Re: red sugar
- Subject: Re: red sugar
- From: John MacGregor j*@earthlink.net
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:35:44 -0800
on 11/24/03 7:37 PM, Nan Sterman at Talkingpoints@PlantSoup.Com wrote:
Nan,
> John, how do you think the red compare to the green?
I have never grown the green one.
> I wonder
> whether their heat requirements differ - I have green sugar growing
> in my garden which is probably not too different from Pasadena (we
> may not get as hot as Pasadena in the summer) and the green grows
> like gangbusters (a little too happily, actually).
I suspect that you are closer to the ocean, and that your nightly
temperatures don't go as low as ours do. The red one definitely doesn't
like cold. That is all I can tell you.
John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9 Sunset zones 21/23
