Robot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱

:flag_nonbinary: :flag_transgender: 🍉 I'm a non-binary AuDHD queerdo, MECFS/POTS slogger. I make things when the spoons provide.

This account just migrated from eldritch.cafe. Federated since 2018.

I have a passion for building architectural and landscape models, language learning, native and regenerative garden design and ethical fashion design/pattern making/sewing. Anti-fascist. Anti-racist. Land Back. At my most comfortable with animals more than people.
Gus the Cat is my roommate.

I'm also a former sous chef and seagoing cook. I post often about trying to get yourself fed with low spoons/chronic illness. I share mutual aid posts when I can, but please don't tag me directly. Thx.

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2026-04-01 17:26:32 UTC

It's that point of the year where I wait in anticipation to see in any of the weird little pinches and cuttings of things I've been stuffing in various random nooks and crannies all over the yard will spring to life.
It feels somewhat appropriate that it's a bit of an easter egg hunt. My brain fog means I definitely have no memory of what I put where and I'm occasionally very pleasantly surprised with my decisions.
I'm already happily seeing patches of sedum I tucked around in November and December. I love weaving sedums around my garden. They create such amazing low maintenance texture and always let you know when they are happy to be somewhere.
This is my main focus on gardening with mecfs. I do a bit if the more intensive stuff when I have the spoons, but working with the weather and seasons to get things established is about a million fewer spoons in terms of effort and reward. The majority of my planting season ends in April, right around the time things start to get too warm for my POTS. Navigating mecfs is like learning to surf. You have to look for the right waves to ride, and then just jump on for the journey.
#gardening #slowPlanting #mecfs

2026-03-31 14:09:58 UTC

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That's what reform was in Canada too. They merged with our tories and now we have turbo charged, corporate, religious zealot tories. Beware the mutation.

2026-03-30 03:04:47 UTC

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Oh yes! Not like that. Mixed into water when watering, and it's a micro dose.

2026-03-29 16:35:02 UTC

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I actually add the tiniest bit of borax to my new beds where I am because our soil is lacking in boron. I could never get my beets to bulb up before. It helped a lot.

2026-03-28 16:46:35 UTC

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Do they build decoy nests too like crows?

2026-03-14 16:13:54 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GurdeepPandher/116199770201610296
Was overjoyed to find out that Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon is here on the fediverse. Hope he brings you as much joy as he brings me!
#note1ecn…7yem

2026-03-07 08:16:48 UTC

Sharing this because it gave me some feels.
https://youtu.be/tc7rxngn2U0
#auDhD @npub1pce…geep

2026-03-02 15:28:50 UTC

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When it was really bad here during the heat dome we just got a small ac and turned one room into the cool room and then had fans in the rest of the house. The best fan we have is one that fits in the window with reversible air exchange and would turn it on as soon as the sun went down to pull the hot air out and the cool air in. My partner also built a corsi rosenthal box on the outside (our window was under a large overhang. It made the forest fire season livable. Gonna try to make one with a little roof over it this year.

2026-02-25 19:10:52 UTC

This is your early spring reminder that diatomaceous earth damages anything living with a carapace, not just things you don't want in your yard. This includes many beneficials. Though non-toxic it is not without damage and requires some genuine foresight and responsibility if you absolutely must use it.
#gardening

2026-02-22 19:47:06 UTC

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One thing is to go easy on the wood ash if you have alkaline leaning soil. We have really acidic soil here so I don't even think about it because it helps.

2026-02-22 19:13:59 UTC

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I do this. It need to be inoculated before you add it to the soil or it pulls nutrients, so we just throw it into our compost for a few weeks.

