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Have since relocated the littlest third in container A, putting me down to an heir and a spare in A and B. Haven't put the netting over the arch trellis connecting A and B yet. That makes two relocations in 2 gallon nursery pots to give away. Hail Mary potted some experimental indoor seed germination that actually germinated against all odds just out of respect for the hustle. Was surprised to see a pumpkin growing in my "trash pot" where I toss plant debris. One of the unplanted soaked seeds is making a go of it. I am out of trellises so he'll be a patio floor baby, was pondering the vine options and if he gets real serious I might get him a big toy race track to keep him off the hot concrete and some toy sand buckets to elevate the fruit.

Have since relocated the littlest third in container A, putting me down to an heir and a spare in A and B. Haven't put the netting over the arch trellis connecting A and B yet. That makes two relocations in 2 gallon nursery pots to give away. Hail Mary potted some experimental indoor seed germination that actually germinated against all odds just out of respect for the hustle. Was surprised to see a pumpkin growing in my "trash pot" where I toss plant debris. One of the unplanted soaked seeds is making a go of it. I am out of trellises so he'll be a patio floor baby, was pondering the vine options and if he gets real serious I might get him a big toy race track to keep him off the hot concrete and some toy sand buckets to elevate the fruit.

I have a rescue gardenia shrub, it looks very happy and healthy considering she came from a terrible parking lot garden plant situation. 75% off so I thought why not.

Now I'm all conflicted on what to do with her. She can't overwinter outdoors in 6B and she won't flower (supposedly) if kept as an indoor plant?

Would love to hear other experiences. More details: I'm growing in Northeast Kansas, Southern exposure, patio container garden.

Another 75% off rescue from the grim carnage on the Fields of Megeddon (aka the True Value parking lot plant area). This one will overwinter inside and live a long life (I hope) with proper care. $10. Took some time to get her cleaned up but I could tell there was a princess determined to live in there under all the dead stuff.

Go rescue some buddies! You can definitely tell who wants to live at this point. Only the real warriors are still standing out there on the mean streets.

They look pretty funny in their giant containers right now. Hopefully in a few months they'll be big healthy vines with sweet little sugar pumpkins. They germinated fast, I gave them the recommended soaking time in a solo cup outside (warm af) and plonked down five in each. Three popped up in one so far and zero in the one that had too much shade from the tom next door. I moved the tom and scooped one of the cotyledon sproutings into the bare pot, which it seems to have tolerated perfectly well.

All the babies are getting tiny sips of diluted Farmer's Secret (Spring) in their water.

Also finally seeing lunchbox peppers!

My fault, I was brushing him and hit a tangle on his back leg at speed and he whipped his head back and crashed our bone domes together a couple days ago. I think I passed out a little bit because my next memory is wondering what was dripping into my eye and when I touched it, it was blood.

I monitored both of us for signs of needing the ER but we're both fine, and I'm pretty sure I'll have a cute little bitty scar in his memory. It's healing clean and quickly though I did spend a solid day nursing it with hot/cold and otc ointment.

Please share the story of your pyr-related injuries. I feel like a derp for bending over him as I was, knowing that he throws a fit if I try to brush out a tangle.

He's a good boy and only used to bark at delivery drivers or the sight/sound (no matter how distant) of Amazon Prime evs. We have new neighbors who are a little unusual for the neighborhood (lots of cars, motorcycles, garage door open and people coming and going all day - nothing criminal, and the family is very nice). Finn is just howling nonstop about all their comings and goings.

I've taken him over to meet them and he's been friendly and fine with them. He's been able to inspect the cars and is fine about that too. But once he's inside it's a whole thing.

I don't like using Big No on my dude, but after a month of gentle parenting to zero improvement now he gets Big No - literally me saying NO! - and that is working better. He's not able to prevent his reaction but he can stop doing it.

Best result is if I hear him loading up a bark and can calmly say "hey, uh-uh, it's just the neighbors" but I'm often not close enough to hear the pre-bark rumble.

It's very, very hot here with crazy wind. The humans and the dog are already crabby and frazzled. The vibes are off.

He does fine downstairs where all the windows face zero neighbors but it's not as sunny by a long shot, and if I don't stay down here with him he gets pretty bummed out.

As we all know, the bark is super loud. I am currently living with my elderly mother who has health issues (cancer recovery right now) and it literally hurts her. It gives her terrible headaches and her eyes get red.

My only really viable solution to have no barking is to mostly stay down here with him until night. I'd prefer to work through it with as much time as he needs to adjust but I also have a fragile elderly mom and I have to protect her peace.

I worry a little bit that he will get depressed without full run of the house. It's too hot for him to enjoy his favorite things (car rides and dog park). He does get heat exhaustion in high summer if he overdoes it.

My mom thinks it's way more distressing to him to be upset about the new neighbors all the time, as he's very quiet and seems content to be off-duty down here. I live on the first floor (downstairs) with a door to the patio and greenway. She lives upstairs with an entrance facing the street. So it's really fine for he and I to spend most of our time down here. Just not as many windows or things for him to look at.

I'm probably overthinking/thinking out loud but thoughts and insights welcome.

Pic of our current couch-sharing position. 🥰

Standing barefoot on the patio eating a sweet pepper so ripe it dropped into my hand with the lightest tug. It was super weirdly shaped due to growing on top of a support - plant was a $10 rescue from the TruValue parking lot.

