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4 huge Crinum xanthophyllum (golden crinum)
1 huge Calliandra (Pink Faeryduster)
10 Ti plants (Sherbert, Peter Buck, Pue Ele Ele, and Wi'li's Gold)

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2 gingers.
Curcuma "scarlet fever"
Curcuma "pride of burma"

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lorax

I haven't posted in a while, so here's the plantings for the past 5 weeks.

Zingiber oficianalis
A bunch of Croton lechieri
Three Cecropia palmata
Alocasia esculenta
Anthurium angamarcanum
Una de gato
Some haworthias
Some sempervivae
Dendrobiums
Xyllobiums (Ecuadoran species orchids)
Phragimpedinums
Plurothallis (Ecuadoran species micro-orchids)
Kalanchoes
Opuntias (especially O. ficus-indica)

probably more, I forget...

Richard

Cow-a-bunga !

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lorax

Yeah, well, I live in Ecuador. I've got lots of time on my hands, an amazing selection of possible plants that cost little to nothing, and a big yard.

Tomorrow is plant out the beets day, and I'm going to start some passifloras i think...

sandy0225

Jamaican yellow scotch bonnet peppers, black beauty eggplant, lettuce hanging baskets, shipped 3 victoria waterlilies, slow rainy/snowy day.

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Sandy, I've been growing the "Florida High Bush" eggplant for a couple of years now, and prefer it to the standard black beauty. Seeds are available from Tomato Growers Supply Company: Eggplant seeds

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D_&_T

I planted this evening Roma Tomato, Super Sweet 100 Hybrid Cherry Tomato, Cherry Belle Radish, Evergreen Long White Bunching Onions, Sweet 'n Early Hybrid Cantaloupe, Sugar Baby Watermelon, Ferry's Round Dutch Cabbage, Sumter Cucumber, and Mesclun Sweet Salad Mix (Blend of Greens). While I was doing the planting, Dan was on Sandy's website and I really want more tomatoes!!

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over 100 wild daffies, over 40 red hot pokers, over 30 iris of different colors, over 30 orange parrot tulips. all of these were dug up out of my moms yard and relocated to mine. i gave about 40 wild daffies to my friend and 4 red hot pokers also. and my tomatoes from sandy will be here by the end of the week. i got the little pink cherry tomatoes and the reddish black cherry tomatoes. yummy. btw...saw lots of honey bees today. i have some little blue flowers in the yard (weeds i guess) and they were covered with bees today. i just cant pull the weeds knowing the bees are starving. lol.

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harveyc

I planted 8 each of the following pomegranate cultivars: 'Angel Red' (new patented cultivar), 'Wonderful' (industry standard), 'Parfianka' (also spelled 'Parfyanka' in one case at the repository at Davis, but that's incorrect according to Dr. Gregory Levin who sent it there from Turkmenistan and now residing near Tel Aviv), and 'Sin Pepe'. I have 7 more cultivars to plant over the next few days.

I planted a white butterfly ginger two days ago before I learned that Sandy had them for sale on this site. I hear they are really nice, so check them out!

Harvey

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NanaNut2

Today I transplanted my Tacca and my dracaena goldieana. Nice plump roots on both of them!! I used a one to one ratio each of Miracle Grow's Cactus Citrus and Palm mix, and Perlite.

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mskitty38583

i planted a 4 ft. cherry bush i dug up out of my moms yard this morning.. my dad ordered it from starks bros. about 3 yrs ago. the roots were massive. and i planted 10 date palm seeds.( thanks cookiecow). i used an 18 inch long planter, and covered it with plastic wrap and secured it with a rubber band to have a little gh for them.

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bencelest

many flowering annual plants in between those bananas at my pergola plat as per orders from my dear wife.

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Richard

Hey, when those annuals are spent replace them with summer and winter clover! The roots are less agressive than the evergreen variety, and fix nitrogen in the soil!

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harveyc

And may bring you lots of company as gophers love them!

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bencelest

Harvey, I don't worry about gophers. The last gopher I had was3 years ago but I think I drowned it for I really use my hose and let it run all the time until my soil was flooded. I never saw anymore new mound after that. I was expecting it to come out of one of their holes about 4 different places but I never saw it .

Richard please tell me more about these summer and winter clover. That's what I need to put more nitrogen in the soil for my new plat. Will peanuts will do also?

You are a good maestro.

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Richard

It's not so much that clover puts nitrogen into the soil but instead makes it more readily available. All true legumes do this. An old, maybe ancient farming practice is to grow alfalfa (another legume) in your fallow field and then after a year till (or after the snow melt) till it under. Before you go sowing alfalfa, keep in mind it has a powerful tap root and root system in general.

But I use alfalfa on a small scale. When developing my vegetable beds, I sowed alfalfa seed and watered it semi-regularly. After 9 months I weed-whipped it down, got out the rototiller and tilled it in. I'm about to do this again in a 10 x 10 ft area of the front yard.

I have also noticed that rabbits love alfalfa. I observed that they would eat their fill and then fall into a sophoric sleep in the shade. So I ran a soaker hose along the chain-link fence on the perimeter of my property and sowed alfalfa seed so it would grow on the outside of the fence -- in my neighbors' unattended back yards. The rabbits came, ate their fill and fell asleep right there! Of course times change, and now I have new neighbors who are plowing their yards for other adventures. So now I'm on plan B, burying 1 x 1 ft paving stones vertically 6" deep so that rabbits won't dig under my fence.

If you decide to grow alfalfa, then buy the seed from a feed store in your county. There are hybrids of it available for every climate. Don't use the seed sold at the vitamin store or whatever for alfalfa sprouts. It's a different breed.

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harveyc

Today I finished planting the remainder of my pomegranate trial, eight trees each of:

Wonderful, Parfianka, Sin Pepe, Gissarskii Rosovyi, Sirinevyi, Vkusnyi, Azadi, Medovyi Vahsha, Desertnyi, and Sakerdze. All of these except Wonderful and Sin Pepe came to the USA from Turkmenistan in the 1990s and are not widely grown. I also planted seedling trees of Mridula and Ganesh (from India) and Mollar (from Spain) and one tree budded to Cranberry, a tree of unknown origin.

It will be a small challenge at harvest time when these trees start producing as each tree of a particular cultivar are randomly located throughout the plot of 4 rows and 22 trees in each row (plus "guard trees" at the end which are not an official part of the trial). I'll process some of my photos and have them up on my pomegranate web site when I get a chance.

Harvey

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Richard

Harvey, that was a lot of work. Congratulations. Your location should be great for pomegranates in terms of heat units and subtropical winters. Any particular reason you didn't include White Flower?

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harveyc

Richard, I don't remember if I've tasted White or am just remembering comments made to me by others, but I believe it's been considered somewhat insipid. I did plant one tree of White last year but it never grew for me and I didn't bother to take it back to the nursery for replacement. It wasn't a cultivar recommended for the trial by the repository's pomegranate manager which was then narrowed down by the curator who then left me with the final choices of narrow it down.

Different ethnic groups have various taste preferences, though. I believe many Asian and Indian groups prefer the sweet types. Turkmenistan had 1,117 accessions in the collection at Garygala (sp?) and they sent 40 or so of the best to Davis so they seem to be a good source to be picking from.

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