Grow?

topic posted Wed, December 14, 2005 - 8:36 PM by  Steve
What do you Grow?
What do you want to Grow?
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Steve
Fresno
  • Re: Grow?

    Wed, December 14, 2005 - 10:47 PM
    well, ive grown tomatoes, strawberries, papaya, passion fruit, wolf berries, corn, basil, pine, rosemarry, brush cherry, um... not that much actually, ive never had a whole lot of room. where i will be moving ill have lots of room to grow, just no more sub tropical plants.
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      Re: Grow?

      Wed, December 14, 2005 - 11:06 PM
      Papayas in the bay area? How did you do it? What variety did you use? They can handle frost?

      What are wolf berries? Brush cherry?

      Where are you moving? Portland? Alaska?
      • Re: Grow?

        Wed, December 14, 2005 - 11:21 PM
        hehe, well, they didnt make it to fruit because of my neglect, i honestly cant remember the variety. Brush cherry is an australian fruit, juicy, not too flavourful. Wolfberries are chinese, in the nightshade family, lycium is the genus of them. im moving to the sierra nevada foothills.
    • Re: Grow?

      Thu, December 15, 2005 - 10:10 AM
      can't list everything I have grown, but some of my faves: KALE! sugar snap peas, 30 varieties of salad greens (+endives!), cutting celery, blueberries!, baby white turnips, colorful radishes for the neighbor kids, endless culinary herbs like lemon grass, garlic chives, parsley and thymes, lots of medicinal herbs like yerba santa, valerian, comfrey, mullein...and an infinite number of unusual plants for me & for my landscape clients...and at my parents' we have several apple trees, fuji and granny smith and...we will have pasion fruit, papaya, and bananas in hawaii asap.
      • Re: Grow?

        Thu, December 15, 2005 - 3:41 PM
        Where you moving to Stevo?

        Sure can't list everything i've grown, woiuldn't be prudent
        anyway.

        I've grown a fair number of trees and shrubs from seeds. Persimmons, paw paw's , apples, lots of nut trees

        Blackberries and raspberries from root cuttings, and i've grown a lot of blueberries and rooted these on scale of hundred or so at once.

        wide raised beds of fall greens one of my favorite things to grow. Tatsoi, mizuna, kale, collards, winter lettuces, chicories,. With just a little protection, these last deep into winter, some years all the way to spring. It gets down to about 0F here in an average year. Sometimes as cold as -10 though.

        Also beds of lutz beets becase they can freeze and rethaw in the garden and still be good. Great food resource in colder areas for this.

        I've grown fair sized crops of butternut squash some years. Y2K i grew a motherload of them and did great billing them as " the official vegetable of the Y2k" hahahaha, sold lots of boxes to friends.

        Grown shitakes and other mushrooms some.


        I've done a good bit of market gardening so all the basics.






        • Re: Grow?

          Thu, December 15, 2005 - 5:57 PM
          its funny, ive never grown or tasted paw paws, but i really really want to grow them!
          Im moving to North Fork, near oakhurst in the sierra nevada foot hills.
          • Re: Grow?

            Wed, January 18, 2006 - 2:23 PM
            this year trying to get more beehives going,i can handle about half a dozen i would like to produce comb honey i am not into extraction methods

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