[Homestead] Home-grown greens and such

Sage Austin | Eureka! Design eureka at hctc.net
Sun Jan 18 12:49:35 EST 2009


Sounds yummy. Our greens are all stunted for lack of rain, even though 
they have drip irrigation. They just need more acidity that the rain 
provides. They are predicting drought for us through October. Yikes!

--Sage

bobf wrote:
> My 'greens' garden is doing great.  We had chef's salads for dinner last night with the base greens being my hom grown  (two different varieties) curly red lettuce. (so , I guess, those greens were really 'reds' ;-o  )
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> My collards, mustard and tuenip greens are all pretty and becoming large.  I will probably cut and cook some in the next few days.  My brocooli doesn't yet have "fruit" .  But,Even the extra bed where I planted seed -- the bed I thought didn't turn out-- has sprouted many, many little plants--we shall see how that turns out.
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> My yellow pear tomatoes are still producing.  I had those, along with some local (Wilcox, AZ) red tomatyoes in the salads also.
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> I have a local source for a new type od heat-resistnat tomatoe plant, for this spring.  I will probably plow under my old tomato beds (except for the yellow pear and a couple of other bushes-- and plant in early Feb, the new tomato plants...............
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