Weekly Garden Thread - October 16-22, 2021

October 16, 2021 | Diana in Wisconsin/Greeneyes

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Just get the Admin Mod to delete it!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Oooo! Great pictures this week!

The corn is usually used for Fall Decor, but once dried you can grind it for flour/cornmeal or pop it up for a popcorn snack.

I've grown 'Glass Gem' corn, which is really cool! The kernels look like they're made of glass:

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Just get the Admin Mod to delete it!

I'd rather that they fix it so it can't happen in the first place. With the money they raise obviously going to salaries instead of coding they could at least ask for volunteer coders to fix it for them. There are plenty of talented web designers who are members. Ask them for help.

[heartwood]

What is it with Krauts? :)

My mother’s mother was a Minnesota German, another tough, tough lady.

[heartwood]

So pretty, that corn. Is it Glass Gem?

[TheConservativeParty]

I also love my EGO Chainsaw. Recommend getting the “Rapid Charger” that recharges the battery in half an hour.

[TheConservativeParty]

Holy moly! Never saw corn like that before! Very cool. 😎

[daniel1212]

"I just LOVE pictures of your beautiful natural wild garden."

I guess you mean the flowers, but they were planted, yet were no-name donations in a area fenced in using donated surplus (demolition) wood from last year, praise God. Gardening on the cheap.

[daniel1212]

"I am always impressed at how well your little garden spot does year after year."

Thanks though I was somewhat disappointed at the production of it, entirely grown from seed (aside from volunteer plants) since it was the most rainiest overcast summer in decades, (Jun-Jul-Aug 4th wettest on record in Boston) but now we have had 11 dry days in a row with warm temps, so that is helping. Plus I did not add anything to the soil except some lime and cheap 10-10-10 hard ferterilizer. Next year I plan to let the garden rest, though volunteer plants can spring up. Glory to God for what it produced and what we could share!

[daniel1212]

" I see your butternut squash is sharing itself with your neighbor! I hope he appreciates it! Good deal! I am glad your garden does what it needs to do! "

Yes, that it intentional and they do appreciates them. The Latinos like to make pupusas made with young squash , but I myself wait until they get big, not picking them until the first frost. Then they will last 6 months in a back hall. It is much a carefree plant, but it needs room to "crawl," and I measured one at 25 feet, yet they will get much longer. Thank God for a LL that lets us plant the garden and for its purpose.

[FamiliarFace]

I grew mine in a pot. They fared nicely.

[MomwithHope]

Maybe wild is not the right word. It just grows where it wants to and has such a natural look, not manicured.

[daniel1212]

"I'd rather that they fix it so it can't happen in the first place. With the money they raise obviously going to salaries instead of coding they could at least ask for volunteer coders to fix it for them. There are plenty of talented web designers who are members. Ask them for help."

We do not know how expensive it is to keep a site as this going, and it is far better (based on my experience) than any in its class despite lacking some things, like a edit feature and toolbar to format html with (but there is the Cynwoody Free Republic Posting Form Enhancer for Firefox). I will much rather peruse FR than the likes of Gateway Pundit, with its approx 200 network requests (FR has 3).

[Diana in Wisconsin]

14 Amazing Fractals Found in Nature

When you think of fractals, you might think of Grateful Dead posters and T-shirts, all pulsating with rainbow colors and swirling similarity. Fractals, first named by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975, are special mathematical sets of numbers that display similarity through the full range of scale — i.e., they look the same no matter how big or how small they are. Another characteristic of fractals is that they exhibit great complexity driven by simplicity — some of the most complicated and beautiful fractals can be created with an equation populated with just a handful of terms. (More on that later.)

One of the things that attracted me to fractals is their ubiquity in nature. The laws that govern the creation of fractals seem to be found throughout the natural world. Pineapples grow according to fractal laws and ice crystals form in fractal shapes, the same ones that show up in river deltas and the veins of your body. It’s often been said that Mother Nature is a hell of a good designer, and fractals can be thought of as the design principles she follows when putting things together. Fractals are hyper-efficient and allow plants to maximize their exposure to sunlight and cardiovascular systems to most efficiently transport oxygen to all parts of the body. Fractals are beautiful wherever they pop up, so there’s plenty of examples to share.

Here Are 14 Amazing Fractals Found in Nature

https://www.treehugger.com/amazing-fractals-found-in-nature-4868776

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Romanesco broccoli.

Pine Cones.

Ice Crystals.

Leaves.

[greeneyes]

Fall is my favorite usually. Summer is too hot, winter is too cold, and Spring is too wet. Fall is just right.

My season was the worst ever this year. Nothing did well at all. It’s been unusually damp and cool compared to our normal summer weather.

I just received my garlic shipment and cover crops, so I need to shake off the lazy daisy and get with it.

Also need to dig up the tumeric and some of the herbs to bring into the green house and eventually the house.

I have a space in my basement - no window that would other wise be a good place for plants. I suppose if push came to shove, I could grow some lettuce or sprout broccoli or something under a grow light.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

We do not know how expensive it is to keep a site as this going, and it is far better (based on my experience) than any in its class despite lacking some things, like a edit feature and toolbar to format html with

Here is a typical error message I get when I try to double post on most of the sites I visit that allow comments (note that the time between posts can be set by the administrator and varies from site to site):

If sites that don't ask for money at all or at most have a donate button at the top of the intro page can manage it then the feature can't be very expensive to implement.

[greeneyes]

That’s interesting. Another positive for Rosa Rugosa is that the rose hips are very big compared to other varieties, and they are high in vitamin C.

Also good as a hedge to keep out 2 legged critters.

[greeneyes]

👍😉Agreed with your points.

[greeneyes]

Yikes. I guess we are all different, cause I’m glad it doesn’t do that. To each his own.