2026-01-26 21:31:43 UTC

I haven't been able to find anything like this online, but given the fact that the internet, as we once knew it, doesn't really seem to exist anymore - it probably does. Still I thought I would share my strawberry tower design.
I made this from a heat treated pallet that I had attempted to turn into an oyster mushroom farm, but it was the year we were trapped in the heat dome and stuck inside with forest fire smoke and my MECFS was at peak awful. It floundered in the heat, but my friends hauled it to my place when we moved and it was used as a compost bin last year.
Our climate here has changed a lot since I first started gardening. We are now nearly underwater for the winter and a desert without rain for the summer it seems.
Because of that I've been trying to incorporate a moisture battery inside any of our new beds. The cost of soil and compost here have absolutely skyrocketed beyond anything I've ever seen, so we are attempting to compost in place as much as possible. It's a slow process, but it's working and mulching everything with our fallen leaves keeps it from looking too messy.
I started with the existing compost in the bin and secured it a bit with some bark pieces from our firewood, then lined the lower box with cardboard and added some topsoil, kelp, canola meal and rock phosphate.
I have also been incorporating any charcoal from the fireplace into the bin and our other compost to create some biochar for the soil as well as wood ash because we have highly acidic soil around the Salish Sea. The central tower will be lined with burlap when I get some from my friend who roasts coffee.
I am placing a central column of firewood and wood waste surrounded by more topsoil and organic compost materials. It will break down over time, but we will continue to add materials from the top .
I have currently punched holes into the cardboard and planted some Albion strawberries that were growing in a pot with my fig tree. As they grow I will build the tower with the offshoots cutting holes in the galvanized mesh for them. The mesh should be buried and integrated in the base enough to keep the tower in place without too much reinforcement, but possibly a u-bar if I notice leaning. The mesh is secured with UV resistant zap straps for now because it was what I had, but a rust proof wire would be ideal.
The corners of the lower part of the tower will house pollinator friendly flowers and the top will eventually house either chives or a tumbling cherry tomato. I will post updates as it grows.
#gardening #smallSpaceGardening #verticalHugelcuture #PNWGardening
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2026-01-25 01:13:06 UTC

This is you daily reminder:
Don't you dare normalize any of this shit.

2026-01-22 16:04:19 UTC

Esa Mighty - Falastini
https://youtu.be/e6W58kLMLC0
#musicForTheResistance

2026-01-22 15:55:03 UTC

Billy Bragg & Wilco
https://youtu.be/Vq75KA5IA0A
#musicForTheResistance

2026-01-22 15:49:45 UTC

Tribe Called Quest - We The People
https://youtu.be/vO2Su3erRIA
#musicForTheResistance

2026-01-18 18:14:45 UTC

Parkour!
#gusTheCat #Caturday #catsOfFedi
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2026-01-17 16:59:29 UTC

The Isley Brothers - Fight the Power Pt 1 & 2
https://youtu.be/8QZvoOqUkqw
#musicForTheResistance

2026-01-17 16:52:52 UTC

A Tribe Called Red - Electric Pow Wow
https://youtu.be/cj3U0z64_m4
#musicForTheResistance

2026-01-16 23:52:11 UTC

Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome
https://youtu.be/vfowA1lg2G8
#musicForTheResistance

2026-01-16 23:25:24 UTC

Kae Tempest - Statue in the Square
https://youtu.be/aTDOFaAcEyc
#musicForTheResistance #joinIn #transGEM

2026-01-16 23:14:10 UTC

Was sitting here this morning thinking about my American friends and my Palestinian friends and my friends in Sudan and Congo and Iran and the current state of the world and my heart was breaking.
One of the worst aspects to my whole battle with MECFS is not being able to show up as solidarity in physical form, but I realized I do spin a pretty fierce dance party. Revolutions need soundtracks and sandwiches, and as much as I love CSNY, I sometimes can't handle yet another spin of Kent State.
It's not much, but when I have the spoons I will be posting tunes. Feel free to share yours under the same hashtag cuz at the end of the day we all need to shake this shit out so we can keep going. If I can help you do that I will. I'm using youtube for now, cuz I think it may be the most accessible and my spoons are low.
https://youtu.be/uzgBD2wysuI
#musicForTheResistance #joinIn

2026-01-10 21:56:58 UTC

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2026-01-09 16:32:07 UTC

Thank you Mastodon, for enabling me to block grown men who still think like 8 year olds. No one on earth has time for that shit anymore.

