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January 1, 2009 at 6pm to December 31, 2009 at 7pm
a 15-hour online program designed to help you understand the National Organic Standards and use them as your framework for making the transition to organic production. It's perfect for farmers who are ready to make the complete transition to certif…
November 16
Laurie commented on Chholing Taha's blog post 'Crabapple Pickles'
Got on the band wagon and just pickled the last of my green tomatoes. Spicy pickles green tomatoes. Like these lots better that friend green tomatoes... Those don;t seemd to do it for me all I taste is the fry.
November 2
Chholing Taha added a blog post
Here's a question for our group. I am thinking about growing prickly pear cactus in my yard. Does anyone have this plant in their gardens or have any advice/suggestions about growing cacti in the PNW? I am not sure where to buy my plants as well. O…
September 8
Chholing Taha commented on Laurie's blog post 'Equinox garden potluck Sunday Sept 20th @ 1pm'
These classes sound very interesting. Keep me posted :) Also I will be bringing a sample of my strawberry/rhubarb jam, small packets of blue poppies seeds (they germinate very well), and of course some pickles. I hope to also have a pie of some sort…
September 6
Chholing Taha commented on Chholing Taha's blog post 'Crabapple Pickles'
Not sure. I'll try to find the source. I bought it from a 100% organic fruit tree nursery in California along with my two dwarf winesap apple trees :)
September 2
Laurie commented on Chholing Taha's blog post 'Tomatillos'
Beautiful. grew a purple heirlooms this summer in a pot on the deck. The fruits are much smaller than green. Purple salsa is very fun though!
September 2
Laurie commented on Chholing Taha's blog post 'Cardoon'
Oh yes and permaculture speaks of Cardoons in the garden for the green manure of those luscious leaves and the deep tape roots that crack open the soils for surrounding plants to get down deeper down for water!
September 2
Laurie commented on Chholing Taha's blog post 'Cardoon'
I'm told that you eat the stems! Have not tried it though. have you? Flower are such a incredible color!
September 2
Laurie commented on Chholing Taha's blog post 'Crabapple Pickles'
Yumm... This inspires me to plant a crabapple in the yard. What variety do you have?
September 2
Chholing Taha commented on Laurie's blog post 'Silence of the bees'
I had gathered with some friends I only see once a year and we talked about the sudden die off and other issues with bees. She was telling me that a common herbicide used by home gardeners causes the bees to loose their navigation function. Hence th…
August 28
Chholing Taha commented on Laurie's blog post 'The Seed Site for saving seeds!'
Here's a quick link to the site: Main Page Link to the seed images: Images of Seeds
August 28
Chholing Taha commented on Laurie's blog post 'Organic Irish Eyes Seeds local Washington'
Here's a corrected web link: Irish Eyes Seed Website
August 28
Chholing Taha added 3 blog posts
August 27
Chholing Taha commented on Dr Tim's blog post 'Scary Eye saves My Cherries'
This is fantastic!
July 2
Chholing Taha commented on Laurie's photo 'May 2009'
Laurie, I really like this flower. I have a few that were here when we bought the house, what are they called?
June 6
Laurie commented on Chholing Taha's blog post 'What we planted in our garden for 2009'
Have taken over G's shiitake's and next project will be prepping the north yard for mysilium inoculation.
June 5

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At 8:42am on May 29, 2009, Betty Wilson said…
Thanks for the into Chholing! I do love gardening. This is my first experience into blogs so I expect a steep learning curve. But here I go!
My experience for Midwest gardening happens on my 40 acre hobby farm. I have grown heirloom tomatoes, all the regular veggies, broom corn and gourds. I also have a lovely young orchard of nut trees and fruit trees, grape vines and berries. I took Master Gardener classes for Wisconsin and then immediately moved to Arizona! Now I am learning all about Southwest gardening. I love the citrus, cactus, succulents and new decorative plants. I look forward to the blogs and enjoying new gardening buddies!
At 9:37am on May 27, 2009, Gail Colfax said…
Thank you for including me. My rhubard and raspberries are doing well. Looking foward to exchanging more about gardening. Love, Sis Gail
At 2:40pm on May 25, 2009, Laurie said…
Chholing, how do I get you on my friends list on this site so we can converse directly about garden stuff. FB is my only other experience I have with this kind of conversing. Would like to see a list of what edibles people are growing. We have a fair amount from years back when we were really into edible landscaping. We have scaled back, when we had a house full of teenagers to do more go out into the woods things. It has been so good to dig, plant and watch the sprouts turn into to fruiting life giving bodies. Blessed Be
At 7:07pm on May 24, 2009, Laurie said…
Having a difficult time sending invites have tried4X's and am calling is quits for tonight. Time to go read. Love, Laurie

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Prickly Pears

Here's a question for our group. I am thinking about growing prickly pear cactus in my yard. Does anyone have this plant in their gardens or have any advice/suggestions about growing cacti in the PNW?

I am not sure where to buy my plants as well. Of course I LOVE making jams and preserves so of course prickly pear jam sounds great. Any input is appreciated.

Posted on September 8, 2009 at 3:37pm —

Chholing Taha

Cardoon



I had no idea what a Cardoon was until I was trying to duplicate a stunning Italian recipe. The plant took two years before it flowered, but the bees were really happy when it did! The stalk grew to almost five feet in height and produced seven fruits/flowers. Love it! Another organic treat for the bees and me… Continue

Posted on August 27, 2009 at 10:54pm — 2 Comments

Chholing Taha

Tomatillos


I also became very interested in traditional Mexican cooking. So of course a tomatillo plant entered into the garden. I couldn't believe how much fruit it produced on one plant. I cooked down 8 cups of green goodness that will be used to make homemade verde sauce this winter! Of course they are emerald green… Continue

Posted on August 27, 2009 at 10:49pm — 1 Comment

Chholing Taha

Crabapple Pickles


My wonderful organic Crabapple Tree did a good job this year.
I cooked up a batch of crabapple pickles for this first time, YUM!

Here's the formula:

SPICED CRABAPPLES
1 1/2 qt. crabapples with stems
1 qt. vinegar
4 c. sugar
2 sticks cinnamon
1 tbsp. whole cloves
1 tsp. mace
1 tsp. allspice
Choose round… Continue

Posted on August 27, 2009 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

Chholing Taha

Boron Deficiency in Tomatoes

I don't know if anyone had this problem with their tomatoes. I noticed suddenly one year that my tomoates had become tough and had yellow/whitish streaks in the flesh. The flavor also suffered as well. Finally after three years I found an article that is is a boron deficiency. Just an FYI

Here is an excellent website with photos and descriptions of tomato mineral deficiencies AND how to solve them.

http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/min-… Continue

Posted on May 27, 2009 at 10:05am — 4 Comments

 
 

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