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I will be taking seeds over to try and grow:

Carica papaya - Waimanalo Dwarf Papaya
Cymbopogon winterianus - Citronella Grass
Harpephyllum caffrum - Kaffir Plum
Laurus nobilis - Bay Leaf
lettaria cardamomum - Cardamom
Muntingia calabura - Strawberry Tree
Opuntia ficus-indica - Prickly Pear
Passiflora mollissima - Banana Passion Fruit
Rollinia deliciosa - Biriba
Solanum integrifolium - Pumpkin Tree
Ziziphus mauritiana - Indian Jujube
 
Tonight's low temperature is supposed to be about 20o F (which is very cold for here). It's 9:30, and already the temperature has fallen to about 14o. I feel like we're playing a game of thermometer limbo - "how low can it go?!"
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Sometimes I feel like Hubby and I are "cheating." We have a greenhouse that he built to grow poinsettias in. When the points are done, we have started taking advantage of the space to grow veg. In the last week, we have eaten spinach, Swiss chard, lettuce, tomatoes, bell peppers, summer squash, and lemons that we grew out there. Not a bad harvest for January!
 
IS that fake ice cream, I've never seen yellow ice cream before in my life. Maybe it's sherbet which is in no way ICE CREAM,

plus which none are my favorite flavors.
 
Oz is right. A lot of us grew up with parents who scoffed at the idea they might have to grow their own food. In my family I'm the only throwback. My son is one of few in his class who know how to plant a tree, weed vegetable beds, plant a lawn, and lots of other things he thought were stupid at the time. Now when I go up to have lunch with him, if he sees my gardening gloves in the car he gets all misty-eyed and nostalgic. It's adorable.

But I am off on a tangent. My point was, many people at varying stages of life would really like to know how to start a vegetable garden, how to select plants, which ones need cages, when to fertilize, which plants don't like water on their leaves, etc.

I learn new things every year as much from trial and failure as anything else, but that's partly because where I live isn't a typical growing environment. One year I was having the most success I had ever had in a vegetable garden ... until June 13th, when we had the mother of all hail storms. It lasted 30 minutes. My garden looked like a nuclear wasteland. No one had tomato plants left, but one lady at my favorite little store in town said, "Don't dig them up, just leave them alone, and keep watering them. They might come back, tomatoes can surprise you." She was right. I didn't have the fabulous harvest I had been looking forward to, but I did have a harvest.

One voice of experience is more valuable than all the internet reading, and even book reading, you can do. Even if you don't charge for the instruction you can probably get more than just one helper by offering some learn-by-doing. There's a lady north and east of me who charges $50 to teach people how to process their own chickens - and gets all her chickens processed in a day. Seems like participants get to take home one chicken. People go.
 
Bunnylady said:
Tonight's low temperature is supposed to be about 20o F (which is very cold for here). It's 9:30, and already the temperature has fallen to about 14o. I feel like we're playing a game of thermometer limbo - "how low can it go?!"
hide.gif


Sometimes I feel like Hubby and I are "cheating." We have a greenhouse that he built to grow poinsettias in. When the points are done, we have started taking advantage of the space to grow veg. In the last week, we have eaten spinach, Swiss chard, lettuce, tomatoes, bell peppers, summer squash, and lemons that we grew out there. Not a bad harvest for January!
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That is impressive!
 

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