Tropical and Exotic!

Tomorrow is seed and plant catalog day, and that raises a little issue. My annual experiments. You see I like to scratch an itch every year to try at least one thing that is impossible or improbable to grow in my New England climate. For years I’ve kept an assortment of citrus plants alive and at least semi-thriving on window sills and grow lights. During the summer they grow ungainly outdoors. Then there were the years that I grew banana trees inside from seed. While I was a bachelor they added a distantly tropical look to the old apartment. Hmmm….the cats would probably enjoy hide and seek among the foliage.

So tomorrow as I leaf through ( I couldn’t avoid that one, sorry) the pages of lettuce and spinach seeds I’ll also be looking for my exotic picks as well.