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September 11, 2021
Saturday Gardening and Puttering Thread, September 11![]() Hi, everybody! Miss the Gardening Thread last week? Don't ever let anybody cut your internet cable as you are finishing a post for AoSHQ. Hope that the weather has allowed you to be outdoors and to do some gardening and/or puttering. We have some lovely photos of bromeliads to start off with today. And we also have some Edible Gardening photos and information which may have involved some labor. You know, Putting Things By. And a lovely little video. And some sad storm-related news. About the photo above and those below: Gorgeous bromeliad exhibit last week at San Diego Botanic gardens. Yes, I have no idea why they say botanic and not botanical. It used to be called Quail Gardens which I think is so much lovelier. ![]() ![]() ![]() Awwwwww A hummingbird just showed up in my yard & I got a couple of video fragments. I'm surprised he sat still that long on my vibrurnum before going back to the black & blue salvias for lunch. The hummingbird video is lovely. Thanks to CBD for formatting it for us! Edible Gardening We are getting more photos than usual in the Edible Gardening category, and we love them! But some of them we are saving. This series is kind of a hint for those in The Horde who may not have gardens of there own, from kshoosh: Love the details here. A lot of work, but it sounds like fun! Longtime lurker, had a strange and fun experience last week that I thought the other gardening morons might enjoy reading about it, and you might appreciate the content? ![]() The auctioneer used a headset with a sound system, so that must have been an exception to the Amish technology aversion; he had someone managing the lots that he'd then auction off (in full auctioneering cadence-style), and then someone taking notes of who won what and for how much. There were probably a few thousand pounds of tomatoes there for auction-- the first 3 rows you see in that picture is all tomatoes, all in 10lb or 20lb boxes, in various sized lots- some lots were 50 x 10lb boxes and you had to bid on at least 12+ boxes. They charged $5 (for a year!) to register for the auction and get a number, and they gave you the prices of what things sold for at the previous auction 2 days ago- so you could have a sense of going rates. ![]() Why was I bidding on 100 lbs of tomatoes in the first place? I make spaghetti sauce in bulk every fall to last the following year. Growing up, my family grew our own tomatoes and we made sauce every weekend for at least a month. Now, I get tomatoes in bulk and do it all on one fell swoop- I can process the tomatoes with a Squeezo machine in one day, and cook it down and can it the following day- it makes for a long weekend, but then it's done until next year. ![]() The sauce cooks down for 6-10 hours. Tomatoes, basil, oregano, bay leaves, onion powder, salt. No sugar. ![]() And if you're wondering - Amish tomatoes taste different (better!) than other tomatoes! Even within Amish tomatoes, I get a different vintage each year, it's delightful. This year, 100 lbs made 37 1/2 quarts of sauce. ![]()
* Important warning about water-bath-canning tomatoes, because it could kill someone: if you use typical tomatoes from the supermarket, you need to add a tbsp of lemon juice to up the acidity before using a water bath- or use pressure canning instead. The popular varieties of tomatoes have been bred to be sweeter than our grandparents' time, and lower acidity means increased risk of bad things growing in your jars while they're stored, and it's a big risk with water bath canning. My recipe uses Romas (which haven't been genetically messed with nearly as much so aren't as sweet) and adds tomato paste, which adds a hefty dose of acidity also. Years that I can't find romas, I add lemon juice to each jar. You really can't tell the acidity level of tomatoes by tasting them, either. Something different A couple of weeks ago, we had a nice photo of kudzu flowers from f'd. ![]() Did you know that kudzu is edible? The leaves, vine tips, flowers, and roots are edible; the vines are not. The leaves can be used like spinach and eaten raw, chopped up and baked in quiches, cooked like collards, or deep fried. Young kudzu shoots are tender and taste similar to snow peas. There are a bunch of recipes linked. Tips from chefs, and a photo of kudzu running wild. Sad Storm News Duke Lowell believes that it was a tornado that took out one of the big trees at his house. We may have a little video of the storm later. The big tree took out his Teacup Magnolia. Here's a pic of the magnolia that got squashed today. It was my favorite tree. A lovely tree. Gone, but not forgotten. More Bromeliads ![]() ![]() ![]() What an amazing variety of plants and flowers!
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