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Richard Johnston
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Alleged smelly compost container
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Caribbean vegetable kitchen garden
Started Nov. 9, 2008
Growing Spinach in Kentucky
Replied May. 16, 2008
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- Where do you live and garden?
- Las Terrenas,Dominican Republic
- How long have you been growing food?
- < 1 year
- Dream garden travel destination:
- I live there!
- Favorite foods:
- Spinach,roast beef,tomatoes on toast,black pudding, spotted dick.
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- At 7:57am on May 31, 2009,
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- At 5:30am on November 20, 2008,
Mandy Thody said… - I live in St Croix, about 400 miles east of you, and maybe a bit dryer being a smaller island. Here people grow tomatoes, capiscums, cucumbers, pumpkins, melons, okra, corn, aubergines, long green beans and all the tropical and subtriopical fruit. Almost all the Caribbean islands I've been to have an Agricultural Extension Office or similar - a gov dept that gives advice and often seeds and seedlings and young trees, at ridiculously low prices (ours is 5c for seedling vegetables, which seem to grow better than from seed packets). The easiest is Malabar Spinach which is a climber and very hardy, but also chinese cabbage and something called mustard greens, plus collards. Yiou can grow lettuces in winter (and big timatoes, otherwise cherry varieties are all year)... Hope that helps.
Roses are pretty miserable here, it's a huge waste of effort recreating England - you could have something really glamourous like porcelaine roses, and other heliconia type things!
- At 7:38am on November 9, 2008,
Letti said… - There are certain foods native to the Caribbean climate, talk to the natives, visit the markets and find out what these are. Do not expect too much that plants from the temperature climate would do well in tropical climate. The Carribbean has tons to native plants(food). Sort them out. For example pigeon pea, great substitute for garden pea.....that does well in a tropical climate. Check out this blog from Trinidad & Tobago http://caribbeangarden.blogspot.com/ Then visit other Caribbean Blogs.
Enyoy yourself while you learn about the growing conditions and the plants that survive in the Caribbean.
- At 6:48pm on May 16, 2008,
Richard Johnston said… - Hola and Thanks Penelope. Yes I will post some photos but for the meantime the only plants I´ve put and which are growing are : Tomatoes.Oregano,Capiscums, Beet spinach, basil, english mint, shallots and parsley. The gardener has planted a collection of trees: Lime, Avocado. papaya,oranges,platanos, guineos(bananas), our first crop of platanos is just arriving and yesterday I had a gin and tonic with one of our own limes! My wife says there are some local roses but they´re a bit boring. Sadly its too hot here for apples unless , of course, you know of a tropical apple! Any advice would be appreciated.
- At 9:40am on May 16, 2008,
Penelope said… - Wow, the Caribbean! Any pictures of your place? I'm imagining all sorts of lovely tropical plants.
About peas -- they like cool weather. I plant mine when there's still snow on the ground in late March or Early April. They're up about 5 inches now. I've never tried growing roses from the seeds in the rosehips, I imagine -- but I have grown apple trees from seed for fun. One of the trees that's survived "up the crik" here in Idaho has some pretty tastey apples. the people who own the property now gave me a box of them and I made pies and apple butter. I don't imagine apples do well in the tropics. I remember Henry Fonda talking about growing a tree in Los Angeles and rare it was that he got apples -- then he described biting into the first apple -- his description made me salivate -- an interesting man/actor.
I hope you contribute more -- there are other expat brits on here too I've noticed.
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