On Apr 11, 3:06 pm, Scour Old Cereal Bowls
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> Dana <dcarp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 10, 6:43 pm, Boron Elgar <boron_el...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:39:38 -0700 (PDT), Dana <dcarp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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?
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> >> 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.
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> 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.
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> You may know that people sometimes call persimmons pawpaws. Real
pawpaws
> are much different from persimmons, but persimmons are also good.
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> >> >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.
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> 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.
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> > Hazels for sure, probably in a hedge. Black walnuts are like weeds
> > around here.
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> Black walnuts will kill lots of plants so you'll want to keep them away
> from your garden.
They're like weeds around here, but there aren't any in the open part
of my yard.
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