Something Different to Plant?

[brsher]

I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
Thank you for your
suggestions.

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

brsher wrote:

> I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
> I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
> something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
> something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
> Thank you for your
> suggestions.
>
>

onions


Carl

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[Barney Fife]

brsher wrote:
> I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
> I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
> something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
> something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
> Thank you for your
> suggestions.
>
>
I gave it up.
The Opposums, Racoons, Deer, Skunks, Rabbits, Gophers, Rats, Japanees
Beetles,Coyotes and the neighbors Horses made me surrender.
Prior to 25 years ago we got to harvest 1/3 of what we planted.
The critters don't even mind the dogs or lights.
Indeed my dog's best friends are Opposums. They eat out of his dish with
him.
Did I mention he's part Pit Bull.
I might try again if I can ever afford a night security guard and enough
insecticide to reapply every other day after the rain washes it off.

[Charles]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
wrote:

>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>Thank you for your
>suggestions.
>


hemp

[David Hare-Scott]

"brsher" > wrote in message
...
> I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
> I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking
for
> something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
> something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
> Thank you for your
> suggestions.
>
>

Lettuce, chard, pak choi, carrots

David

[Persephone]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:58:10 GMT, "David Hare-Scott"
> wrote:

>
>"brsher" > wrote in message
...
>> I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>> I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking
>for
>> something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>> something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>> Thank you for your
>> suggestions.
>>
>>
>
>Lettuce, chard, pak choi, carrots
>
>David
>
Baby spinach.

There is NOTHING more ineffably ineffable than leaves of
baby spinach rinsed wll and cooked with nothing but the
water on the leaves (watch the pot!). A little lemon juice --
instant ambrosia.

Persephone

[Persephone]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
>wrote:
>
>>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
>>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>>Thank you for your
>>suggestions.
>>
>
>
>hemp

Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.

People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.

Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.

Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.

Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.

It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.

Too good to be true? Not at all -- it's out there waiting...

Persephone

[Doug Kanter]

"David Hare-Scott" > wrote in message
...
>
> "brsher" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>> I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking
> for
>> something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>> something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>> Thank you for your
>> suggestions.
>>
>>
>
> Lettuce, chard, pak choi, carrots
>
> David
>
>

Yeah...chard. Good all season. Big leaves cooked, baby ones in salads. To
die for.

[Doug Kanter]

<Persephone> wrote in message ...
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>>>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking
>>>for
>>>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>>>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>>>Thank you for your
>>>suggestions.
>>>
>>
>>
>>hemp
>
> Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.
>
> People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
> times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.
>
> Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.
>
> Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
> chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
> it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
> growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.
>
> Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.
>
> It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
> natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.
>
> Too good to be true? Not at all -- it's out there waiting...
>
> Persephone
>
>

Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

[Mel M Kelly]

Lettice, radishes and bush beans in the spring and cabbage and winter
radishes in the fall. that would give you a crop about year round.


From Mel & Donnie in Bluebird Valley





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[Bill R]

Persephone wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
> wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>>>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
>>>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>>>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>>>Thank you for your
>>>suggestions.
>>>
>>
>>
>>hemp
>
>
> Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.
>
> People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
> times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.
>
> Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.
>
> Persephone

In spite of all your so called "advantages" of growing hemp (and a lot
of them are a real stretch, you appear to know next to nothing about
petroleum in automobiles) you failed to advise that the grower may spend
his summer (or longer) in jail. There isn't a summer that goes by that
someone in my area who grows hemp (pot) is caught and goes to jail
and/or is heavily fined. Some areas of the country are quite liberal and
look the other way; some aren't and it isn't worth growing it if it is
illegal to grow it in your area. And try getting a good job if you have
been convicted of growing pot. It is not going to happen.
--
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"brsher" > wrote:

>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>Thank you for your
>suggestions.
>



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<Persephone> wrote in message ...
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
>>wrote:
>>


>>hemp
>
> Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.
>
> People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
> times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.
>
> Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.
>
> Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
> chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
> it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
> growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.
>
> Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.
>
> It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
> natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.

But ya forgot the bestest most important reason for
growing it ....

"Pass the bong, dude!"

[Persephone]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:19:01 -0500, "Sgt.Sausage"
> wrote:

>
><Persephone> wrote in message ...
>> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>
>
>>>hemp
>>
>> Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.
>>
>> People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
>> times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.
>>
>> Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.
>>
>> Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
>> chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
>> it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
>> growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.
>>
>> Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.
>>
>> It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
>> natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.
>
>But ya forgot the bestest most important reason for
>growing it ....
>
>"Pass the bong, dude!"
>
Err...the smokeable stuff is not exactly the same as the
clothes-sails-oil-paper, etc. stuff.

Googling keywords "hemp vs marijuana" elicits many
sites making that distinction, and explaining industrial
uses of hemp.

