#orache

[onenicebugperday]

Orache moth, Trachea atriplicis, Noctuidae

Photographed in France by Matthieu Berroneau

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[fattyunbound]

Ciorba de loboda / Orache soup

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 25 August 2024

The salt-tolerance of the native annual plant Atriplex patula (spear saltbush, common orache, spear orach, spreading orach) means it can grow grow in coastal areas and the verges of salt-treated roads, where the soil has increased salinity. This species is a wildflower in the U.K. but can be invasive in some other parts of the world.

Jill Raggett

[morethansalad]

Vegan Green Borsch (Ukrainian Sorrel Soup)

[bluestempigeons]

Behold Kochia, Orach, Salsola, and Frigida!

These birds are all available, and since they're out of a sex-linked pair we have confirmed genders already. Kochia is the only hen of the bunch. Looks like Rosie is finally evening out her gender ratio.

Kochia is a bit snippy and reserved, so I suspect she'll have a temperament like her half-sisters and be incredibly nest-aggressive but otherwise sweet.

Orach is an absolute darling. He'll run to the front of the nest to beg me for food whenever he sees my hands and is just a little lump of a man already. He'll be an amazing pet bird, and I'm sad I don't have the space to keep him!

Salsola is friendly so far, and is always begging me for food. He's very interested in his surroundings when I take him out of the nest, but I haven't gotten a great read on his personality yet.

Frigida is the least friendly of the bunch. He's scared of hands (which means no more picking him up for a while!) and very defensive. We'll see how he warms up over time with finger-feeding and time to observe that hands are not all that scary.

[the-prophecy]

yellow on clothes looks good only when in pastel

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

[allmyandroids]

Atriplex

[obsessivevoidkitten]

These are all the things I want to grow and have the seeds for this year, though some things are missing from this list. I still need more soil, most of the produce goes to the senior center so if anyone wants to throw me 3 dollars for a bag of dirt it goes to a good cause, I also save seeds and distribute them to neighbors and some of the people at the senior center. This blog is my only income source as I am an unpaid live-in aide for an elderly woman. No pressure though. Also if anyone just wants to put gardening discussions in my inbox I am totally up for that!

Supernova sunchokes

Red pontiac potatoes, kennebec potatoes, lehigh potatoes, purple viking potatoes, red norland potatoes, also sweet potatoes

Brown sugar tomatoes, amish paste tomatoes, orange hat tomatoes, yellow stuffer tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes, bosque blue bumblebee tomatoes, bonny best tomatoes, orange icicle tomatoes, sart roloise tomatoes, sweetheart cherry tomatoes, honeycomb tomatoes, barry's crazy cherry tomatoes, kentucky beefsteak tomatoes, and of course PRAIRIE FIRE TOMATOES

Corbaci peppers, ajvarski peppers, sugar rush peach peppers, albino bullnose peppers, binquinho peppers, lemon spice jalapeno peppers

Armenian yard long cucumbers, sumter cucumbers, bushcrop cucumbers, spacemaster 80 cucumbers, green apple cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, dragon's egg cucumbers, poona kheera cucumbers, pick a bushel cucumbers

Rosita eggplants, listda de gandia eggplants, shikou eggplants, casper eggplants

White soul alpine strawberries, seascape strawberries

Strawberry spinach, malabar spinach, thousand head kale, scarlet kale, blooming kale, orach, slobolt lettuce, merlot lettuce, bronze lettuce, buttercrunch lettuce, bibb lettuce, aqua large leaf watercress, swiss chard five color silverbeet

Moonshine sweet corn, glass gem corn, fiesta corn, Incredible R/M sweet corn

Great northern beans, dwarf taylor horticulture beans, jade II beans

Red burgundy okra, jing orange okra

Autumn buckskin pumpkins, long island cheese pumpkins, flat white boer pumpkins, seminole pumpkins, rouge vif d' etampes pumpkins

Gumball mix radishes, china rose radishes, de 18 jours radishes, golden helios radishes, purple plum radishes, diana hybrid radishes, pink dawn radishes

Chocolate cherry sunflowers, autumn beauty sunflowers, evening sunflowers, russian mammoth sunflowers, florenza sunflowers, lemon queen sunflowers

Peach melba nasturtiums, whirlybird nasturtiums, orchid flame nasturtiums, tip top alaska salmon nasturtiums, tip top rose nasturtiums

Gill's golden pippin squash, honeynut squash, candy roaster squash, delicata squash, early prolific straightneck squash

Jolly jester marigolds, mexican mint marigolds, safari scarlet marigolds, orange flame marigolds, colossus bicolor red gold marigolds

Purple coneflowers, black eyed susans, moss roses, coleus pinto mix

Double tall mix strawflowers, copper red strawflowers, king size orange strawflowers

Pampas plume celosias, eternity mix celosias

Desert king watermelons, lemon drop watermelons, royal golden watermelons, tigger melons, kajari melons, golden crispy melons, golden jenny melons

Purple dragon carrots, melbec carrots, uzbek gold carrots, koral carrots

[onenicebugperday]

2024's Nicest Bug Poll!

These are the bugs that got the most notes in 2024! Vote for your favorite one! Apparently tumblr really loves velvet worms

Links to the posts followed by the poll:

Yellow pasha butterfly caterpillar

Picasso bug

Puerto Rican velvet worm

Orache moth

Candy cane snail

Blue velvet worm

Blind velvet worm

(Technically many bugs, but-) Armored woodlice

Slug caterpillars

Spill-footed lacewing larva

[dansnaturepictures]

21/09/24-Orach, my first Clouded Yellow of the year, Long-winged Conehead on chamomile, view, Linnet, Rook and dock at Milford-on-Sea and narrow leaf blue eyed grass in the garden. I am ecstatic to see the Clouded Yellow and another striking paler one on the walk, a sensational, exquisite and well coloured species that was the last one I could add to my year list it's the second latest in a year I've first seen one or any butterfly species so I wasn't sure if I'd see one this year. I'm thrilled to have seen forty three butterfly species this year, my joint third highest ever in a challenging year for them.

