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  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] rainy end to market season
  • Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:02:32 -0700

Do you grow cranberry beans? These are the mainstay here and they are really
good. I don't recall seeing them on the market in Southern California.

---- Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>
> Well, we finally got a soaker after a couple months of dry, and I'm stuck
> in the house today. Two more times at our one remaining market and it's
> over for this year. People think we relax the rest of the year, but nooooo.
> Always more to catch up on with the garden and greenhouses. Barb noticed
> tomatoes growing up through a couple holes in the 6 mil plastic roof, nine
> feet high, so those panels will need recovering. It's also time to rethink
> scheduling and varieties of several crops, haul more aged horse manure, and
> find a better source of hay mulch. I got six beds of shallots planted just
> before the rain but garlic has to wait for the former bean beds to dry out.
>
> We've noticed that there's no predicting what'll sell best on a particular
> day, no two days the same. One day it's the butternuts, then it's the
> giant marconi peppers or Italian tomatoes, or candy onions and shallots.
> Never know. So we generally take more of everything than we can sell. This
> year a lot of tomatoes and peppers and romano green beans have gone into a
> second freezer.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Just reading up on the piece below, but I can't make myself try any other
> tomato besides the one Italian heirloom we grow.
>
>
> The Sublime Flavors of Heirloom Tomatoes
> http://www.eatingwell.com/food_news_origins/seasonal_local/the_sublime_flavors_of_heirloom_tomatoes
>
> Amy Goldman loves heirloom tomatoes. Loves them enough that one might be
> tempted to dub her obsessed, consumed even—labels she embraces. After all,
> what else would you call a woman who over a single season grew more than
> 500 varieties of heirloom tomatoes on her farm in New York’s Hudson Valley,
> tested and tasted every one—sometimes twice—and published her findings in a
> mouthwatering book, The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table, extolling
> their myriad virtues, complete with recipes, histories and envy-inducing
> photographs of “the world’s most beautiful fruit.”
>
> “I never do anything in a small way,” Goldman says, laughing. Especially
> when it comes to heirloom tomatoes, of which she has “two hundred
> favorites.”
>
> A lifelong gardener and late-blooming activist, Goldman was distressed by
> the commercial hybrid tomatoes that most of us were raised on: perfectly
> colored balls of unyielding flesh stuffed with something approximating wet
> sand. So Goldman sought out alternatives. Lots and lots of alternatives.
>
>
>
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