Toadfish Monastery

Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 24, 2007, 04:12:56 PM

I'm already planning a trip... First visit Agie and empty his liquor cabinet, then Lambi and drink his home made ale... And then it's time for tasty Strawberry rum... Afterwards, you'll find me in the Pirate Public School drinking the Captain's Delight...

"Hide the women and children, Kiyo is coming!!!"
"No, don't hide the women and children, hide the rum!!!!"

You can always try.  That's my "Precioussss" and I have a BIG chinese cleaver to defend it with... I you want some you'll have to earn it... and no, not in that way! I'm already spoken for and happy with that.

Quote from: anthrobabe on July 24, 2007, 02:39:52 PM

Darlica my mint started in a pot- busted the pot and is now a riot in the front yard. In years goneby when company was spotted coming in rural areas -often a small child was sent out with a broom to "beat the mint" to release a welcoming smell for the visitors.

Mint plants= riot herbs
If I didn't spent hours on my knees in my mothers herb garden every summer there would be mint all over the place...

And I would love to talk chili cooking as well as how to grow them.
Thai squid and chili sallad! Mmmmm.

Quote from: Agujjim on July 23, 2007, 11:16:12 PM
Heh, maybe I should correct...  I've never seen more wild strawberries on a walk than I cared to eat immediately.  Even in the good picking areas they are quite sparse and the berries are very small (2 or 3 berries the size of a green pea per plant max).  Huckleberries are easier to pick a pail or two of.

I'm a patient being.
If I don't eat them right at the spot I'll get to make wild strawberry vodka and rum.

I have some Blueberries/Huckleberries too...

Quote from: Agujjim on July 23, 2007, 10:33:19 PM


  Are you my clone? 

Not very likely but you never know...

Quote from: Agujjim on July 23, 2007, 10:33:19 PM
Unfortunately, it's not as easy to go foraging here in the wild as where I grew up, but I do some urban foraging - I get asparagus, mushrooms, apples, saskatoons, a few herbs etc. from various parks and empty lots in the city.  Just found a sour cherry tree yesterday and discovered a species of scrub cherry I didn't know about.  I've NEVER seen that many wild strawberries in one place, though!

Only have a hybrid Super Chili growing at the moment, but generally have a multitude of peppers and derivatives around for cooking and eating.  Hybrids are fun because if you plant the seeds, you get many different types of peppers in the next generation.

Not sure how many species of plants I have growing indoors - probably upwards of 20, but the actual number of plants is MUCH higher (probably thousands if you count all the dragonfruit seedlings here and there).  No room for a monsterra as we are in a 1-bedroom apartment, but lots of other tropical fruit species that I have grown from pits (there's another thread about that....).

Those wild strawberries didn't all grew at the same place, I took a pretty long walk, but it was worth it, also, if I didn't knew where to look I wouldn't have got that amount, but I've been picking them at more or less the same places since I was a kid.

I used to have multiple plants in one pot but nowdays prefer to have more or less one plant/one pot, probably because I have room for it.

I havn't had much luck with tropical plants, I guess the air is to dry at my place, the Chili plants and the Monstera are the shining execptions. Meditaranian plants do much better I have an small olive tree, a bay leaf plant and a mispel in the kitchen window. 

Quote from: Agujjim on July 23, 2007, 08:47:10 PM
Haha...  I have -30^oC in the winter as well, but a little further west of Winnipeg (Darlica is MUCH further east, I think).  Haven't tried to overwinter perennials in containers - I think the -30 would be OK, but we get a lot of freeze/thaw cycles (sometimes to +20^oC in the winter).

I agree about the oasis - I think I'd go crazy especially in the winter if we didn't have plants, and they help to humidify the dry air.  Also a *rumble* to Bruder about snacking - not so much on the balcony (wish I had a garden), but I am notorious for tasting things.  My fiancee' just shakes her head when she sees me munching on walks. 

Nice herb collection, too!  I only have some hot peppers and a basil that has been ravaged by whiteflies.  I took some pictures last night but haven't had time to post them up.

Another Chilihead?
I used to have quite a collection; Habanero,Scotch Bonnet, Rawit,Thai among others, unfortunatly they also became victims of the whiteflies, right now it's just the Rawit left.
Nothing can turn me in to a raving homicidal maniac like bugs on my plants!

Inside for the monent I have 27 house plants (I have 3 rooms and a kitchen), the biggest one a 2m tall and 1.5m wide monstera, an imperealistic monster that tries to take over the living room.  I'm very proud of it...

I like to spend time outdoors, picking berries and mushrooms is another of my favorite ways to pastime. I have 1.5 litre of wild-strawberries in the freezer right now and the raspberries will be ripe in a week or two. Mmmm

Quote from: Bruder Cuzzen on July 23, 2007, 08:27:59 PM
Hi Sibling Darlica ! , Ahhhh.... there is nothing like a garden oasis to calm the spirit in my book .

I love your annual selection , I have such in mind for my new deck (if and when I get to it ).

