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2026-05-31 01:49:59 UTC

As many of you have seen, there is a terrifying new bill that merges US military weapons research, production and technology with Israel’s.
http://5calls.org doesn’t currently list the issue but you can type your zip code and call your representatives and tell them to REJECT the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative in Section 224 of the House Armed Services Committee’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
#uspol #uspolitics #politics #military

2026-05-11 03:18:01 UTC

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@nprofile…a237 if you plan to use a greenhouse, azadi, fleishman and arakta might be best bc of disease resistance to anthracnose (thrives in humidity).
Do I remember correctly that you are east coast? Many pomegranate types get heart rot from too much rain. Varieties I know from other growers on the east coast that aren’t so rain sensitive are kazake, Eversweet, kaj-acik-anor, azadi, parfianka, kara bala miursal and sirenevyi.
I don’t actually know anyone growing arakta or fleishman.

2026-05-11 00:10:47 UTC

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@nprofile…a237 what climate zone are you? Some really good ones only survive up to zone 8. Also, do you like purely sweet, sweet with some acidity or tart pomegranates?
You can grow them in pots and keep them in the garage over winter if you still want to grow them.

2026-05-10 23:57:52 UTC

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@nprofile…k8fx would you be interested in grafting over the plants with a tastier cultivar?

2026-05-03 02:28:11 UTC

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@nprofile…tts4 not sure, the blackberry and devils walking stick would be the most destructive with their rhyzomes but some of them will colonize and work in any crevice/crack

2026-05-03 02:02:23 UTC

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@nprofile…tts4 for many of these, any rhyzomes or roots left in soil will regrow. They’re very hard to kill/eliminate once established.

2026-05-03 01:41:37 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #solarpunk #AI #DataCenters #NativePlants
Green solutions to combat AI data centers, SE North America:
devil’s walking stick (Aralia spinosa)
poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum)
horrid thistle (Cirsium horridulum)
sawtooth blackberries (Rubus argutus)
Carolina horsenettle (Solanum carolinense)
burr grass (Cenchrus)
woolly ragwort (Packers dubia)
devil’s claw (Proboscidea parviflora)
Anyone want to fill in plants for other regions? 😊
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2026-04-05 18:47:53 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten
If you are concerned about rising food costs, please consider getting rid of your lawn.
Cheapest way to do it thread 🧵 1/
(TLDR)
-connect with arborist for free wood chips
-obtain “green” compost from local businesses
-height/fencing
-bokashi and sealed water bucket method of producing fertilizer
-leftover water from washing rice and lentils
-will be ready to plant next year, otherwise add soil if planting this year
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2026-03-29 18:09:17 UTC

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5/ Jujubes produce more if they can cross-pollinate with a different cultivar but most cultivars are self-fruitful.
The flowers are not dioecious, some cultivars just don’t produce pollen. In North America, there is only one that needs a pollinator bc it doesn’t produce pollen and that is ZaoCuiWang (早脆王) early crisp king.
Jujubes grown commercially also produce more when they are intercropped with other crops. Don’t know why that is, that’s just what’s reported. (See Nature link, end of 🧵)

2026-03-29 17:38:36 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #ClimateChangeGardening #gardening #jardin #garten #fossilfuels #climatechange #Polycrisis
Jujube thread 🧵 1/
TL;DR
-thrives in heat, zones 6-9
-tastes like apple
-flowers late, beating unexpected frosts
-can produce in areas with only 400mm (15”) of rainfall
-doesn’t like water-logged soil
-different cultivars for fresh eating, multipurpose or drying
-produces more cross-pollinating with another cultivar
-intercropping increases productivity
-links for more info
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2026-01-24 23:00:02 UTC

**Help Minnesota**
Here is a directory of mutual-aid organizations helping residents with health care, food security, rent assistance and legal defense.
https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #minnesota #minneapolis #ice #AbolishIce #mutualaid

2025-12-07 21:30:57 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten
Peppers are slowing down in the greenhouse. Temps so far haven’t gone below 39F/4C but ají panca is dying and ají charapita is showing cold damage. I cut back many peppers that weren’t producing and they look ok. The charapita is coming indoors now.
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají chinchi amarillo
Ají dulce orange
Biquinho salmao
Cheiro do norte
Madhatter
Peppapeach stripey
Sugar rush bell
Zavory
Parsley
Miracle berry
Tomatoes
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2025-11-30 21:00:16 UTC

