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Strange fruit
Sep. 10th, 2007 09:55 amMy catalog from the Seed Savers Exchange came in the mail yesterday. It is so beautiful, I am in love with the names of everything. There is a watermelon variety that has purple skin with yellow stars. Three tomato varieties that ripen to black, with green flesh inside that turns to bright red in the heart. A two-inch strawberry corn variety, good for popping. Melons named Collective Farm Woman and Jenny Lind (with "striking small button or knob on the blossom end"); a warty pink pumpkin named Galeux d'Eysines and a warty green pumpkin named Marina di Chioggia.
Mom says it's too early to be dreaming of seeds, when the summer squash is still putting out huge orange blossoms every day. But I guess I want to start dreaming now because I've never had a vegetable garden before, and next summer I want to have a big experimental one filled with oddballs. In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, the Kingsolver family planted enough to feed the family and entertain friends using preserved and canned and root-cellared produce that was the yield of "a forty-by-twenty-two-foot spread, per person" (p. 343). Is that a lot? Maybe if I start with smaller vegetable gardens, by the time I have that much land I'll also have a little more expertise in using it.
Mom says it's too early to be dreaming of seeds, when the summer squash is still putting out huge orange blossoms every day. But I guess I want to start dreaming now because I've never had a vegetable garden before, and next summer I want to have a big experimental one filled with oddballs. In Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, the Kingsolver family planted enough to feed the family and entertain friends using preserved and canned and root-cellared produce that was the yield of "a forty-by-twenty-two-foot spread, per person" (p. 343). Is that a lot? Maybe if I start with smaller vegetable gardens, by the time I have that much land I'll also have a little more expertise in using it.
