Brian Engler
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Brian Engler
@growhighlow.bsky.social
Vegetable breeding enthusiast • Regenerative Ag groupie • Digital Plumber (Azure, C#, SQL, etc.) • West Seattle
This is your miner's lettuce.

This is your miner's lettuce on...raccoons.

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November 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What perfect album came out the year I turned 16?
Full album: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I used to explain technical concepts to executives for a living.
November 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
There's less than a quarter left, what could go wrong?
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Since I can't buy seeds for it (because the crows gifted it to me) I let the Miner's Lettuce go to seed so I could be sure to have plenty of seedlings for next year.

I think it worked.🌱
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The Audacity!
October 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
How did DHS manage to arrest Jeane Kirkpatrick?
October 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Some light ivy trimming before the cold November rains arrive.
October 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Checked in on my most frequent ex, she lives in Portland. Things are looking grim.
September 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Wasn't really paying attention this year and my Tristar strawberries produced a ton of runners. I decided to pot them up, but metal clips weren't really working in this soil to fix the stolons to the soil so I went with broken terracotta. If the hive mind has a better way to do this I'm all ears. 🌱
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Didn't realize it at the time but I guess it really was relaxing.
September 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Testing candidate #2 tomatoes tonight, the flavor is getting really nice now, more intense and still well balanced. The brix continues to rise too, up to 7+. Pretty sure this is the one I'll be moving forward with. 🌱
September 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We've all been there
September 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
September 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Got my Strange Planet Kickstarter goodies today :)
September 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I grew an emoji! 🍅 Candidate plant 3 is producing bog standard red slicers that look like they were cut from the cover of a Burpee catalog. Hopefully they'll taste good but if not candidate plant 2 has the type of red-tomato flavor that I'm looking for and it's very productive. 🌱
September 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
September 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
First #SquirrelCrimes update: no additional squirrel crimes have been detected, well that isn't entirely true, my local tomato thief seems to be going through withdrawals. Either that or he's just throwing a tantrum to protest the new tomato security measures. 🌱
September 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I managed to get my first attempt at squirrel-dissuading measures set up last night. If this doesn't work the next stop is rocket skates. www.acmetraps.com/rocket-power... 🌱
September 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Is #SquirrelCrimes a hashtag? 🌱
August 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Maybe I should give it a try, my alpines are going nuts this year.
August 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I'm really digging version one of the stacked tomato trellis design that I put together this year. It still needs work, it's not very stable horizontally and it will hold together better if I make the grooves in the supports with a t-channel router bit but it's working the way I'd hoped it would. 🌱
August 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Squirrelmageddon has begun. Time to start experimenting with countermeasures.🌱
August 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
August 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Here's my second candidate from the BBQ-flavored selection, no idea if it's ripe, I picked it because it was sitting on the ground and was already starting to soften.

It's fun to see how different they are, my previous selection produced progeny that were practically clones except for the color. 🌱
August 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM