Re: Scavenger hunt

Purdue is pretty good for food information, Jim.  I've seen the New Crops
page b4 and it is interesting, even though I don't 'do' food.
Even though I don't grow much of anything in common with you, I enjoy it
when you post something like this that sends me looking.  I like helping
others out and I enjoy research.  I may never use the info, but it's fun to
come across something interesting like your whortleberry, a chance to learn
something new.  I may forget it soon afterward, but if the subject comes up
again later, I can often recall having come across it and can sometimes even
retrieve it.

Kitty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Scavenger hunt


> Thanks, Kitty, that was great stuff--and it jogged me into doing
> several "advanced" searches [slow day at work today]. I've four big
> cuttings of the Whortleberry and, since they grow to small tree size,
> I'm considering building a raised bed for them. Thus, medium is a big
> question, and one of the things I found was not only directions for
> building a raised bed for cactus, but also a recipe for the medium.
>
> What made my day, however, was the discovery that Julia Morton had a
> chapter in her warm climate fruit book on Hylocereus undatus, Dragon
> fruit, and that Purdue had posted the chapter.
>
> For those interested in indigenous new world food crops, Purdue
> University's "NewCrops" page is a must. I think it also have links to
> the National Academy of Sciences classic study, Food Sources of the
> Incas [I hope that's the title; it's available in PDF].
>
>
> On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 07:51 PM, Kitty wrote:
>
> > Comon names are  BLUE CANDLE, GARAMBULLA, WHORTLEBERRY CACTUS, Bilberry
> > Cactus, Blue Flame, Padre Nuestro, Organ pipe cactus, Blue Myrtle,
> > Dinosaur
> > Back Plant, Blueberry Cactus
> > Syn: Cereus geometrizans
> >
> > You've probably already visited these sites, but...
>
> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> Zone 10a
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
>
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