Re: gardening planting
- Subject: Re: gardening planting
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- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:26:05 -0700
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Dragon Tongue is a beautiful bean - the purple stripes are quite stunning.
When picked young, it can be eaten as a snap bean. If you allow the pods to
mature, they make good dry beans as well.
I've not heard of Valeria, what kind of lettuce is it?
I tried growing edamame a few years ago but we just don't have enough heat
here in the PNW. Plus, we had a pretty miserable summer that year. I might
try it again - I love eating edamame.
Arzeena
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----- Original Message -----
From: <Puddercat@aol.com>
To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 4:39 PM
Subject: gardening planting
> Hello everyone,
>
> Here in Zone 7 I have finally planted my veggie garden. Last weekend I
set
> out the tomato, squash, okra and pepper plants that I had started in my
> greenhouse. I also set out various herbs. Then I planted lots of
seeds --
> radishes, lettuce, green beans, cucumbers, etc.
>
> This year I am trying a new bean from Cook's Garden called Dragon Tongue.
> Have any of you tried this variety? I am also attempting to grow
radicchio
> (spell?) and valeria (variety of lettuce) for the first time (seeds also
from
> Cook's Garden).
>
> The other new items in the garden are two varieties of soybeans:
> "butterbean" and "envy". I plan to use them as "edamame" in which they
are
> cooked very young in the shell and then you drag them between your teeth
and
> press out the little beans but don't eat the shell. This is described in
> Johnny's Seed Catalog.
>
> My early crops did not make it into the garden this year, so I am envious
of
> Pat's early harvest! Maybe next year.
>
> Sherry
>
