Re: Asian Vegetables
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- From: N*
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 08:32:41 +0800
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Hi Bruce,
Am glad you've been to my part of the world.Get in touch with me if you're
coming again, I'll show you my garden.Did you by any chance visit our
Botanic Gardens or Narture Reserve?
I'm Malaysian and get my veg seeds from there.My mum buys it from a small
farmer.You're right our varieties are probably different.Will be planting
both Chinese cabbage and Gai Lan soon. See how it goes.
Nesa
----- Original Message -----
From: <BruceStay@aol.com>
To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 10:32 PM
Subject: Asian Vegetables
> Hi Nesa,
> I have been in your beautiful city three times and loved it. I have
also
> spent a lot of time in other areas of Southeast Asia such as Vietnam and
> Thailand so I am familiar with your climate. All of my experience in
growing
> vegetables however has been here in the Seattle area of Washington State.
> This area is famous for its cool cloudy weather and the hot season
vegetables
> such as bitter melon and yard long beans won't grow here at all. Cool
season
> vegetables such as Choy Sum, Gai Lan, Bok Choy and Chinese Cabbages do
great
> during our relatively long cool springs and falls. If I try to plant them
> during our very brief summers during July and August they almost
immediately
> bolt and go to seed before they ever get big enough to eat. This would
seem
> to suggest that they couldn't be grown at all in your hot climate but I
have
> seen them growing in small farmers fields all over Southeast Asia. I think
> that they must have locally adapted varieties available to them. If you
can
> get out into some of the areas surrounding the city where you will
probably
> find small farmers growing for market. Talk to them about what varieties
they
> are growing. I don't know how free you are to travel but I bet that if you
> cross the Straight into Malaysia you would find many small farmers growing
> produce to be shipped into Singapore. This is what I find the most
> fascinating about all of Southeast Asia. You can find many people growing
> vegetables for sale on plots of land that we would consider to small to
even
> bother with. Many times right in the middle of some of the largest cities.
>
> Hope this helps some,
> Bruce Stayner
> Seattle,Wahington
>
