Owning a garden and caring for your plants requires an understanding of potential issues that may arise. If you come across a mysterious substance known as the “jelly nut” in your garden, here’s what you need to know.
Recently, a Redditor from Oklahoma discovered an odd sight in his garden, bright “yellow goo” on his trees and a peculiar object he described as a “gelatinous alien nut”. Unsure of what it was, he turned to the Reddit community for assistance, mentioning that the affected tree was a conifer, though he couldn’t identify it further.
Almost immediately, another user identified the problem as “cedar and apple rust”. This disease depends on two host plants to complete its life cycle, primarily affecting apple and crabapple trees.
The symptoms vary depending on the type of tree. On junipers, a brown gall forms on twigs and produces orange, gelatinous horns in the spring, particularly during wet weather. Although the twig beyond the gall may die, the damage to the juniper is minimal.
For apple and crabapple trees, yellow circular spots appear on the leaves soon after flowering. By late summer, brown clusters of cylindrical structures develop underneath the leaf spots, on twigs, or even fruit.
Galls from the infection can take several months to develop, appearing around seven months after infection begins. After 18 months, they evolve into gelatinous masses. In the spring, these galls develop depressions resembling golf balls, which give rise to telial horns that elongate and turn bright orange during rainy periods. After releasing spores, these horns collapse and dry up, although the galls can remain attached to the tree for another year.
Management of this infection can include pruning the affected areas or simply allowing it to run its course since it typically doesn’t kill trees but may cause some disfigurement. Preventive measures, such as fungicides or planting resistant apple varieties, can also help.
Overall, while cedar and apple rust isn’t a severe threat to your trees, being informed about it allows you to take the right steps if it appears in your garden. Share this information with others so they can be prepared too!
Masterchef contestant was immediately removed from show after dish she served judges
Warning: This article contains images of a dead animal some readers may find distressing.
A Masterchef contestant was immediately removed from the show after serving up the judges a questionable dish that had them spitting feathers – literally.
Oh, Masterchef.
There’s nothing better than watching over confident contestants talk themselves up on the VT – only to have them produce an absolute abomination of the dish that the judges’ waste no time in ripping into.
We all like to sit on our sofas, Goggleboxing and declaring that we could do better.
Although this time, most of us probably could because anything would be better than what one contestant served up on Masterchef Espãna.
Saray Carrillo served up a questionable dish. (Masterchef Espana / YouTube)
Sometimes when you’re cooking, not every job is pleasant, and if you want to serve up something that looks delicious and inviting, sometimes you have to get a little bit dirty.
And that’s something this contestant had no plans of doing.
In 2020, Saray Carrillo, 27, was mortified by one of the challenges where she had to pluck and cook a whole partridge.
Unless you’re vegan or vegetarian, cutting up poultry is pretty standard cooking practice, but Carrillo apparently expressed her fear of having to do such a task and took the challenge as a personal attack.
Defiantly, she decided to serve the bird, unplucked, uncooked and unappetising, garnished on a bed of spring onions, some kind of sauce and garnished with a couple of cherry tomatoes.
Take a look:
Umm, yeah. (Masterchef Espana / YouTube)
I think it’s hilarious, but the judges certainly didn’t think so – the only way to describe the look on their faces is ‘p*ssed’.
This was only exasperated more when Carrillo approached the bench with a cheeky smirk on her face, whilst the rest of the contestants looked on in horror by the dish she was presenting.
One judge said something in Spanish that translated to: “This is never seen in MasterChef.”
The judges, rightly so, grilled Carrillo and were not exactly sad to see the back of her.
As she plonked her apron down on the bench and strutted out of the Masterchef kitchen, the judges watched her leave with faces like a slapped a**.
The clip was from a season that aired in 2020 and went viral at the time, and has since been viewed 7.4 million times on YouTube.Play
People were quick to mock the episode on social media.
One YouTube user wrote: “HOW DISGUSTING GOD, I really can’t handle cherry tomatoes.”
Someone else saw fit to quote TV Chef legend Gordon Ramsay saying: “IT’S SO RAW THAT IT CAN STILL FLY!”
While another brutally said: “It is tragic that a person like this is a social educator when in reality she is yet to be civilized.”
I wonder what John and Greg would have made of all this?
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