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Cuisipro Herb Keeper $17.64 Preserve and elongate the life of your herbs, asparagus and other vegetables with Cuisipro’s herb keeper. An innovative device, the keeper immerses the stems in water to elongate life span, and hold herb bunches together for quick access. The modern design uses a transparent container so you can always see what is being kept inside. Its small design and nature allow it to easily fit inside the ref… |
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Cuisinart CRC Rice Cooker Cuisinart Rice Cooker has a brushed stainless housing and embossed Cuisinart logo. Traditional Lever control with warm and cook settings… |
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Polder Strainer/Steamer Basket, Stainless Steel $14.95 This Kitchen Colander Strainer Steamer 8-in Deep Stainless – Polder #KTH-1008-75 is perfect for cooking pasta or steaming clams in the pot as well as being a handy strainer. The eight inch high colander is constructed of no rust, 18/8 stainless steel. It has a raised footed frame allowing you to use it in a pot as a steamer or as a free standing colander. The high heat silicone keeps the handles c… |
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Sudzz FX Whipped Creme & Honey Volumizing Shampoo for fine, weak hair – 11.8 oz $21.83 The ultimate sulfate-free, daily shampoo that promises to volumize and strengthen your hair. Whipped Creme & Honey is rich in FXulites Complex that restores your hair and defends against daily environment streses. Colourfix3 Complex helps provide maximum protection against colour loss, ensuring colour longevity. Perfect for creating volume, shine and manageability. Finally a volumizing shampoo tha… |
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Mary Washington Asparagus Seeds – Asparagus Officinalis – 2 Grams – Approx 120 Gardening Seeds – Vegetable Garden Seed $1.19 A typical asparagus with green color changing to purple at the tip. Asparagus is a long lasting perennial plant. Plant grows up to 12″ tall…. |
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Jersey Giant Hybrid Asparagus Seeds – Asparagus Officinalis – 0.2 Grams – Approx 12 Gardening Seeds – Vegetable Garden Seed $5.29 The Jersey Giant Hybrid is a hybrid seed with only male plants for a super high yield. The spears have excellent taste and produce well with a good rust resistance. Asparagus is a long lasting perennial plant that grows up to 12″ tall…. |
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Foxtail Fern – 4 Pot – Easy to Grow – Great Houseplant $7.99 The Foxtail fern resembles a foxtail and a fern but in fact is neither. The Foxtail fern is a member of the asparagus genus, and one of the so-called asparagus ferns. The “fern”, like the asparagus plant, is actually a member of the liliaceae, or lily family, and spreads by seeds and tubers rather than by spores. The Foxtail cultivar is called meyersii, and the fern sometimes goes by the names Mey… |
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Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood: Stories and Recipes to Share with Family and Friends $15.46 Presents a volume of Southern-inspired recipes designed for entertaining and group gatherings, from holiday feasts to potluck suppers.Title: Home Cooking With Trisha YearwoodAuthor: Yearwood, Trisha/ Yearwood, Gwen (CON)/ Bernard, Beth Yearwood (CON)/ Brooks, Garth (FRW)Publisher: Random House IncPublication Date: 2010/04/06Number of Pages: 223Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 2009025693… |
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Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals $6.95 The first Moosewood Cookbook–loved for its cozy, comforting food–mused oil, eggs, and dairy products so lavishly that it was extensively revised in 1992 to fit our changing diet. Now, the Moosewood Collective takes an even more extreme step: recipes in Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites are so intentionally healthful that they put the word right on the cover of this chubby book filled … |
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Inventing A Selective Asparagus Harvester
For the last week or so I have been trying to do some life cycle testing on the pneumatic cylinders that we are going to use for the next asparagus harvesting machine we build. The cylinders should be able to do about a million strokes before the need to be replaced.
The machine has a row of pneumatic cylinders, or often referred to as air cylinders, arrayed across the asparagus bed. As the machine moves forward a sensing system locates the spears and tells the air cylinder lined up with the spear when to cut.
The cut signal causes the piston rod to extend from the cylinder at high speed with about 18 inches of stroke. It takes less than a tenth of a second for the cylinder to extend to full stroke. On the end of the piston rod is mounted a blade that cuts the spear.
I set up a fixture out in my garage for testing the cylinder. I’ve got it mounted to a frame similar to how it will be mounted on the asparagus harvester, pointed down at the ground at around 45 degrees.
