Built a proof-of-concept today. I don’t even know what this is–a mini-chinampas-inspired tub concept? Or is this something everybody already knows about and I just can’t get the right search terms to spit it out? Or has everybody tried this already and failed and now we all know better except me? Well, I had pond […]
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So here’s a thing I tweeted about awhile ago, but I wanted to do a full write up. It’s an interesting botanical thing I figured out about beans! Here’s four kinds of beans. Last year, I grew three of them! The Aztec Cave Bean keeps appearing under various guises in seed catalogs. The story goes […]
I am embarassed by the relatively meager looking size of the harvest, but in my defense, like half the early crop got swept into a slow cooker (and I have no idea what was in it! I think a lot of Yoeme Purple. There were words.) and I sacrificed a load of Trail of Tears […]
People ask if gardening is hard but that’s not the problem the problem is it’s easy and it really ought to be impossible. What is this putting stuff in dirt and expecting to get food back what are you, a communist? You bought a bag of cowpeas not even a proper seed packet with a […]
Plus extra macro photos! Bee butt.
This is a link to a picture of a spider. It is a cool spider. Please do not click it if you are afraid of spiders.
I can’t quite express how wild the oakleaf hydrangea is right now. It has these big loose cones of flowers, but the inside of the cones are clouds of stamens dripping pollen. Honeybees are swarming all over them, rolling around in it, covered in yellow. There’s a few flower beetles and so forth, but I […]
BEHOLD THE HORRID GLORY OF CRAW-BOB THE LAWN CRAYFISH HE LIVES HE HUNGERS HE IS ABOUT THREE AND A HALF INCHES LONG THEY SAID I WAS MAD WHEN I SPOKE OF LAWN CRAYFISH BUT WHO IS LAUGHING NOW!? (ahem) Hound went out in a rainstorm and poked something, which poked her back, and this sequence […]
Sort of in recharge mode, I think, after all the travel recently. The Sheep game is a weird little visual novel game I started to learn the Ren’Py engine so I could do Cryptic Stitching, and now I switch back and forth and as I learn something on one, I have to go apply it […]
It is a faith of small, consistent miracles, damp soil, and hard work. Also worms. Worms are in there somehow. We haven’t worked all the details out yet.
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