Morning Garden Routine 🌱🌱 IAAC #17
I Am Alive! 🌿
I took a walk in the park! With the park being my yard and a walk being a leisurely stroll. Almost daily, but mostly in the weekend, I use part of my mornings to walk around the yard where all my fruit producing plants are. Primarily to pick the ripened fruits, but also to see if every one is still healthy and pest free. Especially when I had more tomatoes, the hornworms were especially tedious to deal with. Leave one of those buggers for more than one day, and half of your plant is gone.
This row has the top performers since the weather has gone back and forth between hot desert dry and rainy swamp. The other ones can't handle the differing temperatures that well and are still recovering. But no worries, more seedlings have sprouted and as soon as I get some reasonably priced sand to fill up the rest of the garden, expansion will follow soon. So much plans for the garden, so little time. This is why I choose to primarily do peppers in the first place. They tend to have less pest issues, once outside and thriving. And they recover from the temperature fluctuations fairly easy.
3 Scotch Bonnet and 1 Madame Jeanette yielded today. Not bad. While it may not be much, the feeling of harvesting your own fruit is indescribable. And even if there is no yield, the refreshing feeling of walking outside and observing nature is well worth it.
Now for an appropriate daily funny image.
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BEER.I can image no pests wants to mess with the scotch especially lol. Those are huge! Nice garden dude.
Yeah, some anti-worm remedies use pepper powder as an ingredient, so the whole plant must not have any problems.
Thanks, for now it's a mini garden in the front, but as soon as I fill in the back yard with more sand, I'll be able to plant at least 5 times as much.
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Nice spot! I love backyard jungles.
I used to live in one too for 4 yrs and it was a real jungle- in every way! lol..
It actually was, it was the Daintree Rainforest...and this is one of the places that I used to work...as a chef, cooking for all of the backpackers and locals...https://www.daintreecrocodylus.com.au/. and I lived a 5min walk down the road- depending on how many times I ziggzagged across the road on the way home after dinners...lol...
And this was my beach
Supposedly it was named Cow Bay during a huge flood way back in the late 1800's or the early 1900's (can't quite remember) which broke the banks of the river and washed hundreds of cows out to sea where they ended up in 'Cow Bay' hence the reason the real local aboriginals say that it is cursed and never stop there- atleast not the elders...
And I love the way she says that it COULD be croc country. 🤣
It IS without a doubt croc country and they are everywhere- big 10-15-20ft Saltwater Crocs and I have seen them there myself. Its a beautiful place to swim, but when you do, you always know that it could be your last swim and you grow eyes out the back of your head and never close them- not a for a second. But when you're drunk, that's a whole different story....
So tell me, are you little peppers hot chillis or are they Capsicums (the Americans call them Bell Peppers...)
And I love the meme. It looks like a very familiar situation to me...🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol, the "jungle" behind my fence is just some undeveloped land someone owns, to be clear. I still live around actual people. 😂 But it is peaceful not living near the center and I wouldn't mind retiring somewhere even closer to an actual jungle/amazon like environment.
Swimming with crocs, what an adventure. With the creeks here they say you're safe as long as you don't swim at night, cuz that's when they come out. The place looks wonderful.
The ones in the picture are hot chilies, but I grow both kinds.
Well that's even better- someone elses land- then you don't have to worry about paying the land rates, the council fees or anything!
So, you guys have Croccies too then...hmmm big salties?
Yes, we used to go fishing at night and all I could see was red 'headlights' everywhere in the river....
But I have a rule of thumb.
The road heading north its' like a tree trunk, then you have roads branching off to the left and right.
I never swim in the creeks to the right, because they go out into the ocean, whereas the creeks to the left, go up into the mountains and are full of rocks, so fresh, cold water and Crocs have soft bellies, so they don't like the rocks.
The only thing that you have to think about though is whether they have swum upstream during a flood and got caught in an upstream waterhole....😬
Yeah and night time swimming in places like- lets just say 'it's for the forest fairies only'.....
Those kinds of fees aren't really a thing here I think. It's corrupt chaos everywhere.
We mainly have fresh water ones. I think they fall under gators instead of crocs. Not sure.
That's a good safe theory to avoid them indeed.
Yes, You are right, corruption creating chaos everywhere. Such a shame to hear that it surrounds you too.
I'll take a freshie any day before a salty. There's a massive difference in size, though I wouldn't want to tangle with either of them....😳
And a massive difference in flavor as well I suppose 🙃
They might find a difference in flavour between you and me, but I think that both of them would still taste fairly muddy- one will just have a bit more salt on him.
My ex was from the Cook Islands and we used to eat a lot of fresh seafood, but he always said that he would never eat Croc because they lived on and fed off the bottom of the rivers and so would have that same muddy taste in their meat.
I don't eat animals anymore so there's no chance of that, but I Still think if they were to have a blind tasting test between my rump and yours, they'd find them to be different..I think they find mine sweeter and yours more young and tender.....🤣🤣🤣🤣
The muddiness is debatable, if cleaned right, gator meat can be really good.
lol, good one.
Yeah right....hmmm. Not mmmmm but hmmm, I'll still pass thanks! 😬
Have you ever considered building raised beds? Has much more advantages compared to growing stuff on traditional beds.
(semi)Raised beds are a main part of the expansion plan. The row in the picture are the ones I planted when we first moved here.