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Received the first one of the season today. Tomato Growers. Does anyone actually order from these?
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On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 7:15:29 AM UTC-5, Pat Kiewicz wrote:
said: Received the first one of the season today. Tomato Growers. Does anyone actually order from these? Absolutely. Tomato Growers is one of my favorites, as are Johnny's, Pinetree, Park's and Stokes...also Jung's... Well, not every one of them every year, but lots of them sometimes. -- Pat in Plymouth MI "Yes, swooping is bad." email valid but not regularly monitored I have ordered from Tomato Growers a few times but I have a hard time justifying the shipping. MJ |
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Pat Kiewicz wrote:
said: I have ordered from Tomato Growers a few times but I have a hard time justifying the shipping. If I can justify the extra property taxes for the back half of my lot where the veggie garden is, postage fees are a snap. Likely I'll have to give it *all* up one day. or find a local person or group who doesn't have any garden space and let them have at it. a shame to let a good garden go to idle. songbird |
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Winters_Lackey wrote:
songbird wrote: .... or find a local person or group who doesn't have any garden space and let them have at it. a shame to let a good garden go to idle. I garden two yards, plus 2 plots in our community garden, and I'd happily take on more if it were available. that's a bit of fun. where are you at? songbird |
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songbird wrote in
: Winters_Lackey wrote: songbird wrote: ... or find a local person or group who doesn't have any garden space and let them have at it. a shame to let a good garden go to idle. I garden two yards, plus 2 plots in our community garden, and I'd happily take on more if it were available. that's a bit of fun. where are you at? songbird A first ring suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. -- --Bryan "The 1960's called. They want their recipe back." --Steve Wertz in rec.food.cooking 4-20-2009 |
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Winters_Lackey wrote:
songbird wrote: Winters_Lackey wrote: .... I garden two yards, plus 2 plots in our community garden, and I'd happily take on more if it were available. that's a bit of fun. where are you at? A first ring suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. i'd assume that means the lot sizes are not very large? are you growing for market or for mostly your own use or ? songbird |
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songbird wrote in news:b5ee2b-a99.ln1@ID-
306963.user.uni-berlin.de: Winters_Lackey wrote: songbird wrote: Winters_Lackey wrote: ... I garden two yards, plus 2 plots in our community garden, and I'd happily take on more if it were available. that's a bit of fun. where are you at? A first ring suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. i'd assume that means the lot sizes are not very large? Both lots are 6750 sq ft, but our house takes up quite a bit of it. The little house we rent out is very small, and has a big back yard that I do not rent with the house. The raised beds in the community garden are each ~50 sq ft. are you growing for market or for mostly your own use or ? Exclusively for our own use. Anything we can't use, we give to family/friends/neighbors/whomever. Last autumn I took a bunch of sunchokes to a coffee shop that I frequent occasionally, and some to the Penzey's spice store for the employees. This year, I might consider selling the sunchokes, though we really should eat more of them. They are full of inulin, which is a prebiotic that feeds the nice yogurt bacterias. Fun fact, though bacteria is already plural, when refering to more than one species of bacteria, it is correct to use the word, bacterias. I've posted enough times here that I really should introduce myself. My name is obviously Bryan, and I'm a 53 YO happily married guy who is fairly obsessed with edible gardening, though it took decades for me to get good at it. I'm also into cooking from scratch. I've taken a sabatical from working outside the home to finish my first novel, so I have lots of time to devote to those two passions. I've been on Usenet for 16+ years, mostly alt.punk (I'm an aged punk rocker who sang in a crazy lefty fusion punk band for 10+ years), and more recently, rec.food.cooking, where bad cooking and flame wars are far too frequent. One thing that might be of interest to this NG, or might not, is my layman's knowledge of dietary fats. rec.gardens.edible seems to be mostly on-topic, and that is a happy thing. songbird -- --Bryan "The 1960's called. They want their recipe back." --Steve Wertz in rec.food.cooking 4-20-2009 |
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Winters_Lackey wrote:
