#the garden on your mind

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This is the start of something new

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[stbot]

Lydia + Walk Walk Fashion Baby (featuring an increasingly unhinged number of pins)

[ceaselessbasher]

The reveal that Wirt and Greg are like from the 90s and they're just dressed up for Halloween instead of some weird old timey kids is NOTHING compared to the reveal of who Sara and Jason are

[knightish-angel]

THEM!!!!!!! mine (2018) and @3w3 s (2012) donnie designs!!!!! Garden Donnie and Grunge Donnie <333 had to draw them as well ofc they have a Dynamic and I love it and I want to draw them morererrerreeeeeee HHhHH

[omppupiiras]

I had an idea for cornpea Käärijä:

What if he wanted to go into botanical studies to find out where he comes from, and he sprouts grains and legumes in the kitchen and looks at them through a magnifying glass to see if the sprouts on his arm when he was a baby look anything like it? :´)

I´m sure you have enough ideas as it is but I can´t stop thinking about it and wanted to know what you thought of it <3

is he trying to grow himself some friends or planning to have a snack? hmmmm...

(peanuary day 25)

[gaytobymeres]

obsessed with this combo of a blazer over a puffy jacket...truly innovative actually

[losech]

Did you know that the best way to have a beautiful lush lawn isn't to drench it in synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides? It's rotational grazing.

That's right, livestock.

The impact animals have on grass is tremendous. They crop it short, trample it into the ground, and shit on it. All of which, when not done excessively, is exactly what the grass needs. Grazing stimulates new growth. Stomping and scratching "till" plant matter into the soil without disrupting it. Manure adds essential nutrients back to the ground.

A key to this process is the word rotational. Keeping the animals in one spot and never moving them will eventually result in no plant matter, and if you don't add enough bedding or remove manure on time, an unpleasant smell. You need to put the animals into a pen or "tractor" and move them every day or every few days, allowing them to graze and forage without eating and digging everything up. Each patch of grass needs a rest period where no animals are present for a while so the grass can regrow and the manure break down into the soil. This is a well documented, low impact, and highly successful process that many small (and some large) farms and backyard livestock enthusiasts employ.

You cannot accurately replicate this process with mechanical and synthetic means. You create a sterile polluting environment devoid of important microbes, insects, topsoil, and plant diversity. It needs constant attention because it's not a thriving symbiotic ecosystem.

A huge benefit to small scale livestock such as chickens and rabbits is they can give you that beautiful grass with very little cost. Chickens can eat leftovers, taking care of an important source of food waste. They also eat bugs and greatly reduce the umber of pest species without killing all the beneficial pollinators as well. Chickens provide eggs and meat in return. Rabbits love plants like clover and dandelions, put them in areas with weeds and they will take care of them for you. A few rabbits can provide several pounds of highly nutritious meat.

You can put a pen of chickens or rabbits in one spot for a while, continuously adding new hay and straw (this is important) until it's built up a bit, then remove the animals and let it compost. Put your garden there the next year. Or, if you have a set spot the animals live, collect their manure and bedding, compost it, and add it to your garden. Composted animal waste and bedding is a wonderful addition to gardens that synthetics can't come close to.

These small animals solve two issues at once: that perfect green lawn and food insecurity.

But often, keeping small livestock, especially within city limits and in HOAs, is illegal. With the current climate surrounding inflation, supply chain issues, and increasingly erratic weather, having a stable food supply not only close to but at home is becoming more and more important.

But people aren't allowed to feed themselves, due to legislation telling them what they can and cannot do on *their* property.

It's absolutely ridiculous and needs to change.

[shivabandart]

The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind

Oil on frame 120*90

[sidewalkchemistry]

kinds of gardens I'd like to grow (or sections of my dream acreage):

🌱a native wildflower/wild weed garden

🌱a herbal tea garden

🌱a moonflower garden (for the sweet scents on summer nights)

🌱a rare flower garden (with delicate, sensitive, showy and fragrant flowers)

🌱an heirloom vegetable garden (with produce even like large seeded bananas)

🌱a garden for the wildlife (complete with flowers to attract pollinators; bird baths; and plants that bunnies, deer, and other creatures love munching on)

