![]() ilex) have low tannin levels and are the sweetest and tastiest acorns. Quercus candicans produces acorns a bit earlier than the common English oak (Quercus robur) which is a quick-growing and prolific producer of acorns. Grazing other livestock on small amounts of seasoned brown acorns and the leaves can be beneficial. However, the longer they are stored before feeding out, the less effect they have on the flavour of the meat. It’s a dry-cured ham from Iberian pigs (they resemble a Captain Cooker crossed with a Black Devon) which spend their final months grazing on acorns in Spanish forests.Ī pig can eat about 8kg of acorns each day.įinishing a pig on fresh acorns will add a nutty taste to the meat.Īcorns can be gathered and stored in a well-ventilated place. My courtyard is a disaster right now, and I don't have time to do anything about it, so I'll be torturing myself this summer trying to get it done.Jamon iberico de bellota sells for around NZ$320 per kg. Of course, none of this will be started until fall, because I have too much to do until then to get things ready. I want to eventually plant berries on the sunny wall, but that's a future dream. On the shady west side, I'm thinking of putting up those PVC growing towers for lettuce, if I can get someone to help me build them. In the summer, I'll replace the cucumbers and beans with malabar spinach and lima beans, or I may grow sweet potatoes and trellis their vines to use the leaves too. They did so well like that, and I was able to grow a lot of radishes in front of them. I trellised tomatoes all the time in SC - just put up a strip of hog wire and tied them right up. That's a lot of beans! I'm also going to trellis tomatoes and squash to save space. I can plant pole beans with bush beans at the bottom in 2 feet of space. I'll have other trellises against the wall that gets all the afternoon sun, probably beans, since they do well with less direct sunlight. The sun comes from the South, so that tall trellis won't shade anything important. Xentar, yes I will definitely be doing some vertical gardening, in fact, at the northenmost end of the garden, right past the patio area, I'm going to put up 6 ft high trellises of beans and cucumbers to shade the patio, which is in full sun all day, which really makes it hard to enjoy. Unfortunately, the KWC's the only one I've found so far with this 'hammerhead' design that doesn't have a stick for a handle (on the side at least). Please post if you come across a suitable alternative. Any issues with the finish? Was it chrome or SS? Rococogurl, with your Systema model, do you have the black handle? Is that like a rubberized surface, or actually black metal? No scuffing or anything like that? Basically, I'm trying to convince myself that, with the lifetime warranty on the finish (chrome at least), maybe the plastic handle isn't as bad as it's cracked up to be. Based on the pricepoint, I'm assuming it's got the same plastic handle. Pricklypearcactus, you mentioned you had the Luna model. ![]() I don't know how much stock to put in this, but one dealer I spoke with said that the pull out/down handles generally have to be plastic/rubber because: 1) the weight of a full-metal handle wouldn't retract well (on a pulldown), 2) if left to bang around inside the sink a full metal handle could cause more damage, and 3) heat transfer from a full metal handle on full hot would burn the user. Not so concerned about the hose, as I think all metal hoses are built that way (the metal seems more durable, but louder, than the nylon). Really excited to come across this thread, only to experience the same disappointment with your last post. Imagine my surprise, after spending weeks on faucetdirect and other sites, cross-referencing with gardenweb, and I come to the exact same result as you, right down to the loop handle rationale (except my wife wants the side handle instead). It also loves heat, which I have plenty of, and is even pretty drought tolerant. Beautiful huge orange flowers that the bees adore. Vines can be trellised and or buried to make new roots adventitiously at leaf nodes. Not quite like winter squash, but in that direction. And the flavor (it has flavor!) is noticeably sweet. Seems to be not just SVB "resistant", but almost immune. Given all that, I decided to try Tatume (which is a variety of what is sometimes called Mexican zucchini or calabacita) this year. No wonder that, offered a donation of it, people usually respond, er, hesitantly. I'd go as far as to say almost tasteless. Now, in retrospect, it's a pretty bland vegetable. Now that I've moved to SVB-land, ordinary zucchini has lost its attraction. When I lived in the PNW and California, I grew loads of zucchini.
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