One vegetable that turned you towards gardening

 

 I'd have to say the Marglobe Tomato.  Sandwich of tomato salt and
pepper and mayonnaise. Life is good than sometimes when out in the
garden hold the Salt,  pepper  and the mayo.
 Sort of like eating fresh corn on the cob but that is # 2.

 

 Joke

 Why did not Chinese for all their achievements in science never develop
botany ?
 
  Because they wondered what it would taste like.

........................

  Perhaps the joke is false?

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   Bill   Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
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Bill who putters wrote:

Artichokes and asparagus.  In the supermarket they are to often weeks old.
Aside from shrinking and toughening the flavour changes with age, I think it
has something to do with sugar conversion but there is probably more to it
than that.

I recall the taste of tinned asparagus from my youth.  Then I tried the
store-bought 'fresh' stuff, there is no comparison, I have never eaten the
tinned rubbish since.  Then I grew it and had it really fresh, there is some
comparison but it is so much better.  I still sometimes buy it in the off
season if it looks good, addicts have to do things like that.

David

 



 A junkie for real food sort of sounds  science fictionish.  Does the
concept make sense.  I look about and traditional food is being replaced
by a packages.  Salads prepared vs tearing out salad oneself. The
package seems machined and crude with no concern for the end unit Oh I
mean Person.

 Guess in a way addicted to fresh is I hope common.  Doubtful. The
ability to grow fresh is a luxury  with the idea of sprouting your own
seeds close but surly no replacement.  What can be done ? All I know is
set an example realizing the REAL food is getting more expensive.  
Tomatoes $3.49 lb. that are inedible along with onions with the last
cool spell in Fla.  an excuse.

 Paranoid Charlie may be right on .

  Bill Paranoid but no where near as much as Charlie or Billy a
delusional  self appraisal.  Paranoid  folks telling us not to worry
sort of like ignore that man  behind the screen ..Wizard of Oz.

  So follow the yellow brick road but do not eat the yellow snow.  Which
is just about gone here.  Yea so I can plant tomorrow  yeah right.

 PS  to be spoken in a hush voice
Got any Prozac   or Peyote .................

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   Bill   Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:56:15 -0500, Bill who putters


Pollan. Truth.  Real, Good food is more expensive.  Grow it yourself
or know the grower is best.


“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.”
              ~~~William S. Burroughs quotes

Using that definition, one must surmise that you should be *more*
paranoid than I.  Delusional?  Shit, bro, ain't we all to some degree.






Remember the warning in the late fifties?....I do!  "Don't eat the
snow, it contains fallout."  I didn't have a fscking clue what fallout
was, but I didn't chance eating the snow.  

I trusted grownups then.  

I've since seen radiation and fallout maps from the testing period.
I'll likely be screwed at some point, but I'm sure the diagnosis will
lay the blame upon my assorted substance abuses and lifestyle choices.
I suppose I should be a patriotic bastid and be glad that I was able
to ingest radioactive isotopes and possibly sacrifice my health in
order to save us from the evils that beset us.  Rah Rah and all that
shit.

The latter will impart wisdom to a willing student, the former....will
bring death of varying sorts.  Ahhh....again, you revive memories and
lessons of another time, lessons worth remembering and reviewing.
Considering the downside of the day with the snow and rain and cold, a
bright spot appears and takes hold.

You seem to have a knack for sending me down forgotten and dark paths,
as well as the bright ones.  ;-)

Charlie, thinking of Carlos Casteneda and wondering who borrowed those
books and if they are still being read....

 



Ooooh yes.  Asparagus has got to be one of the best of the home grown
foodstuffs.

I can't really remember any specific thing that caused me to grow veg.  I've
been growing veg all my adult life - "have ground, will plant".

Himself (my supposed better half) has always said he hated beans and every
single time I've smuggled them into a dish (always with a heavy sauce so he
couldn't really identify them before they hit his mouth) and asked him how
he liked them, he's said they weren't beans but were peas.  I don't bother
arguing as I know they are beans not peas.  It's been years since I grew
them but this year I finally decided that I would grow them again and put
them undisguised and obviously bean like and simply steamed on his plate.
The bloody man has been eating them and enjoying them but he just won't
harvest them.