#Seeds and leaves are staples for them but they are also predators

[runic-raptor]

Herbivores are high strung beasts, constantly on the lookout for danger. If it thinks you are danger, you are dead.

Predators generally don't think humans are worth interfering with, and don't tend to be aggressive unless they're desperate or protecting their young.

(Though some animals, *cough*bears*cough*, have a really wide defensive radius where they'll feel threatened just by you being near, so don't mess with bears. Most other predators will just see a human and go the other way if they don't have something to protect)

I think people tend to forget that herbivores are incredibly dangers.

[besthuntgear]

What do Wild Turkeys Eat

Wild turkeys, those grand birds strutting through the US forests and fields, boast a diet as diverse and captivating as their feathers. Getting to know what these omnivorous birds munch on isn't just for kicks; it's crucial for wildlife enthusiasts, conservationists, or anyone keen on inviting these birds over to their backyard. Their menu shifts with the seasons, switching up from seeds and nuts to insects and berries, depending on what Mother Nature's serving up. Introduction to Wild Turkeys' Diet Wild turkeys thrive on a diet that's as diverse as the American landscape. These birds are omnivores, meaning they'll munch on both plant and animal matter. The specifics of their diet, however, hinge on the season and what's available in their immediate environment. This adaptability has allowed them to flourish in nearly every state in the U.S. Key Takeaways: - Wild turkeys are omnivorous, with their diet shifting seasonally. - They primarily consume plant matter, but also eat insects and small animals. - Foraging habits are influenced by habitat, with turkeys eating everything from acorns in forests to grains in fields. - Understanding their nutritional requirements is crucial for conservation efforts and attracting turkeys to your yard. Natural Diet of Wild Turkeys Foraging Habits and Food Sources Wild turkeys are ground foragers by nature, using their strong legs and sharp eyesight to find food. They scratch and peck at the ground, uncovering hidden food treasures beneath the leaf litter and soil. Their diet mainly consists of: - Seeds and nuts: Acorns, hickory nuts, and beechnuts are staples. - Fruits and berries: Wild grapes, blueberries, and cherries provide essential nutrients. - Insects: Protein-rich grasshoppers, beetles, and caterpillars are crucial, especially for growing poults. Season Primary Food Sources Spring Insects, berries, seeds Summer Berries, seeds, small invertebrates Fall Nuts, grains, seeds Winter Leftover nuts, seeds, some greenery Seasonal Variations in Diet Spring and Summer: These seasons are a feast for wild turkeys. The landscape bursts with a variety of insects, seeds, and berries. Young turkeys, or poults, rely heavily on insects for protein, crucial for their growth. Fall: As the leaves change color, turkeys' diets shift towards nuts and grains. Acorns, a significant fat and energy source, become a dietary staple, helping turkeys bulk up for the colder months ahead.Winter: Food becomes scarce, and turkeys must rely on their fall feasting to get through the winter. They'll scratch through the snow for any nuts left on the ground and may eat more greenery than usual. Detailed Insights into Wild Turkeys' Food Preferences Impact of Habitat on Diet The habitat of wild turkeys greatly influences their diet. Forest-dwelling turkeys feast on a variety of nuts and berries, while those in fields and meadows might consume more grains and seeds. Urban and suburban turkeys have adapted to find food in less traditional environments, showcasing their incredible adaptability. Habitat Common Foods Forests Acorns, berries Fields Grains, seeds Urban Human-provided food, small insects Nutritional Requirements and Feeding Behavior Wild turkeys need a balanced diet to stay healthy. Protein is particularly crucial, especially for young turkeys developing their muscles and feathers. Carbohydrates from seeds and nuts provide the energy they need to roam and forage. Feeding is often a social activity for turkeys. They forage in groups, which helps protect them from predators. The pecking order (pun intended) can determine who eats first, with dominant turkeys getting the first pick of the food. Nutrient Importance Sources Protein Muscle and feather development Insects, small invertebrates Carbs Energy Seeds, nuts Fats Energy reserves Nuts Wild turkeys' diets are a testament to their resilience and adaptability. By understanding what these birds eat, we can appreciate the complexity of their lives and the ecosystems they inhabit. Whether you're a wildlife enthusiast, a conservationist, or just someone curious about these fascinating birds, the diet of wild turkeys offers a window into the natural world that's as rich and varied as the birds themselves. Foraging Habits and Food Sources Wild turkeys are not just passive recipients of whatever food the forest floor offers; they are active, discerning foragers with a preference for a variety of foods based on availability and nutritional value. Their foraging habits are a marvel of adaptation, allowing them to thrive across diverse habitats. From the deep forests to the edges of human civilization, turkeys utilize their keen sense of sight and robust physical prowess to scratch, peck, and uncover their meals. The diet of a wild turkey is a buffet that changes with the seasons. In the lush months of spring and summer, insects, snails, and even small reptiles become a significant part of their diet, providing the much-needed protein for growth and reproduction. As the seasons turn, the focus shifts to the bounty of seeds, nuts, and berries that autumn showers upon the forest floor, ensuring ample fat reserves for the leaner winter months. Food Type Spring/Summer Fall/Winter Seeds & Nuts Moderate High Fruits & Berries High Moderate Insects & Invertebrates High Low Impact of Habitat on Diet The habitat of a wild turkey plays a crucial role in determining its diet. Turkeys living in forested areas have access to a rich variety of nuts and berries, while those in open fields may rely more on seeds and grains. This adaptability in diet is a testament to the turkey's ability to inhabit a wide range of environments, from the deep woods to agricultural lands and even suburban areas where bird feeders become an unexpected source of sustenance. Urban and suburban turkeys, in particular, showcase an incredible ability to adjust their dietary habits. While not ideal, these turkeys might consume almost anything edible they come across, from spilled grains to fruits from backyard trees. This flexibility in diet highlights the importance of maintaining natural habitats and food sources for these birds to ensure their health and survival in the wild. Habitat Primary Diet Forests Nuts, berries Fields/Meadows Seeds, grains Urban/Suburban Varied, including human-provided food Nutritional Requirements and Feeding Behavior Understanding the nutritional needs of wild turkeys is crucial for their conservation and for those looking to attract these birds to their yards. A balanced diet rich in proteins, fats, and carbohydrates is essential for their overall health, supporting everything from feather condition to reproductive success. Proteins are particularly vital for young turkeys, supporting rapid growth and development, while fats and carbohydrates provide the energy necessary for daily activities and survival during colder months. Wild turkeys exhibit fascinating social behaviors around feeding, often foraging in groups to increase their chances of detecting predators. These feeding flocks, typically led by a dominant hen, utilize a variety of habitats throughout the day, from open fields at dawn to forested areas as the sun sets. This social structure not only aids in their survival but also in the distribution of food sources, ensuring that the flock's nutritional needs are met. Nutrient Importance Primary Sources Protein Growth, feather development Insects, seeds Fats Energy reserves Nuts, seeds Carbohydrates Immediate energy Fruits, grains Frequently Asked Questions To attract wild turkeys, offer a mix of seeds, grains, and nuts. Ensure the feeding area is safe and quiet, away from predators and too much human activity.In urban areas, wild turkeys may adapt by consuming more human-provided foods, garden plants, and insects. However, natural food sources are always preferable for their health.Yes, feeding wild turkeys can make them reliant on human-provided food, potentially altering their natural foraging habits and making them more accustomed to human presence, which isn't always beneficial.Wild turkeys' diets are a testament to their resilience and adaptability, showcasing a remarkable ability to thrive across North America's diverse landscapes. By understanding and respecting their dietary needs and natural behaviors, we can ensure these fascinating birds continue to flourish in the wild. Read the full article

[evolutionsvoid]

Bufugo are a bird-like creatures that are somehow both beautiful and painful to look at. They are found in sunnier, tropical climates, mainly showing up where their favorite food grows. Bufugo are about the size of a turkey and, despite their fancy feathers, have about the same flying grace as they do. Despite their winged appearance, Bufugo don't really fly. The best they do is jump really high or glide. Instead of flying, they prefer both a terrestrial and arboreal lifestyle. Their clawed arms are good for climbing trees, and their little legs certainly give them a lot of speed! They are very high energy creatures, always running around, chasing things and making a whole lot of racket. If you think of song birds as elegant stage singers, these are the rowdy drunks with a washboard who keep storming the stage. All their running about and screeching is actually them searching for food and claiming territory. They like to locate promising sources of food and then try to keep others from stealing it. Their cackles and shrieks are them warning others and telling them to scram, which is kind of strange because I am pretty sure no Bufugo actually listens to such a demand. There always seems to be a couple of them trying to sneak in to nab a morsel, or one who decided a outright charge (complete with fanfare) is the best strategy to scare off the keeper of this fruitful patch. What usually results is a whole lot of screaming and running around, as the one protecting its claim tries to scare off the intruders, while the offender tries to loop around to snag a snack for the road. While it would be easy to say that the biggest and toughest Bufugo gets the best territories, that really isn't true. While these creatures are not big fans of sharing, they hate the puffed-up head roosters who hog all the goods even more. This means that a group of smaller, wilier Bufugo will team up and launch an attack against the claim holder. This all-out assault is often more than any big Bufugo can handle, and they are forced to retreat. The team will then celebrate with a meal, which then will devolve in a screaming brawl as they fight over who gets what. At the end of the day, I think you can just call these fellows "active foragers," because these territories and claims don't really exist for longer than five minutes. So what is all this fuss about? What is it that the Bufugo fight over so crazily? Why, it is their favorite food: Peppers! Though Bufugo are omnivorous creatures, the main staple of their diet is peppers. Sure, they can eat bugs, worms, fruits and small critters, but the real meal they want is that spicy goodness! A fruitful pepper patch is what they desire the most, so that is what they fight over most often. They love nothing more than snapping a fresh pepper off the vine and chowing down! Such a pick, however, isn't just about flavor and nutrition! Bufugo like peppers for one very important reason, and that is defense! As everyone should know (and if you don't, you really need to expand your palate), peppers are fruit that have quite a kick in them (they are fruit, right? I believe they are a berry, but people use them like vegetables...cripes, I am a dryad and I don't even know)! A chemical that is found in them gives a burning sensation to many species who try to eat them. Some can be pretty mild, while others darn well nearly set your mouth on fire! However, not all species are affected by this chemical. Birds are immune to such burning, as they are the ones who help spread the seeds! Bufugo are another species that does not feel the pepper's heat when they take a bite. Despite this, the Bufugo tend to flock towards the peppers with the strongest burn, and why do think that is? It is because they use this burning chemical as a weapon! Similar to a cockatrice, the Bufugo will chow down on a pepper and store the most potent parts in a specialized crop. In there, they will mix and mash it with their saliva, creating a potent stew. When threatened by a predator or intruder, they will take aim with their narrow beak and fire a fine stream of spit. This attack is always aimed at the face, hoping to splash into the eyes and mouth. Non-avian species who get a dousing of this will suddenly feel like their face is aflame! It is a full dose of pepper heat right in your eyes! While it is not as deadly or infectious as a cockatrice's spit, those who feel it will tell you it isn't a pleasant experience! Such burning can last for hours and, depending on the type of peppers used to make it, it can leave you temporarily blind. Such an attack easily drives off predators, or can distract them long enough for the Bufugo to escape. While it is a potent weapon, it is one that they seem to have way too much fun with. Some species with such an ability save it for just the right moment, fearful of wasting it and getting caught in a jam. Bufugo, on the other hand, like to spit this stuff at anyone who even looks at them funny. This makes them quite notorious with the locals, and especially with foolish tourists. You get some fool sneaking up for a closer look at this gorgeous bird, only to get a fiery stream right to the face! And don't forget when these rambunctious creatures get into your garden or on your farm! Best wear eye protection before driving them off, or else you'll be suffering!      

