Summary: Mouse Melon – One of the Cool Plants We Discuss Today Sometimes you just get a bit tired of all the negative things going on out there. Mid summer seems like some of the worst of those days, hot long days filled with news of encroachment on liberty, economic doom and more. For me gardening and planting along with planning for future planting and homesteading activities offers me solace. It doesn’t fix the problems, as I said yesterday when I quoted Steven Covey, “While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.” Sadly we have many consequences to face but as Mr. Covey put it we do control our actions, NOW, today and tomorrow. In the garden we find both a positive action and emotional and I believe phyical therapy. In fact I believe much or our nation can be healed with gardening and homesteading. If you think I am over selling the power of growing food to heal, have a look at this recent article about putting gardens into our prisons. There is a power of anything that allows a person to really create something, it gives them something that is really theirs, something to value, something they want to keep and protect vs. yet another shiny thing to try to acquire. This sums up much of what is wrong in America. With this in mind I bring you today’s show, a simple break and a look at growing some things you may have never thought of before. Join Me Today As I Tell You About Some Underrated Crops Such As… Sorghum – (for grain and popping) Mouse Mellon – (actually a cucumber, sort of) Old Corn Varieties – (parching, four and flint) Tomatillo New Zealand Spinach Salsify / Scorzonera Hulless Pumpkins (Styrian and others) Asparagus Pea Additional Resources for Today’s Show Members Support Brigade TSP Copper Join Our Forum ShelfReliance.com – (sponsor of the day) Silver and Gold Shop – (sponsor of the day) Seeds and Seed Sources Rox Orange Sorghum Mennonite Sorghum Indian Red Popping Sorghum Tunisian Sorghum White African Sorghum Mouse Melon (cucamelon) Rainbow Inca Corn “Giant Indian” Flint Corn Supai Red Parching Corn Mandan Red Flour Corn (good for parching too) Mandan Lavandar Corn (good for parching and flour) Posole Blue Corn Some Excellent Native Corns on this Page Teosinte – (wild corn) Tomatillo (Purple Keepers) Rare and Hard to find Tomatillos New Zealand Spinach Scorzonera (Black Salsify) Mamoth Island Salsify (White Salsify) Triple Treat Hulless Pumpkins (NOTE THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS) Stryian Hulless Pumpkin (the ones I am growing that seem immune to squash bugs for now at least) Khaki Hulless Pumpkin Asparagus Pea Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
