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    My way of roasting peppers with pics

    Never grown Poblanos, but the NM varieties that I grow really like a lot of sun, and while they can take a few cold shocks, they will likely die if there is a late spring or early fall frost. They won't produce very much during the intense heat of June here, but once it cools down a few...
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    horse manure compost, need advice

    This. You don't want to know how much alfalfa is growing next to the horse pens here. I haven't had a problem with any of the stuff that I've composted though.
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    Unexpected All Nighter (Sorry, no Q-View)

    I did enjoy it, but it was kind of a last minute thing with the added delay of an unexpected gate out in the middle of nowhere. I was exhausted towards the end though.
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    Any advice on planting heirloom corn?

    That's some nice looking stuff. The only corn that I have that looks that nice is a small block of sweet corn that was planted towards the end of the heat wave. At least the Blue Corn was stressed early on and had a chance to recover. It's tasseled and I'm starting to see a few silks. The...
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    Any advice on planting heirloom corn?

    Yeah they are. A lot of the more local varieties of veggies that I'm growing are handling it better though. One thing that I'm finding is that if it is a plant that is grown in, say, the northeast, I can grow it in an area that gets half shade even if it says full sun. The NM sun is pretty...
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    Any advice on planting heirloom corn?

    Tried the painted mountain corn. It did great until one of those stupid heat waves hit last month. It's supposed to do well in heat, but it did not like 107f very much. The Navajo Blue Corn right next to it got slightly stressed, but a good chunk of the painted mountain died. Despite that...
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    can I use oak to smoke?

    Oak is a terrible wood for smoking with. If you have any on your property taking up valuable space, I'll be happy to have you send it to me for proper disposal.
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    cottonwood for smoking?

    Could be a variety issue. As was stated somewhere above, it can take a long time to cure. (Not so much here, where triple digit temps + single digit relative humidities happen.) It can smell like cat piss when not cured, but when cured it is very mild. It's like night and day between cured...
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    My way of roasting peppers with pics

    Do you have approximate dimensions on the roaster? I'm getting ready to build one, but I'd like one that can do up to about 40 or so lbs. I figure I can scale from your dimensions. (P.S. I always leave the veins and seeds. People always go :icon_eek when they see that, but they get used to...
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    Unexpected All Nighter (Sorry, no Q-View)

    Yup, we had a family reunion today. My cousin and I got volunteered to cook pretty much all of the meat. "Pretty much all" meaning that there was some ham on a salad that we didn't cook. There might have been some bacon in the beans too. We started last night at ~6:30PM and didn't get...
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    Any advice on planting heirloom corn?

    I'll take a look at that. Part of the reason that I want to try heirloom is to experience the flavors that the people who lived around here a couple hundred years ago did. If the Painted Mountain corn gives me that, I'm fine with it. I'm not even opposed to GMO foods simply because we're...
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    Any advice on planting heirloom corn?

    Thanks Martin. I've purchased seeds from nativeseeds.org before, though, except for the NM Mellon, they weren't seeds for food. Some of their stuff is a bit pricey, but it's also stuff that is not very common. All in all, I think they're a decent company to deal with. I really like the fact...
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    Any advice on planting heirloom corn?

    It's no more work than when I smoke something when you include the labor that I've put into getting the wood. I don't have to do it all at once. I can dry the corn, store it, and then make the posole/masa one batch at a time as I need. That's how I tend to do a lot of food tasks with foods...
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    This time of year I start to get the itch! (Please share some Q-view!)

    Awesome. I love it. You are better at brickwork than I. I had never laid a brick in my life until I built mine, and I had no teacher, yet it has not fallen over yet. It puts out some good 'que, but it does not look 1/10th as pretty as yours. Edit: I was replying to post #13.
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    Any advice on planting heirloom corn?

    I'm pretty sure that food prices are going to go up this year for various reasons and I am on enough land to help offset that somewhat if it gets bad, and I really want to learn how to grow my own non-meat food anyhow, so I decided I was going to plant, amongst other things, corn. I am...
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