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25 mei 2006
My Annoyingly Politically Correct Garden: Minute-By-Minute Update!
EVER SINCE a kind reader said that she planned to have tons of heirloom vegetables in her Three Sisters garden, I've been nervous as a flea in a frying pan. I surveyed my vanilla beans guiltily. "Dang nab it," I thought, "I can do better than this!"
So today at lunchtime I whisked off to Downtown Home and Garden and heirloomed up. I got multicolored heirloom corn, 3 (yes, 3) kinds of heirloom beans, AND more sunflowers. Goin' crazy here.
OK. So NOW my 3 (4) Sisters garden is *all* heirlooms. Check it out. I've got Hutterite beans, brought to this country by wild-eyed religious fanatics in the 1760s! "Put dry pods in feed sack or pillow case, and dance to separate seeds from pods." It really says that on the package! The mental image of dancing on a pillow o' beans to my current favorite CD is...a jarring one.
Posted by ypsidixit at 25 mei 2006 12:22
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The corn is Zea Mays, or Rainbow Inca, and it's dang purty.
Posted by: Laura at 25 mei 2006 13:34
I hope you're planning on posting lots of pictures as the season progresses (and of the praire zone, too). Don't forget to include the dancing with pillow cases full of bean pods ones. :-)
Posted by: Sandy at 25 mei 2006 17:23
Yes ma'am, I sure will. We should have sprouts in a week or so.
The prairie zone is really taking off. It's remarkably how much sooner and faster these native plants grew relative to the non-natives in my gardens. Just goes to show how well-adapted they are for Michigan.
I'll ask my adventurous friend to photograph me bustin' a move on a pillow of beans. Judging from past photographic humiliations (the infamous "drippy reuben sandwich" incident comes to mind) I'm sure he'll be all too glad to comply.
Posted by: Laura at 25 mei 2006 18:58