Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Dec. 13

Happy Winter Season! Don in Kansas has something cheerful for us:

It's more winter than fall now, and there's little happening outside, or inside. However, a friend up the street has a little greenhouse in which the plants are quite active . . .

Click on the link for a few more plants, including a Bird of Paradise.

Don also posted some Romanian Folk Dances by Bartok.

"Some easy Bartok. His music is not all grating dissonances."

Moldova (see earlier thread) was once part of the Romanian principality, and they speak Romanian there.

The Soviet era meant that most tomatoes grown there were developed as open-pollinated strains, not as hybrids. One of these is Glory of Moldova. It's a little orange saladette tomato that gets some great reviews. I love the name. "Glory of Moldova" is a little orange tomato!

Thinking about next year's garden choices?

"Glory of Moldova" is probably in here somewhere. Romania is next door. But in addition to little orange and yellow tomatoes, big red oxhearts are prominently mentioned in the comments. Those are great, too.

1504 varieties of Romanian tomatoes at the Brussels festival! ❤️🍅

Source: Garden Dude pic.twitter.com/oGvZR7wqTu

— Popa Andrei (@Deaglesun) September 5, 2023

More typical winter experiences coming up for many people:

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Two batches of photos from Nan in AZ:

Summer was so hot, we didn't get much at all, but went out last week and found a nice collection of veggies and lettuce volunteering all over the place.

NICE. Glad there are SOME of us getting some veggies!

WOW.

Gardens of The Horde

Had to capture this last leaf on my weeping willow. The very top of the tree and pure defiance in the face of winter.

Diogenes

Pure Defiance!

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, Dec. 6

Any thoughts or questions? check out the fruit tree and apple cider comments near the end of the comment section.

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

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