You may want to check out the orchard forums instead :)

lol!! oops I thought it said orchard not orchid. off to repost.

I love peaches,
Maybe we could start a Peach thread..

Jane

I love peaches, too... especially the ones with white flesh! It would have to be on the other side, though... off-topic and censoring, you know... lol! :-)

Well....this looks like the perfect place for one of my "wildlife" (non-my-beaut-orchid) photos!!!
Off the off-topic!! Her main diet? Mr/Mrs. Mosquito!! I love her! She's 5 inches long - legs included!!
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ps: don't get on my case or I'll post more of my BIRD PICTURES!!!!.......LOL.......

OK, Pat,
Banana is a fruit, too, so you're only slightly off topic lol.
I'm so bored - nothing is happening apart from a new case of leaf burn - from early morning filtered sun!
Even a silverfish or a cockroach would be welcome - well, perhaps not...
Love the banana shape and colour.
Judy

"you're only slightly off topic"

.........;0(

There there - it was a good try, pat :) How long has she been with you? Does she give you lots of little baby spiders each year?

They appear around March. Built a web, eat mosquitoes and other bugs by night, repair their webs by day. In October/November, she'll mate with the **tiny** male, kill and eat him, and build her egg pouch - then she will die.

Now I'm really sad.......;0(

BUT!! with spring comes hundreds of babies - only a few will live to adulthood - to carry on the miracle, we call life.

Now Calvin - that concludes your Banana Spider lesson for today.

Pat...

Having a huge spider phobia, I'll probably have nightmares tonight! That's a great photo, though, and spiders are very good for gardens! I dislike sharing my home with them, but I do catch and release them back into the garden!

I love peach pie, peach cobbler, peaches and cream. Wish I had a picture to post.

Jane

JANE!! PLEASE try to stay off-topic!!!
I swear!!

hmmm.......

aawwhhh hush now lit' Janie, I gonna sing ya a lully bye....

hush lit' janie don't ya cry....
mama gonna buy ya a ol' peach pie...
if'en that ol' peach pie make ya cry....
mama gonna throw ya in the ol' con side....

PEACH PIE:
(Filling)
1 kg (2.2lb) yellow peaches or nectarines
2 tb plain flour
1 ts cinnamon(more effective as a spice than as a fungicide for orchids)
1/2 ts ground nutmeg
1/2 c sugar
(Pastry)
1 1/2 cups SR Flour
1 1/2 cups Plain Flour
200 g (approx 8 oz) butter
1 egg
4 tb sugar
Plunge fruit in boiling water for a few minutes. Peel, stone and slice. Place in a bowl with 2 tb flour and 1/2 cup sugar and spices.
Rub butter into sifted flour, add egg and sugar and a little water if weather is very dry (like here in summer (lol)
Line a 26 cm (10" ??)deep pie dish with half the pastry. Fill with fruit and cover with remaining pastry. Bake in a moderate hot oven for approx. 45 minutes. Serve warm with vanilla icecream, or cold out of the fridge with nothing else.
Is exchanging recipes off topic enough for you, Pat?
Judy

Pcan, calm down!!! I'M TRYING ... Where's Mama throwin me??
(maybe over to conversations)?

You are so sweet, actually whenever I see your name I think of my second favorite pie - PECAN!

Judy, Judy, you have me drooling. I'm at work and it doesn't look good. I greet patients... Need to get a piece of pie, warm with either vanilla ice cream or real whipped cream, Ummmm......
It's hard to find good peaches anymore. They are all hard and unripe. Certainly not sweet, like the old days. Need to go south to get good peaches. I'll be heading North for a short vacation to Maine. Looking forward to some lobsters, clams, good shellfish. I refuse to buy farmed fish anymore. Wonder if they have peaches in Maine?

Off topic? Who the hell cares?

Jane

Gotta go to Georgia to get good peaches Jane. And I mean go_to. Kick off yer flip-flops, slip over some farmers orchard fence, rip yer britches on the barbed wire, and eat fresh peaches till ya puke. Screen door slams - BANG - Mama comes a runnin at ya like a wild woman - beats ya over the head with her big broom. Ahhh.... those were the days.......

Judy thanks for posting that! I'll give that a try! I'm not a very good cook (i burn stuff) - the ice-cream is a for sure thing tho!!!!

lol! Should have checked back earlyer. These peach trees have sweet juicy fruit!! Too bad most of them went for not this year. Ill clean them up though and maybe next year we can get some big sweet peaches for that pie recipe. There are a lot of little ones that made it though so im thinking jally or jam. Fungus or not im sure there ok to eat as long as they barly have any brown rot. then I can cut it away. lots of work but yummy.

Ha! Sounds like something I'd do. Also sounds like my wild Irish mother - only she'd hit you with whatever was close by, chairs, books. Went to Georgia years ago and had the best - and I mean BEST - Peach cobbler, hot out of the oven, melting ice cream, man, oh man. But you are right pcan, ripe, sweet fruit with juice running down your arms...

Redring, where do you live? I tried fruit trees once, years ago and they always got some kind of fungus, rust or bugs. Apples did okay, but peaches never made it. I grow blueberry bushes and the birds, squirrels and chipmunks get to them before I ever could. I have them covered in netting and the critters figure a way in.

Welcome to the orchid forum,

Jane

Mmmmmm. When I was a little kid (when dinosaurs roamed...) we had peach trees, a cherry tree, golden delicious apple trees and some kinda pear tree. The peaches were THE best ever if we could get to them before the birds! LOL! Something killed the peach tree that had caused the main trunk to become swollen and it oozed sap. That's probably different from rot?

Still have the pear tree going although he gets powdery mildew each late spring.

Yes welcome to the orchid orchard. :-)

C3D