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I had a struggle getting the seeds for this (I had to get a friend to smuggle them from the US, because the company with the UK licence is milking it for as much money as possible by only selling expensive plug plants) but I’m very impressed with my “Rainbow Candy Crush” #kale.
Even if it turns out to be less edible than claimed, it would make a good #garden ornamental.
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2024-09-25 10:12:38

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Wow, yes: I see what you mean!

2024-09-24 19:34:18

I tried growing Gilfeather’s Turnip-Swede in the #garden this year.
To my not very great surprise, I can report that it tastes like a cross between a turnip and a swede (replace whichever of those you are unfamiliar with with ”rutabaga“, for those in the US). Given that I like both, I think I’ll keep it in the mix.
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2024-09-13 14:01:01

Some of my pea plants were getting mildewed, so I decided it was time to pull them out.
The dog was very efficient at helping me to pick out the last of the pods, but seemed less good at putting them in the basket for later processing.
#gardening
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2024-09-13 10:12:55

Dog walking views.
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2024-09-13 10:11:48

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What a clever series of solutions / outcomes!

2024-09-10 20:43:42

#quilting #epp #sewing
Finished sewing enough of the new quilt that I can make a mock-up of how the full design will work:
Quite pleased with the fussy cutting, especially in the centre star. Each centre star will be the same fabric design, but in a different colour each time.
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2024-09-09 16:34:13

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I wouldn’t say I was a scrapbooker, but I have a little collection of similar journals from my travels when I was younger. It’s nice to look over them from time to time.

2024-09-09 16:32:41

As I feared, the vet agreed with me.
Goodbye, little girl.
#ducks
#note17yw…v7e9

2024-09-07 19:11:41

> “By growing mycelium into the electronics of a robot, we were able to allow the biohybrid machine to sense and respond to the environment,” said Rob Shepherd, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell.
> “The potential for future robots could be to sense soil chemistry in row crops and decide when to add more fertiliser, for example, perhaps mitigating downstream effects of agriculture like harmful algal blooms.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/robot-mushroom-biohybrid-robotics-cornell-b2606970.html

2024-09-07 18:27:56

#gardening #cooking
Garden to plate in half an hour.
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2024-09-06 19:22:53

I’m afraid we’re having a one-way trip to the vet next week.
She’s been struggling then improving then struggling again for several months now, but this is the worst she’s been. Neither I nor the vet can find anything obviously wrong.
It’s a shame, she’s a good layer.
#ducks #homesteading
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2024-09-06 14:26:13

https://blog.nature.org/2021/05/24/meet-the-argonaut-the-worlds-weirdest-octopus/
> Male argonauts use a modified arm, known as a hectocotylus, to transfer their sperm to the female. This special tentacle, found in a pouch under their left eye, has small grooves to hold the sperm securely in place. But the males don’t just reach out and pass off a parcel of sperm. Oh no. They detach their own arm and give it to the female.
The female inserts the hectocotylus into her egg case, holding onto it until she’s ready to fertilize her eggs. The male dies, or so we think.
> Scientists weren’t aware that male argonauts existed until the 19th century. Knowing little about the species reproduction, they thought all argonauts were the larger, shell-building females. Famed naturalist Georges Curvier observed the dismembered arms and thought they were a species of parasitic worms, which he named Hectocotylus octopodis. Worms they were not, but they still bear the name hectocotylus.
> We know a bit more about argonaut reproduction today, but scientists still have never observed live, male argonauts in the wild.

2024-09-05 20:12:56

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Panache every time for me. I usually go down a cup size.

2024-09-05 20:09:01

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Oh, same! My gran used to put these inexplicable round, purple lumps of bleh on my plate and expect me to like them!
Even now, though, I prefer the golden to the regular. A bit less of the earthy taste.

2024-09-05 09:41:30

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I find even those cardboard seedling pots don’t break down quickly enough to not stifle the plant roots.

2024-09-05 09:35:54

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I think that would be a great idea: I’m just dipping my toe in and finding it hard to figure out how to find people with shared interests.
(Not least because some hashtags seem to be dual use: are we growing Nostr or growing food on Nostr?)

2024-09-04 14:06:58

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So if I want to add gleasonator.dev as a relay, do I add wss://gleasonator.dev/relay ? Is that a standard syntax or will it vary by software / relay?

2024-09-04 14:00:19

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Thank you!

2024-09-04 11:52:29

@npub1jvn…89sc @npub1q3s…d26p
Having played around for a bit, am I right that Ditto servers are a subset of Nostr relays that, as well as functioning as relays, have a more community / subject focus? So, if I want to find people who are interested in basketball, I can either trawl through the appropriate hashtag or I can look for a basketball-focussed Ditto server and (???) add it as a relay in order to also see that content as a feed? (I’m just guessing here: would it add BasketballDitto to my list of feeds alongside Henhouse and Global?)
If so, is there a directory of Ditto servers anywhere, or do you have suggestions for discovering them?
Is everyone I see with a non-pub-key username on a Ditto server?
Is there anyway for me to locally rename pub-key users so that “dhjudgbddhh146” renders for me as “Bob”?
Ta!

2024-09-04 09:39:06

Golden beetroot: fresh from the ground, washed and beautiful, stems and leaves blanched and frozen for winter soups, and roots roasted for dinner.
#gardening
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2024-09-04 09:35:05

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I think the rainbow stems taste better than the fordhook ones, might just be my garden though.
Have you tried the perennial greens, like Daubenton's kale?

2024-09-04 09:31:34

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Interestingly, my green courgettes have done well in the wet UK summer but my yellow ones have been suffering with rot.

2024-09-01 11:52:26

#gardening
Golden beetroot, pak choi, runner beans, cabbage
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2024-09-01 10:20:11

#SilentSunday
Donkeys in the fog.
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2024-08-31 13:19:53

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Huh, seems un-bugged now? Weird.
Eww, and we have the Gleasonator-style iOS Safari text entry box with the weird cursor, rather than the fixed Spinster one? Oh well!

2024-08-31 13:17:41

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@npub193s…sxxe

2024-08-31 13:06:19

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Can I assign display names to accounts just for myself?

2024-08-31 13:04:43

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So… do I just have to memorise “npub193s”, or is there a way to change how it displays for me? (Or have you already fixed it for future mentions by changing my display name?)

2024-08-31 10:59:33

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Don’t mind me, just trying to figure this out….