[Sca-cooks] Medlars and lovage

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Cathy Harding <charding at nwlink.com> wrote:

> I was cleaning up my inbox and found this.
> 
> My sister has given us a gift cert. to a local orchard nursery for the
> holidays and in the catalog I found medlars.


Interesting.  If you happen to purchase the Medlars, and manage to harvest a crop before I shuffle
off this mortal coil, please let me know how they taste.  Any indication as to how long before the
tree begins to bear fruit?

Also, as an aside, I'm making the preparations to begin planting a new 'Patio Garden' for this
Spring.  I had a beautiful garden at my house at one time, but the ex-fiancee and her family
inherited it when we split up, and it is now covered over with gravel (how do you spell 'redneck',
anyway??).  Wonderfully fertile zuchinni, yard-long-beans, carrots, tomatillos, turnips, yellow
squash, snap beans...you name it...now all gone.  Don't even get me started on my Lilly Garden, or
Heirloom Garden...

I do not have a huge amount of experience with container gardening on an apartment patio, so any
helpful hints would be appreciated.  I'm thinking along the lines of a 'Salad Garden' (assorted
lettuces, greens, etc), a 'Salsa Garden' (Tomatoes, peppers, cilantro, etc) and a small 'Herb
Garden'.  Anyone have any experience with very limited space gardening??  Mostly, I am looking for
ways to maximize space (tiered containers, and nifty little tricks for planting multiple plants in
the same space).

William de Grandfort
(determined to make something green grow this Spring)

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Through teeth of sharks, the Autumn barks.....and Winter squarely bites me.


		
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