Seed Snatchin' Part VI

Yea, did ya?

weez, it hurts to grin this much when I just came in !!!

Tamara - got any Yokohama squash? Read about them in the new Mother Earth News and got verrry hungry.

I just read the same article. If anyone has seed to spare (Yokohama squash) - please let me know. Though the article lists only one seed source, I will look for sources also.

Alright, what's so special about Yokohama squash? Why did Mother Earth News write about it? Do we all need some?
I have a strange looking gourd that has that long neck and duck-head look. I really need to drill a one inch hole in it to get the seeds out. I could still rent it to some bird that way.

The "Mother Earth News" article is about the outstanding flavor of this veggie, growing & cooking it. I have just begun cooking and enjoying squash (a co worker gave me some from her garden last summer). I subcribe to one web site (this one) and one magizine (The Mother Earth News) & cannot praise either enough.
They are both outstanding. IMHO

This message was edited Jan 23, 2005 8:33 PM

I totally agree. The best flower garden book was ME's A to Z of Gardenig, or flowers?
I wish I would run across it, cause it's out of print. I recon I'll have to subscribe again too.

The yokohama squash? Does ME News have a site where I can read up on it? I would have to catch up at bedtime, now I will have to wait till tomorrow to get more info...

BTW, did I mention I rec'd (yep, delivered to the unloading zone) another pickup load of BAGGED leaves, this time with pine needles mixed in. I will save those for the potato beds, YIPEEE!

Look around, maybe you can still find that book, sugarweed...

Sweet snatchin' dreams to y'all!

Tamara

Introduced from Japan back in the 1860's I think it said. It's a black bumpy skinned flat squash like a turbin squash and has dark orange meat, stores for a long time and supposed to be scrumptious! (can I say that? yeah... I'm thinking acorn squash, buttered and better).
A true squash in the pumpkin sense, they like to spread out and need some ramblin room.

I googled them and ended up here http://www.rareseeds.com/
They better be good and enjoy running through the perennial beds like the spaghettis squash did last year. Even though they're 'Rare', I hope they put more than 4 or 5 seeds in for that price.

The ME article also gives instructions for saveing seed from :)

I have a pack on the way which is supposed to contain 25-35 seeds. Way more than I'll need and of course, something like this you only have to order once.
dyson, sugarweed, tammarfaye.... interested in 5 or 6 seeds?

You want an sase?

nahhhh, just email me an addy and we'll call it square.

Of course whoever gets a crop needs to share seeds next fall. I think vine borers have satellite coverage of my piece of dirt!! I think the article said these squash are supposed to be more resistant to borers. I won't bank on it though.
I'd read forever how garlic is supposed to be a rabbit deterrent. Yeah right. Last year a big stupid bunny started a nest smack dab in the middle of my garlic bed!!! Mothball crystals down her hole sent her packing.

You got it. You're a sweetheart. Why not add squash to my groundcovers. How much sun do they need? 3 seed ought to be plenty.
Pretty bad when you know the rabbits have been there by the smell of their breath.
I cant pay the birds to come to my feeder, but squrells are gettin about "pot" size.
Last hubby cooked me some to save money, that was a very short marriage.

Please ........send I'll gladly help pay for the original order of seed. Just let me know what is needed.

Weez you are SO FUNNY! I think I've said that a billion times now but it's the TRUTH!! Thanks!!

Tamara, you got leaf addiction I believe!!! Hee heee...

Blaine you are such a sweetheart! Squashin' folks like that fer nothin'!

hee hee

Nicole

NC, glad to see you feelin' feisty today! You must be sittin' up and takin' nourishment!

Yep!!! Feeling much better thanks!!

By the way at my pesticide class last Thursday night when I was so ill - it was me and a bunch of farmers! LOL Well, there was ONE woman there besides myself. The guy beside me asked me, "What are YOU doing here?" I said, "Because I want to be!" He said, "You mean you don't HAVE to be here????"

hee hee

Got my formulas, now I'm heck on wheels with a backpack sprayer! If only I had one!

LOL! You should have told that farmer you were meeting a blind date there... then ask him his name! LOL!

Good one!

Weezin's .. Ya got a cheat book somewhere! .... See, ya jes GOTTA be keepin' a storage tank chocker-block full of those (jaw hurtin') comments and come-backs .. that you 'tap' into !! ...

LOL

- Magpye

I agree Magpye!!! I am just not quick like that!

Got to go for a bit, need to do a tad bit of work I suppose!

"I'm here to meet a man wearing a billed cap and a jacket with the name of a seed corn on the back of it.... what's your name, handsome?"

STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My laughter is turning into coughing!!! HAHA!

You forgot "that's wearing overalls!!"

Yup, those fetching bibbies. The real studs drop one strap.

Lordee have mercy .. Weezins! ... Dang, I wished we'd've put in an upstairs john !! Fer I swear to goodness, our stairs .. are developing extra 'steps' to them each time .. I sit here in front of my pooter ...

