crittergarden said:You are ahead of me, experience wise and likely setup wise - unless you have nothing special for a setup!
I'm excited about the mango.
Like the avocados, I just want to see......
Our zones mostly match.
DO you take your avo and mango outside for summer?
Well, I pretty much started all my after dinner stuff (ADS :-)) indoors - either near a window or under lights in my basement. Have no Mango now (critter trashed 2 of em), though DW just bought another for me to play with.
WRT outdoors - I leave much of my ADS stuff there or in my pretend greenhouse or on my screen porch. On the South side of my house I have a large screened in room ~ 20 x 12 where I have a lot of my tender stuff, tropicals and Mediteranean stuff (Myrh, Frankincense, Bursera). Near the screen, things can get all day sun. I want to enclose this in the Winter, but DW says no.
Following is edible stuff I have or tried.
I have failed with or lost to critters:
Starfruit no germ
Kiwi damping off
Mango - critters
I have:
Pineapple - a Top and a teensy seedling grown from seed
Avocado
Clementine
Lemon
Meyer lemon
Ginger from grocery store
Caper
Turmeric from store
Dragon fruit cactus (from Home Depot - ripped top off stupid grafted thing)
Fig
I heartily recommend the book The After-Dinner Gardening Book by Richard W. Langer
Of course I will likely never see any fruit from anything - I just enjoy growing strange things - particularly from seed.
