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24 Varieties of Figs and a half dozen or so of sprouting Moringa Seeds:

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Oh!! And one pineapple top! I thought of asking my local Publix supermarket if I could have the pineapple tops off the ones they cut up for fruit salad. I want to do that in person to a person I've talked to in the past though.

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Well as we can't seem shake winter - we had 6" of snow 2 weekends ago that turned to rain, only to snow again this past weekend, which has now melted away with more rain - I have resorted to starting the seeds for my gardens to help with the urge to get outside and start the "spring clean up" :)

To start the seeds I had to set up a room in the basement with lights and fans and so far most of the seeds have started germinating (mostly vegetables but with a mixture of unusuals such as mountain papaya and banana yucca etc.). But the big surprise were the Jicama seeds that I planted about 3 weeks ago. Not only did they NOT take the 1 to 5 months to germinate that I was told (actually they took less than a week to sprout) but I have since had to plant them into 1gallon pots and give them something to climb as the tallest in now about 8" tall and growing fast.

FYI, Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as Jicama or Mexican yam, or Mexican turnip, is the name of a native Mexican vine, although the name most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous root.

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i hope you got clumping bamboo and not a running type. the running kind is exactly like a weed and can take over your yard/house/whatever. especially with the fence there. it might pop up on your neighbors side.

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Yet trying not to collect plants, I stupidly wandered into Lowes discounted plant section where a fairly happy Yellow Wing Hibiscus with a bloom and a bud called to me and begged me to take her home. She was only $1; yes, I caved. On the way home I began counting stems--5! From experience I was pretty certain that mean 5 individual plants; I was right. All of them are now in pots. Realizing that FL summer is fast approaching and that my tomato seedlings may be too late I picked up a double stemmed/2 plant German Johnson at Ace (I purposely chose that one pot because I know I can divide it and I wasn't about to pay $3.49 plus tax for one stinking weed). Surgery accomplished and 2 pots, which will be set in indirect light for a week or so, are watered. Why German Johnson? Because the only other choices were OPs/Heirlooms I already have. Not that I have that many...I so need to get settled and get my nursery license so I can introduce Floridians to real tomatoes!

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I planted me 5 Tomater's and 2 Cayenne Peppers.. I need to prep my pepper bed so I can plant the rest.. :^)

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Peppers have been in here for nearly a month. I got so discouraged buying plants only to have them die last year that I just started tossing cores from red peppers in the dirt. I ended up with easily 30 plants! Left half in Jacksonville and brought the rest with me. I've got peppers on my largest one--the one I babied in a pot. The others are perking up and blooming also. My sole jalapeno was one of more than 30 but something ate my experimental lemon seedlings to the dirt and only this guy survived. I also have beans in the pot with the pepper but I think I'll let those go to seed.

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The sun and warmth are finally here, so I got out and planted a few vines the other day:
a pair of actinidia arguta "ken's red" kiwi
a pair of actinidia chinensis (golden) kiwi
1 passiflora incarnate - maypop passion
1 passiflora suberosa - cork bark passion
And just to add some color, half a dozen purple pasque flowers - pulsatilla vulgaris :)

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Finally warming here in South Carolina. The planting fever has hit me.

Brown Turkey Fig. I'm not sure if I'll set this out yet as the leaves keep turning brown and drying out. I cut them off to see if it will improve.


Sunshine Blueberry. I may also keep this one in a pot. Depends on how big it gets.



Celeste Fig. Most of the top part shows no sign of life. I was going to take it back, but I saw some green buds down low on the trunk. Wait and see.



Indian Blood Peach. Seems to be doing quite well so far.



One of two Elberta Peach. Seems to be doing Ok. Other one seems to be still dormant.



Belle Of Georgia. Still dormant.



Methley Plum. She's a bloomin' !!! :woohoonaner:



Here's my Florida Queen after 2 years of an encounter with a buck deer. My back yard is a major pickup place for the local deer population. Not much hope after the grafted trunk has been destroyed. Will wait to see what it does.



Honey bees have been installed in their new homes. They eyeball the fruit trees anxiously.



Rabbit Eye Blue Berrys. One planted back in March. I don't think it made it.



Tomatoes. Big Boy, Whopper, Big Beef.



I started a stand of Thornless Black Berrys when the mother plant started sending off shoots like crazy. Can't wait.



Italian Honey Fig. May wait till it's a little bigger B4 setting it out.



Cabbage and Bell Pepper (task for tomorrow). Love 'em



I've appointed a guard over the backyard. She's replenishing her strength before going out and patrolling the area.



Brian

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Planted a lavender twist weeping redbud tree and a bi color butterfly bush

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3 different types of exotic melons: picano, kiwano and banana? I think? I'll have to double check my name tags again.