🌱a patio garden of microgreens

🌱a culinary herb garden

🌱an ancestral garden (growing plants which were important to my ancestors)

🌱a plant savers garden (in which i grow plants which are over harvested or endangered)

🌱a dye garden (for creating fabric dyes, paints, etc)

🌱a food forest

🌱a medicinal plant garden with plants suitable for my surrounding community members

[whartonists]

Not in our version of the story.

the age of innocence (1993, dir. martin scorsese) // the gilded age season 2 (2022-) // the age of innocence, edith wharton

[justmwahstruly]

yippeeeeeee

please accept my humble offering

@koifsssh here’s your silly lil guy hehehehehhehhehehhehhhhhhhh

i am not well/j

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

sooo ik you’re not gonna get into itafushikugi’s dynamic in your fic but just out of curiosity, if megumi ever did tell them about what happened to him, how would they react? actually how would they react to yuuta & megumi’s dynamic? LMAOO wait how would they react to gojo being megumi’s parental figure? god. megumi life is just insane.

They are absolutely obsessed with whatever the fuck megumi's life is. he enchants them. he comes off as the most normal of them all and then months into the relationship they find out that gojo satoru is his fucking dad. they didn't know he had a sister until someone else told them. he's the world's most interesting man but he shares no personal information and refuses to acknowledge how inexplicably fascinating he is.

The thing is that I would like to think that he did tell them, but when i say it would take years for him to get to that point.

I like to think that sea glass gardens feeds into a lot of canon as normal, and in my mind, the events of sea glass gardens within its own universe is a lot of the reason why megumi's blatantly suicidal in his first year.

I don't want to get too much into it, because we're still unpacking everything that happened, and like. Spoilers. But I don't think I can emphasize enough how traumatizing these events were for him, and how he is 0% willing or able to start the healing process for what happened. I think that Megumi as a person is just someone who hates being at other people's mercy, and these events were one of the most invasive losses of control for what happened.

I've talked about this in some other post, but one of the most notable things about Megumi is that he seems to constantly be trying to die on his own terms with Mahoraga. He's accepted that he'll go down, but he'll go down his way, taking the person who killed him with him. I view that as sort of the ultimate way of reclaiming control for someone who had very little control over the direction of his own life, and the events of sea glass gardens potentially robbed him of even that. Gojo says that he thinks the Zenin had to have a way to keep megumi from summoning mahoraga, but that means that Megumi's spent his entire life with this one reliable source of autonomy and control over his self and still had it be taken away. Mahoraga was his security blanket, and he lost it.

By the time Megumi reaches canon, he's jumping to summon Mahoraga at every turn, and that kind of reads as someone who 1) doesn't have a very high valuation of his own life, and 2) wants to make certain that he's dying on his terms. He is nowhere near close to being okay from what happened, he's not open to help from anyone, and he's not about to let himself be vulnerable with anyone. The events of sea glass gardens represent this inescapable moment of weakness and humiliation to him, and he's not mentally okay enough to admit to anyone that it happened.

Kugisaki and Itadori sort of start pulling him back from that path. They give him a reason to live and make him start fighting to survive instead of fighting to die his way. They really do sort of set him off into finally healing, and that breeds the sort of trust between them that I think they would one day be the people megumi is most comfortable telling about what the zenin did to him. But it would be slow. It would take a very, very long time. But when it did happen, it would happen because they were the people he trusted most in the world, and there is not a single part of him that thinks they could ever hurt him. He would trust them to the point of his own destruction.

I'd like to think it happens a little like this:

the scars from the Great Serpents fangs were something that Kugisaki and Itadori had been hounding him about for ages by the time he tells them. They have 93 theories in counting, each more crazy than the last. it becomes a sort of joke between them, finding a new explanation for where they came from since Fushiguro wouldn't tell them, and the game marks the first time that Megumi could even think about them without the memories tormenting him for the rest of the day. somehow, he can never feel grief around itadori or kugisaki.

it just comes out. he thought it would be harder, he thought he would choke on it, but the truth slips out easily, and he isn't afraid of what kugisaki or itadori would do with it. He tells them the truth of the Zenin, of what they did to him, of where the scars came from and how goddamn terrified he is of those people.

And it hurts less. It almost shocks him, how it hurts less.

