god damn.
I find I just don't like coming here to post anymore because I've always been more comfy with Blogger's layout. Am humoring a move back to Blogger, since most people I know are blogging either on Blogger or LJ. But right now the physical move takes precedence over the virtual one.
This is not really any kind of update, more of a personal memo. I've just been browsing the kinds of plants I like and I realized that if I ever have enough room to grow non-food things, I'd like to grow Salix koriyanagi 'Rubykins" and S. exigua for basketry. I wonder if mushrooms would tolerate a straw medium held in willow baskets? Also, blue lotus, madake bamboo, and if I'm feeling especially ambitious, Boswellia sacra. If I ever have room for a greenhouse, my ambitions become more disturbing still... keffir lime, long pepper, mimosa, cacao, pitcher plants...
ETA: oh yeah, and papyrus, natch.
ETAA: I'm going to enter a beading contest this year. *sigh* always something else...
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Re: Salix mushroom baskets -- do salycilates kill fungi? I don't know. Oysters and buttons and such are supposed to grow all right in sawdust, at least according to FungiPerfecti.com
What I would love to grow is olives and citrus as actual fruit-providing trees, for the which I would definitely need a greenhouse. My two surviving orange(?) trees are starting to take up a lot of space and don't get enough sun to fruit properly *the (?) because I planted lemons and oranges and tangerines and don't know for sure which ones I have left. I've finally managed to sprout a pineapple crown and it's still alive months later, so maybe I could get a new pineapple out of it if I had the right setting. I've also got half a dozen avocados with varyings likelihoods of survival. Someday surely I will master the skill of keeping an avocado tree healthy and getting it to produce, surely...
I never should have even started with this stuff. As short as I am, I should have known it would be hobbit farming.
VFTs are so persnickety, and there's the whole dormancy period thing. At least with tropical pitchers I can keep them indoors and not have to worry about running them through the seasonal cycle.
'Disturbing' is mostly because the list of increasingly exotic plants reminds me how quickly my plans explode into the epic and grandiose. Right now I need to concentrate on feeding myself the basics, not cultivating rare gourmet items.