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Post by macmex on Aug 17, 2020 7:11:01 GMT -6
Many people who don't like sweet potatoes have only had them candied or canned. When they're properly cured, try baking one for Bill. Bake at 325 F for 80 minutes, to be sure that it's really really done. It should be sweet and moist with no need of any additives.
I'm with Bill on green beans. They are wonderful. My mom was a huge green bean fan. The whole family fondly noticed this, and before going into a memory center assisted living facility, my youngest brother would grow quantities of Black Valentine and Tennessee Cutshort Pole beans, thinking of her. My dad loved to sit with Mom, stringing and snapping beans. Mom was in her glory when they served them to her.
In her last couple of years on earth she stopped eating green beans. She's push them to the side and ignore them. By this time they were in the assisted living center with a chef and fancy dining room. They had a dedicated dietitian and, I have to say they did a bang up job, taking care of my folks. But their beans... they were thin, tough little things. The chef had been taught that you only barely steam them. When I ate with my folks I'd eat them, but I'd take our beans over those any day. We figured out that Mom didn't like them either. If a person wants to experience good green beans, they pretty much have to grow them. All the green beans I see in the store are those tough, grassy pods. Usually, they're already so far gone that, at my house, they'd qualify for the compost pile.
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Post by macmex on Aug 28, 2020 4:45:05 GMT -6
If Purple Ojos crosses with your snaps, the resulting cross will not be a good snap bean. Just a heads up.
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Post by George's Administrator Hat on Aug 30, 2020 14:28:14 GMT -6
I would think that would work just fine.
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Post by rdback on Sept 7, 2020 10:39:47 GMT -6
I'm glad the Crunch Sweet Orange are producing for you Bon. It really is a good, flavorful little pepper.
Truth be told, I've eaten so many hot things, my "low heat" taste-buds don't work too good anymore. I don't start noticing "heat" until I get up to the habanero level, or so. Everything below that just tastes like bell peppers to me, lol.
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Post by rdback on Sept 12, 2020 7:32:44 GMT -6
Also, when fermenting tomato seeds, how long do you let them sit? I'm finding the seeds are lighter in color and fresher looking after 2 days. @ 3days they are darker. Don't know about any germination rates for these. I might trial later.
Environment: Dusty old house and mostly a dry climate.
My experience has been two days, three at most. Any longer than that and you run the risk of them sprouting. If you see little tails, you've waited too long.
With the fermentation process, all you're trying to do is remove the protective jell surrounding the seed. This jell naturally suppresses germination, so when it is gone the seeds will be more than willing to germinate. This fermentation process is said to compare to seeds passing through the digestive tract of a bird. Birds are magicians at seed dispersal.
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Post by macmex on Sept 12, 2020 9:50:52 GMT -6
I ferment tomato seeds until there is a pretty solid mold cap on top. Then, I lift the cap off with a fork and run everything through a strainer, under a stream of water.
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Post by rdback on Sept 24, 2020 17:12:34 GMT -6
Garden looks great Bon! Everything's starting to produce nicely for ya. Congrats. Ton of work went into that space.
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Post by macmex on Oct 16, 2020 18:24:29 GMT -6
Congrats! That'll be useful!
My tomato plants generally revive about this time of the year, if the frost doesn't get them. I believe their roots are pretty extensive now and demands on them are less. But it's short lived.
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Post by macmex on Oct 24, 2020 19:09:19 GMT -6
Glad to hear they did so well for you, Bon. I have some growing on corn. They look really great on corn. This is a foolproof crop, unless you have deer.
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Post by rdback on Oct 25, 2020 9:11:46 GMT -6
I love to see cowpeas flourish - nice seed harvest!
Sorry to hear about your back. Hope the pain lessens soon. As someone who's had two back surgeries in the last ten years, I have felt at least some of your pain.
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Post by macmex on Nov 17, 2020 5:19:26 GMT -6
It does indeed. For instance, I have 5 year old parsnip seed in the freezer. I produced it in my garden, that year, by the quart. Been able to take it out of the freezer and plant it each year, since, and it grows like new.
I might have already posted this.
Storing Seed for the Long Haul
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Post by George's Administrator Hat on Nov 24, 2020 6:24:08 GMT -6
You are blessed to have peas going. The weather has been perfect for them!
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Post by raf on Jan 9, 2021 20:05:36 GMT -6
You can get hoop benders online from Johnny's and I'm sure other places. I bought one for a 12' hoop, I think it was in the neighborhood of $50. It is sized to bend chainlink fencing top rail.
I made what I been calling the Hoop Coop about 2 months ago. It's 12' x 24' I covered the top with reclaimed tin & each end is covered with 2x4 fencing. Along one wall is 7 rabbit pens, in the middle is 3 rabbit pens & along the other wall is 6 quail pens. On the end wall with the door is a roll out nest box for the chickens, who share the floor with 2 Muscovy ducks. The Hoop Coop is 5' from the side of the goat pen, right now the goats are in the barn so I connected the Coop to the pen with a 2x2 tunnel that has a guillotine door I can open on my way out in the morning & close when I come in. We have too many predators for us to let them free range when nobody is home.
The chickens having the run of the floor has been a $$ saver. I don't find any wasted feed and they don't eat much of their own feed. They prefer the quail feed to their own & the quail are bad to waste feed so it's worked out well.
I'd like to use it for what it's intended for at some point but for now there's too many irons in the fire.
Sorry for taking off on a tangent there but a bender is a reasonably priced investment imo & it's not difficult to diy your own hoops.
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Post by raf on Jan 10, 2021 14:06:12 GMT -6
Edible Acres on YouTube has a really well thought out coop design. If you get the opportunity I highly recommend watching a few of their videos. Basically the compost moves through a hoop house that houses chickens. Each turning of the compost moves it from one end of the hoop through the back. From the back of the hoop house it goes into a pile until they're ready to use it. Apparently they have access to alot of restaurant & organic waste, they also operate a nursery. Still the system they have in place looks scalable.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 17, 2021 4:20:19 GMT -6
Things like that are enough to drive a person crazy! I feel for ya, Bon. I've gone through a lot of the same type of stuff. At one time, I was seeing 3 neurosurgeons simultaneously. Then after the surgery and the resulting stroke, the Insurance Company decided I didn't need the re-hab to bring my coordination or muscle tone back. It was over a year before I could tie my shoes, button my pants, or tie a knot in a trash bag. (My new job after rehab was going from Electrician, to Janitor. A Janitor who could not tie a knot in a trash bag. So, when people threw their food in the 55-gallon barrels, the plastic garbage bag would fall down inside the barrels and I'd have to fish them out by hand. (But I didn't need any more physical rehab ---Noooo.) I hate Insurance Companies.
I've been on pain killers for several years, because of a back injury from getting thrown off a horse and from falling backward, 23' feet from the second story of a concrete building. The reason I'm on here at 5:00 am is because I can't sleep for the constant joint pain. People like you and I only take things one day at a time. God watches out for us though, or we'd never make it. I'm thankful for that.
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