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2/ #solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten
Finally ground the leaves from the jackfruit harvest this year. Instead of using a scissors to trim out the center vein, I just tore it out. Still takes forever to ground and sift.
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2025-11-30 20:53:55 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten 🧵 1/
Peppers still going in the greenhouse, mostly madhatters, ají dulce orange, zavory, ají habanero, SR bell stripey, ají chinchi amarillo, cacho de cabra and cheiro do norte
Ají panca is dying in the cold and the lowest it’s reached in the greenhouse at night is 39.5F/4.1C. I’ve cut back about half the peppers to overwinter and they are doing ok.
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2025-11-23 20:28:53 UTC

So many great recipes with native plants to try. 😊❤️
#gardening #jardin #garten #NativePlants #cooking #SolarPunkSunday #bookstodon
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2025-11-16 19:45:50 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #peppers #paprika #chiles
Pepper experiments 🧵1/3
So far the greenhouse hasn’t gotten below 40F/4C. Here are how the peppers are faring:
Peppers that haven’t suffered any significant leaf drop and are producing
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají chinchi amarillo
Ají dulce orange
Ají jobito
Jimmy nardello
Madhatter
Peppapeach stripey
PJ UFO
Scotch bonnet
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2025-11-09 20:00:17 UTC

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2/2 #solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #cooking #backen #baking
New experiments with jackfruit leaf: better spice grinders make finer powder that can be used directly into flour for baking or into thick beany soups/dals without it being “gritty.” No fermentation necessary.
Baking at a low temperature 350F/176C makes the leaf taste kinda like pandan.
Sorry for non-glamorous pics. Been hectic over here.
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2025-11-09 20:00:16 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #SeasonalPlantMigration 1/2🧵
In a bit of a panic this week. A few days ago a possible frost alert popped up for this week. We usually don’t get a frost until December so everyone around here is scrambling with just 5 days warning.
Sweeping, vacuuming, washing, mopping garage and sunroom for overwintering plants, harvesting everything that isn’t cold hardy. 😫
This year’s jackfruit leaf harvest below:
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2025-11-02 21:43:35 UTC

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@nprofile…yyjp if there is any danger of extreme cold weather, you can hang incandescent Christmas lights on the branches (turn them on) and then cover with a bedsheet or frost blanket and then plastic tarp or trash bags overtop. It’ll be nice and toasty.

2025-11-02 20:41:27 UTC

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@nprofile…yyjp do you know thomasville cintrangequat? That’s super cold hardy too and has a lot of uses, from green to yellow and finally ripe at orange. The whole citrus is edible.
Nipponquat is a work horse of a plant if you want something small and productive with some cold-hardiness.

2025-11-02 18:22:10 UTC

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8/ Grocery store yuzus are not good.
The aromatics degrade over time after the fruit is picked. You can find yuzus at specialty grocery stores but they are basically scentless. I wonder if they are also spayed or washed besides being put into cold storage because fresh yuzus are intensely aromatic.
When I got the fruit from my friend, I immediately put them in the fridge to work on the next day. You could smell the fruit from outside the fridge and it scented up the whole kitchen.

2025-11-02 17:24:38 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten
Yuzu! 🧵1/
Last week I traded a bunch of peppers for 15 yuzus off a friend’s tree. This is what I did with them.
Pic below, I already grated the fruit with a microplane.
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2025-10-31 18:56:10 UTC

Happy Halloween!
Besides candy for the kids, there are treats for their parents: fruit tree seeds!
Yuzu, a cold hardy, disease and pest resistant citrus
Red hybrid jabuticaba, compact shrubby tree that fruits nearly all year round (Grow in a pot, bring indoors in winter.)
(Both plants come true from seed.)
Someone said it looked like I was handing out drugs and needed to decorate the basket. Not sure if it helped…
#Halloween #gardening #jardin #garten #ClimateChangeGardening #foodsecurity
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2025-10-19 20:44:29 UTC

