Amkuska's 2025 Garden

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By "Audrey's" – is that a reference to the kid's teevee cartoon, @ducks4you ? Audrey as a name choice must be starting over. They seemed to be all older than me. "Karen," I'm disappointed that it has come to have negatively entangled. I like that name.

DW and I were overwhelmed with just 8 tomato plants in 2024 with 1 of the 8, a volunteer cherry. They all came on late so there was only a short time to enjoy them fresh. Too much wind, some were even damaged by being beaten around.

Then, the plants recovered — boy, did they! Anyway, the freezer filled up.

Steve

 

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Nope,
"Audrey" is the meat eating plant from "Little Shop of Horrors."

 

[ducks4you]

Btw, it is reminiscent of the Venus Fly Trap.

Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Image Details Venus flytrap is a perennial plant that blooms year after year in May and June. Their flowers are on stalks 8 to 12 inches tall and well above the trap shaped leaves so they don't catch the same species of insects that come to pollinate their flowers. Photo by Dale Suiter, June 15...

www.fws.gov

 

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Btw, it is reminiscent of the Venus Fly Trap.

Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Image Details Venus flytrap is a perennial plant that blooms year after year in May and June. Their flowers are on stalks 8 to 12 inches tall and well above the trap shaped leaves so they don't catch the same species of insects that come to pollinate their flowers. Photo by Dale Suiter, June 15...

www.fws.gov

i once hand-pollenated some flowers in a terrarium of VFs, it worked and i had seeds ripen. they look like tiny little eggplants. i went on to sprout them and started to grow them and we went on vacation. i asked my sister to keep an eye on them to make sure they didn't dry out. came home to them being very tiny black threads (aka very dried out and completely dead). end of that experiment...