Attention Baker Creek Grow Outs

[AnnClaire]

Originally Posted by mohoghead

You don't think this forum is being used for illegal activities do ya?

I was talking about home made cherry pie

[turtleheart]

i have some green zebra from baker that came out a large yellow/gold beefsteak with PL and atv, and no gs. any ideas on what it is guys? im saving the seeds from all the specimens. its one of three options, spilled seed from some other variety, crossed zebra, or zebra offtype coming out of latency. i was hoping someone at baker creek or someone else growing the same seed had any input.

[eheart144]

Hi Emerald and hi to all! I'm a new member but I'm addicted to this forum already.
I'm in Zone 5b in Upstate NY. I have only been gardening for the past 3 years. Before that I was living in an apartment so I was unable to have a garden. I started my first garden with mostly tomatoes and some cucumbers & peppers. The next year I added more vegetable and I started some seeds for the first time. This year, I started all of my vegetable from seeds and moved the garden to a better location and made it bigger. It's now about 20' x 40'.
This is a great learning place.

[mohoghead]

Has anyone recieved their compensation for your grow out yet?

[Hairy Moose Knuckles]

Originally Posted by mohoghead

Has anyone recieved their compensation for your grow out yet?

My growout was a complete failure! I was attempting to grow out Texas Longhorn peas, but didn't get a drop of rain! I planted them to far away to get water to them. Thanks for reminding me. I need to get ahold of Randel and let him know.

[grapenut]

Originally Posted by GennyL

just curious but could that be boiled down into a sweetening syrup for granola bars? I know I sweeten mine with pineapple and blueberry juices, that stuff is almost all water/sugar.

Genny, I tried it once and it ended up tasting matalic and just plane awful...no watermelon flavor at all.
Perhaps it could have been the pot I used...or cooked it at too high of a temp.
but I'm pretty sure that I used a stainless steel pot...so per haps I boiled it too fast, I don't know all I do know is it was awful

[grapenut]

Originally Posted by mohoghead

I did make a watermelon wine out of last years and dehydrated a lot of the pulp for trail food. If i have time and get my processing room completed i'll reduce some to syrup stage to see, i don't know why it wouldn't work. watermelon jelly?

Mohoghead, how do you remove your seeds?

[mohoghead]

Mainly by spoon and hand, most of the melons i've grown the seeds are clustered together, so it doesn't take all that long, plus i'm picking them at their ripest for the seed.

Originally Posted by grapenut

Mohoghead, how do you remove your seeds?

[barefootmomma]

can some one please explain to me what a grow out is??

[TucsonUrbanGardener]

Originally Posted by mohoghead

I did make a watermelon wine out of last years and dehydrated a lot of the pulp for trail food. If i have time and get my processing room completed i'll reduce some to syrup stage to see, i don't know why it wouldn't work. watermelon jelly?

Woah, watermelon wine...that gets me to thinking about watermelon brandy and how good that would be. I had prickly pear brandy recently and it was super delicious. I can only imagine how good watermelon brandy would be.