EPISODE 434 GARDEN FLOWERS AT THEIR BEST…THE FROST IS COMING
alan skeoch
Sept. 21, 2021
Gardens everywhere are stunning as September fades slowly into October and
the evening frost hovers somewhere down the time tunnel. . Makes the flowers Something to cherish.
But first a task. See if you can find this little tree frog on the leaves below.
My oldest friend, Russ Vanstone, cannot understand why gardeners grow giant pumpkins and twisty gourds. They cannot be eaten.
Neither can the flowers be eaten. But Russ would say flowers are beautiful. So are the giant pumpkins, I might respond.
I put two tomatoes on the pumpkin skid just to show how huge these pumpkins have become. The pumpkins are
so big that they cannot be lifted…just rolled ono a skid for the Bob cat to lift. What can be done with them?
Can someone explain how to cook these things. Are they a kind of sushi. I seem to remember wedges being sliced and weighed
in a market in Switzerland. I grew them by accident this year. Are they consumable? How? Were they Random seeds…or
did I get them as tiny plants without a name tag. I have no idea. As the story goes, “they just growed!”