songbird wrote: Winters_Lackey wrote: songbird wrote: Winters_Lackey wrote: ... I garden two yards, plus 2 plots in our community garden, and I'd happily take on more if it were available. that's a bit of fun. where are you at? A first ring suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. i'd assume that means the lot sizes are not very large? Both lots are 6750 sq ft, but our house takes up quite a bit of it. The little house we rent out is very small, and has a big back yard that I do not rent with the house. The raised beds in the community garden are each ~50 sq ft. oh, ok, thanks, we're on 1.84acres (www.anthive.com is the website, most pics are in the flowers section, but there's others about too)... mostly gardens and decorations now and not much grass/lawn left. we're just starting our busy season. recently i'm digging up some chives to reclaim the space that has been taken over by them and using them to raise up the neighboring garden. good clean fun. i would have a hard time downsizing to fit things into a small lot again. at present i'm being tempted by a house for sale a bit from here that has 3 acres. can't quite bring myself to do it, but would love to be on a big enough place to actually be considered a farm. are you growing for market or for mostly your own use or ? Exclusively for our own use. Anything we can't use, we give to family/friends/neighbors/whomever. Last autumn I took a bunch of sunchokes to a coffee shop that I frequent occasionally, and some to the Penzey's spice store for the employees. This year, I might consider selling the sunchokes, though we really should eat more of them. They are full of inulin, which is a prebiotic that feeds the nice yogurt bacterias. i would like to eat more cooked veggies from the brassicas, but my Ma hates the smell of cooked brassicas so i'm growing most of them for fresh eating and they will be in reserve for food if times get tough (turnips, rutabagas). this next week Ma is visiting a friend so i expect to get out and find a few turnips to cook up. mostly i am trying different things in various combinations, dealing with heavy clay soil (with a little sand) in most places, flood chances at times, figuring out how to get fill and elevation using organic matter for some of that. many things always going on here. keeps me interested and amused. love the wildlife and get frustrated by it at times too. bunnies and deer. luckily for the most important gardens where we grow most of the veggies i have a nice tall fence. our major crops are strawberries, tomatoes, beans, peas, onions, garlic. and then there's a bunch of stuff i grow as critter food (for the worms or for wildlife). and then many decorative flowers to keep the pollinators happy. i try to keep something in bloom then whole season and it seems to be working as we always have bees around. Fun fact, though bacteria is already plural, when refering to more than one species of bacteria, it is correct to use the word, bacterias. i'm currently doing a trial of probiotics and was amused to find that some of the bacterial species used are also those found in dirt. I've posted enough times here that I really should introduce myself. My name is obviously Bryan, and I'm a 53 YO happily married guy who is fairly obsessed with edible gardening, though it took decades for me to get good at it. I'm also into cooking from scratch. I've taken a sabatical from working outside the home to finish my first novel, so I have lots of time to devote to those two passions. welcome. i'm always interested in talking about pretty much any garden topic if i have the time and experience. many garden veggies i have no experience with so i tend to hope others will fill in those gaps. I've been on Usenet for 16+ years, mostly alt.punk (I'm an aged punk rocker who sang in a crazy lefty fusion punk band for 10+ years), and more recently, rec.food.cooking, where bad cooking and flame wars are far too frequent. One thing that might be of interest to this NG, or might not, is my layman's knowledge of dietary fats. rec.gardens.edible seems to be mostly on-topic, and that is a happy thing. i've read usenet since before the great renaming, but only written later. way back it was fun that you could read the entire newsfeed each day. yes, i'm glad we're doing well in that regards too, but it is a challenge for me to not reply to the OT posts. also helps to mark threads [OT] for those who have filters set up. ah, so it is going to rain here after all. good deal. i love not having to water and it gives me a break to let my muscles catch up with my efforts. each spring i have to work back into shape. songbird |
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On 4/21/2014 6:30 PM, Winters_Lackey wrote:
songbird wrote in news:b5ee2b-a99.ln1@ID- 306963.user.uni-berlin.de: Winters_Lackey wrote: songbird wrote: Winters_Lackey wrote: ... I garden two yards, plus 2 plots in our community garden, and I'd happily take on more if it were available. that's a bit of fun. where are you at? A first ring suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. i'd assume that means the lot sizes are not very large? Both lots are 6750 sq ft, but our house takes up quite a bit of it. The little house we rent out is very small, and has a big back yard that I do not rent with the house. The raised beds in the community garden are each ~50 sq ft. are you growing for market or for mostly your own use or ? Exclusively for our own use. Anything we can't use, we give to family/friends/neighbors/whomever. Last