Surviving Minnesota!

[jerryse]

This is what we always called Elephant Ear. My mom said it is called Velvet-leaf, and is invasive in MN.

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Yes velvet leaf also known as button weed .

 

[jerryse]

View attachment 1847824 Here is Minnesota Burdock. Or we used to call it cockle burrs on the farm. They get in cow tails and manes something aweful. Very noxious. flower is usually purple. Photo is from the internet.

While searching for a photo I see people were selling plants. Apparently the root has some homeopathic use. IDK...

Yes burdock . Cocklebur is a different plant . I have both to contend with .

 

[duluthralphie]

Yes burdock . Cocklebur is a different plant . I have both to contend with .

You mean we call a plant by a name it isn’t??

Next thing you will try to tell us Popple is not a real tree name.

 

[jerryse]

You mean we call a plant by a name it isn’t??

Next thing you will try to tell us Popple is not a real tree name.

Well it is not .

 

[duluthralphie]

Well it is not .

People from other areas go ape when we talk about popples

 

[Cebarmlds]

I prefer a red rhubarb and irregardless of the many internet photos that imply Victoria is red, it is a green rhubarb. My other rhubarb plants have never bloomed and my Victoria plants would start blooming right away. The bees loved the blossoms so I let them be that first year. Later that year I had rhubarb plants coming up all over the garden. I posted a craigslist ad and gave away over 100 rhubarb seedlings that year and at least another 20 the next spring from the ones that I had previously overlooked.

Right now I have seedlings of Holstein Rhubarb which are said to have the reddest stalks.

Do the red and green have much difference in taste? The rhubarb I have I dug up from my dads old homestead, it gets quite large and I would say it’s the green although it has a bit of red. As kids we’d grab a palm full of salt and go out and get a stalk of rhubarb and eat it with the salt. Now days I’ll eat it plain while I’m out at the garden.

 

[jerryse]

Cocklebur top picture and burdock bottom picture . Sprayed both today .

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Yes burdock . Cocklebur is a different plant . I have both to contend with .

Ok jerry I need to see what cocklebur looks like in Illinois. Lol. All my life this has been cockleburs.

All this talk about rhubarb . I have to share with you. Last week I ate rhubarb and limes with a miracle berry. Have you tried these?!

Some of the young folks at work were sharing and got me out from my desk. You have a rinse or drink of water. Swished around cleaning your palate. Then you chew 1/2 berry for 30 seconds. Then for the next 1/2 hour everything you eat is sweetened. Straight up limes were like limeaid. Rhubarb . Easy... lemons. Grapefruit was actually too sweet. Amazing little berry. I think it lasted about an hour though because my lasagna tasted a little sweeter. Cool stuff. I guess it’s a diet aid if your trying to lose weight. Restrict calories. Sweets.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Photos from tonight:

Baby girls: Edith Pilaf

Loretta and Cosette.

The hunka hunka burning love.

And my summer love:

A bowl full of basil! Well two this year!

Just need the romas to ripen...

 

[R2elk]

Do the red and green have much difference in taste? The rhubarb I have I dug up from my dads old homestead, it gets quite large and I would say it’s the green although it has a bit of red. As kids we’d grab a palm full of salt and go out and get a stalk of rhubarb and eat it with the salt. Now days I’ll eat it plain while I’m out at the garden.

There is a taste difference. I know that when I would be down around the Victoria rhubarb doing weeding that it smelled awesome. Victoria does get some red on the lower part of the stalks but overall it has far more green than red. I never noticed the red being any more than skin deep on it. I had one type that was red the whole way through and was the sweetest rhubarb that I ever ate. When I make a pie, I cut up all the red for the filling and use whatever is left to make the rhubarb equivalent of applesauce.