The more calculations I run concerning the idea of starting my own seed business, the better it looks. But then, right now all I have are calculations, my seeds aren’t ready to sell yet. Maybe this fall I’ll be able to do a test run with one of my tomato varieties, I have a jar of seeds in the fridge waiting for me to finish cleaning them.
Last week I picked a few baby ears of corn because the stalks they were on had been broken off. The ears were a bit big for baby corn, but too small for sweet corn. Kindergarten corn, perhaps? Anyway, I have a review. They are unbelievable at that stage! Like sweet corn x10! I sliced one into medalions and stir-fried it in butter, along with some leftover beef and a few tomatoes. The cob was pleasantly crunchy, not woody, and the flavor was amazing. After I expand my seed several times over, I might reserve a few rows just to pick like that!
My grape tomatoes are ripening by the handfulls now, and a few of my slicers are ripe. But, the slicers have been chewed on by something. There were so many holes and bad spots on the first 2 that I just chopped one up for seed. The other had a few salvagable spots, so as I was getting the seeds out, I threw the nicer chunks in with some spaghetti sauce that was cooking. De-lish!
My potatoes need hilling again. I was promished some stuff to mulch/hill them with, but when I opened it today it was moldy. Back to using lawn clippings and hoping they dry out before they rot.
I have 6 large white cucumber “eggs” ripening for seed. They’re almost the size of melons. I’ve been assuming they’ll slip from the stem when ripe, like melons do, but I’ll admit I haven’t looked that up yet.
Hopefully I’ll get out to the land tomorrow. I could use the sanity break. It was bad enough when it was just my coworkers acting like spoiled toddlers, but now one of the new guys is getting too touchy and stands in my personal space when I’m trying to work. Makes my skin crawl. I don’t like being a whiner, but I do need to be able to see my computer screen without his enormous gut in the way! Had to ask someone with a voice to warn him to back off, I’m mute and he was ignoring my sign on the wall. There are 3 girls in my office who look like supermodels, why do I have to deal with the creeps?!
I read about this guy that lost his job, but he had a bunch of seeds. He didn’t have a big yard, but he took the seeds and started a bunch of them.
Then he took the plants to farmer’s market/ flea market type places and sold them. Made enough money to survive, expanded, and works full time in his own business now.
IIRC he also sells plants to various large stores now.