Potpourri edition, as everyone preps for going back to work Monday…
From JeffG166:
11.14.2023
This winter’s pot of violas. They tend to grow all winter now.
From Eclare:
From Mike in Oly, some more garden portraits:
Beautyberry
Snowberry
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What’s going on in your garden (wrap-up / record-keeping / planning), this week?
satby
Good morning everyone, and thanks for sharing such lovely pictures. Now that we’ve had a few nights in a row of freezing temperatures to push the potted roses into dormancy I can move them into my garage for the winter and close the book on 2023 gardening. For next year the only thing I’m planning is where I’m putting the three David Austin shrub roses that will be delivered in the spring. I’m not even positive about growing tomatoes unless I find some heat tolerant ones, because the warm summer nights delay fruiting until fall again. Edit to add link, look at your own risk. You’ll want them all.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone😊😊😊
Jeffg166
I made scones this morning. Laid everything out last night. Only had to assemble it all this morning.
Baked them. Started to eat them. The texture wasn’t right. I forgot to put the two sticks of frozen butter into the dough. Oh, well. They are edible.
Steeplejack
@rikyrah:
Good morning! 🙏
eclare
@Jeffg166:
Wow, I’m surprised that they are edible.
Steeplejack
@Jeffg166:
Welcome to being poor in Scotland circa 1750.
Jeffg166
@eclare: They are just biscuits. They made turn to stone over night.
NotMax
@Jeffg166
Baked doorstops.
;)
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
kalakal
@Steeplejack: The scones of stone
MagdaInBlack
@kalakal: ‘The 5th Elephant” Terry Pratchett.
Garden update: My Thanksgiving cactus is in full bloom 🙂
NotMax
@kalakal
Sconehenge?
;)
OzarkHillbilly
I’ve been working on getting all the leaves taken care of. I’ve burned a bunch, still have a bunch more to burn, and then there are the piles I intend to shred. Uck.
If it ever gets tiresome I can always move into a town. Double Uck.
Also splitting wood, which I mostly enjoy but I think I have some torn cartilage in my right wrist. Something in there keeps catching.
And then I have to do the veggie garden clean up. And there is the greenhouse.
After which I have to….
MagdaInBlack
I’m listening to Jamie Raskin on Michael Cohens “Mea Culpa” podcast. Cohen is usually pretty free with the F-bombs, but I notice he is withholding those for the occasion.
NotMax
@MagdaInBlack
You’re made of sturdier mettle than I. Gave up on Cohen. His crudeness, vulgarity and juvenile name calling are offputting and indicative of laziness of intellect.
Jeffg166
@OzarkHillbilly: It takes me all winter and a good deal of spring to do the cleanup now. I do what I can when I can.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: It does require a certain frame of mind. I’ve kind of given up on him too but I saw Jamie Raskin was on, so I was willing to risk it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jeffg166: Yeah, I try to do a little bit of everything every day. It breaks up the drudgery and it always feels good when I finish one task even if I still have 17 more to go. Right now the leaves are most important because of how dry it has been. I need to get them away from all the buildings because wildfires are a high risk now.
Gvg
It’s raining and chilly low 60’s. I guess I will lean the house. I had planned to mow yesterday but the rain started. I just checked the forecast and it’s all day today. At best I may sow some seed flats in the garage or order some more seeds. Right now, still under the covers doing jigsaw puzzles on the iPad.
I hate cold and it’s going to get colder. However we do need the rain. I had to water a lot the last 2 months and that is not usual. El Niño I guess. Hope it goes away. Last El Niño winter we had was winter floods and confused alligators on the highways. They swam over top of the fences to keep wildlife off the roads. Now there is a deeper ditch with a moat wall and a fence. An El Niño summer is a bad fire season here where you can see the smoke from space.
Eric S.
I’ve spent some time this weekend planning (or “planning”) a vegetable garden for next year. Some will be in ground. Some in containers. I have a postage stamp front yard and fully concreted over back yard.
Any suggestions for indoor grow lights on a budget? I want to get some herbs going this winter.
StringOnAStick
17 degrees this morning. Garden season is definitely over for this year.
We did score a set of teak patio furniture from a neighbor who is downsizing in preparation for moving to a more affordable city and a much smaller house with near zero landscaping to deal with. There’s 8 chairs and thankfully they stack so we could store them in the shed. The round table is under its cover and on our covered porch. We bought two patio umbrellas too. I feel like buying used is a good thing environmentally and there’s no way we’d spend what this stuff costs new.
Cowgirl in the Sandi
JeffG166 – your pot of violas was lovely! It made me want to go to the garden store and get some Thanks for a cheerful welcome to a cold Sunday.
Betsy
How beautiful! I want to get some violas now!
Those beautyberries are really good for naive birds in migration. Thrushes and warblers rely on finding berries like these along their way.
If you have an American Beautyberry in your yard, it’s very likely you’ll get a Black-throated Blue Warbler in the fall. Hermit Thrushes also like them.
Betsy
@Betsy: that’s *native* birds, of course. Not naive birds.
jnfr
All I’ve got is snow and a list of chores for next spring. Let the gardening catalogs begin!
I’ll echo the love for David Austin Roses. And also note that LED light strips are really pretty cheap now. They works really well for indoor growing.
AlaskaReader
@OzarkHillbilly:
Leaf burning gives off major pollutants in the form of particulates, hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide.
In addition to the chemical pollutants released, mold spores are distributed in the plume of the fire. These spores may affect people with allergies.
Composting is a better alternative.
Royston Vasey
I thought the purple berries were memberberrys.