3 types of mint cuttings: peppermint, spearmint and chocolate mint. These are to be given away later when they've rooted.

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GREAT TOPIC. I guess I will have to plant something to keep up! I can see that many of you have such exotic plants. I need to relocate to warmer pastures.

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Cherry "Minnie Royal"
Cherry "Royal Lee"
Pluot "Flavor Grenade"
Passiflora "Fredericks"
Nectarine "Snow Queen"
Persimmon "Izu"
Kumquat "Nordmann Seedless"

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cassava and katuk cuttings

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Cleveland Sage
Greek Sage
Lemon Verbena
Male & Female Kei Apple

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Dragon fruit

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Cherry Of The Rio Grande.

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I planted this Monroe 2 weeks ago. Got it from Lara Farms 1gal.



New growth :)



Winter avocado ( check)

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you will love that cherry Richard I got them and they are sweet.
kind of a slow grower though

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Silver Rose garlic. Is that a good garlic to grow? Im a garlic newbie and I ordered them last spring because I didnt know you have to wait till fall to plant them. So I had to wait all summer for them to be shipped. I like garlic!

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I don't know the answer to your question, but do you separate the cloves and plant those individually? Garlic sounds pretty cool.

Wonder if grocery store garlic would work as well.

Thanks

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Yeah always separate the cloves and plant those but it has to be done about 3 days before you plant them. Try to get some of the root end on each clove then set them someplace cool and dry.

I read that they use a chemical on the garlic at stores to give them a longer shelf life and the chemical makes it difficult for them to grow. But we did have 2 garlics in the fridge last year that didnt get used and they sprouted lol. Mom just tossed them but thats when I decided I wanted to try growing it.

Btw I did a lot of reading about garlic. Your in zone 8a so the best time for you to plant it is February or March. If you get any frost there then you need to plant it one month before the first frost. You can plant it in the spring too but it wont get as big and you lose a lot of the flavor too. Just plant each clove pointy end up and 2" deep and 4" apart in soil with lots of organic stuff and nitrogen. It will sprout in the spring and it will make a whole new bulb full of cloves from May to June.

Im gonna keep 2 cloves from each garlic and plant those. That way I will always have garlics to plant.
Oh I almost forgot. Garlic is a insect repellent so you wont have any issues with bugs - on the garlics or other plants that are near them.
Good luck with your garlic project. :D

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in climates where there is a sustained winter freeze.

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Oh. Thanks for the heads up about that. We get sustained winter freezing here so that works for me. Dunno about Florida.

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Add many parts of California to that list. The bugs I have here could care less that the plant they are eating is surrounded by garlic, shallots, and scallions.

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Yeah I really wont know if that works till next summer since I never planted garlic before.

I was reading a newspaper article and I found more helpful information. I would post a link but its not in English but this is what I learned.

1. Rotate every year and dont return to the same area till after 5 years.
2. Never plant where onions were planted. Also not where nightshades like tomatoes, peppers, or eggplant were growing because the garlics could get Fusarium.
3. Its okay to plant them where melons, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, cabbage, or legumes were growing. They really like where strawberries were growing.
4. Use a sandy loamy soil but not too loose. In hard soil they can get squeezed up out of the ground in the winter and freeze.
5. No manure before planting. Prepare the soil with 20-30 grams of superphosphate & 20 grams of potassium fertilizer per square meter of soil.
6. You should also use 10 grams of ammonium nitrate per square meter too.
7. Garlic hates shade + moisture. That combination can be fatal.
8. To prevent diseases soak the cloves for 2-3 hours in a pink solution of potassium permanganate.
9. To be even safter you can also soak them for 2-3 minutes (never longer) in 1 tbsp salt per gallon of water or 1 tsp copper sulfate solution per 2 litres of water.
10. Never press the cloves into the ground when planting. Pressure can damage the part that makes the roots. Just put them in the holes then cover them with the soil.
11. Mulch the area with 2-5 cm of peat humus or sawdust. Remove that in the spring. The mulch will hold the snowcover and helps to keep them warm.

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Just picked up my first DF cactus, it said it was the Halley's Comet variety. I set a pole for it and will top it off with something in the future.

I am also looking for DF cuttings of different varieties in the South FL area.

Here is my setup as it currently stands.



I also planted some cuttings of the HC that were loose or broken due to transport.

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My opinion is that newspaper article is a bunch
of B.S.

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My friend Rico has been growing garlic for 8 years in Berlin and he linked that article for me to read. He hasnt had any issues in Germany but if you think those tips wont work in America then please explain.
Sorry but "a bunch of B.S." isnt very helpful.
Btw this is the article I got the information from.
Сажаем озимый че�нок: 5 маленьких хитро�тей дл� большого урожа� // KP.RU

If you dont read Russian you can copy & paste to Google Translator to read it.

