What makes gardening in Cyprus different?

joef55


Joined: 12/09/2009
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Message Posted:
06/06/2011 14:20

For anybody who has relocated to the Mediterranean area, the climate provides certain challenges that gardening in the UK and Northern Europe does not. The following article looks at some some of the problems and solutions.



http://cyprusgardener.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-makes-mediterranean-gardening.html



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DianeY


Joined: 28/11/2010
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Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:08

Thanks for the very helpful information

mikelapta



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Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:31

Yusuf,

I love your information,cok merci.



Today;sadvice needed:



I could not find sweet potato here,so have brought some back from Phillipines

They are on a window frame,covered in a dark material,trying to chit.Is this the correct

thing to do?

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 20:51

My friend always makes me laugh she says you can put a pencil in TRNC soil and it will grow !!

joef55


Joined: 12/09/2009
Posts: 198

Message Posted:
06/06/2011 21:53

Hi Mike



Sweet Potato chitting -



You can produce your own slips for planting by suspending a sweet potato tuber in a jar of water. Start the process in November, so your slips are ready for planting out in March. If possible purchase an organic tuber, as many non organic tubers will have been sprayed with a growth inhibitor, and give it a good wash. Place the tuber in a jar or water with the pointed end down and with the top third out of the water and supported with toothpicks. Roots will emerge from the base of the tuber and slips will grow out of the top. One sweet potato will produce anything from 10 to 50 slips. When the slips are 10cm long, twist them off of the tuber and place them in a jar of water. The slips will produce roots after a week or so. Once the slips have a healthy looking root system, pot them up and allow to them to grow for a few weeks before planting out.

kibrisvisitor


Joined: 28/05/2011
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Message Posted:
06/06/2011 21:58

how do you get a 1.5 m dish to grow to 4 m without involving washerwoman or 6xms ?

joef55


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Message Posted:
06/06/2011 22:37

Say what?????

ilk22


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Message Posted:
07/06/2011 10:22

Thanks joef55 - great info! I have added your site to my favourite.

slatnumber7


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Message Posted:
07/06/2011 10:53

Me too, good stuff thank you.

Suffolk



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Message Posted:
07/06/2011 11:30

Great website! The photography really helps to understand some of the techniques of what you are trying to explain. Would love to be able to spend more time in NC to grow and eat our own vegetables. We have had great success with our trees and shrubs that we have planted, as one of the other members stated I could quite believe that if you left a pencil in the ground long enough it would grow!



Thanks for the link will certainly be looking on your site in future.



Mrs S

joef55


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Message Posted:
07/06/2011 22:58

Thanks for all the positive feedback

joef55


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Message Posted:
10/06/2011 10:35

Hoping for some rain over the weekend

joef55


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Message Posted:
13/06/2011 14:28

Just had a big downpour