If you could live anywhere in the states, where would it be?
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Comments (25)Hi there, A winter gardening book is "The Winter Harvest Handbook" by Eliot Coleman. He is in Maine, and has lots of good ideas for season extending. He does grow crops all year, many in unheated moveable greenhouses, and under row covers and so on. He has all kinds of good ideas. If I really wanted to garden somewhere, I would go to soil conservation service maps and find the best soil in the area I was looking at, that I could afford, to begin with. This might save time and anguish later. I did this when I bought my house, and I am glad I did. I really think that it mostly takes wanting to have a garden, and then the rest of the details sort of fill themselves in. Every area has it's good and bad features. I would just pick where I wanted to live, and then make a garden on the best soil I could find. Think loam.... Also, check for covenants before you buy or rent a new place. Some places around here won't even let you have tomatoes in pots on your patio. Good luck!...See MoreWhere would you live in Florida if you could live anywhere?
Comments (55)Musicman: wow...Pacific Northwest, huh? Somewhere up by Rainer? I was living in Seattle before I moved back here. I had to live there for work as I am in the technology field. I was there for about 2 years. I have to say, when it is sunny, it is a visually stunning area. However, those days are few and far between. I thought I was going to have to build an ark. It rained for 95 days straight the first year I was there, then stopped for one entire day before it rained some more. The second year was more of the same. Rain, more rain and then some more rain. Oh, and some snow too. When I had a chance for a job transfer back to Florida, I jumped on it. Puget Sound was not my 'cup o'coffee' (a little Starbucks pun...). But, I do know loads of people who love it there. I assume they hate sunshine and love paying $6 for a half a gallon of milk. From a gardening perspective, I was frustrated there as well. It seemed the only things that did well were azealas, ivy, spruce trees and that ugly colored 'cabbage' plant. The faux cabbage plant was everywhere. But, the azealas were huge and major show stoppers. Nothing like we have here in FLA. As for me, I don't think I'll ever leave Florida again now that I am back. I'm still not tired of one sunny day after another....See MoreIf you could live anywhere-
Comments (32)Tracy, I lived in Cleveland (OK) from 1990 to 92. I was working on my masters and teaching at OSU while my wife was attending med school in Tulsa. I really liked Cleveland although it was even smaller back then. I so enjoyed the amazing pelican migration through the lake in Sept and seeing the bald eagles, etc. If it had been 30 minutes closer to my family's pecan farm, we would be living there today. We lived in the DFW metroplex (mostly Mansfield) for 10 years and we moved back here after that. We could have chosen any place to buy land and build a house and some of the finalists were Perkins, Chandler, Purcell, and a few places around Tulsa. In the end I had to have a place where there was more rainfall and more "green" than where I grew up south of OKC. Anything within 100 miles north or east of Tulsa fits me just fine, but we ended up 30 miles SE of Tulsa and our place not far from the Arkansas River is a great fit for us also. I would suggest looking into the small communities just north of Skiatook. The land is not too expensive, it's convenient and pretty, and you don't have to worry about the local schools. I have a lot of relatives around there. Diane, my thoughts of Denton are of how hot, dry, and ugly it is for months each year, and of the traffic on I35 that I endured so much. Driving I-35 from Fort Worth to Norman 10 times each year made me have a strong dislike for Denton although the NE side of it is probably entirely different than what I saw from my car all the time. In my time in DFW we had one summer where we had no precipitation at my house in July, Aug, and Sept at all, and another where we had none between June 20 and the Labor Day weekend. One of those summers we had over 50 days of 100 degree temps as I recall although my memory is not what it once was. I just will not live with that and with that traffic and population density anymore....See MoreIf You Could Live in Zone 9-10, What Would You Grow?
Comments (51)Yes, in the USA, where people are accustomed to brightly colored peels on their citrus , they would automatically just assume the orange is unripe if the peel is green so I doubt many people would buy them as is. That's exactly why some commercial distributors in this country artificially dye their peels. I've seen oranges, limes and lemons that have clearly had their peels dyed. I used to pick all citrus at market by the color of their peels but after picking many citrus fruit at market with beautifully deeply colored peels in the past only to find them hard, dry and pithy inside, I now know better. Juicy ripe citrus will give a bit to pressure when filled with juice and fully ripe...See MoreUser
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