Dear Dil, Dilip & Chan: It was real nice to see those Assamese plants growing so well in Texas. I just hope their US visa status is up to date!!
Believe it or not I was able to smuggle in and then grow Kath Alu in good old NJ! That is the good news. The bad news is that it never did come back the next year. Two winters ago I brought a Kath Alu from my parents house in Assam to NJ in mid-winter. I planted it indoors in a pot and left it in a sunny place. It took almost two months for the plant to peek out from under the soil. Then it grew and grew. Well, it was too cold outside to plant so I started giving it very little water and kept it in a less sunny location. Then in mid-May with much fanfare we planted the very first Kath Alu in NJ. Of course we had to protect it from the ever present deer population! Also, we had to use strings to attach the plant to its foreign partner - the pine tree. But unfortunately, once outside the Kath Alu did not grow as vigorously as it did indoors. At the end of that summer I did not dig it out thinking may be it will resurface next spring (i.e., in 2007). Well, it did not! But I plan to patiently wait for it this spring. If it does not sprout by June end then I plan to dig it out and do some detective work as to what happened. Will keep you all posted on my Kath Alu adventure in NJ! Incidentally, over the years I have done quite a bit of reverse transplanting. My parents are really igrowing flowers and vegetables (they even grow garlic, rohor dail, etc.). They have been quite successful in growing many vegetables I took from here including lima beans, zuchini, brocolli, Chinese snow peas, Chinese Bok Choy, Chinese winter melon, Chinese white gourd, etc. It seems seed packets from Chinese groceries do quite well in Assam! Oh well, I can go on and on but happy gardening to all....enjoyed those pics! Aradhana B. Satin On 5/1/08, Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > O'Deka: > > Assamnet has a limit on the size of attachments. > So, unless you re-format the digital camera image > to a low res one, it won't go thru as an > attachment. I re-formatted the pics down and > posted them. > > O'm > > > > > > > > > > > > > At 6:49 PM -0700 5/1/08, Dilip&Dil Deka wrote: > >O'Mahanta, > > Thanks for posting the pictures. Assamnet > >never got around to doing it - may be the files > >were too big. > > The first kazinemu we got from the garden was > >great in gin and tonic. I invite you and others > >to come to Houston and take some of the nemus > >from the trees. > > O"Deka > > ============================================================ > > > >Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The following Oxomiya plants flourishing in Dilip > >and Dil Deka's yard in Houston: > > > >A: Oxomiya Nemutenga > >B: Kazi nemu > >C: Bhedai-lotaa > > > >I got a cutting for my bhedai-lotaa from them. > >And they got their nemu and kazi nemu from us. > > > >cm > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>X-YMail-OSG: > > >>Y7X0akkVM1l49cW.Ki7pw2.60a7ZX3w0EK2NYNEy5aGqqP57.SE58fV9r3ltC_4oA0DI2yeYFq7ToRo0cnhAkM1YteRosOKEge7Ek37_FW_4w2mYlCZkKpZxKWiYe_HolZWl8g-- > >>Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:14:31 -0700 (PDT) > >>From: Dilip&Dil Deka > >>Subject: Oxomiya Bagisa in Houston, Texas > >>To: ASSAMNET > >>Cc: Chandan Mahanta > >>X-Chzlrs: 0 > >> > >>Oxomiya Bagisa in Houston, Texas -- > >>Kazinemus growing, > >>Nemutenga blooming, > >>Bhedailata spreading its tentacles wherever there is water. > >> > >>All authentic Oxomiya - collected from various sources, no names. > >> > >>Content-Type: image/pjpeg; name="kazinemu 2008.JPG" > >>Content-Description: 2666690502-kazinemu 2008.JPG > >>Content-Disposition: inline; filename="kazinemu 2008.JPG" > >> > >>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:kazinemu 2008.JPG (xxxx/«IC») > (00A6906F) > >>Content-Type: image/pjpeg; name="nemutenga flowers 2008.JPG" > >>Content-Description: 1867378092-nemutenga flowers 2008.JPG > >>Content-Disposition: inline; filename="nemutenga flowers 2008.JPG" > >> > >>Attachment converted: Macintosh HD:nemutenga > >>flowers 2008.JPG (xxxx/«IC») (00A69070) > >>Content-Type: image/pjpeg; name="bhedailata 2008.JPG" > >>Content-Description: 4174641754-bhedailata 2008.JPG > >>Content-Disposition: inline; filename="bhedailata 2008.JPG" > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >assam mailing list > >assam@assamnet.org > >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > > >_______________________________________________ > >assam mailing list > >assam@assamnet.org > >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > > > _______________________________________________ > assam mailing list > assam@assamnet.org > http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list assam@assamnet.org http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
