This is adapted from one of my favorite Indian cookbooks - Curries Without Worries, by Sudha Koul.
Because we grow so much of our food, I often get into recipes without the EXACT right ingredients, and I have to wing it to make it work.
This one works.
Sag Goshth -
the ingredients read: (parenthesis are all my comments)
10 oz package of fresh spinach (I never measure my spinach, and it's rarely my green of choice - chard, NZ spinach, and kale all work)
6 cups of water (or less)
1 large onion, coarsely chopped (or more if they're small - I've even used green onions in a pinch and it was wonderful)
4 cloves garlic
1 Tblsp chopped fresh ginger
2 Tbsp water
1/2 cup oil (I've used much less than this and had it work fine)
8 whole cloves
2 lbs lean lamb, such as lean sliced shoulder, cut into approximately 2" x 3" x 2" pieces (I don't grow lamb, but we do eat a lot of venison, which i've used in its place - however, i sliced mine quite thin to cut down the cooking time. results were excellent - i suspect that you could use chicken, or probably even do this without meat at all if you wanted!)
2 medium tomatoes, coarsely chopped (in the winter, i use canned tomatoes - more than two)
1 tsp ground cayenne (use more or less as you like)
1/2 tsp ground turmeric
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1 cinnamon stick, coarsely crushed (ground cinnamon is ok too - 1 tsp or more)
1/2 cup sour cream (homemade yoghurt is excellent here as well)
1/2 tsp cardamon seeds, crushed
salt to taste
Wash and drain spinach. Place in a large pot with water. Boil for three minutes. Cool.
Reserve greens and one cup liquid. Puree in a blender or food processor and set aside. (This really does need to be the first step to keep you from running into timing issues later.)
Puree onion, garlic, and ginger with 2 Tbsp water.
In a 4 qt saucepan, heat oil on high. Add cloves and onion puree. Stir fry briskly for 2 minutes, until puree starts turning brown. Add the meat and continue to fry 2 more minutes. lower heat to medium high and continue frying until the meat starts to brown. This takes a couple minutes.
Add tomatoes, cayenne, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, sour cream, cardamon and salt. Stir fry well for a few seconds and bring to a boil.
Add the spinach puree. Stir. Reduce heat to lowest point. Cover. Cook until the meat is tender. This should take about 45 minutes (unless you slice it thinner, then it takes almost no time and your dinner is earlier - yippee!).
Even our kids love this dish. It's worth the effort. I hope you think so too.
We are a small family with a large garden in Red Boiling Springs Tennessee. We share our produce with some folks nearby and this is where we post our newsletters and some photos to share. enjoy!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
week 8
July
23, 2013 week 8
In
one bag: Tomatoes Green
and Red Peppers
Eggplant Garlic
In
the other bag:
Lettuce Green Beans Cucumber Summer Squash Chard Green Onions
Parsley
Basil Celery
The
tomatoes are really starting to roll around here! So many colors,
shapes and flavors to enjoy. We grow some real oddballs – we hope
you like them as much as we do. The purplish orangey ones are among
our favorites, and they often maintain the green color on their
shoulders (around the stem). Cut into them and they’re perfectly
ripe underneath. Eat up!
When
we fixed a mess of beans last week we found the final picking of the
Yellow Wax to be a little tough. If that was your experience, we
apologize. These green beans are certainly tender.
This
week you have white eggplant. They’re called Casper and they’re
wonderful. They need to be peeled, and they have excellent texture
and flavor – very firm and meaty.
The
other white item in your bags this time is another UFO-looking fruit
– a patty pan squash. This particular variety is called Benning’s
Green Tint and we think the flavor is better than just about any
other summer squash. Patty Pans can be used just like you would use
any other summer squash – we’ve used them interchangeably with
yellow crookneck and zucchini (even in bread and muffins) with
wonderful results.
