On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 06:22:03 -0600, George Shirley >
wrote:

>On 3/3/2014 5:38 PM, songbird wrote:
>> George Shirley wrote:
>> ...
>>> pear tree opening up, the decorative kale in the front bed is putting on
>>> seed heads so time to compost them. The Dwarf Barbados cherries are
>>> putting on new leaves and the chard, slowed by chilly days, is growing
>>> like the weed it originally was.
>>
>> nice thoughts...
>>
>>
>> ...
>>> cauliflower heads I pickled last week, got six pint jars off one head of
>>> yellow cauliflower, the one that looks like it has little pagoda's
>>> sticking off of it, Miz Anne didn't bother to read the label when she
>>> planted them so they looked a little odd until we figured out what it was.
>>
>> *grins and chuckles*
>>
>>
>>> I don't expect to put up much in green beans or pickles this year as we
>>> have plenty in the canning pantry so maybe we will plant something a
>>> little different this month. Bought some climbing beans from an outfit
>>> that sells Native American heirloom seeds, look right nice too, white
>>> with red spots and look like some sort of white bean. May be interesting
>>> to grow and can. We've been buying single packs of various heirloom and
>>> Native seeds on line most of the winter so we're ready.
>>
>> there are no shortage of bean varieties out there
>> to try. some are quite beautiful. i have a hard
>> time cooking them.
>>
>>
>> songbird
>>
>We have a Hopi heirloom lima type bean that is red when harvested, that
>should be interesting. It's frosty this morning, where did spring go?

The same place ours did. We had snow yesterday afternoon and low temp
of 17° overnight. It is 21° right now. Sun is coming out, maybe it
will melt the snow.
--
Susan N.

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