Sorry, dude! <g>

Persephone

[Persephone]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:44:12 -0500, Bill R >
wrote:

>Persephone wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>>>>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
>>>>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>>>>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>>>>Thank you for your
>>>>suggestions.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>hemp
>>
>>
>> Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.
>>
>> People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
>> times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.
>>
>> Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.
>>
>> Persephone
>
>In spite of all your so called "advantages" of growing hemp (and a lot
>of them are a real stretch, you appear to know next to nothing about
>petroleum in automobiles)


Err...people are running their automobiles on cleaned-up restaurant
oils! WHO "knows next to nothing" about auto fuels?

and you failed to advise that the grower may spend
>his summer (or longer) in jail.

Why would I have to "advise", when everybody knows about persecuting
pot growers, while subsidizing tobacco growers. Now *there's* a
REALLY dangerous drug!

There isn't a summer that goes by that
>someone in my area who grows hemp (pot) is caught and goes to jail
>and/or is heavily fined. Some areas of the country are quite liberal and
>look the other way; some aren't and it isn't worth growing it if it is
>illegal to grow it in your area. And try getting a good job if you have
>been convicted of growing pot. It is not going to happen.

It's interesting to read the history of how industrial hemp became
linked with "medicinal" marijuana, and criminalized. It was not
always so. The fine hand of the automobile and oil industries can be
discerned therein. Also the moralizing of 1930's bureaucratic
fanatics, tinged with racism toward blacks.

There have been quite a number of books written which detail that
politically-motivated history. Dismaying.

Confabulating industrial hemp -- one of the world's most ancient and
useful commodities -- with "drug" marijuana is useful to the oil and
auto industries, and to the moralizers who commit all kinds of evil
themselves, but find it convenient to demonize others.

Speaking of medical marijuana, I can think of nothing more
hard-hearted than to deny a very sick, possibly terminal, patient
the relief of using that natural "drug".

Disclaimer: I don't use.

Persephone

[Persephone]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:27:58 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
> wrote:

>
><Persephone> wrote in message ...
>> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>>>>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking
>>>>for
>>>>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>>>>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>>>>Thank you for your
>>>>suggestions.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>hemp
>>
>> Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.
>>
>> People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
>> times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.
>>
>> Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.
>>
>> Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
>> chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
>> it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
>> growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.
>>
>> Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.
>>
>> It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
>> natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.
>>
>> Too good to be true? Not at all -- it's out there waiting...
>>
>> Persephone
>>
>>
>
>Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
>obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?
>
I guess I got off the "home gardener" theme somewhat.

I really intended to suggest that very large-scale commercial
cultivation of industrial hemp could make excellent automobile fuel
--oil from seeds,-- as well as the use of hemp for its millennial
purposes like cloth,ropes, paper, etc. Instead of cutting down
ancient forests to make chopsticks, paper could be made of a cheap,
renewal resource.

Requires a change of national priorities; requires, inter alia,
ceasing to kiss up to the oilionnaires who run our country. In
short, requires pulling our national head out of our rear and working
toward the future instead of short-term profits and political payoffs.

But then, we wouldn't want to disrupt the long love-affair of the
Bush-Prescott family with their Saudi boyfriends.

Persephone

[George.com]

<Persephone> wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:44:12 -0500, Bill R >
> wrote:
>
> >Persephone wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
> >>>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry
tomatoes.
> >>>>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm
looking for
> >>>>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
> >>>>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
> >>>>Thank you for your
> >>>>suggestions.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>hemp
> >>
> >>
> >> Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.
> >>
> >> People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
> >> times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.
> >>
> >> Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.
> >>
> >> Persephone
> >
> >In spite of all your so called "advantages" of growing hemp (and a lot
> >of them are a real stretch, you appear to know next to nothing about
> >petroleum in automobiles)
>
>
> Err...people are running their automobiles on cleaned-up restaurant
> oils! WHO "knows next to nothing" about auto fuels?
>
> and you failed to advise that the grower may spend
> >his summer (or longer) in jail.
>
> Why would I have to "advise", when everybody knows about persecuting
> pot growers, while subsidizing tobacco growers. Now *there's* a
> REALLY dangerous drug!
>
> There isn't a summer that goes by that
> >someone in my area who grows hemp (pot) is caught and goes to jail
> >and/or is heavily fined. Some areas of the country are quite liberal and
> >look the other way; some aren't and it isn't worth growing it if it is
> >illegal to grow it in your area. And try getting a good job if you have
> >been convicted of growing pot. It is not going to happen.
>
> It's interesting to read the history of how industrial hemp became
> linked with "medicinal" marijuana, and criminalized. It was not
> always so. The fine hand of the automobile and oil industries can be
> discerned therein. Also the moralizing of 1930's bureaucratic
> fanatics, tinged with racism toward blacks.

if you smoked industrial hemp you would die of lung cancer long before you
got wasted.

rob

[DigitalVinyl]

"brsher" > wrote:

>I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
>I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
>something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
>something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
>Thank you for your
>suggestions.
>
if you like scallions, grow onions(even from seed) and harvest when
young as scallions. You can harvest garlic the same way as green
garlic.
full Onions/garlic can take a 10 month season over winter to get a
nice big bulb.

peas/snow peas, lettuces(cut and come again types), spinach, broccoli
for early in the season.