It’s
great to be sending some colorful peppers again. A green bell pepper
is really just an unripe bell pepper – all peppers mature into some
sort of exciting color. Once they mature they don’t keep or ship
as well, which may be why they’re so expensive in the grocery. The
flavor is beyond the pale and well worth the wait. There are many
more to come!
Oh,
and basil – the purple basil was getting a little leggy, so I
picked just the top sprig off to send. This Purple Ruffles variety
is fun to look at, great to smell, and even better to throw into a
batch of pesto.
I’m
out of time and space to post it right now, but I’ll put up an
excellent Indian style greens recipe for that chard – check the
blog.
Next
week: The
beans may slow down a bit – eggplant, too. But the tomatoes will
likely increase. We hope to have new potatoes. Our corn is awful
late, but it will come along eventually. This is a great season –
with a little patience.
Thank
you all for eating up our garden – feel free to contact us with
questions if needed.
Be
well. Paul, Coree, Lulah, and Levon
weeks 6 & 7
OK - finally...
Tomatoes Peppers Yellow
Wax Beans Lettuce
Garlic Cucumbers Eggplant
Summer Squash
Fennel
Green Onions Parsley Basil Sorrel
We're
still shaking down the results of the nine inches of rain. The
cutting herbs have recuperated fairly well. Some of the next patch
of green beans took a hit, but we seem to be over-planting
sufficiently to off set the loss. Your beans will be green next
week!
The
sun and heat is ripening the tomatoes.
We'll be bringing increasingly more over the next few weeks. I try
to vary the type, size, color, and ripeness in each bag so that you
have some to eat now, some to last a little while, and a nice
sampling of different varieties. We enjoy growing some really
unusual looking but delicious tasting fruits. Please don't
refrigerate your tomatoes. They are tropical fruits and lose flavor
and texture in the cold. Hope you enjoy.
Eggplant
came in thick this week. I only put what I thought you could eat in
the bag. There will be more. Experiment with these beautiful
fruits. They have the potential to be just as tasty as they are
beautiful. Eggplant are also tropical by nature. You can leave them
in a shady place on your kitchen counter and they should be fine.
Sun will degrade almost anything. Recommended recipes to look up:
ratatouille
and baba
ghanoush.
I'm pretty sure there are a few renditions on our blog if you go
poking through the archives.
We
found our favorite treatment of fennel
bulbs last week. Here it is. Maybe some of you still have a head of
cabbage kicking around?
Simple
Fennel and Cabbage Skillet.
Thinly slice an onion (or leek if you've got one), a small head of
cabbage, and a couple of fennel bulbs. Wash the fennel and cabbage,
but don't dry it. Warm 1 Tbsp butter in a large skillet. Throw in
the onion, cabbage and fennel. Stir and cover. Check it in a few
minutes to make sure it's steaming, not burning. Let it cook 10-15
minutes total. In the meantime, mince a couple tablespoons of
parsley and melt 2-3 more Tbsp butter. Mix parsley and butter with a
few Tbsp lemon juice (fresh is best). Drain any excess water from
cabbage mixture and add the butter. Toss, taste for seasoning and
enjoy.
And,
a versatile recipe for putting SO much food to good use: Roasted
Summer Vegetables
8
to 10 cups fresh vegetables. Cut
into bite sized pieces for even cooking time. Toss with one of the
seasoning options below. Then spread seasoned veggies in a thin
layer on a baking sheet and bake at 425 for 20 minutes. Stir
occasionally. Serve over cooked pasta or rice with parmesan grated
on top. For a salad, cool the veggies and add some ripe tomatoes,
feta cheese, and vinaigrette dressing.
Seasoning
options:
1) Several Tbsp chopped fresh herbs, 1 Tbsp olive oil, salt and
pepper, 1-4 cloves fresh garlic. 2)1 Tbsp olive oil, 1 tsp chili
powder, salt, pepper, and dried thyme. 3) ¾ cup italian dressing.
