Done with a Texas accent

[charisstoma]

Proud parent of a 3rd grader?
Product of homeschooling?

It's hot here. Heat has addled the seller's brain.

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[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

wuh?

*GRINS* Lost in translation

[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Zucchini (squash)
Potatoes & Tomatoes
Jalapeño (chili pepper. Do Not Eat unless you've a mouth and gut of enameled steel or have Mexican DNA. I can eat about 5 slices on a sandwich that has thick bread, mayonnaise and veggies to buffer)
Bell Pepper (green colored capsicum)


On the fair side, I had to try spelling Jalapeño about 5 different ways before I got close enough for Spell Check to give me the correct spelling.

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[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Cougette :P

I got taters=pots but had no clue to the maters
The others I got (eventually)

I'm growing Jalapeño in the greenhouse ;)

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[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Had to find out where the two different names came from. Courgette is French. Zucchini is Italian and since they developed the vegetable from its ancestor found in the Americas... ;P
And then you get the South African name for them, which is the same as Hercule Poirot retired to grow, baby marrows. hmmm maybe Poirot was just growing marrows which probably means squash. Both French and Italian names for this vegetable means a small version of squash. *shrugs*

Did you know that the amount of water a pepper plant/chili is supposed to be related to how much water the plant is given. Keep your plant fairly dry and the fruit is hotter to the taste.

btw. I wasn't able to entice a zucchini plant to give any fruit the one time I tried.
'Yeah, they said, plant a zucchini plant and feed your neighborhood, fellow people at work, and the poor and still have lots left over.'
Can't prove it by me. *hiss*

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[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

Well a courgette is a baby marrow to my understanding, if you leave it it'll grow. I don't think of them as squash, to me squash has a tougher skin to it, which isn't entirely accurate because summer squash doesn't necessarily but..

yep, rarely water them, just enough to stop the soil drying out.

L-O-L poor Charis ;) I wont tell.
My plants failed this year :( and our Runner Bean plants are straggly and barely flowering - weather has been against them really hot and humid with mostly rain showers. Tomatoes have thrived though. Other way around last year. Lived of Courgette, was looking up new recipes for them :)

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[frogs_of_war]

The name info is really interesting. I'd wondered what Poirot grew. (but I read the book back before Google and Wiki and all that and never looked it up).

If you got flowers but no fruit, your area might lack pollinators. I know that's a problem some places. Here blackberries take over any empty field, but at least they keep the bees fed (and they're delicious. My husband and I took my normal 3 mile walk on Tuesday and picked a half gallon with no problem. We now have Blackberry Lemonade, Blackberry syrup, and mushed up, unsweetened blackberries not yet designated. )

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[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Sherlock was going to keep bees. Poirot was going to grow marrows, I'm fairly sure.

I was reading that about lack of fruit and or the fruit starts and then falls off. Evidently the female flower needs to have a plentiful amount of pollen to produce.
Blackberries. Am in love with blackberries. In northern Wisconsin they were a weedy hazard with their thorns and the blueberries that we'd pick free along the railroad tracks. So many that I gave a gallon of them frozen in a ziplock bag as a gift and didn't truly realise the value of them except for my Dad's ecstatic delight.

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[frogs_of_war]

Marrow makes me think about what comes out of bones. I'd had no idea it was a squash, so Poirot, of all people, growing marrows in his garden just sounded weird to me.

We made Blackberry Lemon sorbet and everyone said how good it was, but I can't say first hand because they ate it all before I could try it.

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[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

They could have left you a spoonful. How else would you be willing to make more that they could eat again.