Seed Keepers

[Fridom Snowbird <fridom_snowbird@yahoo.com>]

Yeah I too wondered what happened to this site. I have several types of rice 
and keep forgeting to give space to them. Thanks for the heads up.

--- On Tue, 6/9/09, ed&bunkie <bunked@centurytel.net> wrote:

> From: ed&bunkie <bunked@centurytel.net>
> Subject: Re: [Seed Keepers] alive?
> To: "Seed Keepers" <seedkeepers@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 8:46 AM
> 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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