Growing From Seed 3 Flashcards
If you have a lot of beans or peas to thresh
Stomp in pillow case
Onions have a _ flower
Biennial
Biennial means
Living or lasting 2 years
More complicated saving seeds from biennial flowers because
Won’t flower until the second year after winter
Grow seed-to-seed means
You can start with seed and end with seeds
In cold winter areas, onions are grown
Root-to-seed
Root-to-seed in cold winter areas
Best onions dug up and stored in sand in garage/root cellar
Onions family can’t
Pollinate each other
In order to pollinate onions
Need a number of plants & beneficial insects
Goosefoot family includes (2) and more
Quinoa
Spinach
Beets are in _ family
Goosefoot
Beets grown _ in cold winter areas
Root-to-seed
Spinach is
Dioecious
Dioecious def
Each plant is either male or female
With dioecious plants
You never get seeds from a single plant
To increase odds of pollination for dioecious plants
Let at least 6 plants flower at once
Parsley and carrot are part of
Apiaceae family
One of the best group of flowering plants for a balanced ecosystem
Apiacaea
Parsley family includes _ and more CCD
Cilantro
Celery
Dill
Parsley family includes _ and more PC
Parsnip
Carrot
Save a lot of carrot seeds because
Can show a severe inbreeding depression within a generation
With inbreeding depression, carrots
Become woody
Many parsley plants are
Biennial
With biennial plants,
Allow full year to grow, collect seeds following year when they flower
In cold-winter climates, (parsley family)
Dig and store roots, replant following season
Stecklings ()
Small late-planted biennial root crop (beet/carrot)
Parsnips can usually
Overwinter ground, even in cold-winter
Apiaceae
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