[ SECRET POST #4459 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4459 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dan Bern, WTNV, I Only Listen To the Mountain Goats, the Mountain Goats]



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[The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel]


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[Director James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy franchise]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #638.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: How was your day?

[(Anonymous)]

I went to the nursery and talked myself out of buying another tea plant by quizzing an employee about what I was doing wrong; the answer is “it’s too hot and dry here,” which explains why I’ve killed two little potted tea bushes and my third is on it’s way out. I just really like the idea of growing my own tea; other camellias do great here, and herb tea isn’t the same. I may end up buying one of the bigger bushes eventually anyway.

Then I left without buying anything and went to the snooty organic grocery store and got some tabouli and sesame tofu and some ingredients for veggie soup, and got caught in the rain coming home. I had a little folding umbrella, but it was really windy so I got pretty wet anyway. Now the sun’s out again.

Re: How was your day?

[(Anonymous)]

I so feel you on this, nonny. I think that's how they get people, to be honest... they KNOW people see novelty plants like this and think "OMG, I would love to grow my own tea/coffee/meyer lemons/tiny bananas!" and impulse buy one with a lot of wishful thinking and hope. But most of those plants only thrive under very specific conditions that are hard to achieve in the average home. :(

Re: How was your day?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—heh, I’m in coastal southern California, I have a couple of coffee plants doing just fine, although if I bothered harvesting berries I could maybe drink one cup of coffee a year. I’ve grown bananas, although not recently, and I’ve got a navel orange, a bog standard lemon, and an Australian finger lime tree (which is growing and flowering well but never seems to fruit; I think it needs more sun/heat) and a (for some reason, unhappy) tangerine. My “ooh, that looks awesome” failure list so far includes wasabi, tea, miracle fruit, and (they’re still hanging on and I hope they perk up now that Spring’s here) cocoa trees.

Re: How was your day?

[(Anonymous)]

Same anon—on the other hand, stone fruit/tree nuts/peonies/lilacs/anything that needs winter dormancy to flower and/or set fruit either can’t be grown at all or have to be one of the tiny handful of low-chill cultivars. I keep trying with low chill cherries; my oldest tree finally fruited a few years ago and it was awesome, then the next year fruit flies got the fruit and shot hole borers killed the tree. Sigh. Why can’t I just magically make plants grow/thrive?