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Margaret in the apt. in suburban DC

Hello, Margaret.  I'm a relatively new poster to this list, too, and
possibly your near neighbor.  We live just inside the P.G. Co. line from
Montgomery (on a side street off the 9500 block of Riggs Road.).  Although I
am a homeowner with enough land to garden acceptably, I can remember many
dark years while living in various apartments.  You are indeed lucky to have
found a complex with garden space included.  In point of fact, I have never
heard of such an arrangement.

You said,
> We haven't had much(any) luck trying Eggplant but we did have fun with one
of those
>Pomato plants last year.  Our main problem is that with such a restricted
>area we have trouble keeping incompatible plants away from each other(thank
>goodness for "Tomatoes Love Carrots")

If it makes you feel any better, our eggplants at the community plot off
Cherry Hill Road (just inside the Beltway near U.S. 1 exit) flopped
altogether in '96.  We had rain every third day or so all summer long, and
we did not have the usual extended hot periods.  A bad year for eggplants,
tomatoes, and peppers.

Nevertheless, I'm gonna try again with Ichiban (skinny longish Japanese one)
and Dusky, the latter a normal round eggplant bought from sets at Behnke's
in Beltsville.

I just bought "Tomatoes Love Carrots" from Pinetree Garden Seeds in Maine
and more or less read it cover to cover.  (It's organized like a
dictionary.)  Very interesting info on companion planting.

--Janet Wintermute
Adelphi, MD (allegedly on the border of 7A and 6B, but it's too hot here to
think in terms of zones lower than 7)



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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com
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