They're american chestnut, several given to us by a friend without any kind of cultivar information. We've also got another nursery owner who'll sometimes give me a bag of horse chestnut seeds when the trees that line his property have a good year
I think I need to split my tomatoes today.
What's growing on with you all?
Phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space edition
We've got thirty, maybe forty pots looking like this, with true leaves starting to appear on a bunch of the starts - only a few of the pots have any duplicate plantings. There's two pots of chamomile (pictured) and a few other herbs like sage and lavender.
We're also growing wheat for the first time, which is pretty exciting. I've done up a few dozen plugs for the bird yard, which will be fenced this first year to protect them til they go to seed, and have a row in the vegetable patch that I'm thinking of using for seed saving purposes. If anyone's grown grains before I'm interested to hear your wisdom.
What's growing on with you all?
[Image description: A picture of plants being hand watered with a caption that reads I make them planties wet. Mark this NSFWSP - Not safe for water sensitive plants
[Image description: a photo of Lacinato kale seedlings germinating together in a pot]
I have more space to start plants this year, but it's still very worth it for us to conserve space where we can. To that end, we're starting several species in a "mob grow" style with many many seedlings in each pot rather than individual smaller cell trays. Once they're of a size for transplanting we'll be able to tease them all apart either for planting in the gardens or repotting for sales or donation.
h/t to Bobby over at Small Scale Permaculture (yt link) for convincing me to try this out with more species.
Since when did punk rock talk about politics 🤣
Since the dawn of punk rock? Read a poorly photocopied zine fer cryin' out loud. Half of the Dead Kennedys first album was about Dianne Feinstein or Jerry Brown and the political landscape of San Francisco. Literally every Bad Religion song is political. Let's not even get started on all the Brit punk that Thatcher inspired.
Relevant youtube link
We mow in sections, on the highest setting, and so infrequently that our neighbors were surprised that we even have a lawnmower (battery powered, charged by solar). For a year or two we didn't mow at all, just walked around with a sheet of plywood with a tow rope and some wood screwed into the bottom to act as crimpers. There are thousands of lightning bugs at our place again now, as well as dozens of species of solitary native bees and wasps. It's super rewarding watching the dragonflies perching on the tall native bluestem in between their hunts.
Certainly not the U.S. citizens
The newly listed company warned in its initial public offering (IPO) paperwork that its unique approach to content moderation can sometimes subject it to disruptions like in 2023, when several moderators protested against its decision to charge third-party app developers
I seem to recall over 8000 subs going dark but sure, just a handful of people protested.
Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington State and Wyoming are participating.
It's a shame more aren't participating but I can see the reasoning behind staged access and iterative improvement. The real pity is that data they've already got won't be preloaded in this stage. It would have been the nail in the coffin for Intuit and other companies' predatory practices on lower income folks, at least as they exist currently.
"As a result of this criminal act, Amazon's license to operate within the U.S. has been suspended until executives can provide the communications they were legally ordered to preserve," said an FTC spokesperson while smiling wryly in my fever dream where laws matter.
Amazon employees were using signal to coordinate anticonsumer policies and then destroyed the records, which the FTC had ordered them to preserve. At least, that's how I read it.
Sync is back in its rightful place on my device home screen, only now it points me at Beehaw. Things are looking up.
Friendly mod reminder not to eat things on the advice of strangers on the internet.
So far it's all spring onions for us, but I'm seeing the sorrels I split last fall coming back as of the past few days.