Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Excellent! I thank you on behalf of butterflies. Monarchs are actually endangered these days so you’re doing them a solid.
Capsicums are a great idea, they cost so much these days to buy at the supermarket. When I was a kid we could buy them by the crateload in summer.
Unfortunately only the migratory subspecies common in North America is endangered. I think we just have the plain old ones here that aren’t endangered, so I’m not helping an endangered species. But I’m still helping the individual butterflies that visit to fulfil their hopes and dreams.
You can get them reasonably cheap when in season, usually less that $2 for a big one but only for a short time.
The trouble with trying to save money by growing your own veggies is they are always cheap in the stores when your own are ready. But no matter, having some colour in the garden is nice. Plus it’s good showing the kids where food comes from.
That’s so good to know our butterflies are not endangered after all. Some of the ones here are born deformed (I give them a couple of nice days being hand fed and then euthanise them - the humane way is to put them in a container in the fridge for a while and then the freezer btw). So I was a bit worried.
It’s been a few years since capsicum here has come down to a price point I can really justify buying them except as a special treat, but my partner was able to grow some in pots from seeds of an old one last year!
I think kids learn a lot from gardening. How veges are “made”, cause and effect, patience, and the role of luck and the weather…
Growing from seed is amazing! My mum has a capsicum plant (capsicum-like? it grows those little ones) that survived from last year and is fruiting. I couldn’t believe it, at our place the frosts smash them.
Kids definitely enjoy it, and learning where food comes from is great. Plus you can teach them not to waste food because it took all that effort to grow, so we need to plan our meals and only make what we will eat, etc.
Sometimes when growing veggies I wonder how the commercial growers ever manage to get them so consistent (I try not to think too hard tough because the answer is probably some spray cocktail).