• @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    You kind of just tipped your hand at your gardening ability. And also that you’ve never had a real tomato.

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      12 months ago

      you are correct, I have been known to somehow kill a cactus or two.

      Spider plants are going insane though, dispute losing >50% of them to the cold and rain this winter they are still living just fine. They’re like the plant version of cockroaches

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      12 months ago

      I argue mostly everyone here never had a real banana. No, the ones in the stores aren’t the original flavor.

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        02 months ago

        Well, the one in the stores are real bananas. They aren’t Gros Michel bananas, but that’s because Gros Michel went extinct before I was born (and I’m not exactly young anymore.) We might lose the Cavendish before I die.

        Supposedly the “banana flavor” in candy is closer to a Gros Michel than to a Cavendish.

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          Also: Gros Michel bananas have slippery peels. Cavendish do not! That’s where the weird trope with no remaining connection to real life comes from.

          • @[email protected]
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            -12 months ago

            Woah. I was today years old when I learned the slippery banana trope comes from an extinct banana.

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      12 months ago

      Even last year when my tomatoes did poorly they still taste so much better than supermarket ones. Tbh outside a greenhouse I don’t think they really grow very well in the UK at all but I was given them so decided to try in the garden.

      Main things I am growing is rosemary, thyme, sage, chives, mint, garlic and opium. But I kinda want to start guerrilla gardening some fruit bushes. Raspberries would be nice to plant around town.