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Seedsmen On Line
... Seeds Trust, High-Altitude Gardens: OP seeds for cool, short-season areas (Idaho [regional?]) * Seeds West: (New Mexico) Southern Exposure: another ... Ed: "Our seed line is specially selected for short season and cool climate areas. This makes our varieties perfect for high altitudes ... aka Seeds Trust all O.P. seeds for cool, short-season areas (may or may not match our climate--depends on summer heat ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Okra
... this to say: "early, semi-erect plant, excellent on more fertile soil, and adapted to areas usually too cool for okra; harvest: slightly later than Green Best [which they list as ... found Penta Green said "One of the best open-pollinated okra for cooler and short season areas. Earlier than all other commonly available varieties"; OK, that's from a seller, but that ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Sunchoke
... (Sidebar: Washington State is one of the leading American commercial producing areas for sunchokes.) They require, and well deserve, a permanent home in ... the unwanted type had arrived it was too late in the season to turn elsewhere: it was those or lose a year. ... ruthlessly mow down every sunchoke plant as it appears, wait a season, and repeat, till no more come up. More Relevant Links Besides ...
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Beans
... Green. ADAPTABILITY Lima beans are adapted only to the warmer areas of east of the Cascades such as the Columbia Basin and ... easily able to grow it in central California; whether our season here will allow it to develop satisfactorily we will have ... -eating" soybeans. (Regrettably, pigeon peas and adzuki beans are definitely long-season crops.) Have we remarked that "We Love Lentils"? Planting Here, ...
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Cauliflower
... have a "living-mulch" leaf canopy, but nonetheless weed scrupulously. Top-dressing the plants mid-season with fish or seaweed feltilizer is a good idea. Older cauliflower types required "blanching"--having ... else of food from Italy--it was introduced to France, and thence eventually to other areas of Europe. It was first grown in North America in the late 1600s. Envoi The ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Swiss Chard
... each. On the theory that the differences are not great, we elected to go last season with the delightfully pretty (and relatively new) variety Bright Lights. (One expert grower has remarked ... beets) is the wild Sea Beet (Beta maritima), distributed throughout the Mediterranean and Near Eastern areas. The wild form is very variable and adaptable, with branched taproots and varying sugar content ...
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Kale
... with White Russian; if you live where it gets cold and want to stretch your season, grow Vates; if you fancy cooked kale, try Lacinato (an heirloom also known as Tuscan ... from our main crops; we then annually dump out the soil far from any growing areas. Planting Timing Kale, like most brassicas, does not like hot weather; moreover, it is at ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Pumpkins
... there in her garden (unwanted . . . but she lets them mature). Last season, we tried a variety--bought in hurried desperation off a ... will likely not yield as expected if planted out the next season. Squash comprises six species--Cucurbita maxima, C. mixta, C. moschata, C. pepo, ... to Maine. By the 1930s, it was well established in certain areas of the northeast as the pie pumpkin. (It is said that ...
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Desirable Vegetable Varieties: Tomatillos
... our climate around June 1st; even with their 120-day growing season, that starts them bearing in early to middle July and lets ... We're going to transplant them out at 24 inches this season, then "tune" that in future based on our developing experience. Plastic ... but eventually the latter came to dominate, except in some rural areas where the tomatillo is still preferred over the tomato. The ancestral ...
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Desirable Herb Varieties: Parsley
... 's growth. In our climes, parsley should do well in full sun, though in warmer areas it appreciates a little shade in mid-summer. It is not fussy about soil, save ... , helps hold moisture in the soil. A mild liquid fertilizer applied once or twice a season can't hurt and might help, though we have found parsley, treated well otherwise, to ...
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