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Rob,
Those tomatillos make a fantastic green sauce for your chicken enchilidas!

Phil




----- Original Message -----
>From    : Rob Gray <Robgray at epix.net>
Sent    : Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:43:13 -0400
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Subject : Re: [AT] Old time gardens


>My dad gave me a few seedlings for the garden this year that were those 
weird little Mexican tomatoe like things and they are good to eat right 
out of the garden. I think they are called tomatillos but I'm not sure. 
I also like the peppers and immature string beans...

Rob
NE PA


George Willer wrote:

> Len,
>
> The peppers are the best.  I wish I hadn't plowed mine under now.  I 
> make it a point to not leave any to get very old and too hot.
>
> The tomatoes are second best eaten in the garden, but I feel like I 
> should have a salt shaker along.  A couple things I haven't tried... 
> the Okra and asparagus.  I may never.  My dog, Reba, likes to dig her 
> own potatoes and snitch an occasional ear of raw sweet corn.  I'll pass.
>
> I'm sure it has been more than a month since we have had any rain at all.
>
> It sounds weird, but I plan to plow again in the spring... it keeps me 
> a little ways ahead of the weeds and I enjoy doing it.
>
> George Willer
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Rugen" <lrugen at c-magic.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:05 PM
> Subject: [AT] Old time gardens
>
>
>> It was a crazy afternoon.  I'm trying to fix a SEWER problem, I guess my
>> pipe crushed under a driveway because of the wet ground.  Anyway, I 
>> had to
>> make a trip to the farm in the mud to weld a broken mini-backhoe and 
>> look
>> for some other tools.  It has drizzled all day and I decided to take 
>> a pass
>> thru what was left of our garden.  We have pretty much abandoned it, 
>> but the
>> fall rains have revived the okra and bell peppers.
>>
>> That got me to thinking of the times as a kid (and ever since) of the 
>> things
>> that get ate before the leave the garden.  It seems there is nothing 
>> quite
>> like eating something right where it grew, starting with peas in the 
>> spring.
>> Of course, the cherry tomatoes were the main course all summer, but 
>> there
>> are lots of things that I like raw.  All the cleaning that is 
>> necessary is
>> to wipe it off on a clean spot of my shirt.  I had a pepper today, 
>> just eat
>> to the seads and throw the rest out.  Still dripping with the rain.  
>> Okra is
>> even good raw, if you don't mid the fuzz.
>>
>> The old farmsteads used to have a few apple trees that had a few 
>> apples each
>> fall.  Good to eat, but you had to cut around the bug holes at times. 
>> Good
>> deer hunting near those trees too.
>>
>>
>>
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