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Soaked 12 ea seeds you sent me overnight and they are in 2" peat cells now waiting to germinate. As a gardener I want you to know that you know that you sent me a buttload of seed, and I thank you. It was more than I can possibly use so being a fellow gardener (and considering it is okra), I used my best judgement in who would REALLY use them and knows what okra is all about. I gave some seed out accordingly, and still have enuf to plant 5 yrs more okra here. Hope this is okay. One person I gave them to is a client in
White Marsh, VA, military man, but Cajun to the roots, from Breaux Bridge. I guarantee ya he will plant them, at the right time, and tend em. Another is a local lady, 84 yrs old. She had a well-travelled life, and is a culinary wonder. She realizes okra for its thickening traits and although not a big Cajun cook, incorporates it into stews and soups & chowders.
I am getting good snap peas now, asparagus, and been getting good lettuce, spinach, radishes for a while here. Potatoes are blooming and doing well. Onions & garlic lookin good. Will get cabbage but broccoli & cauliflower a bust this year here. Got a nice stand of beets coming on for pickling & beet greens. Tomatoes & peppers both put in the last month, thriving. I am here for 7 yrs now and just getting the feel to coordinate having onions, gr onions & parsley in abundance at the same time to make boudin with. I am getting away from pork this year, I want some ocean boudin. Can't find a mudbug in this area for nuthin, but crab, shrimp, oyster. scallops, not as fresh or readily available as in Acadia but available nonetheless.
My midnight go-to-bed reading has been a documentary authored by 2 good ol boys who have transversed LA and written their memoirs of the slaughterhouse Cajun dancehalls. Dadgummit, Gene. You folks are kinda barbaric, switchblade-packin, no-nonsense types.:p:p
Jus kiddin. Was reading a history of the Cajun relocation from Atlantic Canada to Louisiana, the reasons, and the way of life that it created. Coupled with the Creole culture stemming from slavery, it makes for an interesting story.