Molly Kay

r ransom wrote: Dreaming one day I could learn to write fiction.

You absolutely can learn to write fiction! I believe in you.

I was very disheartened by the way NaNoWriMo imploded/exploded. I was on the forums, participated in discussions. Had no idea how badly things were going in areas I didn't personally frequent. There were a lot of bad things that happened and people who were hurt. It had been a mostly positive thing for me for a long time, so it was a shock.

I may join in with NaNo 2.0 in the future. I don't know.

For this November my focus is on theatre. I'm co-directing a play, so my creative energy has been going into that.

Jonie Hill wrote:

But if diets have been shown (and I know they have) to make a difference in their ability to function then I believe research into these kind of natural 'treatments' should attract heaps of funding from governments and carers should be given support to implement them.  

From what I've read, dietary interventions are extremely helpful to about a third of people on the spectrum who try them, somewhat helpful to another third, and make no difference to the final third. That could be a basis for helping identify subtypes.

Burra Maluca wrote:They're still not quite ready to pick, but they have turned a lovely colour!

These are the first of the meninas rosas, grown from pips from Austin's favourite apple, the Pink Lady. I had to get him to bond with the idea of growing food in the garden, so when he declared nearly eight years ago that the only apples worth eating were pink ladies, I let him buy some then we ceremoniously saved the seeds and planted them. And this is the first fruit to be grown from those seeds!

They are very much redder than their mommy, so we might have to think of a new name for this particular tree. !

Apple grown from seed qualify as pippins, so consider using that in the name.

Christopher Weeks wrote:I have grown-from-seed 6-7 year old trees that are 12-15' tall and haven't produced any blooms yet. When do full-sized trees start making fruit?

I think the standard on grown-from-seed is 7-10 years to bear fruit. Might want to give those trees a few more years.

Happy New Year to you as well, Blake! I'm tired, but good.

Apparently red Dutch cabbage is hard to track down. Look for Langedijker Allervroegste and red Langedijker Bewaar. I did find one website in Europe that sells seeds for the former, but I don't know if they're shipping to the US right now. Here's the link anyway: https://seeds-of-glory.com/product/horti-tops-red-cabbage-langedijker-allervroegste/

I found a Polish heritage website that sells seeds. https://www.polartcenter.com/Vegetable-Seeds-s/355.htm

Could only find one source for Blue Congo seed potatoes, but it's in the UK and says they are unavailable for this year.

Fedco Seeds has Caucasian Mountain Spinach.

No particularly Swedish yellow cucumbers showed up, but there is a Dutch variety that seems to be very old and might be what you're looking for. Gele Tros is available from Baker Creek.

Best of luck with the rest of your searching. I think I've helped all I can at this point.

Google says that some of these are alternate name and more easily found under their more common names.

2. Early York cabbage = Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage
3. New Giant asparagus = Jersey Giant asparagus
4. Large White Flat Norfolk turnip = Early White Flat Dutch turnip
7. Round Leaf Spinach = probably Malabar Big (Green) Round Leaf, but Giant Noble also has large round leaves, there's also a Chinese Spinach with round leaves
9. Long Dutch parsnip = Half Long Guernsey/ Half Long White
14. Celtic fava bean = Horse Bean/English Bean/Broad Windsor Fava

For the above I recommend checking with Baker Creek to start with. They popped up a few times in my searches, and probably have some of these if not all of them.

Old White eggplant did not bring up a specific variety with a more commonly known name.

I could only find a vintage seed packet for the Large Late Drumhead Cabbage. Lone Star Seed company of San Antonio, Texas sold it for 10 cents. Mary's Heirloom Seeds has an heirloom drumhead cabbage that can get up to 10-12 pounds. It looks similar to the illustration from that vintage packet, at least it looks similar to me. https://www.marysheirloomseeds.com/products/drumhead-cabbage

For the Spanish Red sweet potatoes, they could also be the Boniato and I found a source on Etsy for those. https://www.etsy.com/listing/4316748440/boniato-sweet-potato-tops-organic-ready?ls=s&ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=boniato+sweet+potato+slips&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&sr_prefetch=1&pf_from=search&sts=1&content_source=1e0f83c2-e73f-4491-8af6-9dcaa02d8742%253ALT0f6adf189b0e95be7b1db3847417bf7937af0a4f&organic_search_click=1&logging_key=1e0f83c2-e73f-4491-8af6-9dcaa02d8742%3ALT0f6adf189b0e95be7b1db3847417bf7937af0a4f

I could only find Red Valentine beans in a bush variety.

Yellow Guinea Flint Corn seed can be purchased from the Montecello shop. https://monticelloshop.org/products/yellow-guinea-flint-corn-seeds-zea-mays-indurata-cv?srsltid=AfmBOoroAYYpaY_DaWqx0KW_M0hvzFle63VdSji-lsabh_i3dTtsXvWz

Sand Hill Preservation Center might have the Disc Nantes gourds for 2026. They haven't updated their Gourds page yet.

No luck on the Yellow Sioux flint corn or the Crown Imperial pea. I did find a great reference website for food in the colonial period of the USA's history that mentions Crown Imperial as the best pea in terms of flavor.

Good luck with your search. I hope this help some.

Don't know if it's the giant variety you're looking for but Brown Envelope Seeds in Ireland has Gortahork cabbage seeds. Here's a link for you https://brownenvelopeseeds.ie/products/gortahook-cabbage

Maggie Scott wrote:Hi, all. New to permies.com  Found the Kickstarter campaign for the purple cards a few days ago and pledged.

Glad you found us, Maggie. Thank you for sharing. I had a brother with TBI. It's not easy. Can't imagine having had three of them, and the pain you deal with.

Maggie Scott wrote:

For years, I have searched for confirmation of this weather sensitivity. Mostly, I have been told "it is all in your head". Not quite.

One of the things that I find odd about establishment medicine is the reluctance to believe patients when they report something that wasn't in one of the text books, especially as more and more people report the same thing. So much of what we now understand on a scientific level was considered anecdotal at first. That's how it starts. Somebody notices something. Other people also notice it. At some point someone decides to research it. The process of discovery has to start somewhere. The start is as important as the end result...there is no end result without a start. Dismissal does not move scientific discovery forward, and it does not enhance the doctor-patient relationship either.

Two of my sons (the ones with the more pronounced autism) are definitely sensitive to barometric pressure. One would always start getting agitated a day or so before a storm system came through. The other one used to tell us it was going to rain before there were obvious signs of it, but he hasn't done that since he was little (too many other things going on in his mind now, I think).

My fibro pain is worse when storms are coming in the winter. Not so bad in the spring, summer, and fall, but winter storms make some of my joints hurt. Like my one son, it hits ahead of the storms--usually one to three days in my case.