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Post by billw on Apr 10, 2013 21:50:20 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't think it would work out to rent one just to trench for carrots. Even then, it probably doesn't look that good once you factor in the real costs.
But those carrots are sure nice and straight!
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Post by billw on Apr 10, 2013 21:38:28 GMT -5
I've grown a lot of varieties and rarely get forking, so I don't think that it is primarily genetic. Of course, it could certainly be a combination of traits with environmental conditions that I don't have.
I know a guy who grows carrots on a rocky plot. He uses a ditch witch to prep his carrot planting. Trenches down to 18 inches, kicking out all the rocks, then fills with compost and plants his carrots. I thought that was ingenious. Probably not a solution if you have really big rocks though.
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Post by billw on Apr 9, 2013 21:10:27 GMT -5
I wish. As I understand it, it is not likely to be found at markets and I had already asked more of him than I was comfortable with.
Oh well, he goes there every year or two, so maybe I will have another opportunity.
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Apr 9, 2013 18:30:33 GMT -5
Post by billw on Apr 9, 2013 18:30:33 GMT -5
Seems like a reasonable guess. Bing is trying to distinguish itself as the tool for searching and finding people, rather than topics, so odds are pretty good that they are trying to tie forum identities together as well.
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Apr 9, 2013 15:40:06 GMT -5
Post by billw on Apr 9, 2013 15:40:06 GMT -5
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Apr 9, 2013 15:38:07 GMT -5
Post by billw on Apr 9, 2013 15:38:07 GMT -5
One of Bing's features is that it dredges your social networks for connections and then provides search results that are common between you. So, for example, if you are connected to the people that you see listed through Facebook, that is probably why they show up on your screen.
I don't get any forum users listed, but I don't have any social networking accounts.
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Post by billw on Apr 7, 2013 14:07:32 GMT -5
Funny. I typed "mauka" into the search box here and got nothing. I just did it again figuring that I mistyped and still got nothing. Thanks for turning up that thread - lots of interesting information there.
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Post by billw on Apr 7, 2013 13:26:43 GMT -5
Yep. Sorry - shouldn't rely on imprecise names, particularly with uncommon plants. Mirabilis expansa, an Andean root & stem vegetable, is what I am looking for.
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Post by billw on Apr 7, 2013 4:00:22 GMT -5
Is anyone aware of a source of mauka seed? It looks interesting and I suspect that it would do well here, but it appears to be practically impossible to obtain.
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Post by billw on Apr 5, 2013 11:31:55 GMT -5
All (well, I haven't checked carefully, but substantially all) of my potato onions set seed every year. I didn't realize that there was anything unusual about it until I kept reading about people with their unusual flowering potato onions.
Maybe it takes a lot of water to make them flower?
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Post by billw on Apr 5, 2013 2:48:37 GMT -5
Halfway up the coast of Washington - near Pacific Beach.
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Post by billw on Apr 4, 2013 19:42:10 GMT -5
Is anyone out there working with bitter melon? I am frustrated every year trying to grow it, so I have assembled about thirty varieties and am going to do a large trial and crossing this year. I don't anticipate great success, given that it is a tropical melon, but if I can get even just a little more tolerance for cool weather, it would be a big improvement.
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Post by billw on Apr 4, 2013 19:38:29 GMT -5
I am also very pleased with the Mandan Lavender. It is the only corn that I have ever gotten a good crop from in this soggy climate and I thought it ground better than any other corn I have ever tried.
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Post by billw on Apr 4, 2013 16:58:27 GMT -5
I know it runs counter to many gardeners, but I figure that gardens aren't museums. If there aren't enough people interested in growing a variety to keep it going, maybe that variety doesn't need to exist.
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Post by billw on Apr 4, 2013 15:28:29 GMT -5
The flowers and leaves are edible, but the beans must be soaked and then boiled. Never ever cooked in a crockpot, unless you're trying to make some one ill. Can you expound on that? We use our runners young like green beans and mature like any other dry bean, so I must be missing something.
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