Never Gonna be an Epic

[Smart Red]

@Nyboy - got those escarole seeds today, thanks!! I did have trouble reading your card, after years of messing around with electronics my eyesight isn't what it used to be.

Jeepers, SeedO, way to make someone feel old. After "years of messing around with electronics. . . " You're just a kid. At my age, nothing is what it used to be.

 

[Smart Red]

... tomato gardener. .

Thank you, Steve, for the "gift" I received in the mail. I was really expecting something more like hand warmers, but you are more far-sighted than that. I will plant your tomato varieties with pleasure and enjoy this surprise for a long time to come. . . once I have heat for the seedlings. Soon, I hope, soon. We are expecting temps into the 40s and 50s by the end of next week. That should surely thaw any frozen pipes, huh?

 

[Nyboy]

@TheSeedObsesser LOL your not the only one who can't read my writing. The card said I am out to convert the members here to the vegetable Escarole. I think I converted @digitS' last year Hopefull @Carol Dee this year. I think you will really like it because it goes well with beans.

 

[catjac1975]

What do you do with escarole? I guess I don't really know what it is.

 

[Nyboy]

My mother used it in soup with beans. can also stir-fry.. I think you can use it any way you use spinach It must be a ethic food, everyone in my Italian neighborhood ate it. Very easy to grow from seed. .

 

[catjac1975]

All of the Portuguese around here converted me to kale. Kale soup to the Portuguese is like chicken soup to the Jews. (And to my Polish mother.)

 

[Nyboy]

http://www.marthastewart.com/867270/escarole-and-white-bean-soup

 

[Pulsegleaner]

I like how he describes the Coyote. I think I have the "acquired taste." It does seem to be a quite different little guy. The golden hybrid cherries are deservedly popular but they need some open-pollinated competition.

Steve

I actually like the coyote taste. On the other hand I have never acquired whatever taste it is that makes Purple Calabash desirable (to some it may taste like Marsala, to me it just tastes like it's spoiled).

Doubt I'll ever be an epic either. Most normal and larger (fruited) tomato plants basically poop out on me. They make one tomato about the size of a cherry tomato or so (if that) then wither up and collapse. So I mostly grow cherry and species, when I grow (I still don't get anywhere near the yield I should, but at least the tomatoes look normal for the strain) Unfortunately, my color of choice is green when ripe, and while there ARE green when ripe cherry tomatoes, there aren't a lot of them (green grape, green doctors and maybe ten or so others as far as I know). What I REALLY need is for someone to breed/find a green when ripe currant tomato (S. pimpernellifolium) so it had a hyper hardy with the flavor I crave. (there's S. glandulosum, but opinion seems to be divided on whether that one is edible)

Part of it is how wildly the weather seems to swing these days over the summer. If it was one way or the other I could plan. I have Cheeseman's (S. cheesemanni) seed for if I knew it would be bone dry and Nagaraclang seed for if I knew the summer would be sopping wet, but there isn't anything really for when it swings from extreme to extreme every few days all season long.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

Situation made worse by the fact that I've been doing all of my schooling online for the past six or so years, @Smart Red. The good (?) news is that my other senses should improve gradually. I hope that it's not my hearing, that's always been too good.

@TheSeedObsesser LOL your not the only one who can't read my writing. The card said I am out to convert the members here to the vegetable Escarole. I think I converted @digitS' last year Hopefull @Carol Dee this year. I think you will really like it because it goes well with beans.

Thanks! Now that you say that I can see it. Hopefully we'll be eating homemade and home-grown pot beans with escarole later this year.