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Dwarf Plants
When last we left our heros, on Sun, 29 Jun 2003 07:51:15 -0400,
Pat Meadows scribbled: generously snipped I'm starting Yellow Canary seeds next week, also MicroTina - I got the MicroTina seeds (free) from the group at Utah State University that is studying super dwarf vegetables and grains. http://www.usu.edu/cpl/outreach_seed_request.htm I'll also be growing a miniature pepper this autumn/winter, and spicy globe bush basil. Plus a couple of the mini-tomatoes, and some Tom Thumb lettuce. I'm always curious about new pepper varieties, are the pepper seeds they sent you bred to be smaller, or are they from a variety that is already smallish? I can think of several that would do well in small pots, Prairie Fire or Bird's Eye Peppers come to mind, as well as any of the ornamental types. I grow the Bird's Eye Peppers and Fish peppers in pots, although I wouldn't call a Fish pepper a dwarf. I do have one in my front flower bed because they're awfully pretty. I'm fortunate enough to have a very large bay window that gets sun from three directions - the whole affair sticks out from the house. It's almost like a mini-greenhouse. The window ledge is 2' x 8' - so I have 16 sf of growing space all winter. What will you do about the photo period? I visited a cough friend up that way last spring, and the days were still so much shorter than ours down South. He said it's dark by around 4:00 in December. I'm not really sure how sensitive peppers and tomatoes are to photo period, but I'm curious as to what results others have had. Basil, of course, will grow just about anywhere and anytime and mostly needs to be whipped into submission once in a while or it will take over. Pam, oh yeah, that reminds me, I need to pull up more volunteer Lemon Basil, quick, between the thunder showers... -- "Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart." "ElissaAnn" |
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