Posted on 01/22/2010 7:16:56 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
I beg to differ! When we grew tomatoes I kept a salt shaker in a old mail box with a few hand tools and gloves in the garden. Nothing like eating warm tomatoes right off the vine...
I have the Arctic kiwi that is mainly for decorative leaves but did produce some little tasty fruit. Some friends had the regular Kiwi and were always inundated with excess fruit that had to be picked early and ripened in the garage. Anyway we thought of regular kiwi and because of the fuzz and over abundance (we have enough trouble dealing with all the apples we get)...that we would consider something else.:^)
If I am ever again forced to have one of those bloody nuisance contraptions, I would be using, "one ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingy".
Alternate would be, "'ello; 'ello; are you there?"
Is this the party to whom I am speaking... snort
Do you get early freeze where you live? One year we got 23 lugs of small to medium sized fruit and we thought about making a wine with them but found homes for most of them. After that we thinned them heavily for bigger fruit...
Early freeze?? Not really, sometimes we can have snow around Thanksgiving and sometimes no snow at all. This year we did have temperatures around 16 (very rare)for 3 or 4 days...It was in December I think. Many winters we get no snow but we almost always have temperatures around 28-32 degrees during winter.
We have AWESOME grapes for sale. Any of the hardier ones should be fine in the NW, BUT we can’t ship to Oregon or Washington! At least you can get some ideas here, and possibly find these varieties locally:
http://www.jungseed.com/dc.asp?c=230
I grow ‘Concord’ and ‘King of the North’ and will be adding ‘Frontenac Gris’ to my garden this year, as well as our new ‘Black Ice’ Plum for fresh eating and jam. :)
http://www.jungseed.com/dp.asp?pID=30903&c=251&p=Black+Ice+Plum
‘Luddites’ can get a ringtone that sounds like an old-fashioned phone ringing, LOL!
There is Olallie berries, Logan berries or Blackcap raspberries that do well in the PNW...
I’m not in the southeast but I have grown them before...my Hispanic friend tells me they will grow like weeks.....my problem since I had never done it before was knowing when they were ready to be picked....
Thanks for the link. It looks like the “concord” may be the best for fresh eating out of hand. Are they seedless?
I forgot to mention I also have an Italian plum we are trying to improve....not enough sun and haven’t really sprayed to keep things under control AND something seems to get them before we do.
Toooo funny!
You know I don’t know if I have eaten Olallie or Logan berries. But, since we already have Marion and Rasp we were thinking of something different. Like grapes or something more unusual....but good.
Grapes and Eureka are like oil and water and don’t mix too well. Grapes can be eaten fresh, made into wine or dried in a dehydrator. I prefer my red grapes in bottles from Napa or Sonoma counties and my raisins from FResno county...
As usual, I got the first seed catalog in early December. Not many have come though.
Oh yeah!
You don’t have any seeds left over from those prehistoric caves you have been crawling around in?
When it comes to cellphones, I put the “lud” in luddite!
But I have always been accused of being the son of a dog who put the “cur” in curmudgeon, too.
I love technology, but draw the line at cellphones; people already have enough ways to annoy me without them.
...and ignition-key warning bingers!
Don’t much like doorbells, either...(grumbling fading into the distance)
No land line here either! No listing in a book!
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