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See this article: https://psychcentral.com/news/2015/12/14/compound-in-parsley-celery-may-boost-neurons/96206.html
Note that celery is also supposed to contain luteolin .
Here's basically the same post in the parsley forum: http://www.growspice.com/Parsley-Celery-apigenin-and-neurodegenera...read more
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I just wanted to permalink to this description of the Karma tomatoes that Marsha Eisenerg and Karen Olivier are working on: http://tomatoville.com/showpost.php?p=746921&postcount=1609
They sound like great early potato leaf tomatoes. Some are even bicolors (it's hard to find an early bico...read more
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This is from Kirkman melon seeds, but it seems to have been crossed with Torpeda, by some of its qualities. I wonder why it's not striped, though. I guess Kirkman's rind must be dominant, except for Torpeda's netting seems dominant.
Anyway, it wasn't as sweet as its parents. It was firm (not ...read more
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I had four Wintermelon watermelons and took the seeds out to zap and save on Monday or so. I ate three of them; the other one was going bad. The seeds are black and smaller than most hlack-seeded winter watermelon seeds. The taste was good, and the texture was excellent. I have a feeling that bo...read more
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by Radishrain
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I found my first worm in a wonderberry (in all the three years I've grown it). It was late in the season. It appeared to be the same as the worms that get in over-ripe blackberries.
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I saw a bee dangling from a wonderberry flower (by its hands) for a really long time. I thought maybe it was pollinating it, but I waited, and waited, and it was still there. So, I attempted to help it out, and as soon as it saw me get close, it stopped and flew off. So, it wasn't stuck, it seem...read more
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Well, I harvested most of the tomatoes, ripe and unripe, with the exception of the damaged ones (there were lots of those). Usually we seem to have loads of tomatoes at the end, but we got lots throughout the season, and less at the end, this time. I thought the first freeze was going to be on W...read more
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The following article lists diseases that tomato seeds can carry: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4265074/
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Take a look at this article that shows a considerable lot of research has been done on Cucumis anguria: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0717345815000688
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This is a helpful article, if you weren't aware of such facts as that brown sugar is acidic (and so can help baking soda to make things rise):
Cookie Science: The Real Differences Between Brown and White Sugars, by Stella Parks:
https://www.seriouseats.com/2015/12/faq-difference-brown-whit...read more
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This recipe is from the Ball Blue Book of Preserving, p. 48 (Hamburger Dills).
Ingredients:
* 4lbs 4" cucumbers (sliced) (we would probably use West India burr gherkins)
* 6 tablespoons canning salt
* 4½ cups water
* 4 cups vinegar
* 14 heads fresh dill
* 3½ teaspoons musard seed
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Here's a chile sauce recipe adapted from the Ball Book of Preserving, p. 53, which a relative used to make chile sauce for me.
4 quarts tomato
2 cups onion (2 medium onions)
2 cups sweet peppers
1 red hot pepper (we used two red Farmer's Jalapenos and an orange Aji Habanero)
1 cup sugar
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A relative made lots of dill pickles with West India burr gherkins for me.
The ingredient list here is adapted from the Ball Blue Book of Preserving, p. 48.
* 8lbs 4–6" cucumbers, cut in long halves (my relative used West India burr gherkins cut into halves, and probably eyeballed the...read more
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This recipe is adapted from the Ball Blue Book of Preserving, p. 47. A relative used this recipe, potentially slightly modified, with West India burr gherkins instead of cucumbers.
Ingredients:
* 4lbs 4–6" cucumbers (¼" slices) (my relative used burr gherkins instead, eyeballing th...read more
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I'm attempting to freeze my harvest of epazote leaves, this year. I hope it still works! I'm grateful for the idea, which I hadn't considered until today or so.
Here's my harvest ready to go in the freezer:
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A friend of mine gave me two Better Boy F1 tomatoes (I had never tried them before).
The fruits were unexpectedly firm, but after cutting them open, I didn't feel like I was eating firm tomatoes. Anyway, the taste was excellent. I can see why people like it so much. Lots of tomato flavor. The...read more
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A friend of mine gave me some Juliet F1 tomatoes, some from her garden, and some which had been refrigerated (which a friend had given her).
Anyway, I tasted them and really liked them. They're quite sweet with nice flavor.
I saved F2 seeds from most of the fruits. Unfortunately, I put the...read more
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I harvested three Winter Queen watermelons, yesterday. I ate them and I'm saving seeds (they're ready to dry).
Anyway, the fruits were small (with each being a different size). The flesh color was a rich pink. The seeds were small and black as is typical for a winter watermelon (it's nice for...read more
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This is a continuation of this thread: http://vegetables.boards.net/thread/463/cushaw-white-jonathan-pumpkin-squash
I planted a Cushaw White squash, this year. It was my last seed of the variety (I tried to grow it in the past, and used most of the seeds that year, but it had too much shade a...read more
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I harvested wonderberries, today, and I found one with fused fruits! The fruit was comprised of three fruits stuck together into one fruit. I've been looking for unusual wonderberries for breeding purposes, such as to breed bigger wonderberries (that's one of the reasons I'm growing so many). I ...read more
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I harvested 70 watermelons, today! they weren't large. Twenty-eight of them were Red-seeded Citron watermelons. The other 42 were various varieties (primarily winter types).
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So, yesterday, I went with some friends to do service and harvest Red Delicious apples at the orchard for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . The apples were abundant and large. They didn't fall off easily.
The week before, I went with a couple friends to another one of the Chur...read more
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So, today, I had some well-cooked beans (chili) that were quite firm. I prefer my beans super soft. So, I thought I'd do some research on how to make soft beans.
I found Bigfoot's comments on this article to be insightful (although in need of testing):
* https://cheftalk.com/threads/how-make...read more
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* Santo Domingo Winter (plenty)
* Santo Domingo Dark Green (multiple)
* Santo Domingo Brown Seeded (several)
* Large (in my garden) or other winter types: Corner Round/Long, Weeks NC Giant cross, unknown winter watermelon, Tom Watson cross, Winter Queen, Wintermelon, Navajo Winter, King Winte...read more
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