Yuuta and Megumi's dynamic post-sea glass gardens is the source of endless bewilderment to Kugisaki and seething jealousy for itadori. I've talked about it in some other posts, but I think Itadori is unbearably jealous of yuuta when he meets him. He's not even a jealous person. this is an anomaly. Yuuta is living his perfect life, which is a shock to yuuta, who did not think he was living anyone's perfect life.

Like, Yuuta exists in this weird exception to everything for Megumi. Megumi Is Yuuta's Boy. They're inexplicably close and there's simply no explanation as to why that anyone can tell them. Yuuta is so visibly fond and protective of him that there's no way to say that megumi's not his favorite. Kugisaki has no idea what's going on but it's fucking hilarious watching itadori lose his gourd over it.

they go insane when they realize that gojo is megumi's dad and no one fucking told them. Maki lets it slip in passing (because she thought they had to know already) and itadori has to sit on megumi while kugisaki tries to weasel answers out of him. what the fuck do you mean gojo's your dad. why did he think this was not relevant information. this guy won't tell them shit about his life.

After, Itadori and Kugisaki insist on referring to gojo exclusively as "megumi's dad," which gojo is a smug dick about, and which causes megumi endless suffering. he wishes they were not told.

[novuit]

I really grew to love canon Scotland because he does actually looks like his name is Scott.

[sir-bird-bones]

I’ve begun to realize that my favorite character dynamic is “absolutely insane about each other and their mutual best friend/in a qpr with”

[nordicbananas]

my sinuses hurt. SO MUCH

[anipgarden]

One thing I've found important but also sometimes difficult to learn is that the difference between a 'butterfly garden' and a 'biodiverse habitat' is that you gotta accept that sometimes things are gonna die.

This isn't to say that you shouldn't try to tend to things. If I find a bunch of oleander aphids harassing some of my young milkweed plants, I'll get the hose and spray them off no problem--hard to tend a garden and save milkweed seeds if they're getting the life sucked out of them before they can even go to seed. If I see a lot of snails starting to devour some of my flowers and turn them into brown mush, I'll pick them off and toss them to the neighborhood ducks.

But with that being said, creating a biodiverse environment for wildlife means there's gonna be prey animals and predator animals, and some insects may fill several niches. I plant milkweed and other flowers so monarchs and other insects can enjoy them as a host plant and a nectar source. Some years, I can barely even find large caterpillars because the wasps just go ham and pig out. That doesn't mean I'm gonna hunt down any and every wasp nest and spray it to death for being oh-so-mean to my precious baby caterpillars! They're just trying to survive, just like everything else in my garden!

And in the grand scheme, everything is part of a cycle that feeds everything else. The caterpillars feed the wasps, which then feed the cardinals and chickadees and mocking birds. Later in the summer, I always see some ladybugs, and my aphid problems drop even without me bringing out the hose. Sure, the snails are a major problem for me, right now. But they might be feeding things I'm not even seeing, late at night--like blindworms, or possums, or frogs, and maybe even the birds are going at them when I'm not outside.

The literal basis of my pollinator garden is so things can eat other things--the caterpillars feed on the milkweed, after all. I can't deny that they're part of an ecosystem, and the effort in trying to just sprays poisons everywhere for no real reason.

If I really wanted to, I could try and collect every single tiny little baby caterpillar and keep them in a little container, so I can rear them by hand, if it hurts too much to think of them getting eaten by wasps. My next door neighbor did that. Brought in 26 caterpillars to protect them from outside enemies, and promptly ran out of milkweed. Out of all that, only maybe 10 tops made it. And the instant she set out her stripped-bare plants again, there were already more monarchs coming in and laying seeds on the stems of plants that just barely were starting to leaf back out.

Nature's a balancing act. Monarchs have been dealing with pests like wasps through all this time. Every time I wonder where the caterpillars are, I sure can still find a few dozen eggs on my plants. Butterflies are still dropping by, still laying tons of eggs on my plants. And it's not like I go out there five times a day to count caterpillars--for all I know, there could still be dozens of those little guys growing up where I don't even see them.

I feel like I'm losing my point. Long story short, if wasps are eating some caterpillars in my backyard, I'm not gonna lose my mind. I want my garden to be part of a wider ecosystem, not a members-only club.