Cheryl <cperk
...@mun.ca> wrote:
>Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc talk-orig
...@moderators.isc.org wrote:
>> What /do/ people anywhere grow on trees, in greenhouses? I am not
>> sure that they go together. Trees are slow, take a long time to get
>> mature and produce fruit. And /keep/ growing, which isn't great in a
>> place with a roof. Greenhouse products are large investment, quick
>> buck products, I think. There's flowers...
>Weren't they originally invented to grow orange trees in?
>Of course, now it's much cheaper to truck oranges in from Florida - or
>to do the equivalent in other parts of the world.
>Someone once convinced the local government it would be a good idea to
>invest in a greenhouse for growing cucumbers, lettuce and tomatoes in
>the wettest and foggiest part of Canada, maybe of the world.
>The project was a financial disaster.
Well duh. You use cucumber-frames for those. (But watch out for small
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