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Vanessa ist eine im Jahr 1965 gezüchtete Weißweinsorte und Tafeltraubensorte mit kernlosen Beeren. Sie ist eine interspezifische Neuzüchtung zwischen Seneca und N.Y. 45910 (Bath x Interlaken Seedless).[1]
In der Neuzüchtung sind Gene von Vitis labrusca und Vitis vinifera enthalten. Die Kreuzung der Hybride erfolgte im Jahre 1965 in Kanada durch die beiden Züchter K. Helen Fisher und O. A. Bradt. Die bis zu minus 25 °Celsius frostbeständige Rebe wird überwiegend als Tafeltraube genutzt. Sie besitzt rosafarbene mittelgroße Beeren. Inzwischen wird sie nicht nur in Kanada und im Nordosten der USA, sondern auch in Frankreich und Deutschland angebaut. Vanessa ist eine mittelfrüh fruchtende und reichtragende Rebsorte besonders für den Hausgarten. Die Beeren sind mittelgroß mit festem Fruchtfleisch und knackigem Biss. Der Geschmack ist fruchtig-aromatisch mit einer ausgeprägten Süße. Sie gilt als eine der besten kernlosen Sorten. Die Pflanzen werden auf reblausresistender Unterlage veredelt und sind pilzfest. (Quelle: Wikipedia)
Vanessa is a white wine grape variety and table grape variety with seedless berries that was bred in 1965. It is an interspecific hybrid between Seneca and N.Y. 45910 (Bath x Interlaken Seedless).[1]
The new variety contains genes from Vitis labrusca and Vitis vinifera. The hybrid was crossed in 1965 in Canada by the two breeders K. Helen Fisher and O. A. Bradt. The vine, which is frost-resistant down to minus 25 °Celsius, is mainly used as a table grape. It has pink, medium-sized berries. It is now grown not only in Canada and the northeastern United States, but also in France and Germany. Vanessa is a medium-early fruiting and high-yielding grape variety, particularly suitable for home gardens. The berries are medium-sized with firm flesh and a crisp bite. The taste is fruity and aromatic with a pronounced sweetness. It is considered one of the best seedless varieties. The plants are grafted onto phylloxera-resistant rootstock and are fungus-resistant. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Technically, the blackberry is a drupelet, or a cluster of fruits, like a bunch of grapes.
Popular to use in desserts, jams, seedless jelly, and sometimes wine. Often mixed with apples for pies and crumbles.
They also make a delicious blackberry soup, making a great appetizer or a dessert soup.
Blackberry Soup
4 cups blackberries, fresh or frozen, thawed and drained
2 cups cold water
1/2 lemon, sliced
1/4 cup sugar
3 whole cloves
2-inch stick cinnamon
1/2 cup cream
Set aside a few berries to use as a garnish. Combine berries, water, lemon, sugar, cloves, and cinnamon.. Simmer, mashing berries with a spoon, until fruit is soft. Strain through a fine sieve, pressing to remove as much juice as possible. Cool, chill well, and blend in cream. Garnish with berries or whipped cream, or both.
Blackberry fruit in the garden of my mother-in-law :)
Blackberry - usually prickly, fruit-bearing bush of the genus Rubus, in the rose family, native chiefly to northern temperate regions. The blackberry is abundant in eastern North America and on the Pacific coast; in the British Isles and Western Europe it is common in thickets and hedges. Its usually biennial, prickly, and erect, semierect, or trailing stems bear leaves with usually three or five oval, coarsely toothed, stalked leaflets; white, pink, or red flowers in terminal clusters; and black or red-purple aggregate fruits. Blackberry fruit start ripening toward the middle of July. They are small, green, hard, and sour at first, becoming larger, and when fully ripe, juicy and sweet. Ripe and unripe berries frequently appear on the plants at the same time. Cultivated blackberries are notable for their significant contents of dietary fiber, vitamin C, and vitamin K. The soft fruit is popular for use in desserts, jams, seedless jelly, and sometimes wine. It is often mixed with apples for pies and crumbles. Blackberries are also used to produce candy.