4) 4 cloves minced garlic, 1/3 cup olive oil, 2 Tbsp fresh herbs, 2
Tbsp balsamic vinegar, 1 Tbsp dijon mustard, salt and pepper.
Have fun
with vegetables!
July
9, 2013 week 6
Tomatoes Peppers Yellow
Wax Beans
Lettuce Garlic Cucumbers
Sugar
Snap Peas Cabbage Summer Squash
Fennel
Green Onions
We're
getting into some serious veggies now, folks. Eat up.
Featured
veggies this week: FENNEL. Those feathery wands of leaves poking
from your bag? That’s fennel. At the bottom is a bulb. It has a
strong anise smell and flavor. This is an old world vegetable. Let
us know what you think. This is the only time of year we grow it, so
if you don’t love it, just rest assured that it won’t last long.
Some culinary suggestions for your fennel:
Cut
the fine leaves into salads. Use the stems like celery. Chop stems
and leaves fine and use them in cream cheese dips and flavored mayo.
Store the bulb separately. Trim off the top and root ends and cut it
in half or quarters lengthwise. Parboil it for a few minutes (7 to
10), drain it well, and thread it onto kebabs with the summer squash
on the grill. Or you can roast it in the oven with potatoes and
cabbage. It works as a gratin, too, and pairs well with potatoes.
This
is the season of – how many cucumbers can you eat? They just keep
coming. Our two year old Levon can polish off one a day. I hope you
can keep up.
If
the beans are too much for you – blanch them for four minutes in
boiling water. Dip them immediately into cold water. Then drain them.
Pack into a freezer bag and freeze for enjoyment when there are no
fresh Yellow Wax Beans to be had. You can also blanch and cool them
and use them in a salad – just like that.
One
of my favorite fun things to do with a green pepper is slice it in
thick rings, butter a frying pan, lay the rings out and crack eggs
into them. It's egg-in-a-nest sans toast. Very fun food.
Wrap
your cabbage up tight in a grocery bag. It will keep for a long time
in the crisper drawer. You can also make a small batch of sauerkraut.
Just shred the cabbage and salt it. Crunch it with your hands until
it releases moisture and looks wilted. Pack it in a wide mouth jar.
If it doesn't create enough liquid to cover the cabbage, add some
salted water. Keep it on a room temp. counter for three days then
store it in the fridge and enjoy your kraut. When the summer kraut
happens, I start singing “Reuben Reuben, I been thinking....”.
For more on kraut, look at our blog or look up wildfermentation.com.
We
finally ripped the broccoli out to make room for the late season
tomatoes. The chickens are picking over those dark green leaves. I
would have sent you more chard, but there's simply no more room in
the bags. It will be back.
In
the upper garden, the Sugar Snap Peas are just about finished. This
should be the final picking. We look forward to clearing them out
and digging the potatoes. Melons didn’t enjoy the rain that much,
but everything else in the upper garden is holding up and looking
good. Next week, there will be eggplants. Take
care and enjoy your food!
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
week 5
July
2, 2013 week 5
This
season is the kind we gardeners dream about. The rain keeps us
working hard at weed control, but otherwise, everything looks
wonderful. The is the first time in the nine years we've gardened
here that we've had peas and beans at the same time! I've also never
seen the broccoli continue to produce so well. Really and truly I
believe this is its last week. We need to clean out these spring
crops and get ready for Fall. Believe it or not, Paul just started
the Brussel Sprouts.
As
we come into the mid-season veggies, please don't be shy. If you're
throwing a dinner party, or would just like more of something, just
ask. If it's available, we'll be glad to share or sell you more at a
reasonable price. I can't promise we'll have it, but please don't
hesitate to ask.
Happy
Independence Day! With this harvest, we celebrate a vision of
greater independence from the corporate food system. However you
celebrate – we hope you have a very safe and fun holiday time.
