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More Tea Starts

2018-04-15

We've started more tea seeds over the last couple of months. We finished starting the remainder of the hundred and sixty odd var. sinensis and the 580 odd var. assamica seeds that we purchased from Camellia Forest. They are all planted into 10-inch cone-tainers. The tea seeds we had planted into poly bags (entry dated Jan 25th) have been transferred into cone-tainers as well.
The poly bags are used to allow the tea plant's taproot to extend more naturally. The ten-inch cone-tainers provide about three-quarters of the depth that the poly bags provide for tap root growth, but use MUCH less soil and take up MUCH less space. Currently, our success with growing tea has to rely on huge volumes of plants that will provide a small number of plants that are hardy enough to survive our climate. That method will take space.
Most of the tea plants in the orchard area are still managing OK after our recent snows. I'm unsure whether the two that lost all of their leaves over winter will manage to come back. I've read that even when severe cold kills the top of the tea plant, it is still possible for it to grow back from the roots. Our weather has not been very cold so the loss of leaves by these two plants may not be due to feezing. And since they were not doing very well at the end of summer it may be too late for them.
We did order an additional four hundred seeds, one hundred each of four varieties, that arrived a couple days ago. We've started soaking them and will plant them out into cone-tainers as well. The seeds originally started in the poly bags (late summer of 2016) are still doing fairly well, but they are also protected in a hoop house and have had occasional heat added through seed mats on particularly cold nights. Their visible roots are down to the bottom of the bags, so they will not be transplanted until we are ready to place them outside.
We bought a few one-year-old tea plants from a local tea plantation last fall (Sept 16th entry). I placed two of the plants into poly bags and put them into the winter box with my other poly bag starts. As could be expected, those two tea plants look the best out of all of those in the bags. Since they are presumably plants that have had many years to acclimate to our climate, I would expect them to fare better in most situations. The half dozen other live plants were placed outside and didn't do particularly well, but most still seem to be alive. However, they were planted in the fall as an experiment instead of being kept in a protected area over winter as would have made sense if concerned about their survival. We do hope to buy more live plants this spring and get some of them planted early enough to winter over with, hopefully, few problems.

More Tea Starts

2018-04-15

We've started more tea seeds over the last couple of months. We finished starting the remainder of the hundred and sixty odd var. sinensis and the 580 odd var. assamica seeds that we purchased from Camellia Forest. They are all planted into 10-inch cone-tainers. The tea seeds we had planted into poly bags (entry dated Jan 25th) have been transferred into cone-tainers as well.

The poly bags are used to allow the tea plant's taproot to extend more naturally. The ten-inch cone-tainers provide about three-quarters of the depth that the poly bags provide for tap root growth, but use MUCH less soil and take up MUCH less space. Currently, our success with growing tea has to rely on huge volumes of plants that will provide a small number of plants that are hardy enough to survive our climate. That method will take space.

Most of the tea plants in the orchard area are still managing OK after our recent snows. I'm unsure whether the two that lost all of their leaves over winter will manage to come back. I've read that even when severe cold kills the top of the tea plant, it is still possible for it to grow back from the roots. Our weather has not been very cold so the loss of leaves by these two plants may not be due to feezing. And since they were not doing very well at the end of summer it may be too late for them.

We did order an additional four hundred seeds, one hundred each of four varieties, that arrived a couple days ago. We've started soaking them and will plant them out into cone-tainers as well. The seeds originally started in the poly bags (late summer of 2016) are still doing fairly well, but they are also protected in a hoop house and have had occasional heat added through seed mats on particularly cold nights. Their visible roots are down to the bottom of the bags, so they will not be transplanted until we are ready to place them outside.

We bought a few one-year-old tea plants from a local tea plantation last fall (Sept 16th entry). I placed two of the plants into poly bags and put them into the winter box with my other poly bag starts. As could be expected, those two tea plants look the best out of all of those in the bags. Since they are presumably plants that have had many years to acclimate to our climate, I would expect them to fare better in most situations. The half dozen other live plants were placed outside and didn't do particularly well, but most still seem to be alive. However, they were planted in the fall as an experiment instead of being kept in a protected area over winter as would have made sense if concerned about their survival. We do hope to buy more live plants this spring and get some of them planted early enough to winter over with, hopefully, few problems.

















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Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

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http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

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