2025-12-21 20:56:06 UTC

Gus sends you some Yuletide rest this time of year. Never forget you are an animal too.
#caturday #solstice #gusTheCat #catsOfMastodon
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2025-12-20 08:05:58 UTC

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Pluribus has been great. I really enjoyed Extraordinary. Was also just extolling the absurdity of Hundreds of Beavers.

2025-12-20 00:22:34 UTC

I think the satellite music station at the grocery store was playing AI Christmas carols today. It was like if you took all the worst elements of Christmas songs, put them through autotune and they asked it to play everything so it sounded like that Yvanehtnioj/Join the Navy Simpsons episode song. It made me feel like I'd taken bad acid. Seriously, WTF was that shit?!

2025-12-11 03:24:26 UTC

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I will admit I used to do this when I booked PA systems back in the day, not because of the better skills, but because the price was usually way cheaper when it was a male voice calling to book it. It sucked.

2025-12-07 16:48:51 UTC

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I have this book. It's great!

2025-11-20 22:31:49 UTC

Housing is a human right, but stable housing should be a human right.
I can't even begin to explain what having stable, reliable housing for the last year has done for my chronic ptsd and chronic illness. Everything has been better - Sleep, mental health, digestion, you name it.
It breaks my heart that this is legitimately a massive privilege these days here in Canada.
If you are a renter here in BC, there is no stability in your human right to housing. Our rental protections have been gutted for years and years. As someone who has gone through that process it helped absolutely nothing even when it was adjudicated in our favour.
Nearly everyone I know lives in fear of eviction or homelessness. There is no real way to ever feel comfortable or at home. If you are disabled there is nothing available that will allow you housing at this point other than a 7-14 year waitlist, or family unless you've already been in the system for years.
This is completely lost on older generations most of the time. We are powerless in the face of wealthy landlords who will do whatever the fuck they want with next to no retribution for any of it.
Stable housing should be a human right. An ability not to feel like a leaf in the wind who pays 75% of your income to subsidize a wealthy land owner. Life shouldn't have to be this awful.

2025-10-23 19:57:41 UTC

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No fun at all

2025-10-22 21:22:30 UTC

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I grew up in a town with a lady in white story as well. Also, in a foggy area where she would show up walking across a golf course by the sea. So many legends. I love ghost stories.

2025-10-16 13:52:49 UTC

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Somewhere in a box i have a t-shirt that says "You're not edgy, you're just an asshole."

2025-10-15 15:09:44 UTC

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They also deeply fear that any reversal or landback movement will mean that they are treated exactly how others have been treated and that terrifies them, which also means that they have a belief that that type of violence is just how the world works and don't expect anything better from anyone else.

2025-10-15 15:06:09 UTC

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A lot of Canadians seem to hold this in droves as well. Our history is just as bad, if not worse that the US for genocide, but Canada has this cultivated facade of being the "nice guys" baked into it. People who can't comfortably view it for exactly what it is give away that they have never confronted their attachment to "whiteness" and deep seated nationalism.

2025-09-26 15:19:49 UTC

Got a frantic message from a friend this morning that Assata Shakur has died, edit: sounds like this is the case.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/26/black_liberation_activist_assata_shukur_78

2025-09-13 22:27:20 UTC

Cuz uh...what were you saying again?
#charlieKirk #USPol
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2025-09-09 15:09:38 UTC

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I hope it takes place outside a Circle K

2025-09-02 04:52:57 UTC

One of the ways I alleviate some of the loss I experience surrounding M.E. is by watching 4k walks in different cities and places around the world. I used to be an avid walker and alpine hiker and it helps me feel like I still get out. One thing that has struck me this summer though, is I don't think my auDHD brain could handle the cicadas in some cities. I find it sensorily overpowering in the worst way.
Some cities I've travelled to have been overpowering in terms of sound for me: cars, traffic, lots of overwhelming sounds and I usually have to retreat at some point a few times a day to recuperate, but I think cicadas in Tokyo on a hot summer night would find me curled up in the fetal position.
Kryptonite.
#auDHD @npub10v4…s27h #sound

