How do I pick an eggplant?
kframe19
16 years ago
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my first eggplant ... how to keep the pickings?
Comments (3)Vieja, Congratulations on your eggplant success! I tend to try to pick mine BEFORE the shine is gone. But I still used them if they are a little bit wimpy. The longer they sit in the fridge, the more brown, wrinkled and pitted looking they will get. If it's more brown than purple, I throw them away. Also, if you cut into them, and the flesh or the seeds are brown, then it's a little on the old side for tasty use. I'd say mine typically last about a week at max in the fridge. The thing to do is grow more than one plant to always have enough for parm and to give away. You can also try using them in other dishes such as stir-fry. Or you can prepare zuchini slices similar to the way you do eggplant to have enough veg for one casserole, or sub one storeboughe eggplant along with mostly your home grown ones. I've never gotten a huge eggplant like those in the stores, but then mine have also never been bitter, as store-bought ones can sometimes be. Enjoy your continued garden success! Susan...See Morehow do you know when eggplant are ready?
Comments (2)As Dave stated, eggplant are used as immature fruit. They can used at anytime up till they lose their sheen. As they ripen, they get pithy and seedy. You need to know the cultivar, they range in size from golfball to football size. This is Slim Jim, the smallest cultivar that I have grown but there are samller ones....See MoreWhen do I pick my soybeans and what do I do with them?
Comments (2)Well I went out and pulled off the dark brown/black ones that have dried out. Cracking open the shell was a lot like cracking open some peanuts. Anyways, the beans that came out were perfect. I still have the original batch of soybeans from the asian market. My grown ones look almost exactly the same. The only difference is that mine are just not quite as fat. Also I'm growing some mung beans. Same deal there, I pulled off a dry pod and cracked it open. The beans look the same as the bag of mung beans I grew them from. I'm still amazed I got any beans at all from these plants. I mean I truly treated them like crap. They were not at the edge of my balcony but close to my door. So they only got direct sunlight for about 5 hours a day. The stuff at the edge get 8 or 9 hours. I grew them in crappy $4 for 40 pound "organic" potting soil. No fertilizers added or anything. I really haven't been very diligent with watering them either. These bean plants never had any good looking leaves. They've all been full of brown spots and frayed edges. I've built one of those earthbox type self watering containers and have a tomato plant and basil plant in it. They've grown so quick and look so healthy. I'm going to build some more and I want to try a soybean plant in there to see how it does when it's treated nice....See MoreDo I have a bone to pick, should I pick it, and who pays for it?
Comments (13)The reason one window in the bedroom is operable is in order to meet the code requirement for an emergency escape and rescue opening in all bedrooms. I have many times advised homeowners on the GW to not allow a builder to use the cryptic convention of using 60 to mean 72" or 6'-0" on the elevation drawings. (By the way, in my experience, 60 means 72" as silly as that seems) All window sizes should be dimensioned in rough opening feet - inches for the benefit of the framer. All windows should be specified separately for the benefit of the supplier in a Window Schedule that shows the manufacturer, model, rough opening, glass type, color, mullions, hardware, etc. Otherwise you are asking for mistakes. You might ask the GC where the horizontal mullion/sash rail is in the middle of the windows that were ordered for the front of the house. Something stinks; I think someone is making you take responsibility for their unprofessional mistakes. I not only provide clients with window schedules, I insist on reviewing the order before it is submitted which is a tedious and thankless job since all manufacturers use different cryptic conventions for their order sheets. I have never checked an order where there wasn't a mistake and some of them would have been very expensive to correct after delivery. Sometimes a window manufacturer will make a mistake with a correct order but that can be corrected at no cost to the owner. The issue here is documentation. If the correct windows were documented all errors should be corrected at no cost to the owner with no debate. I should also add that in the past 40 years I've known only one GC to order through a lumberyard/box store instead of a wholesale window supplier and the resulting mistakes in that order were the worst I've ever seen....See Morelindac
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