RedFlashFire05 wrote:

thanks. wow don't know that, but can you eat Amaranth? gotta google it.

Your question prompted me to google it; the grain head looks similar to maize which also made me wonder. According to WikiPedia, the answer is yes.

awesome, now I've need to figure out what to make it in to....mmmmm??? so many options lol.

my mom planted some sweet potatoes and removed the squash and cumber plants, as they have finished. gonna get some pictures soon.

Since gardening is scattered all over, I'll comment here ...

Cucmbers, still have a few new ones forming on the vine - but Sasha has decided that she *really* likes cucumbers so I've had to shorten her lead so she can't reach the garden space. What are forming up now look better than what I had growing earlier, but found that overwatering cuke's leads to yellow cukes so I've cut back some and they're looking better.

Cantaloupe - got one and that'll be one that goes in next year; I just planted two plants (small garden) and I'm getting two cantaloupes but the one I got out earlier was really good!!

Have more green and yellow peppers forming up - the pests (bugs and birds) seem to leave the yellow ones alone and I'm hoping I can get a couple of the green ones now. I beat the pests to one out of about 4 earlier.

Ditto the tomatoes - I've gotten two, have one on my window sill, they have good flavour but the birds<?> also agree they taste good and they get to them before I do. Saw how another of the locals had his staked to t-posts and he's got a good selection of fruit so I think I'll try that next year.

@RedFlashFire05, not meaning to hijack your thread, I tend to just toss my comments about my small garden out at random ....

Leo loves cucumber from the garden, its one of his favorites, until the watermelon starts fruiting. its got a few flowers but for got to get pictures.


our cantaloupe dried up due to some slight over planting  .
  , hate though buggers. i usually use a gallon of soapy water to 4 tsp of baking soda and spray every 3 to 4 days. work very well.
we have some black bell peppers still growing but its so tiny. the chilies are producing an abundance of chilies.

so far the tomatoes are still growing, i let Leo in this morning he headed to the tomatoes to see if any were ready.


we also cut the Amaranth and collected the seeds this one was the tallest my mom posed for the picture. it looks about 7 ft tall.


so far the sweet potatoes are surviving the scorching heat over the last 3 days.


they will be ready in like 3 months to harvest.


the big pumpkin my mom planted has one almost ready to eat.


the cactus fruit was finally ready to eat.


it was very good, and we all shard it. the other cactus had 2 more, but every one couldn't wait to taste this one.

NIce looking garden, Ronin! Could you take a picture of your tomato supports that shows the whole thing? I am pondering different supports for my tomatoes next year - I just let them sprawl this year because it was getting late and had so much to do.

How long have your sweet potatoes been planted? Three more months for harvest? I was hoping to try some one of these years but 4 months is about all the frost free time we have...suppose I could grow under low tunnels...

Nice looking pumpkin

my mom used a trellis that looks like is one.


she wived the them though and some bamboo pols resting on the round metal supports for more support.




i think they were planted about a week ago. thanks.

Aye, Amy, I was wondering too since I've got to do something different next year. When I saw the first picture it looked like it was horizontal but I also thought I was wrong till she showed them later and they are ... now that's a real thought!

aljones wrote:

Aye, Amy, I was wondering too since I've got to do something different next year. When I saw the first picture it looked like it was horizontal but I also thought I was wrong till she showed them later and they are ... now that's a real thought!

That is actually one of the considerations - I saw it a couple of years ago, using cattle panels, I think. Basically you make a table about 2-3 ft up from the ground and have a wood, metal or string lattice for the plants to sprawl horizontally. Then you don't have to bend over to pick

I'll have to look through my outlook, I stash all sorts of miscellaneous tidbits by printing to outlook It used to work nicely - I could search easily instead of papers all over the place and it would sync with the laptop so I always had a backup. But then I mucked it up somehow, now it doesn't sync anymore Think either I'm not supposed to copy/paste a page or either the pc or laptop was supposed to be the "add the new stuff" Whatever, its mucked up and I haven't had the hours to sit and figure it out. And do NOT get me started on the new outlook - Microsoft mucked that one up

*I* won't say a thing about Office - I still use Office 2003 since, as far as I'm concerned, that's the best version they ever produced before they started with Ribbons, etc. and the "x" variants to the files bug the blazes out of me!!

