The Outdoor Gardening Thread

[gruntlabor]

How would you like to find this little devil in your garden? At first, you'd think it was some kind of fake Ai creation, but, it ain't. It's a saddleback caterpillar, and his sting is something you want to avoid.

Saddleback caterpillar - Wikipedia


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An adorable little baby in a bunting!

 

[PeppermintPatty]

How would you like to find this little devil in your garden? At first, you'd think it was some kind of fake Ai creation, but, it ain't. It's a saddleback caterpillar, and his sting is something you want to avoid.

Saddleback caterpillar - Wikipedia


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Wow. A caterpillar that stings? At least it’s not well camouflaged. What happens if you do get stung by it?

 

[squatting dog]

Wow. A caterpillar that stings? At least it’s not well camouflaged. What happens if you do get stung by it?

Contact with the hairs causes a painful, swollen rash and sometimes nausea.

In some cases, more severe reactions to the venom can occur, including a systemic condition called erucism or acute urticaria, for which severe symptoms may include migraines, gastrointestinal symptoms, asthma complications, anaphylactic shockl, rupturing of erythrocytes, and hemorrhaging.

In other words, I'd say bad things.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Contact with the hairs causes a painful, swollen rash and sometimes nausea.

In some cases, more severe reactions to the venom can occur, including a systemic condition called erucism or acute urticaria, for which severe symptoms may include migraines, gastrointestinal symptoms, asthma complications, anaphylactic shockl, rupturing of erythrocytes, and hemorrhaging.

In other words, I'd say bad things.

Thank you squatting dog. Yes I’d also say bad things could happen if you get stung by one. I wonder if animals get the same symptoms if they get stung. I’m glad we don’t get anything like that here.

 

[bowmore]

We moved from a house to an apartment. Fortunately, it has a South facing balcony. We are growing everything in pots or planters.
Right now we have an aloe, 2 fire pencils, dahlia, plumeria, and gardenia.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

We moved from a house to an apartment. Fortunately, it has a South facing balcony. We are growing everything in pots or planters.
Right now we have an aloe, 2 fire pencils, dahlia, plumeria, and gardenia.

This sounds wonderful. Do you have any pictures you could show us?

 

[bowmore]

This sounds wonderful. Do you have any pictures you could show us?

Here you go, first is plumeria, still blooming in November and a small dahlia. Second is gardenia, chives, and 2 firepencils.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Here you go, first is plumeria, still blooming in November and a small dahlia. Second is gardenia, chives, and 2 firepencils.


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Well thank you. They all look very healthy. You must love growing. Do you feed them on a regular base?

 

[bowmore]

Well thank you. They all look very healthy. You must love growing. Do you feed them on a regular base?

It gets complicated, because the succulents, plumeria, and gardenia all get different fertilizer. I use Miracle Grow products for all. plus Super Bloom for the plumeria.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

It gets complicated, because the succulents, plumeria, and gardenia all get different fertilizer. I use Miracle Grow products for all. plus Super Bloom for the plumeria.

Thank you. That Miracle Grow REALLY is fantastic. We use it for ALL our indoor and outdoor plants and it never fails to impress us.

 

[squatting dog]

 

[PeppermintPatty]

This is the amount of pepper a hybrid chilli pepper plant produces. Approximately 200 peppers

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I didn’t want to make a new thread for growing seedlings since they are going to be planted outdoors in June.
These are assorted pepper plants. There are 11 seedlings coming up. Peppers are slow to grow especially when compared to tomato plants.

 

[Medusa]

I didn’t want to make a new thread for growing seedlings since they are going to be planted outdoors in June.
These are assorted pepper plants. There are 11 seedlings coming up. Peppers are slow to grow especially when compared to tomato plants. View attachment 495465

Nice to see your gardening thread again.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

34 pepper seedlings

 

[old medic]

We spent the weekend prepping beds and boxes, sorted thru seeds we have and picked up some others. 2 trays of starters.
will be getting corn beans and taters planted toy I hope.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Here are some garlic we planted last winter - sometime in November / December. We planted 170 bulbs

 

[Medusa]

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What type of peppers?

 

[PeppermintPatty]

What type of peppers?

Yellow
Sweet
Multi coloured
Hot
Bell
Jalopenos
Gypsy hybrid

 

[Medusa]

Yellow
Sweet
Multi coloured
Hot
Bell
Jalopenos
Gypsy hybrid

Wow! That's going to be fun; a riot of color when they come in.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Wow! That's going to be fun; a riot of color when they come in.

Thanks Medusa. Here are some of the peppers from last year

 

[Medusa]

Thanks Medusa. Here are some of the peppers from last year
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I don't know how I missed this. :/

Your pepper crop is amaze. Are the thin, red ones particularly spicy?

 

[Trish]

Thanks Medusa. Here are some of the peppers from last year
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Oh they look good!

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I don't know how I missed this. :/

Your pepper crop is amaze. Are the thin, red ones particularly spicy?

Thanks Medusa. Yes the thin red peppers are in the freezer. We added them to the last chilli we made and it was really good. Peppers freeze well.

Here’s the crop we have growing now. We had to kill off about half our peppers cause we had too many. Now we have tomato plants growing.