[CH] almost Calvin
Gary Smith (gars@thelovelyjanet.com)
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:32:46 -0700 (PDT)
Mr. Greaves
The powder arrived today. The aroma is awesome. I
have a couple of cookin' projects planned with the powder
in mind. I am betting it will do a killer job of enhancing
the flavor of my Pozole on Puerco.
I am glad you included some notes on the bag, because it
reminded me of something I've been meaning to share with
the group...
Wild Chiltepins are easier to grow than you might suspect.
Emulate their natural space. Start them in the shade of
another plant. In Texas and New Mexico where there are
wild stands of them they almost always start of under a
"nurse" tree - usually a mesquite. Once it is up to the
second or third set of compound (adult) leaves you can
transplant it to a more open space if you want to. In the
interim, Craig Dremann at Redwood City Seed company sells
tepin flakes for reasonable prices. In fact, he has a very
good selection of Chile Seeds and his prices are as good
as anyone in the business.
I will be making some of my seeds available. I can send out
Pearl seeds from last year, now. Just drop me an email with
your mailing address... or drop it to the list.
If you want to send me some seeds in return, that's great, but
I'm not going to hold back because you don't have something to
trade.
I'm looking for some harder to find Korean, Laotian and true
Amazonian Aji.
I'll ask for another show of hands as I make other seeds
available later. I know some already asked for Yellow Fire
and Wong strain of Prik Chi Faa.
Right now, you can expect about twenty seeds with a high rate
of germination.
gary
Gary Smith.............The Lovely Janet.....gars@speakeasy.org
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