Have a go with lemongrass - grows from seed as easily as lawn grass... just likes a well drained quite open soil - plenty of sand/perlite. Hardy down to -10 I think (sorry - that's obviously in centipedes!)
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Burn in Hell, you monster!
I'm hoping my chili plants provide me with spicy fruit too. I do find the chili's ripen but don't get spicy for some reason. They go red but its always a fizzle.
You have to torture them a bit. Well, apart from choosing the right chilis to begin with, obviously. Chilis, like some other plants that I can't mention on a family friendly forum, get more potent if you deprive them of proper care a bit, without making them die, of course.
Which, I suspect, is why southern grown chilis tend to be hotter than chilis grown in more favorable climes.
agree - run 'em dry and hot when they're fruiting!
I want the seeds and grow a load. Might have to pickle them for later use 
I ruined my cilies this year because I forgot to water them, but somehow my tomato survived this. Anyway, I have enough dried chilies from last years. This year I am trying to grow some strange red strawberry corn to make popcorn
They look like some alien face-hugging monsters to me.
I will be very careful when I harvest them
Also, I went out to empty a kitchen waste bin and find a fox had defecated on top of my compost bin.
Thats like me clambering onto a car roof and dropping my pants. Little git.
Thats like me clambering onto a car roof and dropping my pants. Little git.
Didn't end too well, I take it?
But this fox just wrecks my garden. It digs up grubs, shats everywhere, digs under fences. Its tenacious, almost Roald Dahl like in its mischievousness.
Do you have a moment, sir, to talk about the Tao of BLAM!?
But this fox just wrecks my garden. It digs up grubs, shats everywhere, digs under fences. Its tenacious, almost Roald Dahl like in its mischievousness.
Although I'd like nothing better than dropping an explosive charge down its burrow, or chase after it on my ride on mower I'm not allowed to 'harm' it.
I did prank it once though. It was digging for crap in the garden and I crept up behind it (since I was downwind of it and it was dark)....and blew a massive raspberry right next to it.
Fox went full NASA and went vertical- I swear it went into space. At least for a few days it stayed away
It's not harm. It's diplomacy. Semantics, my friend.
Or simply demonstrating Darwinian principles.It's not harm. It's diplomacy. Semantics, my friend.
Until the fox learns to make, use and maintain a chainsaw I'm the one demonstrating the value of evolution
We have a pair of big lurchers, live in the countryside with lots of fields... surprisingly, we have remarkably little trouble with foxes.... 
But this fox just wrecks my garden. It digs up grubs, shats everywhere, digs under fences. Its tenacious, almost Roald Dahl like in its mischievousness.
I've not tried this as my garden fox just comes to play, sleep, and eat easy stuff, but I read about this so am passing it on, and I promise I am not taking you for a ride.
Apparently one of the best ways to stop them coming around and digging up stuff, is to pee I your own garden. Pee in a bottle then sprinkle it around the areas he flanges about in, and I is supposed to work.