Recent content by Pulsegleaner

Ah, the Rue d' Dae, I had an apartment there when I lived in Paris.....

I got mine AS a plant.

I honestly don't remember. It got added to the side path flower patch, which I tend to forget about. I don't even know if it's still there or not (apart from the Scotch Broom and some Black Eyed Susans, I don't know WHAT is still there.

There's a more fundamental problem with cucurbits setting good seeds. It's the same one in common with all obligate outcrossing flowers; how much seed one gets is a function of how well pollinated they are, and how well pollinated they are is often a function of how many plants one has. I often...

Count yourself lucky. All of mine collapsed last year as soon as the first fruit showed up. By the time any got to a size where eating them was even possible, the respective vine was basically dead, And even if that one was allowed to ripen all the way, there were basically no viable seeds.

Am I the only one who hopes the answer to that statement is "I NEED you to mind your own business, leave me alone, a let me deal with this without interfering or getting in the way" Having one's heart in the right place is great, but it doesn't make up for having one's brain in the wrong one.

I should warn you, like a lot of the Indian khiva type cucumbers, Sikkim can take a lot of summer heat to do well; more than can be counted on this far north. Maybe try for a Russian khiva type, like Kaiser Alexander, Brown Russian, or Russian Potato/Little Potato. (I'd say Russian Netted, but...

I have a similar conflict with regards to wineberries. On one hand, I know they are super invasive and create dense thickets of thorny brambles. On the other, they ARE about the only fruit on my property can count on to produce anything. As for "native", native to where? Your area of the...

Not "Chaos", "Kaos"! (Pratchett joke.)

A microplane is best, as it will STOP when you get to the "rind" (actually called the pith). A regular grater will keep going, and it will be bitter. The tiny bits of zest will lose quite a lot of the aromatic essential oils to the air if you let them dry like that, so, unless you are a...

"Never mess with an old man who comes from a place where men die young."

Pink is probably rose flavor, green might be pandanus (screw pine). The seeds don't really taste of ANYTHING (maybe a little nutty) they're there for texture. I've never drank the drinks, but I HAVE had falooda (rose and basil seed) flavored kulfi (sort of Indian ice cream.) The seeds don't...

Forgot one big thing , NEVER try harvesting when it has just rained! Basil seeds have a gel coating that swells with moisture, and it is sticky as hell (Asians drink basil seeds for the gel). Not sure, as I nave never grown that one. But probably, as the number of plants in the mint family that...