OK, Howling Hill! I’m sorry to say that I missed my two week deadline by 1 day, but I did finally mail the seeds off today at lunch.
Here’s what I took:
1 complete packet of Dill
1 complete bag of Cannelinni beans
And then about 20 seeeds each of:
Okra
Kandy King Corn
Black Turtle Beans
Here’s what I put in:
A big bag of Egyptian (Walking) Onions
White Cleome (what I call “firecracker flowers” I don’t know the real common name)
An almost full packet of Yellow Crookneck Squash
An almost full packet of Long Island Brussels Sprouts
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I’m very excited about the Okra, which I’m skeptical about growing here but I’m sure going to give it a try! It will be worth it for one small handful of fried okra. Also, the dill, because we spent a small fortune on dill this year and didn’t make anywhere near the number of pickles that we wanted to make. Next year I’m dill pickling EVERYTHING!
Now my seeds are off to Allie and Allie’s Answers! How exciting! I can’t wait to see what she choose. Enjoy, Allie! (PS: Pick my walking onions, they are AWESOME!)
(Don’t have any idea what I’m talking about? Why, it’s the seed swap!)
Yum dill pickles. I pickled cucumbers, onions and green beans with my dill. What else are you intending to pickle?
Thanks for letting us know!
Wolf and I had dill coming out our ears. It’s the same seed so you should be set for pickling next year.
And let us know about the okra!
Good luck with the okra, they taste very nice fresh off the plant! You need to grow a number of plants though, each one will only have 2-4 ready to pick at any one time.
I blogged a bit about okra (http://tropical-gardening.blogspot.com/2008/09/growing-organic-okra.html), if you’re interested.
Okra works just fine here! We grew about 10-15 okra plants this year, had more okra than we knew what to do with. Just be quick about harvesting the (pods?) before they get more than about 3″ long — once they appear, it doesn’t take them long to get really big and really tough. The flowers remind me of individual hollyhock flowers, very nice. When the plants finally died off with the frost, most of them were taller than me! I think they may be on our permanent garden list now…
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