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'Turbo-kanker' Wat? 🤣

Nice article and very true! To help native pollinators you can plant native flowers, and also very important: leave the dead plants in your garden at the end of the season. The pollinators use the stems of dead plants for their overwintering. Please don't place a ton of insect hotels either, solitary bees aren't supposed to nest together and you will get mites and other pathogens that infest the baby bees (this happened in my garden and all my neighbors gardens...). If you do want an insect hotel for mason bees, clean it out every year and replace the tubes where the bees lay their eggs. Also store the tubes in an appropriate place in the winter, but be sure to put the tubes with eggs outside when it's time to hatch :)

I cannot confirm nor deny that I have relocated some Allium ursinum from my local forest to my garden 😅 I have some herb butter I made with it in the fridge now! I make a lot in the spring, and put it in the freezer in small batches for later.

Yes, birch trees! I haven't tried it myself. And no problem! I have a big collection of books and love to share :D

They do! Might be that this plant has a genetic variegation that causes it to be more red than it's neighbors. This plant is a delicious substitute for spinach by the way :)

Stinging nettle tea is supposedly very healthy! I always make stinging nettle soup in the spring, usually there is some Alliaria petiolata growing close by that taste like garlic so that goes in the soup as well. For elderflower tea: dry the flowers, don't eat the stems, leaves or raw fruit as they are poisonous. You can try elderflower lemonade from the supermarket to see if you like the taste, I hate it :P but I use the berries to add to my apples when I make cider (you have to heat the berries to nutralize the toxins, and remove all stems and leaves as they are poisonous).

I use blackberries and wild strawberry fruits in my tea, but my books say you can use the leaves as well.

Other berries you will be able to find: Rosa canina and Rosa rubiginosa: you make tea of the fruits (and jam as well!) For tea from leaves: Betula leaves, Lamium (dovenetel) leaves, Achillea millefolium leaves and flowers, Tilia cordata (linden) blossoms (this is delicious! my favorite tea), wild mint

For some good books and cards to take with you for foraging I recommend you check KNNV Uitgeverij, I have this info from some of their books, I like the 'Wildplukken' series by Peter Kouwenhoven & Barbara Peters. I prefer to get my info on this stuff from books printed by a reputable place that are about our local ecosystem, because there is so much bad information on the internet.

Like the others have said, the ripening takes a long time. As long as the plant isn't dropping the fruits or they are rotting before ripening I would just wait patiently :)

In my country they use vans like a Mercedes Sprinter because you can actually keep your stuff dry and even make a little workshop in there. The only use I can think of for a pickup truck is maybe gardeners so they don't have to haul a trailer for their green waste? Could also maybe be useful to haul strawbales if you have a small farm. But you can just do that in a trailer behind your van as well, and your equipment will be dry inside the van and you can leave the trailer when you don't need it.

Backup cameras became required by law in 2016

That must be local to you, my 2019 car doesn't have one and in my (European) country this is not mandatory.

I've had my FP3 for the same amount of time, still on all original components. Battery lasts through the day easy. The camera is bad, so I might replace that for the upgrade, but other than that I have no issues. My partner buys fancy phones and he is on his third phone in the same timeframe because they all broke. Shame your FP3 is not holding out as well as mine!

That's some wild technology, no belt around your lap either. Huh.