Latin name: Rubus plicatus
Polish name: jeżyna.
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The first 25 of my 100X project, where X = monochrome close-ups of plants
1. Limonium sinuatum - Statice - dried, 2. Cornus - Dogwood, 3. Euonymus europaeus - Spindle - buds, 4. Helipterum roseum - Flower, dried, 5. Sambucus nigra - Black Elder - buds, 6. Limonium sinuatum - Statice, 7. Cornus - Dogwood - branching, 8. Corylus avellana - Hazel - Catkin, 9. Thlaspi arvense - Field Pennycress - Seed Capsules, 10. Crocus Chrysanthus - Cream Beauty, 11. Acer campestre - Field Maple, 12. Platanus x hispanica - London Plane - fruit, 13. Platanus x hispanica - London Plane - fruit, 14. Crack Willow - Salix fragilis - Bud, 15. Populus tremula - Aspen - Catkins, 16. Fraxinus excelsior - Ash - fruit, 17. Tilia - Lime - Fruit, 18. Heart of Hellebore, 19. Winter Clematis - Seedhead, 20. Papaver cambricum - Welsh Poppy - leaf, 21. Rumex sanguineus - Red-veined Sorrel - leaf, 22. Seedless, 23. Prunus cerasifera - Cherry Plum - Blossom, 24. Centaurea cyanus - Cornflower - Seeds, 25. Narcissus - Daffodil - Flower detail
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas.
The earliest domestication of bananas was from naturally occurring parthenocarpic (seedless) individuals of Musa banksii in New Guinea. These were cultivated by Papuans before the arrival of Austronesian-speakers. Numerous phytoliths of bananas have been recovered from the Kuk Swamp archaeological site and dated to around 10,000 to 6,500 years ago.
Barcelona, Spain.
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A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, colour and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colours when ripe. It grows upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or hybrids of them.
Flowing glower
Witless knower
Seedless sower
If it's all a lie
Will you realize?
(WHAT am I wearing??? - SCROLL down ⬇️ )
Right before we die
My soul leads to the wrong
Changeling of the night
Now that I bleed a song
Purely based on fright
Sad with my face so long
I have this new sight
Flowing Glower.....
Numbed the pain
Way high and real low
Now it feels the same
Have love or feel so
Hollowed out with shame
Hoping to see the day
With my brand new name
Flowing Glower....
Then in time, you'll find
Thirst becomes boring
Lest your heart and mind
Now that we're soaring
Over space and time
Done with exploring
All you are is mine
Flowing Glower...
Seek and you shall find
Everything in sight
Read between the lines
I'll show you the light
Here in the afterlife
FLOWING GLOWER
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The banana is an edible fruit, botanically a berry,[2][3] produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in thegenus Musa.[4] In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edibleparthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata ×M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name Musa sapientum is no longer used.
Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia, and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea.[5][6] They are grown in at least 107 countries,[7] primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make fiber, banana wineand banana beer and as ornamental plants.
Worldwide, there is no sharp distinction between "bananas" and "plantains". Especially in the Americas and Europe, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet, dessert bananas, particularly those of the Cavendish group, which are the main exports from banana-growing countries. By contrast, Musa cultivars with firmer, starchier fruit are called "plantains". In other regions, such asSoutheast Asia, many more kinds of banana are grown and eaten, so the simple twofold distinction is not useful and is not made in local languages.
The term "banana" is also used as the common name for the plants which produce the fruit.[4] This can extend to other members of the genus Musa like the scarlet banana (Musa coccinea), pink banana (Musa velutina) and the Fe'i bananas. It can also refer to members of the genus Ensete, like the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum). Both genera are classified under the banana family, Musaceae.
