That’ll be interesting to know
For anyone who is interested, Baker Creek now has red rhubarb seeds in stock. I’m assuming our own rhubarb plant survived being transplanted last fall, as well as the recent snow fall, but for $3 (including shipping) still bought a pack - seems like a neat thing to have in my seed library.
Hiya! Where are you gardening these days? I’m in the first cold winter NY metro has had in years. Only my sage and time and occasionally My Rosemary ever make it through whole Winters supplying me with fresh herbs
I’ve always read that French tarragon doesn’t produce seeds at all. I had a patch in the community garden at work that got to be five feet across in summer, froze back in winter, and always came back the following spring. When I retired I dug it up and brought it home, it grew for a while and then keeled over and died for no apparent reason. I really miss having fresh French tarragon, the others i’ve tried have been pretty awful.
I don’t remember the part about the seeds but I understood I needed to start from a certain plant. Not sure if it’s considered hardy where I am in Northern California, but that didn’t stop me from leaving a seedling outside in a pot all winter!
Pot pictured here with thyme and lemongrass behind , chives, weeds and stock in front
Today’s pic of garlic and shallots
Fingers crossed!
@StoneSoup , I garden in Northern California now, but grew up watching my father grow tomatoes in Queens!
I planted an allegedly “extremely heat tolerant” and “completely red” rhubarb plant hybrid last year (mail-ordered a dormant plant) and while the plant appeared to survive, it did not produce any rhubarb at all, unlike all the other plants I’ve planted (never grown in from seed.) The (mostly green) rhubarb I’ve grown from seedlings has absolutely exploded, every time.
Hoping for more actually red rhubarb this year, but I might go grab some seeds as well. Thanks for the pointer.
My tarragon came back from a really nasty cold snap- got down to 17 degrees, and it came back in spring. But it was in the ground, which makes a difference, I think potted plants are more susceptible to freezing to the point of no return than those planted in the ground.
Yeah, your tarragon don’t look so hot. Try burying the little pot in the soil beneath, to protect it
Good idea! I pulled it up a bit for the picture, and will make sure it’s burried. It’s just about spring here, and it hardly ever gets to freezing.
I think cold and wet is the bigger problem this time of year, and I will try again with a new plant.
Here’s a UCANR herb growing guide for the Sacramento area
I potted up some onion seedlings today; my first time growing supposedly “bunching onions” from seed. One is Tokyo Long White, Allium fistulosum, the other one is Guardsma, I think a cepa x fitulosum cross. I seeded them on October 31st in an unheated greenhouse.
Tokyo Long germinated better
Guardsman
I potted them up in to a 5 gallon bucket fitted with a GroBucket sub irrigation watering insert.
I also started Long Red of Florence, also as a scallion, bunching, green onion, but this one is a cepa, and will possibly form a red bottle shaped bulb.