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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Plants are blooming
  • Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:41:52 -0700 (PDT)

Sandy, if you are in zone 9, you should be able to grow anything that the
desert soil will allow, through February.  I don't know about growing inside,
but you shouldn't have a frost before late Feb., if you are like
us.......bobf



----- Original Message ----
From: "Bunjov AT aol.com" <Bunjov AT aol.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 8:35:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Plants are blooming

My friend does have a greenhouse - of sorts. It's a big stuccoed room 
attached to the house - much like a garage, but with a dirt floor and lots of 

windows. It stays very warm in the winter, even when the house is cold.

It has a few potted plants in it, and she blocks the door open so that the 
one outdoor cat has food and shelter.

I will point up the possibilities to her. I'm trying to do everything I can 
to divert her attention from the fact that she's alone now. I did stay in her 

guest house in '05 while I was making the transition from the San Fernando 
Valley to Newberry Springs, but can't be with her now 'cause I have too many 
critters who have their own schedules. She's about 3 miles away.

If anyone has any suggestions regarding what would grow in our zone, in a 
greenhouse, in the winter, it would be appreciated.

Sandy
Mid-Mojave


In a message dated 9/20/2008 7:39:25 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com writes:


Winter is when northern gardeners sit by the fire and read seed 
catalogs. It's one of the great joys of rural life. I always plan a 
bigger garden than I could ever possible take care of.

I do have a  greenhouse, but it's more for starting plants in the spring.
It doesn't  make sense to add expensive heat and lights for a few
tomatoes in the  winter. I do grow figs in my greenhouse; I love them but
they need the  extra winter protection to survive...the unheated
greenhouse is a zone 7  or 8, while outside is a 4 or 5. The figs go
dormant, but overwinter. Also  fuzzy kiwis. I'm looking for other
perennial fruits that wouldn't survive  outside here, but will overwinter
in a zone 7.

We grow crops in the  summer and can/freeze/dry the excess for winter.
Fresh tomatoes are, alas,  only available (outside the supermarket) for 3
months or so, starting with  the early ones, through to the huge sandwich
tomatoes. I live on tomato  sandwiches in August and September. Living
with a 4 month growing season,  you learn the meaning of "make hay while
the sun shines".

Lynn  Wigglesworth
Tioga County, PA

bob ford wrote:
> Do you have a  hot house for winter plants?  What do farmers/homesteaders
in cold areas  do in the winter ?  bobf
>
>
>
> -----  Original Message ----
> From: Lynn Wigglesworth
> To:  homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 6:34:36  AM
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Plants are blooming
>
> 
> bob ford wrote:
>> I'm also zone 9.  When you say that  your tomatoes "are done" do you mean
they have their blossoms set, or that you  already have tomatoes?  ...bobf
>
> In northern PA, it  means that we had our first frost warning Thursday
> night. The  tomatoes survived that, but they can't shiver and make fruit
> at the  same time. They might ripen what's left on the vine, but they are
>  pretty much done.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
>
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