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@nprofile…guw5 😊❤️

2025-10-19 19:12:39 UTC

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🧵 3/3 #SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #blumen #FleurisTonFil #ClimateDiary
Talked to a couple of citrus experts and was told not to worry about the citrus below blooming in late October - none of these cultivars require a cool season to flower and that they’ll just keep blooming as long as the weather is warm. It’s almost 80F/27C today.
Pics were taken today.
Fukushu kumquat
Shikuwasa
Nippon orangequat
Thomasville citrangequat
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2025-10-19 18:53:31 UTC

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🧵 2/3 #SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #cooking #kochen
Harvesting loads of leafy greens to dry before winter. Dried leafy greens can be added to soups, sauces, curries, rice (while it’s steaming), savory breads or ground into a fine powder to mix with flour for making pasta/noodles.
Below are dandelion greens.
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2025-10-19 18:43:33 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #paprika #peppers #chile
🧵 1/3
Ají apple crisp
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají chinchi amarillo
Ají dulce orange
Ají dulce
Ají habanero
Ají panca
Biquinho salmao
Cheiro do norte
Habanada
Grenada seasoning
Madhatter
Peppapeach stripey
PJ UFO
Scotch bonnet
SR bell stripey
Trinidad Perfume
Trinidad Pimento Seasoning
Zavory
Wild and cherry tomatoes
Red hybrid jabuticaba
Winged beans
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2025-10-12 21:40:05 UTC

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@nprofile…43sm 😊❤️

2025-10-12 21:32:59 UTC

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@nprofile…efxf 😊❤️

2025-10-12 20:00:01 UTC

Look who finally ripened? Oct. 12 and planted in Feb.
Ají panca (very late season pepper)
Other:
Ají apple crisp
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají chinchi amarillo
Ají dulce orange
Ají dulce, regular and long
Ají habanero
Biquinho salmao
Cheiro do norte
Habanada
Grenada seasoning
Madhatter
Padron
Peppapeach stripey
PJ UFO
SR bell stripey
Sweet Imposter
Trinidad Perfume
Trinidad Pimento Seasoning
Arugula
#gardening #jardin #garten #peppers #chile #paprika #solarpunksunday
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2025-10-05 15:32:44 UTC

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2/
I tested to see if the intensely floral flavor of Trinidad Pimento Seasoning and Grenada seasoning came out it baking. It did and it was good. Kneeding the peppers with the flour/yeast for 10’ really infused the dough.
Top “bagel” was baked in a mold, no sweetened water bath. It came out like extra crusty bread. 😊
Bottom bagel was hand rolled and had the bath. I made them small bc I was worried overcooking might kill the flavor but it didn’t.
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2025-10-05 15:16:26 UTC

Pepper posting 🧵 1/
Ají apple crisp
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají dulce orange (baccatum)
Ají dulce, regular and long
Ají habanero
Ají jobito
Biquinho, red & salmao
Cheiro do norte
“Chilhuacle negro” (not)
Habanada
Grenada seasoning
Jalapeño
Madhatter
Padron
Peppapeach stripey
Purple naga hybrid
SR bell stripey
Scotch bonnet
Trinidad Perfume
Trinidad Pimento Seasoning
Romano
#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #pimientos #paprika #chili #peppers
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2025-10-03 22:30:47 UTC

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8/ 🧵
Thomasville citrangequat, are you for real?? 😮
#gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #blumen #FleurisTonFil #flores #花
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2025-10-02 22:54:40 UTC

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#gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #blumen #FleurisTonFil #flores #花
5/
Starfruit still setting fruit.
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2025-10-02 00:49:03 UTC

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#gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #blumen #FleurisTonFil #flores #花
4/ Malpighia emarginata, Acerola cherry
Seriously? It’s bursting with blooms and buds.
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2025-10-02 00:35:23 UTC

#ClimateDiary #gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #blumen #FleurisTonFil #flores #花
October 1st. Plants that are flowering and fruiting way out of date. 🧵 1/
Fortunella obovata, Fukushu kumquat
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2025-08-24 19:13:54 UTC

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@nprofile…n7w7 understandable ❤️. Acorns for the win! 🏆

2025-08-24 19:05:19 UTC

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@nprofile…n7w7 oh sorry! I saw that you were going to post about acorn bread last week so I thought it was going to be acorn day today for solarpunksunday.