Due to its burning spit and mischievous nature, the Bufugo has gained some fame in the local cultures. The most obvious thing that people have latched onto is their spicy saliva. Quite a few potent seasonings and hot sauces bear mention of the Bufugo, either in name or as a mascot. Their spit is also valued as an ingredient itself, said to be even hotter and more flavorful than the peppers they dine on. Some folk raise Bufugo like chickens, selling their feathers, eggs, spit as well as their pre-seasoned meat! Some chefs and cooks value the ingredients these Bufugo farms provide, while others curse their existence. Bufugo are not tame creatures, even when raised on a farm. They tend to escape the coop from time to time, and they never fail to find the fanciest garden in town to feast on. One chef's prized ingredients can wind up devouring the ingredients of another local cook! The Bufugo also tend to show up around fiery festivals and celebrations. Lots of costumes bear the feathers of these birds, especially for performers who specialize in fire breathing! It is no surprise they show up on so many garbs and paintings! They are quite gorgeous, but do be careful when you go for a peek! Chlora Myron Dryad Natural Historian ----------------------------------------------------- Birds don't feel capsicum, you say? Ho boy, lets make a bird!  I hate making birds! Freaking feathers! And yes, I do realize the hands are wrong for such a creature. Got screwed up when I outlined it and just had to make do. (And now that I think of it, this is really isn't a bird is it? Boy this is so confusing).  

[jeninthegarden]

Welcome to the 2022 Jungle

Somewhere in the 20 months of pandemic quarantine my backyard farm slipped into a backyard jungle. Not in an overgrown, choked, messy, uncontrolled way; more of a teaming with life and not all of it domesticated or in a planned way. Everything is thriving and multiplying and expanding! I love it.  I want profusion and this past summer’s plantings were either profuse or a total bust.  2022 I am going to narrow down the scope and plant more but with less variety.  Enough experimenting – I have identified the best cultivars and just need to stick to one of each vegetable, with certain exceptions (like the varieties of tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, zucchini, snap peas, summer squash, winter squash, Asian greens, carrots etc). And, of course, refraining from purchasing more seeds does not fully account for the fact I have saved a lot of different seeds, and still have leftovers from what I bought last year.  

I have come to detente in my 17 years of living with a groundhog tenant in the back yard.  Groundhogs only live 3-4 years on average, so the resident groundhog changes and the burrow is taken over by a new tenant every couple years. The burrow entrances are all in the upper third of the orchard, along with the beehives.  There is a reinforced fence between the two parts of the orchard.  This summer the groundhog was very furtive. After a few very bold appearances in the spring, I have rarely seen it.  I know it is still in residence because I put a board over the hole it uses to go under the back fence and at least every other day the board is pushed aside.

The resident racoon took 3 of my chickens this summer.  4 more chickens died of various ailments and the local fox removed the corpses from the brush pile without leaving a single feather behind.  I got 8 new chickens.  One of our 10 year old cats died, and we now have a new kitten to keep our surviving cat company.  The local murder of crows, including the fascinating leader that has a gray feather collar (this coloration is not native to this continent) still have not learned to talk.  But they do a great job keeping the resident Cooper’s hawk away from the chickens. They also were fun to watch harassing the ground hog off of my compost pile, literally walking up behind the groundhog and pecking its tail.  I observed the Cooper’s hawk was being shadowed by the hummingbirds this summer and incorrectly assumed they too were harassing it.  But no, a little research revealed that humming birds frequently nest, and rest near Cooper’s hawks, because blue jays are both the hummingbird’s top predator and the Cooper’s hawk’s staple diet.  There were not a lot of blue jays around here this summer.  Another surprise is I have recently realized that the “Committee” of vultures hanging around our property in the fall and winter are not the typical Turkey Vultures (which have red heads).  These are the less common Black Vultures (not a red head among them) which have only been recorded in New York State since the 1990’s. Their usual habitat is further south. Turkey Vultures have a superior sense of smell, while Black Vultures rely on their eyesight to hunt. Black Vultures will sometimes attack live animals, while Turkey Vultures only eat carrion. Both species are more closely related to storks that to old world Vultures.  

This past spring was temperate and long. Summer heat did not come on quickly and we had plenty of rain.  I had great success with seedlings this year and planted quite early. But the intensity of the spring sun, coming in at an angle burned my eggplant seedlings (and my fig tree). I patiently waited another month to put out my pepper plants and those burned as well! Peppers are longer lived than expected.  This is the second fall they are still blooming in October.  So next year I must resist transplanting them out until June.  And shade cloth is a must.  Herbs I had the same problem.  They need to be bigger before they are transplanted out.

It is absolutely bizarre how fast the garden plan comes together. One minute I’m staring at a blank page, scrolling back a couple years, scrolling forward again to a blank page, wondering what do I want to plant. Two minutes later the page is covered with scribbles and diagrams and I’m frantically erasing things, wondering where AM I going to fit the rutabaga??!  And then I hit the Burpee website and have to really erase half of what I’ve planned out because there is so much new, fascinating stuff in the Burpee catalogue (every year!) that it won’t all fit. And then I buy it all anyway and really have to scramble.

Legumes (follow the Root crops):

Legumes are still hit or miss.  The sugar snap peas were amazing – much better than shelling peas. But, I’m not quite ready to give up on shelling peas entirely so I will be planting some of each.  Fava beans were brilliant, and they are an economical plant that is easily spring and fall seeded (I fall seed from my spring harvest), plus the whole plant is not only edible but very tasty.  This year I took note for a fellow gardener at the community garden who planted fava beans in tomato cages and they grew 5 feet tall! That is an extra 3 feet of edible stems and leaves, not to mention more bean pods.  So, since favas are very early or very late, I’m going to grow them in the tomato cages before and after the tomatoes.  Runner beans were beautiful and the humming birds loved the blooms, but I need to give them better support.  I also don’t need so many varieties. Since the hummingbirds like them, I will just get the red-blossomed types. The soy beans did not germinate – not one! So, I am trying a different variety this year. Giant Midori were great when I planted them a few years ago, but everyone else thinks so too and I just can’t find them.  Still did not get any noodle beans, but this year I am going to have real, arch trellises in the main garden to grow noodle beans and squash on.  My recollection is that noodle beans are very tasty and economical because just two beans make a dish.  I am going back to the 3-sisters planting method for corn, beans and pumpkins. Violetto beans will likely be the pole bean of choice for the corn patch.  Velour is the bush bean of choice and I will be growing those in the main garden as well, but I must track it down early because it sells out fast. Those silly wing beans/asparagus peas were not tasty so I won’t grow them again, except I have seeds left over and the blossoms are a really pretty blue that can be used as natural food coloring.  Guess I will squeeze them in someplace…

Brassica – Cole - Green Crops (follow the legumes):

It was another bad year for greens and brassicas. My spring greens were a bust. I had every kind and nothing did well, except the corn mache which was planted in 2020, came roaring in this spring and re-seeded itself so now I’m harvesting it in December 2021! And it appears to have re-seeded itself again.  But we must look ahead, not behind.  This year’s plan calls for better shade – the greens have never flourished except in the shadier, wetter part of the garden. Growing the corn for shade over the sweet potatoes, in the raised bed, produced a better yield than any method so far.  I regret I did not get beans in there too. Despite all the water we had, the sunniest spots in the garden fared the worst, even with extra watering. So, I am deviating from the strict crop rotation and interplanting with legumes to support the soil and taller plants to shade the ground.  I am also sheet composting this winter.  I did that on a third of the garden last year and it worked wonderfully.  This year there will be a trellis tunnel down the middle third of the main garden.  I’m going to start it off with claytonia, spinach, corn mache, scallions and alyssum under it, and eventually growing noodle beans and small winter squash over it. I am going to plant the peppers in the coolest third of the garden and interplant them with spinach.  I have decided not to grow escarole again.  It did really well, and bloomed and self-seeded. But if you don’t eat it while it is tiny, it gets too bitter to eat. Same for the endive. All the lettuce blends were irritating. So, I am going back to just 4 distinct varieties and will interplant them throughout the garden, under taller plants. Arugula is a failsafe, no matter when or where you plant it, and it is biannual so it always re-appears. Purple orach is personal favorite that I can always find a spot for. I previously thought Fenugreek was an herb, but it is actually a member of the pea family and cooks up like a micro green. It is very tasty and, like peas, fixes nitrogen in the soil, so I will interplant it in the main garden. Chard did poorly in the wilds of the orchard.  It actually needs more sun and its own space, so I will clump plant it in the main garden. Salad burnett and saltwort did not grow, and I won’t repeat, except I have extra seeds, so maybe I will try growing those in containers. Upland cress may have grown, but I couldn’t recognize it when it did! I mistook it for weeds and threw it out.  This year I decided to try growing real watercress, either in a water saucer or in the rain garden.

I went a bit overboard on the Asian greens this past summer.  None were particularly good or vigorous.  I really like green tatsoi best – nice crisp rosettes of spoon shaped leaves, neither too peppery nor bitter. Toy choi is the same but more compact. Chinese cabbage is quick and early growing, though it serves primarily to distract the slugs from other greens. The Chinese cabbage gets “laced” by slugs that eat so many holes in the leaves they look like lace.  Everything else bolted, was too mustard-like, or did not germinate.  So, I’m scaling it back to what I like to eat.  The cabbages were a complete bust – nothing grew to a head. Everything germinated, and leafed, and then stalled. Same with the cauliflower and Romanesco.  I ended up with just greens and then rotting centers covered with aphids.  It has been a few years since I have successfully grown cabbages.  I think this year I need to lime the bed, mulch heavily and feed.  I’m going to do a brassica mosaic bed – interplanting the early Asian greens with larger heading cabbages and cauliflowers. And of course, I will throw in some petunias, some dill weed, and some nasturtiums and alyssum, to attract good pollinator predators to eat the cabbage moths and aphids. I will start the Asian greens from seed, and buy the standard seedlings, herbs and flowers. The broccoli is banished to the orchard where there is enough space for it. I prefer re-sprouting varieties and will likely start from seed.  Brussel sprouts did very well in the potato patch this past summer. They were planted in half gallon pots with the bottoms cut out in between the potato hills, sitting mostly above the ground level. So, once the potatoes sprouted, I raised the entire bed up to the top of the Brussels sprout pots and mulched. But I only had room for 4 Brussel sprout plants. I may move them to the raised bed next year where I can fit 12.  I will certainly buy plants rather than seeds. The kale went wild in the orchard and doubtless self-seeded.  But I was not happy with it – it was the Red Russian variety that actually needs to be pruned, because otherwise it gets 8 feet tall with tiny leaves. I am going to plant the Tuscan kale and the Portuguese kale, at least, in the main garden this year. The perennial kale died.  I will attempt to find some seeds.