2025-08-28 19:03:16 UTC

15 mins with a hedge trimmer is my maximum output on a good day. I likely won't be able to do any more for a week, but I haven't damaged myself too badly. PEM is brutal, but I am slowly learning to work within my acceptable envelopes, except when I'm not. :neobot_upside_down: Managed to have enough energy for a cold shower to manage the overheating that the 15 minutes of garden work causes. Cooling down seems to help a lot. Heavy rest for the rest of the day now.
#mecfs #gardening

2025-08-25 19:15:25 UTC

I've worked a ton of jobs over the years, and I think maybe the thing I've really noticed most is how often people mistake their privilege for intelligence.

2025-08-18 16:59:25 UTC

As both the weird kid and a figure skater growing up this routine officially wins my heart. Most people would be surprised to know I had trophies for interpretive ice dance.
https://files.starlite.rodeo/media_attachments/files/115/050/824/991/093/008/original/1dc8aa2ba46edc65.mp4

2025-08-18 02:24:03 UTC

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Hugs or a flame thrower, whichever feels better.

2025-08-17 02:46:39 UTC

Did a minor repair to reinforce the pockets on the first pair of pants I ever designed. I'm so grateful I learned to sew. I made them almost five years ago out of some denim coloured cotton chambray and they haven't aged a bit save the area around the pocket where I should have put a bar tack, but didn't really know/ understand that part yet. Today with a tiny 5 minute repair they are good as new and as light as pajamas.
I used to think I hated summer, but I was wrong. I just never had any comfortable summer clothes for most of my life, and being a size that constantly fell somewhere between standard and plus sizes I sort of gave up.
I wish sewing had been more size inclusive when I was younger, or i'd jumped right into pattern making like I did when I started in my 40s. Life could have been way more comfortable and expressive on so many levels.
#sewing

2025-08-16 20:57:05 UTC

A coward of ICE agents

2025-08-14 17:59:48 UTC

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I weep on the daily

2025-08-07 17:52:11 UTC

Growing Black Futsu squash this year. We just got our first female flower. It's bigger than my entire hand stretched out wide. Here's hoping the bees can find it. :neobot_wink:
#growYourOwn #gardening #garden #bloomscrolling
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2025-08-05 06:29:39 UTC

Big purrs in the deep sleeps.
#toebeanTuesday #gusTheCat #catsOfMastodon
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2025-08-02 15:49:23 UTC

Our hugel-ish garden bed is still missing a few inches of compost/topsoil, but it's already growing mushrooms out of the dead wood we buried, and we just harvested our first zucchini. Not too bad for a half assed attempt at trying to get things started. It's been a big back and forth in temperature this summer, which is way easier than the heat dome we had a couple years ago, just a little slower to set fruit this year with the exception of our cayenne peppers which apparently are loving life enough to have passers by slow down and stare at them.
#gardening #growYourOwn #pnw
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2025-08-01 15:59:08 UTC

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I miss our meadow

2025-07-23 16:27:33 UTC

This morning I learned that the IDF specifically targeted the transgender ward of an Iranian prison killing at least 100 transgender people and it received nothing but a footnote in media. I have the rage.
Subsequently I found a video of raccoons playing bongo drums on a platter of jello, because my brain feels broken and I want to cry. I highly recommend jello raccoons in the face of the largest trans massacre since WWII, but also making sure people you know are aware of these actions.
#selfCare #genocide

2025-07-18 03:16:29 UTC

Got some lovely hummingbird shots today.
They are getting used to me being around I think.
#bloomscrolling #birds #gardening #hummingbird
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2025-07-05 02:48:15 UTC

A little early for caturday, but Gus is having the best dream. Complete with little mews and munching in his sleep.
#gusTheCat #caturday #catsOfFedi #catsOfMastodon
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2025-06-21 18:42:28 UTC

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During the brutal heat dome here we put damp towels in the freezer for our pets as well. The dog liked to lay on them and the cat like them draped over him. My pup also had an evaporative bandana that helped a lot because she was a tiny old lady and it sat right against her chest.