Of course, all of this stuff I find and read .. does NOT hep the matter, not nary a bit !! .. hee

I'll be back some time later on ... It's firewood splittin' time again!!!

- Magpye

eeeehaww! finally find someplace that appreciates bibs-n-boots!
You know I cannot find the 'Liberty' brand up here? They are the ones made famous on Hee-Haw and my absolute favorites. I stocked up in WM the last time in FL and only have one new pair left in stock. I'm gettin' desperate.

That's all we need... a desperate man in bibbies... if you drop the other strap, we're kickin you off the bus, 8ft.

I live in libertys and carharts, Walmart does a big bib buy every so often and that is when you have to be ready for libertys. I just checked on line and wally has dickies stone wash. Here Libertys are at JCP's http://www4.jcpenney.com/jcp/Products.aspx?DeptID=0&CatID=015952&Grptyp=SIZ&ItemId=09fb9ec .
I saw some for women, but had an awful boxy looking model, I sure dont want to buy anything that makes me look like that. No fly, but didn't look to have the snap and zip bib pockets either. A MUST for us ladies.
The new ones have zip fly instead of button. They are never used, so I forget they are there. The buttons would hurt sometimes if I had to lay on them at work.
Oh to be in such pain again.
Sidney

When I was younger and slimmer, I loved my bibbies. My DH wears black Carhart bibbies all the time. Here he is filling our bird feeders last spring.

Love those black ones, they say mine should have a red hour glass on the front, Don't know what to make of that.
Carhart denums are my Sunday bibs, or if I celebrate, (Like when I topped out as a journeyman.) I get a new pair to celebrate.
New slogan for them: "Carharts, as tough as the women who wear them!"
When I work in Ky I go to Linda's House of Carharts at Beaver Dam. Great 2nds and prices.
The inside of boilers is hard on them anyhow.

weez you're killing me!

My grandfather wore bibs forever (hence my passion). Anyway, DM sent me a couple pair of his old ones after he passed. Yeah! So I'm in a well broken in pair, working hard in the yard, the neighbor comes over and next thing you know it's 2 hours and a sixpack later. Gotta go realllll bad ... one of those where you're doing the peepee dance. I get to the facilities all but losing it .... and couldn't get the fly open! Mom had worn them for awhile and had sewn the fly shut!! agghhhh, and both straps were up but I was all thumbs at that point, jumping and twitching.

true story and Weez if you get coffee out the nose, please let me know,

Sidney, you're a true find! I've googled them Liberties numerous times and could never find them.

added: Holy Cow them puppies are pricey... quality though!

This message was edited Jan 24, 2005 3:20 PM

I always buy 3 at a time for work. They must be washed before any hot metal or acid touches them. In other words before I can wear them. I put all three in washer, (I'm usually out of town) with 1 cup of Downy only, right from the wash cycle. Tumble dry, and they last for ever.
If you don't wash first, the finish promotes quick burn of clothes and turns plain water into acid, lol.

"Hi! I was just passing through and wondered if could snatch a few pine cones from your tree? "

Heck, take the whole tree.

((((((LOL LOL LOL LOL)))))) Dang gang, see that, Ya just can't stay away too long, glad I wasn't wearing anything sewn shut, LOL LOL LOL, I had to go Weeeee before writing back har hack lol har har hack cough lol lol, I hate when I miss so much fun for a couple of days!!!!!
Sugar, You wash them with just Downy? Explain this one, Annie

another cool Liberty trait - you can bleach them powder blue and that zipper stays Green!

Here's a picture of me and my dad taken about 1950. You can see that bibbies were his uniform of the day. You could always tell when it was summer, cause Dad would take out his old pocket knife and cut the legs off those bibbies to make them into shorts. When the heat of August hit, he'd forgo shirt and whatever, just wearing the bibbie shorts with the sides unbuttoned for a little extra ventillation.

Sure nuff !! .. and look at our very own Weezin' gal child there, with her Pop !!! ... How very very sweet ...

Dontcha jes love those special kinds of memories ... Such as where it's jes a simple piece of clothing that sparks the mind to reminisce ...

A most wonderful photo you've shared weezin' ..

Annie .. thar ya be!!! .. Ya tried to go AWOL, 'ey!?! ... (hee) .. Been a wonderin' whar ya got off to ...
Glad to 'see' ya back here!! ..

- Magpye

They just go into hot wash water with ONE cup of regular, not super-etc, Downy. No soap. This gets rid of the chemical "finish" they have out of the factory. Then machine dried, they are soft, and wrinkle free. They will last twice as long for me if I do this.

Oh weeze, how many petticoats did you wear with that dress? Did they scratch?
Thats a very handsome Daddy there.
Here's yours truly in my carhart bibs with my best and favorite Christmas present, I luuuuuuuuuve
thia shovel.

Sidney
58 & doin great