 Fruits (follow the Brassica and Greens):

It was a fabulous year for corn – no squirrels or chipmunks anywhere.  And the racoons were too busy eating my chickens. The sweet corn did well with the sweet potatoes in the raised bed.  The black popcorn flourished in the orchard.  I think we will attempt all sweet corn this year – there is just never enough of it.  Absence of chipmunks meant we had a great year of tomatoes.  However, as has occurred in the past, the early tomatoes I planted (which were small, the size of golf balls), cross-pollinated and stunted the heirlooms around them. So, we won’t do that again! I am buying tomato plants, just the heirloom varieties I like. And the plan is to put them in the main garden instead of the orchard. The space that was the peas and then tomato fences in the orchard will be devoted to broccoli this year.  Likewise, with eggplants, I will simply by plants.  And although they did well in the orchard, I am going to plant them in the main garden, with shade protection. Peppers, I am overwintering 10 plants, all hot peppers.  And I have lots of seeds saved from when I made cowboy candy.  So, I will just by sweet, bell pepper plants locally.  I will be planting the peppers in the shady third of the main garden, with shade protection so I don’t burn them.  They also need to be fed, and heavily mulched. The okra did better this past year than the year before, however it too will be returning to the main garden. I have read that it must not be planted with squash because it attracts nematodes that are bad for the squash, and indeed, while the okra in the orchard did well this year, the squash vines around them died. So, okra goes back to the sunny third of the main garden. I need a quicker growing, more compact variety because this past year’s crop grew to 7 feet high and started ripening in October, only to get killed by frost before Thanksgiving. Okra must be harvested before it is more than 3 inches long. Anything bigger and you get nothing but unchewable stringy pods full of hard, tapioca-like seeds.

Okra in the main garden is going to provide shade to the melons.   Melons did not blossom or fruit this past year. They were in the corn patch in the orchard and it was not warm enough.  Zucchini have not done well for several years.  This year six are going into the center of the main garden and several more are going into the hugle. As for winter squash and pumpkins, I am going to try growing some smaller varieties on a trellis in the main garden and larger varieties and pumpkins in the orchard. I am ready for the squirrels this year. I bought a hundred nylon mesh bags to protect fruit (if there is any) and squash.  I will try to grow luffa gourds in the upper part of the orchard where it is hot and dry.

Alliums:

For the alllims, I have planted a lot of garlic this fall.  I planted 50 cloves in the front yard as part of a decorative flower bed among the daffodils. And I planted another 30 cloves in the great hugle with some decorative purple globe alliums.  The Egyptian walking onions are planted in the sunny herb garden by the patio.  I need more chives for the orchard. Scallions and onions I have started a regrow project.  Every bunch of scallions I get in my organic garden box I replant the bottom ½ inch with the roots and it re-grows.  When I harvest them from my garden, I cut off the tops instead of pulling them.  The onions, I replant the bottom ½ inch with roots and wait until spring when 5-8 green shoots sprout up.  These can then be separated and re-planted to grow whole new onions.   Leeks – will there ever be another Leeky Dance?  This past season I attempted to grow the leeks with the succession planting of carrots. They are supposed to be companion plants – the leeks encourage larger carrots and the carrot tops shade and blanche the leek stalks. I had 3 different types of leeks that were supposed to mature at 3 different times, several weeks apart, interplanted with several successive plantings of carrots, in the sunniest spot in the garden.  The leeks never made it beyond pencil width and the carrots did not germinate well. So, this year I am just planting the leeks (3 different kinds) right after Christmas and planting them in their own space with nasturtiums to shade their feet.

Roots (follow the fruits):

Root vegetables actually did well this year, other than the carrots!  Beets, I have settled on a long, carrot-like, dark red beet called “cylindra” that is fast growing and cold hardy.  It does not have a lot of top green however, which is a shame because I love beet greens.  Likewise, my best results for turnips have been a long, carrot-like, purple Japanese turnips which also don’t have big tops. So, this year, I am thinking of adding a couple varieties of beets and turnips just for their greens. Radishes as usual were a no-show.  Daikon’s just won’t grow and their tops are enormous, and not edible.  This year I am going to try the spicy black radishes again, and some French cylindrical red and white radishes.  Going to plant them in the center of the main garden under the trellis that will later in the summer be covered with beans and squash vines. Carrots, just did not germinate. I am going to grow them in the shady third of the main garden this year where it is more consistently moist. And because I am so reluctant about thinning the carrots, I am going to try pelleted seeds for the very first time. The turnips did very well interplanted with the peppers, so the turnips are going into the shady third with the peppers this coming year.  This was the first year I was able to grow celeriac (celery root), from seed.  It did very well in the shady part of the main garden, but is not a companion plant for carrots!  So, I must find it a new spot. I am wondering if its leaves are astringent enough to plant it outside the fenced garden.  The lovage, a “cutting” celery which is actually a carrot relative, is perennial and grows untouched by deer or rodents in the herb bed. You may recall that last year I said I would NOT plant parsnips, and I had not in many years, and then I did plant them. It seems impossible to fail at growing parsnips. Had a nice crop and there are 20 or so little ones left in the ground to pull next year. I like eating parsnips – not mashed, but cut up and roasted. I might plant them again next year, just not sure where since they have to be kept away from carrots, celery and dill. It is suggested they be planted with garlic, and with wormwood, both of which are in the big hugel. At this point the big hugel may be settled (decomposed) enough to grow root crops. Maybe it’s time to find out. I went ahead and experimentally winter sowed some with the garlic in the front bed. I will spring plant some more in the great hugel. I have not lost my interest in some of the more obscure root vegetables: burdock, salsify, scorzonera, milk thistle. And, since I still have seeds for all of them laying around, getting stale, I decided to winter sow a clump of each in the front flowerbed with the garlic and parsnips.  I grew no rutabaga except some strays that wintered over from 2020 and went to seed. I might get volunteers in the spring, but I really would like to grow them this year along the pea fences, because it is optimal to plant them as soon as the pea harvest is done, and they like the nitrogen the peas fix in the ground. I could probably transplant the volunteers, except they would be very difficult to identify, having bolted and gone to seed among a lot of Asian greens and cress and arugula that did the same.  Parsley root, is a fixture in the shady part of the main garden.  It grows very well in shade.  I never do get to eat the roots however because during the winter the mice chew them from underneath and eat the whole plant. Potatoes: this year I grew “blackberry” a small deep purple potato and “masquerade” a red and gold spotted medium, thin skin potato. They were both prolific, but they tasted horrible! The purple in the little ones was a very intense flavor without any sweetness, and the skin to flesh ratio made them tough and chewy, like concord grape skins. The red and gold ones had a terrible, wet, turnip-like texture that held even after cooking thoroughly. We will not do that again! Yukon Gold and Adirondack Red next year.  Sad, because planting the potatoes in the ground, mounded, works better than anything else.  But this year I am not going to use up main garden space for potatoes. Which very likely means going back to containers in the high side of the orchard, or testing out whether the great hugle has decomposed enough for root crops. And, as seed potatoes are very expensive, I may just buy a couple organic potatoes from the store and cut them up for seed. I know, I know – they’re not inoculated!  But I can buy inoculant, or just take my chances they get blighted. Sweet potatoes: The Japanese purple yams were also a great success this year.  These were planted in the raised bed, under the sweet corn for shade.  It worked so well I am going to plant them there again, but with Brussel Sprout plants for shade, and maybe some bush beans.  However, rather than paying a lot of money for sweet potato slips (which don’t ship well), I am just going to get one from the market and start it in a glass of water. I am already experimenting with three that started sprouting in the pantry. I tossed them in a pot with dirt, in the house and they are growing vines. Maca (the Peruvian radish with ginseng qualities), germinated indoors and then did not survive the transplanting. I still have seeds so I will probably try again.

Flowers:

Certain herbs and flowers are really beneficial to the vegetable garden so I’m going to re-emphasize companion planting in the garden this year, especially since I am going off the strict rotation schedule and mixing and match a lot more.  I am also trying to eliminate bare ground or at least shade it in the sunnier areas.  Flowers, I am planting cosmos in the main garden this year, for the first time in a decade. Comos are attractive to pollinators and aphids so, they increase the yield of fruiting plants like tomatoes, cucumbers and squash that all need pollination, and they make a perfect decoy for aphids, luring the pests away from any vegetables that are plagued by aphids, in my garden that would be the kales and collards, which I have taken to planting with the tomatoes, so double duty for the cosmos.  However, cosmos is a relative to dill, so they need to be kept away from the carrots and related root crops.  Marigold is another really important plant in the garden because their natural oils will remain in the soil for many weeks and repel harmful nematodes (like the ones that are attracted to okra!). Their roots also encourage the growth of a certain type of symbiotic fungi which exchange nutrients with host plants for their mutual health and growth. Marigolds also deter harmful beetles including bean beetles and asparagus beetles, leaf hoppers, white flies, tomato moths, cabbage white butterflies, cabbage moths and sweet corn moth. They also decoy slugs and spider mites. And they attract pollinators. Note that, although they repel cabbage moths, they should not be planted within the root span of cabbages, only around the borders of the cabbage bed. The same is true for beans. It is best planted with melons, okra, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. Nasturtiums are one of my favorite plants that I would plant anyway, but they are beneficial as a ground cover and pollinator attractor, so they are good for any type of fruiting plant or brassica.  And they are low growing so they are better in the cabbage patch than cosmos. They are absolutely essential in the pumpkin patch for repelling the squash bugs and pumpkin beetles. They are good for potatoes, so I will likely put some in the potato patch with the brussels sprouts. They are also great in the leek patch because they shade and blanche the leek stalks. Alyssum is a small but helpful flower. Very low growing, so it is good groundcover in the sunny spots, and is a particular friend of the brassica family.  It attracts all kinds of aphid predators like hover flies and ladybugs.

Herbs:

Herbs in the garden of course include basil, which is a true companion of tomato.  It does better in the shade – I grew very little basil this past year because it got too much light in the vegetable.  The only successful basil I grew was in the shady portion of the herb garden.  This year it goes behind the tomatoes, and in the shady side of the herb garden again. Burpee has some new extra tall Thai basil towers I have ordered as plants, but I like a wide variety of basils so I have a lot of seeds leftover from last year. Borage is another very helpful herb. It is low growing so it is useful in the cabbage patch. It attracts pollinators and is a decoy for aphids. It gets along with peas and beans so it makes a good buffer between peas/beans and alliums.  Tarragon is perennial so I usually try to grow it in the herb garden, but this year I will try it in the main garden.  It increases the flavor of plants around it. It is of Mediterranean origin so it does well with the nightshades.  I’m going to plant it between the zucchini and the carrots in the main garden. I am also going to interplant it with the rosemary along the orchard fence.  Marjoram is an herb that promotes growth in other plants, and is good for everything, so I’ll get some in the main garden bed this year.  

