Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Oct. 25

Happy Week before Halloween!

From The Famous Pat*

This is the right side of my front porch. The pumpkin, I bought from the neighbor kids. The green pair are immature butternut squashes (might as well make use of them). The other item grew on a zucchini vine, which grew out of the bottom of a compost cage - that was its mother, but it was apparently fathered by a pumpkin last year. I don’t know what to call it - a zookapumpkin? A pump-zini?

What do you think, Horde? Interesting front porch!

I bought succulent cuttings sold as an assorted lot back in May. I planted them in gritty soil, watered them once in awhile, but basically left them alone all summer. They looked to be well rooted, even actively growing by now, and I finally decided to plant them out. I now have my fingers crossed--again--to see if these new pots take root!

First picture is the initial planting, second shows the new pots.

Lirio100

Great details! Fun plantings!

What is this?

When I transplanted this aloe, thought I needed a big pot. Turned out the root ball was actually pretty tiny but was rewarded with a baby plant. Saw this the other day and thought it was another offshoot but Yikes!
Looks like so,e bizarre mushroom. Anybody seen anything like it?

Anybody know?

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

From Pat*

We had a good harvest of poblano peppers from our 4 plants! I already cut up the smaller/oddly shaped ones and froze them for casseroles. These will make easy-to-stuff chiles rellenos. The longest is about 7 inches.

Also from Pat*

This single Yukon Gold potato really weighs one pound, 4.8 ounces! Too bad I couldn’t have had this one ready for the Western Idaho Fair...

Wow!

Ah, Nature

Bear taking a pumpkin from a home's front porch during Halloween

pic.twitter.com/bBSnpmB8UR

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 17, 2025

Late Season Flowers

Autumn dahlia cutting patch 🍁🍁
I think we’re going to get frost Thursday, in which case it will probably be over for another year. We’ll see. I think I’ve already had an extra 3 weeks this year 👍💐 pic.twitter.com/qqBxxbqQOD

— Garden Brocante (@GardenBrocante) October 20, 2025

Some would say clashing colours, but I say, lovely to see them growing in my garden in the middle of October 🌸 pic.twitter.com/H728kGFNGG

— Garden Brocante (@GardenBrocante) October 15, 2025

A different chrysanthemum variety. I think I got this one off the Waitrose dead shelf last year!! pic.twitter.com/HljI0OF5jr

— Garden Brocante (@GardenBrocante) October 19, 2025

Gardens of The Horde

So here we are 3 weeks into October, with even migrating hummingbirds long gone, and this clematis decided it was time to pop a flower. Temps got down to 38 the other night.

Miley

Beautiful!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Oct 18

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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