tom, i think what you do is fantastic! i bombarded you with acorns ;), 'cause what you do is deceivingly simple, but produces great results.
both - the construction of hurricane-withstanding greenhouses (with geo-thermal passive heating barrel!) AND coffee-ground as pesticide ...give me hope. i am considering setting up in FL a few years from now, but the idea of hurricane destroying all my plants and endless insects devouring what is left was giving me serious doubts about having a big garden in FL. the endless search for solutions was driving me nuts. now i think i can do it!
you need to spread the word about the coffee-grounds!
and as i read on ricks posts, i realized that we chatted in container forum recently. hi, rick - i'm glad you posted the link to the article!
and then i realized also that i had cut-and-pasted and saved all kinds of cycad seed sprouting info from tom before.
i picked up a zamia furfuraceae seed in miami and with toms' instructions that i found on the internet sprouted it too. i had 7 seeds, 4 remained, 1 sprouted after 4 months and i still have 3 more, out of which i think only one is hopeful.
the world is small, indeed.
you're doing great work, tom!