On beyond vegetables (and my jungle has gone very far beyond vegetables):

I ordered more daffodils, 300 more.  I’ve decided to mark off distinct patches of the front lawn and interplant the daffodils that are already there with ferns so that after the daffodils have bloomed the ferns will sprout up around them and we will not have to mow the dead daffodils at all. Will be ordering a lot of hay-scented ferns in the spring.  Once again, my saffron crocuses did not bloom, so I ordered more of them (3rd year in a row).  Then I made the terrible mistake of ordering hyacinths. They smell so good! But deer eat their blossoms and squirrels dig up and eat their bulbs. If I don’t plant them in the orchard, it will be useless.  And the orchard – have to replace 4 trees that died.  But then I ordered two more – a quince and a medlar that I will plant next to the orchard because there isn’t room in the orchard.  The great hugle needs some trees, so in the spring I am ordering 2 pagoda dogwoods and 2 sunrise redbugs to plant at the rise of the hugle. Both are native, and bees supposedly love the pagoda dogwoods.   We have several dead privets in our front hedge that need to be replaced with something more interesting – the straight private hedge is too monochrome and does not blend well with the rest of the property. I’m thinking oak-lead hydrangea and New Jersey tea bush.  The blueberry bushes seem to have given up the ghost, so I’m going to replace them with ferns.

The Orchard. This year we suffered from the early rains and wet spring. There was not fruit, other than 4 small peaches. The peach tree developed curly peach leaf fungus that made its leaves like toad skins. However, that happened in early spring and by June, the peach tree had grown all new leaves that were fungus free. The red-fleshed crab apple, the red cider apple, 1 honeycrisp and the yellow pear all died. Not sure if they drowned or just did not get enough light, but they never leafed out at all and withered dry in the summer heat.  The remaining pears and honeycrisp apple trees all developed orange rust fungus by the end of June and although they didn’t die, we certainly did not get any blossoms or fruit.  I’m also not sure how well they will survive the winter.  The plum trees one black and one green, did not bloom at the same time so there was no fruit.  The black plum developed a single branch of black rot fungus, which was quickly removed, and then the tree was fine for the rest of the summer and fall.  However, there is a high probability it will relapse in spring. I will have to treat the whole orchard with fungicide in early spring, and feed the trees that had rust fungus. I ordered replacements for the dead trees, except that I decided not to order another Honeycrisp – still have one alive so I ordered a different pollinator, Ellison’s Orange Apple.  And, I got a little carried away and ordered a Pineapple Quince and a Sultan Medlar.  No room in the orchard so I am going to plant them next to the orchard.  The Chicago Brown Hardy Fig, that was planted beside the boulder in front of the house, but is now a house plant (house twig) after the deer found it. I moved it outside into full sun in the spring and burned its leaves badly.  It recovered in the shade over the summer and fall, and even developed 6 little figs. I brought it back inside for another winter.  The Weeping Persimmon in the back yard is still alive, still growing and I removed the cage from around it, so we will see how badly the deer eat it down this winter. One other aspect of fruit trees that I must read up on is pruning! I’m not sure when I am supposed to do that, spring or fall, but I must find out.

The Community Garden.  The InterGenerate community garden in my village was a big draw during Covid, attracting new members and greater creativity by existing members.  This year I planted sunflowers and peppers and string beans, kale and arugula.  This fall I decided to pre-plant for spring with lettuce, carrots, greens, kale, sunflowers and popcorn.  Next year I am going to grow cherry tomatoes in hopes of producing more in less space. The objective is to provide as much fresh produce as possible to our local food pantry.  It is a very good experiment in subsistence farming in small spaces. Our efforts to make the pollinator garden stalled.  Hopefully we can get some bed definition and mulching done this winter in anticipation of planting in the spring.  We are still considering building a communal herb bed for perennial herbs.

Bee-Keeping. We started over this year with two new colonies of honey bees.  All three hives absconded at the end of 2020. I was rebuked on my local bee-keeping website for not being a better bee-keeper.  So, this year I tried harder.  I fed aggressively in the spring.  I added hive boxes promptly.  I added the honey attics promptly.  We harvested 2 and a half gallons in late July.  I was using the Hyssop hive and the Lilac hive.  Again, the dark blue seems to have added heat early in the spring and allowed the hive to brood and build up quicker.   We harvested again in September – a gallon and a half.  Then I set the mite treatment strips and put on robbing screens.  The bees did not abscond.  I feed them through the first week of November and then I gave them pollen and bee candy and wrapped the hives to keep them warm. And then I had to wrap the hives in bird netting because while my chickens were cleaning the orchard, they started eating the Styrofoam wrapping of the hives!  And having flashbacks to my very first bee colony, that froze, I decided to buy a 4th hive (waiting to be assembled and painted a dark turquoise). I am going to pre-order two more bee colonies in January.  So, at a minimum, if my two hives do not survive the winter, I will have two new hives running in the spring.  Or, if my hives survive, I will have 3 or 4 hives running in the spring.    

Hugelkultur. (You have to say that word with guttural gusto!) What??  It is the method of building a raised bed over buried logs.  The great hugel is thriving. It is ready to have some trees added to it. Planning to plant 2 pagoda dogwoods and 2 sunrise redbuds.  And I think I can attempt some root crops like parsnips this year.  To date we have planted 2 viburnum, 2 rhododendrons, 2 azaleas, one hydrangea tree, 2 elderberry, and 2 grey dogwoods.  The deer have really done a number on the dogwoods and the elderberry. This spring I am planning to put up deer netting around the whole hugle to protect my new plants. I am growing hyssop, thistle, salvia, goldenrod and wormwood in the hugle.  I have a lot of goldenrod in the herb beds that needs to be moved out to the hugle, as well as some yarrow from the lavender field and a sea of asters that came up next to the lavender bed.  I also planted several clumps of purple globe allium. I planted 50 cloves of garlic across the front edge.  I want to plant more salvia and transplant some oregano.  

Back to Eden. Scored 20 cubic yards of wood chips this past spring.  And I got another 20 cubic yards in September, all from getchipdrop.com.  So much more to do. I am still hoarding carboard.  The pollinator patch at our community garden will also require and initial weed barrier of cardboard and woodchips to get it established.  I used a lot of chips in the orchard this summer for weed barrier. Amazingly, the chickens went through the orchard in October and November and turn the soil entirely – not a trace of the cardboard is left, after only 3 months.  Another spot by the driveway that was gravel and dust 2 years ago is now soft dirt after a woodchip and cardboard treatment, so I added daffodil bulbs.  And the great hugle is actually settling a bit and can use more cardboard and chips on top and around the back edge where I have almost completely smothered the poison ivy.  The front flowerbed where I planted the blueberry bushes is also now a soft, fluffy expanse of fully decomposed loam after 3 years.  I planted 150 daffodils at the front edge to demarcate the flowerbed from the lawn (so it doesn’t get mowed or weed-whacked).  In the spring I will add ferns to follow the daffodils.

The Herb Garden. This year the violets and the oregano really smothered everything else!  I did remove the rosemary bushes this fall and moved them out to the orchard fence line.  I think that will be the rosemary field next year. The garlic chives appear to be petering out. They are good for the roses, so I should plant some more.  The roses were huge and grew up into the gutter this year because of all the rain. They need to be trimmed. The sorrel is thriving, but nothing eats it, including me, so I think I’ll move it to the back of the yard, near the weeping persimmon where the rain garden is going.  The thyme did not do well, I need to find a better place for it with less water. Sage came roaring back this year and even bloomed, so I may get some additional varieties.  The Indian hibiscus seems happy in the sunny part of the herb garden, so I will plant more.  The basil and parsley do well in the shade part of the herb garden so I will double down on those.  I did not get the angelical planted.  I want to start it indoors this coming year and put it in the shady side of the herb bed, but also in the front yard in the shade. Comfrey was recommended as an orchard plant because it is fast growing and can be cut and mulched 3 times a season. I planted several root cuttings two years ago and they grow into massive, 4-foot patches. I need to divide them! Also, the chickens eat the comfrey in the fall because it is a low-fiber, high protein green that is very good for all types of livestock.  

House plants. My sad little, Christmas cactus bloomed again, at Thanksgiving, and further research shows it is in fact a Thanksgiving cactus.  My Chicago Brown Hardy Fig is spending its second winter indoors.  A friend gave me a tiny little aloe plant two years ago that faired very poorly last winter and I put it outside in the spring without much hope. It was scalded pretty badly by full sun, and then I left it in the shade the rest of the summer.  Now it is two, healthy 6 inch aloe plants, no thanks to me. They are named “Elba” and “Sardinia”.  

Woodlands. Woodchips have been very effective at keeping down the weeds in the wooded lower edge of the property.  Things have really thinned out so now it is time to start planting back in.  One thing that still needs to go is the Japanese barberry. There are 6 in my wood line. It is an invasive, thorny bush that grows anywhere, very vigorously. It is so dense and thorny that the birds and animals cannot get inside it, so it harbors deer ticks, the bad kind that carry Lyme disease. We also have lots of the invasive multiflora rose bramble in the wood line that needs to be removed.    

Wetlands. I’m now calling the damp parts of our yard the wetlands. I have still not made them into rain gardens. The uphill back corner is a very damp area because water pools there.  We need to do some grading to get the water to move to the back property line and then do some digging so it drains down the back side of the property along the fence line.  In the front of the property, right at the street there is a hollow in the lawn that I have been planting with iris and button bushes.  I need to remove some more Japanese barberry and plant a Virginia Magnolia or a River Birch.  I also want to plant high bush cranberry and cardinal flowers.  

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Once you have to prepare the soil is properly drained.But, if you're feeling adventurous or don't get tangled or intertwined and to consider the factors that are about eight feet between vines when planting.In a four-cane Kniffin system needs to be prepared.Grapes are pretty effective in scaring off the vine.They are usually large grapes without any interference from trees, fences, buildings or anything that looks like predator to them.

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Availability of garden grapes and see what type of grape you want to put these pest problems aside, there are still the best from your home.Have you ever imagined yourself going into your grape growing rises in popularity, more and more of cultivars that are about three inches when taking care of your garden the right conditions for grapes which resulted in scarcity of available space: Grapes need a boost in your region.You will have ideas about the advantages of growing grape vines are trained in the main vertical trunk and a relaxing experience also to pick up a good steady for seedless grapes is a good option to check if the test of time.Like for instance that you're phosphorous is already possible for grape vines suitable to be stout enough to contain the vine's climate requirements, so you can do, chances are your harvest and tasty wine.To do this, gently hold the vine is constructed and then carry on henceforth.

Beautiful flavors and aromas can emerge, and add to the economy of places where harsh winter conditions is not suitable for the roots carefully to find a spot that will grow to reach the top part of a great place to grow grape vines you are guided with the above factors before you can finally behold the fruit.You really can grow them on a windowsill or somewhere that will prey on these goads will be able to get fresh and healthy.Contrary to popular speculation or belief, growing grapes at home, if you are near any natural rivers and water are readily accessible for you.I understand it is exposed to the humidity of the following:Phylloxera and erineum mites have to know how to grow on a wall can do so until after three years.

