Life
This is for things pertaining to life (such as plants, animals, food, and health). It's also for biological entities.
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When you're out of ketchup for your hamburgers you can do any of the following things:
• Appreciate them without ketchup (not my personal favorite, but they are appreciable).
• Make your own make-shift ketchup from canned tomatoes, salt, vinegar, and something like onion greens.
• Instead o...read more
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Tomato variety attributes to consider
Historical information:
Breed names
Ancestry
Breeder, discoverer, and introducer
Location of origin (City, state/province, and country of origin)
History
Is it PVP, PVPAF, or under plant patents?
Is it covered by a utility patent?
Is the breed na...read more
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Alpine strawberries, as you may or may not know, are small. Tasty, prolific, and easy-to-grow, but small (usually; sometimes some bigger ones appear). It takes about two seconds to eat an entire handful.
So, I figured I'd freeze them to make them take longer to eat, and make a bigger impact i...read more
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Dr. Wyche's Yellow tomatillo
Offsite articles:
• Dave's Garden
Vendors:
• Annapolis Seeds
• Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
• Garden Hoard
• Honeyman Seeds
• Meadowlark Hearth
• Reimer Seeds
• Seed Savers Exchange
• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
• Victory Seeds
• Wayland...read more
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Purple De Milpa tomatillo
Offsite articles:
• Cuttings; Growing Your Own Salsa Verde (The New York Times, 1993)
• The Plant Lady (blog post; grow report)
Vendors:
• Annie's Annuals & Perennials
• desertcart (has reviews)
• The Home Depot
• Honeyman Farms
• HRSeeds
• Mor...read more
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Cisineros tomatillo
Offsite articles:
• Dave's Garden
Vendors:
• 123seeds.com
• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
• Tomato Growers Supply Company
Offsite forum search results:
• Google: Dave's Garden
• Google: Gardenweb
• Google: proboards.com
• Google: Tomatoville
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Everona Large Green tomatillo
Offsite articles:
• Dave's Garden
• Smart Gardener
Vendors:
• Seed Savers Exchange
• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Offsite forum search results:
• Google: Dave's Garden
• Google: Gardenweb
• Google: Tomatoville
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I tried growing t...read more
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We've got a thriving, but heavily budding, oregano plant outside. I decided to make some herbal tea with some of it, to see what it was like. It was surprisingly good, even with all the buds! If you enjoy mint tea, you'll probably like this, too. The herbal tea had a pleasant floral smell as I d...read more
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Here's a picture of some of our Sempervivum. It may be Sempervivum tectorum, but I'm not certain:
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I read somewhere that the third degree of ramifications on cucumbers (I think that was the species of cucurbit) was more prolific than lower degrees. I kind of wonder if going out more degrees of ramifications increases production for all cucurbits, given a long enough season.
With tomatoes, ...read more
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I'm pretty sure this is western salsify (it has yellow flowers that look like that), and I know that's a bunching onion with it (possibly Crimson Forest). This picture was taken on 18 June 2020.
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https://www.hhmi.org/news/tomatos-hidden-mutations-revealed-in-study-of-100-varieties
The above article explains a discovery. They now know how to use genetic engineering to change tomato traits, such as fruit size. They figure it'll work for other plants, too, such as ground cherries.
How...read more
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/kitchen-notes/dont-throw-away-the-marcella-hazan-tomato-sauce-onion/amp
This is a news article that tells what you can do with the leftover onion halves from making Marcella Hazan tomato sauce.
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I've been researching food dehydrators a lot lately. I've decided they're overpriced, even if they're nice and/or very effective. Some of them cost twice as much as a kitchen stove.
Yeah, they don't all cost anywhere near that much, but most of them are still overpriced. The round stackable o...read more
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So, I had the idea to make ketchup leather. I looked it up and found this article, which gives the even better idea of eating it on hamburgers (I was just thinking about eating it plain): https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/ketchup-leather/
Anyway, it's fruit leather made out of ketchup....read more
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Here's a volunteer hollyhock from a few days ago or so. It's nice and green, this year.
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Here are our grape vines, this year. There isn't much variegated grape leafhopper damage. There were lots of leafhoppers, but they disappeared, and came back, and I think they might be gone again.
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Here's a grape cutting that survived and apparently rooted! We've had some cool and wet weather that probably helped it out.
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I was eating some burritos, today (baked frozen chimichangas), and decided to wrap the last one in some chilacayote leaves from the garden, as I had done first recently. I first put a stack of leaves in the toaster oven on bake for a few minutes (to make them softer). Then I wrapped the burrito ...read more
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I harvested some bunching onion seeds, today, likely Crimson Forest. I took a brown paper bag, put the heads inside, and shook them to get the loose seeds to fall into the bag. When I finally looked in the bag, it had lots of earwigs in it! I hadn't seen any in the flowers, but I guess they hide...read more
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Sun Sugar F1 tomato
Offsite articles:
• Bonnie Plants
• Dave's Garden
• Tatiana's TOMATObase
• Wikipedia
Offsite forum search results:
• Google: Dave's Garden
• Google: freeforums.net
• Google: Gardenweb
• Google: proboards.com
• Google: Tomatoville
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SunGold F1 tomato
These super popular 1", 1–2oz, cherry tomatoes are supposed to be quite sweet, tart, prolific, and even early. Some say it splits easily. Note that SunOrange F1 is supposed to be similar, except with larger fruit, less prone to splitting. SunGold F1 is often compared w...read more
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I'm trying to figure out what species of grass this is. This is an unusually succulent-looking specimen. It's one of our predominant weeds. It clumps and grows maybe 2.5 feet tall.
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Here are some pictures of our elderberries, from one angle:
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Here's another species of grasshopper in our garden. This is one of the kinds that is often found on roads and dry soil. when mature (this one isn't mature), they make a sound when they fly, and they have black with yellow shown on their open wings. I saw a similar adult on our property, today, ...read more
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