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I have always been a big fan of dahilas. I thought about putting some in at my new house provided I get there one day! I enjoyed your poems, too! sam 
posted by
sam444
on March 7, 2013 at 3:12 PM
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even though i know its time, i have not found the time yet to plant, but want to have it ready for march 29.
oH, poor billy, i think it is true that you should never give an animal that you are going to eat a name. poor colin probably thought he was a pet too, with a name.
we all travel the corridors of memory, and some wonder what was really there.
posted by
jeansaw
on March 6, 2013 at 9:40 PM
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Well Lion I like to use large 10_12 " pots as they are not so heavy to lift I would love to get some earthenware ones but much too expensive. So I use the reddish plastic ones similar to the ordinary smaller ones. I just have a fad about using black pots, but my brother uses them. I have found one potato will give quite a good crop, but remember it is not a cheap way of growing them as one does need decent compost. No use digging the soil up from the garden and putting that in a pot. If you look at any garden seed company they all sell kits. They do not mention the cost of the compost. They can still catch the blight if we have a wet year. I only grow them to be early or as a novelty in a cold greenhouse. I think the only thing worth growing in a normal garden is runner beans and flowers. A pack of parsnips for £1 what a lot of agony to produce them. The cabbage are eaten alive by caterpillars. I do grow purple sprouting which is maturing slowly. You are probably warmer, but night frosts are a killer here.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 5, 2013 at 7:44 AM
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Do potatoes do well in pots? I attempted to grow some last year but the rain brough blight with it and so I can't replant this year
posted by
lionreign
on March 5, 2013 at 2:25 AM
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Re:Pat
Pat it was a hands-on job at most of the little cottages. Continually pouring water through the intestines to wash the residue away. I never liked the smell even of the end result, although once I had a pig's bladder as a balloon. Pigs had to put up with being made pets and then curtains.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 11:25 PM
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Re: Troosha
Well Troosha I think most shoppers think meat is like a piece of coloured plastic.
If little calves drank all the milk we would not have cream in our coffee.
If little calves
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 11:20 PM
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Re: Adnohr
No Adnohr, but I suppose 50 years previous attitudes were different. Surprising what one will or can do when one is hungry all the time.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 11:16 PM
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Re: FS
Thank you FS any pigsties still around your parts.?
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 11:14 PM
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Re: ChiffChaff
No Wiley must not make them into pets. People are very annoyed over here to learn they have been eating horsemeat mixed in there burgers. One would of thought they would have been pleased if it had been a racehorse.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 11:13 PM
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Re: Kabu
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 11:10 PM
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Re: Marrise
Sadly that is sometimes like friends Marrise. These are my Mother's memory's told many years ago. Thank you .
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 11:03 PM
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Re: Jimmy
Yes Jimmy I will keep you informed last year most of the outdoor were spoiled by blight as it was so wet. Most of the seed catalogues carry extravagant cultural methods of growing potatoes, it usually works out at about a pound a potato. I keep experimenting to see if I can get early crops which taste great and do not blow the wallet. Needs a greenhouse here, so many late frosts.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 10:59 PM
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Re: CCT
Naut sadly not many things are beautiful when one gets down to the nitty-gritty, thank you,
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 10:52 PM
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Re: Annie
Well A I expect there was a lot less stress to the animals in those days, it makes one think doesn't it.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 4, 2013 at 10:50 PM
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yuck!!!! being a vegetarian .....................mmmmmmmmmm....makes me glad i am one
posted by
Annicita
on March 4, 2013 at 7:19 PM
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CCT
You have very powerfully reminded us that the aseptic appearance of pork loins, nicely wrapped in plastic, is an illusion...And your poem too has power...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 4, 2013 at 6:10 PM
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If more people understood what some of these animals go through, there probably would be more vegetarians! Look forward to hearing about the harvesting, and cooking up, of those potatoes . . .
posted by
JimmyA
on March 4, 2013 at 1:23 PM
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I wish I had the constitution to be a vegan at times. I fainted once at a hog slaughter when I was younger, 8 or 9. I am glad I like fish better now. How sad for the little pig who thought he was among friends. You have some vivid memories. 
posted by
mariss9
on March 4, 2013 at 11:45 AM
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good luck with the farming....why don't you plant potatoes in the same soil
I cried over Colin the pig. Sniff Sniff!!!
posted by
Kabu
on March 4, 2013 at 11:14 AM
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ChiffChaff
I'll learn something about gardening soon reading you Bro. Never knew potatoes and tomatoes were related at all. Feel badly for the wee pig, I'd not have made a good farmer or butcher.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 4, 2013 at 11:11 AM
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It is interesting all that goes into gardening...That was quite the scene there with the pig...A deep poem you got there.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM
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That would happen once a year on the farm too. My foster mother made sure we children were kept away on the chosen day...and we never got to sample a trotter that way.
posted by
adnohr
on March 4, 2013 at 9:33 AM
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I've tasted the end result of a roasted pig but never experienced the drama that took place before it hit my plate.
posted by
Troosha
on March 4, 2013 at 9:26 AM
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Killing Billy's pig takes me back to yesteryear
when it was a fall ritual, and all the gut odors could not blow away fast enough. The folks had a smokehouse, and cleaned the gut to make sausage. Sometimes at the market where the neat packages are displayed I can imagine how the fresh mix of ground meat and herbs funneled into the translucent gut, and could not think of buying.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 4, 2013 at 9:05 AM
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