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Article #135Re: Heirloom Popcorn?
From: Dan Duncan
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:03
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:03
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Besq <Besq*ns*@ispwest.com> wrote: > I wonder how many people of today remember what tomatoes > are supposed to taste like. Not many if they accept those red things that > are passed off as tomatoes. I do! REAL tomatoes may still have green, yellow, pink, and/or orange mottling inside and out even when fully ripe. My relatives still grow them that way, but unfortunately I'm 2 time zones away. > I'm trying to get them interested in making melon wine to keep the farms > going. They need an industry down there or agri-biz will buy them all out > and the melons will also be a thing of the past. They already sold half their water Saudi Aurora. > If everyone would rebel by growing their own, well, at least tomatoes in > buckets, maybe the stores would catch on and offer us what we want. I've done that. We used 5-gallon buckets of sawdust and soil and the seeds came from my relatives. Tomatoes and eggplant both did pretty well that way. -DanD -- # Dan Duncan (kd4igw) dand@pcisys.net http://pcisys.net/~dand # "Feet are assumed to be 11 inches long to be conservative." # From the "tar" manpage, Digital Unix 4.0b.
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From: Dan Duncan <dand@shell.pcisys.net>
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