HOMEinSTEAD

HOMEinSTEAD

my spinach has never started, my honeydew, and cantaloupe are flourishing.....well, the vines/plants are. they have never actually produced a single melon. the watermelon plants have produced hundreds of melons. each about 2-3 inches long.....

i guess in essence what im trying to say is that all the seeds i got from him have been a waste of tiem, money, and effort.

BUT!!! i did plant other seeds. i bought some organic seeds from the store. sugar peas. bountiful, and delish. perhaps the best i have ever had. also, red leaf lettuce. quite good, but unless i plant 100 plants, it doesn't go far. its an added item to a salad, not enough to make a salad from itself. my tomatoes plants are huge, but no red tomatoes yet. close but i think i have another week to wait.

this brings us to my bush beans..... they are cruising along....up until these torrential rails began about 2 weeks ago. that part of the garden must be the low spot. it would be better suited to a rice paddy, then a bean field. the plant were un 4-6 inches of water for days and days effectively killing the plants only as they were beginning to be ready to harvest. i got a few dozen green beans and that it.

WELL I GUESS I WILL MAKE THIS MY OFFICIAL HOMESTEAD SPOT.

Lets start by me telling you about this seasons gardens. i bought all my seeds from a guy on ebay......not my best decision. they were marketed as Heirloom seeds. weather the guy didn't know what that meant, or he was just plain a thief I'm not sure. for those who don't know , an heirloom seed is a seed that has been harvested from a vegetable and will produce another good heath vegi just like it came from...year after year, season after season this can be repeated. apparently not in this case. GMO seeds are either not fertile, or they will grow and produce vegis/fruit but they will bot grow properly. apparently this guy harvest his seeds from his GMO plants last season and sold them to me and many others. he has already been removed from ebay and i have no recourse.

my corn stalks grew 8-10 feet tall with giant ears of corn BUT no kernels....?

my zucchini plants took off at a speed that out passed the sun its self!!! 6 plants produced exactly a total of 4 zuchs. FOUR!!!! then they died. D.E.A.D. my squash plant grew at a near normal pace, and they produced many many stunted vegis, and one of the many plants produced some large squash. maybe 4 or 5 to-date. but they are knoty, and have large lumps. more like a traditional gourd or one of those odd squash you see at thanksgiving. they are tough and not at all like a regular crooked neck yellow squash.

my herbs..... well all except for 1 small cilantro plant they never grew. 100 seeds each of the following. thia baisel, cilantro, catnip, dill, thyme, parsley and several others. along that same note, my 200 carrot seeds produced exactly 1%. i have 2 carrots growing but im afraid to harvest them due to a fear of further disappointment.

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