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They look pretty. But to make them more valuable, you may need to trim and offer them forms, via which to demonstrate your true pursuit of beauty.Sophia said:
They look pretty. But to make them more valuable, you may need to trim and offer them forms, via which to demonstrate your true pursuit of beauty.Sophia said:
That's exactly what I want to do, but I wasn't sure about how to do it yet. I will have to study the shaping rules first. I didn't want to destroy them by cutting without having learned the rules first. So I didn't do anything yet :)Pepper Mint said:They look pretty. But to make them more valuable, you may need to trim and offer them forms, via which to demonstrate your true pursuit of beauty.
Sophia said:They are beautiful, epenguin!
Oh... Wish I could be in Italy now!
Oh, yes, the temperature! It was above 30 today here as well. But I remember the heat when we were in Italy last year wioth friends. We just went outside in the morning and evening and slept in the hotel during noon :) Once when we stayed on the beach till 11.30 I felt seriously sick from the sun. But hey the food was great! And I loved walking 3-4km along the beach with only feet in the water in the evening.epenguin said:Wish you could be. As long as you don't mind 34–36° which it has been recently here. I guess that is not too bad, not the 40° which you can sometimes get for days on end. I've been finding it fatiguing to drag myself around though.
I'm told these oleanders were flowering much thicker in June but unfortunately have no photos
I use lots of spices in my cooking but have always used "store bought". Chillies, onions, etc I grow and store as they can be used in a lot of things, but I may give growing some spices a try next season. Question: Does the basil or other spice plants you use flower and produce seeds (if you let them) that you could use for early starts next season? There have been times that I've had to let a few plants seed for those that don't come around very often ...ZapperZ said:This season, I planted 3 different types of basil. And I did it not just for decorative purposes. I decided to choose the 3 that I will be using in my food.
bold by meZapperZ said:... Vietnamese basil. This is the first time I've planted this plant, since I don't recall finding it before.
I love oleanders, growing up in Houston, TX, they are also, planted in the divides between highways and my mother had them in the yard, only the hardy type that aren't fragrant grow up here.epenguin said:Olreanders
I'd somehow forgotten about this thread, I think I have a post on the other one, and I have put one or two photos from our terrace garden In the photo competitions. Anyway we do have this garden, rather plants in pots, on our quite large terrace, I chose the flat because of it. Pots means that the plants do not have the volume of soil to draw on that you have in a normal garden so it requires a lot of attention, particularly to irrigation. Although we have bits and pieces flowering most of the year it is really at its best in May and June. Following that it's really hot and exposed, and we are lucky if we can keep it just green in high summer. We'd just been away for a time anyway so coming back I was not expecting to see anything great in late July.
We have four oleanders. They were there when we moved in, they could have been there for 40 or more years. But they had usually disappointed me rather giving a few desultory flowers. Oleanders ought not to be difficult to cultivate – you see tens of thousands of kilometres of them, often in full flower, in the inside the metal crash barriers that separate the directions on Italian autostrade. Which doesn't set them off to their best advantage, and anyway for safety I can only admire them with my second brain. The point is though that I cannot remember having ever seen anybody watering them or in any way tending them, so they are tough and not very demanding for water etc.
This year however, thanks to some savvy pruning and root treatment that we had done in the spring they gave us not a bad show at last.
Looks like you might have a bumper crop for this fall!Rubidium_71 said:Pumpkins are doing well so far this year...
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That little trail at the top of the left image looks like a leaf miner, which I've seen on tomatoes.Greg Bernhardt said:I planted some mock orange bushes in May and now I see some strange things on the leafs. I thought it was bird poo but now I suspect it's a fungus? Should I clip the infected leaves? FYI the white stuff on the one is insect repellent.
Ref: http://homeguides.sfgate.com/problems-flowering-mock-orange-philadelphus-lewisii-57394.htmlLeaf miners
Leaf miners are the larvae of many different insects, such as flies or beetles, that lay eggs on the undersides of leaves. When the eggs hatch, the larvae feed on the leaves, tunneling through the leaf surface, leaving holes. Visible symptoms include holes and furrows in the leaves, browning or curling leaves and black specks on the leaf surface. Prune the infested stems and foliage. Prevent a recurrence of leaf miners with insecticidal soap applications. Remove leaves, mulch and debris from the ground below the shrub in the fall and turn over the soil to expose any larvae to predators.
Indeed very similar to these photos from leaf minersAstronuc said:That little trail at the top of the left image looks like a leaf miner, which I've seen on tomatoes.
You'll be sorry.Greg Bernhardt said:giant allium bulbs
, and we're still trying to get rid of them.Greg Bernhardt said:I[insert]my wife[/insert] planted several giant allium bulbslast fall[insert] twenty years ago [/insert]
hmmm appears to be species dependent. Unfortunately I threw out the container already.Bystander said:You'll be sorry.
I've never eaten any, but I wouldn't hesitate to eat the ones you have growing. They are NOT hallucinogenic or otherwise toxic.OmCheeto said:They told me to eat them.
I told them I wouldn't even touch them, as they seemed hallucinogenic just looking at them.
One person offered to come over and cook them for me. I declined the offer, but now I want to eat one.
hmmmm...Mark44 said:I've never eaten any, but I wouldn't hesitate to eat the ones you have growing. They are NOT hallucinogenic or otherwise toxic.
epenguin said:Ah lemons...
Never seen anybody who is 'sensitive' to this one. More like as it is one of the safest mushrooms even complete noobs would try it, without knowing the very basics about mushrooms. They pick the too young (which is so soft that it would spoil by just touching it) the too old (which is like chewing sawdust), the ones with mold (would you do that with bread?); they eat it half-cooked, in insane amounts, without any side dish: some would even try 'Bear Grylls style'... While mushrooms by default are very heavy food.OmCheeto said:Per wiki; "In some cases eating the mushroom "causes mild reactions . . . for example, "swollen lips" or in rare cases "nausea, vomiting, dizziness and disorientation" to those who are sensitive."
Since you don't list the geographic area where you live in your profile, I can only guess that you don't live near me.Rive said:Never seen anybody who is 'sensitive' to this one. More like as it is one of the safest mushrooms even complete noobs would try it, without knowing the very basics about mushrooms.
They pick the too young (which is so soft that it would spoil by just touching it) the too old (which is like chewing sawdust), the ones with mold (would you do that with bread?); they eat it half-cooked, in insane amounts, without any side dish: some would even try 'Bear Grylls style'... While mushrooms by default are very heavy food.
Of course this mushroom is famous about all the possible symptoms of indigestion
Actually, I was thinking more along the line of "Someone in a lab who can do genetic testing", rather than a local 'Shroom eater.BillTre said:I used to have a friend around here who knew the local mushrooms and did a lot of hiking and eating of them.
Unfortunately, he moved away.
They are male.OmCheeto said:Why have all my zucchini blossoms fallen off without making babies?
Well, I could find some similarities with the common supermarket type chicken, as both are quite flavourlessOmCheeto said:ps. They did not taste chicken!
The frequency of news about relevant digestion disorders seems to be similarOmCheeto said:Since you don't list the geographic area where you live in your profile, I can only guess that you don't live near me.