[Magdalen] Another "worthless" food.

[Jay Weigel]

Our neighborhood greenhouse lady does hanging baskets of cucumber and
zucchini. You might try those, Lynn. The determinate cherry tomatoes also
work. I have a wonderful book on urban gardening with all sorts of cool
ideas like that.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm hoping to try straw bale gardening next summer, on the sly,  on my
> second floor patio for tomatoes and maybe a zucchini or two , mostly for
> the blossoms. I rigged up an irrigation system in '09 but haven't used it
> since then.
> Lynn
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> On Sep 30, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *Sigh* I had to give up on gardening when I moved here. Too many black
> walnuts, too much shade. I have herbs on the upper deck and may try a few
> other things next year, but there's a limit to the weight the deck will
> bear (also to space). I have, however, read about a method for growing
> tomatoes in a 5-gallon bucket with a cover of cloth over the soil that lets
> in light and rain but protects against walnuts (either from free fall or
> squirrel action). I may try that with some cherry tomatoes, at least.
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:33 PM, P. Dan Brittain <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:09 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Recall my thread a while back about how little tomatoes actually have to
> >> offer.
> >
> > ​Some varieties are very good sources of lycopine and Vit C.​
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> "A medium peach, weighing 100 g (3.5 oz), contains small amounts of
> >> essential nutrients, but none is a significant proportion of the Daily
> >> Value.  Nectarines have similar low content of nutrients." - Wikipedia.
> >
> > ​What it doesn't mention is the high fiber content, something I certainly
> > need.​
> >
> >
> >
> >> ​
> >> I'm left to wonder, though.  Why has the Nutritional World always
> >> advocated ALL (generally, that is) fruits and vegetables as "good for
> > us",
> >> if at least some of them ultimately amount to little more than water?
> >
> >
> > ​As far as nutrients - eggplants are low, but can also be very tasty.​
> >
> >
> >
> >> My guess is, better to stuff oneself on "worthless" fruits and
> vegetables
> >> than crap that'll kill us.
> >
> > ​Isn't that the truth.
> >
> > Coming back from our trips, the garden is mostly done. I have a few
> > tomatoes and peppers​
> >
> > ​yet, as well as a bed of sweet potatoes to pick when frost threatens. I
> > have beans that completely dried on the vine; but that was fine as I was
> > growing a couple of heirlooms for dry use. Our fig has had its first
> fruits
> > this year, may get a few more yet. My fairly new golden delicious apple
> > tree gave us 1 this year​, and our windsap will give us 3. As they age,
> the
> > harvest will get much larger, still fun to enjoy the first ones.
> >
> >
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