Yesterday we enjoyed a side dish of cabbage & noodles. This used about 1/3 of the last cabbage bought in December at the Beaver Farmers' Market from Oak Spring Farm, so there's still more to go! The last items in cold storage right now are several Carnival winter squash and a couple of onions obtained at that last market. Is it too early to start thinking about the first markets opening in MAY?????
Which brings us to the next topic ...... seed catalogs! Here's an interesting variety of sweet corn found in the Burpee catalog. It's called Ruby Queen. This is one that I am planning to grow myself to try it out ..... if you're a farmers' market grower, do you think it would attract customers? If you're a foodie, would you try it? Some folks look for different or novelty veggies and others won't touch them. There is a definite trend in mixing colors that many market vendors use to play up their veggies. Red & yellow pear tomatoes in the same container, red/white/blue new potatoes, purple & green string beans (refer to the beautiful beans above), red/pink/white/lavender radishes in the same bunch, the rainbow colored carrots, & mixed salad greens/mescluns are just some of the examples that we saw in 2008.
If you're interested in open pollinated & heirloom veggies & flowers, try the Seed Savers Exchange catalog. This was the first catalog to arrive for the season and it's full of great reading and descriptions. It's almost impossible to pick favorites out of this catalog --- there's so much variety --- but how about Striped Cavern Tomato, a unique stuffing tomato?
Which brings us to the next topic ...... seed catalogs! Here's an interesting variety of sweet corn found in the Burpee catalog. It's called Ruby Queen. This is one that I am planning to grow myself to try it out ..... if you're a farmers' market grower, do you think it would attract customers? If you're a foodie, would you try it? Some folks look for different or novelty veggies and others won't touch them. There is a definite trend in mixing colors that many market vendors use to play up their veggies. Red & yellow pear tomatoes in the same container, red/white/blue new potatoes, purple & green string beans (refer to the beautiful beans above), red/pink/white/lavender radishes in the same bunch, the rainbow colored carrots, & mixed salad greens/mescluns are just some of the examples that we saw in 2008.
If you're interested in open pollinated & heirloom veggies & flowers, try the Seed Savers Exchange catalog. This was the first catalog to arrive for the season and it's full of great reading and descriptions. It's almost impossible to pick favorites out of this catalog --- there's so much variety --- but how about Striped Cavern Tomato, a unique stuffing tomato?
Time to settle back into studying the catalogs ........
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