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Post by brittonfaith on Jan 26, 2006 13:15:04 GMT 12.75
Does anyone know where I can get some old-fasioned Rattlesnake watermelon seeds. These are the big, oblong 40-50# melons with distinct striping and white seeds. I can't find them anywhere around us. I need aprox. 200 seeds.
I'm trying to corner the local watermelon market this fall. ;D
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Post by RogueWarrior1957 on Jan 26, 2006 14:54:55 GMT 12.75
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Post by brittonfaith on Jan 26, 2006 15:56:09 GMT 12.75
YOW! Guess it's true mama's got expensive taste! I've got the word out to the neighbor's too. Maybe something will show up. Who knows?
This ranks up there with competitive giant pumpkin seeds at $1 - $5 each. At least folks will shell out the dough for a useless 800 lb pumpkin.
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Post by brittonfaith on Jan 28, 2006 12:09:56 GMT 12.75
FOUND THEM! I was at Wally World today. Burpee has a whole new bunch of stuff they are offering as heirlooms. 50 seeds @ 97 cents a pack. I cleaned two stores out of Georgia Rattlesnake seed in just under an hour. Thanks for your help!
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Post by Brikatw on Jan 28, 2006 12:47:20 GMT 12.75
Too cool Faith. Now put out a bucket when ya'll eat them so you can have seeds to work with in the future. Might make a fun conversation piece too...lol
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Post by Bro. Freddie on Jan 28, 2006 13:17:51 GMT 12.75
I'm wondering what took Faith so long? My wife can clean 2 Wal-Marts out of something a whole lot faster than that ;D
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Post by brittonfaith on Jan 28, 2006 13:35:24 GMT 12.75
I have 2 local Wal-marts. Each is 35 miles from me but 70 miles apart. This part of the state is a real po-dunk business wise.
It's nothing to travel 200 miles in a day just to get the grocery shopping done. You make sure you have a list, check the store's websites for whats on sale, have a mountain of coupons, check the pantry and cupboards, check your list again, and call the neighbors to see if they need anything or taken anywhere while your out. Most importantly, you call up all the gas stations to check gas prices. That way, if the tanks low, you don't pump too much in at a high priced station. Saw today a 40cent/gal. price range on regular between home and Wal-mart. It's a three-week ordeal planning a two-hour trip to town. BUT I LOVE IT!! ;D
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Post by RogueWarrior1957 on Jan 28, 2006 15:02:57 GMT 12.75
Awesome! I never thought about Wally-World, but they do carry a few heirloom garden seed. Another good one was called a Dixie Queen. It was more of a round melon with a solid colored dark green rind and the deepest red flesh ever. They tasted as if they'd been sugared. My family was formerly from Water Valley, MS which claims to be the watermelon capitol of the south (other communities make the same claim). All I know is they have a watermelon festival every year...seems like it is in August...and they have the best melons I've had the pleasure of tasting.
I remember many old Victorian Southern traditional garden items that you never see any more. I remember a variety of peas that my mom always grew when I was a child back in Mississippi. She called them "cream peas." They were about the color of Great White Northern beans and had a mild nut-like flavor like garbanzos (chick peas). I haven't seen those in ages. There was a kind of snap-bean that the beans inside the pod were blue...if they fully ripened, they were navy blue...but at picking stage they were a nice shade of denim blue. She grew a type of okra that the pods were about a foot long and slightly spiraled...she called it "long-horn okra" and it was wonderful as fried okra (I'm not a big fan of stewed okra unless it's hidden in gumbo).
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Post by brittonfaith on Jan 28, 2006 15:19:35 GMT 12.75
I've seen Dixie Queen listed on ebay. One of the neighbors called tonight. He said to try www.heirloomacres.net for some of the older varieties. I checked them out and OF COURSE after I ran a tank of gas through the car, I found the Rattlesnake on that site for about what I paid at Wal-mart. Even cheaper if I bought them bulk. Oh well, I have enough for this year. I'll just have to save some seen for next.
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Post by RogueWarrior1957 on Jan 28, 2006 18:03:36 GMT 12.75
Wow! What a fun site! Not only did I run across the "cream peas" offered there, but also Black Diamond and Charleston Gray watermelons and the Long Horn okra (they call it Cow-Horn okra).
I bookmarked the site for future reference. There is a drought resistant version of watermelon listed there that is bred for the desert. I am tempted to try those. Oddly, they have peach colored flesh. Also, I want to get some asparagus started. ] Back when I was a kid, this area of NM was covered in orchards and the early settlers planted asparagus in among the fruit trees. Some of it went wild and started growing along the irrigation ditch banks. Me and the cousins used to go prowl the ditch banks in the spring and carry sacks full of fresh asparagus home for our moms to cook or can. Believe it or not, asparagus grows well here if you can just get water to it.
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