Is There Ever Too Much of Luping's Basil?

it's not corn I'm willing to bet

there were a LOT of children around it today, too, but I didn't see Malakai.

LOL

Lynnie, you just made me burst out laughing for the first time today;-) I love your sense of humor!!!!

Kassy, doing well and hope you are too but you just have to post a pic of all those big Puff ball's of mushroom's ! That has to be a site to see.

There at my BF's.........didn't you see the one I did post before?

I'll post it again ^_^

I sure did Kassy and loved it. We have had a tremendous amount of different size/shape/color's of mushroom's pop up everywhere here on the mountain land in the past month or so. I have never viewed such before.......maybe due to all the rain we have received.

Well we usually get 2 on his land in a year.
Already had one and now have 15.
And we had a very try summer

Sorghum tends to go where birds fly, more than Corn.

Just because it's a Banana, doesn't mean it turns yellow.

This is a Red Spanish Banana; it ripens up to a yellowish-orange color, the flesh is salmon colored.

Thanks Rachel....it seemed the kids out in my yard were multiplying today....every time I looked out there was another 1 or 2 or 3....

Interesting Kassy, maybe it was just a good year "all around" for Mushroom's.

Luna Moth

kassy I was just about to ask you if you had a wet summer....
Dave do those taste like the regular bananas from the grocery store? I don't think I've ever seen bananas with salmon colored flesh.

Rachel I had one of those in my front yard once...it was huge, so cool, but it was on it's last legs (like Kassy's chicken haha).

Lynn, I think maybe Dave is busy downloading something ...............I'll let you know when I try them ;-)

Lynnie I finished. Forgot how big that roon was.

Pretty Luna Moth. I've never seen one in person.

Hmmmm Lynnie, has the corn started moving closer to your house yet?

jjsgramma, I scanned the pic's and writting over on the slug thread a while back and I just have to say that your flooring was absolutely gorgeous!

Icanfindroom, I love the congo Philodendron's! I do not have the congo red though due to I have not seen it available in my area of the world yet. The Luna's do not live long but they are a stunning moth to see in person.

ROTFL Ican

Philodendrons are great aren't they? SO many different types available.
I want a Monstera but that's one I CAN'T find room for yet (please notice the "yet") I eyeball them every time I'm at Home Depot. I used to have one at my old house that took up a corner or our living room. My ex was afraid of it. :)

I noticed that "yet", that why you have the name you have!

;)

^_^

Trina, those green berries on the asparagus fern will turn red and then fall off. They are the seed and will come up. We have never planted them but have a lot of volunteers around our carport. Down here we never take them in. Sometimes throw a sheet over them if the weather is going to get in the twenties. If the cold kills them back they come back the next spring.

I posted pictures somewhere of the veggies I planted. Just need time to get their roots down and established.

Hi Jim, I noticed you had some tomatoe plant's planted in a hay bale. Is that something new or am I just not up to par?

Rachel

The Red Spanish have a different flavor, just as the many cultivars of Bananas.

Here is a Hawaiian A'e A'e Banana. It is somewhat starchy when ripe, but sweetens up when cooked (with a little butter and cinnamon). Makes a great breakfast!

That A'e A'e Banana, sell's for quite a bit of dollar's over here.!

Tomatoes in hay are new to me. Saw a friend raise some like that this summer. They did real well. Thought I'd give it a try this winter. Fresh vine ripe tomatoes for Christmas is my goal.

Jim, wishing you the best with this new program of growing healthy tomatoe's. In my world the newest fetish was growing them from a type of hanging basket;-) Maybe these "new" method's will aid in keeping out the blight?

I grew them like that one time before it got to be a fetish. Lots of folks doing it this year. Don't need all that fancy stuff they are selling on T.V. Just an empty bucket with a hole in the bottom. The only problem I had was we had a heck of a wind storm and they were hanging to close to the building and beat them to pieces. Win some lose some.

Wow you can grow tomatoes for Christmas? Man! I've never been able to grow one past fall. As in Sept. MAYBE the beginning of Oct. I was wondering about planting veggies this late but I forget your in LA.
I was planning on digging up the tomato plant in my yard to see if it will stay alive inside. It has had blooms for two months now but not one tomato has started.

I hear you Jim. Been blessed with lot's of tomatoe's grown in the ground here regardless of the blight.

I raise only blight resistent tomatoes in the summer. These aren't blight resistent. Hope they make it. The lady that was starting my plants had eye surgery and went to fertilize her plants. Couldn't see to well and mixed the fertilize wrong and killed all her plants. So, had to go elsewhere.

O.K. Dave I saw another Lambic today. Blackcurrant. I'm still working on the 12oz black cherry LOL!
So which have you tried? Lets see there was raspberry, apple, peach, black cherry of course, and now blackcurrant.

Ican, my BF sometimes digges up a pepper plant and brings it in the house. Then he sets it back outsider in the spring.

I have seen the hay bail growing somewhere, either on TV or on a video on the internet. Problem is, it would take a lot of hay bails to fill our garden!

Yikes, 47 degrees here tonight!!! And could go down to 35 :(

Ican, blackcurrant is interesting. Currents are usually a tarter berry, unless the black ones aren't.

seems I miss alot when my body gives up before my brain! Its 2:30 am here now...can't sleep now...thanks for all the advice everyone...as for tomatoes in alaska in december...I use a 5 gallon bucket and some stakes inside the house...I start the indoor ones about 4 weeks before the ones outside are completely gone from the weather that way I have a continuous supply of fresh tomatoes (hey 7 people 1 house saves on the grocery bill!) I also grow basil and other herbs, corn (that strangely holds the kids fascinated), peppers (sweet & hot), and strawberries in the house, on a fixed income you gotta do what you gotta do to keep them fed good stuff! There are 13 rooms in this house and everyone is filled to the brim with plants of all kinds, and kids who have now started to get interested in plants....now if I can only get the 13 yr old to understand that aloes don't need watered everyday, and the 12 yr old to understand impatiens need watered more than once in 2 weeks...LOL

Children seem to like corn ;) I'm keeping an eye on my creepy cornstalk, if it grows any friends that will be the end of it! I'll check on the aphids and whiteflies and ants (oh my!) after the dish detergent. If it's sorghum I'll be somewhat disappointed...truly won't know what to do with it......biofuel? What DO you do with sorghum??
What do you do with all that hay after the plants are done? Spread it around the garden?
JJ that was some quick work on that room! I'm impressed! I can't wait to start my bedroom! You finished it before Ican finished her beer! lol

Good morning everyone. Good to see the world was in such capable hands.....mushrooms, tomatoes and green growing plants...bananas and corn/sorghum and a little chicken dance....who could ask for anything more?

well we are children of the corn after all hahaha

Either that or Nature's corny children....grin

that's more like it lol