North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Louisa Rogoff Thompson <louisathompson@erols.com>]

Ginda,

You might want to consider a pepper plant - bell pepper, hot pepper, any 
kind.  A 1-gallon pot is big enough for the smaller pepper varieties 
which grow less than 2' tall, and a 2-gallon pot ought to be big enough 
for the biggest.  Botanically, peppers are fruit, and when red-ripe, 
they taste like fruit!  And in their home range they are perennial (or 
maybe woody?).  It's hard to get them to ripen to red in Zone 6 because 
they need a long growing season, but if you overwinter them indoors they 
get off to a nice early start. 

Louisa Thompson
Columbia, Maryland (Zone 7)

> > On Mon Jan 10 21:43 , list@ginda.us sent:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I have room for one more medium-sized plant in my bay window, and I'm
> > > looking for suggestions.  (Fruity suggestions, of course.)  The window
> > > has an eastern exposure, and gets full morning sun when the oak leaves
> > > are down, but only filtered sun in the summer.  It also has a bank of
> > > fluorescent lights on a timer year-round.
> > >
> > > My meyers lemon does well here in the winter, but goes outside in the
> > > summer.  Ideally, I'd prefer a plant that could stay in the window all
> > > year, although taking out in the summer is a possibility.  The pot
> > > could be a gallon or two, and I'd prefer the plant to be no more than 
> > > a
> > > couple of feet high.  (A foot of pot and two feet of plant would be
> > > perfect.)  Another citrus would be fun, if anything fits the bill.  I
> > > was looking with interest at the dwarf citrus offered by Stark.  But 
> > > it
> > > doesn't need to be citrus, just a dual purpose ornamental/edible.  Any
> > > suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ginda Fisher
> > > eastern Mass., zone 6
> > >
> > > ______________________