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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 steev on Sept 23, 2013 19:16:37 GMT -5
Saponins being the unappetizing stuff on quinoa, I guess it's six of one, half a dozen of the other. Quinoa is probably a better choice for a back-scrub, since it comes with a nice, long handle. Needs a strainer on the drain, though.
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Post by allyh on Oct 1, 2013 1:00:11 GMT -5
Harking back to the previous page's posting about washing lots of times or tomatillos will be bitter, the cookbook writer has mixed up tomatillos and quinoa. |
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Post by allyh on Oct 1, 2013 1:10:20 GMT -5
Forgive the second post but I can't work out how to get my comment together with the quote) Err, I don't think so. It was by chef Mark Miller (ex-Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe) and I think he knows the difference between quinoa and a tomatillo. |
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Post by raymondo on Oct 1, 2013 1:48:59 GMT -5
Ally, click the "Quote" box in the top right corner of the post you want to quote in your reply. A reply box will be created with the quote in place. Just start typing to add anything else you want to say.
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Post by allyh on Oct 1, 2013 20:21:13 GMT -5
I tried that, Raymondo, but even though I typed stuff after the quote, when I clicked the "create post" button it disappeared.  Then I tried editing and re-typing, and it still disappeared. So after 3 tries I just did another post, with less comment as I couldn't be bothered repeating myself again. Could be the computer I'm using I suppose. |
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Post by littleminnie on Nov 27, 2013 23:07:06 GMT -5
Is there a way to grow ground cherries so they aren't such a nuisance to pick? I suppose they would like growing upside down in buckets? Boy picking would be easy then! They don't seem to be able to be caged like tomatillos. What to do?!
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Post by steev on Nov 27, 2013 23:57:18 GMT -5
I think somebody was growing Physalis on ridges, with plastic in the ditches. When ripe, they'd fall off and he'd gather them with a blower.
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Post by trixtrax on Nov 28, 2013 1:40:53 GMT -5
Steev has it down... I grow ground cherries on a slightly mounded row that tapers to flat sides about 1.5 ft on either side with t-tape laid down along the row and black plastic covering the row. The fruits will fall down on the plastic and can easily be collected. After picked, sweep off excess debris for a cleaner harvest. In the rainy north any trenches just get the husks wet and black mold sets in on them.
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Post by khoomeizhi on Nov 28, 2013 5:26:55 GMT -5
the leaf-blower thing was someone growing for market in...i wanna say ontario.
i've had decent luck encouranging the plants to grow tall (fairly close competition in 3 ft wide beds), but keeping the understory clear...then you can zip through and just collect what's on the ground every couple days. still a lot of bending, but none of them hide that way.
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Post by 12540dumont on Nov 29, 2013 21:02:47 GMT -5
Minnie, their natural habitat is in the corn field. So, maybe trellising? I haven't tried them that way. However, I just put some in the dehydrator and wow! What a surprise, they are great.
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Post by RpR on Dec 4, 2013 15:07:37 GMT -5
You cannot pick them before they fall, unless one likes them green but there are taller varieties that are much easier to pick.
I used to have the tall ones but they do not seem to volunteer as readily as the ground hugging ones so now mine are almost all the short annoying ones.
For those with roses, they do very well in a rose bed if the flowers are not closely spaced and they help keep weeds down.
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Post by templeton on Jan 9, 2014 22:09:17 GMT -5
Took some Cape Gooseberries into work yesterday - greeted as a taste sensation! Cuttings have been taken for distribution.
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Post by ottawagardener on Jan 10, 2014 8:34:36 GMT -5
I wonder if you grew them in between two low 'fences' on plastic mulch if it wouldn't be easier? That said, I think certain cultivars are more upright. P.S. I don't wash my tomatillos ad haven't noticed soapiness. Defective tongue?
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Post by littleminnie on Jan 16, 2014 0:07:03 GMT -5
I hate the whole straw bale planting but I bet it would be good for ground cherries. I am thinking about covering this big rough compost pile I have with plastic and planting them in there. I can run a drip line to it. The best potatoes I ever grew were in an untended compost pile. The ground cherries will roll down the compost hill and the plastic mulch will make them easy to pick.
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Then I tried editing and re-typing, and it still disappeared. So after 3 tries I just did another post, with less comment as I couldn't be bothered repeating myself again. Could be the computer I'm using I suppose.
