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2026-09-06 20:11:52 UTC

#solarpunksunday #solarpunk #gardening #garden #jardin #garten #jardim #ClimateChangeGardening
Thomasville citrangequat 1/4
Ultra cold-hardy citrus that can survive down to 10F/-12C as a mature tree. Has the same heat tolerance as regular citrus (fruit development impacted above 100F/38C, maturing fruit will stay on at these temps but newer fruit won’t form/hold)
Advertised as having 3 different flavors, lime as green, lemon as yellow and sweet orange when fully ripe (orange).
Review cont…
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2026-08-16 17:47:27 UTC

#solarpunksunday #solarpunk #gardening #jardin #garten #garden
A town in Germany transformed all their public green spaces into edible gardens.
Can we get this everywhere?
https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/environment/edible-town-andernach-sustainability

2026-07-26 18:06:31 UTC

#solarpunksunday #solarpunk
Engineers in Chile develop a living wall air-purifier that traps wood smoke from stoves. You can grow fruits and veg on it too.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/biofilter-green-wall-improves-air-quality/

2026-07-12 18:50:03 UTC

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good question. If nothing has been done, why not?

2026-07-12 17:56:12 UTC

#solarpunk #solarpunksunday #cleanenergy #solar
MIT scientist created a new type of solar panel that is transparent. It picks up only infrared and ultraviolet light. These can be used on windows or any clear pane (like cell phone screens) as well as flexible surfaces.
“They estimate that using coated windows in a skyscraper could provide more than a quarter of the building’s energy needs without changing its look.”
https://energy.mit.edu/news/transparent-solar-cells/

2026-06-21 20:09:08 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten #ClimateChangeGardening
Gardening for heat, substitutions.
Huazontle, komo and evening primrose. They grow large, produce loads, have a very long growing season with cut and come again method and thrive in heat. I get more out of these plants in the space they grow than broccoli, cauliflower and gailan.
Even better? The cabbage whites don’t destroy them and they’re not water hogs!
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2026-05-17 18:54:58 UTC

Easy edible plants:
Beet (chioggia)
Blueberries
Boehmeria
Bokoboko spinach
Broccoli flowers
Chard
Dandelion
Huazontle
Komo
Mashua (leaves)
Mexican tarragon
Mint: apple, Moroccan, VA mountain mint
Monarda
Mulberries
Okinawa, longevity spinach
Oregano
Primrose (evening)
Radicchio
Radish
Raspberries
Rat tail radish
Red shiso
Red sorrel (flowers, leaves)
Red veined sorrel
Rudbeckia
Strawberries (wild)
Sunchoke (leaves)
#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #nativeplants
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2026-05-03 19:18:50 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #garden
Update/progress on massive raised garden bed made from mulch enriched with organic material. 1/2 🧵
All the seeds/seedlings planted with raised bed soil are thriving except one: filet beans, edamame, wild tomatoes, sunchokes, cantaloupe, strawberries, wild greens/flowers and herbs.
Okra is struggling with slugs though. I put down eggshells but not very optimistic.
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2026-05-03 03:20:24 UTC

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

2026-05-03 03:19:08 UTC

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😬😅💚

2026-05-03 02:53:40 UTC

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so their employees can sue for hundreds of millions for workplace hazard/exposure to carcinogens. Perfect.

2026-05-03 02:28:11 UTC

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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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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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2026-05-01 15:57:25 UTC

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spicy! Bc I made them into vegetable fritters with hot peppers 😊

2026-05-01 02:12:57 UTC

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👀😆

2026-04-30 20:07:30 UTC

#gardening #garden #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling
When you see it 🤭
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2026-04-29 00:13:16 UTC

#gardening #garden #jardin #garten
In case someone finds it useful, rooted cuttings of baby kiwis (issai) can take ages to finally flower/fruit. I think I planted this 3 years ago and it’s just fruiting now.
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2026-04-27 02:49:32 UTC

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I’m able to grow kale too, just forgot about it. I think it’s the dramatic changes in temperatures that confuses plants in fall/winter/spring.
I have noticed that primrose that grows in looser soil in beds gets larger and the roots are more succulent than ones in the ground.