2025-08-24 17:20:27 UTC

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@nprofile…hz7m major inflation of fresh produce started after Covid. Your data only shows from 2021. Try how prices compared in the 1950’s to now, adjusted for inflation. Also, compare prices of fresh produce purchased by the average consumer within other regions such as Asia and South America and compare the costs of fresh produce purchased by the average consumer in the US, also adjusted for inflation. Are you denying the reality of food deserts in the United States?

2025-08-24 16:41:18 UTC

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@nprofile…ky6l they taste like cucumber are are faintly sweet ❤️

2025-08-24 16:39:40 UTC

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@nprofile…hz7m this is post seems to understate the emphasis on leaching acorns to remove toxicity. Acorns have been an essential part of traditional diet in North America. Do more research, for starters:
Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: https://www.oupress.com/9780806163215/indigenous-food-sovereignty-in-the-united-states/
https://seansherman.com/books/

2025-08-24 16:24:33 UTC

This is your seasonal reminder that all acorns are edible. Many acorns require leaching. For instructions on how to leach acorns and recipe ideas, see the thread below.
#CostOfLiving #inflation #tariffs #politics #uspol #gardening #garten #jardin #foraging #food #cooking #acorns #solarpunk #SolarpunkSunday #NativePlants
https://mastodon.world/@jblue/109881330914753124
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2025-08-23 19:34:31 UTC

Vanessa virginiensis, painted lady
#gardening #wildlife #nature #insects #insekten #insectes #insectos #昆虫 #InsektenSamstag #butterfly #papillon #schmetterling #mariposa #蝴蝶
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2025-08-20 17:46:03 UTC

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@nprofile…pgme I tie/clip (with galvanized steel wire) two layers of insect netting to branches or if it’s small, the whole tree. The insect netting is light enough that it won’t damage the fruit and sunlight still passes through. And the two layers are too strong for squirrels to rip through.

2025-08-19 17:51:45 UTC

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@nprofile…kdj9 some ideas that are nutritionally/carb dense and produce a lot for the space they take up and taste good: red hybrid jabuticaba, aronia berries (I use them in tea everyday), everbearing mulberries (leaves are also edible), very purple potatoes or deep orange sweet potatoes, edamame (kind of a pest-magnet), acerola cherries, any citrus where you can eat the peel (best tasting are meiwa, Fukushu, calamansi, thomasville citrangequat)

2025-08-18 21:16:20 UTC

Costs of living are rising. If you are seeking help to grow/forage your own fruit and vegetables inexpensively, please feel free to tag me with Qs.
We are all in this together. ❤️
#tariffs #gardening #CostOfLiving #groceries #uspol #uspolitics #inflation #food #solarpunksunday #solarpunk
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2025-08-17 20:30:26 UTC

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@nprofile…kjha so sorry to hear about that!
There are a couple of small fruit shrubs in the myrtle family that taste like sweet bell peppers and can be grown in a pot if you are interested. One species is Eugenia acutata. I’d have to look up the other.

2025-08-17 19:47:38 UTC

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4/
Cacho de cabra tastes like chocolate, coffee and raisin. This is the one that is supposed to be smoked to make merkén but not sure it really needs it to be enjoyed. Heat is around aji amarillo level, just under cayenne.
Sweet Imposter tastes like fried eggs with chinense flavor, low heat. The pepper walls are very thin. It’s not producing a lot either.
Aji habanero, sweet and smokey with upper jalapeño heat. The pepper walls are very thin and kinda tough. Very heavy producing.

2025-08-17 19:47:37 UTC

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3/
Jimmy nardello, still a good one. Sweet and cucumbery. No heat.
Cheiro do Norte, chinense flavor with sweetish summer squash flavor. Heat lower than jalapeño. Not that heavy bearing.
Zavory, like an extra sweet bell pepper. So far none have had heat. Not very heavy bearing.
Habanada, heavy bearing. Mine are not heatless ~ lower jalapeño level, they have strong chinense flavor and are sweet.

