Trading Lists: Items available from Creek_Mary
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| Azadirachta Species Azadirachta indica Neem may be the most valuable tree on the planet. As it grows an ever-increasing area of no mosquitos and fleas develops. The leaves can be harvested to make a healing decoction called neem tea which though extremely bitter can be made palatable with the addition of honey, lemon, and surprisingly, black tea, though I find that simply diluting it more than one would expect helps to get the brew down. The small bright yellow olive-shaped fruits are quite good to eat and contain a rather large seed which can be immediately planted as soon as one eats the fruit. Also not water thirsty as it puts down a great tap root finding its own water and can take full sun even here in Florida to attain the best growth. Organic. | Plants | (PlantFiles) |
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| Chaya Cnidoscolus chayamansa Chaya, aka tree spinach, is a big, delicious beauty of a plant, perfect for xeroscaping, not bad for a veggie! Beneficials love it too. One huge plant in the 'back 40' hardly ever gets attention and has thrived for years. A couple more get some watering and feeding and also do well, happily producing multiple cuttings. This particular chaya is said to be the best of them all. Organic. | Plants, Cuttings | (PlantFiles) |
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| Curcuma Species Curcuma longa Turmeric is one of the most elegantly tropical in appearance of the edible gingers with wide strapping leaves with a compound blossom lasting a couple of months or more each summer. As for the taste, umm good, much stronger and colorful than you can imagine, adding wondrous notes to any dish or juice or smoothie. Downside is you need to use more of the fresh plant than most culinary gingers, so I recommend keeping your turmeric in big pots so you don't lose it after winter die-back. Organic. | Roots, Tubers and Bulbs | (PlantFiles) |
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| Longan Dimocarpus longan If you love big bright red encased lychee fruit, you must have the longan, the plain brown wapper little brother fruit, producing panicles of delicious 'eyeballs' once the thin skin is removed with a simple thumb press near the stem end. It is said that longans were once used for currency in ancient China. Organic. | 'Kohala' | Plants | (PlantFiles) |
Glycosmis trifoliata Orange berry, a small tree native to tropical Australia, obviously related to citrus, producing WOW tasty little berries ranging from pink to orange for many months of the year. Makes yard grazing a real treat. Swallowtail butterfly fond of this plant when young. Grows readily from seed. Appreciates organic feeding which changes humdrum berries into a thing of wild sweet tastiness. Organic. | Seeds, Plants | (PlantFiles) |
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| Hedychium Species Hedychium coronarium Butterfly ginger is the national flower of Cuba. Do you remember Avon's delicious fragrance "Hawaiian White Ginger"? This is it! Grow your own perfume. Easy, not fussy at all, and loves organic amendments to its soil. A small tuber can give you a lifetime of pleasure. Several of them, well, enough to share with your friends right away. Of course it is edible, but with such a perfume I do not choose to destroy any food/flavoring it may provide. There are other less heavenly smelling gingers for that....Organic. | Plants, Roots, Tubers and Bulbs | (PlantFiles) |
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| Hylocereus Species Hylocereus ocamponis Dragon Fruit, what a traffic-stopper when blooming or fruiting! This impossibly climbing cactus actually produced a fruit as delicious as its outstanding appearance, provided you wait until it gives to the touch and also tickles your nose with aroma before cutting into it. The plant requires sturdy support. Organic. | Plants, Cuttings | (PlantFiles) |
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| Psidium Species Psidium guajava I'm a real guava nut, being raised mostly in Polk County, Florida where they are native. When I was a kid in the good old days, every vacant lot had guavas abounding with fruit free for the picking. My grandfather who loved his wife's guava jelly would leave home until the "stink a cat wouldn't bury" had gone away, leaving the delicious aroma of guava juice ready to be carefully ladled into little jars. These days about the only real pest is the nearly invisible fruit fly which can make the fruit inedible. I use Wonder Grow foliar spray to de-stress the trees so that the fruit can safely withstand the attempts of the fruit flies to broach their defenses. Organic. | Seeds, Plants | (PlantFiles) |
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| Chinese Pear Pyrus pyrifolia Asian pear -- A beautiful tree of great vigor and determination to thrive even when forgotten for awhile. You know the fruit is delicious and pricey. Why not grow your own? Organic. | 'Shinko' | Plants | (PlantFiles) |
| Sapindus Species Sapindus mukorossi Soap nuts! A great discovery for all my cleaning needs -- laundry, shampoo, dishes, bathroom, kitchen, floors, windows, car, dog, etc. In fact the 'nut' is a dried fruit of the lychee family. Have seeds and small vigorous trees. Organic. | Seeds, Plants | (PlantFiles) |
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Talinum paniculum Jewels of Opar -- a vigorous, tasty weed that could add summer salad greens for your dining. It has been said that if one were to eat a leaf a day, one would no longer get colds! It grows all year long, producing both great edible spinach-tasting leaves and pretty tall flowering spikes that re-seed themselves in the nearest available soil. Organic. | Plants | (PlantFiles) |
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