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"Dan Duncan" <dand@shell.pcisys.net> wrote in message
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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

Sawdust!?  Your plants must have been 10 feet tall with all that nitrogen.
Whatever works tho', better to grow your own.  I hope you saved some seed,
you can plant again.  I'm going to be starting some.  I'll be putting the
seen in the soil tomorrow and let them grow in the sunspace 'til its warm
enough to transplant them into the garden.  My brother is going to roto-till
the garden this year and dig out all the tree roots.  It will be so nice to
have a garden again.  When it warms up a bit, I'm going to collect some good
leaf mold from down in the creek, the soil there has been undisturbed for
decades, maybe forever so it is rich.
Don't forget, around May 5th is a good time to drive down to Canon City and
Florence, all along the fence rows down there wild asparagus will be coming
up thick.  When the plants "stray" or "migrate", they will grow and mature.
The female plant has little red berries on them and birds eat the berries,
then go sit on fences.  That's why you can always find it along fences.  You
have to walk along close to the fence because the grass that it likes to
grow around is as tall as the asparagus sprout so you have to be close
enough to see them.
Even better is if you can get up to around Montrose and Delta, it is thick
up there, all the way to Ridgeway.
Don't worry, by the time the plant is old enough to produce a sprout worth
picking, the bird has been gone for years.


>
> -- 
> #  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.