More Plants
Jun. 12th, 2008 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I ordered some seeds from Bouncing Bear. More datura, some Hawaiian baby woodrose... and some Mandragora officinarum, aka Mandrake. Now, I have no idea what mandrake seeds look like - the ones I received were remarkably similar to other nightshade family plants (tomatos, peppers, datura). So I nicked the seeds and soaked them overnight and popped them into dirt this morning. I'll just have to wait & see if anything grows.
I ate one of the woodrose seeds - ewuck. Bitter, dirt-flavored thing. That's my version of gardening, though - partially trying to grow things, partially a taste-test. I didn't eat any of the mandrake seeds because there weren't very many. I've got to pick up some more potting soil this evening.
Rob may end up flying out to NC to help Tania & James drive their truck here, hauling a trailer full of their stuff. He's trying to get his folks to pay him for it. When I called him on my lunch break, he asked me how long it takes me to make $2k... I instantly replied to him, "Why? What did you do to the truck?!" Turns out he wasn't telling me we needed $2k immediately, but that was how much he was trying to get from his parents. I really hope he goes out there - I'd love a Rob vacation.
I've got to try to get out of the house this weekend - maybe go up to Mt. Charleston or just have Rob drive out into the desert or something. Maybe I'll see how far out the hot springs are.
I ate one of the woodrose seeds - ewuck. Bitter, dirt-flavored thing. That's my version of gardening, though - partially trying to grow things, partially a taste-test. I didn't eat any of the mandrake seeds because there weren't very many. I've got to pick up some more potting soil this evening.
Rob may end up flying out to NC to help Tania & James drive their truck here, hauling a trailer full of their stuff. He's trying to get his folks to pay him for it. When I called him on my lunch break, he asked me how long it takes me to make $2k... I instantly replied to him, "Why? What did you do to the truck?!" Turns out he wasn't telling me we needed $2k immediately, but that was how much he was trying to get from his parents. I really hope he goes out there - I'd love a Rob vacation.
I've got to try to get out of the house this weekend - maybe go up to Mt. Charleston or just have Rob drive out into the desert or something. Maybe I'll see how far out the hot springs are.
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Date: 2008-07-30 02:05 pm (UTC)Usually my only problem with buying seeds and then eating them (even different varieties of sunflowers, melons and squash, which have edible seeds) is that many places coat the seeds with anti-fungal compounds, which can probably make a person sicker than the seed itself. Bouncingbear seems to have great pride in not using anti-fungals or insecticides in their products.