Something borrowed and something blue
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grauwulf has finished with his classes and is back to a more consistent watching of random videos on the internet, which usually involves impassioned conversations or stand-up routines coming out of his computer and me wanting to cover my ears which leaves me with no hands left to hold a book on container gardening, or turn pages. This, however, parsed as music, so I got up to go see what it was, and the video was pretty awesome, too. So we watched several more of the videos, and then brought out the turtle to let him watch them, too, as he is already trained on observing things that go on on the other side of a plate of glass.
(also of note,dante_di_pietro should be aware that I need to beat him up (logistics still tbd) for introducing Archer into my house. Ugh.)
Blue (or, purple, really): I think mentioned earlier, while reading about breeding vegetables, that there was a note about someone named Alan Kapuler working towards purple podded sugar snap peas. Well, they haven't hit any mainstream sources yet (even as mainstream as Seed Savers) but I finally got around to joining the Seed Saver's Exchange and promptly checked the peas section of last year's yearbook, in which someone with a suspiciously familiar username had listed a vining purple-podded sugar snap pea for sale. So I printed out their order form and mail ordered some, which (aside from the internet catalog look-up) is terribly cool in a very early 20th century sort of way.
For anyone who's interested in purple sugar snap peas that don't require a $40 SSE membership, there are some little bush varieties available from Peace Seeds/Seedlings (warning: their website is so bad that if I had not got several external confirmations that they're legit, I'd be worried they weren't... you may want to click on the "Peace Seeds List 2011" and ignore the rest of it) They also have the following intriguing listing:
New Mexico Cave Snap Pole, Phaseolus vulgaris 25/ 3.00
Medium–late vines with excellent 6” snap pods, found buried in a cave in a clay pot,
sealed with pine pitch and C-14 dated to 1500 ago. brown and white mottled seeds.
Experimentally cross-posty from dreamwidth. Comments encouraged in either location.
grauwulf has finished with his classes and is back to a more consistent watching of random videos on the internet, which usually involves impassioned conversations or stand-up routines coming out of his computer and me wanting to cover my ears which leaves me with no hands left to hold a book on container gardening, or turn pages. This, however, parsed as music, so I got up to go see what it was, and the video was pretty awesome, too. So we watched several more of the videos, and then brought out the turtle to let him watch them, too, as he is already trained on observing things that go on on the other side of a plate of glass. (also of note,
dante_di_pietro should be aware that I need to beat him up (logistics still tbd) for introducing Archer into my house. Ugh.)Blue (or, purple, really): I think mentioned earlier, while reading about breeding vegetables, that there was a note about someone named Alan Kapuler working towards purple podded sugar snap peas. Well, they haven't hit any mainstream sources yet (even as mainstream as Seed Savers) but I finally got around to joining the Seed Saver's Exchange and promptly checked the peas section of last year's yearbook, in which someone with a suspiciously familiar username had listed a vining purple-podded sugar snap pea for sale. So I printed out their order form and mail ordered some, which (aside from the internet catalog look-up) is terribly cool in a very early 20th century sort of way.
For anyone who's interested in purple sugar snap peas that don't require a $40 SSE membership, there are some little bush varieties available from Peace Seeds/Seedlings (warning: their website is so bad that if I had not got several external confirmations that they're legit, I'd be worried they weren't... you may want to click on the "Peace Seeds List 2011" and ignore the rest of it) They also have the following intriguing listing:
New Mexico Cave Snap Pole, Phaseolus vulgaris 25/ 3.00
Medium–late vines with excellent 6” snap pods, found buried in a cave in a clay pot,
sealed with pine pitch and C-14 dated to 1500 ago. brown and white mottled seeds.
Experimentally cross-posty from dreamwidth. Comments encouraged in either location.