#gardening

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Finally broke down and got an (electric) leaf blower since my katsuras drop leaves into gravel beds that are super tedious to get out by hand. I'm not getting any younger and have limited time to spend working on my knees. ANYWAY. I'm also often timing it to clean up as many leaves as I can before the rain comes and makes them a sad heavy mess.

So this totally makes sense, right? Right?

Me standing under a Katsura full of fall yellow leaves and raising my electric leave blower pointing up to try to knock off leaves.

I finished shelling the yellow heirloom bush beans (aka Buckskin) last night.

These are a small bush bean that, in my experience, can be extremely productive. The shells are soft so are easy on the fingers.

The harvest felt light this year and, if this were typical, probably not worth growing. I will say this can be a great bean for short seasons, always the first to ripen.

A close up of a blue ceramic bowl filled with recently shelled golden dry beans. The beans are physically small and vary from lighter to darker gold

Yesterday, in a moment of weakness, I bought 50 daffodil bulbs and 3 frittilaria bulbs. Today, in a moment of absolute determination, I planted them all.

These are to replace the bad idea bulbs, which seem to have vanished, anyway.

Today’s harvest! Despite the funky weather this year, my mini backyard garden is still cranking out the food. Squash is basically done, and tomatoes are closing up shop, but the beans have a second wind (getting two decent harvests each week) and the peppers are just getting started .. will need to do some drying or pickling. So much fun!

4 small cardboard bins of veggies from the garden. Romano and Seychelles green beans. 2 small Zephyr squash (yellow with green end). 1 Costa Romanesco zucchini (light green with darker green ribs). 1 Paul Robeson tomato (deep red with green top). 9 Sweetie cherry tomatoes. 2 orange Lunchbox peppers. 3 bright red Pepperoncini peppers. 1 dark red and ribbed Round of Hungary pepper.

When I've finally had enough, I think I'll follow in the footsteps of many of my spiritual forebears of the tech industry and become a farmer.

Apparently I might have a future in Jarrahdale pumpkins.

A photo of six green-blue pumpkins, each about the size of a small cat, sitting on a haybale next to a mostly-harvested garden.

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Ok. While this is not dog vomit slime mold I'd say it fits the theme: I present to you "Slimeordial tree boob blobs slime mold" (alternatively known as Wolf's Milk or Lycogala epidendrum).

Anyway. Slimeordial Tree Boob Blobs! Video to show how the inside oozes out. For your scientific curiosity :-)

Same setting. I'm pushing a plastic access card through one. Slightly darker ooze comes out. It's like what happens with some cream filled cakes. Maybe you've seen it on those bake off tv shows?
4 to 8mm combined blobs. Skin like surface and a yellow orange pinkish color/hue that resembles that of some humans. On a rotting larch