I filled an asparagus crate or lug box, lined with plastic, full of dirt from the back yard. I placed the crate of dirt so that when the cylinder is extended the blade goes about two inches deep into the soil.
I actually went to the grocery store and bought a bunch of asparagus to test the cutting ability of my blades. I wanted to see if I could detect a difference between a blade with a V notch in it, a slanted edge like a guillotine, and an arrowhead type blade.
I tamped the soil down till it was nice and firm, and then used a dowel to make a hole just big enough to get an asparagus spear into. Then I pushed a spear into the hole and tamped the dirt down around it. I lined up three spears so the blade would contact the first spear while in mid-air, the second spear right at ground level, and the third spear would have the cut line about an inch below ground.
I tried this with all three blade types, and I could find no difference at all in the cutting ability or anything else. The blades sliced through all three spears like they were made of butter. There was no deflection or twisting of the blade, so my new secret method of preventing blade rotation seems to work well.
Since revealing details about an invention online would compromise my patent rights I can’t go into details about the new method I am using to prevent the blades from rotating out of position.
I would like to do the life testing at 150 psi, but my compressor only goes between 120 psi and 135psi as it cycles. So I set the air pressure for the testing at 120 psi.
I’m interested in the life of the seals, and whether the piston rod ends up breaking due to metal fatigue. The load placed on the end of the piston rod by the blade and guiding assembly is offset from the center of the piston rod.
On the down stroke the pneumatic valve reverses the direction of the air to the cylinder before the cylinder reaches the physical end of its stroke to prevent damaging the cylinder. On the return stroke the piston hits the rod end of a smaller cylinder screwed into the rear head of the cutting cylinder to act as a spring and absorb the shock loads.
My compressor can just barely keep up with the cylinder if I fire the cylinder every 20 seconds. It’s going to take a long time to get anywhere near a million strokes. I need a much bigger compressor.
To cycle the cylinder I used a 12f675 micro controller chip, an 8 pin chip with a microprocessor, memory, and various interface modules like analog to digital converters, comparators, and counters all included. Even an accurate clock is built in. Learning to program and use these microcontroller chips should be in every inventor’s toolbox.
I programmed the chip using a basic language. I used a breadboard, a couple of pots and a voltage regulator etc along with the chip to create an automatic cycling controller. It has two pots. One pot controls the time between firings and the other determines the length of the pulse sent to the air valve. The longer the pulse the longer the stroke produced by the air cylinder.
I’ve tested a whole lot of air cylinders with this method and I’ve yet to find one that would even go 10,000 cycles without developing a problem. I think this time I’ve got an air cylinder that will hold up for that million strokes I need.
These new cylinders I’m using have a 1” diameter bore. The cylinders I’ve used previous had a 1-1/2 inch bore. There is a big difference. The smaller surface area of the piston means the force is much smaller. The acceleration is determined by the force, and the new cylinder is much more sensitive to variations in pressure. That is something that the asparagus harvester invention will have to address.
In a future article I will describe in some detail the pressure problems and the special electronic air pressure regulation system I intend to use for the machine.
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asparagus pot Questions
I planted an asparagus fern that a friend dug up for me, should it be in full sun?
or should I put it in partial shade. It is in a clay pot with fresh potting soil and the roots were very well established. I was thinking maybe of putting it under my backyard tree.
I have three aspargus ferns in pots they get shade in the morning until about 12 and then direct sun until the sun starts setting about 7 they love it they are outside already here in Montana and they will stay out there until october then I take them in the house for the winter and water just like all of my other house plants and they have bloomed the last two years-the blooms turn into berries that turn bright red around christmas. They will be a great addition to your outside flowers.
How do I “cheer up” my Asparagus Fern?
I was teasing my guy one day and bought an Asparagus Fern as our “love fern” from “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days” and we have had it for about 8 months maybe and even though our love isn’t dieing the fern seems to think otherwise. It was doing really great, out grew its pot fast so I repotted it and now it isn’t growing but it is still alive (barely.) It is so brown that I have a “Charley Brown Christmas Tree” looking thing not my beautiful fern. What can I do to get it back?
Maybe you water it too much or it doesn’t get enough sunlight. I have asparagus ferns in my yard that grow like weeds, despite my attempts to get rid of them. They are in full sun on a southwest-facing slope. They are planted with a lot of xeriscape-type plants (succulents, palms, etc.) and don’t get much water. But, they’re thriving under those conditions.
