Gulliver

I had a good crop of onions that I started off indoors in little plastic containers and then planted out when they'd gotten a few inches tall. I got one inedible, bitter cucumber off my three cucumber plants. The fourth I gave to a neighbour who got millions of cucumbers off it. Ah well... Chilli pepper grow very well, I've found. They're much like tomatoes. At the supermarkets near me they do pots of basil and other herbs and chilli peppers. Wait until they have dying ones marked down, then plant them in proper compost and they'll explode back into health. Often, the tiny pots they grow them in aren't big enough for the root system once it's established.

I mix a couple of teaspoons of spirulina in with my protein powder mix (I buy them separately in bulk then mix up pea, soy and hemp). Given all the things that we eat, drink, inhale, walk into, put next to our heads, I think the benefits outweigh the risk.

I found them to be very dry and not very tasty...

I'd recommend adding some spirulina into your diet; flax etc does not have every omega 3 fatty acid in a concentration that is beneficial. Spirulina fills in the gaps!

Well, I'm 6'1" and 85kg, and vegan, so yes it is possible. Start on a push-up program, or a light weights training program, eat enough protein and generally healthily, and go from there.

Oh, and something else that I forgot: olive oil is quite acidic (it can be used to strip dye out of coloured hair), so if you have sensitive skin, you might want to lay off it.

I use witchhazel after shaving, and sometimes make a scrub out of a tablespoon of cider vinegar, the same of witchhazel, a few drops of tea tree oil and half a teaspoon of salt. Apply it after washing your face with hot water, then wash off with cold. It stings, but it leaves you skin really clear.