Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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July 28, 2019 | #226 |
Tomatovillian™
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Wonderful list! Cool stick insects as well!
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July 28, 2019 | #227 |
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thanks PG
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July 31, 2019 | #228 |
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Southern Calamari Squid
Took my parents out in our boat today for a egiing session, chasing squid. Got 23 of these beauties between the three of us in about 4.5 hours. Find the weed beds, action all round, over sand, very quiet. Size between 7 and 11 inch hoods, this one about 9.
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July 31, 2019 | #229 |
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How do you prepare the squid for eating? I am not a big fan of pickled squid or pickled octopus. I ate pickled octopus at a Greek restaurant on the Houston Ship Channel. : (
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July 31, 2019 | #230 |
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Nice! I have a fond memory of squid that rolled bountifully on the beach when we were camping up north one time. We boiled them in a big iron pot right there on the beach. Delicious!
My Dad liked to pre-cook a big batch of squid in a pressure cooker, then separate into rings for further cooking (also freezing for later). Made amazing stir fries with those, and very tender and tasty. |
July 31, 2019 | #231 |
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We grew normally prepare squid for frying in batter or crumbed. Next lot will be cooked in honey and herbs.
Cleaning is a process that involves skinning and de-winging, removing head and entrails, turning tube inside out to allow for a through clean and final de-winging if required. Tubes can also be stuffed |
August 3, 2019 | #232 |
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The new season has started here, first three are up:
Jersey Devil, Yellow Pear and Blue Ambrosia. |
August 4, 2019 | #233 |
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14 varieties up when I got home from work today
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August 4, 2019 | #234 |
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Germination count upto 22 out of 36
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August 7, 2019 | #235 |
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Spun the tray around so that those on the outer edge are now in the middle. Only two still to come up, Tasmanian Chocolate and Costuloto Genovese Sal Valente are the slackers
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August 29, 2019 | #236 |
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Have managed to get the first lot potted up and moved onto heat for a week or 10 days at a friends commercial native plant nursery, going to have to look at something a bit different in the organising of this next year if I opt to do it again.
Got busy sowing seed again today, 29/8/19 planted the following: Tomatoes KARMA Purple Multiflora KARMA Purple KARMA Peach True Colours Midnight Sun Polaris Taiga Captain Lucky Dana’s Dusky Rose Reinhardt Kraft’s GWR Heart Brad’s Atomic Grape Mat-Su Express Green Gables Adelaide Green Adelaide Black Caro Rich Duncan’s Dutch Pear Ivory Pear Black Vernissage Long Red Cherry World’s Largest (Suspect this actually Delicious, but do not yet have seed of the true variety) La Case de Apulia Scatalone Red Bomb Probably Shannons Rio Sapero Rosa Melillero Robledillo de la Jara Lietor Garrote Bicolor Ibiza Blanca 100 June Bug F2 Green Sausage Bombeta Aeteca Yellow Micro Rejina Red Micro Pinocchio Micro Madagascar Golden Roma Giant Belgium Zolotoe Serdtse USDA97L97 New Berlin Gold Eggplant Red Ruffles Fairy Tale Capsicum/Bell Pepper Long Sweet Yellow Candy Cane Chocolate Californian Wonder These four from self saved seed from plants planted next to each other without bags, hoping the striping from Candy Cane crosses over, also a bigger, thick walled chocolate would be nice. Mini Chocolate From a plant grown 2 seasons ago with other capsicums without protection Yellow Orange From commercial fruit Beaver Dam Cucumber Sikkim Crystal Apple Long White Zucchinis Lebanese Green Gold Rush x Jade Numbat F1- this cross made by McSee's wife last sesason Last edited by Whwoz; August 29, 2019 at 06:46 AM. Reason: Added date |
August 29, 2019 | #237 |
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Wow, that's quite a list! And that's handy to have a friend who has a commercial place to help grow it all out.
Here we are on this side of the world with spring gardens winding down and fall gardens cranking up and you're just starting spring! |
August 29, 2019 | #238 |
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Thanks GoDawgs. He is a fellow parent of the kids primary school and donates plants to the school as part of the "Yarragon Spring Clean", which is a town wide garage sale day organised by the school as a fund raiser. He offered to donate pots and mix for the tomatoes, most of the plants in post 225 will wind up there as part of the day as well. To really make the best use of his heat bed, I am thinking that a group pot up day at the nursery would be the best way to go. Unfortunately some of the earliest ones I potted up were not able to go straight into protection and there have been some losses, mind you he is going through a very messy divorce and aftereffects at the moment.
But I am looking up this as a learning year and hopefully things will go smoother next year |
August 29, 2019 | #239 |
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Whoops, just forgot to mention that I also put down some Kang Kong from seed that I saved from two of last seasons plants. Planted this a lot deeper this year, about 1/2 punnet depth hoping that they will not push themselves right out of the mix like a lot did last year
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October 6, 2019 | #240 |
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Tesselaars Tulip Festival
Down Under the longest commercial grower of Tulips is Tesselaar's. Each year for roughly 60 years they have opened one of their farms for a month long Tulip Festival. This year over 900,000 Tulip bulbs were planted out for the festival, most of them in rows in the paddock area, the rest in a number of display gardens around the festival stage. Around 150 varieties were planted. A few shots of the long rows are attached.
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