Calicolady
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NOTE!: these posts were moved from the "Other Interests" thread in Chit Chat.
Jim
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Joec, we don't have soil. If you're born here, you don't know what soil is. Sand is our soil. That and coral and more sand. No joke!
I tried tomatoes when I first got my first house here.
They sucked even after ammending the soil. And the crop was minimal.
I can't take the weather and won't be mosquito meat in the dead of summer.
I do grow herbs and cherry and grape tomatos in pots on the lanai, and my orchids are fantasic this year, though they just started blooming a couple of weeks ago.
But gosh, do I miss my roses and fresh corn.
Also, we're in an Assoc. here, and they restrict what you can do with your property. Part of the fees go to lawn maintenance, and they don't want property owners impeding the landscapers. No clothes lines or fences either. And I DO miss the clothes line. (Just a hick at heart! LOL!)
Jim
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Original Post
Joec, we don't have soil. If you're born here, you don't know what soil is. Sand is our soil. That and coral and more sand. No joke!
I tried tomatoes when I first got my first house here.
They sucked even after ammending the soil. And the crop was minimal.
I can't take the weather and won't be mosquito meat in the dead of summer.
I do grow herbs and cherry and grape tomatos in pots on the lanai, and my orchids are fantasic this year, though they just started blooming a couple of weeks ago.
But gosh, do I miss my roses and fresh corn.
Also, we're in an Assoc. here, and they restrict what you can do with your property. Part of the fees go to lawn maintenance, and they don't want property owners impeding the landscapers. No clothes lines or fences either. And I DO miss the clothes line. (Just a hick at heart! LOL!)