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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: Winter Shell Bean Favorites of 2011
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Thursday, April 7, 2011. Winter Shell Bean Favorites of 2011. A French Pole Bean. Flageolets are one of the most beautiful shell beans. Most are bush varieties but Soissons Vert is a pole bean with the largest bean seed I've seen in a flageolet. The plants were prolific and grew well in the Kihei winter climate. A French seed company,. A French Pole Bean. Tarbais beans have been grown for generations in the Tarbes. Markets Tarbais beans for cooking - they're sold in. Lingua di Fuo...
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: Winter Shell Bean Favorites of 2013
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Winter Shell Bean Favorites of 2013. Last winter I received these wonderful beans in a trade. Mahalo Jana for the seeds! Petaluma Gold Rush. Petaluma Gold Rush is a cranberry bean. They originated in Peru and look similar to one of my favorite Italian cranberry beans - Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco. The plants were prolific and more heat tolerant than Borlatto Lingua. They were ready to begin harvesting as shell beans in 75 days. I realized there really are tw...
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: The Hardiest Tomato Varieties of 2012
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Sunday, February 5, 2012. The Hardiest Tomato Varieties of 2012. In September I planted 22 tomato plants from 16 varieties. There were 3 super-stars that were hardy enough to produce a somewhat normal quantity of fruit in the challenging conditions. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Paste tomatoes don't seem to like the warmer temps - I've trialed so many through the years with poor results. This season I planted Amish Paste, Kiev Paste and Plum Lemon. The Amish and Kiev plants ...Lusci...
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: Fennel Pollen - A Culinary Adventure
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Monday, February 25, 2013. Fennel Pollen - A Culinary Adventure. Fennel pollen is known as. Spice of the angels. A Wild Fennel Plant. In September of 2011, I planted wild fennel. It slowly grew 4 ft tall and in June of 2012 a few graceful flower stocks emerged but the plants didn't last through the hot summer. A Flowering Fennel Bulb. Last week I harvested a lot of Suyo cucumbers and I had enough to experiment with different pickling recipes. I have a great recipe for. Garlic Grow...
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: Italian Zucchini Favorites of 2011
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Friday, June 10, 2011. Italian Zucchini Favorites of 2011. This spring I grew an assortment of Italian zucchini. From different regions of Italy. Bianco di Trieste was a symmetrical 3 ft wide bush with beautiful pale green fruit. Seeds were planted in mid-February and the first female flowers opened in 4 weeks. The fruit were best when harvested just after the flowers closed. Striato di Napoli (Cocozelle) and Lungo Fiorentino were lovely plants with frilly leaves. They also gr...
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: Daikon Kim Chi - Gung Hey Fat Choy!
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Sunday, January 30, 2011. Daikon Kim Chi - Gung Hey Fat Choy! Dr Ben Kim's Kim Chi. Recipe was so ono! The New Year's Kim Chi. Is gone and there won't be another savoy cabbage for a few weeks. Using a spriral grater, it's in the photo above, I cut one of the daikon radishes into something that looked like angel hair pasta. I. The only recipe ingredients I don't grow are the apples and pears. Surprisingly, these types of fruit trees are grown on Maui but at the higher elevations.
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: Kim Chi for the New Year
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Saturday, January 1, 2011. Kim Chi for the New Year. Last week I harvested the first Testa di Ferro, an Italian savoy cabbage. The leaves are crinkled like Napa cabbage and I thought it might be perfect for making Kim Chi. Testa grows beautifully in a wide range of climates. It's also a compact size plant that's perfect for container gardens. They're harvestable at 2.5 months and range from 2 to 3 lbs. Seeds are available from Gourmet Seed. Unless you like it really salty,. A Kihe...
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: The Summer Beans of 2012
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Saturday, September 22, 2012. The Summer Beans of 2012. After 4 years of gardening in Kihei. I didn't think there was such a thing as summer beans. In July and August I plant cover crops and this year I used my reject bean seeds. These were seeds that weren't heat tolerant or that I knew I would never get around to planting. Although beans don't grow well in the summer, some will grow well enough to be turned under as a cover crop. Great Northern Pole Beans. A Kihei Garden Cuisine.
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: A Dream Come True
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Thursday, March 31, 2011. A Dream Come True. Bianco di Trieste Zucchini. This was the first harvest of a a few new to me varieties I trialed this winter. I'm so excited these seeds produced harvestable results in Kihei. Has been beyond impressive - they're early and the most powdery mildew resistant zucchini I've grown so far. The fruit are small and lovely when they flower and the male flowers are large - a perfect combination - all the qualities I've been dreaming of. Promote Yo...
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine: Chocolate for Breakfast
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A Kihei Garden Cuisine. Friday, February 14, 2014. Egyptian and Chioggia Beets. What I love the most about Valentines Day is that it's the one day of the year when it's acceptable to eat chocolate for breakfast. This morning I made Nigel Slater's Chocolate Beet Cake. In a KitchenAid silicon heart-shaped pan. When I bake this cake I use a sugar substitute - Just Like Sugar. It turned out so much better baked in the silicon pan than a spring-form pan. And, the recipe filled the pan perfectly. A Kihei Garde...
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