{"id":3515,"date":"2026-10-31T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T09:35:19","slug":"six-on-saturday-31-10-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/six-on-saturday-31-10-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Six on Saturday 31-10-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, 5 Saturdays in October this year and this last one is Halloween.  Happy days to any who celebrate. The garden is calm and quiet after high winds and rain a week ago. I slipped out to find some slight spooky offerings for this week&#8217;s #SixOnSaturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me spookiness seems to be exemplified by texture.  A few small cucumbers are still resident in the greenhouse, does this one look a little scary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2237\" height=\"2640\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/cucumber.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3510\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the garden, seedheads abound.  Echinops is one of my favourite autumn flowers, by now they look a forlorn, yet slightly startled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2146\" height=\"1660\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/echinops.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3511\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More sky fruit, this is achocha, a South American vine.  Fruits are 3cm long, they can be used like a bell pepper in stir-fries and similar.  These grew outdoors this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1815\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/achocha.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3509\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to flowers and seeded, and here are two sitting side by side on the same stem, marigold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2543\" height=\"2195\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/marigold.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3513\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to spikey one more time, here are nigella seed heads, really fascinating form and texture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2410\" height=\"2203\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/nigella.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3514\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, the spookiest seed head of all, it has to be honesty, delicate and ghostly, a lovely plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2782\" height=\"2558\" src=\"http:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/honesty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3512\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a lovely gentle weekend in the garden, before we dip down into the November dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do join in with your own 6 things from a garden. Thanks to those leaving comments on the blog. I do read them all, keep them coming. And do join in with #SixOnSaturday. All you need to do is find 6 things in your garden to show us. Then post on social, or add a link at Jim&#8217;s blog below. For regulars, our organiser is Jim at https:\/\/gardenruminations.co.uk\/. And I&#8217;m on mastodon @julie3dharris@mastodon.scot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, 5 Saturdays in October this year and this last one is Halloween. Happy days to any who celebrate. The garden is calm and quiet after high winds and rain a week ago. I slipped out to find some slight spooky offerings for this week&#8217;s #SixOnSaturday. For me spookiness seems to be exemplified by texture. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/six-on-saturday-31-10-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Six on Saturday 31-10-26<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3518,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balmerino.ddns.net\/geekygarden\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}