2025-06-19 17:19:43 UTC

This is just a friendly reminder that Bill C2 is being sold to you as something to protect you, but if you read the fine print allows the Canadian government to reappropriate Indigenous land, ignore environmental laws and jail anyone who might try to stand in their way. If this goes through, Canadians are basically living in a police state that can be turned on at any moment they decide. Please write your MP. All you have to do is search Bill C2 write your MP.
And C5 while you are at it! They are basically a packaged set for fascism.
#canPol #cdnPoli

2025-06-16 18:44:14 UTC

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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2025-05-22 15:35:01 UTC

Sometimes I have to laugh at the gimmickry of garden supply. I just got a "supply" catalogue from a bulb company I support. I will admit that there are a few tools I find invaluable, like a Japanese weeder, secateurs, a loop hoe, but I cannot fathom spending $150 on a tomato trellis or $99 on a cucumber trellis when I could use a stick. Seedling tongs? I have neuropathy and essential tremor and can still figure out how to get my seedlings out of the container.
I feel like it's beginner gardeners who get taken advantage of too. Like, who on earth told you that you needed a compost blanket? Have you heard of leaves? A sheet of cardboard? I haven't used a tomato cage in years because I realized I could just use a bamboo pole or a long stick and tie the tomato to it and never fight with trying to find the tomatoes ever again and then compost it when it had lived its life. Accessibility tools are one thing, but i feel like most of it is useless stuff for white people to spend their money on. Anyways, that's my grumpy rant of the day. Spend your money on plants and seeds.
#gardening #growYourOwn

2025-05-17 18:26:09 UTC

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I finally got our big order of liatris corms in the mail. I'm very excited for the bees! They absolutely loved them at our old place

2025-05-11 17:13:44 UTC

Repost with alt text from @npub15ma…30n0
#genocide #palestine #congo #sudan
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2025-05-06 20:19:28 UTC

Sometimes gardening is just outsmarting pests. Cabbage white butterflies are very territorial and try to avoid each other. I still need a sharpie for my black dots and I glue them on the end of a wooden chopstick to make it look like they are hovering, but they seem to be passing me by so far.
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2025-04-21 09:07:59 UTC

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Yeah. Woke up uneasy in the middle of the night. Read the news. Now feeling even more uneasy.

2025-04-06 16:58:39 UTC

Well, this is a first. I've always found that Empress of India nasturtiums were really spotty on germination, but to my surprise, every single seed I planted has popped up as of today.
Such a lovely treat!
#gardening #growYourOwn
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2025-04-04 19:02:32 UTC

After paying $24(?!)for some bamboo stakes we have realized our pesky, headache of a bamboo patch is a veritable gold mine. They just need a few months to dry out so they aren't bringers of doom.
#gardening #growYourOwn

2025-03-30 21:50:58 UTC

Round 2 of veggie starts begins!
Two artichokes well on their way.
Multi-sown kale, red and green
Holy Basil/Tulsi - Imperative for good Thai cooking!
A second attempt at cilantro (fingers crossed, I have another batch of seed if this one is hooped. These may be older ones. We forgot to label them when we saved!)
Lemon Spice Jalepeno (super flavourful)
Purple Cayenne (Also very flavourful)
It's a little late for peppers, but we keep having late heat here, where it's not warm enough for them until June, so it should be ok. They both have a fairly short season.
A bunch of cherry tomatoes
Empress of India Nasturtium which is not that productive but I absolutely love the colour. Will do some salad nasturtium soon as well as it has huge leaves and makes great little wraps.
I multi-sow in small pots and then prick out when they have true leaves. Saves a load of space and work.
I'm going to nap now, but I'm so glad I got this done!
#gardening #growYourOwn
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2025-03-29 16:23:54 UTC

Hey my anti-fascist friends, let's help the Americans. Post your entirely legal, yet extremely annoying solutions for creative non-compliance using the hashtag #creativeNonCompliance
#usPol #fascism

2025-03-22 20:09:09 UTC

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AOC voted against the rail workers labour demands in the US. I get that she's all that can be hoped for, and i loved her at first but not so much after that.

