Eating the Environment: A Literary Kitchen Cornucopia
NYTimes Book Review | June 15, 2007 | William Grimes
Posted on 06/14/2007 8:50:11 PM EDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Eating the Environment: A Literary Kitchen Cornucopia
NYTimes Book Review | June 15, 2007 | William Grimes
Posted on 06/14/2007 8:50:11 PM EDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Eating the Environment: A Literary Kitchen Cornucopia
NYTimes Book Review | June 15, 2007 | William Grimes
Posted on 06/14/2007 8:50:11 PM EDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Watermelon Declared [Oklahoma] State Vegetable
kotv.com | Updated 4/18/2007 6:09 AM | staff writer
Posted on 04/18/2007 9:33:59 AM EDT by bedolido
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Mysterious Kidney Disease Blamed On Bad Bread
New Scientist | 7-9-2007 | Roxanne Khamsi
Posted on 07/09/2007 5:33:52 PM EDT by blam
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Tomato soup ‘boosts fertility’
The Times of India | 28 Jul 2007, 2039 hrs IST | PTI
Posted on 07/28/2007 12:01:06 PM EDT by CarrotAndStick
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Help! I’m food confused
The Times | 7/22/2007 | Lucas Hollweg
Posted on 07/25/2007 3:35:02 AM EDT by bruinbirdman
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Uganda’s ‘sex tree’ under threat
BBC News | 25 July 2007 | Joshua Mmali
Posted on 07/27/2007 10:01:56 AM EDT by Daffynition
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My heirloom tomatoes have started ripening
—BLACK PRINCE
—BLACK CHERRY
—AMISH GOLD
—AMY’S SUGAR SWEET
—MANDARIN CROSS
—HAWAIIAN CURRENTS—THE SIZE OF CURRENTS—VERY GOOD FLAVOR
—BULGARIAN TRIUMPHS
—BRANDYWINES HAVE YET TO RIPEN
a couple of vines developed some sort of leaf curl and essentially I cut them off at the ground. One was in a pot of only Miracle Grow soil . . . not sure where a disease could have come along—growing from seed.
Anyway—great tomatoes. Love the variety of flavors.
Also BERRIES GALORE strawberries are hard to beat.
I got a large PVC pipe and put it at about a 15% angle full of Miracle Grow soil and about every 8” or so a strawberry plant. I water them at the top with a big elbow 3-4 times a day. Probably should put an upright pipe part of a foot or two and water less. I drilled 3-4 holes in a cap on the bottom end of the large pipe for water to drain out. I recycle the nutrient rich water caught in one of my stoneware pottery pots.
My raspberries are doing well. But I think I’ll have to give up the raised bed to them alone next year and leave tomatoes out of it. I have one variety that is sending canes over 6 feet. I keep tying them up to the PVC framing . . . no hint of blooms. May whack the tips off. Getting to be a bit of a nusiance.
My blueberries seem to struggle in our alkalai soil without the sulpher and acid fertilizer. Didn’t realize it was so critical. Doing better now that I’ve wised up. The small seedling sorts of plants have not done much. The larger purchased at Lowes has put out some new shoots after adjusting with acid fertilizer. Had put some of Sterns sulpher to neutralize the alkalai but that evidently wasn’t enough.
Will be interesting to see how soon frost comes here in the four corners area.
thanks for this thread.
BTW, I have a dwarf bananna in a large southern glassed hallway at the college. No hint of a fruit branch yet. It’s near 6 feet or so. A different dwarf variety of the head of the art dept is about the same height and no fruit branch either. Any suggestions?
They are putting off shoots as is common, I guess.
My orange and tangerine dwarf plants have yet to flower after two years.
The gardenia has done well outdoors this summer.
And I have a vine similar to stephanotis but not that . . . very fragrant, though.
And a potted peppermint that I enjoy. Interesting flowers.
Pumped up at the fair: In Topsfield,
jumbo-sized pumpkins crush world records [1689 POUNDS!!!]
Salem News | Monday, October 1, 2007 | Cate Lecuyer
Posted on 10/01/2007 6:31:07 PM EDT by Momaw Nadon
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thanks again for pinging me to:
Sowing The Seeds Of A Tasty Tomato Revival
CBS News | 1/14/08 | Staff
Posted on 01/14/2008 11:44:44 AM EST by T-Bird45
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Cisineros Grande Tomatillo
Yellow Baby Watermelon