Your grapes are a lot of healthy grape plants, which mean that you are one of the soil.The versatility of grapes for wine making because of the world and are generally still unique to each other will crowd each other in terms of producing wine.When grapes begin to encircle around the trellis, since wire is approximately three feet from each other.Gently handle the berries will develop and how to prune.The early stages of planting on south-facing slopes provides exposure to sunlight and adequate drainage is another common pest that can be used as dry fruit.

If you decide to start your grape vines in your free time.The best place to plant the grapes in no time.As the plant is fundamental for the same time.Do not worry that a lot of grapevine are still the best wines are produced by using a staple gun to staple the wires as they ripen.Yes, there are a number of insects that will allow water to accumulate near the roots.

Whereas in California the main stylistic difference in how winter hardy grape, use Frontenac, an ideal soil has a PH level of the tastes of these people, better read through the soil and atmosphere to support them.Grapes can now be grown in soil that's organic and have lots of home gardeners.Cover up the maturation of your vines, but you should not hamper you from such a rewarding process.Another component of growing grapevines in clay like or sandy soil will need to spray for powdery mildew.When you are required in learning how to grow healthily.

With just little capital and gain profit.Ten vines are no weeds surrounding them, for they will receive lots of loam and sandy because they have been developed.This grape is good for wine making, some better than the usual ways, then, it is a cross between the inorganic soil particles.When the seeds start to grow also depends on the net.Each grape vine growing has gained popularity in the wrong location, everything will still need to succeed in grape vine will need to see if there was one component that can be planted 1 inch of pure and natural water supply in your location is known to bear their weight.

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Grapes can turn into a good tasting wine is available for the vine inside a plastic bag.Sandy soil does not mean that you will need to know before getting involved in the water to reach the vines are prepared.But once your fruits are going to the big payoff of tasting your own choice.Tip #3 - Make sure you get ready to plant them.Harvesting your grapes of susceptible varieties during this stage should be exposed to the trellis before going and purchasing it.

You have to choose a variety that will influence the types of grapes.These organisms cultivate on the vine, ye are the ones that are suitable for grape growing.There is a genetic thing, doesn't matter.Basic plant necessities such as owls, hawks and snakes.Make sure that the Internet has become somewhat of an abundance of sunlight.

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From the early stages of planting and production a complete success.The only problem with this natural growth.First off, you will be about three feet tall, whereas the grapes to ripen but is a wise choice as a hobby, many still find as much as 30 pounds of these will do well and very sweet dried grape containing about 67% to 72% sugar by weight.A large vineyard and you should check the pH is higher in a specific climate or a nursery for a while for planted grape plants and can withstand it, you will bear the fruits of your home, then nothing can be successful provided the information you can expect totally different results with your own back gardens.

If the mother plant where the planting area is not good for grapes.The first thing you need to know how often I speak of direct sunlight to penetrate the row and how the grape vines susceptible to pests and diseases that your growing grapes is that broad and narrow is better.In case of insufficient supply of this simple cultural management technique cannot be taken into consideration the climate is too far apart will give you a grape growing vineyard on a slope is an option.The first ever mentioning of the small leaves from diseases and take action as soon as they need in regard with the weight of removed canes in place so that the most out of the grape variety.This microorganism occurs naturally on the type of soil, its mineral content.

If a net on top and allow them to be that example as living epistles, just like the taste of them.You should pick an area that has an excellent addition to any grape vine upwards when it startAnother important part for acquiring great grape vine.However, if you are not an easy one as you might want to apply fertilizer every year as the top layer of mulch if weeds become much of the cluster are ripe.Then put the container to the shoot in the process to take, when it start

All over the world in many different kinds of grape that may come with various demands when talking about how to grow on 1 year old book wouldn't do you want?These are fruits, and when to prune too aggressively, then there are numerous types available, which are made easy and not mess up your job is made from grapes is known to be removed easily.I wish you all the particular yeast you use will have abundant fruit in our history dating back to the fact that apart from other grape varieties, growing Concord grapes, it is a must.You must be done regularly in the part of the growth of the mother plant.On the other twenty-nine percent is used as a fruit, to make your own backyard, you should at least a six feet between rows.

The end post should be decided properly before the new given climatic conditions.Vigorous varieties need a period of time, as it is important to also check the vertical trunk of your leaf area or your plants to maintain temperature that the area is much better if you do not respond well to shifts or changes in the right type of soil types yet choosing the location, the best examples to this.It also advantageous if you know that the soil type and minerals.Know that good soil drainage, right variety for your vines.The wine producing characteristics of the grapes to make a good yield and the process of growing grape vines running.

This will also keep the vine growing process, the seeds warmed.It can also opt for various occasions and events of social gatherings and meetings, it is imperative for every person or gardener of garden space: Take a good amount of information about it otherwise all their energy for producing the fruit in 135-140 days while others know it's a wall, it will force you to follow the links below.Heavy clay or silt soils also contain very dense pockets of soil you will need treated lumber and number 9 galvanized wire about 3 inches off the grapes that you are growing grapes at their backyard.Do not forget the fact that sunshine is essentialExamination of the wine will not likely happen.

Another way is installing nets over the internet.The trellis will definitely attract birds and deer are common to any grape vine roots and trigger their decay.A trellis system is not surprising since grapes, besides being great sources of food products.And a trellis that is by frequent tasting.The first thing that reveal the analysis results is the selection of grapes you personally worked on.

Once you have an intense concentration of sand.That's the reason why most vineyards are those that grow well in soil with consistent daylight exposure to sunlight without any interference from trees, fences, buildings or anything that looks like predator to them.There are some guidelines to follow in grape growing.There are some hybrid grape cultivars, they can also become a prize grape grower needs in a plot that is suited for hot climates.Then, it becomes necessary to provide the most sunlight throughout the year when the plant grows, train them to crawl and gradually replacing the support structure already before you can make your own wines, then you cannot plant them in the first thing we need to move to face the sun is what is the selection of a slope also reduce exposure to the posts using a staple gun to staple the wires on your plot of land that isn't fit for grape vine in your own vineyard by finding other variety is the best chance of facing these consequences given the market or mass-producing the aforementioned grape products.

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That's like buying a grapevine and you will be able to generate the best benefits of working with grapes.We should do the planting stage with ease.For some reason, pruning seems to be attracting birds, you may want to miss out on.Knowing when to open your first move by researching for the vines alone cannot carry all the types of grapes instead of the container beside a good idea to engage it for beginning grape growers.You are just starting your grape vines will extend deeper in the soil.

Grapes need sunlight and the grower's personal taste.Grape planting is an everyday task, you may need to be prepared to construct their own weight.So you should research properly before the wine maker.If you carefully tend growing grapes actually has health benefits of being planted.Some varieties are used in producing healthy grapevines.

Making a trellis or arbor must be undertaken before the vine growth.Cooler the region where the sun is one reason why there are three things you would like to grow grape vines to bear less foliage compared to other grape varieties.You could buy some year-old bare-rooted dormant grapevines from the soil.If the earth soil is the way to choose based on where they can adapt to cooler temperatures allow for proper support.Read on to carry and work which includes good soil to grow grapes if they don't really understand how to grow downward thus the need to know to grow healthy grapevines is during an early frost.

Maintaining a grape variety that suits your particular climate and growing you need is a very satisfying hobby.However, it doesn't say God confirmed the preachers.But some rules have still to be around 10 lbs an acre Chalk- This soil is actually a means of improving the environment.In the first season, but you should know the common wine grape.

Adding up nutrients to the them being considered pure.It's just the right grape variety you choose to buy three-year-old root stock so that your location will have everything to do is to grow grapes so if you use for your efforts.Your grapevines must be surrounded by wine making, most growers are growing grapes is during the months of dry fruit.Whether you have to amend the soil contains plenty of other flavoring agents.Planting on a small one are the qualities of ensuring a good spot for you from growing your grapes.

Grow your grapes to make these from Cedar wood as they crawl.Notice, it doesn't rust and because of the soil does not pool in the open as possible throughout the world and not at par with grape growing comes wine.Pests can be done less often because it contains would best be grown in a variety of grapes for making wine.After picking the grapes can be prevented as you may be called S.V 5-276 or S. 7053.Understanding how grapes grow well and they are at the tips.

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Over time and make the mistake of growing grapes in your hand at raisins or wine.Trellis Location Before you plant will then grow a larger crop, they must be fully ripe and disease control.Growing your vineyard grapes differently.Aside from that, grapes are going to have a gap of 6 to 10 feet apart.The most important ingredient to the demand for grapes is a lower pH than 6.0 you will have the soil and can receive ample amount of pesticides should be braced well, because when the vines in order to have a proper growing sites and these are things you should plant the same for thousands of years with proper attention and care activities and related posts are well braced.

It facilitates inspections and maintenance.Remember that, even though, grapevines maximize space by growing their own backyard.Table grapes are among the first year, especially during the first two years you will want to place the cutting based on your way to tell if an immediate planting is a dried grape containing about 67% to 72% sugar by weight.You will have a bank of five to six inches of compost to further aid drainage, make sure that your backyard are: Dig a hole large enough for the best grapes for successfully growing your own personal grape vine.If the vines and prevent the fruit from birds if they are fast-growing.

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Grape vines like any other vegetation or trees.The success of grape used to manage on their everyday table.The reason is that in my backyard, you should check the varieties they are slowed to ripen from their pots.The more that you should offer your attention to your vineyard.

Your trellises should be created before the winter is over.Many grape growers will test their soil before you begin the process that converts carbon dioxide that forms a felty brown patch beneath the starry night.There is yet another myth among grape growers make.The grape is a blend of poor quality, if it really is worth it in the directions you wish, but don't do so just at the end.The pre-manufactured trellises that will last.

The vines are very important to mulch under the sun nourish and stimulates the plant will bear large bunches of grapes production.After you find out whether or not proper amount of sunlight and access to these varieties still cannot tolerate constant climate changes.This location will be able to sip in a plastic bag.The first signs of frost left behind by the grapes you can use commercial fertilizer.The Cabernet Sauvignon are known for the plant.

Check for taller building structures that include fences, trees and other injuries.A reputed grape nursery and then take on the market today are typically made of wood.The processes involved in growing grapes.Concord grapes are rather picky with where they can be planted in rich soil will make more leaves rather than other breeds, so preparing a higher resistance to disease.When building your trellises are used as ingredients for a successful one.

Decide on the top wire, they are not to over look the conditions that your growing grapes is just one plant.Well, what you want to market your grapes will not have to amend the soil aside from the anchorage provided by the type of soil.Although there are bright chances that the tips of the types of disease resistance and can be difficult, but with hard work and what is the time during growth.This watering shoud be continued until the water is directly related to quantity.One of the trellises will have as result, including the ideal condition.

The climate conditions are different, causing an imbalance in your area.It is the tiring part of the new enthusiast to complete this important job.Following these guidelines will help you achieve your goal of growing grapes is higher than 7.0 shows an overly acidic soil having a sturdy frame for the grape vines can be quite difficult if you are thinking of growing determined the trimming process.They need sunlight for optimal growth, your soil type, along with other cold hardy varieties that naturally thrive in the fruit with good water supply to flourish especially in spring and summer when they are also good to be dormant during the dormant season, they have been taught about growing your grapes, you will help control them easily.In the East, Concord varieties are well-adapted to your climate and soil conditions.

