What’s going on in your garden (2025)?

karadekoolaid said:
Oh yes, they're sour all right. But so is rhubarb, and tamarind. A touch of sugar and everything changes.
My mum used to make redcurrant tarts, with her own short crust pastry. Divine.
Click to expand...
I've never needed sugar with red currants, white, pink or black currants either. But we also don't add sugar to rhubarb either.
 
TastyReuben said:
On either side of our driveway, where the drainage pipe runs through, there’s a whole little ecosystem living in there, including a few frogs.

I purposely leave the grass untrimmed around it and don’t spray that area for weeds, and whenever I walk out to check the mail, I can look down and usually spot a couple of eyeballs, just above the waterline, staring back at me. 🐸
Click to expand...

I would do the same as you. We had huge flax bushes years ago. We had whole families of hedgehogs living in the base of them. I even named them. 1 had long legs so he was stilts, another you couldn't see his legs, he just floated along. He's called hover. My wife didn't like me throwing scraps out for them.

Russ
 
I don’t know whats happening but some of my rosemary leaves have a strange rainbow thing going on
IMG_3331.jpeg

Anyone know whats going on here?
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I don’t know whats happening but some of my rosemary leaves have a strange rainbow thing going on
View attachment 129725
Anyone know whats going on here?
Click to expand...
Google AI says:

Red tips on rosemary leaves can indicate a few issues, including potential diseases or incorrect watering practices. It could be a sign of powdery mildew, a fungal disease that thrives in moist conditions, or overwatering leading to root rot. Alternatively, it might be a result of specific fungal or bacterial infections.

I’ve never seen it before in my own rosemary. I always figured it’s hardy enough to withstand anything.
 
TastyReuben said:
Google AI says:

Red tips on rosemary leaves can indicate a few issues, including potential diseases or incorrect watering practices. It could be a sign of powdery mildew, a fungal disease that thrives in moist conditions, or overwatering leading to root rot. Alternatively, it might be a result of specific fungal or bacterial infections.

I’ve never seen it before in my own rosemary. I always figured it’s hardy enough to withstand anything.
Click to expand...
Thanks thats what I thought, it’s hardy. I can’t see any mildew or fungus but I might be missing it.
It could potentially be over watering. My son who kills most plants has been doing the watering 🤷‍♀️
 
TastyReuben said:
Cicadas - broods around here are offset, but each one is on a roughly 17-year cycle of emergence-copulation-underground. This year’s isn’t so bad, but some are so thick it’s hard to go outside.
Click to expand...
Both broods happened simultaneously last year. It was deafening and some tree trunks were so covered you couldn't see the trunk! 😲
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
17 years?
Click to expand...
Cicadas in No. America have two different brooding cycles. One is 13 years and the other is 17 years. That's how often they come out of the ground to mate. Last year here both broods emerged simultaneously; it was noisy!

Periodical cicadas - Wikipedia

That link knows more than I do but I'm living where they are so it's not hard to see/hear them...
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
17 years?
Click to expand...
What Barriehie said - funny thing is, they’re either reviled as a hellacious nuisance, or celebrated as one of Nature’s wonderful weirdies (both MrsT and I love seeing/hearing them).

This time around, we’re on the northern edge of the emerging brood, so as loud as that video I posted a couple of days ago may have seemed, it’s a very small hatching…but they’re still everywhere, it seems.

Further south about 20 miles, and into Cincinnati (another 20 miles), they’re thick. We drove to the Germanfest last weekend, down that way, and it looked like a sea of marbles floating in front of us, there were so many flying about, and the shoulders of the roads are buried in cicada shells (it used to be trendy 120 or so years ago to wear the husks as a fashion accessory!).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom