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Post by steev on Jul 22, 2013 21:21:59 GMT -5
Yes; Red Noodle is commonly available; a very nice veggie.
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 29, 2013 19:13:14 GMT -5
Joseph I think we tied on the corn. I was gone for 3 days but it was ready Thursday morning although young like I like it. But you must prefer older. I had older stuff for sure last night when I returned. I picked 5 last night for dinner tonight of what looked most blunt on the end. I felt they were slightly past how I like them. Still very good though. I am picking them for CSA and market this week.
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Post by steev on Jul 29, 2013 19:27:34 GMT -5
Picked 8 18" Thai Purple Pod long-beans, enough for a nice stir-fry with chicken and oyster sauce. Think I'll prune to open the two apricots that croaked so I can use them as trellises for long-beans; if I have seed on hand, I might even have enough frost-free days left to get that crop this year.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 29, 2013 23:06:17 GMT -5
I like my corn old and chewy. Everything I harvested last week was way too tender and grassy tasting for my liking. Alas, it will be this week too, even though I will take it to market anyway. The week after that though is when it starts tasting really pleasant to me.
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Post by richardw on Jul 30, 2013 0:23:25 GMT -5
Yes i like corn like that too,corn that has a bit of guts to it
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Post by steev on Jul 30, 2013 1:21:29 GMT -5
I've never gotten why people have no "taste for corn"; why isn't "chewy" part of "tasty"? No wonder these goobers are constipated (and reactionary); they aren't getting enough fiber in their diets.
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Post by littleminnie on Jul 30, 2013 7:13:27 GMT -5
Whatever! Corn should not need steel floss to be dislodged from your teeth! Grandma and I used to fight over the young ears while dad ate the mature ones.
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Post by RpR on Aug 5, 2013 0:13:21 GMT -5
Joseph:
One of my Cancha corn stalks, only about four high was leaning, I straightend it up and when I did, it creaked like a door in a spook movie. I tied it to a stake to keep it straight after that as I thought it was going break like a board. (One did that for me earlier.)
Have you ever heard this?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 5, 2013 9:02:09 GMT -5
it creaked like a door in a spook movie. Lol! I haven't heard that. (I don't straighten corn stalks if they fall down.) Now I gotta go out to the field and start bending corn stalks until it sounds like I'm on the set of a spook movie. I started harvesting the earliest sweet corn on Friday (LISP Ashworth). So I'll have plenty of stalks to play with.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 26, 2013 8:37:08 GMT -5
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Post by DarJones on Aug 26, 2013 9:43:46 GMT -5
nice story. Who is the hobo with the ear to ear grin?
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Post by davida on Aug 26, 2013 10:35:03 GMT -5
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 12, 2013 9:12:36 GMT -5
I've sure been enjoying my landrace melons. I've made 5 cantaloupe harvests like this so far this year. Our fall monsoonal weather pattern has started, so frost is imminent. I might get one or two more harvests if the melons don't burst from rain. I expect frost about the time that our current sporadic rain showers clear off. Variation in landrace melons: I picked more dry beans yesterday before the fall rains started. Here is what Resilient Bean Breeder looked like. I separated the patch into three populations: - Early Bush Beans
- Early Pole Beans
- Pole Beans that are too long season for my garden
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Post by cortona on Sept 14, 2013 14:44:48 GMT -5
fantastic beans! it looks greath and i hope they taste greath too!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 19, 2013 17:23:57 GMT -5
What would the newsgroup be if I didn't post my annual self portrait holding a huge squash, gritting my teeth from the effort, and wearing dorky sunglasses? I harvested the maxima squash yesterday. Ran out of room in the truck. Here's what the "Medium" (10 to 20 pounds) squash look like that I'm saving for seed. And the "Large" squash (20 to 40 pounds) look like this: I also set aside a population of small "buttercup" types, (my favorite) but the photo was too bad quality to post. I am intending to not save seeds from anything over about 40 pounds. Lots of food value in larger squash, but what's the point in growing large squash if there isn't a market for them?
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