Row Morgan

Anne Miller wrote:

Cosmos

How would you like to own a universe? This will probably never happen but you can grow a plant which produces "showy flowers" in an "orderly arrangement of cosmic proportions". Cosmos is the flower you should grow. Spanish priests grew cosmos in their mission gardens in Mexico. The evenly placed petals led them to christen the flower "Cosmos," the Greek word for harmony or ordered universe. Cosmos, like many of our warm weather annuals such as marigolds, originated in Mexico and South America.

https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/flowers/cosmos/cosmos.html

What does Taxonomical? I ask google who said:

Taxonomy in biology encompasses the description, identification, nomenclature, and classification of organisms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

So I don't really know how to answer your question.

Sorry, maybe others will chime in the do.

To make my question precisely clear to you, I was asking if there is are species or varieties of Cosmos that occurs naturally at the olympic penninsula area of washington.  I also knew that taxonomical wasn't a word when I posted this thread but I'm glad to see that it bothered you xD!...  

The page on Wikipedia about Cosmos states:

"Cosmos species are native to scrub and meadowland in Mexico where most of the species occur. In the United States, some varieties may be found as far north as the Olympic Peninsula in Washington"

Which varieties would these be exactly? Or are these varieties just naturalized?

Cy Cobb wrote: I have been scoring lots of discarded pumpkins lately

Won't dey be jack-o-lantern varieties? I like your idea of growing them in a pumpkin substrate, the soil will be fertile, but doesn't it make more sense to use the soil to grow a better variety? just keep the seedlings in a nearing frame or inside? You must live somewhere pretty cold or I'm missing something.

Sure, it will. In coastal lowlands of the Northwest, the Sambucus grows in the shady understory of Douglas Fir forests. Now, I think the other species of Sambucus, the blue one that grows more east towards the Cascades grows more out in the open. Nonetheless it should do fine.

Hahaha well I'm not surprised considering the close relation to tomatoes. I haven't grown them myself, but I recall reading of an Ecuadorian species of ground cherry/tomato that had that unique flavor of green apples called Solanum pachyandrum.

S Rogers wrote:If you find yourself in Yakima, WA we are more than willing to share our dehydrator, kitchen, canning equipment etc.  I love to learn new skills and we always welcome food for barter.

We have a couple of extra vehicles that could be shared if someone put in the work to fix them.  

We appreciate the barter lifestyle and would love to do more active bartering.

Thank you S Rogers I'll keep you in mind, Thank you!

I'm not sure if I understand the benefit here, wouldn't the wood be thin? For a RMH, maybe that is good. I don't use one.
I've seen coppiced fruit trees near the University of Washington, and I thought that was cool!