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So we hear, sleet at the Fedtown tulip festival - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=&ncid=721&e=9&u=/nm/20020516/wl_cana....

Us lotuslanders had tulips two months ago, lol ... we love to tell you that, but not the other oddities, like the hail we had about a week ago, covered the ground, i got a foto of the garden entirely white ... saved me the effort of watering some newly planted seed [seriously] .... i have a new maize variety, Seneca Horizon, it's supposed to be good in cool soils, it better be ... trick with maize here is to get it above ground, once it germinates and sticks up that leaf it takes off, but the spring is so cool here that you lose much seed, it just rots in the ground unless you get a sunny week immediately after planting

Another week and we'll be eating peas, got them in the ground mid-Feb this year ... and cilantro - i've discovered an exceptionally early method for cilantro - sprinkle seed on a part of the compost pile you're not going to touch until late May, you get big healthy leaf before 15 april ... this happened by accident last year, next year by design for sure ... our favourite salsa here is half cilantro, half chopped shallots [the bulb only most of the year, but part green tops sometimes too], with lime juice and a touch of salt ... with the new method we should have better than an eight-month cilantro year

Zucchini [sp?] - i stopped with these, you turn your back and poof they're a metre long and you can't lift 'em ...we have a little round variety now, forgot the name, we save seed year to year, the fruit is quite similar to the calabaza used in soups in southern México but the leaves are different and it puts out no vine, just stands there and bears fruit on a short stalk ... originally a seed with an italian name i think ..... also italian is our bean variety, been keeping our own seed for five six years now, it's a pinto climbing variety, i swear it will climb six metres straight up .... the longest pole i've actually given it was maybe a little short of five metres, but it wanted more, curled up on the top there stretching for a hold above, and flowering and bearing beans all the way up ... amazing ... and it cooks so fast [relatively], tastes great, we like everything about it .... from a dozen tripods of four-metre poles last year we got near two hundred pounds of dried beans [in the shell, we shuck only one sack at a time as we use them] ... i could make a living wage from five acres of this bean [and don't think i haven't thought about it -g-]

My Sherwood swm.v started to wake up yesterday .... some DSer holding 200k on offer at .28 today, one wonders what will happen there with it ..... should be an update on the spring programme coming any day now - http://www.northair.com/sherwood/index.html