What's happening in your garden this spring?

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fr499y wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 22:54 pm Still, great tasting chili that’s not too hot 😁
Taking of Chili and Peppers, I learnt something the other day, that I didn't know.

Apparently nether of these fruits are actually hot or spicy. It's our pain receptors present on the surface of the tongue that tell our brain the fruit is unpalatable.

The heat taste repels most animals from consuming the fruit. Birds are the exception, which are responsible for spreading their seeds of the plant.

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Yes it’s the Capsaicin in the peppers that bind to the receptors that detect and regulate heat/pain in the body, which is why some people can’t eat jalapeños and yet others can scoff Scotch bonnets with little reaction.

I used to grow Thai peppers and cross pollinate them with jalapeños with some interesting outcomes. Sometimes the Thai peppers came out a little bit sweeter which I preferred, other times the jalapeños tasted like they’d kill you 😂 ahh fun times.

I do want to grow some banana or some peperoncini as I enjoy just eating them out of jars lol.
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Not the garden, but my drac has started to flower 😁 actually two flowers which is a bonus! It’s taken 8 years to flower and doesn’t happen often/if at all in the plants life! It might never flower again.


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The flowers coming along nicely now!

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Slight hint of a smell but not too bad yet.
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What is 'drac', M? And why are you expecting it to be particularly malevolent?

[Edit : ah! I've just looked at your earlier pics so I'm on board-ish]
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This is how unhelpful this Summer was :

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Maybe there's time for one or two to become munchable, but I doubt it somehow.
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Vale! wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 15:17 pm What is 'drac', M? And why are you expecting it to be particularly malevolent?
Dracaena Fragrans.

Just from what I've heard about the smell being like strong jasmin that can over power a small house :rofl: It's on its third week of flowering and I'm yet to smell anything, although I have noticed the tank getting an oily film as of late - something I am keeping an eye on just incase.

In other news, sunflowers don’t seem to know what time of the year it is…

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According to a Met Office-type post on my X feed, in the last twelve days my area has enjoyed a glorious eighteen minutes of sunshine. No wonder your sunflowers don't know what they're supposed to be doing!
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Vale! wrote: Sat Nov 09, 2024 11:15 am According to a Met Office-type post on my X feed, in the last twelve days my area has enjoyed a balmy eighteen minutes of sunshine. No wonder your sunflowers don't know what they're supposed to be doing!
BBC Weather called it 'Anticyclonic gloom' ...I call it 'Winter' :dodgy2:

Eighteen minutes of sunshine, get the sunbed out!

Think it was out for less than a minute yesterday here in North Kent. The locals here, where pointing up to sky wondering what it was. 😂
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Still plenty of colour around here in the garden.
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