Bill Puckett

For the record, I've never eaten a radish flower I didn't like. Since I have several tomato plants with very little fruit out back, and some kale, I'll try making my chips and let everybody know how delicious they turn out. Maybe it will help that there's little fruit. The leaves probably still contain the good stuff. They were planted late. And tomatoes aren't used to producing edible vegetation and fruit, so I expect you must work up to that.

I'm hungry for kale & tomato chips now.

Sean Pratt wrote:I have a lot of plans for other projects for sure. Like a outdoor kitchen\workshed,bathhouse/greenhouse, a smokehouse, a tree house and cob house to air b and b. A lot of ideas realy. But after the house is livable im going to work on an outhouse some firewood and some seriouce tree planting of any seeds I can get my hands on.

If I were to say this, I would be referring to inchoate ideas in my head {postcones, chilicones, hyperbaric fermentation pond cavity...}, but when I read the above I wondered if you were referring to construction specific papery plans. Curious. Your smokehouse got me thinking of RMH and how easy it is to put a dehydrator cabinet near the M part. Could sure use a dehydrator that worked when the sun doesn't.

Of the couple hundred daily-ish emails in my inbox, I clicked into this "interesting" thread because the title suggested (to me) someone was summarizing all threads produced by people on the land lab, possibly with links to each that magically stayed current right on top of page 1. Is that happening? I am hardly ever on here because it sucks so much of my time when I am. Got a couple pinyon pines started. Monkey puzzles make bigger nuts but can appear prissy. What sort of trees do you want? English walnuts? Pears? Exotic stuff I have but don't even want to try any more?

How do you tailor offerings to an audience of everyone? Like on the world wide web...

I work on a couple lots where bindweed is present. A week or so ago I tossed some in a pool full of tadpoles and they seemed happy for the lilly pad like shade the leaves provided. Here's a thread on its edibility to accompany the nutritional value studies cited earlier in this thread. I regularly use the severed vines to train and support other plants. I've noticed the hedge bindweed vine becomes tougher after cutting, until it's fully dry anyway.

Interesting bit on biodynamic seed ashing above. Thanks.