Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Oct. 14

Greetings! Is everyone adjusting to fall? The cooler nights are the thing I notice the most. We have some interesting contributions from The Horde today. Did anyone see the eclipse?

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

From The Famous Pat*

Poblano Harvest: It was a very good year . . .

From By-Tor:

Homemade sauerkraut is very easy to make, and in my view much tastier than commercial. I won third place at the LA County Fair with this recipe.
This is a two gallon tub of it after a week. Two 5 lb. cabbages.

I jumpstarted the fermentation with the addition of some pickle brine from my fermented pickles. It's similar to using a sourdough starter in bread making.
It usually would take ten days to get to this stage. It will still work without adding pickle brine.

Here's how:

Core and shred a large head of cabbage. Save the large outer leavers. Place it in a large bowl, sprinkle a little non-iodized salt (canning salt or kosher salt) on it. Crush it by hand until you feel the juice come out.

Place in a crock or bucket or similar. Make a 3.5% salt water brine. (35g of salt dissolved in 1000ml of hot water).

Cover the cabbage with the brine. Place the outer leaves on top. Put on a lid. Make sure cabbage is submerged. I use a couple of saucers to weigh it down.

In a week you will have sauerkraut. I will hot water bath can mine in about another week but until then I eat it straight out of the tub daily.

Thanks for the great instructions and photos! The pickle brine probably helps speed things up best when the fermented pickles are still raw and fermenting.

Hey KT,

One of the new to me peppers I decided to grow this year was a pepperoncini, I read that they are really delicious when you pickle them from scratch so... Here is my first harvest, 19 peppers, not a ton but enough to try a small batch. And here they are pickled but they are cooling down to put in the fridge, recipe says they are ready in 3 days. I will let you know how they are!

WeeKreekFarmGirl

Tempting!

This is fun to watch:

Eggplant tastes like something you’d think of as a veggie, but it’s technically a kind of fruit. And more specifically, it's a berry by botanical definition. Here's a time-lapse from seed to eggplant in 87 days

[📹 Boxlapse]pic.twitter.com/ZS9iWYyMMK

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 12, 2023

Ah, Nature

NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker here. Hubby works outside and came across this a couple days ago. I thought it appropriate with Halloween coming up.

Happy Halloween!

We may be missing another spider from another contributor (lost in mail), but here's some spider art!

Hi, KT ... a visual allegory of Death, Loss, and Redemption (but not at the S&H Green Stamp store). This little web-weaver was busily spinning itself a catch-trap outside my window one day and the light was just right for capturing it as it went about its work. The base image of the spider against a blue sky was a perfect tablet to add other stuff - which I then did. As usual, deploy for effect and - enjoy.

Dr_No

Wow.

How's this for contrast?

Finally, after almost four months, some good news! 🥳

Spiranthes spiralis to celebrate. Their crystalline flowers symbolising both the fragility and beauty of life. pic.twitter.com/4pue0hFxnG

— Matt Berry (@Matt_Greenwings) October 12, 2023

What your houseplants do when you're not watching:

This is how much plants move in 24hourspic.twitter.com/45BQvO8xUE

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) October 13, 2023

Puttering

A bird puttering:

Adventure

Montezuma's Castle

Gardens of The Horde

Thanks to Misanthropic Humanitarian

We can do better than that! Right?

Wanna try this?

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Oct. 7

Any thoughts or questions?

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