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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2009 21:17:13 GMT -5
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2009 18:07:56 GMT -5
That is why I never planted horseradish. First, a one dollar supply in a jar lasts me years, and then there is this invasiveness. But next year, we should all ge together and grow stuff ginger for the fun of it ( I see Orflo coming with other ideas ;D) . Here, if started early it becomes a huge plant, probably more so in the south. It is not perennial here but man, if one can grow roots and just have fresh ginger for the sake of it, it is worth it. My friend uses grocery store roots and it works. Id like to have more fun with roots next year especially root parsley. Honestly, I am not found at all of parsnip. but root parsley is delicious, thinly sliced in a mandoline with some good vinegar....Mmmmm..... I want to get back at growing lovage too, and the roots are also very tasty, I once had some about half a meter across, I cut them in big squares to replant the chunks, not without putting my lips on it, finding it very flavorful. I was younger then and without a network of knowlegeable friends in this pre web era, so I did not risk eating too much. I since then have learned some do it to their great satisfaction.....
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2009 16:34:14 GMT -5
I agree with Patrick, we have to call the lies ofthe system. These mega protein factories are pilling up animal like it has never been done before, no fresh air, no sunlight, no real life in fact, they become a cesspool of bacterias and viruses. Concentration of production is responsable for this sorry state of affair and then so are the gigantic meat cutting/treatment factories. When the shit hit the 'giant'' fan it spreads all over many countries real fast. I make my own hams
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2009 16:19:03 GMT -5
Nice to see you back, the other Mike Need any seeds now??
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2009 16:11:00 GMT -5
25% of canadian natives cary european genes that predates the Christopher Columbus. They have concluded scientifically is comes from the Vikings and something like many many thousand years ago. The mexican people around the Cancun area of mayan origin carry the same typical birthmark than the eskimos. The Asian connection is pretty hard to deny.....as we all noticed lookng at so many native people
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2009 0:37:27 GMT -5
Why would it be odd? Genetics are also a matter of chance and mutations. They are well over 1.2 billion people there, most of them a few years back were farmers mostly organic because of poverty, hence a lot of possible mutation related changes in the genetic fabric of corn.
Mutations happens where the plants are, if there are more plants, there are more chance of mutations.... or, frankly, even out of the ''mutation'' sphere, new genetic combinations or else.....
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Post by canadamike on Aug 15, 2009 0:02:50 GMT -5
can anybody tell me what these are please? I strongly suspect some difference in the cultural perception of what they are.
Google it untill you die, you get no true explanation of what it is, I simply suspect is is basically animal feed corn fed to people. The description of it, or should I say the VERY VAGUE one I could semi-fabricate after having tried for a while, is still partial.
But the more I read about it, or try to read, the more I think we are not culturally describing one thing the way the chinese are...
One sure thing, they are deadly rotten at explaining what it is...
I do have some waxy corn seeds from China
I think this is animal feed corn eaten by humans. Corn gluten ( glutinous) is from feed corn.
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Post by canadamike on Aug 14, 2009 22:51:21 GMT -5
By the way, I live in a small town. I own no farm at all, the fields are lended to me for free, but the people get to eat a lot. I need many places because of cross pollination. I am lucky to have the help of Organic Meadows, a big organic dairy coop, wose people grow corn seeds for me. I have 4 different spaces/lots/farms where I work. As my newspaper column is getting more and more read, I intend to recruit a lot of people and/or their land to grow seeds in isolate settings.
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Post by canadamike on Aug 14, 2009 22:36:02 GMT -5
Might be interesting that you share it here Jay. With climate change, we will all have to rely more and more on this kind of info...what are the species/varieties that did well for you?
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Post by canadamike on Aug 14, 2009 22:16:55 GMT -5
I think pictures would help. Diseases express themselves in many variable ways, then we, humans, try to describe them, usually with a similar set of words for many of them....
Hey, once sick, they pretty much all look shitty and rotten and bruised and yellow and brown and dried out or the opposite and...and...and...
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Post by canadamike on Aug 14, 2009 15:02:33 GMT -5
it is growing on plastic, the doil was hilled a bit, maybe 8 inches to a foot depending were, they are just big plants, lots of old manure...
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Post by canadamike on Aug 14, 2009 3:20:21 GMT -5
here they are: first, a sample of PAINTED MOUNTAIN some Astronomy Domine corn mixed with Golden Bantam, hey, it is a mix anyway, to the left are potaotes from Tom. This was taken about a month ago: More of Astronomy Domine and the incredible hunk of a man : I belong, a very early eggplant bred By Tim Peters. I have a numbered accession from Grin, coming from Turkey, that seemed to be earlier, but I BELONG took over in the last weeks, showing up a lot of purple in the stem, and the plants are my stoutest: The heirloom potatoes in early July, I have about the equivalent of a 3,000 feet row of mostly Tom Wagner's potatoes and some heirloom that I distribute through Seeds of Diversity Canada: Last week: I am looking at my dwarf WHITE MIDGET corn , in garden no 2, one of 4 accessions of White Midget, it has 2-3 ears per plant, they are not suckering very much, and very small as you can see. A lot of them are now tasseling this week, about 30% or so of them. The others are close to it, I like the idea of the extended harvest a lot. My version of Astronomy Domine, and a few of Tom Wagner taters on the left: The squash patch, or a lil' chunk of it: Green Jewell an unknown corean summer squash, the earliest summer squash I have ever seen, 5 days earlier than EARLY STRAIGHTNECK, so very very early, and also absolutely delicious. It fattens at a small 10 inches size, so it is perfect for stuffed zucchinis, actually much better than the others for today's small families. And the seeds were somewhat crossed, both Tim Peters and I got HUGE vining versions of it, The fun thing is they look exactly the same, so I will self pollinate the hybrid, since I am working on a concept with my newspaper column, ''vetrical fence gardening''. Nothing new to any of us, but nevertheless not heralded enough for city gardeners. A good, delicious,vining summer squash is something to behold in my mind. I owned many fences in my life that would have accomodated it pretty well An ''almost'' baby ear of PAINTED MOUNTAINS, we are growing the seeds for my friend who just bought a farm, he will ( as he was before) be an organic dairy farmer. Honestly, we plan to work with it a bit to give it more starch content for milk production. However, this corn is absolutely superb, early and tough. »For those who do not know: starch is good for milking cows, but for chicken or pigs or else, a more flinty corn is better. This corn is a SUPERB corn, well balanced. We just want a lil' more starch, but he is a great base to work with, extremely early, draught resistant ( we know, we had a severe one month draught just when we seeded it. I lost 2 acres of modern sweet corn, this one and my Astronomy Domine and the other old ones were never affected)
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Post by canadamike on Aug 13, 2009 0:29:33 GMT -5
hope so too...
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Post by canadamike on Aug 12, 2009 3:37:43 GMT -5
Patrick is right. My point was ( and is) what do you call blight, because there is much confusion between it and mildew with most folks, often because both are around at the same time. One is easier to deal with than the other, although the word easy does not come...easily...
But Patrick recommendation of fast action is in order, nothing can spoil a bushell of tomatoes as fast as blight.
You leave them to ripen more for canning them then 2-3 days later you get that smell in the garage and your wife wants you to throw the whole bushell away,,,despite some OK tomatoes left in the mix, and all the rotten juice in the bottom of the container.
And the 3 million fruit flies.....
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Post by canadamike on Aug 12, 2009 1:58:51 GMT -5
google, my friend. google. And you can also youtube your way out of this easily, plenty of videos...
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