Re: Welcome to the new list//Garden report

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<<Snipped canteloupe stuff>>
<< Tell me about your successful cantaloupe adventure.  I tried 'Jenny Lind,' 
 a 90-day old-fashioned open-pollinated variety 2  years ago with no results 
 at all.  The plants set a total of 2 lopes, both stopped growing at 
 softball size, and neither got eaten due to rot coming up from below on 
 each fruit.  Very disappointing.

 What variety were you using, Margaret?>>
I have no idea...whatever the local nursery had..I didn't sve the label <bad 
girl>

<<snipped...Peppers stuff>

 Are you able to get your peppers to grow thick walls like the ones in the 
 grocery stores, Margaret?  I've always found mine to be much too 
 thin-walled to suit me even though they look great and taste good.>>

Nope the store ones have thicker walls, mine seem to be thicker when picked 
green...but I prefer them red..so it's a trade off I take

<<Snipped about carrots>>
 Leave a few carrots unharvested; they'll go straight through a typical DC 
 winter just fine.  You can dig a few up in January and February and have a 
 treat...>>

I did that by accident this year..I missed some (in the weeds) last fall, 
when I went out this early April I found a bunch of them with theirfeathery 
little tops turning green again..quite tasty

<<snipped about herbs>>
 My parsley died out completely in early June, but I understand that some 
varieties of parsley (maybe all?) are biennials.  This would have been their 
second year, so I guess I should have expected that result.  I was hoping for 
self-seeding, but forget it.>>

Well this was the parsley's 2nd year...so that my have had something to do 
with it bolting so early
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