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I have been looking for a bush type cantaloupe for a long time and there really isn't one. However Minnesota midget would be the one I recommend. The melons are very small, about 4 inches around and you can get quite a few from just 2 or 3 vines. They can be trellised very easily but the vines...

I understand

I have been gardening since I was 6 years old. My grandmother always helped me plant a small garden inside hers and encouraged me to save the seed. I have been trying to encourage more people to garden and doing it by example but it is just to easy to go to Walmart Orangeglo is one of my top 3...

I got the lisco from seed savers exchange and I think the actual name is "liscos bird egg", if you go to SSE website you will find it but I will send you the seed I grew if you want some. The Jacobson came from Baker Creek seeds. I have so many seeds that I can't remember all of the names, sorry...

I completely understand. I did a small advertisement in my local paper but I didn't get one response. I don't think people understand the importance of growing and saving rare seeds. I am growing out a watermelon that I got from seed savers exchange member. It is a stabilized cross of orangeglo...

I have not had a chance to grow a lot of different beans. I have grown Ireland Creek annie, red swan, purple royalty, orca, black turtle, lisco, painted pony, tiger eye, Jacobson lima bean and there's a few others that I can't remember. I have several that I have not got a chance to grow but I...

I have a lot of tomato, peppers, watermelon, cantaloupe and various other melon seeds, Lettuce, various root crops, cucumber, squash, beans and many other seeds. I have one corn seed and that is "japonica maze", it has dark ruby seeds and the leaves are green white and pink it is a very...

Does anyone know of a database that contains sunflowers .I want open pollinated sunflowers so I can keep the seeds but it can be very difficult to tell if the sunflower is a hybrid or not. I only have one sunflower in mind right now (dwarf incredible ) but I am going to be growing a few other...

I have been using, exclusively, fertilizers designed for hydroponics this year and I am having wonderful results. I have to put this out there because I am sure this has a lot to do with my success. Where I have my garden this year, is a spot that has never grown anything but grass and grazing...

I have a fertilizer that mixes 1 tsp per gallon and it is ready to use. What I want to do is make a concentrated liquid solution where 5ml equals 1 tsp per gallon and I have a 250 ml mixing bottle for the concentrate

Has anyone ever tried making there own hort. Oil with the mineral oil from the pharmacy? Some articles recommend ultrafine canola oil, but they don't make it any more, or vegetable oil but I am more interested in the mineral oil, since that is what they use in some commercial brands. Also has...

Also the one I remember didn't get any taller than about 5 feet. So I don't think this is the same. Thanks for the reply though m

The plant I remember had a purple bloom. The pictures I looked at from the one you said all had yellow blooms. I have a place to start from now, at least. Thanks

I am looking for information on a plant that my grandmother used to have and she called it a "sweet pea bush" it was a shrub and they called it a "sweet pea bush" because the blooms looked like a sweet pea bloom. I don't remember much about the way it looked other than it had what looked to me...

I will take as many as I can get. Let me know how you want to arrange this.

You are correct . This pea only gets between 8" and 12" tall . I have a green snap bean that is a dwarf also .

I am looking for some poppy seeds . Either Papaver somniferum or California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) I have lots of fresh seed for trade or I can pay you for the seeds . Also I would like to have some (Papaver nudicaule) Iceland poppy. I don't care if they are still in the seed heads ...

It's a dwarf pea called Tom Thumb

I have several different watermelon , cantaloupe , tomato, peas, green beans and sunflower seeds for free . Let me know what you are interested in and I will send you a list of what I have . Then send me SASE (postage should be enough to cover mailing 2 ounces, depending on what you want ) and I...

Oh you said don't use gasoline to start the fire. My bad, this one is on me.