right! YAHOO!
Susie sent me a beautiful box filled with fun stuff....
The box has a garden design and inside she painted a flower pot with a beautiful cat and my nickname on it! I love it! She sent me some bulbs, a plant hanger, and a trimmer sharpener! Everything to get me started this year!
THANKS Susie! IT was so much fun playing! Today I am going to start those seeds -- got a grow light and the basement is my new garden until things warm up here! I have crocus about two inches up and the tips of tulips and daffs right now....exciting stuff!
Below are the photos of the robin prize! And my new grow light set up....I've never started the seeds inside....always waited until mid-may to start but this year I can't wait!
ALI Glad you like I didn't know if you had a camera so i posted a pic on the New thread glad you like as for the Bulbs they are a mixed GLADs well got to get ready to go out with the girls for super ya all have a great eve
Alicat...I put the pruner sharpener in, hope you have pruners to use with it..lol. I carry pruners in my back pocket and the little sharpener always with me thru the season......Just hate it when pruners get dull, and I hate it when I have to resort to using a rock.....lol. Just a few swipes and the blades are like new. ( And if your interested, Corona has some of the best pruners out there (the bypass type), and will last a lifetime I promise!!!!!) Enjoy!
Kathy ~ Where did you get your pruner sharpener and what does it look like? I usually send my pruners to my husband to sharpen, as he has many tools. It would be handy to have one in my pocket or nearby in my garden tool box.
See pix 3 above and that is what the package looks like. Got it from Home Depot 2 years ago when they carried them. I bought all they had left at the end of the season as I tend to loose them somewhere in the garden (I guess..lol). They are about $3. And they measure about 5" long, perfect size for the pocket. Ask your Home Depot if they will carry them, of all the sharpeners I have found this one the best. (I have bought others for my pocket over the years and can't remember the name, guess that tells ya which is my favorite...lol.)
Corona Sharpening Tool Afiladora, AC4300, 5" Super carbide file. (is two sided, one side is for beveled (cutting) edge and the other is for flat side of blade to takes out burrs from sharpening). www.coronaclipper.com or 1-800-847-7863.
I just called Corona 1-800-234-2547. They have a new model, only one sided,(metal side), and lists for $10.34. And told me it's available at Lowes (or their website). Hope that helps....
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Kathy ~ Thank you very much!
FYI, a Dremel or similar tool work just as well if you already have one. Mike
Hi, all.
What fun surprises for our winner :) Congrats, Alikat :) Have fun with your gardening!
Back to garden planning :)
Have a great week, everyone!
Michelle
Hi all - Im posting here because this is where I believe I received the seeds from.
Last spring, I planted what was labeled "Sugar Baby", I presumed watermelon as the seeds were black and looked like water melon seeds.
Vines grew nicely, flowered and produced a few small "watermelons". I was so excited. I've never grown them before. However, they are not getting any bigger than a large fist. Ribbed like a cantaloupe, green and striped like a watermelon. I harvested one tonight because the leaf closest to the fruit was dried and shriveled. That is what I understand to be "harvest time". So I cut into it and not only does it look like a cucumber (seed grouping and shape) but smells like one too. Tastes like a cross between honeydew and cucumber. (Im so confused right now)
So, best I can figure, I got cross pollinated seeds?
Thoughts? Anyone else pick them out of the baggies and get something similar?
The group of vegetables from Curcurbitaceae Family includes cucumber, summer squash (e.g. zucchini), winter squash (e.g. acorn butternut), pumpkins, watermelons and melons (including cantaloupe and muskmelons and honedews).
So, for Cucumbers:
the Family is Curcurbitaceae
the Genus is Cucumis
the Species is sativus
So, for Melons
the Family is Curcurbitaceae
the Genus is Cucumis
the Species is melo
Cantaloupes and muskmelon are difficuolt to distinguish; both have orange flesh, netted rinds and a musky aroma that gives meusmelon its name. Honeydews have a smooth rind, high sugar content and no musky flavor.
So, for Watermelons
The Family is Curcuribitaceae
the Genus is Citrullus
the Species is lanatus
So, I would think the Genus Cucums from the cucumber and the Genus Cucumis from the melon may have cross pollinated. Others with more scientific knowledge will be able to give more information.
Or, do you think you may have picked it too early and it "could" have been a honeydew which are green flesh? They have light colored seeds. They both come from the same Family and the same Genus--different Species.
Interesting the Watermelon comes from a different Genus.
You might want to put this question on the Propagation forum.
All I can say is I got lots of mis-labeled seeds from the robin, lots of surprises... Maybe cross-pollinated, maybe just mis-ID'd or mixed up in harvesting. Some surprises were OK, some made good compost.
I also got lots of great, great plants :-)
Same here As you all Know i will not be doing the round Robin this fall I have ask Amanda if she might want to take it over & she will get back with me if she dose not have time for it maybe someone else will Volenteer for the robin & I will DONATE To the robin .
kink in the neck this morning so back to the heat pad ya all have a great day .
Hi Susie, how is your "Judy's Love" doing? Mike
I guess this is a thread I should have been following. :D
2013 Fall Seed Round Robin Interest Thread:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1336761/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1336761/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1336761/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1336761/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1336761/
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
No Amanda, I resurrected it because this is where I got the seeds from.
