What do you Grow?? The Garden Thread

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Excellent tomatoes and harvest of root vegetables.
Roasted beets ,yummy.
I’ve been picking herbs to dry for teas, mints,tulsi,lemon balm,and medical stuff like catnip,yarrow, sweet Annie and mountain mint.
I use my wooden laundry drying rack.
I need to dig some chicory root and golden seal next.Then pick blackberry leaves and Passion flower leaves for more teas.
Saves so much money on herbal teas.
Lots of elderberries this year, also lots of birds around.Hopefully I will get enough to make a tincture.Birds are greedy.

Blazing Star



Rose of Sharon

Oh, Noca! How beautiful. Thank you for posting.

MissLizard, sounds like a great harvest you have going there. What do you use elderberry tincture for? We have lots of wild elderberries, but the birds eat them all. And besides I don't know what to do except make wine and we don't partake.

I have literally 100s of pounds of mangos on the kitchen floor awaiting processing. I washed, sliced and froze for six hours yesterday. And with yesterday's and today's harvest, there are more awaiting than there were before I did six hours of processing!

Last weekend I processed about 20 pounds of pineapple.

My peppers are finally turning red. I will have to look up the variety again as I don't remember. They are semi small, semi hot peppers with some flavor in addition to the heat.

Extremely hot and humid now. This is the month I like least in south Florida. It hardly cools off at night. Small relief usually occurs sometime in September.

Beautiful colors on the Blazing Star and the Rose of Sharon.
Elderberries have immune boosting benefits so I was planning on taking a spoonful a day as a tonic.
I might make a cough syrup if I have enough.Maybe with wild cherry bark in it also.
We have a wonderful cool snap where it’s lower eighties and low humidity.Perfect outdoor weather.I have been cutting brush,will sleep good tonight, I’m tired.

Here are the fruit of the Beauty Berry. It is a native Florida plant. The berries are edible and many birds like them. But they have a very funky taste, not bad, but very strange.

[url=[url=https://imgur.com/htpWZhL][/url]]Beauty Berry[/url]

Someone mentioned they tried to grow pineapple, but the fruit was small. That has been true for me too. I read that pineapples don't need much fertilizer and that turns out not to be true. The first picture here shows the comparison of two pineapples on the left which were grown my usual haphazard way. The two on the right were grown on a hugelkultur bed.

[url=[url=https://imgur.com/6mzUpAj][/url]]Pineapple Comparison[/url]

I took me six hours to process 20 some pineapples. A sample:

[url=[url=https://imgur.com/XpDd4io][/url]]Pineapple Cut up[/url]

If anyone knows the name of this flower, I would appreciate learning it. I bought it at a native plant sale and was told it was "like and iris," but it doesn't look like any iris I know.

[url=[url=https://imgur.com/SUurqEn][/url]]Unknown[/url]

BlackBerry lily?I love the Beautyberry, it grew wild in Sourh Arkansas but not here.So I bought one.Its thriving and I look forward to the berries.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/orname ... lilies.htm

My 28 purple sprouting brocolli plants have been absolutely blitzed by cabbage white catapilars. The plants are about 3 ft tall. The catapilars have stripped most of the foliage, it's really quite impressive. There don't seem to be many butterflies around anymore and 28 plants is overkill. I think that the plants will bounce back in autumn but check out the damage.

I think that is correct. Thank you. I looked up other pictures, and it shows the same overlapping flat leaves. Maybe she told me they looked like lilies, instead of irises. I sometimes hear the wrong word, transpose it in my mind.

Dom, just tell people that is a butterfly garden! Around here, it would likely be cabbage whites. The amount of time spent in the cocoon stage varies with location and temperature. But at some point in the next few weeks, you should have a stunning display of white butterflies.

Haha, there's enough to go around!

I use dawn dish soap spray for cabbage loopers.

Those look delicious.How will you cook them?

I was surprised when I pulled the first one out the ground but I have several kilos of them. I might try baking them.

I love new potatoes steamedthen mashed with good butter ,fresh chives, salt and pepper.
The skins on those look nice and tender.

I'll mash the least freaky ones!

Great potatoes.

I also love new potatoes steamed and slightly mashed with lots of butter. Ymmmmmm!

Good work, Dom