Around the garden

I ordered my seeds for next year and received them yesterday. I plan to grow some hotter peppers, although fairly mild, next year and have got some tomato seeds. All cherry tomatoes and smaller (grape size). I have some purple tomatillos and, the main part of ordering early, broad beans and peas for sowing before Christmas.

Yesterday I cleared out the greenhouse a bit. As I was doing this I saw what I thought to be a False Black Widow scurrying away. They are not particularly dangerous but they have caused panic here www.thesun.co.uk/news/16170311/school-evacuated-false-widow-spider-spotted-pupils-home/ . I have seen one or two around in the past but they live their lives

So, I have a yellow garden spider on my porch. NOT IN MY GARDEN??? lol I named her Lola...

Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl
With yellow feathers in her hair...

Thought it was fitting for her being such a showy spider with yellow lol

I wonder if it would psychologically change the taste?

I am sure you are right. Not just taste is involved with how we "taste" things. Sight and smell also contribute to it.

Even more than that. On a walk out in the wilds one dark night years ago a friend gave me a piece of chocolate of a brand I normally love. As I put it into my mouth he said that the chocolate was a brand I couldn't stand. I instantly tasted it and threw up. I just could not get rid of the taste all night even though it was only moments after I put it into my mouth that my friend told me the truth.

Very lucky snail that you came along.

We got another teddy bear magnolia to place on the opposite side of the one we planted a couple years back now. We will be digging the hole this weekend, but hopefully it won't be too much work so we can finish before the workweek. I don't have much time for gardening during the week these days!

We had this empty spot for about a year now lol the neighbors probably hated it. We removed a different tree that would have gotten extremely tall, and one that doesn't technically live as long, so we figured we'd just go ahead and plant something sturdier and not as large near the house. This is a smaller variety of magnolia.

My bananas are doing wonderful as well a my papayas.

I am sure that is not strange in the slightest.....

I love trees, the woods, the rainforests, parks and nature in general.

I went walking in the woods in Sweden as a child: it was a wonderful time. The Swedish woods are amazing. I also loved riding my bike in the vast expanse parks of my old town. I loved those parks and cycle tracks. Such nostalgia.

lol you don't pet soft or fuzzy items or pets? It's not much different; it's just not often there's fuzzy plants.

No, no! Not paranoid. Not at all. 

I went into the greenhouse this morning and saw that my radishes have germinated. It's late in the year but I am going for year round greenhouse utilisation. I am a happy bunny with todays discovery

I don't know about flowers particularly  but some seeds actually require a period of very cold weather to germinate well. Thats what happens in nature with some things.