autumn I took a bunch of sunchokes to a coffee shop that I frequent occasionally, and some to the Penzey's spice store for the employees. This year, I might consider selling the sunchokes, though we really should eat more of them. They are full of inulin, which is a prebiotic that feeds the nice yogurt bacterias. Sunchokes, aka Jerusalem artichokes, are very good when pickled. At our old place we had a stand of sunchokes that had been in the ground over twenty years. Fried, stewed, baked they gave us a tremendous amount of intestinal gas, pickled, nary a problem. Even the great grands like them. We deliberately didn't bring starts with us as they take up a large amount of space. We downsized from a 14,000 square foot lot with an 1875 square foot house on it to one with 6500 square feet and a 1960 square foot house. Fun fact, though bacteria is already plural, when refering to more than one species of bacteria, it is correct to use the word, bacterias. I've posted enough times here that I really should introduce myself. My name is obviously Bryan, and I'm a 53 YO happily married guy who is fairly obsessed with edible gardening, though it took decades for me to get good at it. I'm also into cooking from scratch. I've taken a sabatical from working outside the home to finish my first novel, so I have lots of time to devote to those two passions. I've been on Usenet for 16+ years, mostly alt.punk (I'm an aged punk rocker who sang in a crazy lefty fusion punk band for 10+ years), and more recently, rec.food.cooking, where bad cooking and flame wars are far too frequent. One thing that might be of interest to this NG, or might not, is my layman's knowledge of dietary fats. rec.gardens.edible seems to be mostly on-topic, and that is a happy thing. songbird I probably should introduce myself too, some of the folks on here know me from rec.food.preserving. George Shirley, age 74, soon to be 75, been gardening and preserving food since I could walk, married 54 years come December, two kids, five grandkids, six great grands, all within driving range of us now that we're home again in Texas. Retired oilfield trash and, yes, we even gardened in Saudi while we were there and again in Yemen. Been on UseNet since 1990, got my first computer in 1982, an Osborne One, anyone remember those? I do ninety percent of the cooking in this house and one hundred percent of the cleaning up after myself. Never could carry a tune but love music of all kinds, was/still am a fifties rocker. Former USN and don't miss being at sea. George |
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George Shirley wrote in news:53691d56$0$19184$862e30e2
@ngroups.net: George Shirley You used to be somewhat of a regular in rec.food.cooking. It's gotten even worse. -- --Bryan |
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Winters_Lackey wrote:
George Shirley wrote in news:53691d56$0$19184$862e30e2 @ngroups.net: George Shirley You used to be somewhat of a regular in rec.food.cooking. It's gotten even worse. When I was there ( some years ago) the problem was too many extended ****ing competitions over who has the biggest collection of very expensive pans (or knives, or gadgets...) and whether black truffles were really better than white. I was told on different occasions that if I really wanted to be able to cook my kitchen benches would be stainless steel and the floor would be tiled with a drain hole so it could be flushed like a commercial kitchen. Those who mistake form for substance often cannot see they have a problem. I seem to recall Sheldon, our Brooklyn, and all his extended (cloned) family were regulars too. D |
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George Shirley wrote:
.... I probably should introduce myself too, some of the folks on here know me from rec.food.preserving. George Shirley, age 74, soon to be 75, been gardening and preserving food since I could walk, married 54 years come December, two kids, five grandkids, six great grands, all within driving range of us now that we're home again in Texas. Retired oilfield trash and, yes, we even gardened in Saudi while we were there and again in Yemen. Been on UseNet since 1990, got my first computer in 1982, an Osborne One, anyone remember those? I do ninety percent of the cooking in this house and one hundred percent of the cleaning up after myself. Never could carry a tune but love music of all kinds, was/still am a fifties rocker. Former USN and don't miss being at sea. welcome George, there's a bit more conversation here. and quite a few smart folks who know names of plants and things. i'm old enough to remember most of the early small computer setups. never actually got into them, but the IBM PC i eventually bought was working fine when i gave it away some 14 years later. songbird |
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"David Hare-Scott" wrote in
: Winters_Lackey wrote: George Shirley wrote in news:53691d56$0$19184$862e30e2 @ngroups.net: George Shirley You used to be somewhat of a regular in rec.food.cooking. It's gotten even worse. I seem to recall Sheldon, our Brooklyn, and all his extended (cloned) family were regulars too. Sheldon posts here? D -- --Bryan |
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