2025-08-17 19:47:36 UTC

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Peppapeach are producing a lot. They are sweet-fruity with heat at an upper-jalapeño level.
Biquinho salmao produce a lot. They are sweet with the chinense flavor. Heat at lower jalapeño level.
PJ UFO are definitely the not advertised 300,000 SHU. They’re a bit hotter than a cayenne and the heat gets you at the back of the throat and lips. Flavor is fruity-citrusy. No “chinense flavor.”

2025-08-17 19:47:35 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #garten #jardin #organic #ClimateChangeGardening
Pepper posting 🧵 1/
I’m growing 28 cultivars of pepper this year. Here are some notes on progress halfway through the season:
Madhatters and aji charapita still best performing peppers for space they take up, early ripening and yeild but these plants are years old and many peppers I’m just starting this year.
Trinidad perfume are really producing a lot. They are sweet-citrusy with heat less than jalapeño.
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2025-08-11 21:06:33 UTC

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@nprofile…vxvl thanks, I might try cutting them open, deseeding, brushing the insides with liquid smoke and dehydrating to see if this works. ❤️

2025-08-11 20:58:47 UTC

#cooking #cocina #kochen #peppers #gardening #jardin #garten
Apologies if this is a really dumb question. My peppers are ripening and was looking at different wood chips to smoke them with and was really disturbed that you have to pay nearly $10 for a little bag of chips - literally burning money for a little added flavor.
**Q**
If I dehydrate the peppers next to/on top of the wood chips at a higher heat (175F/80C), could I get the same added flavor?
That way I could reuse the wood chips?

2025-08-10 18:13:19 UTC

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@nprofile…ya9q ❤️❤️❤️

2025-08-10 18:09:42 UTC

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@nprofile…ya9q it’s probably the climate. You might look into high elevation peppers from Peru, Bolivia and Chile for better luck like ají chinchi amarillo (sub variant of ají amarillo). You could probably grow rocoto if you bring it inside in winter. ❤️

2025-08-10 17:58:06 UTC

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@nprofile…ya9q ❤️😊
I’m growing 28 cultivars this year!

2025-08-10 17:50:48 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #FleurisTonFil #flores #花 #insects #insekten #InsektenSamstag #昆虫 #insectos
🌈Garden colors🌈
Marshmallow root flowers
Starfruit, Thai Giant
Peppers (mostly madhatter, Trinidad perfume, cheiro do norte, Sweet Imposter zavory)
Maypop, Passiflora incarnata with Xylocopa virginica (eastern carpenter bee)
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2025-08-03 20:00:16 UTC

In case anyone needs to see a monarch caterpillar munching on milkweed…
#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #pollinators #butterfly #mariposa #schmetterling #papillon #insects #insekten #InsektenSamstag #insectes #昆虫 #蝴蝶
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2025-07-27 19:49:09 UTC

Red hybrid jabuticaba 😊
#ClimateChangeGardening #SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten
https://mastodon.world/@jblue/113890538749834507
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2025-07-20 18:12:05 UTC

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3/3 It does poorly indoors. The leaves look a bit anemic and though it will push a few flowers, the fruit won’t reach maturity. The plant really needs full-blast sunlight and warm weather to be lush and green and set fruit.
Aphids are not a problem outdoors. The plant is mostly pest free except for the occasional katydid nibbling on leaves. Birds, squirrels and rodents love the fruit though.

2025-07-20 18:12:05 UTC

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2/3 The plant dies in freezing temperatures. It can grow and fruit in a large pot but it needs a hot climate and long growing season to thrive. I wouldn’t recommend this plant to anyone in zone 7 or colder.
It gets pest-ridden indoors. When I bring my plants inside in winter, I spray the whole plant with a weak solution of dish soap, mineral oil and neem oil and dust the whole plant with diatomaceous earth. This keeps the aphids off. I then hose down the plant when I take it out in spring.

