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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 28, 2013 13:05:37 GMT -5
Beautiful Joseph! Mine were setting seed quite nicely and then I had an attack of spider mites. Never before had them, but this year was so dry. They webbed all the flowers and fruits and then the plants died. I haven't dug up the taters yet. (I had 10 rows this year, 50' each.) So, I only got the first 5 out of the garden.
Maybe Sunday, if I can get through these tomatoes....
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 28, 2013 12:59:37 GMT -5
Love the alliums! They go nicely with wabbit
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 28, 2013 12:57:55 GMT -5
I did get some mixtas this year as well. I got one or two fruits from almost all the Hopi Squash that Keen sent me. The squash bugs were fierce this year. The White Hopi didn't have a chance.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 28, 2013 12:52:13 GMT -5
Ilex, the name came from the USDA germplasm. No doubt there's plenty lost in translation!
Templeton, I checked with Bountiful. They said check later in the season as they haven't processed seeds yet. I checked today and they are not available yet.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 24, 2013 12:38:12 GMT -5
Thanks Dar, When I plant it again, I try it on 24" centers instead of 18.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 24, 2013 12:21:24 GMT -5
Darth, that was me.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 23, 2013 13:20:59 GMT -5
Okay, Dar's most BEAUTIFUL Cherokee White flour corn came out of the field.
Many of these had only single ears on the stalk. About a dozen had double ears. The double ear is half size. The regular ears are running 10 inches.
If in the future I want more corn with double ears, do I save:
1. the big ear or the little ear from the doubles?
I'd post a picture. Yes, I'd love to post a picture. I guess I'll put it on my blog when I get to it!
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 23, 2013 13:16:16 GMT -5
Minny, I never let Leo "Plan" vacations....the last time we were in Paris, we took the underground to the gardens at Versailles, only to find that they were closed on that day. Nope, he never checked This happened as well when I failed to plan and tried to take us to a dino museum in Canada...slogging through sleet and snow, 3 hours...not pretty. So I make a list of what we can do and where we can go. Then if we go terrific. At least we know what's open. Hope you have lots of fun. xxoh
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 23, 2013 13:10:06 GMT -5
No fair, I want to post a photo! I've a great one this year.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 23, 2013 13:08:26 GMT -5
Tomatillos have saponin under the husk, hence the sticky and the washing. And they make your hands lovely and soft after washing them
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 19, 2013 16:46:02 GMT -5
Drahkk, how do the melons taste dried? I have 18 Ananas melons! I was going to make granita or sorbet, but I have room in the dehydrator, if the tomatoes would shove over for a day.
The great melons of this season are: Ananas, MaryGold, Grover Delaney H20, Golden Honeymoon. Still waiting for Cortona's melon to come out of the field.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 19, 2013 16:28:51 GMT -5
Bunkie, it sounds yummy. I have to drive to the coast and buy apples from Watsonville. After spending all that money at Wagon Wheel and getting robbed, I still have no apples and no trees. Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. (George Washington)
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 19, 2013 16:22:18 GMT -5
Oh heavens yes. I always get one more boiling out of our bones before they go to the Weber. How else would I get broth for polenta?
Templeton, Leo has a moratorium on incoming seeds until I clean the ones that have come out of the garden and put them away. Currently, there is no room at the inn. Every counter is full, every table in the barn, the garden cart, the wagon, and the wheel barrow.
Thank God I can't post a picture. I'd scare you clean to Halloween.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 19, 2013 16:20:34 GMT -5
Exactly, my father used to always say, that "All cats look grey in the dark", but he said it in Italian.
So, Potato, Potata....in the skillet they are all yummy. No matter what you call them. Steev, getting older than you is not hard. All it would take would be to throw my arms in the air and say, "I can't do this anymore." Which would instantly make me older than you.
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Post by 12540dumont on Sept 18, 2013 12:04:43 GMT -5
"Al buio ogni gatta รจ morella"
You so potato, I say patato...and what about that whole zebra vs. zeebra thing?
Cortona, how do I say "the fish that got away" in Italian. My father used to say this all the time. But I'm getting older than Steev, and I can't remember.
I've harvested 5 qt jars of Trasimeno ala Cortona Beans this year. Of course I've given them all away except a pint to grow.... These are really wonderful beans.
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