Aquaponics Digest - Sat 01/03/98
Message 1: Re: Fw: Japanese lettuce?
from S & S Aqua Farm
Message 2: Re: Organic Fish Feed
from Ceila & Jeff
Message 3: Malabar Spinach
from S & S Aqua Farm
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Subject: Re: Fw: Japanese lettuce?
From: S & S Aqua Farm
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 10:25:21 -0600
At 08:18 PM 1/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> From: Harrop
>> To: snsaquasys@townsqr.com.
>> Way back in the early days of this great list you mentioned that you
>raise
>> some type of Japanese lettuce. Could you please provide me with the
>generic
>> and botanical names of this plant (I did keep the original message....on
>> 3.5" floppy. Darned if I can remember which one, though ). Thanks in
>> advance. Rob Harrop. P.S. Happy New Year and may you be happy, healthy
>and
>> prosperous.
Rob - The plant we grow is Japanese Malabar Spinach. Went looking for our
original seed source (of course it's buried in my invoice files from some
year). We've been able to save seeds each year, so I've not repurchased. A
quick review of this year's seed catalogs did show one offering from
Pinetree Garden Seeds (207-926-3400) and reads:
"Malabar Spinach (110 days) Start this one indoors in the North. Transplant
to a place where it can climb. The large meaty leaves are remarkably
spinach-like in flavor. In fact Basella Rubra, this plant, is used very
effectively in the agricultural display at the Epcot Center."
We grow it up string trellises in our grow beds. The smaller leaves are
added into the salad mix we sell, and some left to grow larger for
restaurant sales to use under entrees, etc. (they are beautiful spade shaped
leaves, very thick when grown to 8" or larger). I also remember a wonderful
dinner sometime in my youth (way too many years ago) when a group of us ate
at a wonderful Japanese restaurant, and breaded and fried leaves were served
as an appetizer.
Hope this helps, although I'm pretty certain my original seeds came from
another supplier.
Paula
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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Subject: Re: Organic Fish Feed
From: Ceila & Jeff
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 14:17:15 -0700
Gordon Watkins wrote:
>
> I've been talking with a feed manufacturer who is interested in
> possibly producing a sample run of organic fish feed and who is
> wondering how much interest there is from growers in such a product.
> Would anyone on this list be interested in purchasing organic feed
> acceptable in a certified organic program? Is anyone interested in
> testing the product?
> Thanks, Gordon
I would be interested, but don't know about shipping costs,etc. since
I'm located in Montana.
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Subject: Malabar Spinach
From: S & S Aqua Farm
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 17:11:20 -0600
Sorry to double post - found my Park Seed catalog (800-845-3366) and that's
where my Malabar spinach seeds came from. It's wonderful for spinach
throughout the summer (and in a greenhouse that's too warm for standard
spinaches). Red stemmed, "mild-flavored, thick, succulent, dark green
leaves like spinach, yet it thrives in the heat of summer!....heat-loving,
vigorous vines can be trained onto fence or trellis to a height of 6 feet or
more". I must tell you that it will climb at tall as you allow. We have a
14' peak in our greenhouse, and the plants are grown in beds about 3' from
floor level.
Paula Speraneo
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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