2026-04-27 02:42:51 UTC

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thank you for this explanation. It gives me something to think about. It’s not a rush, fall is far off.

2026-04-27 00:07:05 UTC

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this article says it’s to keep it from getting too hot and using other colors would affect plant growth. https://www.yourindoorherbs.com/color-greenhouse/
Is the film permanent? I have summer temps of 38C+. Plants would cook. I already took mine down bc inside temps with the vents and door open were going over 43C midday.

2026-04-26 22:41:57 UTC

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I’m so honoured! 😊😄
A couple of my guavas are ready to explode in bloom and I’ll post some pics.

2026-04-26 22:36:19 UTC

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I once planted yu choi in October and it bolted in November at 2 inches tall. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m in zone 8b with wildly fluctuating weather in winter. I can successfully grow collards, epecially tree collards.
Primrose is a biennial so it doesn’t flower the first year. The second year the plant gets huge and all the leaves/flowers on the stalk are edible and if you cut the stalk, it produces new flowering stalks and the copious amount of seeds are edible too.

2026-04-26 20:14:23 UTC

I feel like giving up on brassicas like broccoli, cauliflower and yu choi in favor of eastern evening primrose (Oenothera biennis).
-it doesn’t suddenly bolt in hot weather
-it reseeds itself
-grows like a beast
-you can keep cutting it back and it’ll keep pushing
-you get so much more out of it, even the roots are edible.
#NativePlants #gardening #jardin #garten #solarpunksunday
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2026-04-26 19:32:54 UTC

Horrid thistles standing guard over strawberries…
Enter, squirrels, at your own peril ☠️
#gardening #garden #jardin #garten #solarpunksunday #NativePlants
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2026-04-26 17:52:45 UTC

Nom nom nom
#gardening #garden #jardin #garten #butterfly #schmetterling #mariposa #papillon
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2026-04-26 17:48:19 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten
Question: does anyone have any advice on patching greenhouse fabric?
I see greenhouse patching tape. Is there anything I need to look out for, what’s the best type?
I ask this bc all grafting tape isn’t created equally and I don’t want to waste money on something that only works for few weeks (duct tape).
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2026-04-19 20:43:42 UTC

What to do with all the new spring weeds, wildflowers and herbs?
Low effort recipe: leaf fritters. Chop fine and combine with eggs, salt, flour and oil and then fry up like a pancake.
Add any and all additional ingredients you like: garlic/onions, spices, peppers, powdered leaves, mushrooms, nuts, etc.
#solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten
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2026-04-12 20:08:22 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.world/@jblue/116353589159536939
Boosting this again bc of #FoodInsecurity #foodsecurity crisis.
All the major commercial staple crops will be more expensive this year. If you live in a warm/hot climate, there is still time to plant sweet potatoes. They are more pest resistant than regular potatoes. And they will grow in the free mulch below.
You can grow sweet potatoes from the ones in the grocery store. Choose organic if possible in case they’ve been sprayed for root inhibitors. #solarpunksunday
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2026-04-12 19:38:00 UTC

#gardening #garden #garten #jardin #solarpunksunday
All the baccatum peppers made it through the winter in the greenhouse where temps dipped to 31F/ -.6C. All the baccatums also have flower buds on them now but this one wins the race for first to bloom: ají chinchi amarillo
None of the chinense peppers that survived are blooming yet so something to keep in mind for convenience and backyard #foodsecurity
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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 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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2026-03-22 19:46:55 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #garten #jardin #citrus #foodsecurity #ClimateChangeGardening
Best time to graft citrus is in the spring:
Wrapping the entire scion prevents moisture loss so the scion is more likely to take than if left exposed. When the scion takes, it’ll start pushing through the parafilm.
Pic 1 is new graft made yesterday, pic 2 is a graft I made last fall emerging now.
(I got a few more experiments left before I post the big citrus thread.)
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2026-03-22 19:25:47 UTC

