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Posted on 01/22/2010 7:16:56 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
No, Concords have seeds, but they’re big enough to strain out easily. And with practice, you can learn to spit them really far, LOL! :)
I find your curmudgeonly ways endearing...you’d fit right into my family with ease, LOL!
I have a cellphone; I rarely use it. The only one who calls me on it is my husband, and then he knows enough to leave a message because I can’t carry it around at work, and when I’m in the car I’m barely able to drive with BOTH hands on the wheel as it is! :)
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Going to start a garden this year, by the time I could get to it last year it was too late to plant.
Thinking of going a raised bed method with some ground plants (raspberry/blackberry) and fruit trees mixed in.
One source/description:
Concord Seedless The old favorite blue-black grape that has been around for generations, but without those pesky seeds.
One of the best grapes for making jelly and juice, as well as easiest for the home orchardist to grow.
Ripens first part of September.
Zones 5-8
A bit more; page has a lot of information on grape varieties:
Concord Seedless, though similar in flavor and texture to Concord, is unrelated. The clusters and berries are much smaller than those of Concord. The fruit matures earlier, has high flavor, and makes excellent pies and preserves. Productivity is erratic, and it is not recommended for commercial planting. In warm years, the variety produces fully developed seeds.
Of course, you could just save the seeds, and press them for oil. *<];-)
Does anybody have seedless Concords? I’m a little concerned that the thorn less Marion berries turned out to be NOTHING like the wonderful thorned Marion berries and perhaps it might be the same with the seedless Concords.
Thanks for the site. I’ll check it out.
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I happened to buy a yellow plum at a market one day and it was so good I bought a tree.
That’s the way it goes, LOL!
I’m in LOVE with Honeycrisp apples, but at $3.99+ a pound, I did the same and added a tree to my orchard this past season. So, I have to wait a few years; it’s worth it. :)
No snow here to speak of from the last storm, but Silverton, Colorado got 50 inches in one day.
Most of the Sierra is near normal snow levels. There are some links on this thread... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2434803/posts?page=1
We have never seen the garden so saturated with rainfall and it is pretty discouraging for a couple of seasoned gardeners and we can’t even foresee a false spring at this time. Other then that it is pretty bleak...
Cornell University--New 'lily' Tangerine Tango can jazz up summer gardens
Oh, very pretty! Reminds me of Peruvian Lillies. Thanks for sharing. :)
A beautiful woman loved growing tomatoes, but couldn’t seem
to get her tomatoes to turn red. One day, while taking a stroll,
she came upon a gentleman neighbor who had the most
beautiful garden full of huge red tomatoes.
The woman asked the gentlemen,
“What do you do to get your tomatoes so red?”
The gentlemen responded, “Well, twice a day I stand in front
of my tomato garden naked in my trench coat and flash them.
My tomatoes turn red from blushing so much.”
Well, the woman was so impressed; she decided to try
doing the same thing to her tomato garden to see if
it would work. So twice a day for two weeks she
flashed her garden hoping for the best.
One day the gentleman was passing by and asked the woman,
“By the way, how did you make out? Did your tomatoes turn red?”
No”, she replied,
“but my cucumbers are enormous.”
Do you know anything about the new Ka-bluey blueberries? Are they really significantly better? They’re certainly significantly pricier.
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