RE: Scavenger hunt

Great stuff, Jim.  When I lived in Indy, Purdue was considered an
agricultural college.  It sounds like that is still a major program for
them.

Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)  

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of james singer
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 5:16 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
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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