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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
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PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
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 Posted - Oct 06 2010 : 11:32:40 AM
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Thanks Sherry...I ordered both Catalogs too. I am very excited about more Heirloom Seeds. I did Heirloom
Tomatoes (The German Johnson) this year and they were so good! But our local store was very limited on variety and not much more than tomatoes. I saw some Potatoes at the Farmers Market that were Heirlooms and I swear they had every color imaginable! It was amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us...as we can benefit ourselves...and then share with others too.
Blessings,
~peggy
Lady In Red
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Candy C.
True Blue Farmgirl
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Candy
Mescal
AZ
USA
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Posted - Oct 07 2010 : 09:48:16 AM
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I'm still getting green beans, eggplant, tomatillos, peppers and Clairmore zucchini. The Clairmore zucchini isn't an heirloom but MAN does that plant produce!! It was the first of the zucchini plants to start this year and it still has a few left to go. We have pulled up all the other summer squash, the melons and the cucumbers. Yesterday, I picked all the green tomatoes and made some green tomato pickles and today I am going to make some green tomato mincemeat in the slow cooker and maybe some fried green tomatoes for supper. I did get some winter veggies planted, cabbage, cauliflower, bok choy, pak choy, kale, chard, carrots and mustard greens so far. As beds become available, I have more to put in.
Candy C.
Farmgirl Sister #977
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HealingTouch
True Blue Farmgirl
3448 Posts
Darlene
Kunkletown
Pa
USA
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Posted - Oct 07 2010 : 12:54:08 PM
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WOW...Is the zuchinni a round type? I saw it around here but only to buy. I need to get my green tomatoes off soon. What are tomatillos? Do you buy the cauliflower and cabbage as plants? I can't find any around here.
Blessings and Peace,
Darlene
Sister 1922
God first, everything else after!
DNA doesn't make us sisters, Love does!
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Oct 07 2010 : 2:14:47 PM
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Wow, Candy. I guess you can just garden all year there. It sounds like yours is in full production still.
Yesterday I found 2 turkeys in my raised bed with the cabbage. I had a net over the top tied with string. I had to go get a knife and cut the string to get them out. I have no idea how they got in there. I was so mad at them. They ate the tops of the onions and trampled some of the cabbage. I hope it will all be ok.
It's 85 here today.
Kris
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Candy C.
True Blue Farmgirl
823 Posts
Candy
Mescal
AZ
USA
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Posted - Oct 07 2010 : 3:37:29 PM
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Darlene,
The Clairmore zucchini looks like a "regular" zucchini only it is pale green. I did grow the round ones this year too, they are a French heirloom called Ronde de Nice. I was really pleased with them and also with the Mexican heirloom zucchini, Tatume. I got the seeds from Baker Creek. Tomatillos are, well, tomatillos! LOL!! They look like a tomato only they have a papery husk over them. They are usually what is used in salsa verde. I also found a recipe for baked shrimp with tomatillos. YUM! I planted some last year and had decided that I wasn't going to plant any this year but I had volunteers come up so I put them all in one spot and they have been growing literally like weeds! I planted my cabbage and cauliflower from seeds. Since we are so mild here, I didn't need to start them indoors, I just put them straight in the ground.
Kris,
Sorry the durn turkeys got into your garden! I swear, those critters can find a way into anything and everything!
Candy C.
Farmgirl Sister #977
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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
6740 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
6740 Posts |
Posted - Oct 07 2010 : 6:46:47 PM
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Candy I ordered The Baker Creek Seed Catalog also. Love looking through
them and having better choices than at our local Nurseries.
Blessings,
~peggy
Lady In Red
http://ladyinredsite.blogspot.com
http://pegsmiles7.wordpress.com
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chick-chick
True Blue Farmgirl
322 Posts
Liz
New Britain
CT
USA
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Posted - Oct 10 2010 : 6:34:46 PM
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PeggyAnne, I grew my first heirloom seeds this year. They were Polish heilooms and Brandy wines and boy when I took a bite it was the first tomato that really tasted like a tomato should taste! It reminded me of tomatos when I was a kid.
Liz
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debtea2
True Blue Farmgirl
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deborah
nutley
nj
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2010 : 6:46:36 PM
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hi all
funny story
i've been grow my own garlic for 5 years
and always plant in oct well this year i watched them grow
and sipped the scapes and then waited to harvest in septas usual
and the stalks came out and nothing else. i ask all the garlic growers
what could have happened no one knew????
well this week as i was cleaning out some weeds
i saw these little shoots so i pulled and dug and low and behold
garlic bulbs lots of them
well i figured out what i did wrong
i planted too deep.. i was so excited and happy
but it was funny..
blessing deborah
http://jerseyfarmgirl.blogspot.com/
inch by inch we find our way
jersey farmgirl
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LadyInRed
True Blue Farmgirl
6740 Posts
PeggyAnn
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2010 : 11:44:43 PM
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Deborah...that is funny about your garlic but glad that you got some! Two years ago one of the women here at our Sr. Estates planted her whole Garden in Elephant Garlic (and nothing else). Then she moved to Seattle and we all had all the garlic we could eat for a year. lol I have never seen so much garlic in one place in my life.
Blessings,
`peggy
Lady In Red
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