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  • From: ed&bunkie <bunked@centurytel.net>
  • To: Seed Keepers <seedkeepers@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Seed Keepers] alive?
  • Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:46:10 -0700

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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