Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Sept. 2

Happy Labor Day Weekend, Everybody! Doing any labor in the garden? Here are some magnolias and other flora from Dave in Oahu, where there are places where gardens just grow by themselves.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Pat* won ribbons at the Western Idaho Fair!

This is the best photo I could get, because there were so many ribbons! The top ones are from the Agriculture Division, the three smaller ones at the bottom are from the Flower Division.

That "Best of Division" ribbon was for my Common Garden Sage.

Yay!

That's a lot of ribbons!

Dear K.T.,

Attached is a photo of some of my garden's bounty. The peppers and
eggplant have done very well this year, as you can see. Fortunately, my
wife "Annalucia" loves to cook Middle Eastern-style; her
lamb-and-eggplant stew is outstanding. Perhaps you remember the picture
of the peaches I sent you a month ago; we harvested them recently, and
they were delicious, both eaten out of the hand and in cobblers.
Annalucia also canned a batch of peach jam, for us to enjoy on pancakes
or toast when the snow flies. Earlier, we harvested nearly ten pounds of
raspberries; and the pears will be coming in soon. Our little backyard
garden has been most generous to us.

BTW, my nom-de-cyber is "Nemo".

Regards

The garden produce above is gorgeous. The photo of the peaches on the tree showed mere promises of ripe peaches. But here's a photo of a ripe one from a friend.

Ah, Nature

Big snek

Equity… pic.twitter.com/RhZWg4W7gw

— @amuse (@amuse) August 27, 2023

This is what happens when lightning strikes an electric fence

[📹 Emily R. Head]pic.twitter.com/1FmiGABHcr

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 30, 2023

Autumn Alpines

#SixOnSaturday ~ alpines from our autumn shows.

1. Biarum davisii
2. Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas'
3. Sternbergia lutea
4. Biarum marmarisense 'Simi Form'
5. Gentiana 'Shot Silk'
6. Empodium elongatum

Check our website for details of all our autumn shows and plant fairs pic.twitter.com/Elft4pppSk

— Alpine Garden Society (@AlpineGardenSoc) September 2, 2023

Adventure

More photos from Oahu, from another friend:

Wild animals:

Gardens of The Horde

Magnolia seed pod today.

- fd

Hi K.T.,

I am blessed to have many roses of various varieties at my house here on a wide tidal river. Typically the blooms are particularly lovely in late summer when heat abates and the darn Japanese beetles are vamoose.

Sorry I can't recall the specific variety of this one.

Re. edibles our tomatoes are terrific this year--but even better are the figs. I don't have a pic but did make a wonderful fig cake with them. Yum.
I go by groovy girl when I post.

Always enjoy your columns!

Perhaps my favorite color for roses. Thanks for sending a photo!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Saturday Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Aug. 26

There were some late comments by Pat* and others about apples, pickles and other topics.

Follow-up:

Thanks for posting my garden pics. We had a hellacious windstorm and downpour tuesday (1.02" in 10 minutes) that wiped out our peaches and plums.

You asked about the primotalli pepper. 2.2 million scoville. I didn't know what it was when I bought it and after seeing people on you tube eat it, i might just give away seeds.

And regarding carrot thinning, i let a few carrots go to seed every year. I kneel and thin to perfection. I always scatter way too many seeds but so nice to have fresh carrots in the winter. And the dogs love them.

Shari in SW Idaho

Hate to learn that you have lost your peaches and plums!

I don't think I could eat one of those peppers. Below, a guy who eats really hot peppers all the time tries to review some hot pepper sauces after having eaten a Primotalli pepper (dried). I don't think his reviews are real coherent.

Then he eats another one (6 minutes).

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posted by K.T. at 01:23 PM

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