Gleni said:I put a nice miso egg plant recipe over at OT-The Porch Swing - Post #547799 - Daylily Forum. Hmmm, there must be a trick to doing a short-cut with this?

Gleni ~ there is. When you look at your recipe page, you can highlight that page in the address bar by right clicking on the address turning it blue. That should also give you a drop down menu that has 'copy' on it. Click on copy and the computer will save that address. Then when you want to add it to a post, use Control key and V at the same time and the magician that lives in the computer will make it appear in your post. Or you can insert it by right clicking again and when the drop down menu appears, click on 'paste'. It is easy even for a old novice like me.

Many thanks Kristi!!

Gleni said:So many egg fruit at the moment. Sigh.

That's it. All your fault Glen! I couldn't stand it looking at all your eggplant with all that fruit. I had to order eggplants.

I've got the seeds and am getting them going this week. Great eggplants Glen, and always a favorite in this home!

Not up for starting eggplant seeds. I just buy plants.

I planted my eggplant seeds today. I don't even like eggplant!

I like eggplant! it tastes great cooked.

Arlene, I am sure you will find some use for the eggplants.

I was at one point 3 years ago buying the 'Bonnie Bell' sets for some veggies at Lowe's or Home Depot.

The Okra's sold to me as 'Clemson Spineless' got hard and spiney at 3 inches and that is why i have since started them from seed. The eggplants sets past under the same were bitter and odd. (Grandma would say the same as these Okra should be able to achieve at least 5 inches and still be tender) Don't tell me you don't eat Okra now! You should and I won't hear it!!!

I now start tomato cuttings from my favorite plants and collect seeds from the same also.

It seems that once a plant that does well for a season or two in any locale, produce better fruits the next year in that locale in the future wheather from cuttings or seeds, and acclimate to the area.

Any other thoughts on this thought?

David, I didn't know you could do tomato cuttings. Do you cut them in the soft or hard part of the stem?

Oh stick about any end of a tomato branch into moist potting soil and it will root. Instant new plant.

And there you have it!

I usually take foot long healthy top cuttings and remove all leaves from the bottom half or more and make sure to have the bottom cut directly under a leaf node. I then take a gallon pot and add 2 or three inches of soil in the bottom, stand the very long (6 inch maybe) leaveless cutting down to this bottom, and then fill tightly with my soil till the top 5 inches or so of the cutting is above soil level. This forms a strong stocky bush rapidly from my experience. Shorter cuttings work well to but not so quickly from my experience.

DavidofDeLand said:I was at one point 3 years ago buying the 'Bonnie Bell' sets for some veggies at Lowe's or Home Depot.

The Okra's sold to me as 'Clemson Spineless' got hard and spiney at 3 inches and that is why i have since started them from seed. The eggplants sets past under the same were bitter and odd. (Grandma would say the same as these Okra should be able to achieve at least 5 inches and still be tender) Don't tell me you don't eat Okra now! You should and I won't hear it!!!

I now start tomato cuttings from my favorite plants and collect seeds from the same also.

It seems that once a plant that does well for a season or two in any locale, produce better fruits the next year in that locale in the future wheather from cuttings or seeds, and acclimate to the area.

Any other thoughts on this thought?

Okra eater here. They are a pretty plant for an ornamental edible. And I like it pickled, fried, stewed with tomatoes or without... Good stuff!

What you are doing with the seeds/cuttings is the correct way of developing your own heirlooms which will be best suited for your climate and growing conditions. We would all be better off to do that.

I am still in the stage of finding the cultivars I want to grow and then will move on to that stage. Do you have any insight on your process?

Luv okra. Not sure which one(s) I'll grow this year. Probably Clemson Spineless.

I'm growing small okra (short plants) suitable for containers or raised beds. Last year Jambalaya and a dwarf spineless. This year it will be Vidrines midget cowhorn and probably more of the Jambalaya. Hungry just thinking about spring...

Me too.

Sorry i have been MIA but in the middle of our family celebration yesterday we learned of the sudden and unexpected death at the age of 57 of our dear cousin Anne Marie who lived alone in PA

So sorry to hear of your loss.

Also sorry to hear especially during such a festive time. Certainly is a shock.

So sorry, Frank.

Thank you all for your condolences.