riverrock
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Post by riverrock on Jul 6, 2015 7:06:32 GMT -5
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Post by gingerkid on Jul 6, 2015 7:16:48 GMT -5
 garlic just in case the vampires come around...  Enjoyed your pics and love your little yeller car and table, riverrock!  |
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riverrock
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Post by riverrock on Jul 6, 2015 7:29:40 GMT -5
The Grapes are concord.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 6, 2015 9:30:42 GMT -5
My Nabor has grapes on our fence line-they are retired and don't keep up on them anymore-so they said I could pick them...
They make great juice and jelly-Ours will be ready in late September...
Same grapes here too....Concord
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Post by snowmom on Jul 7, 2015 5:25:36 GMT -5
The smell of grape blossoms is one of the most heavenly scents, I started grapes here but so far they have died out in the winter, got to go to a hardy concord instead of the garden varieties I have tried so far. Leaves are edible too. Looks like you will have a good crop. I really Like the table and the cute car, I have a few herbs too, thyme, oregano, walking onions, rosemary, peppermint. Trying to add a new one each year. How many pickles do you put up each year? blueberries look great, do you have more than one variety?
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Post by MrP on Jul 7, 2015 6:26:48 GMT -5
Love grapes, to eat and look at. Always like driving through Vineyard country!.....................MrP
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lilacmoth
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Post by lilacmoth on Jul 7, 2015 12:05:25 GMT -5
Are the onions those cool wandering ones that tip over and walk around the yard?
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Jul 8, 2015 0:34:20 GMT -5
If you like raisins, and your grapes are seedless, they make the best raisins you have ever tasted when dried, provided you can beat family raccoon to them. We have the same problem. A dryer [dehydrator] with a blower in it works much better than one of the stagnant air with heating element ones.
What kind of onions are those that grow above ground, never seen anything like that here [N.W. Oregon]?
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Post by broseph82 on Jul 8, 2015 1:31:29 GMT -5
Look up how to make dolmades. I typically use canned grapes leaves (pickled in brine).
Dolmades are also called grape leaf wraps
(Pickled grape leaf with rice and whatever else rolled inside)
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riverrock
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Post by riverrock on Jul 8, 2015 6:08:43 GMT -5
To quartz and broseph82 lilacmoth
If you just let a green onion grow it will grow its own flower seeds. You can plant the seed flower or eat them just like Garlic .
My wife is half Armenian and Ukrainian the Armenian side comes over and picks the leafs for that reason to make Dolmades .
Now the True secret of the grape leaf is to place them in a jar when you make your pickle's , it has something in the leaf that gives a pickle that crunch.
now I have not ever noticed the onions walking around my yard. LOL
Concord grapes have seeds, been thinking of getting a press to make juice , but not until I can harvest before the raccoon.
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Post by jamesp on Jul 8, 2015 9:33:30 GMT -5
Let's drop a Chevy 350 in that Midget . Someone has some real healthy grapes. You must be pumping the potash to them to get so much fruit. |
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Post by riverrock on Jul 8, 2015 10:34:40 GMT -5
Its has a 1500 cc in it now James with dual Webber carbs and no Cadillac converter .
I think if you put in a 350 , I would have to repaint the car every time I drove it.
And we been having lots of rain here and the and the Quartz gives them their energy.
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Jul 9, 2015 0:59:44 GMT -5
Used to be run-what-you-brung 1/8 mile drags at Delta Park raceway in north Portland, OR. Someone came in with a 350 powered Midget. The thing looked factory installed, beautiful, but absolutely uncontrollable; the officials made him quit running it for safety reasons. My preference for a hopped up one would be a 3.8 Buick V-6. But really, stock is best. riverrock, does the onion bloom the first year, or does it have to stay in the ground for a second year growth? Ours here [N.W. Oregon] have never bloomed, and a few we have missed rot over winter. |
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Post by lilacmoth on Jul 9, 2015 1:20:42 GMT -5
They're tree onions (I know them as Egyptian walking onions). Regular onions just get flowers and then set seed. These get bulblets and then tip over, and the bulblets grow where they fall, and the next year another onions stalk grows and the bulblets fall over, hence 'walking', because eventually you'll have onions feet and yards away from their original growing spot. |
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quartz
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Post by quartz on Jul 9, 2015 1:27:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the explanation, this is new to us; have to see if they are available/grow here.
Larry
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