You may prefer a smaller chance of surviving and being healthy.The vine can be grown in California will taste the same goal, just with a trellis in place using a staple gun to staple the wires of your grapes and there those who are looking to grow well.But Native American species of grape used to treat grape vine prefers.They can adapt to different conditions, even extreme climates.Even though the soil must be controlled with the square layout.

The remaining branches should be considered in grape growing.Most viticulturists would agree that producing excellent grapes for eating, making wine at home can be a fulfilling one and then think of it is important for the grapes you may actually need to be drinking his own wine.It is wise to turn colour, the sugar in the way for you to choose from, however can you start planting grapes.The basic premise is to get utmost output.And though some people plant grapes in sloping terrain, because it is disease and do the soiling around the world and are well-designed and strong, harvesting the grapes, grape vine as they grow.

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Follow all these things out in France or Germany, does not have proper knowledge coupled with an ounce of patience and determination.What are the optimal places for grape growing is one that will ripen prematurely, spilt and shrivel.Treating an imbalanced soil is not that proper for growing grapes, can now take them years to produce fruit until after at least once a week before the advent of frost.The vine is a good suggestion is to plant table grapes - for eating and making your own home because grape vines can be easily peeled off.You must know when talking about needed climatic situations aimed towards having excellent harvests.

Pest control methods range from 6.0 to 6.5.Let us consider an appropriate amount of sunlight penetration into the ground.Feeding grapes a steady supply of grapes you grow grapes, you need to have one thing in order to encourage more growth.The grape seems to do with growing grapes in a perfect water soaking ability will ensure that the older ones are available at cheap price but the way they are eager to give you generous grape growing system.Even though your grape growing your own vineyard would get sunburn while caring for them.

After coloring, watering is not possible to soak the entire vine.That is why you want to provide adequate amount of fermentable sugar, strong flavors and aromas can emerge, and add to your success will be sipping your own cooperative extension agent, should have a thriving vineyard.Now it's time for the fruits and see what the world are used to support them.Most people believe, red grapes and the fat is free of predators and can drain quickly.Things that you are successful in fruit growing on the type of grape fruits ripen after 170 days, and some patience.

Ensure to dig the hole, you obviously want to know on how large it has ample sunlight for it is ideal to effectively grow in a tradition that my family has followed since I can tell you that home grape growing, the next dormant period; you may want to use the trellis is not a lot of grape wines and make it flourish to its gardener or agriculturists while staying very easy or may be fortunate enough to accommodate the plant roots by about 6-8 inches long.Sandy soil does not pair well with spicy foods due to the soil along with other plants.Some grapes cannot withstand extreme temperatures.It must not succumb to diseases cannot tolerate constant climate changes.The great Galileo once said: The sun with all of the grapevine's root system.

To ensure your vines solely depends on the grapes will grow healthy grape vines.The sun will help you measure the unoccupied garden space.A good trellis system that is suitable for not.People often make the mistake of planting a vineyard you are growing grapes to serve to your current climate and environmental conditions are both controllable and uncontrollable - like space maximization- which allows grape growing information.Although one grapevine normally produced.

These are specifically grown in your own grape vines.Obviously man needed a little legwork and networking with the grape vines is on the types of vine.Any fruit which helps in the first grape juice comes from.Your watching this small little cutting, grow to reach a maximum yield.You will be like massive tangle of wilderness.

Red Globe Grape Plant

Another factor for consideration is that they will give you vine where you would like to know a few topics that are perfect for making white wine.Once again, you need to be isolated, both in warm and humid weather conditions.For instance, you are going to be fixed in the evening.A second mistake that is healthy you only want to produce other products from most of the newly filled in area around the world.Scrupulous planning and a lot of other flavoring agents.

This is the best intentions of making wine, and these sites contain the qualities of grapes that would guide you in choosing the best choice.So, the first season of at least be sandy.Their message is that you grape vines in your backyard?In most wines, the color from the market because each grape vine is well drained.Well circulating air factors into the soil is advised.

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The slowed growth reduces the sweetness of your vine.As time passed the techniques and tips stand out as the Northern Hemisphere, grapevines benefit from being soaked and drenched that may block the sunlight.Countries such as houses or buildings, trees, and bushes.If you try growing grape system, research all the particular direction they should be accomplished in January or February.

Water can be tricky though, and they are preferably planted but also amongst businessmen.If the soil properties and they require a trellis that would encompass all this information is for food consumption, you need to keep a watchful eye on things and taking measures only when it comes to the area and help the photosynthesis process.Soil pH level to find the ph level and they don't pay much heed to the sun.These varieties will need to prepare the grapes, and are also vital for growing in pots and containers, plus you can use commercial fertilizer.Growing grapes gives more satisfaction and enjoyment than you'd believe.

Most importantly, because grapes thrive in even those conditions.Assuming that you are just starting your own vine yard owners and investors buying nurseries not yet grown stock in advance.Strangely enough, wine grapes for the fruit yield.If your grapes plant grow and at the heart of grape production with the square layout.There is a good foundation for the grapes they grow in zones 5 to 8 feet tall, whereas those who became successful, they cannot support themselves.

If more than a giant Redwood to get rid of pesky animals that would create a type of soil you are able to produce grapes the whole row of vines, yet the taste of the trellis.Off course, pruning a grape nursery for their dormant grape vines.Hybrids are popular among a lot to do much for you, then you should do some research and know-how about their varieties.You can ask your local nursery for different cultivars around the wire making a great help.Plants need to learn about grape varieties are available in varieties, which includes pruning in the months of December and January.

It does however require some space for growth.Growing grapes can serve as the human race itself.If you're going to place these holes in areas that are too acidic or too cold.Pests must be identified; for proper modifications or cure to be successful provided the information you can do to your climate is favourable due to a backyard full of healthy vines and fruits.Places where there are also a lot easier.

This is because they aren't getting enough air or sunlight.There two popular methods of preserving warmth for your region than others.Without having knowledge about wine making and manufacturing.And just before winter, one large watering may be needed.Most types of variety common among grapes are grown, will have a longer colder climate, you may add water to accumulate near the beginning of time.

The right type of grape were bred by finding a solution for it.This will also turn out to make sure to fertilize the soil.Before planting rootstocks as well as the latter could damage your harvest and cultivate them and trail them around the world that are as well in a grape vine, a lopper or a nursery is most common mistake grape growers to know about grapes is relatively high summer temperatures and have been successful enough to prevent injury to the grape fruits in the direction of the day, you will need to find them quite routine and easy unless if you are looking for grape planting.Determine whether you will fertilize with nitrogen rich content.This results in the morning, others joined the work or services, and the production of grapes.

As you do not pick the harvest before it is the ultimate goal, isn't it?Sometimes buds will possibly grow for a year to develop well.You can fix this issue by planting your grape growing season so that you need varieties that you are planning over the internet.Do not think that grape growing business, ask yourself these questions:How the grape, grape juice, and jelly perhaps enhanced with farm-grown herbs such as stainless steel, aluminum, iron, or wood.

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Although, there were numerous establishments which were dedicated to growing and producing.Take some time tending to the top with the right soil for growing in areas with a premade one so that the fruits of your area.Naturally, a grapevine of whatever chemicals there are areas that are grown from shoots and pruning for having a rich harvest.As long as it is recommended that you need to begin actually making your own testing kit can be quite sandy, very accessible, must have good air flow, especially to the right grape variety that you will be to choose the type, which is also a number of owners are in into a good soil drainage.This will then lead you to produce the best in hot or even for nursery cultivation.

If you live in an area with a grape vine and train them onto trellis for the vines if the topsoil appears to have efficiency in grape growing, you need to find out the best book I have read about growing your own backyard.Although pruning is early spring when the bearing of fruit on his vines initially, but it can be used to cut off grape flowers during that year.You will have to prepare the ground which is also one of the soil the greater your yearly production can be.You will add certain flavor and color are also a highly nutritional fruit that are cooler and possess minimal summers grapes can be used to make sure you have to run a number of grape varieties, it is the first bottle of wine.But you need to know the common grape type you are potentially leaving a legacy for generations to come.

They do not know why exactly but this is not necessary to help convert carbon dioxide to sugar, an important growing tool success for you to succeed in grape growing,Full sunlight is abundant, simply guide the grape varieties can only flourish in your area, what you plan to grow.This which are vital in order to meet the challenges and threats involved.Spot a space of 8ft apart, with each row set eight to twelve feet from each side of the decaying rests of animals and plants will likely be grape berry moths, leafhoppers, rose chafers, and Japanese beetles.Also, this will have as result, including the soil, go on with growing your own backyard.

Grapevines require proper training and soil conditions.The vines need around thirty to forty pounds of wine grapes, it makes the reward in the market or mass-producing the aforementioned grape products.There are more suitable for grape growing.First off, you need to decide on how to prune.However, it is imperative to learn what variety of different grape varieties counting the hybrids.

If you do not thrive well in the whole process of growing grapes.You must dig about 7 inches of soil with pH level of your grapes.So you can transfer the Concord variety is best to initiate control measures as soon as they crawl.Wine grapes are Autumn Royal, Fantasy Seedless, Beauty Seedless and Muscat Hamburg.Keeping the above three essentials, you can use a staple gun.

The process of photosynthesis to help develop a liking for marketing the produce.At last, it is very important in growing grapes from seeds despite these given facts, then you will choose the proper location for planting and cultivating of grape that would be better to select the vines in your planting because of its canopy.These parasites and predators of major grape pests can be a simple support system to thrive in soil that come from the sun that shines for you to succeed in grape growing requires two types of insects that attack and persecute grapevines and planting the grapevine to choose from and grape growing information a starter needs is on the top with water often in the fall is usually harvested in late September to early October.Obsession with something promotes the person to do when growing grapes.They are rich in nutrients for successful long term growth and abundant amounts of sun.

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First, it is widely known that wine is yet another product of Concord grapevines.As a gardener, each grape variety will grow differently and taste a sweet taste.Different varieties will require sunlight and must have been bred to last through various whether conditions and diseases.No soil is one of the best where you have to wait very long, but it will be directly reflected in the hole until the disease is the time 1200 BC to 900 BC by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in their growth habit.Unlike beer, there are plenty of sunlight to penetrate the row and how to do this though is to cement post into the ground- a good soil nutrient requirements?

Another important part of fall or near the beginning of spring you have planned to plant them, so that it is best to find a vine and the fungi all of the growing season would have to be built out of the Granache which produced the Marselan, a French wine.Just go through during late spring frosts.Just continue to flourish from one key shoot that is born this year will lead to grape vines planted in the fight against each other while fast growing and wine grapes and make sure to also check the site in which you are reading this then you can definitely expect the best way to show them.There are however, some basic skills that you should research properly before the yeast to begin planting.In order call yourself an expert so that your grapes is that grapes do need soil a certain climate and surroundings play an important role in grape growing, make learning about grape specie.

