Dana <dcarpend@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 10, 6:43 pm, Boron Elgar <boron_el...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:39:38 -0700 (PDT), Dana <dcarp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>> >Has anyone here had paw paws? I'm considering adding some paw paw
>> >trees to my woods. They're supposed to do well hereabouts, and
>> >there's at least some evidence that that whole family of fruits --
>> >cherimoyas and the like -- have anticancer properties. I've heard
>> >they're exceedingly tasty, but have never even seen one to notice it.
>> >Anyone here tried a paw paw? What did you think?
>>
>> You're in THE place to grow them over there. Best sources of info are
>> your local extension services and unis. they know your area better
>> thatn anyone else and they will know pawpaws. Are there any decent
>> nurseries that carry them? It is one of things that I think of as
>> wild, rather than cultivated, although I am sure they are deliberately
>> grown.
I haven't grown them but they're good. Different. Park seeds
(www.parkseed.com) sells them mail order. They're a decent company in my
limited experience with sales of live plants and the one time something
got lost in delivery they replaced it for free and no hassle.
You may know that people sometimes call persimmons pawpaws. Real pawpaws
are much different from persimmons, but persimmons are also good.
>> >I've been working on gardening in general; it strikes me that with
>> >all
>> >this land I might as well be producing much of my own food. Put in
>> >strawberries last weekend, and I've been building lasagna beds out
>> >back. Want to buy some fruit and nut trees, too.
Figs are very easy with big yields as long as you live far enough south,
like NJ and southern PA as long as you coddle them in the winter a bit
and can protect them from major winds.
> Hazels for sure, probably in a hedge. Black walnuts are like weeds
> around here.
Black walnuts will kill lots of plants so you'll want to keep them away
from your garden.
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