Backyard gardener: I don't have Crohn's but still can't deal with seeds. My solution has been to make juice with them by freezing them in pint baggies then thawing the bag out. When it is thawed, poke a series of small holes in the bottom of the bag for the juice to drain out of and suspend the bag in a bowl with the bag off the bottom of the bowl in the fridge. Another option I'd like to try is one of those stainless steel steam extractors. What would ideal for me is a centrifuge with a screen small enough to catch the seeds. Let me know if you find one via my e-mail address, please. Oh, BTW, my rasprerries get frozen and then thawed. Then I smash them through a small collander, in a mortar and pestle like fashion, whose seive size is smaller than the seeds, that came from Wally-world. I feel for your wife, Michael

tallest corn: 18'2" tallest sunflower: 14'4" largest marrow ~25 pounds (hangs head in shame) I don't think marrows like the intense heat we saw this summer. I did much better last year when we had a cooler summer. Last year, all of my marrows were over 30 pounds. This year my marrows in NY were over 20 pounds. My house in NJ they were all around 10 pounds. My house in NJ is 2 1/2 hours south of my place in NY. Next year, the second I think we aren't having another frost, those seeds are going right into the ground. The seeds I'm using are capable of getting over a 100 pounds. It's either the heat that is the problem, or I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm going to put some more effort into growing them next year.

This post is several years old. I won't be giving out free marrow seeds this year. I only do that on years I have a very large surplus of seed that I could never trade or sell. If anyone is still interested in getting the marrow seeds then you can get them on P&P Seeds http://www.pandpseed.com/ I also sell them on ebay. Just search for my handle: "sunflower_info" or do a search on the words "giant" and "sunflower" or "corn" or "amaranth" or "squash" or "gourd" or "millet", etc. You'll find them!

Like Ann T and Seagrass, you can have all my fruit. I'll eat them, I don't hate them, but I don't really care about them. I'll eat fresh sweet cherries every year while I can pick them locally but the ones that are shipped from other places aren't worth eating. I like apples, will eat a handful of grapes or melon, an occasional orange, I detest bananas. Raisins, dried cherries or cranberries are acceptable in muffins. I don't care for raw broccoli, except in that salad that Deanna posted, and I make it with half broccoli and half cauliflower. Other than that, I love vegetables, all vegetables. I don't eat tomatoes unless I can get them fresh and locally, but they're really a fruit anyway. Other than that I'll eat vegetables any time. Frozen, canned, fresh, dried, reconstituted, in soup, roasted, raw, whatever. I will say, however, that I want them either cooked or raw, none of that half cooked nonsense and I'm not a huge fan of the green salad. Give me a big plate full of collard greens, though, maybe with caramelized onions and some smoked pork hocks or a ham bone and I'm happy. Add some cornbread and put some whole kernel corn and chopped green chilies into the cornbread and I'm extra happy! My favorite supper is to take parsnips, sweet potaotes, beets, onions and nearly anything else I can find, cut them up, drizzle with olive oil, salt and pepper and roast 'em. A big roasting pan full will last me for a week's worth of lunches! I sneak vegetables into gnocchi and soup, into omelettes and sandwiches, into bread and pot pies and stew. I sneak them in because I love them and Ashley doesn't so much, but she'll eat them if they are "in" something else. Annie