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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Bev,
Sometime you might want to try mustard greens mixed
with poke.  The two are so different especially in
texture that it makes a great contrast.
Van Dell


--- EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 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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