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Mirliton squash
Posted on 1/31/19 at 11:28 am
Posted on 1/31/19 at 11:28 am
I would like to start growing these and have never come across plants here locally. (Lake Charles) Anyone have any tips for me as to where I can find some, and best practices to grow them if and when I find some plants. TIA
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Posted on 1/31/19 at 11:47 am to Dolemite
Chayote seeds. you can order em on the line
Posted on 1/31/19 at 12:05 pm to Dolemite
My mother in law is from new Orleans and she can make these things taste amazing!
Posted on 1/31/19 at 12:18 pm to Dolemite
I’ve always just stuck em by a chain link fence, old clothesline, anywhere they can take off. Never fertilized or anything. Honestly forgot about it most of the time. Just keep it watered and out of direct sunlight, like most things.
Boil em til you can stick a fork through easy, peel the skin off, brown deer ground meat, throw mirliton in. Get it all mixed and let cook til they get real mushy. Then you manjer
Boil em til you can stick a fork through easy, peel the skin off, brown deer ground meat, throw mirliton in. Get it all mixed and let cook til they get real mushy. Then you manjer
This post was edited on 1/31/19 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 1/31/19 at 12:58 pm to Big_country346
you need to plant from ones grown in this hemisphere..not imports......
Posted on 1/31/19 at 2:49 pm to choupiquesushi
That's a must!
Posted on 1/31/19 at 2:57 pm to Dolemite
Brings back memories, my grandparents had them growing in the side yard on old clothing lines. I always liked walking under them as a little kid, and I miss my grandma's cooking.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:21 pm to Beessnax
quote:Frank Davis' cook books have all of the new orleans classics...
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My mother in law is from new Orleans and she can make these things taste amazing!
Posted on 1/31/19 at 3:36 pm to Dolemite
Pops used to grow them on the old clothes lines from seeds.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 6:03 pm to Dolemite
A few tips as you continue your research:
They grow well near ditches and other water ways.
Grow well under moderate shade
No matter what anyone says, you don't need a male and a female for them to produce
Finally,
Smothered down with shrimp is the best way to eat them.
They grow well near ditches and other water ways.
Grow well under moderate shade
No matter what anyone says, you don't need a male and a female for them to produce
Finally,
Smothered down with shrimp is the best way to eat them.
Posted on 1/31/19 at 9:07 pm to Dolemite
You need the Louisiana native "heirloom" variety for sure. Not the ones at Albertsons.
You might want to look at this website. Mirliton.org
Lance Hill is the Louisiana expert on mirlitons and he created the mirliton.org website. Lots of good information. He occasionally sends out an email if he has located someone with extra seed.
You might call or visit Chastant Brothers Feed store in Lafayette and ask them if they are getting any this spring. They usually have them for sale cheap. I may be able to get you a few if you can't find any. Let me know.
You might want to look at this website. Mirliton.org
Lance Hill is the Louisiana expert on mirlitons and he created the mirliton.org website. Lots of good information. He occasionally sends out an email if he has located someone with extra seed.
You might call or visit Chastant Brothers Feed store in Lafayette and ask them if they are getting any this spring. They usually have them for sale cheap. I may be able to get you a few if you can't find any. Let me know.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 1:49 pm to Dolemite
my brother gave me a jar of pickled mirliton at christmas. damn they were good. sorry, thats all I've got to add.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 2:00 pm to Dolemite
I grew them for years when in my old house in the Lower 9th Ward. They would take over 50 ft. of chain link fence while growing and made so many mirliton that I ran out of people to give them to.
Depending on when they are put in the ground and how the growing conditions are, you may, or may not get fruit the first year, but most do get some.
I had a large vine overwinter and by the next fall I had so many I was picking Schwegmann's bags full almost every day. My neighbors would run inside if they saw me coming with a bag.
Depending on when they are put in the ground and how the growing conditions are, you may, or may not get fruit the first year, but most do get some.
I had a large vine overwinter and by the next fall I had so many I was picking Schwegmann's bags full almost every day. My neighbors would run inside if they saw me coming with a bag.
This post was edited on 2/1/19 at 2:01 pm
Posted on 2/1/19 at 7:05 pm to gumbo2176
This was one of my dad's favorite crops to grow. We had 20 acres in the country that he would farm and generally just let the mirliton grow on trees.
He used to pick them with his hard hat on and got tired of picking them in trees. He got smart and found some old railroad ties and created a trellis with wires with just enough height to get his tractor through so he could keep the weeds out.
He would have more than he could sell most years with this set up and it didn't cost him anything to cultivate.
He used to pick them with his hard hat on and got tired of picking them in trees. He got smart and found some old railroad ties and created a trellis with wires with just enough height to get his tractor through so he could keep the weeds out.
He would have more than he could sell most years with this set up and it didn't cost him anything to cultivate.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 7:25 pm to gumbo2176
quote:i laughed way too hard
My neighbors would run inside if they saw me coming with a bag.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 8:13 pm to ruzil
quote:
he would farm and generally just let the mirliton grow on trees.
One time my vines got so large that a vacant neighbors property had a Formosa tree on it and a large fig tree. The vines overtook both the trees and almost killed them since they couldn't get any sunlight for them to grow and survive.
If the winter didn't kill the vines, it may have been the end to both those trees in another growing season.
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