2025-03-22 14:45:09 UTC

Angst.
#gusTheCat #caturday #catsOfMastodon #catsOfFedi
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2025-03-21 16:54:55 UTC

Tiny sprouts survived the torrential downpour last night, the lettuce being a little melodramatic as was expected. Turnips and beets seem happier already and the perpetual leeks were already pretty sturdy. Direct sowed some radish clusters and parsley, and did some more starts - A red kale and a lacinato, some holy basil which does far better here than the other basils, and which we also use a load of for Thai cooking and a bunch of cilantro.
15 mins of work does a huge amount for my mental health and sense of accomplishment in a day. It's not lost on me that I have the privilege of a supportive partner who also likes to garden and moves my bags of soil around for me among many other things, but gardening feels like something I can still do with mecfs and I'm so grateful for that.
#growYourOwn #gardening #spring #mecfs

2025-03-18 22:13:05 UTC

I am so impressed with this rhubarb. It went hard until the end of October and here we are mid march and it's ready to party, even with below 0C overnight temps.
#growYourOwn #gardening
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2025-03-15 03:02:52 UTC

One bed completed without a compost delivery. Just went a little more lasagna on the top of the bed.
Currant and peas planted with transplants waiting in the wings to finish hardening off. First bed at our actual home. Feels pretty amazing.
It's been fun to weave years of health into something. The lower half of the bed is mostly hugelkultur, with upper layers of compost and homemade biochar, then lasagna of bedding straw and compost/soil mixture.
It's a 30" deep bed, so a lot to fill.
#gardening #growYourOwn #gardenDesign

2025-03-14 17:43:42 UTC

People complain about the price of eggs in the States, but can I talk about how the price of compost has basically doubled where I live?!
Literally rotting vegetables and leaves?
When we built our garden at the rental we lived in about 4 years ago, the compost cost us $169. We need the exact same amount at our new place. The cheapest I can find it for is $344.
Mind boggled.
#gardening #growYourOwn #doomAndBloom

2025-03-13 17:10:11 UTC

If you have low water access or just generally consider yourself a crummy gardener, consider sedums. Especially native ones. You can literally propagate them by breaking off a small chunk of your original plant and sticking it in the ground. You can neglect them pretty extensively and they will just keep doing their thing. They mat out and squelch your weeds, giving anything else you plant a better chance as well.
#gardening #tipsFromAGardenDesigner #droughtTolerant #cheap

2025-03-13 01:17:36 UTC

Three Good Things
Planted the little apple tree that arrived in the mail today. I'm glad it's tiny because it took most of my energy today to plant it. I named it Excelsior which is funny because it leans a little.
I heard my first bee of the season buzz past my ear.
There are tiny lupins popping up in the front bed and the native sedums I planted seem quite happy.
Things seem harrowing in the world on the daily, but the plants pay no mind.
#3GoodThings #gardening #growYourOwn
@npub14fw…lg25

2025-03-05 05:47:20 UTC

Haida potatoes. My heart is excited to grow them and keep growing them for ever and ever. There's a very good chance they are pre-settler potatoes based on stories from elders in Alaska and BC. They are traced to Mexican and Peruvian cultivars with no european hybridization and have been cultivated on Haida Gwaii for over 200 years and likely far longer. Special interest audhd hyperfocus activated.
#growYourOwn #gardening

2025-03-04 22:12:52 UTC

Was having kind of an out of sorts morning and then I went to the post office and all my seeds had come.
While i was on my way into the post office I put my hand in the pocket of my raincoat and found some beautiful little bumblebee earrings in my pocket that I bought last year at Pride and completely forgot about. It was such a surprise.
So I got home and planted some heirloom sweet peas from the 1600s that are supposed to be the nicest smelling variety of sweet pea on earth. I didn't even mind that it was pouring with rain while i did.
Feeling like a rather serendipitous day. Gardening is hope.
#goodThings #bloomscrolling #gardening #serendipity #growYourOwn

2025-02-28 15:46:26 UTC

Fuck religious ethnostates. Fuck the divine right of kings. I fucking love people.
If you are standing anywhere that would attempt to strip the humanity and right to existence of another, you are the embodiment of evil. Full stop. No discussions.

