My little albino bullnose.
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Out in the woods looking for pawpaws. They’re not yet ripe.
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I attempted my first repot with great success! My lovely little palm has grown so much in six weeks that I needed to move it from a 9 inch nursery pot to a 13 inch ceramic pot!
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We have been slowly trying to cover up a (French) well we had to put in the garden for drainage, and have been using our compost bin to assist the growing.
Behold, tomatoes.
No idea if we’ll get fruit but quite a nice surprise!
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Our little tomatoes got fungused!
Not sure where it came from, but we won’t use that patch of garden again. Next year we’ll use proper planters. Nature you always surprise me.
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This weekend is prepping the garden for the winter - including moving a few bushes and plants around, sorting out the compost bin to put a better one in and general upkeep. Always a bit sad to see the plants and flowers to go sleep but we can put new ones in to make the next year even better!
So as there won’t be much more to report (unless people want to see me build a compost bin!) here’s a lovely picture of one of our dahlias with a friend.
Now I get to look forward to all our Southern hemisphere friends and their beautiful gardens =)
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We’ve been watching culinary class wars on Netflix, and one of the judges cooked acorn noodles. My partner was impressed by the idea and had never eaten any acorn-based food (I’ve had the jelly and one other thing and couldn’t taste anything I perceived as acorn), so got excited about trying to make some from scratch, like all the way from scratch.
So we went around the neighborhood - it is Oakland after all - and gathered up about 10 pounds of acorns. We got them from driveways, sidewalks, a stream, a park… We got mostly these big fat ones but we got some skinny ones too, not sure of the difference, but they’re surely different tree types. Took about 30 mins to find all these.
We have looked up how to prepare them, and it’s not easy. You’ve got to continuously boil them, and when the water turns brown, you pour the water out, but you have to keep boiling the acorns, so you have to put them into another already-prepared pot of boiling water. If you put them into cold water it’ll bind the tannins to the acorn and make them poisonous forever.
It’s all a big mysterious event, and we could just buy a bag of acorn starch for 15 bucks. but it’s kinda fun to try to do once. I guess this could’ve gone in the cooking thread but we went OUTSIDE into the WORLD to get these so I’m putting it here.
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Test! I tinkered with my phone’s camera settings and my compatible formats are outta whack!
Alright, that worked, so I suppose a proper description is owed; I potted my propagations today!
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Never in my life had I ever thought Oakland California would have oak trees. But ive only been there once.
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We got em!! In every park and many yards. Not so many downtown, but they’re kinda everywhere. Oak trees pop up in my yard from squirrels and crows carrying the acorns around. We’ve got a nice little bonsai we are making from one, I’ll grab a picture of that when it’s light out.
Update: here is the bonsai. It’s gotten a bit speckled I just noticed, so I gave it some nutrients just now.
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