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Post by lisaann on Aug 30, 2019 8:57:26 GMT -5
SpringRainποΈ ,ahntjudy ,Wheelgarden ,Mumsey ,tom π ,binnylou ,gardendmpls ,pepperhead212 ,lisaann ,
The garlic chives are busy right now:
100_3426 by shallon stryker, on Flickr
Look closely.
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Post by tom π on Aug 30, 2019 9:14:46 GMT -5
The garlic chives are busy right now Mine looks the same. I see a bee, a spider to the left and above the bee, and several other bugs. I offered the flowers to my sister for floral work, but she is afraid to use them because of their slight garlic odor. I noticed this morning that some are making seed and am going to cut them down to prevent setting seed.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 30, 2019 9:23:46 GMT -5
Mine are just starting now. I have 6 or 7 patches of them now - I don't even bother planting them anymore!
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Post by tom π on Aug 30, 2019 9:49:07 GMT -5
Mine are just starting now. I have 6 or 7 patches of them now - I don't even bother planting them anymore! pepperhead212, do you have any advice about using them? I am not making good use of mine.
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Post by lisaann on Aug 30, 2019 10:59:20 GMT -5
any advice about using them? I like to infuse the flowers in oil. Put them in a jar and pour in oil. Use infused oil to fry okra or zuke fries. Use infused oil in a salad dressing. I do the same with onion chives. Add flowers to Salsa. When soaking chicken in buttermilk, add flowers of chives to the buttermilk to soak, before doing your battering and frying.
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Post by SpringRainποΈ on Aug 30, 2019 13:04:00 GMT -5
lisaann, they're SO lovely - both the chive flowers and the butterflies. I'm curious - what is the white area to the left of the chives? It looks like snow!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 30, 2019 14:47:57 GMT -5
tom π, I use garlic chives in countless things! Many salads, as well as sprinkled on soups, and added to dishes where I want a garlic flavor, but the raw garlic gets too powerful with just a single clove (yes, I did say that! lol). Many salads, that call for raw onion or scallions, I substitute chives or garlic chives for, since they are better leftover (and I always have leftovers, with the amounts I make!). I used to have a patch of garlic chives, as well as regular chives, in my herb bed, and the garlic chives spread into my lawn, as a weed (not that I minded!), from the seeds, while I never had this happen with regular chives - never made sense. Eventually, I let them grow behind my shed, and removed the clump from the herb bed, since it was taking over it with the roots.
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Post by tom π on Aug 30, 2019 17:26:18 GMT -5
I use garlic chives in countless things I read that stalks with unopened flowers could be used like asparagus. Went out to cut mine and found three such stalks. They are like asparagus. I just tried frying the flowers. They aren't bad either, but I have an impaired sense of taste. Don't know how they would taste to a normal person. I may try garlic chives flowers in vinegar.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 31, 2019 13:29:12 GMT -5
I just went out this morning to cut a handful of garlic chives, for another batch of that lentil salad I make throughout the summer, as soon as the cherry tomatoes start producing. The flowers on one cluster of chives had started opening - about half of them - but only one or two here and there on the other clusters. I think the one in the sun the most was the one with the most open. All were loaded with flowers, ready to pop open. Eventually, I may have nothing but garlic chives behind my shed!
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Post by Vokar on Sept 20, 2019 23:53:30 GMT -5
We've got painted lady butterflies. I saw them more earlier in the season, though.
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Post by Vokar on Sept 21, 2019 3:14:27 GMT -5
Now we've got loads of white butterflies. I think our horseradish plants attracted most of them. We get swallowtails sometimes, I think (the ones that look like monarchs with yellow instead of red). When I was younger, I saw a lot of common leopard butterflies, but I haven't seen any as an adult, to my knowledge. We get Monarch butterflies sometimes, but they're rare. Mostly, we have white butterflies, and similar ones to the white ones, with Painted Lady being the next most common, these days. I think the white ones come from cabbage worms. (Fortunately, they don't spoil the horseradish; even with fewer white butterflies cabbage worms still have a hayday on our cabbage.)
I didn't know the names of any of our butterflies (other than Monarchs) until June this year or so. Then I researched more butterflies and I wrote a post very similar to this on my own forum. Glad to see others thought about it before me! =)
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Post by Wheelgarden on Oct 6, 2019 20:48:51 GMT -5
These guys have shown up in our area this year. Never seen them before at all. About 2 inches long from head to tail, and the same width. DS took the pic, but I never get close enough to tell if they're skippers, moths, or butterflies, and I can't find a match online (stupid computer ;) )...any ideas?
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Post by tom π on Oct 7, 2019 7:57:05 GMT -5
These guys have shown up in our area this year. What is the shape of the tail end of the wings?
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Post by Wheelgarden on Oct 7, 2019 15:23:54 GMT -5
What is the shape of the tail end of the wings? As best as I can tell, the wings are quite like a hawk moth, with a fan tail. I can't get a good look at the antennae, which is usually how I usually differentiate butterlies, moths, and skippers. A very attractive little critter.
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Post by Vokar on Oct 7, 2019 21:01:49 GMT -5
We're having loads of white (and maybe buttery yellow) butterflies on our asters! The honeybees like them, too, this year.
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