Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Sept. 13

Hi KT,
Very nice landscaping at the NY Mets baseball academy/complex in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. They really do very nice work and take pride in manicuring the facility.
Thanks again for all the posts you do!
-scampydog

Thanks, scampydog! You described that landscaping perfectly!

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

It's September, and here are some scenes from a farmer's market in Ogden, Utah, where an enthusiast has been encouraging people to grow fruit trees, including under winter protection. What looks good to you?

Have you ever sold produce at a farmers market?

Architecture and Landscaping

Keep up on the latest trends:

Ah, Nature

Related plants from New York State, Sarah Hinkling:

Red Clover:

Water Mint:

Feature Flower

KUDZU

They are not all bad.
- fd

Yes, THAT kudzu. The one that swallows stationary school buses.

Kudzu is edible and is used medicinally, but may not be as useful for alcohol misuse as sometimes hoped. It has some drug interactions and side effects.

Gardens of The Horde

Actually, this is from a cousin. This geranium was about to be discarded after a funeral, but she heard it calling, "you can save me" as she held it over the trash can. Looks pretty good now.

What's going on in your garden? Harvesting anything? Saving anything?

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Sept. 6

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.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:22 PM

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1 Nooded. Hey, KT.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 01:29 PM (hoCmQ)

2 Never sold produce at a farmer's market. I shop at two in my area (one on Saturday, one on Wednesday). I, have, however taken a couple bushels of wonderful Beefsteak tomatoes to a local favorite Tavern/restaurant of mine that I frequent at least once a week and donated them. It was much appreciated.

On a separate note, in my region, I'm amazed how late things are coming in this year. We had a very cold spring, and a mild summer. As a result, the field corn (and sweet corn for that matter) is late. Field corn is usually fully developed by now and they just have to wait on the stalks to brown and dry. This year, the tassels aren't even fully out yet. But, man, they look super hardy this year.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 01:31 PM (dIske)

3 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Just picked a large ripe but slightly flawed Anaheim pepper, maybe use it for tacos.
Still getting cucumbers growing out of my ears, if slowing down finally

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 01:34 PM (+qU29)

4 Still getting cucumbers growing out of my ears, if slowing down finally
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 01:34 PM (+qU29)

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PICKLES!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 01:38 PM (dIske)

5 The HGTV thing isn't much of an exaggeration. While stuck in a waiting room some years ago I saw a few minutes of this show. The wife resold things on eBay. Husband was a part-time freelance writer or something. Their budget was like 7 or 8 hundred thousand dollars. What the actual fuck?

Posted by: No really, what the actual fuck? at September 13, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

6 I have several statues in my yard. My late mother liked them. I took pictures to send in one day.

Now that the house is finally mine, I did buy 2 concrete monkey statues on 2 pedestals. I'm bringing one into the house.

I'm on a corner lot. The plan is for the other monkey, black eating a yellow banana, to be placed by the corner where we have several small bushes and a huge rock. I think it'll look great there and make people smile. Little kids will love it.

The plan is to have my friend cement in the 80 pound pedestal and glue the 175 monkey to the base.

I'm a little worried about vandalism but we're in a quiet neighbourhood in a very small farming community. Older community. Alcohol places close early. And I can put a camera on him. That's the plan.

We have a dog on the porch and one Halloween a girl told me she'd come up after school and give him a hug. Monkey could go on the porch. But he'd look very cool on the corner by the rock and bushes.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 01:41 PM (jvJvP)

7 Like Skip, our cukes won't quit. Vines look bedraggled- like they wouldn't even support life, and yet we'll get 6 to 8 cukes every other day. Gonna plant half next year. Getting tired of begging people to take them.
Tomatoes are still going. Peppers are doing great.
2 paprikas, poblanos, green chili, jalapenos, and a "lunch box" pepper. We can't seem to grow sweet red peppers... go figger.
Watered the garden last Sunday, and then we spent most the week at hospital. Zukes became weaponry.

