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November 06, 2021
Saturday Gardening and Puttering Thread, November 6Hi, everybody! Thanksgiving is coming. Are you thinking of serving any cactus from the garden? jim in Kalifornia might: A pic of one of the cactus flowers open the other day. They only open up in the early morning and close up when the sun comes up (makes sense; why lose excess water if you're a cactus?). Finger and bee(s) for scale. If you zoom in closely into the blossom, you'll see what looks like a bee posing for the photo! In reality, it's two bees, one side-ways, the other facing the camera. A photo of fruit that's already set hold. When ripe will turn a lovely lavender-red color, and if not picked soon enough, will split open revealing the yumminess inside. Pic of about a dozen of the 20 or so blossoms this year from part of the cactus; I've never seen so many! In a normal year I'll get maybe 3 to 6 blossoms and maybe a fruit or two if I'm lucky. Seems to be happy this year! I got a lobe from my mother about 15 years ago; she said it was a "cancer cactus". Dunno about that, but the fruit is tasty. We'll post a photo of the ripe fruit later. Edible Gardening First, Scottish Kate and I planted 2 basil plants early this year, just to see how it turned out. And, if you look at the planter, there is a third one, a poor scrawny orphan on its last legs from a previous attempt. Well, that little thins, along with the two new ones are thriving. Ready for pesto - You can cut those plants back when they flower! Nice basil leaves here: If you get some tweezers out, you can harvest the blossoms, and eat those as fancy garnishes, too. Big Garden Pests (or Visitors?) Garden developments last week chez MarkY: Well, I spent the morning prepping the garden for the glean. Got to 35 last night, and colder is coming. Deer in the garden. Uh-oh. The other things sound nice. George V seems to have sort of given up keeping them out of the garden: I saw the video of the deer in the trail camera today and remembered the buck fight in our back yard about 10 days ago. It lasted about 10 or 12 minutes but here's a short video. A couple of does were in the area too, watching it. This corner of our yard seems to be a place the bucks like to mark and scrape. Not everyone has action like that in their yard! (Thanks to CBD for formatting the video for us.) Post-Halloween Activities K.T. Heh. Photos (Ewww) and ideas at the link, including: - Attending a pumpkin smash and smush event Take them to a zoo that gives pumpkins to animals. Thanksgiving is coming, too. You may have new pumpkins. Choose kinds bred for the kitchen (or similar squashes). What to do with pumpkin guts. Breakfast in the countryside After a few hours of farmwork. In Azerbaijan. No music on this video. Kind of restful, somehow. Tomatoes, olives and mulberry syrup show up in the same meal. The video says they are harvesting saffron for morning tea, but it is really safflower. Rare Seeds offers a (no-spine or low-spine) variety called Corrales Azafran Safflower. A wonderful and easy-to-grow,substitute for true saffron in cooking! Safflower is a wonderful plant with several uses and one of humanity's oldest crops. Long before true saffron was cultivated, safflower was already a major crop in ancient Egypt. It later spread to ancient Greece where it was called Karthamos, and all the way to China. The Arabs brought it to southern Spain where in the 12th century they selected a spineless strain (safflower is from the "thistle" family). The village of Corrales was founded on the banks of the Rio Grande, and the Spanish colonists had brought safflower seeds possibly collected from their stop in the Island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, where a famous strain was then cultivated. This Corrales Azafran strain has stayed close to this original seed brought to New Mexico. It is widely adapted; flowers can be used as a coloring spice, dried to brew tea and also, a dye with a deep orange, almost red, pigment. The young plants make a delicious leafy green. The seeds can be pressed into oil. The deep taproots are a very efficient soil breaker. About their deep orange, prickly variety, they say: This uncanny similarity to saffron is responsible for safflower's nickname as "poor man's saffron". Not only useful in the kitchen, Dark Orange-Red is a gorgeous ornamental that is a well disguised garden tool. The stiff, almost prickly, plants, have been used for centuries as natural fencing to keep animals out of the garden. Safflower is a commercial crop near us. It is VERY prickly in most fields. Generally shorter than the kinds sold for the garden. Seedaholic sells a Japanese cut flower variety called "Kinko". They give detailed cultural directions. The leaves are spineless and charmingly rounded. They don't think it has much flavor, but think it adds nice color to soups. Gardens of The Horde badgerwx sent in the following: Here are a couple of pictures I took this week while I wait for my first frost to end what's left of the growing season. Usually I get one in the 2nd half of October, then it warms up again. But this Oct has been so warm I haven't come close yet. Lovely flowers. If you would like to send information and/or photos for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is: ktinthegarden Include the nic by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, | Recent Comments
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