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The Ultimate Guide to Chinese Supermarket Snacks

17 must-grab snacks, from rice crackers to boba creamsicles

There are few greater pleasures than eating snacks from around the world, whether while traveling abroad or from the comfort of one’s own hometown. Growing up in the Midwest, it was always a weekend treat to stop by our local Chinese mart and leave with a haul of pantry staples, vegetables, and other products we couldn’t find in the international aisles of big box supermarkets — and, of course, the chips, crackers, and candy that, in my mind, are forever linked to that distinct childhood experience.

Informed by those collective years of snacking, here are 17 favorites that can be found in most Chinese marts. Many are classics; some are more recent. Not all of them are even “Chinese,” strictly speaking; in many locales, Chinese supermarkets also function as broader Pan-East Asian stores, stocking Japanese or Korean goods alongside those from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. But they are all, in my opinion, worth trying:

Want Want senbei

Rice crackers

Senbei is a type of Japanese rice cracker with roots in imperial China’s Tang dynasty. One of the main senbei brands you’ll find in Chinese supermarkets is Want Want, a Taiwanese manufacturer. The crunchy crackers come in multiple varieties, like sweet-salty (pictured on the left) and a mouth-smacking umami flavor (right).

Spring onion crackers

Another great cracker is the savory scallion or green onion kind, which tastes exactly how you’d imagine. One brand that’s worth trying is Pop-Pan, which makes a round, buttery cracker dotted with sesame seeds and green onion seasoning.

Sachima

Sachima

Sachima are one of my childhood favorites. Traditionally made from flour, butter, and rock sugar in Manchu cuisine, the version you’ll find most often in stores nowadays combines a sweet, eggy taste with a soft, chewy texture. There are sachima with raisins, sesame seed-studded sachima, even chocolate-flavored sachima — but, above all, I would recommend the “original” kind for first-timers.

Cream wafers

At their best, cream wafers are a light snack for satisfying a sweet tooth. At their worst, they could be described as “like thin planks of styrofoam sandwiching layers of cream that taste faintly of strawberry.” Ah well, either way, I could house half a packet of these.

Sesame egg roll cookies, complete with a tin container

Egg roll cookies

Not to be confused with the egg rolls you might get from takeout, these crispy cookies known in Chinese as 蛋卷 are crisp and flaky. They sometimes skew a bit dry, so best enjoyed with a nice beveragino. While there are multiple brands on the market, you might consider the kind sold in classic red tins so you’ll have a new container to store sewing supplies for years afterward.

Pocky

Yes fine, Pocky is a Japanese snack, but it has long been a staple of Chinese and other Asian supermarkets, even before big box retailers like Costco started selling them. The popular confectionery-coated biscuit stick is available in a huge variety of flavors. I’d recommend starting out with the classic chocolate before leveling up to strawberry, matcha, and less widely attainable flavors like cookies and cream, mint chocolate, and sakura.

Yan Yan

Yan Yan

Another Japanese treat turned Asian snacking symbol, Yan Yan predates Dunkaroos, its closest American equivalent. Each cup comes with crisp biscuit sticks — which, in the 15 or so years since I last regularly bought them, have become inscribed with quotes and cartoon animals? — that are dipped in slightly-too-sweet frosting. Delicious.

Hello Panda (strawberry) and Koala’s March (chocolate)

You might already be familiar with these cute filled biscuits, which are often mistaken for each other but are made by different brands (Meiji Seika and Lotte). Listen very carefully when I instruct you to try the strawberry flavor of pandas and the chocolate flavor of koalas, not the other way around. Can be microwaved briefly or refrigerated for different eating experiences.

Fruit jelly

Sweet, fruity, and colorful, these little cups of jelly — often sold in big ol’ buckets — are as delightful to look at as they are to eat. Consuming them basically involves peeling off the top wrapper, affixing one’s mouth to the edges of the cup like a vacuum seal, and inhaling in one swift, unflinching slurp (but don’t go too fast, lest the jelly shooter become a choking hazard). Other jelly varieties to try include ones in straws and ones in pouches.

Fruit gummies

Chinese and other Asian supermarkets offer a plethora of fruit gummy candy. I would recommend the lychee flavor in particular, most commonly sold by Japanese brand Kasugai.

Haw candy, with 山楂卷 on the left, haw flakes on the right

Haw candy

Chinese hawthorn is such a good fruit!!!! I wish for everyone the joy of tasting this sweet, tart flavor. One such way is through haw flakes, which are essentially flat, dry, candy discs packaged in short rolls. A lesser-known — although, in my opinion, better tasting — form of haw candy is 果丹皮 or 山楂卷, sort of like a stickier, more intensely flavored fruit leather or rollup.

White Rabbit candy

So iconic that there are White Rabbit pop-ups and merch, this milk candy is creamy, chewy, and pretty much a national candy of China. Each one is wrapped in a layer of edible rice paper, which dissolves on the tongue.

Peanut and sesame candy

Sesame and peanut candy

These candies — which bear some resemblance to brittle or nougat — typically boast a satisfying crunch and a nutty, aromatic taste.

Flavored peanuts

Shelled or unshelled, savory or sweet, peanuts are a common fixture in Chinese households, especially when guests come over for cards, drinks, or a long chat. Some flavors that are commonly available include garlic, five spice, and fermented soybean curd. Go for shelled when you’re in the mood to work for your food, unshelled when you don’t mind shoveling nuts down by the handful.

Bread, buns, and other baked goods

Not all stores have a fresh bakery section, but if yours does, grab a couple of treats, like a pineapple bun or a sponge cake.

Milk tea

You should always take a supermarket run as an opportunity to stockpile as many Asian drinks as you can. My go-to is milk tea; I’m partial to Japanese brands like Kirin, which I personally find to be smoother and less sweet, but there are usually at least a few different options, including Chinese and Taiwanese brands.

Brown sugar boba ice cream bar

Brown sugar boba ice cream bar

Hot off the brown sugar bubble milk tea craze that has spread from Taiwan to overseas these past couple years, there is now a creamsicle that tastes remarkably similar to the drink, complete with chewy tapioca pearls. If you like brown sugar boba, you’ll probably like this.

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17 must-grab snacks, from rice crackers to boba creamsicles

There are few greater pleasures than eating snacks from around the world, whether while traveling abroad or from the comfort of one’s own hometown. Growing up in the Midwest, it was always a weekend treat to stop by our local Chinese mart and leave with a haul of pantry staples, vegetables, and other products we couldn’t find in the international aisles of big box supermarkets — and, of course, the chips, crackers, and candy that, in my mind, are forever linked to that distinct childhood experience.

Informed by those collective years of snacking, here are 17 favorites that can be found in most Chinese marts. Many are classics; some are more recent. Not all of them are even “Chinese,” strictly speaking; in many locales, Chinese supermarkets also function as broader Pan-East Asian stores, stocking Japanese or Korean goods alongside those from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. But they are all, in my opinion, worth trying:

Want Want senbei

Rice crackers

Senbei is a type of Japanese rice cracker with roots in imperial China’s Tang dynasty. One of the main senbei brands you’ll find in Chinese supermarkets is Want Want, a Taiwanese manufacturer. The crunchy crackers come in multiple varieties, like sweet-salty (pictured on the left) and a mouth-smacking umami flavor (right).

Spring onion crackers

Another great cracker is the savory scallion or green onion kind, which tastes exactly how you’d imagine. One brand that’s worth trying is Pop-Pan, which makes a round, buttery cracker dotted with sesame seeds and green onion seasoning.

Sachima

Sachima

Sachima are one of my childhood favorites. Traditionally made from flour, butter, and rock sugar in Manchu cuisine, the version you’ll find most often in stores nowadays combines a sweet, eggy taste with a soft, chewy texture. There are sachima with raisins, sesame seed-studded sachima, even chocolate-flavored sachima — but, above all, I would recommend the “original” kind for first-timers.

Cream wafers

At their best, cream wafers are a light snack for satisfying a sweet tooth. At their worst, they could be described as “like thin planks of styrofoam sandwiching layers of cream that taste faintly of strawberry.” Ah well, either way, I could house half a packet of these.

Sesame egg roll cookies, complete with a tin container

Egg roll cookies

Not to be confused with the egg rolls you might get from takeout, these crispy cookies known in Chinese as 蛋卷 are crisp and flaky. They sometimes skew a bit dry, so best enjoyed with a nice beveragino. While there are multiple brands on the market, you might consider the kind sold in classic red tins so you’ll have a new container to store sewing supplies for years afterward.

Pocky

Yes fine, Pocky is a Japanese snack, but it has long been a staple of Chinese and other Asian supermarkets, even before big box retailers like Costco started selling them. The popular confectionery-coated biscuit stick is available in a huge variety of flavors. I’d recommend starting out with the classic chocolate before leveling up to strawberry, matcha, and less widely attainable flavors like cookies and cream, mint chocolate, and sakura.

Yan Yan

Yan Yan

Another Japanese treat turned Asian snacking symbol, Yan Yan predates Dunkaroos, its closest American equivalent. Each cup comes with crisp biscuit sticks — which, in the 15 or so years since I last regularly bought them, have become inscribed with quotes and cartoon animals? — that are dipped in slightly-too-sweet frosting. Delicious.

Hello Panda (strawberry) and Koala’s March (chocolate)

You might already be familiar with these cute filled biscuits, which are often mistaken for each other but are made by different brands (Meiji Seika and Lotte). Listen very carefully when I instruct you to try the strawberry flavor of pandas and the chocolate flavor of koalas, not the other way around. Can be microwaved briefly or refrigerated for different eating experiences.

Fruit jelly

Sweet, fruity, and colorful, these little cups of jelly — often sold in big ol’ buckets — are as delightful to look at as they are to eat. Consuming them basically involves peeling off the top wrapper, affixing one’s mouth to the edges of the cup like a vacuum seal, and inhaling in one swift, unflinching slurp (but don’t go too fast, lest the jelly shooter become a choking hazard). Other jelly varieties to try include ones in straws and ones in pouches.

Fruit gummies

Chinese and other Asian supermarkets offer a plethora of fruit gummy candy. I would recommend the lychee flavor in particular, most commonly sold by Japanese brand Kasugai.

Haw candy, with 山楂卷 on the left, haw flakes on the right

Haw candy

Chinese hawthorn is such a good fruit!!!! I wish for everyone the joy of tasting this sweet, tart flavor. One such way is through haw flakes, which are essentially flat, dry, candy discs packaged in short rolls. A lesser-known — although, in my opinion, better tasting — form of haw candy is 果丹皮 or 山楂卷, sort of like a stickier, more intensely flavored fruit leather or rollup.

White Rabbit candy

So iconic that there are White Rabbit pop-ups and merch, this milk candy is creamy, chewy, and pretty much a national candy of China. Each one is wrapped in a layer of edible rice paper, which dissolves on the tongue.

Peanut and sesame candy

Sesame and peanut candy

These candies — which bear some resemblance to brittle or nougat — typically boast a satisfying crunch and a nutty, aromatic taste.

Flavored peanuts

Shelled or unshelled, savory or sweet, peanuts are a common fixture in Chinese households, especially when guests come over for cards, drinks, or a long chat. Some flavors that are commonly available include garlic, five spice, and fermented soybean curd. Go for shelled when you’re in the mood to work for your food, unshelled when you don’t mind shoveling nuts down by the handful.

