It's shrub, so if you can buy a small plant that will take less time than seeds. It grows wild in Canada, it likes boggy like areas. I can't believe it doesn't grow wild there. Maybe by a different name.
So you're a rum man, lol. I would have thought scotch. Hawfee! LOL! Kombucha, oh that's lovely stuff. Ever make it yourself? I made one that tastes like root beer (homemade root beer that is).
There is nothing worse than not liking who you are because you know what you are doing and it is what makes you pissed off at yourself. Fecking peer pressure mostly and when younger, a horrible need to conform. Sod that
Very true. Peer pressure never ends, sure wish an adult told me that when I was growing up, LOL. If everyone were the same, this world would be so bloody boring. Definitely, sod that, like that expression. Canadians don't have any decent expressions, except "eh". "Sorry" does not count, it's used like toilet paper here.
I have found one place in the UK that has it in stock as a shrub. It's damn expensive although it does seem to be a hardy bugger.
I do like whisky but it does seem to have a different effects on me from other spirits. Not necessarily a good one!
I have been meaning to try and get some scoby make kombucha. I wrote fancy the idea but think it might take up a bit more time than I have!
I kept telling my daughter to not give a hoot about what anyone thinks but I know it's hard. Then again, hopefully she goes mad gothic or something :0D
That's excellent. I wasn't sure if you'd be able to find it there. Probably expensive because it's not a native plant there.
Interesting that there's different effects from whiskey. I bet that happens with others also. I've never drank enough of it at once to experience . Hard liquor being called "spirits", and odd description to me, took me a while to reflect on that but can see why.
Time thing is a factor. It doesn't take a lot of time in terms of work, but in terms of waiting and keeping an eye on it, all that. I'm thinking you've already got a full plate. I find making ginger beer from the fresh root (a wild ferment), to be much easier. No scoby to keep going, grow, or obtain.
😂 It is hard, but keep on telling her to reinforce it. These things do stick and keep coming back to mind. I say that from experience, LOL, recalling many things that stuck from both my parents, very helpful things that made a lot of difference for me. Probably the most important was knowing I was truly loved and the time I had with each of them. Nothing beats that.
It is expensive indeed. Your average shrub doesn't cost 35 quid here unless it is very exotic!
That ginger beer even sounds awesome. I need to branch out a bit. I spent all my kitchen hobby time on bread but am missing out on some good liquid stuffs!
I think ultimately that is the thing, letting the wee scamp's know they are loved whatever is going on or whoever they turn out to be.
Ouch, that's one expensive shrub. It grows wild in Canada, probably four or five hours north of where I am. You could just dig them up and bring them home. I checked how they propagate, and it's by the rhizome, so if you get one, it might need to be root controlled for that reason. 😂
Oh bread...oh glorious bread! Can't go wrong there. It's really good ginger beer and you get the health benefits as well. You can also make all manner of flavours with it using fresh fruit (mango-lime-ginger) and or herbs, spices, whatever you like.
Yes, that above all else.
Ah the old rhizome ones!! As a long term bamboo keeper, I am more than familiar with those kind of creeping spreading beauties!!!
I find it therapeutic trying to contain my bamboo in summer. It's like having a nonstop fight with a big green beast. Magic stuff.
I will definitely try and give it a bash this summer, if I can squeeze it in. I love making stuff!!
Hahaha, bamboo keeper! Yes, you would be. I've never seen it grown here, although you reminded me of Japanese Knotweed, a highly invasive species here. The buds in spring can be eaten and it's also a medicine, so maybe if they overharvest it, that will control it, lol.
I'll watch to see if you post about it. A little trick I have is to leave a beer or wine glass with the residual in it right beside where the ginger root starter is. It seems to help it along a little. Making things is one of the spices of life, imo, but I'm horribly biased that way. 😂
It is a good way to be horribly biased!
I love bamboo, it is horribly invasive. Maybe that's why I like it. Lookking at that knotweed it sounds kinda similar. Yeek, Maybe that would be too much of a challenge to control!