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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

anyway to put the photo on the net and post a link to it or post it on
the Nafex facebook page...

I think attachments are stripped from this list.

~mIEKAL



On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net> wrote:
> I just wrote a friend suggesting that he should think about planting Sea 
> Buckthorn at his place in
> Minnesota.  He wrote back the following (below).  I don't know about his 
> comment about it tasting
> pretty bad, but I suppose it would be unpalatable right off the tree and 
> needs to be sweetened,
> etc.  I hope the attached picture comes through.
>
> Dan
>
>
> "Funny you should mention Sea Buckthorn.  I just saw loads of it along the 
> coast of the Baltic Sea a
> few weeks ago when I was in north Germany.  It grows all over the place in 
> the sandy soils along the
> sea coast.  It was a real rough environment, cold and windier than beat 
> Hell.   But the plant seems
> to thrive under those conditions.  My friends in Germany said the fruit 
> tastes pretty bad but when
> it is added to liqueurs or made into jam or whatever, it is good, and way 
> higher in vitamin C than
> citrus fruit."
>
> "Check the attachment, it is my shot of Sea Buckthorn from the Baltic 
> coast."