Posted by: MkY at September 13, 2025 01:43 PM (cPGH3)

8 Thought I would give a bit of a review on figs. I have two Fignomenal plants (these are designed to grow in pots). One bought last year and one this year. I also have a Chicago Hardy, bought last year and planted in a pot. All three look good and the grasshoppers don't touch them. I saw a video from someone that grows figs in pots. He prefers to grow standard varieties as he says they are more vigorous. The two plants from last year are about the same size. Will be interesting to see if I can get them through the winter. I am really happy with them and might even buy another fig next year.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:43 PM (kUxzU)

9 I love Farmers' Markets and shopped the one in my old hometown at least once a week. I bought tomatoes from sisters who started selling them when they were about 10 years old for spending money and to save for college. Their mom was rightfully proud of them. When I moved, I think they were in high school. All grown, graduated and with families of their own, no doubt, and probably still gardening.

Posted by: huerfano at September 13, 2025 01:44 PM (98kQX)

10 5 The HGTV thing isn't much of an exaggeration. While stuck in a waiting room some years ago I saw a few minutes of this show. The wife resold things on eBay. Husband was a part-time freelance writer or something. Their budget was like 7 or 8 hundred thousand dollars. What the actual fuck?
Posted by: No really, what the actual fuck? at September 13, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

Yeah, my wife liked these shows. I would offer color commentary. They reminded me of the ling defunct website Stuff White People Like.

Shepherd runs a daycare for orphaned wombats and Harmony is fundraiser for start-ups focusing on vaginal rejuvenation and chakra realignment. Their all-in budget is 6.2 million.

It drove me batty.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (2wadn)

11 As for garden stuff, it suffered from me dealing with health issues. A transplanted tomato finally took off and I might get a tomato or two if the weather holds. I got a summer squash plant from the store, supposed to be a crookneck. It has produced but they are the weirdest squash I've seen. The filet beans did poorly. The other beans have grown wel but no beans. Most of what I have are berry bushes, which look good and asparagus. If I can put together my cold frame, I should be in better shape for next year.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (kUxzU)

12 It is the end of the gravenstein apple season, and we are in the middle of my plum tree dropping fruit. So far I have canned 17 pints of plums, and I have dried about 3 gallon jugs full of dried prunes. I still have gobs of fruit on that tree.
After lots of research I think it is a Peshore yellow egg, and I suggest everyone have one.

My tomato trellises are not doing well, and after trying to get them to work for me for 5 years I am going back to cages. A lot of people think trellises are the best, and I congratulate them on their success.
I have made a fair amount of tomatoes, canned, cooked down for sauce, and as tradition dictates, when we got that downpour, I picked all the ones that split and froze them.

so far I have made plum cobbler, plum tarts, plum pie, and this morning I made plum tartlets.
Tarts are plums arranged in one or two layers on a puff pastry crust, dabbed with butter, and covered with plum jam for baking. The recipe calls for topping it with crushed almonds or other fruits, but I consider that to be gilding the lily

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (rbvCR)

13 so far I have made plum cobbler, plum tarts, plum pie, and this morning I made plum tartlets.

Man, that sounds good.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:50 PM (2wadn)

14 Yeah, my wife liked these shows. I would offer color commentary. They reminded me of the ling defunct website Stuff White People Like.

Shepherd runs a daycare for orphaned wombats and Harmony is fundraiser for start-ups focusing on vaginal rejuvenation and chakra realignment. Their all-in budget is 6.2 million.

It drove me batty.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (2wadn)

LOL. Yeah there's that for sure, but my question was always WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY GETTING MONEY FROM ??!! Based on the stated occupations of a bunch of these people, they were lucky if they were clearing $40-45k a year. How the fuck do you qualify for a $600,000 house on that? Trust fund kids? Rich uncle just passed away?

Posted by: No connection to reality at September 13, 2025 01:52 PM (TbWk/)

15 Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:43 PM

Thanks for the fig review! Breeders may be paying attention.

Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 01:53 PM (7vIsy)

16 WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY GETTING MONEY FROM ??!!

Yeah, I always wondered this too. Generational/inherited wealth? I would like to have their budgets.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:56 PM (2wadn)

17 I planted a couple of Ghost Pepper seedlings in May. It took 4 months, but the pepper pods are finally ripening. And boy, are they hot, lol!

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 13, 2025 01:59 PM (ILRiY)

18 The old timer we knew had one Damson plum and a couple of bigger yellow plums with a red blush. Those were really tasty eating.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 02:01 PM (kUxzU)

19 Topping with other nuts I meant.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 02:02 PM (rbvCR)

20 The HGTV gag puts me in mind of a certain type of story that used to appear in Forbes magazine all the time, a sort of faux rags-to-riches theme. The story would center on somebody with an interesting idea who made it a success. I'd start reading, and get interested in how the person got the project off the ground, and, inevitably, the author dropped this little nugget into the storyline: "And so Susie Glotz borrowed $2 million from friends and relatives..."

Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)

21 >>> 5 The HGTV thing isn't much of an exaggeration. While stuck in a waiting room some years ago I saw a few minutes of this show. The wife resold things on eBay. Husband was a part-time freelance writer or something. Their budget was like 7 or 8 hundred thousand dollars. What the actual fuck?
Posted by: No really, what the actual fuck? at September 13, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

I will be very amused if this is yet another thing mysteriously no longer able to run after DOGE stomped USAID and such.

Posted by: Helena Handbakset at September 13, 2025 02:13 PM (ULPxl)

22 20 The HGTV gag puts me in mind of a certain type of story that used to appear in Forbes magazine all the time, a sort of faux rags-to-riches theme. The story would center on somebody with an interesting idea who made it a success. I'd start reading, and get interested in how the person got the project off the ground, and, inevitably, the author dropped this little nugget into the storyline: "And so Susie Glotz borrowed $2 million from friends and relatives..."
Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)
Snort.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 02:14 PM (gotIn)

23 inevitably, the author dropped this little nugget into the storyline: "And so Susie Glotz borrowed $2 million from friends and relatives..."
Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)

Raw capitalism!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 13, 2025 02:17 PM (FMtrg)

24 Hey, is this the thread I'm supposed to post when we do our fall decor? Because we're doing that today.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 13, 2025 02:18 PM (DIweC)

25 >>> "And so Susie Glotz borrowed $2 million from friends and relatives..."
Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)
Snort.
Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 02:14 PM (gotIn)

I woulda needed 4 million friends and relatives.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2025 02:18 PM (3uBP9)

26 Hey, is this the thread I'm supposed to post when we do our fall decor? Because we're doing that today.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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tinyurl.com/2hvcxev8+

Posted by: Obligatory at September 13, 2025 02:23 PM (rdVOm)

27 Susie Glotz

No glot clum fliday

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 02:24 PM (uDtSY)

28 Beautiful produce!

This year was just crazy bad for produce. Early heat followed by a blistering dry July. Almost everything quit, except the okra. Then a ton of rain in August.

Some years are like that. I was able to can 7 quarts of Contender beans, and we got some peas and squash, nothing impressive. Our big achievement was peaches. Canned a bunch of those, and made jam with a low sugar recipe that's out of this world!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 02:25 PM (w6EFb)

29 I would take pictures of the figs, but one is in a pot with raspberries and a lilac. The other two are in a pot together. I'm waiting for cooler weather to do some transplanting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 02:27 PM (kUxzU)

30 I've traded gardening and fruit trees for a, might as well be, pet deer. Almost as good as a goat. Fires chased them into the valley a few years ago and they never left. There was a herd of about 60 or so at one point.
Last week she was feeding on pears dropped on the ground from my tree. She finishes the ones on the ground and grabs the tree and shakes it. Several fall. She looks at the haul and walks off. I think she's ripening them.
There isn't much left anywhere that a deer can reach. My roses are stripped. All trees leafless up to about 6'. I've mostly given up trying to grow anything.
It's a good thing she looks yummy. Might need that protein someday.

Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2025 02:27 PM (SPOEc)

31 LOL. Yeah there's that for sure, but my question was always WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY GETTING MONEY FROM ??!! Based on the stated occupations of a bunch of these people, they were lucky if they were clearing $40-45k a year. How the fuck do you qualify for a $600,000 house on that? Trust fund kids? Rich uncle just passed away?
Posted by: No connection to reality at September 13, 2025 01:52 PM (TbWk/)

USAID?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:30 PM (ZE4/d)

32 I see leaf collecting isn't far in the future ,even if it's near 80 degrees now

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:30 PM (+qU29)

33 I would take pictures of the figs

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I misread this as " I would take pictures of the .... [very similar word]."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 13, 2025 02:30 PM (DIweC)

34 My God, how I hate HGTV.

You would think there would be a limit on how many shows you could centre around unlikeable couples doing exactly the same things to overpriced shacks.

Posted by: stv at September 13, 2025 02:31 PM (XMeSM)

35 Hey, is this the thread I'm supposed to post when we do our fall decor? Because we're doing that today.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

tinyurl.com/2hvcxev8+

Posted by: Obligatory at September 13, 2025 02:23 PM (rdVOm)

Don't forget the fucking loofahs. Hanging like elephant dicks all over the place.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 02:32 PM (w6EFb)

36 I've really got to capture a good photo of the impatiens that just took over the entire northern border of the porch, cascading onto the concrete in riotous abundance. It was an unexpected gift.

Looks like we've got a good crop of lemon grass. They were planted in 15 gal tree pots left over from buying those crapemyrtles, and we watered them generously throughout the summer.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 02:35 PM (w6EFb)

37 Del Boca Vista > Boca Chica

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 13, 2025 02:35 PM (LjSYW)

38 You would think there would be a limit on how many shows you could centre around unlikeable couples doing exactly the same things to overpriced shacks.
Posted by: stv at September 13, 2025 02:31 PM (XMeSM)

Tim Dillon claimed once that the real-life conversation for a speculative home buyer in those areas and price range was, "Colonel, so glad you could meet here today, how was your flight in from the Hague? I am correctly hearing that the ICC has withdrawn the charges, then?"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 02:37 PM (rbvCR)

39 Anyone happen to know if tcn in Alaska's first prize carrots (congrats to her) are pickles or lacto-fermented? I love carrots in any way and would like to have some, pickled or fermented, I made.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 02:37 PM (yTvNw)

40 My God, how I hate HGTV.

When my wife and I were selling our last home, we had a buyer that obviously binge watched HGTV and thought he could get us to go lower than we wanted. He tried saying "Well, there are other townhomes in the area that are cheaper."

My response: "Our home is newer, it's an end unit and there are woods in the back instead of other houses."

We ended up selling to a different family and got higher than our asking price.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2025 02:37 PM (7xrfc)

41 I think this falls under gardening.

My wife has a section of her garden dedicated to attracting caterpillars. We had a horde of them descend on it with many crunchings and munchings. She took two and put them in a jar on 8/29. One of them hatched yesterday and the other one hatched today. They are flying freely now.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2025 02:41 PM (7xrfc)

42 Don't forget the fucking loofahs.

Grabbed a loofah at the corner store and told the guy "this bread is stale".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 02:43 PM (8qH0t)

43 Shepherd runs a daycare for orphaned wombats and Harmony is fundraiser for start-ups focusing on vaginal rejuvenation and chakra realignment. Their all-in budget is 6.2 million.

It drove me batty.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (2wadn)

You know it's coming: "Skyler is a brave and courageous transwoman, and her husband, Tyler (who is currently unjustly incarcerated) is a freelance assassin."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:44 PM (UqdkK)

44 They are flying freely now.

Need a tiny shotgun.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 02:45 PM (8qH0t)

45 >>Need a tiny shotgun.
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Bug-A-Salt!

