The process can be a bit of a pain, so most opt
not to use this method
Thimble berry sees are really small too. Cut them
with a knife?
T wrote:
...
The process can be a bit of a pain, so most opt
not to use this method
Thimble berry sees are really small too. Cut them
with a knife?
don't need to cut them but nick them a bit is all.
yes, it's not a joke, but most of what i grow
here doesn't have such requirements.
songbird
You would need jewels glasses to see them!
I think I will break down and spend the
$30 and buy a plant.
T wrote:
...thimbleberries...
You would need jewels glasses to see them!
I think I will break down and spend the
$30 and buy a plant.
your conditions are likely completely
inhospitable for them - i'd not waste the $.
i used to live in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan where they grew in the wild. they
did not grow in an arid hot climate - i would
find them growing in the woods and along the
edges where it was usually partly shaded and
cool and moist almost constantly.
where you are at i think they'd fry.
on top of that they have a very unusual
flavor - i found it rather cloyingly sweet and
just barely edible but i'd rather grow
raspberries if given the choice (and i liked
the golden raspberry variety the best - but
that is my own personal preference :).
songbird
T wrote:
...thimbleberries...
You would need jewels glasses to see them!
I think I will break down and spend the
$30 and buy a plant.
your conditions are likely completely
inhospitable for them - i'd not waste the $.
i used to live in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan where they grew in the wild. they
did not grow in an arid hot climate - i would
find them growing in the woods and along the
edges where it was usually partly shaded and
cool and moist almost constantly.
where you are at i think they'd fry.
on top of that they have a very unusual
flavor - i found it rather cloyingly sweet and
just barely edible but i'd rather grow
raspberries if given the choice (and i liked
the golden raspberry variety the best - but
that is my own personal preference :).
You just talked me out of it. Especially
the "cloying" part, meaning too high
carbs for me. Most wild plants are
not too high in carbs because they have
not been hybridized.
Since you eat mostly whole food with some
SAD (Standard American Diet) thrown in, you
probably can not taste sweet things down
as low as I can. I am on the Historically
Appropriate Human Diet (A.K.A. Keto), which
make me able to enjoy things like choke
berries, where folks on SAD would instantly
spit them out. So if you think thimbleberries
are "cloying", I would absolute gag on them!
And being wild, most of that sugar would be
coming from inulin, meaning farts. (Small
amounts are fine. But "cloying" means ....)
I am really, really interested in those
wild black raspberries you mentioned in
another letter!
My first kiss for my delightful wife was a thimbleberry kiss. Definitely surprised her.
T wrote:
...thimbleberries...
You just talked me out of it. Especially
the "cloying" part, meaning too high
carbs for me. Most wild plants are
not too high in carbs because they have
not been hybridized.
Since you eat mostly whole food with some
SAD (Standard American Diet) thrown in, you
probably can not taste sweet things down
as low as I can. I am on the Historically
Appropriate Human Diet (A.K.A. Keto), which
make me able to enjoy things like choke
berries, where folks on SAD would instantly
spit them out. So if you think thimbleberries
are "cloying", I would absolute gag on them!
i've greatly reduced my sugar intake
compared to my diet of years ago, also we
do not add salt to our normal cooking so
yes, i do notice when things are sweet
very easily. i also happen to have very
good senses of taste and smell. so i
think you are assuming a lot about my
diet that isn't particularly accurate.
I would describe tiny thimbleberries as a raspberry like flavor,
different but similarly intense. But there are never enough ripe to whet
my appetite for them. Just enough to tease.
i've greatly reduced my sugar intake
compared to my diet of years ago, also we
do not add salt to our normal cooking so
yes, i do notice when things are sweet
very easily. i also happen to have very
good senses of taste and smell. so i
think you are assuming a lot about my
diet that isn't particularly accurate.
Bob F wrote:
...
I would describe tiny thimbleberries as a raspberry like flavor,
different but similarly intense. But there are never enough ripe to whet
my appetite for them. Just enough to tease.
i could pick them and they were mostly indeed
thimble sized. i made jam a few times using them
and could not really like it as much as i would
a red or black raspberry or blackberry jam.
i do know that some people do enjoy it and i
for sure would not try to stop them from growing
or enjoying them.
The one I get are wild, in the parks or mountains. Thimble size would be
the extreme example.
winter squash, etc.. I do miss beans.
What is the same in our diets is that we
both consume whole foods. You are able to
consume things from the SAD that I can not,
such as bread, wheat, rice, corn, potatoes,
sweat potatoes, apples, oranges,etc.. I am
not sure I presumed too much.
Are you able to pick up the nuances in
blueberries yet? that one really shocked
me. I thought they were just slightly sweet.
winter squash, etc.. I do miss beans.
green beans are not too carb heavy.
T wrote:
...
winter squash, etc.. I do miss beans.
green beans are not too carb heavy.
What is the same in our diets is that we
both consume whole foods. You are able to
consume things from the SAD that I can not,
such as bread, wheat, rice, corn, potatoes,
sweat potatoes, apples, oranges,etc.. I am
not sure I presumed too much.
hmm, corn isn't common in my diet and i'm
also not much of a rice eater. i used to eat
more brown rice but i would also cook it with
lentils since they had about the same cooking
time. regular potatoes are a once in a while
item and sweet potatoes i could eat more
often but we don't always keep them on hand.
...
Are you able to pick up the nuances in
blueberries yet? that one really shocked
me. I thought they were just slightly sweet.
Mom gets blueberries all the time and in the
off seasons they come from places in Central
or South America. many of them don't taste
very good to me and sometimes they don't taste
very good to her either but she'll eat them
anyways.
Perhaps because they are picked too early for shipping.
On 7/6/23 15:31, songbird wrote:
winter squash, etc.. I do miss beans.
green beans are not too carb heavy.
They are fine for a T0 but not for a T2.
With the whole foods that you eat, I would
be extremely surprised if you ever developed
T2.
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