[nomoresnow]

Where'd you buy, Frank?

FYI - I have a recipe for Wings w/Maple Syrup. Yum. They're not Buffalo WIngs, but they'll do in a pinch.

[sunrico90]

Originally Posted by MrTudo

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We're thinking about buying a house in Navarre or maybe even Milton in the Panhandle. Wonder what we can grow up there ( Peaches???? )

Florida's a great place. We took it on the chin for a couple years here and the worst isn't over in the real estate market. So what! We're looking at 3,000 sq ft houses on half acres in the Panhandle for a quarter million, 5 minutes from some of the most beautiful snow white beaches in the world. Beat that elsewhere.

SW Fla is warm warm warm today. The Southern east coast of Fla is bustling with activity. No state government invading your life to rip you off for every dollar you make. Not here.

It's a great place. Just please, if your anywhere near New Jersey, PLEASE bring some Pizza down with ya OK? Some good bagels and salt sticks would hit the spot right now too. We'll trade ya some of the best biscuits you ever had.

Heheh

Well you can grow herbs, tomatoes, lettuce, corn, all types of peppers, cilantro/parsley, eggplants, etc. I grow lots of veggies and we do have a grapefruits, oranges and limes and an Avocado tree that we have kept inside during winter (given to us by a friend that moved to Germany). One of my Rican friends grows many of the traditional plants from Puerto Rico from March to November. So is really up to you and if you have a green thumb, you are in business..

Next door the grow grapes and berries... the weather good and soil is rich in nutrients.

[faithfulFrank]

No more snow,
I'm the guy who posted on this forum the post "This forum can ruin a new buyers mood...."
I posted pics of the new house, etc.....it is in Leesburg....it sure got a reaction...58 posts long before going to page 3 here.....pretty good for a first post.....

My wife loves gardening, can't wait to have a long growing season....there is an orange tree on the property, and we have never seen a pointsetta actualy planted outside.......wow. Here, you plant only after Memorial day, and till everything under around labor day or soon after.

Frank D.

[MrTudo]

Originally Posted by sunrico90

Well you can grow herbs, tomatoes, lettuce, corn, all types of peppers, cilantro/parsley, eggplants, etc. I grow lots of veggies and we do have a grapefruits, oranges and limes and an Avocado tree that we have kept inside during winter (given to us by a friend that moved to Germany). One of my Rican friends grows many of the traditional plants from Puerto Rico from March to November. So is really up to you and if you have a green thumb, you are in business..

Next door the grow grapes and berries... the weather good and soil is rich in nutrients.

YOU can have orange and avacado trees there???? Isn't it too cold and the soil too much clay?? I thought the freeze killed those things??

Man if we can do that we're packing.

[Need_affordable_home]

Youll have to take the orange trees indoors in cooler climates for the winter or build a greenhouse or heated enclosure. There are some types of oranges that will survive short periods as low as 10 degrees but the fruit tastes nasty, all the good, sweet oranges arent cold hardy. If you are willing to grow them in large pots and take indoors for the winter, it should work


I have my window open and its 82 in my room, thats pretty warm. Its cold up north but youll be sweating down here in FL!

[ellie]

It was 89 degrees in the sun on my front porch this afternoon. My thermometer seems to be a bit off, but it was still freakishly warm this afternoon. Yesterday was pretty cold and windy.

A front is on its way in bringing more cold and rain. This is our normal pattern warm/cool/warm/cool. Your body never gets quite acclimated, so the extremes feel worse.

Still, I think this has been an unusually warm winter. Back in the early 90's I seem to remember a few winters where the birdbath only froze a couple of times (which was our gauge of how cold it actually got over night). But about 1985 we had a freeze that dipped to around 10 degrees and froze everything to the ground.

As for oranges, there are two varieties of citrus that are reliably hardy to 20 - 25 degrees for short periods of time, the Satsuma orange and the Meyers lemon. Satsumas are about my favorite of any citrus fruit, sweet and easy to peel, like a tangerine. Meyers lemons are large and relatively sweet. Both do well in pots.

[MrTudo]

Thanks for the "Satsuma" reference Ellie

[tallrick]

Originally Posted by Need_affordable_home

Youll have to take the orange trees indoors in cooler climates for the winter or build a greenhouse or heated enclosure. There are some types of oranges that will survive short periods as low as 10 degrees but the fruit tastes nasty, all the good, sweet oranges arent cold hardy. If you are willing to grow them in large pots and take indoors for the winter, it should work


I have my window open and its 82 in my room, thats pretty warm. Its cold up north but youll be sweating down here in FL!

I bet it will be a "hot and windy" summer too!

[Karla with a K]

tudo, come on up to Jax. I have 3 dozen bagels stashed in the freezer that I brought back from Phila at xmas. They are soooo good, I had forgotten what a difference it makes in boiling the bagels before baking.
It was wonderful up here yesterday 70's with a great breeze I was out in the garden trimming and pruning. my blueberries and blackberries are putting out new leaves and there are blossoms on my strawberries.
Today was the perfect example of "why I live in Fla"
Karla

[shedav]

nomoresnow, decided on an area yet?? Gonna move too! late spring, summer.