03-17-2006, 07:28 PM
Cathy,
Would love to be there and trade plants, that would be great to do!
There is a type of cultivar out of California that I have heard is adapted for coastal salt air conditions and warmer weather. I can't remember the name for sure because I haven't looked into it for a few years, but this first one might be it.
Big Sur California lilac
http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/174.htm
Are you in zone 10 or 11? This lilac is 8-10, so it might not work.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:0BrfKG7zL1AJ:www.ncan.com/nursery%2520notes%2520articles%25202003/mountaingrowing%2520mayjune.pdf+california+lilac+low+chill+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4
Have you tried to grow the purple sweet potatoes yet? Those would be a favorite of mine to try, along with some dwarf mango trees. Then I would have room to try different varieties and some ripen at different times of the year.
Here is Tx. we also do not get the chill hours for fruit trees that is needed. consequently with the poor limey soil, on bedrock that we live on we get very marginal tasting fruit and the peaches and apples trees are not long lived. I did not really like Anna, Einsheimer or the others that I grew and they soon died except I think it was Anna, when mercifully the great flood of 98 took the tree out. It might be helpful to find a company that is growing the fruit trees in a zone close to yours since it would be more climitized and less stressed, hopefully more able to produce well or quicker than ones that aren't. It seems like that might be a major problem with getting them going.
My mom always used to let our chickens out about a half hour before dark, when it was a bit cooler and the bugs would become more active, then too the chickens didn't have time to do much damage but were attracted to the moving bugs and then off to the coop for the might, since they liked to be inside as was their habit and security. They would race around doing their business and then off to the coop. Sometimes more than one of us would have to round them up, which usually was pretty easy. We might have trained them to go back to the coop with a favorite food lure too, like cottage cheese or something, which they would come in for.
Happy Gardening!
Lucy
Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLanai
Would love to be there and trade plants, that would be great to do!
There is a type of cultivar out of California that I have heard is adapted for coastal salt air conditions and warmer weather. I can't remember the name for sure because I haven't looked into it for a few years, but this first one might be it.
Big Sur California lilac
http://www.laspilitas.com/plants/174.htm
Are you in zone 10 or 11? This lilac is 8-10, so it might not work.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:0BrfKG7zL1AJ:www.ncan.com/nursery%2520notes%2520articles%25202003/mountaingrowing%2520mayjune.pdf+california+lilac+low+chill+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4
Have you tried to grow the purple sweet potatoes yet? Those would be a favorite of mine to try, along with some dwarf mango trees. Then I would have room to try different varieties and some ripen at different times of the year.
Here is Tx. we also do not get the chill hours for fruit trees that is needed. consequently with the poor limey soil, on bedrock that we live on we get very marginal tasting fruit and the peaches and apples trees are not long lived. I did not really like Anna, Einsheimer or the others that I grew and they soon died except I think it was Anna, when mercifully the great flood of 98 took the tree out. It might be helpful to find a company that is growing the fruit trees in a zone close to yours since it would be more climitized and less stressed, hopefully more able to produce well or quicker than ones that aren't. It seems like that might be a major problem with getting them going.
My mom always used to let our chickens out about a half hour before dark, when it was a bit cooler and the bugs would become more active, then too the chickens didn't have time to do much damage but were attracted to the moving bugs and then off to the coop for the might, since they liked to be inside as was their habit and security. They would race around doing their business and then off to the coop. Sometimes more than one of us would have to round them up, which usually was pretty easy. We might have trained them to go back to the coop with a favorite food lure too, like cottage cheese or something, which they would come in for.
Happy Gardening!
Lucy
Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheLanai
Lucy
Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!
Having another Great day in Paradise, Wherever that Maybe!