In
one bag: Yellow Wax Beans – oh yum!, Sugar Snap Peas
– not as aesthetically perfect as they were a couple weeks ago, but
still perfectly delicious, Suhyo Long Cucumber –
I've been waiting for these, some of our favorite crispy, nearly
seedless, so tasty cucumbers, Fresh Garlic
– there's nothing like it and this is the time of year it happens,
eat it up! Summer Squash,
Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage
– for your 4th
of July cole slaw.
In
the other bag: Two heads of summer lettuce
– this is the variety of lettuce we've found that holds up best in
the long hot days of summer. A final handful of broccoli.
Parsley, sorrel, basil.
I
have reason to believe that there may be enough tomatoes to share
next week.
We'll
likely be sending more chard, garlic, green onions, and green
peppers.
Spread
the word, share your food, and Enjoy!
weeks 3 and 4
June
18, 2013 week 3
Coming
right along here. It dried up enough to tractor cultivate the open
spots in the garden, and get a good start on hand cultivation, too.
If
you're wondering how some of your veggies, feel free drop us a line.
You might also skate around on our blog and find the information you
need. I'm slowly making the blog a more beautiful and user friendly
online 'place'.
New,
this week... Kohlrabi
– this is another brassica – a cousin of broccoli, kale, and
cabbage, developed for it's tender round stem. The leaves are ok to
eat, too. Just peel the outer flesh off and enjoy the tender crisp
heart of kohlrabi raw or cooked. We slice it thin and throw it in
stir-fried or steamed veggies (lemon and butter work well). We also
grate it or slice it into salad. It makes a nice addition, or base,
for cole slaw type salads, grated with carrots and the like. Take
off the leaves and store them separately. The bulb keeps well.
Nasturtiums
– again – eat your flowers! Nasturtiums aren't so much cutting
flowers, but their spicy sweet flavor is a real treat. I once
stuffed nasturtium flowers with some kind of spiced veggie cream
cheese as an appetizer. It was as tasty as it was beautiful. Store
them, without crushing, in a loose bag in the fridge, or you can try
to keep them in a small vase – jury's still out around here as to
what works best.
Sorrel
– these bright green arrow shaped leaves have a strong lemony
flavor. In our experience, kids like them. Great way to sneak some
greens into a wrap or pasta salad, with a nice zing. We throw a few
of these leaves in every salad.
New
Zealand Spinach – This
unusual succulent green hails from the South Pacific, where it is
fabled that Captain Cook's crew survived by eating it when they ran
out of sauerkraut. We love that it thrives in heat – a rare
quality in cooking greens. NZ Spinach is best cooked – but it
doesn't take much cooking to make it wonderful. It works in quiche,
lasagna, or substituted for cooked spinach in just about any recipe.
Otherwise,
there are the familiar veggies: Lettuce (Romaine this week – go
Ceasar!), more Broccoli, Sugar Snap Peas, Green Onions, Cilantro,
Parsley,
and Green Hot Peppers.
The
radishes may be getting too hot to produce now, and the arugula is
trying to bolt, so there may not be a lot more of that, either.
Summer squashes aren't quite ready yet, but it won't be long now.
There are beautiful green tomatoes on the vines, and the cucumbers
are beginning to flower. Come out for a wade in the creek and visit
the garden anytime.
AND
June
25, 2013 week 4
In one
bag: summer squash,
broccoli, kohlrabi,
green
pepper, sugar snap peas
In the
other bag: lettuce,
parsley, sorrel, cilantro, nasturtiums, green coriander
Did
you know.... that we have more taste buds in the last trimester of
out time in the womb than we have ever after? So, our taste
preferences are being established even before we're born. Isn't that
cool?
The
friendly UFO's of the garden are back this week, and this time,
they're purple. These kohlrabis
are an heirloom variety, and their leaves have held up better than
the green hybrids we sent last week.
A nice
surprise this week: green
pepper. We've uncovered
the peppers and eggplants and they look GREAT. This is just a little
thinning I did to give them room to grow. Other harbingers of Summer
on on the way. Green beans and cucumbers are getting close, and we
found the first ripe tomato this week – just one – but it's a
nice early start.
