Gardening, landscaping and plants in general

[Denman John]

I try to stay away from this thread as it is dangerously close to work, but I must say well done to everyone and thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures and stories

[goosehd]

It’s that time of year:

[SKT]

Saw this beautiful thing on this morning’s walk. Turns out it’s a “silver cock’s comb”. Okay then

[Oaktavia]

@goosehd are those Carolina Reapers? If so, I have grown them before too. I didnt know what to do with them all so I dehydrated them and ground 'em up. Used in place of red pepper flakes. What do you use them for? Such a beautiful crimson red.

[goosehd]

@Oaktavia reapers and ghost peppers. I do the same with dehydrating and grinding to flakes. Then share them with other pepper enthusiasts…

Last year’s batch was pretty hot (ghosts, reapers, and habaneros). I like the habanero pepper for extra volume/flavour and to decrease the overall heat threshold to something manageable.

[Oaktavia]

@goosehd right on man that makes me want to try to grow some more next year! Really cool, thanks for sharing.

[ÆRϺΔΚ]

Autumn is here!

[SKT]

@ÆRϺΔΚ beautiful shot

[motojobobo]

Last weekend harvested sicilian lemons (that is what everyone calls them here) from 3 plants in a friend’s rural cottage. They all went to another buddy who will turn them into limoncello. Those things smell INCREDIBLE while you pluck them off the plant!

You can barely see some of the ripe lemons over the top of the bike’s handlebar

[Mister_Brue]

We don’t get these at home so they are quite impressive en masse.

[motojobobo]

Mango season round here! Hyper sunny days over this week produces these colorful guys.

[endo]

Does anyone know a good method for getting rid of moles? The pesky things are making my life miserable. Every time I come to the cottage, there are at least 40 new molehills. They won't take mouse bait, and I've tried commercial anti-mole scent repellents, but that was a joke. For a while it worked well with Wrigley's Juicy Fruit, but I think they got used to the truly disgusting smell. I'm quite desperate. Looking for a final solution, no mercy.

[SKT]

I’ve used a product called Talpirid. They look like gummy bear worms and you put them in the mole tunnels. Very effective but not sure available there. Worth checking though as it’s been the most effective thing I’ve found. It’s a battle!!

[endo]

Unfortunately, everything that kills them is not allowed over here and therefore not available.

[tody]

[endo]

I wish I could do that @tody

[northsouthdenimguy]

After a quick beach trip this past weekend (about a 6½-hour drive each way), we came home to a small tree down in the driveway. Thankfully it didn’t hit the house, it was actually closer than these photos show but I pulled it out of the way so my wife could get her car into the garage.

It took about 10 minutes to cut it up and toss everything into the natural area, either for pickup or to let it rot, I’m not entirely sure which yet.

The point of this post is that it’s probably time to really walk the property and identify the rotted trees and some of the ones that are basically just weeds. I know thinning/cutting down trees isn’t a popular opinion these days, but it’s genuinely better for the health of the surrounding trees and the property as a whole to clean things out before they become a bigger problem.

Edit: oh damn my main point was “fun” to drive hours and then come home and have to cut up a tree, but at least no damage