Can string of pearls be grown hydroponically?
Looks like the answer is yes.
#Plants #Gardening
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Raye 
@raye@weirder.earth
hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1they/them | gen x | gender x | syncretic #alchemist | medically transitioning | faggot | #saffron grower | witch | ambivert | #AuDHD probably | descendant of Shoah survivors | #WearAMask | allergic to nightshades and nuts
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Fifty-seven golf balls went back to the golf course just before midnight last night.
#Art
Sometime last year, a friend of Mom’s gifted her this super artful bird feeder. The whole thing is hand-carved from a single piece of wood. It’s lovely. It’s also not hardcore enough to survive the regularly-occurring 50mph+ winds, and would just be pillaged by squirrels.
I have adopted the bird feeder for now, and have it at my house where I am contemplating what could fit inside it such that I could pot a tiny plant in there and let it cascade down from the openings.
I was awakened at 2:30am by the sound of intense rain, and after cross-referencing a couple websites, it seems about a quarter inch of rain fell overnight. For this to happen on the day when I normally water my garden is fantastic. I will still water a couple things because I want to train this tiny yard to root more deeply and we're about to have wacky warm temps again. Starting tomorrow.
Also, turns out it's NOT hosta in my yard. It's flowering, and I'm gonna say it's lily of the valley.
I'm looking out the window, watching a backyard bun coming to the front yard to nibble the taller grasses that have grown below where the carport drips collected water. Today I think is going to be the first lawn mowing of 2026.
#Gardening #Rabbit
I rearranged the shed, which had room after the donation run on Monday. The daybed couch that could not go as part of that run fit into the empty space in the shed. I have room to potential set-up my essential oil distillation glassware.
The chair for the spare room, which has been hanging out in the living area, has now gone back to the spare room. The closet in the spare room was rearranged and I got all the storage bins fit in nicely.
The rebounding trampoline I got from my sibling is still in the spare room, and once I move chairs around, that will move to the living area.
It's like those tile puzzles where you have to move every single tile to move the one tile that is blocking everything.
This morning I have been reading up on local water restrictions. At present, my local area does not have anything specific enacted but we are in one of the areas of "exceptional drought," the highest rating. Residents are encouraged to not water between 10am and 6pm, and to limit watering to three times per week. This is mostly talking about lawns, and I am doing zero lawn watering.
My shower catch bucket gets dumped outside about every four showers, and that's about a 3/4 full 5-gallon bucket when that happens. That is shared around the yard to different spots each time.
I am not doing any of the usual garden watering today because Friday's snow/rain was recorded as 1" of water received, and that will cover this week. All the established perennials are blooming/growing pretty energetically.
One of my garden strategies this year is to disturb the soil, water, and just watch and see what the heck is already growing here. My neighbor said the previous resident literally never gardened.
I walked to the post office at 8:30am today because that let me combine running an errand and getting a walk across town and back while the temps were decent.
The afternoon peaked at 88F/31C. A few spots inside the house peaked around 79F/26C. I have supplemental cooling that I switch on around that point.
Predicted overnight lows are right at my preferred sleeping temp, so that means I can sleep with open windows to cool the house.
Took the bus and my droid (wheelie cart) out to get compost. Not expensive but on the heavy-schlepping side. Got two bags of mushroom compost, 1.5cu ft/35L apiece.
The saffron planters were topped off with this, burying the dried plant leaves, and they will be left to their own devices until late summer. I won't put chicken wire over the planters unless the squirrels start digging in them.
There was plenty of compost remaining from the first bag to amend the rose bush (it's looking like a real plant instead of sick sticks), and my presumed hosta patch.
Some of the second bag will go to the weird plant bed at the west end of the house, and the bulk of it will be shared in the lilacs and periwinkle patch.
Memo to self, for the next three days:
1) Dig out your favorite cargo shorts and that new belt which reads 'beyond the binary' over and over on it.
2) Do exercise walks in the AM, the daytime highs are going to be over 80F/27C.
3) Be ready for overnight lows near freezing again starting the night after that third hot day. For reals.
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Was just passing the bathroom and heard the wind whistling in the ceiling fan vent, and suddenly I understood why I and the house got chilled last night.
I had vent covers over the two bathroom ceiling fans all winter, so for most of the freezing weather, those openings were sealed shut. I took them down when we had a run of really hot days a few weeks ago, so I could purposely vent hot air out of the house.
With last night's brisk wind turning the fan blades, my vents had to have been venting out warm house air and/or letting in cold outside air.
I don't want to reinstall the covers for this on-again off-again cold, but I can close bathroom doors when I go to bed and reduce the heat loss.
We had 4" inches of snow a couple days ago, I am putting the parka and boots away now, and in two days, it will be shorts and summer heat temps, 84F/29C.
Weirdest "April showers bring May flowers ever," but I should be able to get a decent picture of my hosta flowering in a few days.
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@nein09@weirder.earth I am going to fantasize this guy doing this and being sprayed with Silly String as he blah-blah-blahs over his shoulder while riding away.
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@Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus I love that sort of lore! As someone who has moved location many times in my life, I seek out those types of stories in a new place.
As if my left eye inflammation isn't enough, my right eye has developed a sty.
The added level of low-grade discomfort is annoying. I'm gonna do the warm compress thing later to help it resolve.
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@fey@pagan.plus @Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus for me the equinoxes are holidays where it's about the season outside and the elements, where I'm striving to more precisely align how I'm working with what is called for in this moment.
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@crybaby@weirder.earth my most elaborate do was a genuine peacock ombré across my entire head. I did it for a con weekend. The person sharing my room came back in the first night and said they had seen two more peacock hair people that evening. They said I was the bold/dark version, and there was a person with medium tones and a third who was pastel.
We all ran into each other in the elevator the second day.
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@crybaby@weirder.earth I had that same realization, and everything that follows is fantastic. Your sixteen-year-old self was not wrong.
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@riotmuffin in the warmer months, where the flow of wayward balls is steady, I regularly write "make the golf course a sex forest" on balls and toss them back onto the course.
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@matt@oslo.town @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I have shoelace flags from the Pin Prick, and they are still in perfect condition after a few years of wear.
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@jenny753@indiepocalypse.social the whois is sketchy, shows a site that was only registered this past January, from someone in China. The registrar name shows a company involved in a variety of legal actions for fraudulent activity.
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@bouncinglime@spanner.works that was the year I handed out badge ribbons that read "love your hair" to anyone who said that to me, and I handed out a dozens.
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@WanderingBeekeeper I have read about old-style Japanese homes and thermic shock. My bathrooms are both central house rooms with minimal exterior walls and closing those doors does not cut those rooms off from the central heating.
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@aloosefruit that's my favorite, it's fast and fits well with the amount of writing surface available. But putting in hand-coloring effort for the holiday was kinda fun.
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@Cat_LeFey@pagan.plus I went in search of news about the heat wave I am about to experience yesterday, and that's how I read about all your snow. Glad the digging out has reached you!
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@crybaby@weirder.earth where I am, we had the snow two days ago and it's going to be 72F today.
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@venya I ordered a DVD player earlier today, because we are assembling a movie library for my elderly mom. This way we can play whatever movie endlessly when she has that mood.