-=> On 02-09-23  16:59,  Mike Powell <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Pick your own fruit <=-


 > We never went for pick your own strawberries.  The farm where we went
 > for that sort of thing had them growing on the ground.  Even 40 years
 > ago our knees, legs and back would not have tolerated hardly any of such
 > action.

 MP> My grandfather grew stawberries and, IIRC, that is how they grew...
 MP> close to the ground.  I have never seen them grown tall enough, like
 MP> blackberries do, that you didn't have to pick them from near the
 MP> ground. 

I have seen adverts for "strawberry barrels" in which cut outs in the
sides of a barrel allow for planting strawberries up the side of the
barrel.  I have no idea if they really worked, and have serious doubts
that it would be feasible in a commercial setting.


 
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Black Beans And Rice
 Categories: D/g, Beans, Rice, Boat
      Yield: 4 servings
 
      1 c  Rice, Uncle Ben, converted
  2 1/2 c  Water
      2 cn Black beans (16 oz. each
           -can)
      1 cn Stewed tomatoes(14.5 oz),
           -or stewed tomatoes for
           -chili
      4 oz Can chopped green chilies
      1 cn Corn(11 oz) or 10 oz
           -package frozen corn
      2 tb Salsa
    3/4 ts Ground cumin; or to taste
        ds -ground black pepper, to
           -taste

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      1 pk Muffin Mix, corn
      1    Egg
    1/2 c  Milk; guessing
 
  20 minutes
  serves 4
  
  Bring water to boil in medium saucepan.  Add rice, reduce
  heat, cover and simmer on low for 30 minutes or until rice is
  tender.
  
  Meanwhile, drain beans and put into another medium size
  saucepan.  Add tomatoes, chilies, salsa, and cumin.  Cook mixture
  over low heat about 10 minutes.
  
  To serve, spoon rice into deep bowls.  Ladle on black beans
  and sauce.  Leftovers can be thinned with broth, heated and served
  as a soup.
  == Courtesy of Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md. ==
 
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