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  • From: Louisa Rogoff Thompson <louisathompson@erols.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Re: potted fruit plant
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:25:19 -0500

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

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