We've
sent a little more sorrel
this week with the hopes that you take our advice and try it in a
quiche. I sauteed it with the onions, it wilts fast, then layered it
in a crust with feta cheese. The bite of the lemony flavor is
subdued and something wonderful remains.
The
zucchinis in your basket are called 8-ball.
They're our favorite. We hope you enjoy them, along with these
sweet buttery little crooknecks. Summer is grand.
Another
unusual and season-specific treat this week – green
coriander. These little
green seed clusters in your salad bag are the unripe seeds of
coriander – the fruit of cilantro. Taste one and you'll see why we
like them. Crush them and add them to a light salad dressing or
marinade. You won't be sad.
And,
BASIL.
You'll find that we hand out basil and parsley as if they were green
vegetables, or superfoods, because they are. It's impossible to
maintain a grumpy disposition while picking basil. Just the smell is
enlivening goodness. What great stuff.
If you
have a collection of clean
plastic grocery bags you'd like to pass along, we would be happy to
put them to use in weekly deliveries.
Thank
you all for your good eating habits. If you have friends who would
be interested in our services, we still have room for a few more –
please spread the word! We hope you enjoy this week's smorgasbord.
Monday, June 17, 2013
the new season newsletters
Finally, I'm catching up on posting these....
I'll also try to create some listings for photos of unusual veggies, so you can find them, and hopefully something to do with them here on this site. I'm still getting the hang of this blog thing. I enjoy veggies a lot more than computers!
from week 1, june 4
Directions
1. Heat oven to 375° F. Fit the crust into a 9-inch pie plate. Place on a baking sheet.
2. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add the onions and ½ teaspoon each of salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the greens and let the wilt just a bit.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, half-and-half, nutmeg, and ¼ teaspoon salt. Stir in the onion/greens mixture and the cheese.
4. Pour the egg mixture into the crust. Bake until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Let sit for 5 minutes.
Next week's basket will look very similar to this week's. The weather is shaping up well and everything is growing fast. We're thinking it's going to be a wonderful mid-season and we look forward to sharing it with you.
Enjoy!
AND - week 2 - June 11 --
I'll also try to create some listings for photos of unusual veggies, so you can find them, and hopefully something to do with them here on this site. I'm still getting the hang of this blog thing. I enjoy veggies a lot more than computers!
from week 1, june 4
Thank
you all for joining us. We hope you enjoy the veggies. It's great
to have beautiful heads of lettuce to share again. There's still
room for a couple more folks, so please spread the word to anyone
else you know who might enjoy the service.
Here's
the line-up this week.
In one bag:
Lettuce
– two heads. Wash, dry, store in the crisper. Eat in abundance –
there will be plenty more.
Radishes
and Salad Turnips
– The red radishes do not thrive down here. By the time the soil
gets warm enough for them to take off and grow, it's so hot that they
get really spicy. Oh well – enjoy them while they last. The white
bulbs are salad turnips – very tender and mild, designed for
salads. We like these a lot. Cut the tops off both these bulbs and
store them separately. You can saute radish and turnip greens for a
side dish.
Oregano
– the longish spikes with small round leaves are oregano. We like
to chop some into our salads. You can also freeze or dry it for
later use.
Mint
– Boil a pot of water. Add the mint, turn off the heat and let it
set 5 minutes or more. Sweeten to taste and add a squeeze of lemon.
Drink that instead of soda on a hot afternoon. Some good habits come
easy. We also add mint to salad. Gourmet food is for ordinary folks
too!
Celery
blooms
– Mom always said to eat your veggies. She probably didn't often
tell you to eat your flowers, but I will. These are leftovers from
last Fall's celery row. The taste is intensified. Great in soups or
salads. Seasonal treats.
