![]() I picked this one out, because I love orange tomatoes. More purple vegetables! We’ll be mixing in these purple beans with one of many beds of typical green beans we’ll be growing this year.Įvery year, we try a couple new tomato varieties in our hoophouse, just to mix things up and find the varieties that taste the best, and do the best in this area. We’re growing one bed of patty pan squash along with our typical yellow summer squash and zucchini, just to see how we like it. We’re cutting back on hot peppers, because we had way more than we could eat last year, so we’re adding in more sweet peppers to replace them. Some people have missed melons, so we are growing one bed of a yellow melon. It is a cross between kale and broccoli, so we will be using the leaves like kale. We are excited about incorporating more Southern vegetables onto our palette.Īlongside with our usual productive and delicious broccoli varieties this year, we are trying out one that will catch your eye. We’re growing this as a spicy, and authentically Southern cooking green. We didn’t think we’d have time or energy for it last year, but this year we are going to try to squeeze it in.īut what I mostly want to share with you all is a list of all the new varieties we are growing this year, to get you excited about what’s new. We are trying out having fall broccoli and cabbage again. The melons grow low to the ground on trailing vines extending over four meters in length and are manually harvested at peak maturity as the melons do not slip from the vine when ripe. inodorus, are a sweet, muskmelon variety belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family. We will be growing all the same vegetables and fruits we grew last year, and a little more. Golden honeydew melons, botanically classified as Cucumis melon var. The skin should have a slightly rough feel and a shiny, wax-like appearance. When you are trying to find a ripe specimen, you should check to make sure the fruit is generally firm except on the stem end. The wet weather has slowed us down on getting our spring carrots and spinach planted, but we’ll plant them as soon as the weather cooperates. A canarymelon, also commonly called a Juan canary melon, is a large, oval-shaped fruit normally found in the western United States. Feeding the fowls would be punishable by a $1,000 fine or up to six months in jail.Īn anti-feeding law already exists in Arcadia, a city in Los Angeles county, though city officials state that no one has been prosecuted under the ordinance.One of our hoophouse crew stringing up our recently risen spring snap peas Given escalating issues, the Los Angeles county board of supervisors, the governing body for Los Angeles county, is prepared to vote on an ordinance that could ban intentional feeding of any peacocks. “Seventy per cent of the population hate them and want them out. “It’s the most polarizing thing I’ve ever been involved with,” said Mike Maxcy, a retired curator of birds for the Los Angeles Zoo, to the Post. Some residents, frustrated by the current lack of relocation services, have taken drastic steps to curb the growing peacock population: trying to hit peacocks with their cars, shoot them with pellet guns, or poison them. Male peacocks also peck at parked cars, sometimes mistaking their reflection for a rival to potential, romantic mates. Others, however, detest the feral birds, who, in addition to their loud mating cries, are known to tear up gardens and destroy window shingles. Peacock devotees often feed the birds, defying anti-feeding mandates in many municipalities. Some residents enjoy the presence of the peacocks. Problems with peacocks have been polarizing, dividing many communities across Pasadena, with one resident describing the issue as “more divisive than national politics”. And that is probably the start of my complaints,” Kathleen Tuttle, 68, an East Pasadena resident, told the Post. They sound like babies being tortured through a microphone, a very large microphone. ![]() In addition to their physical presence, the peacocks have also been a disturbance because of their incessant squawking, sometimes occurring in the early morning and late into the night. ![]() In some places, it’s almost impossible to capture every single one of them,” Dennis Fett, co-founder and director of the Peacock Information Center, told Slate. It encroached on their territory, and basically the peacocks stayed in the trees – generations of them. “Urban sprawl caused the problem in southern California.
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