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Re: Not quite winter....

Recently, Karl Hoover wrote:
> Conrad continued:
> 
> 	  [Even the] carnations and ... parsley,
> 	  are looking stressed.
> 
> Shouldn't you be growing these guys in winter, not summer?
	They seem to hang around as bi/triennials. As I said, they're
	looking a little _stressed_.

> Conrad:
> 
> 	galangal [is] screaming along.
> 
> is it some interesting australian plant that is
> bizarrely beautiful or which i can eat?
> Will it stand some frost?

Despite my spelling, it is a lemony, edible root related to tumeric
and ginger.  I think that it's also known as Laos.  It looks much like
ginger and likes the same conditions - more tropical than medit.
Given protection from the wind & plenty of water these sorts of things
(even bananas) can be grown here.  I've had ginger for a few years -
it's a short & poor growing season but the roots survive from year to
year.

Flip side is that I just let my Jap. maple get sunburnt (idiot!) 

CD
Ps - I thought that the SGAP
(http://www.ozemail.com.au/~sgap/index.html) had a "Native Food Plants
Study Group" but I can't find a reference there: Brian, y'wanna comment?
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