Chickasaw plum, Prunus angustifolia
#gardening #garden #garten #jardin #NativePlants #SolarpunkSunday
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2026-03-15 19:18:01 UTC

#solarpunksunday #solarpunk #gardening #jardin #garten #foodsecurity #CostOfLiving
There’s a lot of anti-gardening/GYO discourse online right now. It seems to be a reaction against the no-lawn movement. Their “reasoning” is that gardens use more water than grass.
It all depends on what plants you grow. #NativePlants do not require anymore water than typical rainfall.
So here is a comprehensive list of edible native plants to southeast/mid-Atlantic zone 7-9. Let me know if I missed any. 💚
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2026-03-01 19:25:12 UTC

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4/ still working on the citrus thread. It’ll make it easier to go through if the text is in pics and the thread slides are like chapters.
I don’t like the way most books are organized and there is basically no information on using the peel - the most nutritious part of the fruit. The thread will be specifically on helping people choose what is right for them, grow and get the most out of their trees: fruit, peel, leaves and flowers.
#SolarpunkSunday #garden #jardin #garten #gardening
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2026-03-01 19:11:55 UTC

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3/ I’ve started most of my peppers this year. Switching more to baccatums bc they use more vertical space and so produce more. They also live longer - my madhatter peppers are still going that were started spring 2020.
In the race of baccatum seedlings, ají Guyana popped up first at 8 days, followed by ají lemon balls (variant of Ají limon).
Below is the list of last year’s survivors and new introductions.
#gardening #SolarpunkSunday #jardin #garten #jardim #chile #peppers
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2026-03-01 18:55:18 UTC

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2/ with above in mind, if anyone is interested in growing their own food with the most efficient use of space and as cheaply as possible, feel free to reach out with questions.
#SolarpunkSunday #solarpunk #gardening #jardin #garten #jardim
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2026-03-01 18:48:00 UTC

#war #politics #uspol #foodsecurity #climatechange #climate #klimakrise #cambioclimatico #changementclimatique
Below is a report from the country of Guyana on how wars/conflict affect food security looking at the social, environmental and economic aspects.
This administration’s warmongering, bombings and kidnappings has the potential to spiral out of control globally. This war affects us all.
https://op.gov.gy/the-cost-of-war-and-conflict-to-the-environment-and-food-security-2/

2026-02-22 21:07:41 UTC

Another solar power + plant conservation project for the win:
https://www.earth.com/news/plant-species-threecorner-milkvetch-near-extinction-rebounded-solar-power-project/
#SolarpunkSunday #plants #Ecovoltaics #solarpunk

2026-02-01 21:59:48 UTC

When I was in middle school, high school and college, I was approached many times by “modeling scouts”most of whom were women. I didn’t take it seriously, thought it was pretty funny and would even joke about it to the scout’s face.
After the latest epstein file dump, it all seems so different. Most of his victims were procured by women and I remember all the encounters happened when I was by myself. It never occurred to me until now that this is how girls can be trafficked.

2026-02-01 02:58:48 UTC

Is there anyone on mastodon who works in life insurance in the US?
It was suggested on another platform that all protesters should take out life insurance policies to force discovery if there is lethal violence by ICE/law enforcement. The idea is that federal agencies would not be able to cover up murder because insurance companies have their own investigators.
Would this work?
TIA for boosting.
#politics #uspol #protest #minnesota #minneapolis #ice #AbolishIce #askFedi

2026-01-25 21:24:02 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #garden #gardening #jardin #garten #polarvortex
How is everyone coping with the cold?
I got a shipment of chips and built a compost/insulation layer around my greenhouse. It’s about half a meter high (over 1 1/2 ft) and a bit less that wide. It seems to be working as it’s about 20°F difference at night inside v outside compared to 9-12°F without.
Someone give me a gold star. This was a lot of work in a short time. 😮‍💨🥹
Chips are free from arborists: getchipdrop.com/
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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

