Gardening

NRaleighLiberal

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5. the fun of gardening! A few of the best tomatoes I've developed were either mutations

Thu Jul 25, 2013, 11:00 PM

Jul 2013

or started with bee crosses - such fun! (Cherokee Chocolate is a skin color mutation of Cherokee Purple, and Cherokee Green a flesh color mutation of Cherokee Chocolate....Lucky Cross and little Lucky started with Brandywine X Tad (Tad is from a friend and is Tigerella X Old German) - so there was both regular and potato leaf, and red/yellow bicolor, pink, and different stripes all in the mix).

I am kind of a mad scientist in my garden!

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question about lemon cukes [View all] Kali Jul 2013 OP

Lemon cukes are open pollinated (non-hybrid) - you probably planted NRaleighLiberal Jul 2013 #1

no other cukes at all last year Kali Jul 2013 #2

gourds and cukes don't cross. only cukes cross with cukes....you have a mystery! NRaleighLiberal Jul 2013 #3

yeah I thought it was very odd (see edit above) Kali Jul 2013 #4

the fun of gardening! A few of the best tomatoes I've developed were either mutations NRaleighLiberal Jul 2013 #5

I have this 6 foot water trough filled with soil that was SUPPOSED to be an herb garden Kali Jul 2013 #6

If I can jump in, I was just explaining some of this to my partner today in fact. I would save the silvershadow Jul 2013 #7

heh! I can try, Kali Jul 2013 #8

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