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Macro Mondays theme: Citrus
This smiley was very happy because he knew that this lovely juicy Satsuma dripping with loveliness was in fact ....
one of his five-a-day of fruit or vegetables .... he was so happy because he detests veg .... Happy Days.
Love & Peace ...HMM! everyone.
We are very fortunate to have access to blackberries that grow in our neighbour's yard but cascade over our back fence. Because of all the sun this year we have a bumper crop. My husband is the master blackberry picker. He inherited his skills from his mother who was the most energetic and serious blackberry picker I've ever known. He picks, I clean and prepare the seedless jam and we all enjoy the fruits of our labours all winter lavishly smeared on hot buttered toast.
I was contemplating if I should take a photo of snacks that I should but, NOT most of the time, or snacks that I have MOST of the time, but SHOULDN'T!
I have planned on the latter but my sister went to the Farmers Market yesterday and bought me a bag of Mandarin Oranges and Seedless Grapes, so I changed my mind decided to snack on them!
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: SNACK
SUBJECT: SEEDLESS GRAPE and a MANDARIN ORANGE
(not quite 2.5" horizontally)
YES, subjects were consumed plus a few more! They are pretty juicy!
True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant. Though some cultivated tomatoes may be seedless.
Sugar-apple is the fruit of Annona squamosa, the most widely grown species of Annona and a native of the tropical Americas and West Indies. The Spanish traders and others brought it to Asia where its old Mexican name ate may still be found in Bengali ata, Nepalese aati, Sinhalese katu atha, Burmese aajaa thee, and atis in the Philippines. It is also known as custard apple (mainly Annona reticulata) in the Philippines.[1]
The fruit is round to conical, 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) in diameter and 6–10 cm (2.4–3.9 in) long, and weighing 100–240 g (3.5–8.5 oz), with a thick rind composed of knobby segments. The color is typically pale green to blue-green, with a deep pink blush in certain varieties, and typically has a bloom. It is unique among Annona fruits in being segmented, and the segments tend to separate when ripe, exposing the interior.
The flesh is fragrant and sweet, creamy white to light yellow, and resembles and tastes like custard. It is found adhering to 13-to-16-millimetre-long (0.51 to 0.63 in) seeds to form individual segments arranged in a single layer around the conical core. It is soft, slightly grainy, and slippery. The hard, shiny seeds may number 20–40 or more per fruit, and have a brown to black coat, although varieties exist that are almost seedless.[1][2]
There are also new varieties being developed in Taiwan. The atemoya or "pineapple sugar-apple", a hybrid between the sugar apple and the cherimoya, is popular in Taiwan, although it was first developed in the US in 1908. The fruit is similar in sweetness to the sugar apple but has a very different taste. As the name suggests, it tastes like pineapple. The arrangement of seeds is in spaced rows, with the fruit's flesh filling most of the fruit and making grooves for the seeds, instead of the flesh only occurring around the seeds.
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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) (පිපිඤ්ඤා) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae gourd family that bears cucumiform fruits, which are used as vegetables. There are three main varieties of cucumber—slicing, pickling, and burpless/seedless—within which several cultivars have been created
Had a little toddle along the beach at St. Leonards this afternoon, and then through some nearby gardens, where I snapped this.
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color, and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. The fruits grow upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or hybrids of them.
Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia; they were probably domesticated in New Guinea. They are grown in 135 countries, primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make banana paper and textiles, while some are grown as ornamental plants. The world's largest producers of bananas in 2022 were India and China, which together accounted for approximately 26% of total production. Bananas are eaten raw or cooked in recipes varying from curries to banana chips, fritters, fruit preserves, or simply baked or steamed.
Worldwide, there is no sharp distinction between dessert "bananas" and cooking "plantains": this works well enough in the Americas and Europe, but it breaks down in Southeast Asia where many more kinds of bananas are grown and eaten. The term "banana" is applied also to other members of the genus Musa, such as the scarlet banana (Musa coccinea), the pink banana (Musa velutina), and the Fe'i bananas. Members of the genus Ensete, such as the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum) of Africa are sometimes included. Both genera are in the banana family, Musaceae.
