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[ted <music AT thenightshades.com>]

It's so tempting to stretch your climate to the limits in search of
delicacies, but I'd rather grow stuff that's easily acclimated to my area
and can thrive on it's own- persimmons are some of what I have in mind- the
true food of the gods to my divine taste! They'll go all summer without any
care once established and tall enough to evade deer. Plus they are ripe in
the winter! which is a thin time for fresh fruit for sure...

Best I think to find out who is growing these delicacies a bit further south
and trade them something exquisite they don't have... I'm thinking of the
Nearings and their maple syrup for citrus trade.
Ted

on 11/12/04 6:47 AM, homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org at
homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> 
>> I only regret two things in moving to Roanoke area---the inability to grow
>> >mangos and avocados
> 
> Must be time for that two-story "glass" addition
> to the south side of the house, radiant heat floor,
> and holes in the floor for the trees. Each  *hole*
> has to have a concrete "floor" three feet down in.
> That's the way the British used to do in Victorian
> times to have oranges in England. I read about the
> BBC program on PBS (a short series) in an old British
> mag, sent for the used book that accompanied the
> program, and one-a these days when/if I should
> be lucky enough to have 'extra' cash, will get
> the videotape/s.  The Victorian Kitchen Garden.
> 
> With the tree roots dwarfing the trees "naturally",
> and additional hard pruning when out of flower,
> they may be maintained to a 'ladderless' height,
> too. Also need additional lighting I suppose,
> but then there is halogen lighting .... Makes me
> feel lucky now that I have *not* developed
> "expensive" tastes .... <g>