2025-02-26 16:19:01 UTC

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This is why i still have fleece wrapping my trees. I've been fooled too many times!
#jaded

2025-02-24 19:06:34 UTC

Good morning from my babies! I started half of these nearly a month ago, and they made it through a very dark, cold month with only a little legginess.
The others I planted two days ago and they almost immediately leapt out of the soil.
Left column:
Hakurei Turnips ( a little early but they are getting fleece)
Perennial Chard
Perpetual Delft Leek
Bull's Blood Beets (also under fleece)
Right Column:
Cool Weather lettuce x 3
Slobolt Cilantro
#gardening #bloomscrolling #hope
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2025-02-17 19:06:25 UTC

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Hope you get through this quickly and safely. Sending much love.

2025-02-06 20:11:35 UTC

This is just a little reminder that alt text is awesome and accessible. Most people here won't boost something without alt text, so take two seconds to write a little something and make the fediverse a better place for everybody.

2025-02-04 03:08:48 UTC

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I used to work for some very wealthy Americans when I was a designer. One day, one of their trophy wives made a realization about Canadians and it was spot on. She said, I think I've realized that the difference between Canada and the US is that everyone has their price in the States, it's just a matter of finding out what it is, but you Canadians are really different. If you don't wanna do something, you just won't do it. It doesn't matter what you get offered.
I don't think she was wrong

2025-02-03 05:14:09 UTC

Hey fediverse,
I'm wondering if someone with a little more knowledge in botany than my own can tell me if I can cross pollinate a north american beaked hazelnut with a European variety? Not having much luck wading through the gobbledygook of searching online.
#botany #pollination #gardening #bloomscrolling

2025-01-23 22:12:12 UTC

I always forget how quick the Hakurei turnips are to sprout! I'm not sure they've ever been 2 days though. I'm impressed.
#gardening #veggieGarden #seeds #turnips #PNWGardening
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2025-01-21 19:37:54 UTC

Took advantage of our low temps to cold stratify some woolly sunflower and skirret seeds outdoors and then got inspired to get some early starts underway as well.
I found an old Ikea mini greenhouse for sale second hand complete with led grow lights for under $20 at the end of the summer, which is especially helpful in keeping the cat away from the new seedlings. He decapitated a bunch last year.
Starts for this year, so far, are:
Bull's Blood Beet
Delft Perpetual Leek, a perennial leek variety
Perennial Chard
Hakurei Japanese Turnips
I cluster sew in small pots to save space which also tends to increase productivity. Not great for carrots or parsnips though, as their roots tend to get entangled.
#gardening #seeds #plants #skirret #perpetualLeek #beets #perennialChard #turnips #woollySunflower
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2025-01-14 17:37:33 UTC

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Signal exists though, and far more private

2025-01-08 19:29:40 UTC

As a trained firefighter I'm astounded/horrified at the number of reporters not wearing masks while reporting on the fires in LA.
A good story isn't worth sacrificing your life and health to hydrocarbons and burning plastic. The average home in 2025 is so toxic while burning that it's hard to watch; far more toxic than homes historically have ever been throughout history. This is something they drilled into us deeply while training.
The cause and effect can be long term and utterly devastating. A mask is gonna save your life in the coming years, be it pandemic or flames.
Wear a mask, shower often. Wash your hands before you eat. A lot of firefighters died before we figured out those basics.
#maskUp #palisades #LA #fire #journalism #staySafeLA

2025-01-02 21:47:42 UTC

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Gorgeous!

2024-12-26 19:49:16 UTC

Boxing Day is naturally the universal holiday for cats.
Sleeping pretty soundly for a cat who ate part of my alpaca slippers last night.
#catsOfMastodon #gusTheCat #fediCats #boxingDay
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