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Originally Posted by raggedyredhead
Hi everyone, first my banana addiction. They have taken over my house. I was able to overwinter my ensete maurelli. It has to be moved to get out of my sliding doors. I bought two more and four thai blk. Also ensete glauca
overwintered from last year. I have scores of other plants too. Now my new thing is fruiting trees. I have a tangelo growing indoors 'til it's warm enough to go outside. I have had a mission fig growing in a pot for about four years.
I went to Lowes and bought a Chicago fig and a kadota fig tree. I watched a how to video on youtube & the guy said" some people like to collect types of fig trees". Of course I dont need encouraging. Besides I just have to wrap them up just like my bananas and enjoy them year after year. The weather here in NJ isn't exactly suitable for tropicals but if you love them enough they will survive even if it means they take over your house. Anyone else out there doing this?
Raggedy
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Hi Raggedy,
You are in good company. This winter I had 5 Dwarf Cavendish, 1 Dwarf Namwah, 2 Mystery Bananas, 3 tangerine plants, 2 key lime plants, 1 meyer lemon, 6 pineapple plants, 1 clementine orange, 4 coffee plants, 1 cinnamon tree, 1 Bay Laurel, 1 mystery citrus, and 3 avocado plants inside my house. When you add all those plants to my Chihuaua, my cat, and my two rabbits, you've got one heck of a mess.
Outside I have 1 apple tree, 3 peach trees, 2 brown turkey figs, 1 Chicago Hardy fig, 2 mystery blueberries, 2 pomegranates, 8 pawpaw's, 1 pecan, and 1 mulberry. In the garden I presently have corn, carrots, collard, lettuce, strawberries, tomatoes, sunflowers, bell peppers, asparagus, green beans, zucchini, onions, yellow squash, butternut squash, spaghetti squash, watermelon, canteloupe, cucumbers, pie pumpkins, and halloween pumpkins. In my herb garden I have thyme, rosemary, sage, basil, cilantro, and oregano. I think that covers it all. It's like an addiction: I just need to plant something all the time.