Posted by: Obligatory at September 13, 2025 02:47 PM (rdVOm)

46 When HGTV began in the 90s they had shows that actually involved home and gardens. (GASP!) Simple, practical home repairs, all levels of gardening, and even a show about backyard bird watching. It was pleasant and informative. Then it morphed into this 'lifestyles of those who want to seem rich' crap that has nothing to do reality. All pretention, no substance.

One of the many, many reasons I didn't regret cutting cable.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 02:47 PM (yTvNw)

47 I love to watch YouTube clips of Ben and Erin Napier on HGTV Hometown. They recently renovated a cute house for a very nice little old lady all in for $85K (or was it $65K?). And they are very sweet and gracious people. Ben is a PK, so I relate to that.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 13, 2025 02:48 PM (FMtrg)

48 Every time the grass is mowed, taking out the clover, I see honey bees flitting around like they are searching for the little flowers. I get the impression they aren't pleased.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 02:51 PM (yTvNw)

49 >>> 48 Every time the grass is mowed, taking out the clover, I see honey bees flitting around like they are searching for the little flowers. I get the impression they aren't pleased.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 02:51 PM (yTvNw)

This means you need more flowers around the house.

Posted by: Helena Handbakset at September 13, 2025 02:53 PM (ULPxl)

50 Yep, $85K for Miss Pearl. Great antidote for those other HGTV shows:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=Iz_tWrIz24k&pp=ygUZSGd0diBob21lIHRvd24gb
WlzcyBwZWFybA%3D%3D

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 13, 2025 02:54 PM (FMtrg)

51 Puttering, dividing recycling metals in the back yard, really need to take a Saturday and get rid of a few things

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:57 PM (+qU29)

52 Very nice landscaping at the NY Mets baseball academy/complex in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. They really do very nice work and take pride in manicuring the facility.

Think of how amazing the US could look if we imported a few million of them!!!

Posted by: The Bulwark at September 13, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

53 We went from 'kill the Boer' to 'kill the right wing influencer' pretty damned fast.

Posted by: torabora at September 13, 2025 02:59 PM (+LXmR)

54 Ben is a PK

Placekicker?

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 03:00 PM (hoCmQ)

55 No glot clum fliday
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 02:24 PM (uDtSY)

Are you threatening me?

Posted by: Cornholio at September 13, 2025 03:00 PM (2wadn)

56 >>> 53 We went from 'kill the Boer' to 'kill the right wing influencer' pretty damned fast.
Posted by: torabora at September 13, 2025 02:59 PM (+LXmR)

Cultural phrases! Cultural phrases! RRRRAAWWK!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at September 13, 2025 03:00 PM (ULPxl)

57 49 ... "This means you need more flowers around the house."

Very true. I've been having thoughts of pansies in hanging baskets. Easy to maintain, really hardy and a huge variety of colors. And no mowing involved. Win-win.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 03:04 PM (yTvNw)

58 torabora yeah that did happen quickly

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 03:04 PM (+qU29)

59 It is now being reported that the Charlie Kirk shooter was in a relationship with a male "transitioning" to female. Ace was right.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at September 13, 2025 03:06 PM (4NjTz)

60 54 Ben is a PK

Placekicker?
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 03:00 PM (hoCmQ)

Haha! Well, no; he's built more like a lineman.

He's a preacher's kid.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 13, 2025 03:09 PM (FMtrg)

61 Anyways, the garden is winding down, I plant bush beans when I dig my potatoes in July/August, and they are blooming now. With luck I will have green beans before the rain and frost comes.
I also have giant grey hubbard squash this year. One grew in the center of one of my two tomato cages at the end of the trellis, so it has to wait until I pull the tomatoe before I can pick it

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 03:10 PM (rbvCR)

62 Every time the grass is mowed, taking out the clover, I see honey bees flitting around like they are searching for the little flowers. I get the impression they aren't pleased.
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At some point in the future, we are replacing the backyard with a clover yard.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 13, 2025 03:12 PM (DIweC)

63
Must be confusing for the lefties comparing the firing of the "Kirk shooting" celebrants with the Holocaust while denying the Holocaust while comparing it to the fate of the HAMASians.

