the little wild kingdom

[flowerbug]

I was right there with you until the cheezits, lol!

these were given to us, neither of us like them enough to ever buy them. but they did happen to work for this dish. purely optional. maybe potato chips or pretzels would work for you better?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

maybe potato chips

I remember putting potato chips on a bologna sandwich when I was a kid. Couldn't beat that salty crunch!

 

[Mini Horses]

That reminds me of grandmas! Waaay back then, bologna was a staple, found at many meals. Back then it wasn't Oscar Mayer slices. Nope, you had them cut a few pounds of off a humongous solid roll of it. Then wrapped in butcher paper.

Anyway, at a big chicken swap affair recently, one of the food trucks had "fried bologna sandwiches" offered.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I went to several goat shows and fairs in Oklahoma. Something that they seem to love up there is....wait for it...BBQ'd bologna. You could find it at the fair in OKC We had a catered dinner at one of the goat shows and that's what they served us. BBQ'd bologna, baked beans and coleslaw. I mean - I ate it but.I'm like - surely you can find something better to barbeque, lol.

p.s. I've eaten many a fried bologna sandwich in my early life.

 

[flowerbug]

...
p.s. I've eaten many a fried bologna sandwich in my early life.

same here, we also grind up bologna with pickles and onions and sometimes cheese too and use that as sandwich spread or broil it on good bread.

 

[flowerbug]

making progress on my Purple Dove project. you can see many beans in these pictures that look like variations of Purple Dove but do not have the yellow ring around the eye. what i need to continue to do is to keep growing these out and noting the habit, flower color, pods and seed coats and also hope for more crosses to continue getting more PD genes back to these seed lines (i suspect there are several based upon seed coat pattern, shape, etc.).

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Such pretty beans!

 

[flowerbug]

Such pretty beans!

they are and the plants are so nice too when they flower and have beans on them.

i still have a ways to go with these seed lines but this is a lot of progress for six growing seasons and leaving it up to the bees and chance to do the crosses for me. i didn't see my first crosses until the fourth season.

 

[Mini Horses]

Well crossing beans takes a long time! Six seasons

 

[flowerbug]

Well crossing beans takes a long time! Six seasons

when you leave it up to chance and bees... beans are normally self-fertile and won't cross unless there's bees or other insects moving pollen around (or you get a random mutation which doesn't happen often, but can...).

had i steadier hands and eyes that could see what i'm doing i could have gotten those crosses done in the first season but back then i also didn't know that i wanted to make this improvement to the seed coat until the third year.

i was also always looking for crosses anyways since that is usually interesting to see what nature can come up with.

things you can do to improve chances of getting crosses (besides attracting certain kinds of bees that will visit bean flowers) you want to happen are to plant plenty of the desired crossed beans mixed together in patches and then after you harvest the seeds you need to replant as many of those harvested seeds as possible because the first time you attempt the crosses the seeds harvested from those attempts will look like the mama bean and not like the daddy or any cross until it is replanted and grown out.

i plant a lot of Purple Dove beans and also the other selections with the white eye so i'm getting a lot of chances. now with the new seeds available with some Purple Dove traits already in them i'm also replanting those intermixed. this is called back crossing.