Banana plantations are subject to damage by parasitic nematodes and insect pests, and to fungal and bacterial diseases, one of the most serious being Panama disease which is caused by a Fusarium fungus. This and black sigatoka threaten the production of Cavendish bananas, the main kind eaten in the Western world, which is a triploid Musa acuminata. Plant breeders are seeking new varieties, but these are difficult to breed given that commercial varieties are seedless. To enable future breeding, banana germplasm is conserved in multiple gene banks around the world.
Parrots love Capsicum (Bell Pepper) seeds.
I bought a special blue plate for Blue Parrot and put capsicum seeds. When I came back, Baby Parrot was there. Not very fair. I cut another one for Blue parrot.
We have to eat tons of capsicums. Seeds run out quickly.
I wish people can send me a lot of capsicum seeds.
*They prefer Chili seeds 🌶 more but they're more expensive. Normally they eat capsicum seeds.
*Recently they introduced GM seedless capsicums.
Sometimes empty. It makes me very angry 😡
Sweet clementine oranges, that is! Clementines — commonly known by the brand names Cuties or Halos — are a hybrid of mandarin and sweet oranges. These tiny fruits are bright orange, easy to peel, sweeter than most other citrus fruits, and typically seedless
Seedless papaya fruit are unpollinated papaya fruit from a female tree.
The natural or induced development of seedless papaya fruits without fertilization refers to parthenocarpy . This is a form of asexual reproduction in plants.
Grapes are processed and used in many different foods. This week I have taken some grapes and sultanas to show the process of eating the same food but at different times, due to methods of preservation. I did want to have a grape seed in their too but the grapes were seedless!!! HMM
Went for a little toddle along the beach this morning and it was heavenly :) I'm off to Scotland tomorrow, a 600 mile drive in the rain :(
Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis, or the fingered citron, is a citron variety whose fruit is segmented into finger-like sections, resembling those seen on representations of the Buddha. It is called Buddha's hand in many languages including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and French.
The different cultivars and variations of this citron variety form a gradient from "open-hand" types with outward-splayed segments to "closed-hand" types, in which the fingers are kept together. There are also half-fingered fruits, in which the basal side is united and the apical side fingered. The origin of this kind of citron is commonly traced back to South or East Asia, probably northeastern India or China, where most domesticated citrus fruits originate.[1]
Description
Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis[2] is, like any other citron variety, a shrub or small tree with long, irregular branches covered in thorns. Its large, oblong leaves are pale green and grow about four to six inches. Its white flowers are tinted purplish from the outside and grow in fragrant clusters. The fruit's fingers contain only the white part of the fruit and sometimes a small amount of acidic pulp, but many of them are completely juiceless and some are seedless.[3]
The plant is sensitive to frost, as well as intense heat and drought. It grows best in a temperate climate. Trees can be grown from cuttings taken from branches two to four years old. It is very commonly grafted onto sufficient rootstock.
Restoration House in Rochester, Kent in England, is a fine example of an Elizabethan mansion. It is so named after the visit of King Charles II on the eve of his restoration.