Odd mushrooms and fungi popping up in the side yard this week.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2025 03:14 PM (yZFrB)

64 62 ... "At some point in the future, we are replacing the backyard with a clover yard."

I would have no problem with that. I think of them as stars in a green sky. I feel the same way about dandelions.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 03:15 PM (yTvNw)

65 The well fed Fed gal now has cavalry riding over the hill: docs that state to bank that 2nd home is 'vacation home'. Weeks later...hmmm.

Posted by: torabora at September 13, 2025 03:17 PM (+LXmR)

66 Only stuff on the home and garden front this week is cleaning out the foster kid's room and found some flower seeds. May plant them next spring and see what comes up. Hopefully it'll be stuff the elk won't uproot and toss around the yard.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 03:19 PM (lUFok)

67 The hummingbirds are zooming around to beat the band, as Pop-Pop used to say. I bought another 6 pack, and they're digging all of the feeders.

I'm gonna miss them when they leave.

As anyone here ever identified a young hummingbird buzzing around? They all seem to look the same.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 03:24 PM (w6EFb)

68 I am going to look at new digs Monday. I'm a little nervous, going to a senior place but here's the deal. Step one is just like renting anywhere but just being surrounded by contemporaries. Nothing to do with Medicare, income, etc. In fact, the nice lady brought up rent. A little high (actually pretty high) but giving all sorts of amenities and keeping out the riff raff (don't know if I'll make the cut). In addition to the real nice grounds, provision is there for elevated gardening, which I have looked into. Some 'maters and peppers and even some broccoli would entertain me.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)

69 As anyone here ever identified a young hummingbird buzzing around? They all seem to look the same.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 03:24 PM (w6EFb)

We have a red-chested one we call Fat Albert. He's as wide as he is tall. A few green ones, one with a black band around it's neck, and another lighter red chested one. The rest of them kinda blend together.

Posted by: jsg at September 13, 2025 03:31 PM (7Kd+r)

70 67 69 When living in Erie I did some work on the attic for the old Polish landlady. A very hot day, and coming down I was covered in dust. She insisted I cool off in the backyard, sitting in a glider with a couple cans of Piva. Hummingbirds were coming in for her flowers, especially those looking like small lillie's (I don't know flowers). Those little birdies will mesmerize you.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 03:35 PM (gm9Sb)

71 My brother visited from Texas and we swanned around east central Kansas looking for pictures that define Kansas. He is a quite accomplished photographer with a nifty camera.

We have a lot of pictures of round hay bales in fields or in rows, trees growing out of silo tops, and my favorite, a long line of silo corn all brown in the field with the top of the north Kansas River Valley ridge line peeking over the top.

He uses a pantographic technique, for pictures up to 270 degrees and 40 megs.

He turns the mundane into art.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 03:36 PM (u82oZ)

72 I meant a 6 pack of feeders, not hummingbirds, LOL!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 03:44 PM (w6EFb)

73 We have a red-chested one we call Fat Albert. He's as wide as he is tall. A few green ones, one with a black band around it's neck, and another lighter red chested one. The rest of them kinda blend together.

Posted by: jsg at September 13, 2025 03:31 PM (7Kd+r)

Sounds like you're loaded with hummingbirds! I've never seen more than 4 at one time.

70 67 69 When living in Erie I did some work on the attic for the old Polish landlady. A very hot day, and coming down I was covered in dust. She insisted I cool off in the backyard, sitting in a glider with a couple cans of Piva. Hummingbirds were coming in for her flowers, especially those looking like small lillie's (I don't know flowers). Those little birdies will mesmerize you.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 03:35 PM (gm9Sb)

They really are mesmerizing, especially when they're at their most active.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 04:04 PM (w6EFb)

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Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Had to look that one up. Well played.
Thanks for the gardening thread, KT.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2025 04:16 PM (41CYW)

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