Re: Heirloom Popcorn?

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From: Sam Bam
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:19

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Dan Duncan wrote:
> 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
> 

Same concept, drain the top, fed the roots, let the sun puff the top, no?

There are a lot of crops that prefer to have a well-drained blanket and 
a moist root zone.

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