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["Forest Garden" <forestgarden@gvtc.com>]

Hi Rain,

Well, yes the morniga does freeze down to nothing when it gets too cold.
But it comes right back up again, and the growth is surprising.  I currently
keep one indoors during the winter - she is part of the family now - the
kids say "good morning moringa".  I have a south facing wall I am going to
put seeds along and see how well they do can do for themselves outside.  The
claimed nutritional and health values are so good, so I have to try.

Thanks everyone,

Marjory
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rain Tenaqiya" <raincascadia@yahoo.com>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:45 PM
Subject: [permaculture] Moringa probably won't grow in central Texas


Hello fellow forest gardener,

  The horseradish tree (Moringa olifera) is an awesome being, but it stops
growing once the nights get below the fifties and needs a ton of ongoing
heat to grow very much at all.  It will resprout after the top dies from
frost, but I wouldn't recommend broadscale plantings of it outside of the
subtropical zones on the extreme southern edges of the US border.  I have
one that has survived now for three years in central/coastal California, but
despite it's reputation as one of the world's fastest growing trees, it is
only about three feet tall.  I've only been able to eat a handful of leaves
without feeling that I was taking too much.  If you have better luck, I'd
really like to hear about it.  I plan on keeping mine in a greenhouse.

  Rain


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