That special fruit/veggie choice 2014?

[Hal]

Hal, I would love to hear about your pea crosses? Do you have a thread about that project. I do so enjoy peas, but it gets too hot too fast here and some varieties died well before they produce much. I found one snap pea that I just LOVE it does amazingly well in the spring, but not in the fall. So far I haven't found a single shelling pea variety I like.

Journey, I cut back against my will last year. I actually got a lot of fishing done because of it! I even went and got my saltwater fishing license because we had more time to goto the coast. lol

Jared, I do dearly love my heirloom tomatoes. On the good side for me I'm the only one who eats and likes the tomatoes. I end up selling the rest to the farm stand for $0.50 lb. Long as I get a couple of several versions for my tastes, I will enjoy. Which reminds me, I NEED to find those spoon tomatoes again. They were AMAZING like little sweet candies to snack on. Best EVER!

Thistle, How many potato varieties do you do? I'm only doing the yukon again. It seems to be the most versatile for us.

Smart, I hope you get it done this year, it sounds like a BEAUTIFUL project!

Rabbit, last year I tried 4 melons and not a single one produced without splitting and rotting because of all the rain. This year, they're going in raised beds for better drainage. Though I did find some northern varieties with a short growing season, mini types! You should try some again. There are many I've never heard of. I think rareseeds.com has over 50 types!

I'm sorry but I don't have a thread, I had done my crosses and collected the seed long before I had joined here. I'm doing my F1 and F2 grow outs this year, I have kept records of my crosses.
I'm breeding for tall peas in sugar snaps, snow peas and shelling peas. I am aiming for yellow pods, purple pods, red pods and yellow+red pods and purple+green pods. I'm wanting at least two flowers/pods per node. I'm also looking for visually attractive plants and dual purpose such as a snow pea that makes a good shelling pea and such. The colors come with health benefits and make it easier to spot pods when harvesting.

 

[vfem]

WOW! That is amazing. I've only crossed and kept varities of tomatoes that I have loved. I've come up with a WONDERFUL grape tomato we love. But my record keeping is horrible on what was used, I only know we used an Esther's cherry to get it. I grows true now and that's good enough for me.

I looked up the pea we're growing and its a snow pea not a snap pea. But we love it because of just what you said. They're tall, purple flowers and yellow pods so they are easy to see and find. They stay delicate and sweet for a long time before they form the seed peas and get hard. They also freeze exceptionally well, I still have a gallon bag of them in the freezer for stir fries.

Its the Golden Sweet variety: http://www.rareseeds.com/golden-sweet-snow-peas/

 

[Hal]

WOW! That is amazing. I've only crossed and kept varities of tomatoes that I have loved. I've come up with a WONDERFUL grape tomato we love. But my record keeping is horrible on what was used, I only know we used an Esther's cherry to get it. I grows true now and that's good enough for me.

I looked up the pea we're growing and its a snow pea not a snap pea. But we love it because of just what you said. They're tall, purple flowers and yellow pods so they are easy to see and find. They stay delicate and sweet for a long time before they form the seed peas and get hard. They also freeze exceptionally well, I still have a gallon bag of them in the freezer for stir fries.

Its the Golden Sweet variety: http://www.rareseeds.com/golden-sweet-snow-peas/

That is one of the parents used in my crosses.
It is passed around simply as Golden Podded Snow Pea here, I've grown Golden Sweet in the US and they both had the same stem, leaf and flower coloration, same number and size of pods per node, same seed weight and patterning.

 

[vfem]

I don't know what zone you are in?

 

[Lavender2]

My obsession is, and probably always will be tomatoes. It's what we use the most, is easily preserved, more expensive to buy, and I rarely fail at getting a great crop.
Although I may have to grant DH more room in the garden again for his obsession with Cinderella Pumpkins. We canned Kurbis two years ago and the kids loved it.

 

[digitS']

V, Hal is in Australia.

Hey Hal, I've lived in #$%^& Falls, Idaho! But no, that isn't where Calvin Lamborn and the Gallatin Seed Co is . . . Post Falls is so silly calling itself "Idaho's River City." I'd like to know one city in Idaho that isn't on a river . . .

I get the most fun out of tomatoes, most are cherries in my garden and they are fun to snack on. More fun is finding a big heirloom beefsteak ripening under the foliage!

Still, I enjoy eating many other fresh veggies! Seed for Hal's suggestion of a winter squash has been ordered! I already have the seeds for a 2nd season of Portuguese Kale - happy about that. I'm looking forward to trying some things from an Asian seed company in Canada this year, smaller bunching onion and some leaf amaranth . . .

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

V, I put in 6 varieties of potatoes last year, plus got several pounds of two varieties that volunteered from the year before.
So, eight different kinds altogether.

Bintje, Bliss Triumph, Carola, Huckleberry, Magic Molly, Marris Piper and the two volunteers, Purple Viking, and Rose Finn fingerling.