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[ed&bunkie <bunked@centurytel.net>]

hi elizabeth!

thanks for letting us know how your rice turned out. sounds like it was 
a success except for Ike's help!

i called Bountiful Gardens last year and they said their grower for 
Wells died, and they had no knowledge of any other source.

i found some very expensive Wells seed here...

http://www.organicaseedco.com/vesers.html

i started them in flats in the greenhouse and then moved them outside 
in June.  June 19th, i remember it well, we had four hours of heavy 
snow and the temps were 37F. the poor plants died from the cold.

another person i know was trying to grow rice also, in Pa. i think. he 
also had difficulty and kept his plants in the greenhouse and they 
faired well. we both figured that the rice plants need warmth. with our 
changing weather patterns, i think i may try and grow some in the 
greenhouse, maybe next year.

i have acquired some Alpine Rice (Weeping Rice Grass/Micolaena 
Stipoides) from a friend in Australia and it supposedly takes the cold 
well. it's a perennial and the grain is a bit smaller and thinner than 
the brown rice. i am crossing my fingers that this will work...and 
perennial too! :O)

On Monday, June 8, 2009, at 09:38 AM, Elizabeth B. wrote:

> Thank you for asking about my rice experiment. It actually did pretty 
> well! I followed those instructions to the letter and the rice 
> actually grew, right from my raised bed without flooding like you 
> would expect with a rice paddy. You do have to keep up with your 
> weeding but keeping the bed saturated made weeding easy.
>
> Then disaster struck; hurricane Ike came calling and I lost alot of my 
> seed stock. I have some rice seeds that I managed to salvage and have 
> since replanted. Luckily and thankfully, there are a few plants from 
> those seeds. I'm sorry to say that I have no long grain rice seeds to 
> share this year, compliments of Ike.
>
> I purchased the rice seeds from Bountiful Gardens. The variety was 
> called "Wells." If you don't see it offered on their website, email 
> them because somebody in their local area is growing it.
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
> ed&bunkie wrote..........
> still wondering how elizabeth's rice did last year.
>
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