Sweet Potatos

[PinkDiamond]

Have you had no successes with houseplants?

It may be too late to ship one at their current size, but if you want to give growing coffee a go, I can try to send you one. At this stage, it would probably be best to send it bare-root, without the dirt, so you'd need an 8 or 9" pot and good soil to put it in immediately. They like to be on the moist side, and I often have to water the mother plant every day. They are also damaged by temps below about 55º, and in summer I keep them in the shade. Remember how they used to advertise Juan Valdez and his shade-grown coffee? I'd say that on my deck in summer they only get an hour or two of direct, full sunlight.

If you want to try it, I'll see if I can try putting a bare-root plant in a tube mailer early enough in the morning one day early in the week, and get Steve to mail it immediately. With you next door, I would think it would arrive 2 days later, and you'd have to be there to plant it right away.

At this time of year I have them all in a south facing window. I treat them like I do the tropicals from Hawaii. Shaded, well watered, and indoors when it's around 55º.

[kjsspot]

No, I suck at plants. I've tried many times over many years and finally gave up with a big temper tantrum. I would LOVE a Coffee tree, a Magnolia tree, a Dogwood tree and wisteria. But I might be on the move again so now's not the time to try again.

[opalcreations]

I don't suck at plants, but our cats eat everything we try to grow, drives me nuts!
I have rescued out aloe vera multiple times, it's down to one nubbie again, little buggers...lol.

[Lydia]

Anyone should be able to grow wisteria. I grew wisteria. The worse you treat it the better it grows, our dogs used to pee on the tree repeatedly in a day and it was beautiful. Don't water it or fertilize it, just do nothing. Best plant ever.

[kjsspot]

Good to know Lydia!!

[crazy8s]

Chris do any of your stores sell spouted or growing wheat grass? The cats would love that.

[opalcreations]

Actually, I have a wheat grass growing kit, and was juicing it until we moved, now that we live in a different house, I can't grow it without the cats eating it, so yeah, they love wheat/cat grass, LOL
I need to start growing it again for both me and them

It tastes NASTY though...lol.