2025-07-20 18:12:04 UTC

Malpighia emarginata, acerola cherry 🧵 1/3
First year with a sizable crop. Animals usually steal the fruit before they fully ripen but this year I built a strong reinforced fence around it.
It is almost everbearing in summer. The taste of the fruit depends on the cultivar. Acerolas are naturally mildly-pleasantly tart but mine are a sweetish variety.
#solarpunksunday #climatechangegardening #gardening #jardin #garten
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2025-07-18 23:29:01 UTC

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@nprofile…gaw7 ❤️🫂

2025-07-14 19:45:15 UTC

**TAKE ACTION** to protect the National Endowment for the Arts:
Link leads to writing and call scripts to address your representatives in Congress.
https://www.votervoice.net/mobile/PAA/campaigns/126036/respond
47 has proposed cutting the NEA entirely. The NEA has already suffered steep cuts this year and now this administration is cutting back even further.
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #arts #humanities #music #theater

2025-07-08 22:20:31 UTC

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5/🧵
Common eastern bumblebee, aka pocket panda
Plants are Fukushu kumquat (Citrus obovata) and pitanga-juba (Eugenia repanda)
I neglected to mention on a previous post that the pitanga-juba flowers smell like jasmine!
#nature #wildlife #bees #abeilles #bienen #abejas #pollinators #insects #insekten #InsektenSamstag #insectos #insectes #昆虫 #gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #FleurisTonFil #blumen #flores #花
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2025-07-08 22:09:12 UTC

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4/🧵
Carolina mantis nymph (Stagmomantis carolina) on Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia involucrata)
#insects #insekten #insectes #insectos #昆虫 #InsektenSamstag #nature #wildlife #gardening #jardin #garten
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2025-07-08 21:57:54 UTC

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Female blue dasher on lavender, Pachydiplax longipennis
#insects #insekten #insectes #insectos #昆虫 #InsektenSamstag #nature #wildlife #gardening #jardin #garten
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2025-07-08 21:52:05 UTC

In celebration of finally having wifi back after a week of fastidiously conserving precious data… 🧵
Here is a photo dump of cute arthropods I’ve found lately.
Newly molted jumping spider looking contemplative…
(likely Phidippus audax, plant is shiranui mandarin)
#spiders #spinnen #InsektenSamstag #araignee #arana #昆虫 #nature #wildlife #gardening #jardin #garten
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2025-07-02 23:29:24 UTC

This pudgy little punk ate all the leaves of THREE of my chile plants.
Now he’s bird food.
#revenge
#gardening #jardin #garten #organic #birds #nature #wildlife #insects #insekten #InsektenSamstag #insectos #insectes
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2025-06-29 23:36:09 UTC

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@nprofile…ra6v @nprofile…92y4 are groundhogs sensitive to capsaicin? You can grow one or two super hot peppers like Trinidad Moruga, Carolina Reaper, Pepper X, Red Savina or a 7 pot and use it as a powder to keep them away.
You would need to take abundant care not to hurt yourself with them though. Wear gloves, chemistry goggles and a mask and use a separate grinder for the powder.

2025-06-29 23:21:55 UTC

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@nprofile…ra6v @nprofile…92y4 have you read the book Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones? You won’t realize until the end why I mention it. It’s not a real solution but pretty funny.

2025-06-29 22:43:22 UTC

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@nprofile…ra6v @nprofile…92y4 sounds like you’re raising groundhogs instead of vegetables

2025-06-29 21:59:06 UTC

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@nprofile…s20q no but I’m curious. Have you tried growing them?

2025-06-29 21:33:55 UTC

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2/2
Meanwhile the Tepary beans are having a party. They were not watered in all of this heatwave!! (besides a few scattered rains)
Other beans are doing ok: black edamame, Romano and hidatsa.
#solarpunkSunday #climateChange #ClimateChangeGardening #gardening #jardin #garten #ClimateDiary
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2025-06-29 21:33:55 UTC

#solarpunkSunday #climateChange #ClimateChangeGardening #gardening #jardin #garten #ClimateDiary 🧵 1/2
Not quite solarpunk but people might want to know.
So chickpeas can be heat sensitive but I thought I’d try out an heirloom from southern Italy. Well, the heatwave we are having here (temps up to 100F/37.8C) is killing them.
It takes 90-120 days for these beans to mature so spring planting won’t work and the beans are frost sensitive. Guess this heirloom will be a global warming casualty.
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2025-06-29 18:17:31 UTC

