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Sep. 21st, 2021 09:43 amI've put my tomato trial sketchy write-up out there and I've been chatting with some folks about doing seed trades. It's really nice. Folks are friendly and interesting and generous.
One was a beginning gardener who said she only had some middle eastern marigolds to trade. I definitely like and want marigolds, and I love the idea of her having this great tomato (Mikado Black).
One had a bunch of peppers I've never heard of and we chatted about how much diversity there is in India, a new pepper every hundred kilometers. She suggested I look up tibetan varieties for my climate.
One is doing crosses to make short season 1) blue popcorn and 2) flint corn with gaspe (the one that ripened here) as a parent. He thinks my season might be too short but is happy to send stuff anyhow.
It's nice. Plus Josh has suddenly got into urban foraging ("it would be neat to try cooking with acorns") and I have been pulling out all my old memories of where edible fruit trees were back in 2011 when I was doing a lot of that. I sent him my map of the chestnut trees in the city (all castanea species) and the chunk of chestnut forest someone planted south of Lake Errock.
I'm processing my grains and slowly bringing in my squash.
The last cucumbers went into a fermentation pickle with a 5% brine, matchbox and hungarian black peppers, bay leaves, garlic cloves, and black peppercorns. The previous batch went into the crock, got jarred, and was very good.
One was a beginning gardener who said she only had some middle eastern marigolds to trade. I definitely like and want marigolds, and I love the idea of her having this great tomato (Mikado Black).
One had a bunch of peppers I've never heard of and we chatted about how much diversity there is in India, a new pepper every hundred kilometers. She suggested I look up tibetan varieties for my climate.
One is doing crosses to make short season 1) blue popcorn and 2) flint corn with gaspe (the one that ripened here) as a parent. He thinks my season might be too short but is happy to send stuff anyhow.
It's nice. Plus Josh has suddenly got into urban foraging ("it would be neat to try cooking with acorns") and I have been pulling out all my old memories of where edible fruit trees were back in 2011 when I was doing a lot of that. I sent him my map of the chestnut trees in the city (all castanea species) and the chunk of chestnut forest someone planted south of Lake Errock.
I'm processing my grains and slowly bringing in my squash.
The last cucumbers went into a fermentation pickle with a 5% brine, matchbox and hungarian black peppers, bay leaves, garlic cloves, and black peppercorns. The previous batch went into the crock, got jarred, and was very good.
