Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

Just pulled these today.

 

Yum! Love those jalapeños!

 

I hate them. But am required to plant them since i made stuff when i screwed up and planted them a few years back. Dad expects canned every year now. Made a pepper relish with some this year as well for him.

 

You hate them, but you make really good stuff with them. Huh.....
I don't know what to say.

 

Beautiful! We still have three or four weeks of summer before fall shows up lol.

 

Fixed a problem the other night

 

I messed up a few years back, and planted like 10 plants. I had so many I had to start doing something with them as I couldn’t give them away fast enough.

Dad liked everything so much, the least i can do is plant a few each year now and make stuff for him.

 

Yep, sometimes our gardens go crazy, and sometimes not so much. I am giving away quite a bit of produce this year. Next year, who knows...

 

wth are those?!

 

I think they're red wasps. I think. They're about 1.5x bigger than our regular brown wasp. They were never aggressive, but I also didn't know there were as many as there were. I used a whole can of wasp and hornet spray and still had to step on two the next morning and one the day after that.

And apparently they don't lose they're stinger and can sting multiple times:
Typical paper wasps are relatively unaggressive, but red wasps have been known to be quite aggressive, delivering painful stings. They do not lose their stingers and are able to sting repeatedly.
https://wordpressua.uark.edu/arthmuse/red-wasp/

 

glad I dont have them here, otherwise I'd get stung by them...closest thing here is a bald face hornet. they are about double the size of a yellow jacket and sting hurts. Ive only been stung once a long time ago, I still remember it.

https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/stinging-insects/bald-faced-hornets/

 

Redrum! Redrum! Redrum!

We don't get the red ones this far north, just Yellowjackets, bald-faced bastards, and paper wasps. Plus the usual bees (bumble, mason, squash, etc).

 

Same here lol

 

Ever seen a sand hornet (cicada killer)? I stepped on one when I was a kid, my little toe swelled up to the size of my big toe.

 

Nope, cant say i have...otherwise id prob get stung by one...if you guys havent figured out. Just about every hornet or honey bee, has stung me at one point or another...lol mostly yellow jackets, and wasps here so thats what i get stung by. And its a good thing in not allergic...

 

Those are nasty bastards

 

Jalapeños still going ,some are getting darker .

 

they look healthy! I'd grill them up and eat with a burger, just add a little salt to them

 

Went 4 for 4 at the local Ag Fair this weekend. Not bad considering I'm going up against a bunch of little blue-haired old ladies who've probably been canning for longer than I've been alive.

 

NSFW...language...this is prob them...