Hey everyone,
In regards to ICE agents masking:
The upper partials of someone’s speaking voice are like a fingerprint. If you want to save evidence for future prosecution, record their voices.
(I am a professional who works in music and sound.)
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #ICE #corruption #trump #rights #MaskedThugs #CivilRights #justice
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2025-06-22 20:42:47 UTC

Please enjoy these glorious blooms. They barely last a day before setting fruit.
The little green dots beside the flowers are a second set of blooms.
Eugenia repanda aka pitanga-jambo
It takes at least 4yrs to fruit from seed but if you have the patience, they are worth the effort for how much fruit they produce. Compact plant, bring inside in winter.
#gardening #garten #jardin #fruit #GrowYourOwn #SolarpunkSunday #bloomscrolling #fleuristonfil #flores #blumen #花 #ClimateChangeGardening
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2025-06-22 01:27:36 UTC

This website has a toolkit to contact all your reps for a ceasefire in Gaza and Iran along with call scripts.
It also has volunteer and outreach opportunities and links to donating campaigns.
https://ceasefiretoday.com
#politics #uspol #CeasefireNow #war #Iran #IranIsraelWar #Gaza #trump

2025-06-21 23:28:22 UTC

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@nprofile…q3cn 😊❤️

2025-06-21 15:16:57 UTC

Limenitis arthemis astyanax, white admiral on green briar (Smilax rotundifolia)
#insects #insekten #InsektenSamstag #insectes #insectos #昆虫 #mariposas #papillon #schmetterling #蝴蝶 #NativePlants #nature #wildlife
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2025-06-17 18:32:52 UTC

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/war
Verso curated a reading list that explores how war is driven by profit, how it operates, and the human suffering and environmental devastation it causes. They’re 30% off but you can also find the titles through libraries.
#bookstodon #politics #uspol #uspolitics #ClimateDiary #war #imperialism #capitalism #ClimateChange #fossilfuels

2025-06-15 20:59:58 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #NativePlants #bloomscrolling #FleurisTonFil #flores #blumen #花
The amazing migrating Monarda. I have a lot of small tropical fruit plants that are just starting to bloom so I move this plant around for the pollinators to find the flowers.
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2025-06-08 21:27:47 UTC

Hey everyone,
With all the craziness going on, please check out and share:
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It’s an online directory of local resources available as alternatives to contacting law enforcement if you need help with DV, mental health, housing, LGBTQ+ support, protecting your vote, crisis management, addiction, etc.
#politics #uspol #ice #Police #mentalhealth #housing #lgbtq #votingrights #addiction

2025-06-08 21:11:29 UTC

#ClimateDiary #gardening #jardin #garten #peppers #SolarPunkSunday 1/2🧵
The polar vortex that brought unusual snowfall that lasted over a week killed many of my tropical trees overwintering in the garage. Really devastating. These were fruiting plants I’ve had for years.
So I might have gone a little overboard and am growing 27 cultivars of peppers this season.
Below is ají habanero, capsicum baccatum.
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2025-06-02 22:34:48 UTC

Spotted first monarch of the season 😊
Asclepias tuberosa, butterfly weed; phlox subulata, moss phlox
Danaus plexippus, monarch butterfly
#NativePlants #bloomscrolling #FleurisTonFil #花 #flores #blumen #gardening #jardin #garten #蝴蝶 #昆虫 #butterfly #papillon #schmetterling #mariposa #insects #insectes #insekten #InsektenSamstag #insectos
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2025-06-01 21:05:01 UTC

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@nprofile…nm3g is there anything that native that they will like that can grow in hotter/dryer conditions like tiger nuts?
Maybe you should offer / grow chiltepins?
I have aji charapitas growing up all over my yard/garden, pots, everywhere.

