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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Shopping trip
  • Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:25:12 -0500

Well, I could grow the greens, but they don't like the clay soil, prefer alkaline soils over our native acid soil, and it pretty hard to harvest enough seeds to make mustard. I don't care for the greens and neither does Ron, preferring other less bitter greens that do better in my soil. To clarify, to grow enough mustard to collect seeds for use, I would have to plant large areas, like the pasture, which is unimproved soil...rocky, clayey, and acid..I could grow the greens inside the garden proper, but that doesn't yield enough seed to make mustard and we don't like the greens...hope that makes sense..

Bev

Bill Jones wrote:
EarthNSky wrote:

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...I can't grow mustard here, either...

It's such a minor thing, but why's that, I wonder? I appreciate the greens in winter.

Bill
S. Oregon coast
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