RE: Hello, was tomatoes and frost

Allan wrote:

> (shame anybody else!) Let's all try to type a little something in
the
> new year, you never know an innocent remark can sometimes bring in
a lot
> of "Re:'s"
.....
> one order sent and lots to do. I have discovered a new family of
edible
> plants to track down, the amaranthus, a large group, apparently
they
> will tolerate heat to give salading when all else has given up.
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Okay, here I go. (a little something)

It's been a long time since I've grown a serious vegetable garden. I
did grow a little corn, carrots, onions, peas and 2 Roma tomatoes in
my rose garden this summer. Lately, I've spent hours and hours
pouring over catalogues, books and Internet-sites and love reading
these postings.  

Seed Blum won me over, and I just placed a good size order last week,
and can't wait till I get them seeds. All heirloom varieties, so I
hope to collect some seed eventually.  

Ordered a few fun things like Sorghum, that I will grow far away from
the 3 sweet corns I ordered. They are so pretty in bird wreaths with
sunflowers.  A co-worker of my husband's, yearly presses his Sorghum
for the syrup. Hummmm...

I ordered 8 kinds of beans (mostly dry), 5 tomatoes and 6 peppers. 
No 'true' seed collecting here, with 3 cucumbers, 4 melons, 2
watermelons, pumpkins and 3 squashes, and I will just have room for a
few of each, but I wanted to sample a few. 

Lots of other good and fun stuff, like a Chinese Yam that in 1850
they thought would replace the potato industry. It grows a huge hardy
2-3 foot tuber, and a 10-20 foot vine that they call a Cinnamon Vine
(with a cinnamon fragrance) and produces small bulblets. Might have
to keep my eye on this guy.

Also ordered some of 6 different potatoes: Urgenta, Augsburg Gold,
Cinderella, Ruby Cresent, Peruvian Blue and Old Spanish.  Yummy... I
will also plant some Yukon Gold that I will get from our local feed
store. 

Can anyone comment on these potato varieties ?

Sincerely,       
~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
Rainier, Oregon  ~ Zone 8
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