The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!
It’s easy! Actually these are from seeds I harvested in a park. After the flowers bloom the seed pods will develop. They can be opened up and planted in autumn or spring. Lupines are legumes like peas, so look for pea pods and let them ripen until the seeds are black https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/c771d1d4-bc6b-48f7-a0d2-aa1ca539c1c4.jpeg
Our kids wish we had more. I’m not sure which verity these are, but they put out tons of runners which makes me not want to put them directly in soil....
Looks delicious! Good job, llama🦙! Last year I got good at strawberries and I’m so eager to share what worked for me. I grow Rainier which are June bearers. If your berries ripen pretty much all at once they are June bearers, if they ripen continuously all summer you have ever bearers. Either way here are some basic tips. When they finish flowering cut back the entire plant to about 5 cm. Looks and feels awful but works great. Then add an all purpose fertilizer. This is the only time of the year you fertilize- after harvest. Thin the plants until you get 40 cm between each plant. As the plant grows back, remove the runners. It sounds like you’re getting runners now. Remove them. You want your plant focusing on berries. I mulch the beds with straw over the winter and remove it in spring.
Each strawberry plant has a lifespan of about 5 years. Year one you should pluck all the flowers off, forcing the plant to grow bigger first. Years 3-4 will be the biggest harvest. Year 4 or 5 you will collect the runners off the plant for your next bed. Let them grow some roots before removing them from the mother in the early fall. Plant them in a new bed so you’re doing crop rotation. Next summer don’t pluck the flowers off, they should be considered 2 year old plants now (this is technically their second summer alive—- at least that’s my understanding. On this point I’m getting mixed reports online) that’s where I’m at now, going to collect runners this year and move the bed in fall as my plants are now 4.
Sorry to dump so much info but I went from small berries devoured by slugs to 2.5 gallons in the freezer off 19 plants. We were shocked at the difference. I think the most important part was thinning them.
Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we’re experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats....
When a person tells you that a loved one has passed, ask what the their name was and say it back. It can be awkward when that comes up and you might not know how to respond best. I’ve found that most people don’t want you to feel bad for them, but them saying their name and having a chance to talk about them is often a nice thing.
I’m in healthcare so death comes up a lot. “David. That’s a nice name. Where was he from?”
Here are two friends chatting. Right friend tries to tell a story about “showing” something . Left friend (annoying friend in this meme) interrupts the story to label right friend as “showerrr”, meaning someone who shows.
In the second frame left friend is in a shower, a play on the word from the first frame.
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They look just like my sparrows in Oregon! But the real pic is those mountains! Amazing! Are you going up there? I bet you’ll see better birds than sparrows
Having never owned a house or really had a yard of my own, I got pretty excited and decided to do some ad-hoc landscaping. Built some raised beds for vegetables, and just laying in some organic shaped in-ground beds for low water decorative plants. Gonna fill the rest in with gravel. Any pointers?
Lauren Boebert loses it on debate moderator as he grills her on Beetlejuice lies (www.rawstory.com)
This is probably right (sh.itjust.works)
Donald Trump faces travel ban to 37 countries (www.newsweek.com)
TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up.
The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!
Common MythConceptions (www.shithot.co.uk)
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An LA "Bus Stop" (www.instagram.com)
Bigleaf lupine (lemmy.ca)
First strawberries! For those that grow them, how big is your patch? (lemmy.world)
Our kids wish we had more. I’m not sure which verity these are, but they put out tons of runners which makes me not want to put them directly in soil....
19 strawberry plants produced 2.5 gallons last year, looking great so far this year (lemmy.ca)
My favorite little Oregon native corner 🥰 with wood sorrel, pacific bleeding heart, and sword fern (lemmy.ca)
Floating Island Garden (lemmy.world)
Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we’re experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats....
Well growmies, there's one less predator for my veggie garden this year, my 14 year old dog will Godzilla all the plants she wants in heaven tomorrow. (lemmy.world)
What's the best wax-on-wax-off-style advice you've heard that you can attest as being helpful in certain situations?
Shampoopilled soapmaxxed (lemmy.world)
deep cut (fedia.io)
Why There’s a Pacific Ocean Port in Idaho | Half as Interesting (8:36) (www.youtube.com)
[Video] INSANE TORNADO PIPE intercept with windmills toppled near Greenfield, Iowa! (www.youtube.com)
Sparrows at my tent (lemmy.world)
Got some sunflower hearts to share. Also watching vultures cruising around those rocks. In the prepyrenees in spain.
New homeowner, just sorta winging it... (lemmy.world)
Having never owned a house or really had a yard of my own, I got pretty excited and decided to do some ad-hoc landscaping. Built some raised beds for vegetables, and just laying in some organic shaped in-ground beds for low water decorative plants. Gonna fill the rest in with gravel. Any pointers?