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| hchickpea@hotmail.com: Mar 16 12:48PM -0500 >tops. Managed to provide "almost" a year's supply of onions for the >kitchen in 2017 but not likely to do as well this year and many of what >I do have will be late. Lived down there for about 20 years. Malabar spinach is quite good and handles heat well. With the nematodes, we found the way to garden veggies was in containers (homemade eearthboxes). Wander a Home Depot plant area and you'll see some square one marketed as garden boxes or some such.. The fun in Florida was the various fruiting trees - orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, mangoes (keet is really good), papaya (but bag them because of the bugs), and with insanely heavy mulch and a protected spot - bananas. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Mar 16 11:06AM -0700 > The fun in Florida was the various fruiting trees - orange, grapefruit, lemon, > lime, mangoes (keet is really good), papaya (but bag them because of the bugs), > and with insanely heavy mulch and a protected spot - bananas. Keet? Is that an offshoot of Kent? Those are the only ones that we get around here that are worth eating. I planted a seed a couple of years ago, but the plant is less than a foot high now :-( -- Cheers, Bev "Nothing in the universe can withstand the relentless application of brute force and ignorance." -- Frd, via Dennis (evil) |
| hchickpea@hotmail.com: Mar 16 06:57PM -0500 Kiett. Never had to write the name down and it is pronounced keet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitt_%28mango%29 You have to be a little careful with mangos though, as too much and you may start to develop an allergy to them. You can tell because your lips will start to feel wierd. |
| barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com>: Mar 16 07:17PM -0500 |
| marge9027@gmail.com: Mar 16 07:20AM -0700 On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 4:27:29 PM UTC-4, drpepper888 wrote: |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Mar 15 10:10PM -0500 >>HTH, >I dunno, she sounds more jerky to me. Why take a chance on a freezer explosion >when you can have jerky that fizzes in your mouth? Any way she rolls, she's my kind of girl. Ol' Rick is one lucky dog. -- Derald ...the only traits that are passed down in your family are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies. --Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA July, 2016 to Derald |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Mar 15 10:10PM -0500 >Hmmm. My various starts are either still on the grow shelves or had to be taken >in because of frost. Tradition is that one can't plant safely here until the >week of Easter, and it has been true every year I have paid attention. We had a high-average warm winter this year but nothing record-setting. Cold finally took out the eggplants and most of the peppers. In a bit of a "march surprise" chilly spell now that has the remaining peppers a bit unhappy. >I gave up the big garden here because it just wasn't financially practical. I >now grow in containers on the back deck, where the deer and groundhog can't >reach. I still garden in raised beds and containers. Trying to amend and maintain the native sand is a bit like rolling a boulder up a hill.... Our garden is small enough to manage, equipped with drip irrigation (which, btw, has required far less maintenance than I feared at the outset). Except for alfalfa and seeds, I don't have to bring in much from the outside. I try to grow the most of what we eat the most of because that's where most of the money would be spent. I live in a climate suitable for year 'round gardening but not suitable for food crops that need a long cool season such as broccoli (although, some years rapini does well), cauliflower, crisphead lettuce and, most years, carrots. >Trying shallots this year, as the prices in the store are always outrageous for >them. Never have grown those. I grow fairly strongly flavored piquant cooking onions, a pot of perennial chives and frequent successive plantings of some generic off-the-rack onions for tender "green" onion tops. Managed to provide "almost" a year's supply of onions for the kitchen in 2017 but not likely to do as well this year and many of what I do have will be late. -- Derald Peninsular FL, USA USDA 9b |
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