It’s an apartment; they ripped out the lovely lawn many years ago and replaced it with dirt, rocks, and a small number of drought tolerant plants. 🥺
I’m hoping for the tea. Also as a hypothetical wasp repellent, but I gather the evidence for this is weak.
Two plants hanging from a beam on my balcony. The upper one is mint, not yet sprouting. The lower one is the cucumber plant that got too big for the kitchen.
Mint and cucumber now hanging together. Not enough light for the mint in its previous location.
No, unfortunately not. I’d probably just look for something online. Amazon seems to have a bunch of options. That’s how I bought my Ukrainian overlays.
I have Ukrainian overlays on a couple of my keyboards; they work ok and aren’t that hard to apply. Tweezers and strong reading glasses were a big help though!
Big print/high contrast stickers should be similar I think.
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draig = 🐉
(It's a cool language but this is all I retained from my brief visit to Duolingo Welsh.)
A rosemary seedling with two large cotyledons and two tiny needles beginning to grow.
Neat! I had no idea.
Here's one of my rosemary seedlings, which has cotyledons, and, FINALLY, two tiny needles starting up. (Though I gather that needles are just sort of Leaves Being Weird.)
Also, I ordered your book. It looks fantastic!
So much to learn.
Close-up photo of a cactus seedling. The seedling is fleshy and succulent. The cotyledons are opposite and horn-like. Spines are emerging from the seedling apex.
Even leafless plants have cotyledons (leaves & cotyledons are not homologous). This seedling of a cactus, Homalocephala texensis (📷: Wolfgang Brüsehaber CCBYNCSA2), shows the two, horn-like cotyledons. Spines (modified true leaves) are just starting to emerge. #Cactaceae #cotyledon #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
🤞 Good luck!
A cat sleeping on a blanket.
This is how I’m informed that I’m now allowed to get some work done.
Did they replace the poles with stronger poles?
Mine's been gone 25 years now. 25 years ago, I couldn't see how I could survive without her. Thank goodness the pain fades over time. 😢
It was a few years ago but I always keep my tetanus up to date. My body enjoys falling down from time to time. I don’t, really. 😐
Fortunately it went in at a very shallow angle, so I was able to remove it without fuss, bleeding, trip to the emergency room, etc. It was more just stuck under my skin, and not as stabby as I had feared.
Well, I impaled myself on a pet feeding shelf a few years ago. Sitting on top of a pile of junk I had just fallen on, and seeing a shelf stuck in my leg, gave ample opportunity to reconsider safety practices.
(Cc: @funranium.bsky.social )
It’s 3mm fiberglass rods, plus a 3D printed cap to hold the whole thing together and keep me from poking my eye out.
My kitchen garden with tripods in two plant pots and one empty pot.
Trellises for the kitchen gourds!
Green pot G6 with a little fiberglass tripod and a 3D printed cap inside. No dirt or plant at the moment.
G6 was the cucumber that is now outside. Tonight I’m designing little trellises for clingy/climbey stuff.
I probably do… somewhere! Mostly I just follow new ones from time to time.
Same, but Ukrainian cats. 🥳🇺🇦
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Skoots are what my cat does when she gets a Klingon on her butt.
Flyer for "Behind the Curtain," an effort on the part of local theater company The Old Globe. It says: August Wilson's "Fences" FREE Oak Park Library 2802 54th Street Mondays - 6-7:30 pm March 2-March 30* *Schedule subject to change with advance notice. Get an introduction to what happened behind the curtain at a theater! Learn from theater professionals through hands-on activities about costume design, set design, stage management, and more.
Are you in San Diego?
Do you love theater? Of course you do!
Every Monday (including today, so come on over) at 6 pm at the Oak Park Library through the end of March. Come meet with Old Globe actors, directors, set designer, and more!
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Green pot hanging in a white rope harness. It only has a few leaves but they’re enormous. Below and to the right is Pot 3 containing a decorative gourd.
A hanging pot filled with dirt. Not visible in the picture: mint seeds. They’re really tiny!
Cucumber got too big for the kitchen (more or less expected), so now it lives outside in this hanging pot. Other hanging pot is seeded with mint, which was the whole point of the gardening exercise way back when.
A tomato plant with a flower beginning to appear.
First tomato flower is almost here!
The USB/pump configuration would be handy for me as my balcony has no electricity or running water. But I could buy a bucket!
Possibly apropos of nothing, but I recently learned that a USB powered chicken coop mister is surprisingly affordable!
I have not yet acted on this knowledge. But my balcony isn’t really any bigger than a chicken coop. 🤔
Where do people find time for all these podcasts?!?!?!