Arugula
– Spicy hot goodness in a little green leaf. These are the
muddiest thing in your bag – but it's good clean dirt, so just
rinse them well and use the water in your houseplants.
Sugar
Snap Peas
– We never know how well peas are going to grow in a Spring.
Sometimes it gets too hot too fast. This year, we thought we were
planting too late, but it worked! These Sugar Snaps are just getting
going and we should have more to share next week.
In
the other bag:
Rainbow
Chard
– large leaves with multi-colored stems. These want to be cooked,
but not for long. This is a relative to spinach – you can treat it
similarly.
Broccoli
– Weather this Spring was not favorable for large broccoli heads.
We cut the main heads and now there are lots of these great little
side shoots. These should be eaten ASAP for best flavor. Both the
Chard and Broccoli would be great in a quiche.
Garlic
Scapes
– Beautiful green flower buds of the young garlic plants. The
taste is not as intense as the cloves. Use it just the same as you
would ordinary garlic. Keeps well in a vase of water, or wrapped up
in the fridge.
Sweet
Potatoes
– Again, these are left over from last Fall. They're lighter and
drier than they were last year, but still very sweet. They cook
quickly, too.
Here's
a Basic
Quiche Recipe
to play with...
1
9-inch piecrust 2 tablespoons olive oil
2
medium onions, chopped Kosher salt and black pepper
4
large eggs 3/4 cup half-and-half (I use milk or even
yogurt)
1/8
teaspoon ground nutmeg or fresh thyme
8
ounces Gruyere, grated (I use any kind of cheese I have or
like – Feta is great)
4 cups mixed greens
(your Chard or Broccoli would work here)Directions
1. Heat oven to 375° F. Fit the crust into a 9-inch pie plate. Place on a baking sheet.
2. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add the onions and ½ teaspoon each of salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, 5 to 7 minutes. Add the greens and let the wilt just a bit.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, half-and-half, nutmeg, and ¼ teaspoon salt. Stir in the onion/greens mixture and the cheese.
4. Pour the egg mixture into the crust. Bake until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Let sit for 5 minutes.
Next week's basket will look very similar to this week's. The weather is shaping up well and everything is growing fast. We're thinking it's going to be a wonderful mid-season and we look forward to sharing it with you.
Enjoy!
AND - week 2 - June 11 --
We're
sure glad that rain stopped. Time to go do some more hoeing. There
are more than the usual amount of slugs this year – we’ve found
that soaking the veggies brings them to the top where you can find
them before they reach your plate! I’ll try to post some pictures
of unusual veggies along with the newsletter at:
redspringsfamilyfarm.blogspot.com.
Lettuce
– Speckled – one of our favorites for its sweet buttery flavor
and texture. It doesn't hold up to heat or keep well in a freeze, so
we can only grow it in a narrow window of time – like now.
Arugula
– Deeply lobed, slightly hair leaves with a really pungent taste.
If its too much for you, try throwing it into a pasta sauce or onto a
pizza (traditional in Italy) – the heat softens the flavor some.
Mizuna
– light green leaves with lots of edges and white stems. The
flavor is mildly peppery. It's a nice salad addition.
Cilantro
– Yum. Use this wherever you like it best. Personally, I like it
with Avocados, garlic, and lime juice.
Sugar
Snap Peas – We're glad
to report that the Sugar Snap Peas are still growing strong and we'll
give more of them again next week. Chop them up in a salad with feta
cheese and garlic scapes. Oh so good.
Garlic
Scapes – Beautiful
green flower buds of the young garlic plants. This is the last week
of scapes. Sad as that may be, it means that garlic harvest time is
soon.
Green
Onions – These are the
thinnings from the storage onion bed. We'll have another week of
these and then some scallions.
In
the other bag:
Radishes
and Salad Turnips
Rainbow
Chard
Broccoli
– We may get one more week of shoots from these plants before we
need to use the space they're taking for something else.
Next
week – we'll have kohlrabi, and hopefully some early 8-Ball
Zucchini.