I love the ritual of walking into the green and grabbing a healthy snack off the vine/branch .

-30 C ? in winter ? Are you in Winnipeg ,Canada ?

I'm at latitud: N  59.37°N    longitud:  16.51°E that would in other words place me about 100 km West of Stockholm, Sweden.  This means I'm pretty close to the Baltic sea but not close enough to get costal climate, and between me and the Northen Gulf stream lies Norway and most of Sweden (about 400 km).
Last winter the record was -32°C in early January, if it's a warm winter it would be about -5°C instaed but that's unusual. November/December and late February/March we usually have between -5 to +8°C.

I like the snacking bit too, but most of all I like to sit down with a cup of tea or a glass of wine (or whisky) a warm, late summer, evening and listen to the city as it goes to sleep and sound after sound dies away, while a light breeze rattles the foliage and makes the flower tobacco smell heavenly.

Quote from: Agujjim on July 23, 2007, 06:47:56 PM


Heh, you're free to roam wherever you like....  but we may have to see about getting the Cap'n to run a raiding party this way eventually!

I know, but I'm a compleet novice to this Pirate thing so I think I'm just going to lurk in the shadows untill I get the lingo.  

I wouldn't survive in my flat if I didn't had house plants and the balcony, it's my oasis and mini garden.
I have also found that tending to my plants and flowers is an excelent theraphy when I'm down and have concentration problems. 

I have a mix of annual and perennial plants and bushes, and some of the annual plants would be perennials if I happend to live in another cilmate zone I guess, but as it is now I get down to -30°C in the winter.
Annual:
mint plant
thyme
savory
tarragon
hyssop
parsley
oregano
chive
tomatoes
flower tobacco
pink snowflake
lewesia
saxifrage
morning glory
million bells

Perennial
orpin
winged euonymus
sour cherry bush(Nordia)
myrtle
wild strawberries (under the cherry bush)
ivy

This summer I have less(!) pots and containers than I've had in many years, I had to make place for two chairs instaed of one, so it isn't as lush as it used to be but I'm pretty happy with it any way.

The weather is right down crappy right now but when it gets a bit better I'll take some photos and post here. 


~D

I see I got recuted...

I thought I was going to stay at the monestery when I wasn't sailing with Capt. Kitty...

Oh well. If I have to get on board I better stick to the same ship as Agujjim I must be safer to travel with a monk.. right?

...

Ai! Wait for me! I don't want to be shanghaied  by another crew on the way to the ship!!!

Quote from: Sibling Chatty on July 22, 2007, 09:39:09 PM
Welcome, come in and enjoy!

We've got a fun and interesting Monastery with lots of places to explore and stuff to do, so don't get too lost. I tend to wander off into the gardens and nap at times, so that noise is me snoring, NOT a 7 headed Ravenous SnortyBeast looking for its dinner.

Ahh, so that was you? I thougth I heard someting when I was taking a stroll earlier to day.
I should really take pictures of my balcony and post in the container gardening thread but I think that has to wait until I have a bit more time, I'm swamped right now with things I should do but don't want to do.

Quote from: Agujjim on July 22, 2007, 09:12:18 PM
Hehe...  glad you made it over!




Hope you don't mind if I share your post on DP here - it was so nice to hear:

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I have taken a look and I'm certainly interested, actually it seems like the forum I've allways wish I could find...

Of cause you get to quote that, and the rest of the board gets to blame you for bringing me here if I turn out to be trouble. 

Seriously, thank youfor that thead over at DP Agujjim, allowing me to find this place and thank you all for making me feel welcome.

~D

*takes a peek in the pirates cove*


I'm not that serious all the time and I wouldn't like to be either. On the contrary, most of the time I like goofing around. I guess when I'm in that mood I'm on a sliding scale between naughty and right down impish.
I'm not much of a pirate though, but I may change, I'm pretty good at that Pirates Of the Spanish Main game and as I said before I like to roleplay.

I guess the reason I'm here is that I found the "Mission Statement" paired with the contents (both the fun and the more serious stuff) of the board very appealing.

I don't think anyone here know me from any other place IRL or on-line however I'm also known under the alias Carduus and little_thistle at various places and as Darlica at rpg dot net. where I mostely lurked.

Hi Darlica here, I found out about this place when Big Otis Landfish or Agujjim here posted about this place at the Devils Panties fan forum.
The DP forum is all fine and dandy, but I like to be able to have serious discussions too now and then and to me this place looked like the forum I've been looking for for a long time now.

I'm 32, Swedish, lives with my Significant Other,loves gardening and plants (green fingers runs in the family) would not survive in my flat without my housplants and the balcony, plays RPGs when I get to (and read gaming books when I don't), likes good eating and drinking, is more of a dog person than a cat person, have belifes but I'm not sure in what...
I'm a freelance Illustrator but I work part-time in a wine and booze store to make ends meet.


I shoulden't be here right now, have too much work on my hands, but this place seems so tempting...  I guess I failed a Will roll.