new plants in the last month .

[mosby's men]

i have added the following new plants
black pepper ,
arrabica coffe plant and camellia sinensis (tea plant )

green tea , oolong tea and black tea all come from the same plant.
just process it differently

[Beprepared]

Sorry, I'm lost, added to what, your garden?

[Arizona Highlander]

Sounds like you're setting up to grow your own spices, coffee, and tea.

Not a bad idea at all, if your climate supports these food items. I grow oregano in a pot in the kitchen, since it's a favorite spice of mine, and I'd miss it if supplies were ever cut off.


Those might be great trade items, too, if things ever really got bad.

[FN74]

Excellent mosbysmen! I just sprouted 4 medjool Date palms from seed! Still have a ton of herbs in my raised boxes outside - rosemary, thyme, sage, oregano, and basil. Green Chile peppers are JUST starting to make here - hell it's october for petes sake! LOL! Next years garden will be awesome.

[Arizona Highlander]

Green Chile peppers are JUST starting to make here - hell it's october for petes sake! LOL!

Chili peppers finally coming through in October! :D Hey, at least they’re finally here!

But, of all possible “spices,” chili is also about as good as it gets. Makes anything taste okay. I got lots of chili peppers this year (and already have most of them nicely dried for storage) but they’re actually one of the few things that do fairly well in my hot/dry/windy Arizona environment. Everything else just seems to wilt under the hot Arizona sun - and if it doesn’t, it’ll get eaten by the thousands of grasshoppers that descend upon us late every fall. Almost like a real-life biblical “plague of the locusts.”

Not exactly a gardening paradise around here, you know.

Been thinking about getting myself some Guinea Fowl next spring, and letting them live semi-wild around the homestead. I hear Guineas love grasshoppers, and with any luck they might do quite a number on those vile pests next fall.

[Beprepared]

Geanies? Awful nasty noisy beasts. Tasty but loud.

Now PEACOCKS were nice to look at, and ate everybug they could find.

[RobertRogers]

flavorings and spices can be excellent trade items post SHTF.

[mosby's men]

well the black pepper plant is doing well i belive in the spring time i will be able to divided it and get a few more plants. , the coffee plants are fighting a losing battle with fungus .. so far i have lost 3 of them .
the tea plants are still alive so far..