2025-06-01 20:36:05 UTC

Daily picks: Blackberries, wild raspberries, blueberries
Celine beans, Romano beans
Ethiopian and dinosaur kale, red-veined sorrel, magenta orach
Fennel, mint
Turnip and its greens
Also a 🐿️ buried a peanut in the flood wall and its growing…
#gardening #garten #jardin #GrowYourOwn #SolarPunkSunday #organic #food #essen #comida #nourriture
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2025-05-31 00:20:58 UTC

Hi everyone,
Don’t call the police is a website that has non-carceral/non-policing, community based resources for mental health, domestic violence, housing, solving conflicts, and now:
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2025-05-29 13:34:33 UTC

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@nprofile…qt79 most of the time I use them, I steam them for 45’ and then add them to a cooking pot of mixed vegetables (right now fillet and Romano beans) with other leafy greens at the end of cooking. Or make a pasta dish with them. Nothing fancy.

2025-05-28 23:17:25 UTC

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@nprofile…tzlf it was really good. I can’t really take credit for this. I went to a middle eastern restaurant once where they put grape leaves in stews so that kind of lit a light for me. They’re also really nice sweet-pickled and folded into onigiri.
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2025-05-28 23:05:25 UTC

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@nprofile…tzlf ❤️ grape leaves for the win ❤️

2025-05-28 23:00:49 UTC

Putting grape (muscadine and domestic) and mulberry leaves to use.
Other ingredients: maitake mushrooms, zucchini, mint and fennel leaves, parmigiano reggiano, olive oil for brushing and salt for pulling water out of zucchini.
#gardening #garten #jardin #NativePlants #cooking #kochen #vegetarian #organic #GrowYourOwn
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2025-05-28 23:00:49 UTC

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Grape leaves need to be steamed for at least 45’ before blending with other ingredients.
I got a rooted cutting of what was supposed to be a seedless Catawba grape vine. The grapes mature to be a blushed dusty pink and have at least one seed inside. They taste better than Catawba so I’m not going to complain.
Any ideas on variety?

2025-05-26 21:15:40 UTC

First maypop of the year 😊
#gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #fleuristonfil #flores #blumen #花 #NativePlants
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2025-05-18 20:45:47 UTC

Gift that keeps giving. Rubus occidentalis, black raspberry
Best tasting raspberry, sweet and vinous. I’ve given rooted cuttings of this to so many people, I’ve lost count.
#SolarpunkSunday #NativePlants #plants #pflanzen #plantas #gardening #garten #jardin #GrowYourOwn #水果
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2025-05-16 17:58:19 UTC

Any #peppers people want to help me out with something?
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Kantar/publication/306268440_Vitamin_Variation_in_Capsicum_Spp_Provides_Opportunities_to_Improve_Nutritional_Value_of_Human_Diets/links/585c4d8b08ae8fce48facec5/Vitamin-Variation-in-Capsicum-Spp-Provides-Opportunities-to-Improve-Nutritional-Value-of-Human-Diets.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6Il9kaXJlY3QiLCJwYWdlIjoicHVibGljYXRpb25Eb3dubG9hZCIsInByZXZpb3VzUGFnZSI6Il9kaXJlY3QifX0
Researchers tested different pepper varieties, and found that the “Amish chicken” is one of the most nutritious peppers. It’s number 39 in the peppers pic.
I can’t seem to find this pepper anywhere. Does it have another name? Amish pimiento, yellow stuffing pepper and Amish finger (which is only available in the EU) don’t match the pic. 🤨
#gardening #garten #jardin #paprika #pimiento #aji #pimenta

2025-05-08 20:59:55 UTC

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@nprofile…6uc8 I might need to do this. We have muskrats and they destroy everything.

2025-05-04 19:06:28 UTC

Hi everyone, with the incoming #tariffs likely affecting the cost and availability of food, please feel free to reach out if you need help foraging or growing your own food. Just tag me with any Q’s.
Below are #FoodSecurity links you may find useful. 1/2 🧵
Find and support local growers here:
https://www.localharvest.org/
https://blackfarmersindex.com
Locate a food co-op near you:
http://www.grocerystory.coop
#politics #uspol #gardening #foraging #SolarpunkSunday
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2025-04-29 00:08:08 UTC

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@nprofile…hnya thanks so much! ❤️😊

2025-04-28 21:36:02 UTC

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@nprofile…nm3g yeah I remember us talking about this about a year ago and was checking it out. I saw some mention of it online getting cedar rust. Have you seen many diseased plants and do you think it would be more susceptible here since we have 47” of rain?