Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[moabgail@frontiernet.net]

Quoting TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>:

> Three 50 foot rows, I'm envious. Really, the peels are too good for the
> compost pile!  I'm esp glad to hear the report about storing all winter.
> So it's one of those varieties we seriously need to propagate and promote.
> Let's make a note of that. I had in mind to make up a list of varieties of
> various vegetables that are esp easy, nutritious, and good keepers. Maybe
> that'll come together after all - with a little help from my friends ...

That is a good idea, Paul.

We're experimenting with an open pollinated variety of sweet corn this year.

Before my husband and I married he planted only Precocious.  We live at 
7800 feet in a mountainous climate so it was the only variety he could 
get to mature during our short growing season.

Last year we added Sugar Dots and it barely made it to harvest.  The 
Precocious is the best eaten fresh from the garden.  The Sugar Dots is 
the better of the two after being frozen.

The downside to both of them is that they're hybrids and we have to buy 
seed each year.  We're hoping the open pollinated Ashworth will produce 
well and taste good both fresh and frozen.  If it does we can save seed 
from the most vigorous plants and be done worrying about a seed supply 
for sweet corn.

Gail