Mid season broccoli grows progressively smaller heads but a few plants
can produce every week or so. Skip cauliflower-only one head harvested
per plant.

cucumbers (prolific)
greens beans for summer

maybe everbearing Strawberries

DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email)
Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, <1 mile off L.I.Sound
4th year gardener
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/royalfrazier/album?.dir=/2055&.src=ph

[Father Haskell]

Doug Kanter wrote:

> Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
> obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?

You'd have to share _lots_ of it. Hemp strains of c. sativa contain
so little THC that you'd have to smoke several pounds of it within
one minute to feel even the slightest effect outside of a nasty
headache.

If you really want to grow something potent, try opium poppies.
Simply take a shaker of grocery store poppy seeds and shake
liberally over the selected area of your garden. Germination
rate should be better than 50%. Harvest by making light, 0.10"
deep incisions longitudinally over the spent, swollen flowers.
Scrape up the gummy exudate and allow to dry, then
collect and press into a ball of pure, homegrown opium.

Difference is, industrial hemp is a class 1 felony, while opium
poppies are completely legal.

[Doug Kanter]

"Father Haskell" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> Doug Kanter wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
>> obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?
>
> You'd have to share _lots_ of it. Hemp strains of c. sativa contain
> so little THC that you'd have to smoke several pounds of it within
> one minute to feel even the slightest effect outside of a nasty
> headache.

Correct, but your average police officer doesn't know the difference. Either
way, you'll be busted.

[Father Haskell]

Doug Kanter wrote:
> "Father Haskell" > wrote in message
> oups.com...
> > Doug Kanter wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than the
> >> obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?
> >
> > You'd have to share _lots_ of it. Hemp strains of c. sativa contain
> > so little THC that you'd have to smoke several pounds of it within
> > one minute to feel even the slightest effect outside of a nasty
> > headache.
>
> Correct, but your average police officer doesn't know the difference.

Then he can't prove it.

> Either
> way, you'll be busted.

Where I should be able to walk.

[Doug Kanter]

"Father Haskell" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> Doug Kanter wrote:
>> "Father Haskell" > wrote in message
>> oups.com...
>> > Doug Kanter wrote:
>> >
>> >> Yeah, but what's a home gardener supposed to do with it, other than
>> >> the
>> >> obvious, which would require sharing it with the police?
>> >
>> > You'd have to share _lots_ of it. Hemp strains of c. sativa contain
>> > so little THC that you'd have to smoke several pounds of it within
>> > one minute to feel even the slightest effect outside of a nasty
>> > headache.
>>
>> Correct, but your average police officer doesn't know the difference.
>
> Then he can't prove it.

To arrest you, he doesn't need to be able to prove that you were planting
one type of pot vs another. That comes later.


>> Either
>> way, you'll be busted.
>
> Where I should be able to walk.

You will, a few hours or a day later. But either way, your day is over. Too
bad, if you were hoping to go fishing. Meanwhile, on the way to the police
station, the cop will pass by a few drunk drivers, and do nothing.

[brsher]

This thread has gone to pot.


<Persephone> wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:19:01 -0500, "Sgt.Sausage"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>><Persephone> wrote in message ...
>>> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher" >
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>>hemp
>>>
>>> Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.
>>>
>>> People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
>>> times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.
>>>
>>> Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.
>>>
>>> Today, hemp could help alleviate the looming the oil crisis -- to the
>>> chagrin of the oilionnaires who are running this country. That's why
>>> it will take a long time, and a desperate world situation, before
>>> growing hemp will be "legalized" by our whores in Congress.
>>>
>>> Hemp oil could replace petroleum in automobiles and other uses.
>>>
>>> It grows on miserable soil; it needs no more care than a weed; it's a
>>> natural, renewable, non-polluting crop.
>>
>>But ya forgot the bestest most important reason for
>>growing it ....
>>
>>"Pass the bong, dude!"
>>
> Err...the smokeable stuff is not exactly the same as the
> clothes-sails-oil-paper, etc. stuff.
>
> Googling keywords "hemp vs marijuana" elicits many
> sites making that distinction, and explaining industrial
> uses of hemp.
>
> Sorry, dude! <g>
>
> Persephone
>
>