Posted on 11/11/2016 5:15:23 PM PST by greeneyes
LOL. Fur sounds really good too.
Well, I like the Heirlooms, because I can save the seeds, and get the same tomato again and again. But we sometime plant hybrids too. Grocery store tomatoes lack the flavor of homegrown, so I don’t buy them any more unless I’m totally out of homegrown and dying for a tomato.
I have a strange request for the ping list: Does anyone still have bindweed actively growing?
I need some leaves, from the Convolvulus arvensis species. It has been shown to have strong anti-tumor properties. There are other forms of bindweed, but this is the medicinal one. Here’s a page that shows how to tell which is which: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nursery-weeds/feature_articles/vines/vine_weeds.html
Back in February, my cat, who is the sweetest cuddliest kitty in the world, was diagnosed with lymphoma. The vet gave her 1-3 months to live. I’ve been experimenting with different herbal treatments, and they definitely help her feel better, but the tumors keep growing. I’m hoping this might be the missing ingredient. I only came across the study a few days ago, and the bindweed on my land has gone dormant. I couldn’t find a single trace of it!
If anyone has any still growing, please PM me!
Could be. St. Louis was TWA hub during the time that I worked in the city and was traveling occasionally for business meetings.
When we traveled in state, we used one of the corporate planes, the jet was for the big wigs. Landing on small airstrips in rural Mo. in a King Air made me feel like I might be on the screaming eagle roller coaster - didn’t like it at all.
Commercial flying was ok though, but I don’t like it at all now, and try to avoid it if possible. It’s a hassle and pain in the neck.
I posted a comment in the cooking thread, but for those here who don’t read that, lambsquarters is a wild form of quinoa. the last 2 years I’ve purposely let some go to seed in an unused corner of the garden, just so I could harvest the seeds.
Still working on a more efficient way to winnow them. I built a bucket thresh and a hand-cranked dehuller that both work on them, but the winnowing is tricky. Not to mention dusty!
When I grew hard red winter wheat, and rye, I did my own winnowing in the driveway with a 10 X 10 foot tarp and a 20 inch electric window fan on 3/4 power.
The lighter chaff would carry downwind from the fan, just off the tarp, leaving the berries on the tarp.
With the quinoa, given the seed size, and lite weight, I am unsure how that could be efficiently done without loosing a lot of the seed.
Prior to winnowing, I had hand flailed the wheat with a homemade device of two pieces of wood joined by two interlocking screw-eye pieces of metal hardware.
Perhaps the flail could loosen the seed from the husk/shell (?).
Yeah, I know "dusty"!!
I would just stand offset and upwind from the electric fan.
olive oil, kosher or sea salt, freshly ground pepper roasted off. then sprinkle with lemon juice and parm.
That is so true that the former would seem to be a different species if the color and shape were different. Thank God for the real thing.
like I said, %100 NATURAL! LOL!
AND “Culturally Appropriate” for us Nawthuners.
I actually have a pretty good dehuller that I made. I started with my hand-cranked grain mill, and made plates for it out of a plastic cutting board. Then I glued a textured silicone mat to each plate. They “scrunch” the hulls enough to break them off, but don’t crush the seeds themselves.
On one of my days off, I’m planning to take pictures and write up a how-to about it.
I have never heard of Cherokee purple tomatoes. Will they make the salsa sweet?
Do you know if it grows in Indiana? I ask because there’s a telephone pole at a four way stop near me that has a plant that looks like a Morning Glory and it has grown to the top of the pole. It’s huge. Could that possibly be bindweed?
It’s possible. See if you can get a close look at it. The link I posted has pretty good pics for comparison.
As far as I know, bindweed grows clear south to Texas. Possibly further.
The plant is growing as I said on a telephone pole on a busy four way stop. I will call someone who’s husbands family owned that house and hopefully still does. I’ll ask if I can come look at the plant close it. If it is the correct plant what can I put the leaves in? Can I put them in a large plastic bag or paper bag? What do you suggest?
Miracle - thought I’d lost my broccoli, but as weather is turning colder, the cabbage worms are gone. Lots of damage, but they’re coming back. I might even get a few florets.
Need some help: I am pulling up weed barriers (useless) and want to fertilize, put weed killer and pesticide down. What order and when??
I don’t put weed barrier down, weed killer or pesticides. The reason I started growing my own food was to avoid chemicals as much as possible.
For my raised beds, I put down several layers of newspaper, after turning the grass over and exposing the roots for a week or prior to the planting season. Then I put down 5 or 6 layers of newspaper-no color.
I plant everything pretty close together - no thinning. When the sprouts are up, I mulch with wood or shredded paper, or straw. The plants get a head start, and for the most part, I don’t have weeds, except for the one bed where I used hay for mulch without thinking about it - but even there, they don’t do well.
So pretty. You know, the roses on the east side of the house have bloomed again too. I meant to cut the flowers this afternoon, but got busy covering lettuce and transferring endive and chives and forgot about them.
Hope the frost doesn’t get them tonight.
Absolutely!
I have really enjoyed collecting a handful or so of ripe cherry tomatoes every day to eat with lunch. I had a bunch of volunteers shaped like grapes, that came up in the day lily bed of all places. So I saved some of those seeds to plant next year.
I bought a sweet million that grew to the top of the tomato cage and then hung down to the patio by the end of summer. At one point it looked like a Christmas tree. Next year, I’m growing several pots of the cherry tomatoes, and maybe a roma or two. Hubby only got about 10 stunted romas this year. I think he planted over 40 plants, but used Jiffy mix starter and they were scrawny and never recovered.
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