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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

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:
>
> > \
> >
> > ...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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