I haven't done any active gardening this year, but our muscadine is going to yield several gallons of fruit after several years of zilch due to mistimed pruning. (One year it was a tornado going through the neighborhood, a couple of seasons of neighbors on the shared fence fucking it up.)
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― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
WOW! That's a laden bough! Nice night shot, too. How are they for eating?
I kind of want to plant some kind of fruit up at the house but I don't want to battle raspberry canes forever when they start taking over. Am torn. There's a large privacy hedge about 8-10' tall that doesn't flower or bear anything and I kind of want to root it out and replace with lilacs & berries but that's a big project.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 13:38 (four years ago) link
They're delicious. Good and tart. I swear this is the year I'm going to make a muscadine-skin pie.
― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
I hate bindweed.
I've been getting White Plume moths in the garden (and, occasionally, I find them on the bathroom ceiling). Googling to find if there's any particular plant associated with White Plumes, I discover it is ... bindweed.
It can stay. Well, some of it.
― djh, Monday, 12 August 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
EWWW
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
That bug is very creepy. I was expecting something...moth-ier...with like normal wings.
― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Monday, 12 August 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
yeah, i do not like that guy.
I want to see pics of whatever happens to the muscadine.
― Yerac, Monday, 12 August 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link
They're beautiful!
― djh, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
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Up to 13.5 lbs. of muscadines from the one vine and I don't think we're halfway done yet. That's not counting the fruit on the neighbors' side of the fence, which I think they're just letting rot.
― The Chronicles of Ermagerd (WmC), Thursday, 22 August 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
what do those taste like bc they look good
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Thursday, 22 August 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
I can't describe them...have you had Japanese muscat gummy candies? They taste like that but more tart.
― The Chronicles of Ermagerd (WmC), Thursday, 22 August 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
i havent but i like gummy candies as a genre? so that sounds amazing
― Carisis LaVerted (m bison), Thursday, 22 August 2019 02:43 (four years ago) link
http://www.candywarehouse.com/assets/item/large/inset-127599.jpg
If you're in an Asian grocery, get some of these -- they're really good.
― The Chronicles of Ermagerd (WmC), Thursday, 22 August 2019 02:48 (four years ago) link