NFR 2025 Gardening Growing Thread

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Capt Insano Emeritis

Capt Insano Emeritis

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Yeah overdue starting a new thread. Not much news other than i have dug up all our begonia bulb and put in the greenhouse . Raked swept the balance of leaves . Digging another yard of my compost tomorrow and planning greenhouse starting dates . Still have a lot of parsley and oregano growing and shallots , winter stuff all growing swiftly. Favas and biennial broccoli from Sept planting about 30” tall. Temps very very mild . Lowest temp here so far since winter began is about 38-40 degrees. Garlic is taller than usual for January. Narcissus , and other bulbs on there way. Have made a soil amendment list. Will get it in the ground/ raised beds in the next month- 50 lbs cottonseed meal, 25lbs kelp meal, 12 lbs bonemeal , some worm castings(12. Lg bags) maybe ght grab 30 lbs of alfafa pellets. Happy gardening!
 
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Got my tomato starts moved to bigger pots for the next month or so, then they’ll go into big pots in about a month.
Got some summer squash, cucumber and zucchini seeds planted for my damaged corner neighborhood garden. They come in the house at night and the tomatoes go in the garage. Hoping for a good growing season.
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One of my small garlic beds (48 garlic) was infected with a disease.
I think it maybe Basal rot. 😡
Leaves were turning yellow and stunted growth compared to the other small bed.
The little white spots look fuzzy and moldy in one of pics.
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I got an order of 5 lbs of humic acid powder as a soil additive to unlock trace minerals in soil. It has been a long time since I applied it and never in this property.
Simple: 1 Tablespoon per gallon water. Applied at planting locations which i have planned out . This should be a great garden year! Lots of 20qut bags of WormGro castings and 1 3/4 cubic yards of my compost dispersed in beds to loam up and add some moisture retention in this clay property. This is year 6 working on it. Getting there. Adding some lagneinite and blood meal as well. Will go easy. lagbeinite. 0-0-22 blood meal 12-0-0
 
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Question on seed dates on packaging and viability.
I purchased some seeds this year dated 2025 but when I opened the package, the sealed package had a date of 2016. Nine year old seeds? How long are seeds good for? Sent a message to the company (Botanical Interests) for comment. These are Goldy Honey Bear sunflowers my wife likes. I hope they are still good as I will be planting soon.
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UPDATE Heard back from the company who said the number is not a date but rather a product number for that item.
 
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Mark Yoshida said:
Question on seed dates on packaging and viability.
I purchased some seeds this year dated 2025 but when I opened the package, the sealed package had a date of 2016. Nine year old seeds? How long are seeds good for? Sent a message to the company (Botanical Interests) for comment. These are Goldy Honey Bear sunflowers my wife likes. I hope they are still good as I will be planting soon.
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Two questions here. Seed viability is difficult to determine by too many unknowns. The only way to find out is to plant them all of them to get one or so , grow out this season and save seed for future growing. A hard shelled seed of size or shell hardness has a better chance of extended viability. The other question is sourcing. When and if I order seed I do not manage myself I purchase from sources that i determine come from (seed farmed) a similar climate zone and latitude. Like ones I source from here in the NW like Nichols garden nursery , Territorial seed and on the east coast in Maine from Pine Tree. If you dearly love a particular type of plant take on the chore of managing its longevity yourself. You really can not count on a seed business to do it for you. Business is too fickle and forever looking askance toward the next shiny item to market. This happened to Territorial after there founder moved on to a focus on writing and publishing. Nichols has carried on their initial family focus forward.
 
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One of my favorite plants. Have a number of them sprinkled throughout the garden. A non-invasive comfrey call Axminster Gold. This one just is just starting to bloom. When it finishes flowering just cut it back to about 6 inches and watch it come back again this summer.
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