2026-01-18 21:07:58 UTC

Is anyone interested in a citrus thread similar to my big pepper thread?
It would take longer to put together but would have points in companion planting, listing varieties comparing economy of space to yield, scientific research and agricultural practices, using the whole fruit, etc.
I grow and use a lot of citrus and have come across a lot of stuff in my research that is not well known.
#garden #gardening #jardin #garten #jardim #solarpunksunday
Nippon orangequat planted with peas below.
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2026-01-18 20:53:46 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #jardim #garten #solarpunk
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/rooftop-agrivoltaics-solar-panels-gardens-vegetables-urban/

2026-01-11 18:35:18 UTC

Finished the big pepper thread 😊 #solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #jardim #peppers #piment #paprika #chile #aji #bloomscrolling
https://mastodon.world/@jblue/115840061441052665

2026-01-09 00:44:41 UTC

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Chilhuacle negro (annuum)
Another casualty of open-pollination. Obviously this is not a chilhuacle negro pepper. I grew three plants and they all came out like this. Wrong color, wrong shape, wrong taste. Sigh. I bought seeds from a vendor that close-pollinates his peppers so hopefully better luck next year.
Fresh: Bell pepper plus carrot and roasted parsnip. Tiny heat, sweetish and slightly tart. Juicy and crunchy. I kept the seeds but not sure if it’s really worth it.
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2026-01-05 02:50:15 UTC

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Cold tolerance: so far my greenhouse hasn’t gone below 33.4/.78C and that is with the polar vortex dipping outdoor temps to 20F/6.7C. It’s possible that there are cold spots in my greenhouse but for very cold overnight temperatures, I have a fan to circulate the air.
When temps go below freezing I turn on Christmas lights. If it gets very cold, I fill buckets of tap-hot water and place them around the greenhouse. This raises the temperature ~15°F.
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2026-01-05 02:37:50 UTC

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Climate and growing issues:
I live in a climate that is hot and humid from late March to early October with the main rainy season in the summer. Plants still dry out, and I often get aphid infestations. Peppers that are very succulent often get soft spots from dry outs. So peppers such as lesyas (annuum) don’t do well while tepin types grow like weeds.

2026-01-05 02:34:20 UTC

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A second major problem I had was that many of the seeds I purchased were open-pollinated. I ended up growing a lot of unintentional hybrids. Some of the pepper varieties didn’t taste the way they are purported to taste and some clearly were not at all what I intended to grow.
I say I grew over 29 varieties, that’s because I wound up with well over 29 different varieties. Unlisted are accidental scotch bonnets, peach habaneros, and other very weird crosses.

2026-01-05 02:23:53 UTC

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My biggest problem this year:
I grew too many Capsicum chinense. There are 5 major domesticated pepper varieties: annuum, baccatum, chinense, fructescens and pubescens. Chinense peppers often have a defining flavor singular to that species. The closest comparison taste-wise that I can think of is chawanmushi, Japanese savory egg custard.
This eggy flavor usually doesn’t dilute with cooking, more like it diffuses into everything else you cook the peppers with. By winter, I was crying sick of

2026-01-05 02:17:59 UTC

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2/
Pictured below is a list of all the peppers I tried to grow. The species name is in parentheses.
This thread is around 40 slides long so I’ll post a couple slides daily over a few weeks so it doesn’t overwhelm people’s feed. If there is any pepper, you want to know about immediately, feel free to ask.
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2026-01-05 02:11:02 UTC

*BIG* Pepper Thread 1/🧵
I grew over 29 varieties of peppers in 2025. This thread reviews growth/productivity, cold tolerance and gives an honest detailed description of taste (fresh, dried and how it blends with other ingredients when cooking).
I hope people will find it useful for reference.
#garten #jardin #jardim #gardening #peppers #paprika #chiles #piment #solarpunksunday #bloomscrolling
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2026-01-04 19:05:50 UTC

#gardening #jardin #garten
With everything happening in the world, it’s really hard to post about plants. It feels like we’re on the cusp of WWIII.
I grew 29 pepper varieties this year and drafted a thread that is over 30 slides long and over 50 pics. It’s an honest, detailed review of taste (fresh, dried, cooked), growth/productivity and cold tolerance.
Is anyone interested in this thread? It just seems so superfluous now.