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Show me a horticultural study published in a peer-reviewed monograph or journal that verifies any one of those results. In your search, I believe you will find the opposite.

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All 11 points are wrong? Thanks for the heads up. I havent read any horticultural studies because mostly I have just been looking for advice from other gardeners. So maybe for garlic I get bad advice.
I will Google for horticultural studies about garlic.
EDIT. I have ordered more garlic. I will ignore the information in the article when I plant those and learn which method works best.

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Good plan. Use a fertilizer that contains micronutrients from the electrolytic series (copper, zinc, iron) and most of the disease problems will not be an issue. I think you're already doing this anyway. Aliums are rarely bothered by pests except some varieties of grubs. Keeping your soil pH around 6.0 to 6.2 will mostly eliminate this problem. Of course you do not want to plant tuberous plants in hard clay soils -- nor would you plant any other food producing plant in that soil. Aliums will freely interbreed, and as a consequence do not rely on seed for reproduction of next years crop. Propagation by extra (or conserved) tubers (or saved fingers of garlic) usually works well. Alliums and most tubers are heavy feeders in comparison to leafy produce, etc. Start out with an acid-forming high nitrogen formula and about 3 months or by mid-summer -- which ever comes first, supplement with a high phosphate formula and plant hormones.

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Finally got the garden in this weekend and last night:



3 kinds of cucumbers across 8 mounds
4 kinds of tomatoes across 11 plants
3 kinds of chilis across 12 plants
4 brussels sprouts
8 cauliflower
zucchini
green onions (not confident these will do anything)
Sweet Basil
Sage
Pineapple Sage
Dill
Oregano
Peppermint
Lemon Balm
And room for a few others if I find something....

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over 150 bromeliads, 3 plumeria, 3 monstera, a dozen palms, 6 orchids, 10 gingers, 6 heliconia, 40 dragonfruit, and some mint.... plus 120 or so bananas over the last few days...

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Coconut Cream Mango, Alfonso Mango and another Acerola (Barbados) Cherry

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This is what I purchased today and planted.Musa Dwarf Cavendish and Goldfinger Banana. Definitely saved these from the heat and nursery. I got 2 DC's for the price of one banana plant from Lowes today!http://

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Actually Dwarf Namwa.

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Thanks for the correction Richard... I guess that's just how Lowe's name's the banana species.

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banana hybrid. :)

Lowe's supplier for fruiting bananas (and other subtropicals) in the western U.S. is LaVerne Nursery Inc. It is LaVerne that prints the labels for Lowe's. Decades ago LaVerne ordered Goldfinger from a tissue culture supplier (AgriStarts). At the time, AgriStarts was selling Dwarf Namwa as Goldfinger. LaVerne has kept propagating that cultivar under the name Goldfinger and even their sales manager can't get them to change the name.

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Hey Richard, does Armstrongs nursery use LaVerne too. My Armstrongs Goldfinger plant is blooming now too. It's a nice plant pups like crazy and has a beautiful bud.

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Richard I thank you very much for all your knowledge about Laverne Nursery and Lowe's.Anyway I have no worries because these should be good in my garden. I'm looking forward to some banana's whatever they are.

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Yes.

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Dicksonia.

Stepping up a container size
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That is a beautiful plant! How long have you been growing it? I need one of those for my place.

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Thanks Darkman.

These kind of ferns would do well around the rock in your backyard......I think it could be overwintered outside in your area.

I think fern is a 7-8 year old plant.
This plant is is a tree fern reaching 20+ feet in optimum growing conditions.
I put a link for extra reading:)

I picked it as a 1 gallon container plant for $4.99 at the Jensen Beach, Fla. Home Depot.

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Unplanted Costa Rican Malanga..


This is a great go to plant for a landscape filler ....looks like elephant ears.
Does well on drip irrigation in containers

Loves lots of water though.
Edible.
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Malanga
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Hostafarian,
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Thanks,

I think I need to add Tree Ferns to my plant list for aquisiton on my trip to South Florida.

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I love Malanga!....


Malanga boiled with coconut milk/water served with Codfish stew!....just yummy!......:bananarow:

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IMMMMMMM...... You will have to hit this german up with that recipe....
Not so sure I wanted this post ....MR Giant Plants in Florida.

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Now in zones 4- 5-6-7-8-is the time to split and replant your Hostas or other spring plants and ephemerals.

Today I did a few plants (hostas) under a few pine trees in the yard.

.Method was with small tiller
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Spring splits
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Hostafarian, on Flickr