2-3 feet, that high, huh? But then my tomatoes are sprawling easily that far ... Looks like it would work well with cukes and squash as well.

the gardenia finally flowered, didn't think it would this year the buds kept falling off.




the tiger rose had a flower yay.


finally got some good sized bell peppers, they look purple but in the picture they look black.

also my mom's favorite plant had is first flower this year i believe its called grand duke.

they hibiscus finally flowered this year.






some garden picture update.







the pumpkin is ready for eating.woo-hoo




forgot to take a picture of he watermelon.

we got a new watermelon a wail back, but not sure if the it'll be ready to eat before it gets to cold , so far its growing like a weed.

What on earth kind of pumpkin is that?

i think its a Kabocha, its suppose to look like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kabocha.jpg
not sure why it looks that way, but the orange side was where the sun hit it the most lol.

With pumpkins, I put a thin piece of wood under them, like a wood roofing shingle type of thing, keeps them from getting any kind of rot, and I rotate them every once in awhile so the color is uniform. Congrats on growing them!!! I didn't get even one this year! I'm so disappointed what kinds of things do you make from them?

Your Hibiscus are beautiful! I love Hibiscus but here they all get whitefly really bad.

Interesting. They are far more unique the way yours grew. I love all the odd ball breeds of pumpkins. I grew harlequins this year but that is all. They are very small. Not a picture of mine but what they look like.



I want to try some of the other types next year now that I have a better idea where to put them.

i usually if we have a good amount of pumpkins from the garden i use them to make pumpkin spice bread, and some pumpkin treats for the boys. or just steam it and eat it so tasty.
my mom make pumpkin candy not sure how she dose it but need to ask her show me.

Hibiscus had some whitefly not to many; we sprayed them with some baking soda, soap, and water solution for a few weeks. then we stopped cause the praying mantis stated to show up and we didn't want to get the solution on them. the praying mantis took cared of the rest of them.
thanks, we wanted to get another hibiscus but we haven't found one smaller in color to that one. it the one plant that every one waits to see every year  .
here is a praying mantis picture i finally found one on a rose.

Oooh, pumpkin spice bread is one of my favorite things! The pumpkin candy sounds interesting! What's it like? A Carmel (soft candy) or is it like a pumpkin flavored fudge? Sounds really good, lol, I love my sweets, lol

I've been seeing a lot of preying mantis lately...such a fierce name for a relatively innocent looking insect, haha

They are innocent looking until they jump on your face. Then...not so much.

Yesh me too, its almost like a dehydrated fruit. she makes it on the stove top and it take wail to make. it has a mild pumpkin flavor with a hint of sugar, its has a similar look to dehydrated pineapple. lol

we usually can pick them up and move them to a plant that need some help with bugs. they don't seem to mind   , but they are really fast runners when they deiced to run wail your moving them .

RedFlashFire05 wrote:

Yesh me too, its almost like a dehydrated fruit. she makes it on the stove top and it take wail to make. it has a mild  pumpkin flavor  with a hint of sugar, its has a similar look to dehydrated pineapple. lol

Ahhhhh, ok...it sounds like the stuff I only know of as "Mexican candy" I don't know if there is another name for it but yeah, it's like dehydrated fruit with just enough sweetness to it. I've had some before but not pumpkin, in fact the one I had was sprinkled with a "hot" spice, haha...I don't do the hot spices, lol

the sweet potato has flowers




we have a watermelon growing, and its a good size. i hope it is ready to eat before it get to cold.


the bamboo is growing a new one, not sure what the new growth is called.


and one creepy spider i saw this marring.