'Italian' so what the heck is Italian?

17 years ago

I'm just in from the greenhouse and potting up some basil. It will have a last run of a couple weeks before going outdoors in what should be warm, warm conditions. (I'm hopin' that'll be a couple weeks. ;o)

The name on the seed packet was "Italian" so what the heck is Italian? I go back in and do a little research - a large-leaf variety . . . Well, "Nufar" is a large-leaf variety. Except Nufar is fusarium wilt resistant. Fusarium is the bane of the basil grower - along with slugs and cool weather.

Darn it! I used old seed that I guess I'm still trying to get rid of from - - I don't know when, the date has faded off the packet. Then I find a few ponies of Nufar. How do you spell - relief? Gosh, I only remember that silly name because of how weird it is.

The last 3 days I've been trying to remember the name of my broccoli. Embarrassingly, I gave the neighbor a few plants and couldn't remember "Packman!" It wasn't until a more lucid moment in the early hours of this morning that the name finally came to me. Doggoneit, I've been growing this variety for 3 or 4 years . . .

What was before it? Well, there was Premier and then before that was Green Comet. I really liked Green Comet but I don't even know if I could find the seed, anymore.

Then there were those "Fantastic" tomatoes. I thought they were the cat's pajamas after years of growing Earlianna and Early Girls. I still grow a few Early Girls and think Earlianna is out there, somewhere. I haven't grown Fantastic in probably 20 years! Moved on . . . always a half mile behind but always catching up with modern trends, that's me!

Corn . . . I go back to Golden Bantam and remember when uh, what was it . . . something else . . . well, it was a big hit . . . then there was ummmm . . . well, there were quite a few years of what was . . . Oh Yeah! Jubilee!! I liked that name and it was a pretty good sweet corn. But then I moved on. Of course there were those years when I lived where I could barely grow corn. I still remember "Polar V" - gosh, what a compromise!

I've moved on!! This quality of memory is a curse! Even when I can remember - it's a curse! I don't need or want to remember all these things!

digitS'

You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or my work. ~ Sherlock Holmes on being informed that the earth circles the sun

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Comments (9)

jclepine
17 years ago
And this is one of the bigger parts of why I like this forum so very much.

Jennifer
billie_ladybug
17 years ago
So digit, I take it those medapause meds haven't kicked in yet :-0

Billie

You know your old when you walk into a room and think about the hereafter...

What the heck was I here after??
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david52 Zone 6
17 years ago
Ok, I went and hung them fancy, copper plant tags off of all my fruit trees, so I would know the variety and the root stock.

I just can't remember where I bought them. And, of course, the one red foliage plumb tree, which is growing like a freakin' weed and has the best plums, is the one that the tag fell off of, somewhere, sometime.
billie_ladybug
17 years ago
"I just can't remember where I bought them." The tags or the trees?? You know I have tried everything I can think of to keep track, including triple tagging. If you ever figure out that plum, let me know. I'm looking for a good black plum for Colorado.

Billie
bpgreen
17 years ago
A while back, I read an article that had three signs that you're aging. The first is that your eyesight starts to go. Fortunately that hasn't happened to me yet. The second is that your hearing starts to go. Again, I'm still lucky. I can't remember what the third one is, but I saved the article. Unfortunately, the ink seems to have faded or something, because I can't read it. My daughter grabbed it from me (not too hard, since I was holding it so far away). She started reading it, but she mumbles so bad anymore that I couldn't understand her.

I wish I could remember the third sign so I could be sure I'm not getting old.
Skybird - z5, Denver, Colorado
17 years ago
You guys are funny! So what is thisÂanother "You know youÂre olde when..." thread?

All of the above, and........

You know youÂre old when you get hit in the head and the first thing your doctor says to you is that itÂs much worse than it might have been because youÂre oldÂand your brain has shrunk so it sloshes around more in your skull! (At least it's just my brain that's shrinking and not my whole head!)

And you know youÂre old when you think itÂs cool that youÂre able to find a female doctorÂsince no such critter existed when you were a kid!

Uhhh! WasnÂt this thread supposed to be something about Italian? I forget!

;-)
Skybird
digit
Original Author
17 years ago
"You know youÂre olde when..." . . . your mind becomes cluttered with information of consequence to only polite, patient young people.

Upon being apprised of the true nature of the solar system by an amazed Watson who has just learned that Holmes did not know this simple fact of physics:

"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."

"To forget it!"

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it."

digitS' scratching noggin while trying to forget and remember at the same time
billie_ladybug
17 years ago
I guess my attic must have come with bookshelves cuz I can pull the stupidest piece of info out without any problem. Maybe its just the way we see things. If it is important to us (aglets) we remember it. But the stuff that is not so important like white wire hot and spelling, are shelved in the temp files and put in the shreader at the end of the day.

Billie
digit
Original Author
17 years ago
Good Morning!

I was browsing thru the veggie forum and came across a thread on trying to find a replacement for Green Comet broccoli (mentioned above in my original post).

Yep, others have been scratching their noggins trying to come up with replacements for favorite varieties. But, imagine that you've spent a life-time recommending garden choices as a Coop Ex horticulturalist . . . then suddenly, it seems, your favorites are gone!! That's the story with these folks from Texas linked below.

It must be difficult to stay ahead, I know that it has been difficult for me. But, I try!

I think back on the first broccoli that I grew - Green Sprouting Calabrese. It was okay in many ways but for me, come on, there had to be a step up from that one. I mean, I can't be mired in the 1880's forever!!

digitS'

Here is a link that might be useful: WHERE, OH WHERE HAVE MY FAVORITE VEGETABLE VARIETIES GONE?!?