I’ve been harvesting some early potatoes and thought I’d post my latke recipe. I take one potato and chop it finely, then another few and grate them into a bowl with the finely chopped one. Then I add grated onion until it’s about 1/3 of the mixture. I add salt and spices and one egg and mix it all together thoroughly. The size of the potatoes is variable so it is all eyeballed and determined by the individual taste of how eggy one likes one’s pancakes. For a gigantic batch two or more eggs may be called for.
Then I heat a pan to a medium heat and with enough oil to pan fry them. It takes a little while and is important as with eggs to allow the bottom to cook until it no longer sticks to the pan before flipping.
I had some peach pits sitting in a jar of soil and they haven’t germinated. I am trying cracking the pits, taking out the kernel, and soaking in cold refrigerated water for maybe a week. This technique worked very well for some out-of-season medicinal herb seeds so why not try fruit trees? Supposed to get the germination inhibitors out more easily.
Also protecting from rodents and excessive freezing is important.
My plums are all direct seeded as well. It does seem like they need some freezing or perhaps leeching to want to germinate. Most of the seeds I planted did not grow.
If hard I think it would be better to harvest (or leave for green garlic in fall). They are beginning to go dormant in these parts anyway. I haven’t grown much soft necked but suspect they may be different.
Another thought is that on iPhone, if you include location on pictures, it will automatically have a map for you of where each picture was taken. Maybe this will help you?
