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Tilapia . . . 'nuf said.
Fox News ^ | April 09, 2014 | Sky McCarthy

Posted on 07/16/2017 3:45:17 PM PDT by Macoozie

A 2009 study conducted by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited some alarming facts about Chinese farm-raised seafood.

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Humor
KEYWORDS: farm; fish; foodsupply; tilapia
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To: Think free or die

It gets buried under how ever many feet of snow we get and when the snow melts, it just keeps growing.

I plant it earlier than they recommend. The suggested planting time is early October, but I plant mine in mid-Sept.

I have several varieties but the one I like the best has very large cloves and the plants stand about 4 ft right now. They’re doing beautifully this year.

Some of the other varieties did not do well.

The first garlic I got was from a community garden but I *THINK* this is the variety......

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/Premium_Northern_White_Garlic/hardneck_garlic

I like it because the cloves are so big. Instead of peeling 3-4 little cloves, all you need to peel is one big one. It produces bulbs that have 4-6 large cloves, usually 5.

I save some out every year for next years crop and replant the biggest and best bulbs.

And far as I’ve seen, NOTHING bothers it. The biggest danger is that something might happen to flatten the garlic. One year I had some critter plow through the garlic and some of the plants bent over at the soil line and that was it for them. Other than that, I don’t know that they are susceptible to much of anything.


81 posted on 07/16/2017 8:09:03 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Think free or die

Also, I plant it in rows and lay down a strip of landscape fabric between the rows and cover it with straw. Keeps the weeding WAY down, making the garlic crop a virtually maintenance free crop.

You can also harvest the flower spikes, called scapes, before the flowers open up, and eat them. It’s suggested that you cut them off anyway so the plant puts the energy into the bulb instead of seed production. It’s supposed to result in bigger bulbs.


82 posted on 07/16/2017 8:11:46 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Dusty Road
Exactly the point I was making. A cow that lives in the water.

My wife and I use about a 6" perch attached to a 7/0 Eagle Claw for catfish. If you have bait leftover you can always have a pretty good fish fry.

83 posted on 07/16/2017 8:16:28 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: PAR35

Bayer is a direct descendant of IG Farben. Ig owned the patent of zyclone b when they gassed the Jews. They made money on it and they spent a portion of that money to create the Bayer name. Pretty simple, even a blind man can see it.


84 posted on 07/16/2017 8:24:19 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: lizma2
a lot of penicillin, aspirin and acetaminophen is from China Pretty much ALL the vitamin C. A lot of A, B12 and E too

I had no idea that so many vitamins came from China.

85 posted on 07/16/2017 8:24:49 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: PAR35
"In 1995 the head of Bayer, Helge Wehmeier, formally apologized to Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel for the company’s participation in Nazi Germany."

https://www.i-lawsuit.com/the-dark-history-of-bayer-drugs/

86 posted on 07/16/2017 8:35:50 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

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Ammonium sulfate works better.
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87 posted on 07/16/2017 10:05:23 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: CGASMIA68

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The core of every grass blade is a similar layered small bulb like garlic.


88 posted on 07/16/2017 10:07:46 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Macoozie

The first time I ever heard of tilapia was in the early 70’s when the irrigation canals near Phoenix were filling with algae and the powers that be imported the fish to clean out the algae.


89 posted on 07/16/2017 10:17:28 PM PDT by saminfl
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To: Macoozie

It’s the bland store bought tomato of the meat group.
Muddy soggy iggggh.


90 posted on 07/16/2017 10:22:59 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: brianr10

“”Best freshwater eatin’ fish is walleye.””

Winner Winner!


91 posted on 07/17/2017 2:38:26 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: editor-surveyor

No its not, you are wrong.
Grass is a seed which then produces a route system not rehzomes or bulbs.
Some grassy type bulbs such as nut grass, garlic and onion grass have tiny bulbs.
Your wrong and I am not arguing with an know it allots futile.Go 5 miles and get your snail mail and piss off a local.
Good bye


92 posted on 07/17/2017 2:51:31 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: al baby
Carp ? no its crap

It's all in the spelling - I think they got "chitlins" wrong too.

93 posted on 07/17/2017 3:25:14 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: be-baw

“...or farm raised tilapia from China?”
IMO, Any farm raised sea food. There was a documentary on TV several years back, about farm raised sea food and the disgusting conditions under which they are raised.


94 posted on 07/17/2017 3:56:59 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Karl Spooner
OK, German history isn't your strong point

they spent a portion of that money to create the Bayer name.

The Bayer name dates to 1863. The Nazis didn't take power until almost 70 years later; Little IG was created during World War I; big IG was created about 10 years later, or about 62 years after the Bayer name was created. Bayer created heroin and started marketing in in the 1890s, and they trademarked aspirin and started marketing it the same decade.

That Bayer, like IBM and Ford, profited from the Nazi era is without debate; to try to hang Zyclon on them suggest intellectual dishonesty (we are probably beyond a charitable inference of ignorance at this point.)

95 posted on 07/17/2017 5:28:32 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: CGASMIA68

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Enjoy your created confusion.
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96 posted on 07/17/2017 7:28:37 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Daffynition

There is an Asian catfish called Swai locally. Tried it once; Better than nothing but not something I’d seek out.


97 posted on 07/17/2017 10:56:26 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Farm raised fish (sometimes called “sustainability raised fish”) are fed excrement and the flesh of down animals.

Same stuff they eat in the wild, along with whatever else swims by within reach. Many of those delicious wild trout grow up on a diet of mostly bugs!

98 posted on 07/17/2017 10:59:44 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: School of Rational Thought
...Progessive Italian bread crumbs...

That socialist-supporting insurance company is branching out into food? Who knew?

99 posted on 07/17/2017 11:06:19 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: al baby

It’s crappie!


100 posted on 07/17/2017 11:07:06 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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