DavidE
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Fried Eggs Fresh Fish & New Potatoes
With a side of pico de gallo, fresh squeezed orange juice and stout french roast coffee!
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motoged
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And.......so......what's for supper?  
Don't believe everything you think....
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Timo1
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Your white spuds got ready the same time ours did here in BC
sold out and got out !!!
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DavidE
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Timo1,
Anyone who believes that potatoes raised in really rich loam taste the same as spuds raised on fertilizer in sandy soil is in for a shock.
Here is a Norwegian favorite...
Stekt fisk - braised fish: almost all fish is braised, but as a rule the larger specimens tend to be poached and the smaller braised. The fish is
filleted, dusted with flour, salt and pepper and braised in butter. Potatoes are served on the side, and the butter from the pan used as a sauce.
Fatty fish like herring and brisling are given the same treatment. Popular accompaniments are sliced and fresh-pickled cucumbers and sour cream.
All these ingredients are available in México. Life down here doesn't mean buying expensive gringo packaged foods in order to vary from enchiladas,
chilies rellenos, tortillas y sal 
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vgabndo
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David...I've followed your garden from the beginning. I'm committed to having an address in BA, and I WILL grow stuff. I'm encouraged to see what
you've done.
I planted a row of these yellow finger potatoes this year, and have been harvesting for two weeks. They caramelize as a breakfast fry to the MOST
yummy. My red potatoes in the background won't be dug until the plants die way back.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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DavidE
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Just keep in mind you can score big time free dry-as-dust esterico at the Caracol dairy. It makes gardening economically feasible in this sandy,
broken seashell laden soil. The 15-15-15 fertilizer came from the agricola supply house near the gasolinera on the north side of Mex 1. Soil from any
of the heavy ag areas from Vizcaino to Bonfil makes a great filler. The sunlight is intense. Corn loves heat and sun and the crystal clear skies here
allow intense farming, thickly planted corn which saves a ton of water. If I were to have had a chance to get really serious I would think about
removing 18" of soil, laying down black PVC sheeting, knocking a bunch of holes in it for drainage and slow down the percolation rate a lot. It either
that or find clay in some arroyo, but I would need a stout pickup truck to haul an embedment of clay. About an inch layer would do it (slow the
drainage).
I purchased my seeds online at Bay Farm Supply. The corn seed arrives in bulk in the USA dusted with antifungus red dust. It serves to keep birds from
eating the seed. December through March ought to be outrageous for growing exotic greens. The tomatoes grow fine from stock from the fruteria. I'll
take a damaged tomato, stick it in rich soil, then stomp over top mashing it beneath three inches of loam. For some reason the tomato allows the
plants to develop a lot healthier, and bigger. Some of those stalks are a half inch in diameter!
Judging from the size of the emerging cantaloupe plant leaves, there's going to eventually be enough fruit to feed half the pueblo. The cow manure and
volcanic soil have those trace minerals that allow cantaloupe to just go nuts.
Good luck with your garden! I hope my pitiful attempt can inspire others to grow stuff that the stores just do not have.
The new potatoes? I had some of them with fish tonight. I could have sworn they were creamy mashed potatoes swimming in butter, but they weren't! They
were pan fried. Unbelievable flavor. Zero butter or margarine! Comparing them to store potatoes is like trying to compare the fillets of a high
mountain brook trout, all nice and pink, to farm raised trout. Same for the corn, the potatoes and eventually the cantaloupe.
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vgabndo
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Very thoughtful advice, but I resist hitting anything with 15 15 15 out of a bag. I have had to add nitrogen from a bag, but otherwise my good results
are from frequent applications of compost tea.
In the recent photos of your beach there, I see lots of seaweed. Is it completely unfeasible to desalinize that resource enough to compost it?
The flotsam on your beach is not very high in N but very high in potash, vitamins and minerals. One effective way to desalinize is to put a thin layer
of seaweed under a lawn sprinkler for an hour. That's a lot of water unless it could be captured and diluted for reuse on the garden. The problem with
the surface salt, as I understand it, it that in your compost, if too salty, it will kill worms.
Some folks say that seaweed is almost as good as caca de vaca.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Yeah I can only wish for an insanely rich source of nitrogen. Mexican corn grows great on a minimum amount but of a person wants a good crop of hybrid
corn down here then good luck unless someone could bury a few tons of fish guts with the manure. Even manure in really a high percentage isn't enough
to sustain the corn. I tried it here and it just does not work. Well, it's better than nothing I guess, the 15-15-15.
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vgabndo
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Here's a study that suggests that maybe DEEP mulching, and other efforts to reduce soil temperature could minimize the loss of Nitrogen in your soil.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091106145308.ht...
I had no idea N could "evaporate".
[Edited on 8-21-2012 by vgabndo]
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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vgabndo
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This got me thinking...and studying.
Kelp IS a good thing to put on our gardens notwithstanding it is poor in Nitrogen. It actually has some chemical characteristics which promote
Nitrogen fixing, and a laundry list of other good elements, like Selenium.
It is proven to make an excellent tea. The static method is to put seaweed and water in a container 50/50 cap it, and forget it for 3 months. Get up
wind and use it 16:1 in a lot of water. Watch for nutrient burn.
It has also be used effectively in an aerobic tea brewer. The one I use for my garden is simple and very effective. This is a microbe making machine,
and it costs very little to run.
My tea bag is rich kitchen/garden compost. Goose is interested in the air hose and sinker. The aquarium pump provides plenty of oxygen to grow the
bugs, and I can take out 6 gallons and still leave enough of a culture to quickly grow rich again when I refill it.
I think you should prowl the secondarias for a goldfish air pump, and some pantyhose! 
[Edited on 8-22-2012 by vgabndo]
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Santiago
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vgabndo
I think you should prowl the secondarias for a goldfish air pump, and some pantyhose!
[Edited on 8-22-2012 by vgabndo] |
Mild thread theft: be very careful buying panty hose in Baja; I once went to a store in Ensenada to buy a pair of bras (long story, but DENNIS was NOT
involved) and was pretty much treated as a major weirdo.
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vgabndo
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Well if panyhose for the teabag is too much of a liability, lots of other stuff would work. I think I'm re-purposing an old commercial paint
strainer.
The point is: Compost tea is good powerful stuff and organic too.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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