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Tiny gardening on my small balcony/micro greens. 6b
Positive change doesn't flourish a hammer. *No* extremism is good. Violence is the hallmark of the stupid and the developmentally stunted.
Hardcore realist.
Building a new life with disability
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I can get on board with that.

Archived humour ftw.
Bumper stick on a Prius says: "I love when people in $60k cars want to play road rage with me. My car is worth $986.13 and my live sucks. I will kill us both!"
April 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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April 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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O.O
Text in meme reads: Them: you can't make a meme out of used batteries and expect people to get it Me: (blank) In the image, used batteries have been arranged to make the screaming woman pointing with the bat on the other side of the table meme.
April 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Every damned time.
Meme text reads: Me getting ready to say some crap and make the situration worse! Below the text is an image of three monkeys; two are glaring at each other in the foreground, and one is grinning maniacally just behind them.
April 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Stolen humour. 8) I have no idea who did this.
Game show board with missing letters (represented by question marks) ?uck ?e ?n the a?? ton?ght, with the real answer being "Luck be in the air tonight" Below is the pointing, screaming woman across the table from a cat meme. She is telling him the real answer, and his response is "Well, I guess that one wrong" with the implication being a rather vulgar, sexual interpretation of the problem on the board.
April 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Perfect end to a trying, draining day. Creamy chicken veg soup with dill and mushies.

#foodsky

Now all I need is #cake. XD
April 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Ok, wheeze, one more pot. Peas and garlic staked, caged and protected from the squirrels. Who I'm going to eat if they don't behave. =.= B*st*rds.
I'm toast, so I think I'm done for today. There's a pot of tea with my name in it.
#gardening #vegetablegardening #urbangardening #deathtosquirrels
A slate grey pot with 4 compact pushy peas and two garlics, topped with last years leaves that I scavenged from the yard before maintenance took them all away. They are staked, caged and ringed with chicken wire to keep the squirrels from killing them or digging up the dirt to plant their stupid peanuts. :)
April 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Rough day today, I'll probably spend most of it taking it easy.
I got one pot put together - potatoes and garlic companion snuggled in a big pot. The photo isn't great, but the tremors are bad today and I haven't got a tripod yet:
#gardening #vegetablegardening #urbangardening
A big black pot on my balcony. It's got red apple potatoes planted in it and a handful of garlic around the outside. In the background there's a strip of grass that looks greener in the pic than it actually is, bare branches of the locust trees that surround the building and the parking lot that surrounds the complex.
April 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Picked up these babies for the balcony garden: red apple potatoes, ozark beauty strawberries and oregano 8)
I'm hoping I can keep the strawberries alive on a balcony in 6b. Should bring them in to overwinter? Anyone else do cold zone container strawberries?

#gardening #vegetablegardening
Red apple potatoes, they have beautiful, rich, red skins and creamy, yellowish flesh. A pile of deep red strawberries. They're medium sized and somewhat conical, not unlike alpine types except the seeds are slightly recessed.
April 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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I have a hard time finding things to watch; I'm admittedly finicky in my own way. While I do love some of the new stuff out, I'm finding some older gems that I'm quite enjoying.
Right now it's The Musketeers (2014/UK) (love Tom Burke which is why I sampled it)
#TV
Cover picture of The Musketeers tv series, features 4 musketeers in appropriate garb. The background is in hazy, neutral tones with the setting sun centred and backlighting them from a low angle.
April 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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It can be hard to tell them apart 'till you discover this distinctive visual difference:
Graphic showing the difference in markings on the head and upper shells of the ladybugs we all remember and the asian ladybugs (we call them harlequins 'round my parts). The asian beetle has a very visible white "M" shape: if it's in front of you and facing the same way as you, the M is right side up surrounded by black.
April 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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You might be struggling with damping off:
www.epicgardening.com/seeds-rotting/
A cap of "sign of over water" on a page about damping off - link included in post.
April 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I try pretty hard to keep stuff like this out of my feed, but there it was so here we are.
March 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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:(
March 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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I have no idea if that can come back 😢
March 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Screen cap of the feeds I have pinned. Following, Gardening, Gardening (open), and Vegetable Gardening so far.
March 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Dammit, I just used up all my 'winning the lottery' luck.
Screen cap of "Shiny Posts" randomly liking one of my posts.
March 17, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Tell me where you're from without telling me where you're from with a quote post.
It's a big, chonky pineapple pizza!
March 17, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Trellis a tromboncio - heavy producer, dual purpose. Early the fruits are tender, like a zucchini, but if you let the later ones stay on the vine (only grow one of these bad boys) they will harden and develop winter squash hardness and keep for-ev-er.
Def trellis, though.
Tromboncino edible gourds hanging from a vine. They look like stretched out, butternut squash. The bulbous bottom has very few seeds.
March 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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The palette.

The balcony is 14'x5', almost perfectly SW facing. The hours of direct light are not as long as I would prefer, but the intensity is high enough to grow actual veg and not just leafy stuff.
Shot of the balcony I'm going to be growing on, a SW facing, 14 by 5 foot space that has an overhang from the balcony above. Shown are pots with stakes and soil, a couple bags with leaves scavenged in the autumn, and 1x1 black metal grids that I use to cover the tops of the pots. (We have squirrels). Shot of the balcony I'm going to be growing on, a SW facing, 14 by 5 foot space that has an overhang from the balcony above. Shown are pots with stakes and soil, a couple bags with leaves scavenged in the autumn, and 1x1 black metal grids that I use to cover the tops of the pots. (We have squirrels).
March 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Muahahaha.

The madness begins.
Image is of my clear glass box containing a hoard of vegetable and herb seeds. It's actually a cosmetic box that turned out to be the perfect size for not only my seeds, but my floral garden gloves and various sizes and shapes of seed tray and plant labels.
March 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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#art
Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900)
A View of the Bosporus with the Hagia Sophia and the Maiden's Tower in the Moonlight
February 10, 2024 at 12:03 AM
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#art
Rehwild im Buchenwald, by Heinrich Böhmer (1852-1930)
February 9, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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This is the zuchetta (or tromboncino) that I'm going to grow this year. I snagged this pic from WCS to show, that's not me or my garden. If you let these things grow on the ground they get all snaky and twisty. 😀
Photo of an elderly gardener growing zuchetta, also called tromboncino), They are like butternut squashes in shape, but with an extremely long neck. Picked early they are used like zucchini, allowed to mature and ripen they are very hard skinned and more squash like with amazing storage life. Flowers and growing tips are often prepared and eaten as fritters.
February 9, 2024 at 11:54 PM