2025-12-23 00:24:24 UTC

The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT that Bari Weiss cancelled was shown in Canada. Someone uploaded a recording of it to Internet Archive that you can watch here.
It’s horrifying. TW: torture.
https://archive.org/details/3mam75w3oec2n

2025-12-21 20:57:12 UTC

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🧵3/
When I trimmed the peppers back, even the most damaged plants looked like they still have living tissue so next spring I’ll update on the long thread if any of the cold damaged plants bounce back.
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2025-12-21 20:55:07 UTC

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🧵 2/
Some peppers are clearly more cold tolerant than others so when I do my long thread next week on all the peppers I grew this year, I’ll also include cold tolerance.
Here’s a side by side comparison of SR bell stripey (species baccatum) next to Ají dulce (species chinense) one week after the hard frost. Most of the baccatums showed no damage to main stems while chinense showed significant damage.
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2025-12-21 20:41:28 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten
Last pepper harvest. 🧵1/
Last week we had overnight temps that went down to 19-20F -7.5C. To warm the greenhouse, I had 6 5g (19L) buckets filled with tap hot water placed around the sides and a little fan to circulate air. The thermometer at its lowest point read 33.4F .8C…
But it looks like the leaves/peppers still froze/got cold damaged. Some plants stems look quite damaged so I cut everything back.
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2025-12-14 21:05:03 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten
Still have peppers ripening but it’s getting pretty sparse. Moved the tree collards into the greenhouse bc it might get down to 20F/-6.6C tonight. I’ll add lidded buckets of hot water to keep the greenhouse above freezing.
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají chinchi amarillo
Ají dulce
Ají jobito
Cheiro do norte
Madhatter
Peppapeach stripey
SR white bell
Rando collards and kale
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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 21:09:10 UTC

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3/ #SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #bloomscrolling #blumen #FleurisTonFil
Random things flowering and fruiting in the garage
Eugenia hiemalis
Fingersop, Meiogyne cylindrocarpa. Mild taste, similar to papaya
Acerola cherry, Malpighia emarginata
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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.
https://mastodon.world/@jblue/109801964326709074
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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 22:08:17 UTC

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they’re extremely hot 😅. A friend gave one to his friend to try as a prank, the guy thought it was a fruit bc he knew I grew fruit and then was running around the neighborhood yelling in pain. They’re 70-90,000 SHU. (Or at least mine are).

2025-11-23 22:03:58 UTC

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do you know Birchbark Books?
It’s an indigenous owned bookstore that supports indigenous authors and artists. My copy came signed. 😊❤️
https://birchbarkbooks.com/

2025-11-23 20:56:47 UTC

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2/2
The cut pepper in the pic below is a new one I started in late July. It’s a new hybrid (F5), crossed between ají charapita and habanada (both pictured).
It’s as prolific as both but the plant is compact like the charapita- potentially producing loads in a smaller space. The peppers are heatless like the habanada.
The taste in order of flavor detection is sweetish, mild chinense, hints of cooked summer squash and green bell pepper.
They’re ok, not as good tasting as either parent.
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2025-11-23 20:42:46 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten #peppers #paprika #Poivre #chile #aji
1/2 🧵
Peppers are slowing down. Still loads of green ones in the greenhouse but they aren’t ripening as quickly.
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají charapita x habanada, red pheno
Ají chinchi amarillo
Ají dulce orange
Biquinho salmao
Cheiro do norte
Habanada
Grenada seasoning
Madhatter
Peppapeach stripey
SR bell stripey
Trinidad Perfume
Tomatoes
Parsley
Raspberry
Red hybrid jabuticaba
Spider berries
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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 20:36:08 UTC

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in December. I’m making a big chili thread covering all 27 different types of chili I grew this season. It covers how well it grew in my climate (hot-humid), and what it tastes like fresh versus dried (I’m much more specific than average websites). ❤️

2025-11-16 19:45:51 UTC

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🧵2/3
Some leaf drop but still flowering/ripening
Ají apple crisp
Ají charapita
Ají dulce
Ají habanero
Ají panca
Cheiro do norte
Habanada
SugarRush bell stripey
Zavory
Significant leaf drop, don’t look good
Biquinho salmao
Trinidad Perfume
Trinidad pimento seasoning
I’ll probably cut them back and see if I can overwinter them.

