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Might as well plant some potatoes.

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*kicks box garden* I can fit so much yard waste in this thang

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Feeling especially bad for everyone who desperately needs to touch grass but has snow on the ground.

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I save seeds for most of what I grow but there are some plants were it's not really worth it. For me that's carrots. Saving seeds that are biennial and from roots that taste good is a whole thing. Carrot seeds are cheap enough that I'm okay with just buying them every year.

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These are the roots of a sugarcane cutting.

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this is beautiful

snowkissed bamboo

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you are like moss growing on a wall

I'm a mildly nutritious lichen that sustains a paltry ecosystem 😇

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There is a population of these (Macroglossum stellatarum I'm assuming) naturalized just north of the Bay Area. Moth that looks like hummingbird has evolved several times as it happens.

Here is one (Hemaris thysbe) with clear sections in its wings!

Have any of you ever heard of the hummingbird moths we get in Britain?

So, I thought I saw a hummingbird last year. It was much bigger than a bug could be, I thought, and it hovered around flowers and looked like it had feathers.

I got pretty close but it was never still enough to see clearly. Then, when I told my parents they said "oh! it was probably a moth!" and I was baffled for a long time. Like, how could a moth look like and act so much like a hummingbird?

Until I googled "hummingbirds in the UK" and this fucker comes up:

Everyone, meet the hummingbird hawk-moth; one of the weirdest and coolest cases of convergent evolution on this planet.

This is the kinda thing I'd see in fiction and go "oooh cool, bug hummingbird! Wish we had those on earth!" But we do. We really do have them on earth!! Isn't that nuts?!?!?

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I've gotta post a garden 2024 um... Idk the word(s?) for it, the thing involving reflection on the past and what to change for the future. Maybe tomorrow. It was a fairly average year gardening wise, some success some failure. I'm moving but the region is similar so probably not too much change.

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U.S. Crop distribution.

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Added home grown carrots to some curry. Lots of colors all mixed together, from the classic orange to purples and some in between. The heat was making them bitter to eat raw but they were fine being cooked.

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I set up sprinklers and a water auto thing and it's been a good improvement for the garden.

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Growing peanuts this year. Well, I will try to grow peanuts this year. Going all out with plastic sheeting and what not. It's just too cold here otherwise.

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Adding lambsquarter to greens makes them taste so much better.

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Seeds that take their sweet time are a bane to gardeners everywhere!

According to my journal, I planted these Cranberry Beans on April 13th- nearly a month and they're finally germinating! I had long given up hope but nature is always surprising

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I tied twine to the fence posts and planted peas underneath. Good use of space if it works. Plus on the other side of the fence is my neighbor's yard and I know they water heavily.

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tatsoi, direct seeded by throwing seeds on the ground