Hey great job! I know some folks who struggle to get roses half as beautiful as what you’ve grown! I’m sure those others will catch up in their own time

Best of luck! My beans tend to run roughshod over their companions.

You’re crushing it! Hearing how happy this garden is making you just fills my heart, and these photos make my mouth water

Delish! I pulled about two pounds of scapes yesterday for making pesto

Here’s hoping you get the right amount and timing of rain so your plants can be happy!

Doooo iiiiit.

I don’t tend to wilt the flowers in the sun, I pick fresh and dry almost immediately about halfway through the morning.

I’ll tell you that it does - or at least, the remembering becomes slightly less painful as time goes on. The lessons really stick, but it becomes easier to remember all the good stuff, and those are the things you should hold on to the hardest during those difficult times.

And I’m glad you shared with us, if for no other reason than helping you process your grief. I’m sure we’re all sending our love, hoping to lighten the load in some small way.

You might only get green onions off of it at this point, but burying it like you asked will certainly get you more, and more nutritious ones. I vote yes!

! Yummy pawful you’ve got there

I hope you’re hydrating yourself as devotedly as you are your plants!

I’m so sorry for your loss and what you’re going through 🫂

It might not be possible right now but please give yourself some grace. You were attentive to his condition and when it worsened you acted immediately. I can’t imagine a better kind of human to place trust in, and I can’t imagine him not knowing how hard you tried, how much you cared, or that he would ever blame you.

Always a good trait in my book as well! The one in the post picture has a fuzzy stem, no thorns.

I really appreciate it, thanks!

shade hoodie

I have two shirts like this from (the company) patagonia and they breathe until I start to sweat about ten minutes later. If yours was better than that, care to drop a name for me to go look into?

Our boy would sympathize with Jean - he loves the beach but not the water. We still take him every so often, but he wants the smells right on the edge of the waves and sometimes the ocean sneaking up on him is just too much

I am really loving the rough edges and gradients on those petals, wow!

Yum! I had my very first yellow raspberries last year and I was so in love with their flavor and color.

That’s a really beautiful rose! I bet your grandparents would love the colors it’s putting out.

For reference, if you’d like to have your images inline after uploading elsewhere, you can do that by putting an exclamation point and empty brackets in front of your parenthetical link. So this:

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Happy early birthday!

Hello and welcome!

Going pretty well so far! A friend reached out this morning to see if I would be interested in receiving some plants from her (yes) so in the near future I’ll get to go hang out with an amazing person, and will get to grow some new plants with which I have no experience.

And I’m giving an introductory talk about biochar at my town library this evening, which will hopefully be a bunch of fun for everyone. I couldn’t come up with as many biochar puns as I did for my compost presentation, so I’m leaning on memeing for levity:

I have no idea how attendees will react to these, as most of them are retirees.

Our solo duckling is still solo, which is concerning at this stage. That said, there has been a lot of co-nesting and additional shuffling of eggs between hens which likely impacted incubation. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for more chances to shove pictures of ducklings in y’all’s feeds

Have a great week everybody!