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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2025-11-16 19:25:37 UTC

#PolarVortex #SolarpunkSunday #ClimateChangeGardening #gardening #jardin #garten
We had an unseasonal frost last week from a polar vortex and it was a mad scramble to save the fruit and veg. I got the cheapest/tallest greenhouse I could find ($107) and experimented with keeping it warm.
TL;DR doubled over frost cloth works just as good as a bedsheet in holding in heat: ~9-11°F higher than outdoor temps.
Heat source in a pinch was Christmas lights. Agricultural practice is to use
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2025-11-03 01:09:55 UTC

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Just made apple pie with yuzucello and vanilla paste. I just chopped the apples and swished around a Tb of yuzucello and vanilla in a bowl. The alcohol bled in with the apples in the baking so you couldn’t tell the boundary between apple and citrus. Pretty good.
I used Arkansas black apples which are very high in pectin. They don’t lose shape in baking.
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2025-11-02 20:38:41 UTC

#SolarpunkSunday #gardening #jardin #garten
Peppers are slowing down. Also we’ve had major tropical storms recently that have trashed my plants. 😕
Ají apple crisp
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají dulce orange
Ají dulce
Cheiro do norte
Habanada
Grenada seasoning
Jimmy nardello
Madhatter
SR bell stripey
Trinidad Perfume
Trinidad Pimento Seasoning
Wild, mini marzano and cherry tomatoes
Raspberry
Red hybrid jabuticaba
Tepary beans
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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 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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2025-10-17 01:18:57 UTC

Hey everyone,
In case you haven’t heard the news in Alaska, there was a devastating typhoon that hit the western part of the state and more storms are on the way. Thousands of people are displaced and have lost everything.
Below is a link to donate to the disaster relief sponsored by the Alaska Community Foundation:
https://alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=14833
#alaska #flood #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #klimaschutz #klimakatastrophe #klimakrise #changementclimatique #cambioclimatico

2025-10-13 22:59:46 UTC

https://siouxchef.substack.com/p/fck-columbus?r=2z8oqm&triedRedirect=true
“An Indigenous People’s Day Recipe for Decolonization” by Sean Sherman
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #FuckColumbus #SolarpunkSunday

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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2025-10-02 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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2025-09-28 18:52:57 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #paprika #peppers
Think I need a bigger basket. Haven’t even started on tomatoes.
Ají apple crisp
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají dulce, regular and long
Ají habanero
Biquinho, red & salmao
Cheiro do norte
Grenada seasoning
Habanada
Jalapeño
Madhatter
Peppapeach stripey
SR bell stripey
Scotch bonnet
Trinidad Perfume
Trinidad Pimento Seasoning
Zavory
Jamaican cherry
Raspberry, Caroline and double gold
Red hybrid jabuticaba
Romano beans
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2025-09-21 18:57:56 UTC

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probably. They bloom and fruit pretty quickly compared to other tomatoes. In a long growing season, the plants get huge and sprawling, bigger than any tomato I’ve ever grown.

2025-09-21 18:15:34 UTC

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they’re easy to find online for seeds. They’re marketed as “spoon tomatoes” or “currant tomatoes.” Just make sure they have listed the scientific name Solanum pimpinellifolium. I got mine from Sherwood seeds on Etsy.

