Nature and Gardening

Hi All, I have a couple of potted chilli plants which have been fruiting for a while, but they are growing but are staying green. They then keep flowering and fruiting more and not putting the effort to ripen the existing chillis.

Any tips?

In southern Kentucky

• [ ] GMOs are bad, but not for the reason you think.
  • [ ] Company called Monsanto (now under another company called Bayer) made a weedkiller called Roundup which contains glyphosate, which is a possible carcinogen
  • [ ] Roundup killed crops as well as weeds, so they sold GMO seeds that could withstand Roundup
  • [ ] However, due to the monopoly/doninance of Monsanto, a lot of food, both processed and unprocessed, contains GMOs, which also contain a lot of glyphosate (which may be bad for you)
  • [ ] To cover up further investigation of glyphosate, they captured and bribed the EPA to look the other way and even to support Monsanto's research -- at least until the WHO cane out in 2015 and said that glyphosate could be carcinogenic
  • [ ] So GMOs aren't inherently bad, but they can be used for evil purposes like these
  • [ ] So try and at least buy organic food or grow your own food to avoid glyphosate
  • [ ] However according to a youtube comment, Roundup is also used to make plants mature faster...

Edit: misspelling, changed Montesanto to Monsanto

[Image description: a monarch caterpillar roughly ⅜ of an inch long on a dirty thumbnail]

Came inside for lunch today and found this little friend wandering around on my pant leg. They were relocated to one of our large common milkweed plants, which we expect to be decimated by tomorrow.

Thanks

Edit: consensus seems to be canna. Thank you all very much!

This was only my second year gardening, and first year with my own yard 😤 Everything is in containers. I struggled a lot with figuring out a good place to put containers that got enough sunlight. I was trying to avoid the front yard because I was worried about car exhaust and grossness getting onto veggies, but when I finally caved and moved everything to the front it started growing much much better. Lots of things also got chomped by deer and groundhogs in the backyard. I had hoped that big containers would keep the groundhogs out but I caught one climbing up onto the top and eating all the seedlings. Lots of failures, lots of dead plants. I tried to plant some native flowers in the backyard hoping to get them to spread to the empty lot behind us, but no success. A lot of seeds got eaten by birds.

I had better luck with both veggie and flower starts that I bought from the local farmer's market. I was SO CLOSE to getting sunflowers, the flower heads were coming out but then we had a big windy thunderstorm that knocked them over and they got all crispy after :( My only harvest this year are a couple of jalapeno peppers. I didn't start anything indoors this year, but I definitely see the value in it now and I'm hoping to get a rack with grow lights set up over the winter.

What about you guys??

Just one of our mother plants finally making some babies.

Driver ants regularly sweep across Africa’s tropical forest floors in voracious swarms hundreds of thousands of ants strong. Some birds are known to find and follow ant swarms, and scientists have only just begun to study these interactions.

This one is my favourite.

Saw this awesome little guy on the sidewalk and almost stepped on him because of his camouflage. so glad I didn't! I've never seen one before and I think its a leopard moth. if you look closely, some of his spots are a beautiful royal blue instead of black :) (Piedmont North Carolina).

A few weeks ago (I think over a month) I posted this pumpkin here. A Lemming (idk what we're calling ourselves) told me that "it should be a lot bigger before it gets it's first flower." I was already nervous that it and all my other plants weren't growing well. After some discussion some fish fertilizer was recommended. I suppose any would've worked but regardless, it's getting really big now.

The results were pretty dramatic. Nearly overnight it felt like. Every day I've seen visible growth. I'm even seeing the female flower buds so we're getting close to the pumpkin growing stage! The pictured ones are male. The seed pack says scientists hypothesize that the male flowers show up first to get the bees in the area by the time the female ones arrive.

I've been sending pictures of it nearly everyday to my gardening friend who dreams of becoming a squash farmer when she retires.

I've been very impressed with this plant. You may even see a small snap in the vine. When it reached the edge of the bed it broke after a big storm. I propped it up a bit with a card board box and it's been fine. No wilting. It was at a 90 degree angle, too.

Recent research on a changing battle between parasite and host bird species. Fascinating how animals continue to adapt to the pressures on their population.

cross-posted from: https://pixelfed.crimedad.work/p/crimedad/589601640119844278

[OC] A shell on a rock.

Just a macro shot of a seashell.

#macro #shore #newhavenharbor #seashell

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Is the green on the end of this stump new plant growth or fungus that I should cut off? I read a little on lucky bamboo and they seem hearty other than being chloride sensitive and being susceptible to fungus.

I’m very much a novice, so please excuse me if this is a simple question. I inherited a lucky bamboo plant and have trimmed it and began forming it with guide wire. I also clipped the clearly yellow/brown ends.