Gardeners

[LavenderSands]

People are killed for less.

Yes but I'm just asking about garden creatures

 

[butters]

garden>cooking - we made the best jam yesterday his mother has been making jams since forever, and she said we never need another recipe as it's the best since it was my first time properly making it, apart from helping as a child, and we changed up the recipe using H's improvisations, i'm stoked.

 

[thør]

garden>cooking - we made the best jam yesterday his mother has been making jams since forever, and she said we never need another recipe as it's the best since it was my first time properly making it, apart from helping as a child, and we changed up the recipe using H's improvisations, i'm stoked.

Isn't jam just fruit, sugar and some lemon juice?

 

[butters]

Isn't jam just fruit, sugar and some lemon juice?

pretty much - with pectin depending on the fruit types. oh, and love! don't forget the love

 

[MistressMoira]

I am hoping to move into a new place soon. The most exciting thing is a garden. I haven't had a garden for twenty years.

 

[butters]

I am hoping to move into a new place soon. The most exciting thing is a garden. I haven't had a garden for twenty years.

that IS exciting. i hope it's everything you hope it to be and brings many many years of rewarding hours. just being able to have your hands in the dirt, and eating your own veggies, smelling your own growing flowers = a richness so many never get to enjoy

 

[butters]

so he's emphatically not interested in any recipes involving watermelon rind - but i think i'll still play with a salsa - simple recipe and we've plenty of rind to experiment with before it all goes to the chickens

 

[cfuhrer]

so he's emphatically not interested in any recipes involving watermelon rind - but i think i'll still play with a salsa - simple recipe and we've plenty of rind to experiment with before it all goes to the chickens

I hear candied and pickled rinds are good, too.

 

[butters]

I hear candied and pickled rinds are good, too.

not tasted them but i did come across plenty of recipes for all manner of uses

 

[butters]

ok, several of our big trees have suddenly begun dropping their leaves, and at a very fast rate. not only are all the leaves crispy brown, many/most have little dots of white and the grass/bonnets&windscreens of a few vehicles not garaged are covered in this white stuff, too. it looks almost like tiny snowflakes, almost fluffy. it doesn't move. is it a fungal thing? the leaves are falling a good month earlier than normal for them.

 

[neci]

tomatoes are ripening. asparagus went to seed. the peppers are flowering again. my rosemary took a bad hit. i may have to prune her way back and hope for the best. the berry bushes have gone wild. the fig is alive, but i think i need to put a little fence around it. the cats keep rubbing it and breaking it. i caught them in the act.

 

[TheOldWidow]

Squirrel damage in the garden had been phenomenal this year. They have attacked every plant. The tomatoes look like war zone survivors with naked stems and tiny fruit trying to reach maturity. Hardest hit are the Cherokee Purple.

Every onion, carrot top, pepper and zucchini have tooth marks in them, The green acorns are buried everywhere, so its not only garden food that is mangled.

Forecast of a bad winter?

 

[Iceprincess12]

I finally killed the flowers I planted as bulbs on my front porch. Guess miracle grow still needs water to turn it into wine . Since they are perennials I am hoping they will come back next year.

 

[nth_degree_butch]

I was spading over the front beds when the postal carrier stopped at the gate for a chat. She wanted to know if I was doing winter tomatoes this year. I said no, just some spinach, chard, and the other usuals, but would be trying a new leek I had heard good things about. I promised her some of the harvest and she went along her way.

She didn't seem to notice, or perhaps care, that I was naked except for my garden boots.

Nice morning.

 

[TheOldWidow]

Overall, a very disappointing harvest. At this point I'm thinking it isn't even worth the Spring work involved. I'm really thankful last years garden was productive, I have a nice carry over of canned items to manage this year.

The only plants not destroyed, were those encased in small diameter chick netting. I hate to think of the expense of totally enclosing the garden.

 

[Iceprincess12]

My neighbors grew a pumpkin, I’m so jealous! My imaginary garden for next year is going to have a pumpkin too.

I have seeds, the space cleared and am just waiting for the gardener to show up.

 

[stickygirl]

I saved a beetroot from being pickled and intend to carve it for Halloween ... pictures to follow, but they might be of my bloodied fingers

Pumpkins turn into carriages don't they?

 

[Iceprincess12]

I saved a beetroot from being pickled and intend to carve it for Halloween ... pictures to follow, but they might be of my bloodied fingers

Pumpkins turn into carriages don't they?

I’ll let you know after I finish kissing these frogs.

One great thing about dead plants is they work well for Halloween decorations. I stuck one of those styrofoam dollar store headstones in my planter and it looks like I killed my plant on purpose!

Thanks Halloween. You wash away dead plant guilt.

 

[thør]

Will the gardeners be union in CA?