2025-09-21 16:50:37 UTC

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Tankuro edamame beans, so pretty
Gardening notes: this plant gets caterpillars (Chrysodeixis includens) pretty badly that don’t affect any other bean plant.
Fresh, they are nuttier and taste better than grocery store edamame.
#gardening #jardin #garten
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2025-09-21 16:41:14 UTC

#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #peppers #paprika #chili 🧵
Peppers:
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají dulce
Biquinho, red & salmao
Cheiro do norte
Habanada
Grenada
Madhatter
Padron
Peppapeach stripey
SR bell stripey
Scotch bonnet
Sweet imposter
Trinidad Perfume
Trinidad Pimento Seasoning
Other:
Acerola
Pink okra
Tepary
Thomasville citrangequat
Tomatoes (sweet apperatif and wild)
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2025-09-14 20:09:41 UTC

More pepper posting
Ají cacho de cabra
Ají charapita
Ají dulce
Ají habanero
Cheiro do norte
Grenada Seasoning
Habanada
Madhatter
Padron
Peppapeach stripey
PJ UFO (buried)
Purple naga hybrid
Scotch bonnet
Sugar rush bell stripey
Sweet Imposter
Trinidad perfume
Trinidad pimento seasoning (check out the weird one in the middle)
Acerola cherry
Caroline raspberries (buried)
Physalis grisea
Romano purpiat
Wild tomatoes
#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #paprika #peppers #chili
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2025-09-04 00:10:57 UTC

Finally got a pic of the hummingbird. It was feeding at the jewelweed, then sat on the jackfruit tree before flying off.
Pardon the blur, really scrolled in for the shot.
#gardening #jardin #garten #birds #vogel #ave #oiseaux #鸟 #nature #wildlife
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2025-09-02 22:44:13 UTC

Produce of unusual size. Check out the honker maypop.
Maypop (Passiflora incarnata), creeping cucumber (Melothria pendula), physalis grisea, wild tomatoes (Solanum pimpinellifolium), Tepary beans (Phaseolus acutifolius), American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
My maypops taste like apples and pink bubblegum.
#gardening #jardin #garten #NativePlants
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2025-09-02 22:30:07 UTC

One of my hazelnuts just dropped its 1st nut. 😊 It was a 6” rooted cutting when I got it a couple years ago.
Corylus americana, “Winkler”
The hazelnut on the left is a European/American hybrid grown in the US from the grocery store and the one on the right came from my tree. American hazelnuts taste better than European, especially raw- less waxy, not bitter and have a bit of a coconut flavor besides hazelnut. The plants are also more pest-resistant.
#gardening #jardin #garten #NativePlants
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2025-09-01 22:04:36 UTC

#gardening #garten #jardin #mushrooms #mushrooms #pilze #champignon #setas
Questions:
This showed up in my yard. iNaturalist lists it in the genus Pisolithus and it can be used as a powerful root stimulator for gardening.
Has anyone had any experience using it?
Any tips about how to dry, store and use it?
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2025-08-31 19:31:17 UTC

#NativePlants #rewilding #solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #birds #hummingbirds #insects #insekten #insectes #insectos
So this year, maypops have taken over much of my garden, growing in places other plants struggle to grow. The bees are very happy but I’ve also seen hummingbirds at the flowers. Hummingbirds are also visiting jewelweed, who knew?
I wish I could get a pic of the birds but I can never get close enough before they fly off.
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2025-08-31 19:15:24 UTC

It’s almost pepper season!
Peppers back to front, left to right: ají cacho de cabra, habanada, madhatter, zavory, Trinidad perfume, PJ UFO, peppapeach stripey, cheiro do norte, Jimmy Nardello, ají charapita, variegated naga, ají habanero
Also pictured but burried, cherry and wild tomatoes, red hybrid jabuticaba, Romano purpiat, Romano musica, Tepary beans and physalis grisea
#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #peppers #paprika #chile
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2025-08-24 19:05:19 UTC

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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 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
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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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2025-08-18 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 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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2025-08-17 18:21:14 UTC

Limenitis arthemis, white admiral aka red-spotted purple
#insects #insekten #InsektenSamstag #insectes #insectos #昆虫 #butterfly #schmetterling #papillon #mariposa #蝴蝶 #nature #wildlife
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