Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere: by Laurelynn G. Martin

Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere:

Laurelynn G. Martin
159 pages
Storey
Nov 2010
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Imagine a cup of coffee brewed from beans grown right in your own kitchen. Or juice from an orange harvested from the living room. A salad sprinkled with olives plucked from a tree in the dining room. It's now possible in any climate, with <i>Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere.</i> This book covers 47 varieties of fruiting plants -- from chocolate to cherries, papaya to passion fruit, grapefruit to guava -- providing everything a gardener needs to know, including information on selecting plants, planting, pruning, maintenance, and harvesting. It's easy! Anyone, anywhere can enjoy the satisfaction of growing tropical fruit at home. <br><br>
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Great resource for unusual houseplants

I really enjoyed reading about several new (to me) tropical fruiting plants that can be grown in the home. I was afraid that many of these unusual plants would only available from Logees, (the author is affiliated with Logees Greenhouse) - but after reading it, I just had to go online and look for some of them. Sure enough, the most frequent resource that searches located was Logees. The great news is that I ordered a couple of plants from Logees and they were excellent, good-sized and well-grown plants. I was particularly interested in the Miracle Berry - a small fruit that changes the mouth chemistry for a few hours so that even a lemon tastes sweet. I found the plant at several places, but NONE of the others offered the large size that I found here. After a couple of months my plant still looks big and healthy, so hopefully it'll make it to the fruiting stage! Read more

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Pages 159
Publisher Storey
Published 2010
Readers 3