I dont think I picked it too soon, but Im sure it could have hung there longer. It doesnt taste bad, but I dont care for honeydew or muskmelon. I am growing Amish melon too, but thats not what is it - nor where it would have come from.
Here is a pic..
I can't remember the name of it!
Ya Know sometime people collect seeds some some of their store bought melons & other types of squash & put then into the robin In that case No one really knows what is going to grow from those seeds , many plant seeds do not come true to the parent plant .
have you tasted it ? maybe you found a new type of melon :) I have melon no bigger then a soft ball
not tried it yet but will later today when i get home .
this is also why I wanted people to put their NAMES On Seed packs But the only one That was not afraid to add their Nameds to seeds that I Found were from Gardenseeder, Poisondarfrog,
risingcreek, patti, wwkathy, Mittsy,
I'm not afraid. :D
When Stephanie described that melon it rang a bell somewhere upstairs, but I can't for the life of me remember. I actually bought one a couple of years ago that sounded just like that. I asked the produce guy what it was, and I thought "why not something different?" We ate it and enjoyed it. It's not something that is carried all the time at the regular grocer. I don't think I can remember any more than that.
Hi, all.
My gardening group was given a plant that grows a fruit that tastes like a cucumber at one stage and is like a melon at another stage. Unfortunately, our plant didn't make it through last winter, so we never got to enjoy (or try) its fruit. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the plant, but perhaps that's what you have there. Hopefully, someone can help you to ID the plant.
Michelle
Susie, I put my name on things. Most things anyway. Maybe not all.
I did aqste it. Tasted somewhat like a honeydew and cuke at the same time. I may have a few others on the vine as well.
I shall love him and hug him and name him "cuney melon" :)
I was Just going through the seed robin from this pass fall & getting it ready to mail out to Amanda
to share with the rest of you , & I came across a pack of seeds that someone had gotten out of one of our 2010 robin & put in our 2012-13 they are called Banana Melon so maybe you might
have taken out a few from the pack to try ???
also when i did a search for the banana melon I found this & & it sounds & looks more like whay you discribed.
http://www.hirts.com/Tzimbalo-Seeds--Solanum-caripense--Indoors/dp/B002I7KPP8?traffic_src=froogle&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=froogle&gclid=CNTf9P6zjLoCFfFj7Aod-B8AJg
hope it might help.
Sent you some milkweed seed via the Seed Purge Amanda.
The town I'm in is bordered E & S by marsh/preservation land that is just teeming
with milkweed, thus no real butterfly decline to report here.
However, for the third year in a row, we sadly noticed a sharp decline in our bat population.
We used to have so many we couldn't count them all - this year we had 2 bats.
Living near the marsh we are bat-friendly as they are great at keeping the insect
population down and to see them reduced to such a low level really makes me sad.
Dragonflies were very prominent this year - they were huge too.
Im not sure its a banana melon. Poking around, it is reminding me of a Charentias Melon. Maybe not ripe enough though. I will take pics of the leaves and the melons that are still on the vine. See if we cant narrow it down.
Cris ~ If you have anymore milkweed seeds to spare, I sure could use them. Hardly any butterflies here and I had flowers in my garden all season. Lots'a skippers, tho....
Anything you might like?
I from away am sending you some as soon as the Syrica pods get dry , See m Evelyn I had not forgotten , takes them a while to dry to opening here , I don't know why , and I know they grow .. Not always an easy plant , not hard really either ,
One of those things with lots of differences ..
...ad I'm guilty of being behind with the mail, Ev. Maybe you'll get a big mess of MW for Christmas.
Amanda, Does that mean both of us ) lol , Or are you digging at me ? lol
The weather , the whatever's about me get any slower and the turtles run by walking ,
Oh well , At least they are winter sow ..lol
No dearie. I promised MW to Ev months ago. The joke's on me.
I trust you both. I thought that you might have run out of seeds. Anytime OK. I can wintersow some of them. I need to keep them in my fenced garden area as the deer eat so much, yes, even milkweed!!
Any germination tips on these?
I don't have any tips , if you plant the seed in the ground though , you might not see them until late summer or fall . Their germination is hugely erratic .
Thanks, Ju. I will wintersow a few and direct sow a few now or when I get them and then some in spring. I do not think they would do well inside. I am trying to do as much as possible outdoors these days as hubby does not not like my messes inside.
I always wash my pots and trays in the downstairs bathroom, which take up a lot of room. I did use to sow a lot of seeds there, too. Then I covered them in vegetable baggies and put them under lights until they germinated. Some inside, and some on the back porch. I did not do that last year as I was ill. Hopefully I can do some this year, tho'....
I guess in terms of germination things vary by species.
The a. curassavica and a. physocarpa have been very easy. Everything else requires pre-treatment. 90 days cold/moist stratification in your refrigerator. When I took mine out last year I left a bag on the counter by accident and they sprouted right there on the counter. :)
Here are the leaves of my "Cu-ney Melon"
I marked all my seeds for the robin...
Just for the record :-)
:)