Other highlights on the great walk at the beautiful Milford-on-Sea were Small White, Large White, Peacock, Common Blue, Long-winged Conehead, Buzzard, Rook, Feral Pigeon, Rock Pipit, Wheatear, Stonechat, Linnets, Swallow, Sandwich Terns including diving into the water close to shore, Black-headed Gull, beautiful sand spurrey, sea rocket, ragwort, sowthistle, thrift, creeping thistle, white campion, hogweed seed heads and an (albeit knocked over) parasol mushroom. At home there were some great sightings today with the Chiffchaff coming into the garden for the second day running and landing on a sunflower, Blue Tit, Goldfinch including young, Starling, Collared Dove, Jackdaws, Large White, Speckled Wood and cranefly including on a rose.

[ostebee]

Saw this cutie beautie. The internet says it's Trachea Atriplicis or orache moth, I like their colouring much. It's the first time I seeing moth with greenish colours and damn, they're magnificent.

[goosegardens]

Agastache rugosa with seeding orach.

[pjsk-headcanons]

Trick or treat!

you get...

orache. corresponds with my birthday and i have the article on hand

[hyperpotamianarch]

Why is Hannukah eight days if the oil was sufficient for one day? Day 6.

Today, I chose to cheat.

But why? Why would I build a system of rules for writing those posts only to break them myself later? Well, it's because history left me no choice! A bunch of people who held manuscripts of Sefer Ha'Itim have lost parts of it, and now the world suffers! But, a little background:

Sefer Ha'Itim by Rabbi Yehuda ben Barzillai Albargeloni (the Barcelonian) is an old Halachic book. And by old I mean old. There are apparently indications that it was written when the RIF (Rabbi Yitzhak Alfassi) was still alive when it was written, since there's never an addition of z"l after his name - unlike other deceased rabbis. That places it at around the 11th century CE, the beginning of the Rishonim era. So it's not too surprising that not all the book survived, especially since many of it's rulings weren't accepted. I think. I'm basing it on one particular ruling, which I'll get to later.

The book itself is about Halachot for time-dependant things - I suppose that would make it a rough equivalent of Tur Orach Chaim in the Shulchan Aruch, though this is a very common topic for books. I mean, if you deal with the daily, weekly, monthly and yearly Halachot... Well, people kind of need such books for their lives. Unlike Tur 'Hoshen Mishpat, which is about Halachot related to court (mostly monetary conflicts) and no one wants them to be relevant to them. Anyway, like most books, the topic is in the name: 'Itim means "times" in Hebrew, more or less. Not to be confused with 'etim, which means pens.

What remains from Sefer Ha'Itim, though, is just the Halachot related to Shabbat. Which is great if you want to know whether or not you're allowed to say HaKol Yoducha (ypu aren't, and it's really not fine that everyone still does - at least, that's what Rabbi Albargeloni thinks), but it's not as helpful if you want to know why Hannukah is eight days and not, say, seven.

Or nine.

Yeah, yeah, it turns a bit weird now and I really should stop throwing those random hints. His very interesting answer to why Hannukah is eight days is somewhat reminiscent of the reasoning the book of Maccabees gives in that it has nothing to do with the oil cruse miracle and everything to do with another thing that takes 8 days. In the case of the 'Itim, it's Brit Milah.

You see, among the things that happened during the time of Antiochus IV Epimanes that really annoyed the Hasmoneans, he gave a decree of three things practiced in Judaism that he forbade: keeping the Shabbat, declaring the renewal of the moon (which is essential for the Hebrew calendar - or was, until about 5 centuries later at the time of Hillel the 2nd, but that's a story for another day), and circumcising their sons. And in Judaism, circumcision is done on the 8th day to the birth of a child - if he's healthy enough for it, there are clauses for keeping the baby alive, but that's (again) another story. Naturally, the Hasmoneans spited him in all three, and when they rededicated the Temple, according to Sefer Ha'Itim, they declared an 8 day holiday to commemorate the resistance. Also, due to this length there's always a Shabbat yo be kept in Hannukah, and due to its particular date there's always a renewal of the moon during the holiday. It's occuring around today or tomorrow, actually! This night is going to be moonless, remember and take care.

So I cheated. I did not find the original source, though I now have Sefer Ha'Itim downloaded to my phone. I could scour it just in case, but I don't think it'll bear fruit.

The nine days things is all kinds of weird in and of itself - it's based on Yom Tov Sheni Shel Galuyot, and the obvious answer is it's something that only exists for Yom Tov. And wow, that has been longer than usual. Sorry.

[fcktaken]

It got late all of a sudden and the garden is beautiful. Tomatoes and salad, zucchini and peas, and onions and radishes are doing well. I cut tarragon, oregano and agastache for drying, roses for my kitchen table and orache, beetroot and carrot greens, more oregano and garlic chives for "pesto".

[silly-lil-scribbles]

top 5 favorite creeturs

ooooooh hm thanks for the ask!

1. rats

2. mothhhhhsssssssss any kind but big fan of orache moths

3. wooly chafer beetle

4. blind velvet worm. look at that thang.

5. newts and salamanders of any sort

special mentions to earthworms, garter snakes, bees, isopods, planthopper nymphs with angry eyebrows, and weevils