Charles had landed in Dover on 25 May 1660 and by the evening of the 28th arrived in Rochester. He was received by the Mayor and eventually retired for the night to the home of Colonel Gibbon. The following day Charles continued to London and was proclaimed King on 29 May, his 30th birthday. Although the home of Colonel Gibbon, the property was actually owned by Sir Francis Clerke (he was knighted during the visit), a fact which has led to confusion in the past.[1]
Although it is a private home, the house and garden are open to the public during the summer.[2] The house is protected as a Grade I listed building.[3]
History
Restoration House was originally two medieval buildings (1454 and 1502–22) with a space between.[1] They were joined in 1640–1660 (tree ring data from roof) by inserting a third building between the two, to create a larger house.[1][4] The first owner of the completed house was Henry Clerke, a lawyer and Rochester MP.[1] Clerke caused further works in 1670, the refacing of the entrance facade, the Great Staircase and other internal works.[1] The house was then bought by William Bockenham.[5] It was owned by Stephen T. Aveling in the late 19th century,[6] and he wrote a history of the house which was published in Vol. 15 of "Archaeologia Cantiana".[7]
The house was purchased for £270,000[8] by the English entertainer Rod Hull, in 1986, to save it from being turned into a car park;[9] and he then spent another £500,000 restoring it.[10] It was taken by the Receiver in 1994 to cover an unpaid tax bill.[9]
The current owners over the past decade have uncovered decoration schemes from the mid 17th century, which reveal the fashionable taste of the period, much influenced by the fashions on the continent.[4]
Charles Dickens
According to the biographer John Forster, the novelist Charles Dickens, who lived nearby, used Restoration House as a model for Miss Havisham's Satis House in Great Expectations.[11] The name "Satis House" belongs to the house where Rochester MP, Sir Richard Watts, entertained Queen Elizabeth I; it is now the administrative office of King's School, Rochester. Wikipedia
The Frogmore Cotton Gin (previously known as the Piazza Gin Building) is a two-story frame building constructed sometime before about 1880 (due to the use of square nails), but its exact date cannot be determined. The present equipment is later than the building, but it is impossible to know exactly when it was manufactured and installed. Much of it bears patent dates of 1883 and 1884. The Munger double box press has to have been made and installed after 1890, because it has Birmingham stamped on it, and the company did not open a plant in that city until 1890.
Representing a major technological innovation called "system ginning," the Piazza gin was state-of-the-art for its period. Cotton was sucked from wagons via a circular tin duct into a wooden Munger separator which is high above the surrounding machinery. The suction process was actuated by a fan within the duct system which was powered from the drive shaft on the lower floor. Cotton was being transported through the flow of air, and the purpose of the separator was to remove the excess air and force the cotton into the separator's hopper-like bottom. The cotton fed from the bottom of the separator into a two-tier system of conveyor belts with a wooden housing. The belts swept the cotton along into a pair of Gullett gin stands. The conveyor mechanism made it possible to regulate the amount of cotton going into each stand. Each stand is fabricated of magnolia wood and iron and is a two-stage boxy affair. The upper portion, or feeder, encases a large wooden roller featuring rows of iron spikes. These removed leaves and other foreign objects from the cotton and forced it into the ginning mechanism below. Here a series of circular saw blades with iron ribs between removed the seeds. The teeth of the saw blades literally tore shreds of cotton away from the seeds. The seeds then fell to the floor. The seedless cotton, now called lint, was forced from the two gin stands into a pair of tin battery condensers. The condensers are essentially large ducts that channel the cotton to the baling stage which was centered around a pair of deep wooden boxes mounted on a circular platform set at one end of the gin house. The platform is set flush with the ginning floor and is supported by a central iron post which allows it to rotate. It is almost as wide as the building, and when stationary, one large cotton box is on each side of the building. The box on the south side was fed lint from the condenser via a special feeder known as a tamper which "tamped" the cotton into the box. When the box was full, the platform was rotated 180 degrees, which brought the filled box on top of a screw thread press located in the floor below. It also brought the empty box from the other side of the gin underneath the tamper, for the filling process to begin again. The lint in each successive box was compressed upward into a normal size bale, which once complete, was released from the box using latches. The press was powered from the drive shaft on the ground floor, while the platform itself was rotated manually. A signature feature of the gin building is a pair of large rooftop ventilators (seen painted in red in the photograph above) which extend several feet above the roofline. These functioned to release exhaust from the separator and the tamper.
