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11 Jul, 5 tweets, 1 min read
ME: I am just pulling out dead plants and planting new ones, I don’t need to take a collecting bowl into the garden, I just collected tomatoes yesterday.
GARDEN: Ha, that’s adorable.
On the bright side, looks like the Small Wonder spaghetti squash actually were fighting off squash vine borers, not just the climate. That’s actually kinda promising because that means if I can reduce the borers, I can grow them again.
They still produced little squash! They tried very hard! Just looks like a double whammy.
I have ordered a squash borer pheromone lure trap for next year, this being the one thing I have not yet tried.
(It was NOT easy to find, incidentally. Had to order it from a wholesale place in Ontario.)

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11 Jul
The garden is providing most of dinner tonight! We got spaghetti squash—“Small Wonder”
Shishito peppers—“Mellowstar”
And fancy ass tomato caprese on crusty bread. (I grew the basil and the tomatoes, at least.)
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11 Jul
Beloved friends, I know it’s easy to feel like everything is getting worse, and god knows, I feel like that sometimes myself. But I try to remind myself that a hundred years ago, we hadn’t even discovered penicillin.
It was barely fifty years ago scientists figured out that dopamine and serotonin are involved in depression and started being able to treat that directly.
Almost exactly a hundred years ago, insulin was discovered, and suddenly a whole chunk of humans weren’t sentenced to a terrible death.
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10 Jul
Very pleased with these “New Big Dwarf” tomatoes. A solid heirloom that does great for me in grow bags. Biggest tomatoes I’ve ever grown. Image
That said, they are possibly the most determinate tomato I’ve ever known. The first fruits ripen and the plant is like “DEATH THOU COMEST” and immediately starts to croak. It’ll probably hold on long enough for most everything to ripen, but it is NOT lingering.
Which honestly I don’t mind at all, I have plenty of time left in the season to plant bush beans in the bags once the tomatoes are done, but damn.
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21 Jun
Thinking about climate change today, as I often do, and remembering what I wrote a few years back. We are past the point of stopping change completely, but right now, we can still shape the new world to come.
And I don’t even mean “we” in the big huge global sense of interconnected humanity (although that’s a huge driver.) I mean you and I, individuals. This is a threshold. It won’t last forever. But one determined individual right now can help define what species come with us.
I think of people I know on this site like @MyFrogCroaked and @AlongsideWild and @RosemaryMosco and @jeffvandermeer and @Myrmecos and @thebiologistisn. Individuals who, in very different ways, are fighting to bring important things, be they frogs or tomatoes, into the future.
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16 Jun
*slams down drink* WHO WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT THE PLANT GENUS SALVIA
Okay, to my mild surprise, plenty of y’all do want to hear about Salvias, aka THE BEST PLANT GENUS aka my personal horticultural obsession.
Salvia (no, no saliva) is a branch of the mighty Menthae clan, thus putting it on a footing with mints, catmints, Agastache, bee balm, etc. It is one of the very largest genuses, with over 900 species.
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14 Jun
So last Memorial Day had a big appliance sale, of course, and since our dryer has been broken since last August, we splurged and got a new washer/dryer with all the fancy bells and whistles.

Width is standardized. We did not, however, think to measure for depth.
These are sufficiently deeper than the last set that we had to take the little folding doors off the laundry alcove.
Now, the top surface of the washing machine (we have front loaders) fills inevitably with cleaning supplies, lint, random things extracted from pockets before washing, etc. It is known.
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