Pictured above are from top to bottom: New blue clamp down barrels for long term, waterproof seed storage. Until we get a new root cellar/storm shelter built this fall/next spring two of these with large duplicate samples of our new varieties and some of the rarer Open Pollinated types will find their way into the ground for long term seed storage.
Second: drought stressed and low fertility stressed, but viable and incredibly diverse Astronomy Domine sweet corn
Third: Amanda Palmer (early variant) seed ears. Shelled these off for seed earlier today, got a huge blister on my thumb as a reward as well as about 20 lbs of seed. Two more later variant patches and a pure UK tuxpeno patch still are standing waiting to be evaluated for seed and harvested for turkey feed stored in the new corn crib.
Still wanting to trade corns, read posts below this one for the downlow.
2 comments:
Where do you get those great barrels? I am looking for something like them - thinking they could be used as quick root cellars if buried.
It seems rather pointless, but I, too, would like to know where to get the barrels. We used to get them from a local fruit juice bottler. Juice concentrates came in from Argentina in them and we could buy them for about $5 each. Alas, they haven't had any for years now. Where to get some??
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