The Piazza Gin had been abandoned for years in its former location and was moved in 1997 from Rodney, Mississippi to its present location (seen above) on the Frogmore Cotton Plantation. The new setting is historically appropriate because Frogmore is a historic cotton plantation which once had a similar gin. The second floor of the gin building and the ginning/pressing equipment were moved intact. The roof had to be removed for the move, and the first floor structure was removed due to severe deterioration. Its drive shaft was removed intact, as were the steam engine and gristmill. Once on site, the roof and first floor were rebuilt, the drive shaft put back in place, and the steam engine and gristmill positioned where they had been originally.
Early gins are so rare, virtually non-existent, because continuing technological improvements rendered them obsolete. The Piazza cotton gin is of regional significance within the South as an extremely rare surviving historic cotton gin. More specifically, as an example of "system ginning," it represents the remarkable technological improvements made in cotton ginning in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Because of its rarity and significance, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on January 27, 1999. All of the information above, and much more, was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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last nights dumpster diving expedition #2:
assorted turnovers, apple fritters, cinnamon rolls, bagels & loaves of bread
2 heads of lettuce
2 zucchini
hummus
6 bags of salad
3 cans of fair trade coffee
2 potatoes
2 bananas
2 apples
pfeffernusse (those white german spice cookies)
13 tomatoes
chocolate truffles a plenty
1 lime
2 bags of green seedless grapes
organic creamy tomato soup
chicken pot pie
frozen orange chicken
brie cheese
veggie and flaxseed chips
baby dill
dark chocolate almond bar
cole slaw
a bag of tangerines
6 country italian salads
and lastly, 9 bottles of charles shaw (those are bottles of wine for those uniformed btw)
waste not.
A Midwinter Hokku
Moss plants busy
Absorbing greenhouse gases;
Let's plant more plants!
Highly magnified individual moss plants (male gametophytes) with raindrops on the tiny leaflets. The raindrops facilitate the movement of the sperm in search of an egg!
Mosses are seedless, nonvascular plants and do not produce flowers nor seeds, but they do produce sperm, eggs, and spores. Also, as plants do, they remove CO2 from our atmosphere and give us oxygen gas in return. So, as the hokku says, let's grow more trees, flowers, and forbs, to absorb the CO2 we're vomiting into our atmosphere!
Moss life cycle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA6-YbsiMhI
The importance of mosses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVeBSKK88Ig&t=1s
Green River Bluffs Trail, Mammoth Cave National Park, KY, USA.
Theme Day: Thanksgiving
Todays thanksgiving dinner is brought to you for free by your local neighborhood grocery dumpster. Be thankful everyone that we live in a country of such excess!
(we seriously went dumpster diving at 1am today and got all this food. i couldnt even get it all in the shot there was so much. remember this today as you are stuffing your faces with food! Gobble, gobble!)
list: oranges, apples, bags of salad, red onions, kiwis, a loaf of bread, green seedless grapes, squash, potatoes, tomatoes, avocados, bell peppers, cantaloupe, bananas, laundry detergent, a bag of flour, garlic, asian pears, and 31 frozen pizzas. yes, i said 31. and im sure there was a lot more i forgot.
"Thompson seedless - A vigorous deciduous vine with bold-textured, deep green foliage, grown for its large bunches of classic, small, sweet, mild-flavored, green grapes. A good mid-season table grape. This vigorous, twining vine works well as a screen for arbors or trailing along fences."
And now to something totally different. I gave this plant to my husband as a birthday present a couple of years ago and it has finally produced this fruit (actually, it produced two of these).
Buddha's Hand, Buddha's Hand citron, or Fingered citron (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylus) is a fragrant citrus fruit. It grows on a shrub or small tree with long, irregular branches covered in thorns. Its large, oblong leaves are pale green and grow about four to six inches. Its flowers are white or purplish and grow in fragrant clusters.
The fruit itself is a type of citron and is often described as lemon-like. The fruit is segmented into finger-like sections. It has a thick peel and a small amount of acidic flesh and is seedless and juiceless. It is very fragrant and is used predominantly by the Chinese and Japanese for perfuming rooms and personal items, such as clothing. (from Wikipedia).