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Ground up the first two dried pepper batches! It started out as fine powder, but as the day went on and the humidity increased and it got clumpy. So I left a paper towel on top and will wait for the humidity to drop before putting in a jar. But it tastes wonderful. I put some in the center of a 'Potatoes Anna' dish tonight, really delicious. Hard to imagine that dehydrated food could taste so rich!
Finally got the big sunchoke bed planted with DS & DD's help. Because I didn't plant them like a complete dork, as I did last year, it was much easier. They don't need to be very deep, 4 inches. Got in 4 mega rows and it occurred to me afterward I may have lost my marbles planting this much, since I planted only 2 - 4 plants of each variety this spring and have them coming out of my ears. I must have planted 2 dozen in each row...in fact I'm scratching my head about where I'll plant the other 2 varieties remaining since I learned this year they don't share well with others and need to be alone.
Anyway. The red sunchokes! 'Skorospelka' & 'Ruby Treasure'. Nice thing about these ones is they can be peeled so easily. So far I haven't really felt the need to peel them, but that could change the more I eat them.
The wall huggers -
And miracle of miracles, the last (regular) tomatoes got whizzed tonight in the food processor for seeds! That's all she wrote for those!
Grateful....and exhausted with saving tomato seeds. I saved so much there are boxes upon boxes of seed sheets piled up to the rafters in the living room. It has been years since I saved this much. I hope I've learned my lesson with excessive spring enthusiasm!
Adios!
The carrot research continues; 'Gigante Flakkee' also known as 'Vita Longa', and 'Long Flacoro' lives up to its name. I think it comes from Italy, and I got it from an Italian seed company but some sources say France. Whatever the case, very nice carrot! The only one bigger is 'Manpukuji'.
Next to a Nantes Coreless-
Finally got the big sunchoke bed planted with DS & DD's help. Because I didn't plant them like a complete dork, as I did last year, it was much easier. They don't need to be very deep, 4 inches. Got in 4 mega rows and it occurred to me afterward I may have lost my marbles planting this much, since I planted only 2 - 4 plants of each variety this spring and have them coming out of my ears. I must have planted 2 dozen in each row...in fact I'm scratching my head about where I'll plant the other 2 varieties remaining since I learned this year they don't share well with others and need to be alone.
Anyway. The red sunchokes! 'Skorospelka' & 'Ruby Treasure'. Nice thing about these ones is they can be peeled so easily. So far I haven't really felt the need to peel them, but that could change the more I eat them.
The wall huggers -
And miracle of miracles, the last (regular) tomatoes got whizzed tonight in the food processor for seeds! That's all she wrote for those!
Grateful....and exhausted with saving tomato seeds. I saved so much there are boxes upon boxes of seed sheets piled up to the rafters in the living room. It has been years since I saved this much. I hope I've learned my lesson with excessive spring enthusiasm!Adios!
The carrot research continues; 'Gigante Flakkee' also known as 'Vita Longa', and 'Long Flacoro' lives up to its name. I think it comes from Italy, and I got it from an Italian seed company but some sources say France. Whatever the case, very nice carrot! The only one bigger is 'Manpukuji'.
Next to a Nantes Coreless-
