To add a special taste to salads or pasta dishes, add some Chicory Farm cheese. Or try the St. Monica M. Lear, Ph.D., Assoc. County Agent, Orleans Parish of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service of the LSU Agricultural Center. Christmas cactus, Schlumbergera spp.
Cultivars are available in white, red, salmon-pink, pink and purple.
These plants thrive in a well-drained, sterile potting medium that is high in organic matter. A soil pH of 5.5-6.2 is optimum for growth. After flowering is completed, the plants will produce new vegetative growth which will support flower buds for the next blooming period. Optimal temperature for growth is between 70-80 F.tch. Our mission is to initiate and promote ecologically-sound economic development in the Greater New Orleans region.