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We Dig Plants - Episode 22 - Scott Appell

First Aired - 06/06/2010 03:30PM
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This week on We Dig Plants Alice and Carmen speak to their good friend Scott Appell, a gardening master on the sunny island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Scott, a horticultural mentor to the Gardenworks gals, talks about some of the indigenous flora and fauna

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Scott Appell of Vieques, PR (15:11)

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Scott Appell, Vieques PR, a horticultural mentor, no interns, Vieques can be dry, watering is an issue, unusually timed rains for winter, dozens of kinds of citrus, mame apples look like small leather bowling balls, mame apples make great cheesecakes or ice creams, St. George Village Botanical Garden, Rosemary drowns in too much rain, sage basil and thyme are considered medicinal and not culinary in Puerto Rico, Isla Grande, calamondin orange, a true citrus, orangeade, ginger brandy, kaffir lime, great citrus for indoor gardeners, histrix means very spiney, kaffir lime leaves can be used like bay leaves, spidermites, mealy bugs,

Unusual Spices and Fruits (16:33)

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getting spicey, growing unusual spices indoors, cardamom is a warming spice like cloves or allspice or cinnamon, the subtle flavor in a good cheese danish is cardamom in the dough, cardamom is sometimes used in sausage making or other meat dishes, cardamom is a ginger cousin, using leaves as flavor enhancing wrappers, soak toothpicks in water when cooking with them, turmeric is also a ginger cousin, you use the root of turmeric, Well-Sweep Herb Farm, mailorder herb farms, prickly pear cactus pad, cooking with prickly pear, prickly pear fruit is indian figs, nopalito, prickly pears look spineless but have very very small spines, classic central american cold salad, jarred pickled nopalito, fresh ones are always better than jarred, everything from the heart, knowledge needs to be passed on and shared, Scott started very young at the Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanical Garden Children's Garden, Scott's mom was not thrilled with his childhood vegetable growing, typical day for Scott Appell, gardening in PR is constant because theres no winter, lizard eggs in the teacups,

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