It was delicious. No seeds at all, no inner membrane. It was weird looking and delicious and I ate it down to the base of the stem.

It took 3 bags of container potting soil to fill each container and I could have easily used another half bag each to top off, but will save the space for mulch. I have sugar pumpkin seeds soaking now (parked in solo cups til bedtime, out of the wind in a bed prepping for lettuce and carrots at the end of July) to identify the fertile ones and speed up germination a little bit. If all goes well I'll have pumpkins curing by mid-October before first frost in 6B and/or going straight into the pot for pumpkin soups and pie filling to be frozen. And a couple for kadoo bourani.

Growing from seed because it's supposed to be easy enough, and because starters I've seen look absolutely awful even at the best nursery.

It'll likely still be hot enough to cure them in the garage but if not I've got a space heater and a closet.

It is coming along. It makes me happy in the sun and under the stars. I just keep adding more plants and more fairy lighting. It is a more mellow glow than the photo shows, the lens really snaps up the light.

Arched trellis with 16x16 planters on either side will host sugar pumpkins (6B, planting end of June so soon). Tiered planter just put together today will host littlefinger and Paris round carrots and buttercrunch lettuce, not planting that til end of July. I'll be starting everything from seed inside just to first leaf or so. Little worried I've put the sugar pumpkins off too late but we will see. They should be in basically now per the county extension calendar, so I'll be a week or two late. I will feed them good fertilizer for each phase of growth and hope for the best.

I decided to risk it because first frost around here hasn't been coming til November, it's usually still 70s-80s and sunny in late October for the last several many years.

Either way it will be fun to beta test an arbor. If the pumpkins are a fail, next year I'll plant Juliet tomatoes in each as I already know those will go 7-8' no problem on my patio.

I also bought cute plant umbrellas on stakes for the lettuce, as they would otherwise dislike the intense late afternoon sun in August and part of September.

21 days from transplant of wee bébés. I've let the dill bolt and flower, there was no stopping it. Been eating toms off the vine as they color by ones and twos. Planning to plant twice as many next year, 7 or 8.

53 years old, pic is after shower and product.

Probably wouldn't work on pigment circles but mine were from a year of severe blood disorders (medical treatment for one led to another one). My eyelids and undereyes had a LOT of dark blue and purple discoloration. I had polycythemia and the prescribed phlebotomies then led to severe iron anemia. After my wonderful hematologist figured out the underlying cause of the polycythemia (jardiance) and got me iron infusions, I switched from focusing on color correction to experimenting for healing/fixing the persistent dark color.

I'm using an inexpensive alcohol-free arnica balm that has a bunch of other herbs in it that I found on Amazon. Two weeks in and the blue and purple has faded to mostly red. I'll discontinue it soon as the redness is probably as much due to supercharging/stimulating circulation in the area at this point as anything else, it has a small amount of peppermint and eucalyptus and stuff that increases blood flow. But it did move that congested dark stuff out.

Just wanted to share as I know lots of women deal with stuff like this perimenopause.

I wish I'd thought to take a before pic, it was really bad. Basically bruises all around the orbit but caused by thin skin and poor oxygen delivery from the anemia and macrocytosis. I don't think it was going to get better on its own, at least not for a long time, because the circulation needed to circulate for that to happen.

Big guy finally got some color on his firstborn. I now officially have zero clue what he is. He has grown like a weed, already over 5 feet tall in the space of a month (started a foot tall at transplant) and has three fruit clusters and six more clusters in flower. I had to steal some cage rods to add a tier to his tower from his older but much shorter (early growth RIP due to me pinching suckers, lesson learned) He also started a couple of volunteers but they're under fresh mix now.

So he's basically Nick Cannon as a tom, but idk what variety. Any guesses?

I swear these dudes have just given up on finishing their life cycle, they have been green for a couple of weeks.

I've never grown them before. They're way bigger than my sungolds and yellow pears so I might just need a new idea of normal for these guys.

The plant overall has grown like a weed, bushy and already 4' tall with six branches in fruit and flower, definitely the most elated of my toms. Normal for it to take a month from baby fruit to ripe fruit?

I've been growing tomatoes and got to really wanted to keep the scent I have on my hands and arms after being in the plant going. I bought the MII MIIC 183 dupe and the Maison Margiela In the Garden.

Preface: I don't generally like dupes. To me they usually dry down terribly chemical and glonky and after trying around 20 from different houses and realizing there was no cost benefit to my endless disappointment I stopped.

I tried this one because I also generally feel the same way about Maison Margiela with the exception of the glorious galbanum bomb of Untitled. So why not!

Applied one to the left hand/arm and sleeve. Applied the same amount of the other to the right.

The MII MIIC is better for my preferences by a landslide. It is way, way more like an actual tomato plant and leaves. The Margiela is ok. I'd be happy with it if I'd never smelled the MII MIIC. It has a lot of some synthetic musk, maybe galaxolide.

MIIMIIC is sharp, leafy, textured, potent.

My first dupe success story!

Tom got pruned of his suckers following advice on r/tomatoes - never again, he's not doing nearly as well as his younger siblings. I'm going to do twice as many plants next year, this is my first and I'm in love! Dahlias lost their mature flowers in a storm last night but have tons of buds.