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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Mon 26 Dec, 2011 10:24 pm |
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| Millet wrote: | | Darkman ,remember it is better to give than receive. - Millet (394 ABO-) |
Yes I practice that. I contacted the majority of my neighbors before Christmas and gave each of them Collards, Turnips and Mustard greens as they desired. They were all greatful and hopefully will report those that receive without me giving!
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Millet
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| Posted: Mon 26 Dec, 2011 11:21 pm |
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...............Collards, Turnips and Mustard greens................
Now that is REAL down south food. I love all three, and also throw in Swiss Chard for good measure . Unfortunately out west, they are not very popular, and can be hard to find. In my area they are replaced by steak, beans and potatoes. - Millet (385 ABO-) |
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Mon 26 Dec, 2011 11:55 pm |
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| Millet wrote: | ...............Collards, Turnips and Mustard greens................
Now that is REAL down south food. I love all three, and also throw in Swiss Chard for good measure . Unfortunately out west, they are not very popular, and can be hard to find. In my area they are replaced by steak, beans and potatoes. - Millet (385 ABO-) |
Yes We are quite the popular gardners now! The garden starts 12' from the road and is seen by many people. Just a coincidence but my daughter overheard two older ladies talking about a garden and continued to listen, eventually she discovered they were talking about our garden. At the time she was about ten miles from our house. It seems that a real garden in the city is quite a novelty.
Almost everyone here eats these. We have two types of turnips and we're planting Kale and brussel sprouts and more purple top turnips. We harvested my first broccoli and had broccoli salad for Christmas dinner.
Yeah when it comes down to traditions you have it awful tough. Must be getting old eating all that steak! LOL
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Millet
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| Posted: Tue 27 Dec, 2011 12:27 am |
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Darkman, it turns out our Christmas traditional meal is real authentic Italian spaghetti with meat balls and sausage, a full Italian salad with just about everything mixed in it, plus chocolate cake and fruit pies . My wife's mother started it years ago. Now that she has passed away, her daughter (my wife's sister) has taken up the tradition. This has been going on for years. No one in our extended family is Italian, but that is no matter. Merry day-after-Christmas. - Millet (385 ABO-) |
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Darkman
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| Posted: Tue 27 Dec, 2011 12:44 am |
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Millet,
My wife thought I was so strange when I told her I was putting sausage in my spaghetti but now she wants me to cook it all the time. Sounds like you have a wonderful tradition.
So does that meal come with home-made Italian vino?
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bigevilgrape
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Location: Central Connecticut; 6a
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| Posted: Tue 27 Dec, 2011 10:52 pm |
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| Darkman wrote: | | OK Maybe I should move them to out by the road and everyone will think I grow bad fruit and not "borrow" any! LOL |
We used to have a sour cherry tree in our front yard. We liked to sit by the window and watch people's faces after they realized how sour they were. |
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Darkman
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Here is an update on my Meyer Lemon trees. I still haven't seen the massive quantities and I'm not getting enough ripe at one time to make Lemonade however my wife loves them fresh and will eat two or three at a time so my trees are doing just great!!!
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