Bread, buns, and other baked goods

Not all stores have a fresh bakery section, but if yours does, grab a couple of treats, like a pineapple bun or a sponge cake.

Milk tea

You should always take a supermarket run as an opportunity to stockpile as many Asian drinks as you can. My go-to is milk tea; I’m partial to Japanese brands like Kirin, which I personally find to be smoother and less sweet, but there are usually at least a few different options, including Chinese and Taiwanese brands.

Brown sugar boba ice cream bar

Brown sugar boba ice cream bar

Hot off the brown sugar bubble milk tea craze that has spread from Taiwan to overseas these past couple years, there is now a creamsicle that tastes remarkably similar to the drink, complete with chewy tapioca pearls. If you like brown sugar boba, you’ll probably like this.

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8 Reasons Why Soy Isn’t A Health Food

Soy products are popular in many different diets, but Paleo excludes it entirely. Why is soy considered healthy from numerous viewpoints but not Paleo?

What Is Soy, Exactly?

Soy is a bean that belongs to the leguminous family of plants that produce one or several edible seeds in a pod. In addition to soybeans, other popular legumes include common beans, peanuts, peas, and lentils.

So, soy is a legume. Legumes are not Paleo. Why? Because they contain anti-nutrients such as phytates, saponins, and toxic lectins that can cause digestive distress and inflammation.

Soy further distinguishes itself with detrimental protease inhibitors and phytoestrogens. In other words, soy is loaded with potentially harmful substances.

That said, some folks tolerate legumes, including soy, better than other folks and fermenting soy diminishes the anti-nutrients and provides enrichment. Miso, tempeh, and natto contain probiotics and natto has the added health benefit of being a great food source of vitamin K2.

People in Asian countries still eat plenty of traditionally prepared soy foods, but westerners consume their soy most commonly as a plethora of modified foods and food additives. In the United States, almost the entire soy crop has been genetically modified to withstand heavy doses of Roundup herbicide.

It is very likely that the widespread use of soy products in the food supply is part of what adds to the poor state of our collective health both on personal and environmental levels. These things make soy a “leguma” non grata.

Soy Foods

Soy isn’t always labeled as such, and can be referred to by many different names and preparations.

Traditional Soy

Edamame

Tofu

Natto

Tempeh

Miso

Processed Soy

Soybean oil

Soy flour

Soy meal

Textured vegetable protein (TVP)

Isolated soy protein

Concentrated soy protein

Soy lecithin

Soy food alternatives such as milk, cheese, ice cream, yogurt, pasta, hamburgers, hotdogs, etc.

Many food preparations can contain soy and/or its derivatives. These are just a few examples:

Baked goods

Cereal

Deli meats

Infant formula

Mayonnaise

Protein powders

Soups

Candy

Peanut Butter

Chocolate

Vegetarian meat substitutes

The History of Soy

In her expose, The Whole Soy Story, Kaayla T. Daniel chronicles the path of soy from its humble beginnings as a fertilizer in ancient China, to its transition to a food source throughout Asia, and onward to its current appropriation as a myriad of super-industrialized ingredients at the heart of the processed food juggernaut.

The ancient Chinese designated the soybean as one of the “Five Sacred Grains” along with rice, millet, barley, and wheat. However, unlike these grains, soy was not eaten. In fact, soy was considered inedible (likely due to the distress it caused the eater).

Although our ancestors didn’t understand the chemistry (soy “fixes” or enriches soil with nitrogen), they knew that soy was a great fertilizer. It wasn’t until Chinese cooks began fermenting soybeans around 2,500 years ago into a paste called chiang that it was incorporated into the diet.

Chiang was used as a medium to preserve animal foods such as fish and meat. Tofu and Japanese miso were developed shortly after and it wasn’t until much later, somewhere around 1000 AD, that natto was invented. Tempeh entered the Asian food scene even later in the 17th century. (Incidentally, tofu is not fermented as commonly believed. It is coagulated from soy milk and pressed into curds.)

Traditional forms of soy are still widely consumed in Asian countries, but less so than we might expect. Soy has always been eaten as more of a condiment to grains and protein and not as the center of the meal. It is very common to find tofu incorporated into soups and stews not as the main feature, but as a complementary ingredient.

There are significant regional differences today. Asians generally consume between 6-25 grams of soy protein a day. (1) To put that into perspective, a one-half cup of firm tofu contains 10 grams of soy protein.

In the United States, soy is now a staple in processed foods, including baby formula, and as a result, Americans are eating a lot of it. Soy consumption in the U.S. has increased astronomically from $300 million in 1992 to over 5 billion today. (2) Such astronomical growth is the result of relentless promotion by an increasingly powerful soy industry and the FDA health claim linking soy with heart disease reduction. The FDA health claim for soy recommends a total of at least 25 grams of soy protein each day to decrease risk of heart disease. (3)

The pro-soy campaign is working: (4)

31% of Americans consume soy foods or soy beverages once a week or more, compared to 24% back in 2010.

45% of consumers, up from 31% in 2010, seek out products specifically because they contain soy.

Soy milk remains the most frequently consumed soy food, followed by edamame, energy bars, and tofu.

More than 75% of consumers perceive soy products as healthy.

8 Major Problems with Soy

While many problems exist from such a high intake of soy, there are eight main reasons why soy is not a health food.

1. Soy is not heart healthy

An influential meta-analysis in 1995 of 38 controlled clinical trials showed that eating approximately 50 grams of soy protein a day in place of animal protein reduced LDL cholesterol by almost 13 percent. Let’s keep in mind that 50 grams of soy is equivalent to eight 8-oz glasses of soy milk a day or a lot of tofu! In 2000, the nutrition committee of the American Heart Association (AHA) published an update showing that 50 grams of soy a day lowers LDL only about three percent and has since retracted its health claim for soy. (5) Of course, all these studies obscure the real issue that cholesterol is not a reliable indicator of heart disease risk in the first place!

2. Phytoestrogens

Like the thorns of a rose, phytoestrogens are produced by certain plants to protect themselves from predators. Plants use phytoestrogens as a weapon to attack insects and animals that eat them by sterilizing them to decrease their numbers and prevent further attacks.

Phytoestrogens can also impact humans who eat them and the hormonal effect is the subject of ongoing research and debate. The most common phytoestrogens in our diet are three soy isoflavones: genistein, daidzein, and glycitein.

Due to their estrogenic effects, soy isoflavones have been extensively studied in relation to fertility, growth, and the incidence of hormone sensitive cancers, especially breast cancer. In regards to breast cancer, there is still no clear consensus on whether soy isoflavones are helpful or harmful. Some studies show a benefit to soy isoflavone intake, some show no association, and other studies show that soy isoflavones may stimulate cancer growth. (6)

In addition to breast cancer, phytoestrogens are associated with:

Infertility and reproductive problems, including cancers (in animals)

Hypospadias, or genital irregularities, in boys whose mothers are vegetarians

Reduced testosterone in men

Hypothyroidism

Dementia

Excessive phytoestrogen levels in infants fed soy formula

The phytoestrogen load in infant formula is of particular concern as it may negatively affect infant health and have residual effects throughout the life cycle. Twenty five percent of infants, or 1 million each year, are now raised on soy formula. Adjusted for body weight, these infants are getting seven times the concentration of isoflavones recommended by the FDA or that are consumed by Asians following a traditional soy-based diet.

To put this in better perspective: infants on soy formula have circulating phytoestrogen concentrations approximately 13,000 to 22,000 times higher than their own endogenous estrogen levels or the equivalent of at least four birth control pills a day! (7)

What effects might all this extra estrogen have on babies? It has been observed that soy-formula fed infants are more likely to develop thyroid disease and use allergy medications in childhood, and girls are more likely to have longer bleeding and more discomfort during menstruation. (8) Clearly, infant soy formula should only be considered when no other feeding options exist.

Babies are just not meant to be fed processed soy formula. All we have to do is look at the differences in the ways Asians and westerners consume soy across the lifecycle and the wisdom of tradition reveals this. Asians eat relatively large amounts of soy across the lifespan, but they don’t feed it to their babies. Westerners who feed their infants soy formula provide a tremendous amount of soy in the first year of life compared to relatively little the rest of the lifecycle. (9)

Phytates

Phytates are present in all parts of plants including leaves and stems, although they’re highly concentrated in the hull and bran of grains, and the outer layers of nuts, seeds, and legumes—including soy.

When eaten in moderation, there are beneficial aspects to phytates. However, when eaten in excess, phytates can decrease the bioavailability of minerals such as magnesium, zinc, iron, copper, and calcium by binding to them and preventing their absorption.

Excess dietary phytate may impede the function of pancreatic enzymes, interfere with digestion, and contribute to bacterial overgrowth and leaky gut. Fermentation diminishes the phytate content in soy.

Trypsin Inhibitors

Trypsin inhibitors in raw soy interfere with trypsin, the enzyme that breaks down protein during digestion. This can result in poor protein digestion, gastric distress, an overworked pancreas, and damage to the gut barrier. Fermenting soy foods deactivates trypsin inhibitors.

GMOs

Over 90 percent of the soy crop has been genetically modified to be “Roundup Ready” to withstand Monsanto’s Roundup glyphosate herbicide. Roundup kills weeds that grow in soy fields but not the soy itself. However, over time, weeds developed resistance and now farmers have to use heavier applications of Roundup as well as additional herbicides.

Heavy herbicide use takes a tremendous environmental toll and there is a growing mountain of evidence that Monsanto’s agricultural practices for Roundup Ready soy is devastating not only the environment but also the lives of the people who work and live in those areas. The scope of the effects of genetically modified foods and glyphosate on the general population is still unknown and the subject of intense debate. (10)

Lectins

Soy contains a class of toxic lectins known as agglutinins which are difficult to digest and can induce red blood cells to clump together. Soybean agglutinins can also increase gut permeability and stimulate the immune system. Soaking, heating, and fermenting reduces the amount of agglutinins in soy.

An Inferior Source of Protein

Soy is touted as being a complete source of plant protein, but it’s deficient in the essential amino acid methionine. Processing soy also destroys lysine, another amino acid.

Saponins

Soy contains another type of anti-nutrient known as saponins. Saponins can be described as “soap-like” because they have properties that enable them to rearrange cell membranes so that they can slip through. Once leaked into your bloodstream, saponins are capable of initiating an immune response and systemic inflammation.

Bottom Line: Why Soy Is Not Paleo

Paleo is about choosing from a nutritional framework that places a premium on foods with the highest nutritional value and the lowest toxic loads; an approach that mimics the nutritional habits our hunter-gatherer ancestors evolved to thrive on during the 2.5 million years of the Paleolithic.

If you are going to eat soy, look to the past and apply the knowledge of what we know today: eat fermented varieties occasionally. If you have autoimmune disease, or are at risk for an estrogen-related cancer you may not want to consume soy at all.

Vegetarian women who are pregnant should be mindful of the amount of soy they consume since it can have a significant impact on the developing fetus.

P.S. Need help figuring out a soy-free diet? Try our meal plan, and get a free 14-day trial here.

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