雪松园农场：番茄 - 波多塔托的发源地和懒人传家宝杆豆的保存 - 园艺知道博客如何

本周的客座博客作者是德里克（Derek Fall）。德里克（Derek）是一位作家和摄影师，拥有艺术，旅行和花园书籍，总计超过250万印刷，还有一个描绘植物，花园和旅行目的地的150,000张图像的照片库。他住在宾夕法尼亚州的雄鹿县，在历史悠久的雪松园农场，在那里耕种了屡获殊荣的鲜花，水果和蔬菜花园。德里克（Derek）最近的园艺书是垂直园艺' 和 '种植这个’，两者都可以罗代尔。德里克还制作了一系列有关法国印象派画家花园的书籍，包括莫奈，雷诺阿和塞尚，名为“”莫奈花园的魔力”，“雷诺阿的花园”和'塞尚的花园。前卫园丁。

Ever since I decided to earn a living as a garden writer, after six years experience working with Europe’s largest seed house as their catalog manager in London, and then six years as catalog manager for Burpee Seeds, in the USA, I cherished the idea of owning a small farm in order to test different gardening techniques, and also new varieties of flowers, fruits and vegetables as an impartial, independent garden writer. In 1989 I was able to acquire historic Cedaridge Farm to serve as my test garden, and also to function as an outdoor studio in order to photograph the results of my work.

The two innovations at Cedaridge Farm that have most benefited the gardening community are the perfection of a grafting technique to produce a ‘Tomato-Potato’ plant that produces tomatoes on the vine and potatoes in the soil, and the preservation of an heirloom bean, the ‘Lazy Wife’ in danger of being lost to cultivation.

“番茄 - 帕托托”始于北美的生活。一家现已停产的种子公司将土豆卖掉了，形成了一个锅，中间有一堆泥炭苔藓和三个番茄种子，声称两者会一起生长，并在同一空间中生产番茄和土豆。我发现土豆总是超过番茄种子，使它们窒息而死。我试验了将马铃薯一直挖出的，以用预燃粒的番茄幼苗容纳土壤塞。这使得番茄和马铃薯的生长速度相同，形成移植物，并在同一种植空间中产生有价值的西红柿和土豆。 Although it is possible to purchase the grafts, it is easy to make your own by simply taking a large potato tuber like a ‘Yukon Gold’ or a ‘Red Pontiac’, coring it all the way through so you can see daylight through both ends, and then insert a plug with a tomato seedling, preferably an indeterminate variety like ‘Sub-Arctic’ which ripens its fruit all at one time, allowing you to pull the entire plant from the soil and harvest potatoes among the roots.

Burpee Seeds在1880年代向美国园丁介绍了“懒惰的妻子”。这是第一个无绳豆豆，尽管后来成熟的品种，它的产量很高，而且很高，柔和。只有几分钟的烹饪，豆荚变软并味道黄油，似乎在嘴里融化。不幸的是，一系列农作物失败促使Burpee停止了这种品种。我从一个农民那里获得了真正的原始种子，自从Burpee停止以来就一直在拯救种子，他去世后，我每年继续三十年来继续拯救种子。引起我的注意，几个种子来源正在出售“懒惰的妻子”的种子，这对原始的替代而言并非如此，而是一个非常糟糕的替代品。To rectify the situation I donated enough stock seed to the Seed Savers Exchange to replace the substitute with the genuine article, and this past growing season was the first time that the true, original ‘Lazy Wife’ was offered by mail order since Burpee dropped it. Seed Savers Exchange sold out their supply for this season but expect a new crop for next season. Order by visitingwww.seedsavers.org。

您可以通过吊舱的形状来告诉真正的“懒惰妻子”豆（也称为“懒惰的家庭主妇”）。它是平坦的，长约5½英寸，内部种子肿胀，形成了像指关节的形状。同样，豆子很独特，因为它们几乎像豌豆和闪亮的白色一样圆形，就像抛光的瓷器一样。在它们变成棕色和脆脆的豆荚中，煮熟或蒸时，请挑选豆荚。豆荚变脆之后，您可以将豆子涂上，然后制成最好的烤豆。我从一个葡萄藤中收获了多达500个豆荚。

有关Derek Fell的更多信息，请访问http://www.derekfell.net。

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