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Post by steev on Oct 4, 2017 19:41:56 GMT -5
Very pretty.
I've found the "Dwarf Indian Corn" sold as decorations to be fairly hull-less, crisp, and tasty; the only glitch to me is that it tends to blow out of an air-popper before popping; just means I go to the old kettle.
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Post by steev on Oct 3, 2017 15:22:48 GMT -5
Um, that's not why she's your ex, is it?
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Post by steev on Oct 3, 2017 2:57:51 GMT -5
Babies are agents of chaos; only parents who can deal with that successfully rear young; it will get better, until they're in their teens,,,
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Post by steev on Oct 3, 2017 2:50:23 GMT -5
Got two good ears, so far, from the Pungo Creek Bloody Butcher, one purple-mauve-yellow and one orange-brown (I'm so pleased I've learned what "mauve" is; what the hell is "taupe")? All things considered, it's been a pretty poor year across the farm, produce-wise.
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Post by steev on Oct 3, 2017 2:41:10 GMT -5
There is much to be said for corn eaten raw in the field; so many people never get that; I think it could be enlightening.
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Post by steev on Oct 3, 2017 2:35:06 GMT -5
I'd like to try that half-runner, but not until I have assurance of "normal" weather; this year, I'm just going to use up out-dating seed for seed-increase and chow.
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Post by steev on Oct 3, 2017 2:29:16 GMT -5
It's not the pain that bugs me (doesn't hurt so much), it's the blood; while I'm pleased it still comes out red and eventually stops leaking, it's a mess, hence my need of a bandage.
Whenever I've got an owie, my sweetheart wants to know if it hurts; mostly I say "no", because it doesn't; she seems to think I'm being all "John Wayne" and stoic, but I'm just being honest; it doesn't hurt; I begin to wonder whether that disappoints her.
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Post by steev on Oct 3, 2017 2:06:29 GMT -5
What happened to the idea of just pulling the plants and hanging them in shelter to ripen fruit?
Not related to tomatoes, but I remember Italian in-laws cutting stems of grapes and sticking the stems in water-filled tubes in the cellar; fresh table-grapes for Christmas! We didn't used to get our winter grapes from Chile; one might suppose we could still do that, if we wanted to; prolly still work.
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Post by steev on Oct 1, 2017 19:45:17 GMT -5
The 1% will perish when they've destroyed the hosts on which they are parasites.
Birds are really working the grapes; the Service-tree is looking productive, although none of the fruit is larger than a prune; at least I'll get to find out whether it's more than a specimen tree.
Got a rip in the ball of a finger, very inconvenient; checked my bandages (cheap and old), which were useless, the adhesive being shot; faked it with a scrap of TP and electrical tape (duct tape's little brother); mission accomplished.
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Post by steev on Oct 1, 2017 19:31:31 GMT -5
I never mess with stringing trellis; I just use welded fence for climbing things; granted, I have to sink sturdy poles, but only once.
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Post by steev on Oct 1, 2017 19:21:53 GMT -5
Clearly turning to Fall, not a minute too soon; leaves are coloring on the farm; poison oak is gloriously red.
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Post by steev on Sept 30, 2017 0:59:23 GMT -5
I've no idea what plastic notes are about; I realize the corporatocracy would prefer us all to do on-line exchange, but I'm not comfortable with that. USA currency is still linen (not paper), and that's fine with me. No way I'll go to on-line banking or computerized bill-pay. How many hacks do there have to be before people figure out that this stuff is vulnerable to hackers world-wide? I'm not saying anything except that world-wide is a pretty damned big pool from which to pull thieving bastards.
Damn, "they" want a trans-arctic cable so "money" can move milliseconds faster; is my attitude bad if I say "Fuck 'em!". The money managers neither sow nor reap; they just shift "money" around, like rodents in a cage; push the shavings here; push them there. That's not work, and it deserves far less compensation than it's been getting. These parasites have sucked enough blood out of the common good to buy political clout; they need to be flushed out of the common gut by a strong purgative.
The fear of such cleansing may well be why police departments in the USA are being militarized with military hardware (surplus; fine); are we really going into "control and subjugate" as opposed to "serve and protect"?
I realize this isn't plant breeding, but it's my stuff; I don't think one can really carve out any important factor (nor, really, any minor factor) from our greater reality, without grasping the resulting effects, which are, so often, unintended, but answerable, when SHTF.
Granted, as a Zoologist (lame), I tend to look to the larger ecosystem, but I don't exclude ourselves from it; we are incredibly major actors in ALL environments; our influence will increasingly dictate the crops we can grow, given our effect on climate. Am I optimistic? Not so much, given that so many of us are so fucking self-serving and short-sighted.
There may be benefits to being aged, but not having to deal with the results of our own stupidity must be one of the best.
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Post by steev on Sept 29, 2017 20:47:38 GMT -5
You know how grandmothers are great cooks? Well, my Granny proved the rule, being the exception; indifferent to culinary arts, she'd make chuck-roast and veggies in her electric fry-pan, letting things get "over-caramelized"; it was bleak. However, next day she'd grind the remains of the roast for hash, her sole masterpiece! Did I learn the secret? No more than how Grandad made biscuits or dumplings. Sigh.
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Post by steev on Sept 29, 2017 0:11:23 GMT -5
Damn right! Input without output equals net gain; we didn't survive all these millennia by thinking we had to pay tit-for-tat for everything. Life is tough enough without worrying about running a tab.
It's difficult to work it out, when you don't live in a stable/limited community, where you can take what you need and give what you can, in mutual respect with the other members of your community (rather like being in a family).
I'll go out on a limb here, and say I think modern life/economics suck, so far as they impact human life.
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Post by steev on Sept 28, 2017 23:52:17 GMT -5
I note your soil looks gray to me; do you chem-fert, or is it good-to-go?
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