If you do try giving it more sun or putting it outside for a while, acclimate it to the increased sunlight gradually. Plants that haven’t been in direct sunlight – even plants that are supposed to get lots of direct sunlight – can easily get sunburned until they’re used to the sunlight.
If you do sunburn a plant, the chlorophyll in the leaves with burn up, leaving the leaves a whitish color until they finally turn brown and fall off. But, a sunburned plant will usually come back to life by putting it in a shadier area for a while.
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Cuisipro Herb Keeper $17.64 Preserve and elongate the life of your herbs, asparagus and other vegetables with Cuisipro’s herb keeper. An innovative device, the keeper immerses the stems in water to elongate life span, and hold herb bunches together for quick access. The modern design uses a transparent container so you can always see what is being kept inside. Its small design and nature allow it to easily fit inside the ref… |
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Cuisinart CRC Rice Cooker Cuisinart Rice Cooker has a brushed stainless housing and embossed Cuisinart logo. Traditional Lever control with warm and cook settings… |
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Polder Strainer/Steamer Basket, Stainless Steel $14.95 This Kitchen Colander Strainer Steamer 8-in Deep Stainless – Polder #KTH-1008-75 is perfect for cooking pasta or steaming clams in the pot as well as being a handy strainer. The eight inch high colander is constructed of no rust, 18/8 stainless steel. It has a raised footed frame allowing you to use it in a pot as a steamer or as a free standing colander. The high heat silicone keeps the handles c… |
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Sudzz FX Whipped Creme & Honey Volumizing Shampoo for fine, weak hair – 11.8 oz $21.83 The ultimate sulfate-free, daily shampoo that promises to volumize and strengthen your hair. Whipped Creme & Honey is rich in FXulites Complex that restores your hair and defends against daily environment streses. Colourfix3 Complex helps provide maximum protection against colour loss, ensuring colour longevity. Perfect for creating volume, shine and manageability. Finally a volumizing shampoo tha… |
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Mary Washington Asparagus Seeds – Asparagus Officinalis – 2 Grams – Approx 120 Gardening Seeds – Vegetable Garden Seed $1.19 A typical asparagus with green color changing to purple at the tip. Asparagus is a long lasting perennial plant. Plant grows up to 12″ tall…. |
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Jersey Giant Hybrid Asparagus Seeds – Asparagus Officinalis – 0.2 Grams – Approx 12 Gardening Seeds – Vegetable Garden Seed $5.29 The Jersey Giant Hybrid is a hybrid seed with only male plants for a super high yield. The spears have excellent taste and produce well with a good rust resistance. Asparagus is a long lasting perennial plant that grows up to 12″ tall…. |
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Foxtail Fern – 4 Pot – Easy to Grow – Great Houseplant $7.99 The Foxtail fern resembles a foxtail and a fern but in fact is neither. The Foxtail fern is a member of the asparagus genus, and one of the so-called asparagus ferns. The “fern”, like the asparagus plant, is actually a member of the liliaceae, or lily family, and spreads by seeds and tubers rather than by spores. The Foxtail cultivar is called meyersii, and the fern sometimes goes by the names Mey… |
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Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood: Stories and Recipes to Share with Family and Friends $15.46 Recipe from Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood: Chicken Pizza serves 12 to 14 Ingredients 2 13.8-ounce cans premade pizza crust dough 4 tablespoons olive oil 2 teaspoons minced garlic 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese (about 8 ounces) 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese (about 8 ounces) 1 bell pepper, cored, seeded, and cut into strips 1 red onion, sliced vertically 3 boneless, skinl… |
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Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals $6.95 The first Moosewood Cookbook–loved for its cozy, comforting food–mused oil, eggs, and dairy products so lavishly that it was extensively revised in 1992 to fit our changing diet. Now, the Moosewood Collective takes an even more extreme step: recipes in Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites are so intentionally healthful that they put the word right on the cover of this chubby book filled … |
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Rachael Ray’s Big Orange Book: Her Biggest Ever Collection of All-New 30-Minute Meals Plus Kosher Meals, Meals for One, Veggie Dinners, Holiday Favorites, and Much More! $7.56 Rachael Ray’s Big Orange Book By Rachael Ray”In the 10 years since she served up her first 30-minute mealùand thousands of delectable dinners laterù Rachael Ray has learned just about all there is to know about getting a great tasting meal on the table in… |
