LOL! I figured you did. I've known several people who do.
I grow loads in the garden but I am not a gardener if you get me.
I do, but I have to wonder, what about those lovely flowery garden gloves with the pink frilly ruffles? They might be your kind of thing. Much more fashionable than the t-shirts you were checking out. Btw, never would call myself a gardener; the visions that word inspires are the kind I run from.
Ha! Sounds like you enjoy the challenge of growing all kinds of things. Bamboo from seed, that is so impressive. I'm intrigued. I'll have to read up on that. I'm kind of wondering what the weirdest flower and shrub you have growing. You don't happen to have one of these flowers?
You're so outfitted with herbs. I wouldn't mind a bay tree. Chillis too! Now you're talking one of my favourite things. I've grown chocolate habaneros, scotch bonnet, red Thai, and Trinidad Scorpion peppers. I find peppers easier to grow than tomatoes, any kind of pepper.
Not sure if you have a goji berry shrub, but that might do well in your climate also. I have a red one and a black one.
Chocolate habaneros!! I meant to try them last year but it went clean out of my mind! Thanks for reminding me. I will get some seeds! I love growing chillies asthey are so eminently useable. I make my own chilli pastes and sauces, although with time permitting, or not I mostly just make a couple of different chilli pastes every couple of weeks, chipotle is one and Scotch Bonnet/Habanero is another. Yum yum. Chilli makes me happy.
I tried goji berries but I don't know if it was the constant damp it didn't do well, it remained a poor looking thing till I eventually got out the blades and did for it.
The bay tree is magic, I am starting on a new one as my big old one died last year because I left it out too long before taking it in for the winter. Bloody cold.
I wish I could say I had weird or crazy exotic things growing but apart from the above I don't really. I just flit from mad thing to mad thing. Although I am attempting to grow a palm tree! Apparently they are quite hardy!
Lol, @corpse flower! Actually, that would be a good username!
😂Totally love the enthusiasm. You're a chilli freak, a total hot pepper gone wild roaming the moors. There's no going wrong with hot peppers, I think I have close to twenty different kinds. You make some cool stuff, total YUM. I think I want your chipotle recipe. I'll trade for one of mine with scotch bonnet, to be fair. I use peppers for so many things, beside eating. Medicinal and also as a natural pesticide.
I'd say you're right about the constant damp being an issue for goji berries. They don't like it when the humidity gets high here in the summer. I get yellowing leaves and leaf drop, even if not yellow. They prefer a mountain kind of environment I think. I've managed to keep mine alive for five years, leaving them outside all year. The cold doesn't seem to be an issue and I don't water them during winter.
The bay tree, I would have been so sad. Such a lovely tree. I should have tried that here in a pot, a small one. A palm tree in Scotland? Okay, that's wild. I guess you bring it in during winter, or would. You've got quite a bit on the go there and flitting from mad thing to mad thing sounds like a fine way to go, LOL. Learning is the spice of life, or at least one of them.
I'll throw this one out there, Okahijiki. There's an Italian variety, plus a couple others. Weirdest seed I ever sprouted and one of the most difficult. I froze the seeds, then put them in what I grow sprouts in. When germinated, they are in a spiral, very serpentine like, all coiled in that form. Fascinating. Easy to grow once you get it germinated.
LOL, you're right @ corpseflower would be a very cool username.
I shall have to write my chipotle one down. I pretty much wing it now. I essentially copied lucitos chipotle paste ingredients, if you have that brand and faffed about with the proportions till I got what tasted right. Better obvs, as stuff you do yourself always is!
They look cool as anything, the Italian salty thing. Might give that a bash!
The funny thing about the palm tree is that is in the ground. It's a Canary Palm, Canary palmanensis or something and they are really cold hardy. I got the idea from one of my neighbours who looks as if he lives in Florida judging by the tropical looks of his garden.
Not that I really to come across as a garden coveter, lol!