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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9890462" data-attributes="member: 19675">I’m not a gardener by any stretch of the imagination.  But I’ve had to step up and do some things for our 2 most recent dwellings over the past 40+ years, so I’ve had my share of “experiences”.At our previous house, I had to find a species of grass to grow in a very shady back yard that had hard-packed dirt.  I also had to replant a “J” shaped planter on our front lawn that ran next to our driveway, going from full sun to partial shade, with one end dipping down about 3’.In both cases, I spent half of a day breaking up the soil with a hoe and trident while listening to Sepultura’s Roots album on my portable CD player.  (The planter was much smaller, but the soil was MUCH harder- almost as hard as baked ceramics.)In both cases, out worked out great.We are currently living about a 30 minute drive north of our previous house, and we have a full-time gardener.  But he doesn’t handle anything that’s not actually planted in the ground.  So all the pots are my responsibility.  I’m also partly responsible for decision-making on what plants we have in general.And when we got nailed by that killer winter storm in 2021, we lost a LOT of our shrubs and ground cover, and many of our pots just cracked apart.  So we’ve (slowly) been researching what we should use to replace what we lost.One thing that survived the freeze were our 3 pequin pepper plants.  Here’s a friend about to harvest some for making salsa:[ATTACH=full]433983[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]433982[/ATTACH]Closeup. The peppers are slightly larger than a green pea, but each is 30k-60k scoville units- hotter than jalapeños (5k-9k).Right now, I’m thinking about adding some more peppers to our front lawn, plus signage describing the varietals.  Maybe even some “Take some!” signs.  One that has my attention is a habanero varietal that has almost no heat.  Gets all kinds of recommendations for its flavor.Because peppers bloom and fruit all spring and summer, and somewhat into the fall here in D/FW, so it would be a nice visual display and a source of seasonings.I also want to put a trellis next to our front door to support a jasmine plant.</blockquote>

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