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in #gardening8 years ago

Part of our motivation for getting out of the city to a rural setting is the desire to connect more strongly to the community we live in. It appears that in smaller, more isolated places those bonds are stronger probably by necessity.

But it's also important in urban settings. It seems absurd, but in densely people places we can often be isolated.

And what brings people together better than food?

Last year a neighbour, an older Vietnamese man, dropped by to pick some of our excess lemons. He noticed the hot peppers growing by our door, and we muddled through what little common language we shared, and he went off to bring us some of the hot peppers he grows. Lots of them. Here are some we still have frozen, they'll eventually be added to a hot sauce.

I gave him a few carolina reapers and some yellow 7-pots in return. He seemed to survive that.

This week he dropped by with some pumpkin seeds, that he described as Japanese red pumpkins, and long white ones.

Now we have to figure out how we're going to fit pumpkins in our tiny patch. Probably we'll get the seedlings up and give them to family and friends, pay it forward.

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Gardening is so great for building relationships -- in the country, in the suburbs, and in the city.

Carolina Reaper!? You must be very brave :-) Thanks for your post, upvoted. I would love to see/read more about hot pepper. I live on Canary Islands and we are blessed by the so called "infinite spring", so climate conditions are perfect to grow chili even in winter time. That´s why we also have one of the biggest seeds productions over you - do you know that business: https://www.semillas.de/shop_en/index.html
Steem on!

the weather's just starting to warm up down here, so there will definitely be more hot peppers coming ;) thanks for dropping in!
Great looking website, btw, thanks. I'll be visiting that once we move over to France!

Good luck at your new home and nice crops though :-)