Enjoy! Paul, Coree, Lulah,
and LevonSaturday, May 4, 2013
seedling list
Well, the inventory is finally complete. I'm posting here a list of all
the seedlings we have left to pass along. They are $3 each, and will
mostly come in 9 oz. plastic cups.
Paul
and Lulah will come to town Saturday morning, May 4, to the Farmer's
Market. There are plenty of some, and few of others. Place your orders
early and we'll set them
aside for you. First come first serve.
We may have a few dozen eggs available as well. Let us know if you want some.
We hope you're all enjoying this long slow Spring.
the list:
CHERRY TOMATOES
Peace
Vine - classic little red fruit.
Black
Cherry - Beautiful dusky purple-brown. They have that rich flavor that
makes black tomatoes famous. Large vines yield very well.
Honey
Drop
- orangey-yellow, juicy with a fruity flavor - a lot of genetic
diversity in this variety - can bear any variety of shapes and colors.
Frosted
Green Doctor - these cherries are green when fully ripe - looks like frosted grapes. sweet fruit.
PASTE
Polish
Lingusia - huge, sausage shaped paste tomato with excellent flavor.
San
Marzano La Padino - classic paste tomato - low water content and open seed cavities - high yielding.
REDS
Cosmonaut
Volkov - great flavor on a standard red heirloom from the Ukraine.
Big
Beef - hybrid - combining traditionally delicious flavor
with today's disease resistance.
Goliath - hybrid - long season with wide adaptability and disease resistance.
PINK
Mortgage
Lifter - large smooth fruit with rich sweet taste.
Rose
de Berne - Swiss heirloom with sweet and sturdy 4-8 oz fruits.
BLACK
Paul
Robeson - If you know us, you know this one is a favorite - medium sized
fruits with interesting navels and intense flavor. We've saved this
seed for several years and feel that it's well adapted now.
Sara
Black - purplish brown that we're trialing this year.
Morado - large black tomato (up to 1 lb), purplish pink with green shoulders.
ORANGE
Jubilee - old standard with sweet mild flavor - good size and yield.
Woodle
Orange - good main season producer of round tangerine colored fruits. One of our favorites.
Dad's
Sunset - trialing this one - claims to be a good keeper.
Djena
Lee - another trial variety - this one won first prize at the Chicago Fair 10 years in a row.
YELLOW
Lillian's
Yellow - meaty creamy flesh in a light yellow fruit. bi-lobed and lopsided, but great flavor on an unusual beefsteak type.
PEPPERS
SWEET
New
Ace - hybrid, thin-walled, not blocky, turn red early, good for the
home garden.
Carolina
Wonder - heirloom (our first year saving, so could be variable in its type) - nice green bells that turn bright red when mature.
Golden
Treasure - one of our favorite keepers - Italian heirloom - long golden yellow fruits, so sweet!
HOT
Jalapeno - classic - brown nettign appears as fruit ripens from dark green to dark red.
Lemon
Drop - Seasoning
pepper from Peru ripens to a clear lemon yellow, sometimes with a
dark purple blush. The flavor is a very clean, uncomplicated,
slightly citrus-y heat. 2-foot plants are covered with the
thin-walled, conical fruits which reach 2-3 inches in length, with
very few seeds.
Dorset
Naga - The
Dorset Naga, a chili from Bangladesh, has a Scoville rating of
more 1.6 million units, making it the world's hottest chili.
Bhut
Jalokia - Also
known as Ghost Pepper, Naga Morich. Legendary variety, one of the
world's hottest peppers, if not the hottest, with readings in excess
of 1,000,000 Scoville units! Bhut Jolokia starts out slow but
eventually makes tall plants, exceeding 4 ft in favored locations.
The thin-walled, wrinkled, pointed fruits reach 2-3" in length,
ripening mostly to red.
African
Cayenne - Large vigorous Cayenne pepper.
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