Slatlun

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

https://nativeplantspnw.com/red-huckleberry-vaccinium-parvifolium/ has some good detail on post seeding temps for good germination.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Roundup is a systemic herbicide. You have a chance of killing the parent plant since they share roots. It probably won't, but it seems pretty drastic when you could just pull any shoots. You can even pot them up and give them to friends.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It is the same as other easily spreading plants. In their native habitats there are checks like diseases and predators. When you move them out of those habitats they can thrive at a new level because of the lack of those things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Beautiful, and an old friend of mine would smile if I tell you that that flower shape is called a scorpiod cyme (pronounced sime) by botanist types.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can look at wildlife/pollinator gardening. There are different focuses like rewilding or even restoration. There are also a lot of companies willing to sell incredibly invasive plants while calling them nice things, so buy from a reputable source if you do buy plants or seeds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Refreezing is fine for safety (if you thawed it correctly). The main reason not to freeze and thaw things multiple times is that tiny ice crystals do damage to the structure of the food each time freezing happens.

In meat, that damage makes your meat dry out easier when cooking. That's normally a bad thing, bit it might actually be a good idea for making jerky.

In short, I would have no hesitation using refrozen meat to make jerky

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Earthworms are invasive in parts of North America...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I appreciate your sacrifice. It would've been me if not you

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Also, donate your time to review papers, an absolutely critical part of "peer reviewed journals", for the people charging you both.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That's a weird way to say "take a walk", but ok.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Connecticut, Arkansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Exactly what I was thinking. If I saw this I would look for hinges before stepping up.

 

With a sweat bee on it for good measure

 

Shown in its native habitat

 

This plant works hard to clean the water I keep out for wildlife. This one grabbed up so much nitrogen/phosphorus that it got pot bound in one year. I split it in half so each half has twice as much room to grow this year.

 

tldr: urban woodland edges around Boston are accumulating carbon faster than expected because the soil microbiome is less functional than in more rural systems. How long that will work as a C sink is unknown.

 

The large flowered collomia (Collomia grandiflora) is just starting to bloom around me. They are annual and have cool blue pollen (typically pollen is yellow). You can see the pollen on the anthers at the center of each flower.

I am going to keep tossing these out into the ether unless I hear differently from the group. I have been doing flowers just because their showy, but if anyone has requests let me know (eg trees, sedges, garden plants). Also, I have been avoiding having pollinators in the photos on the assumption that any animal makes most people ignore plant. Any thoughts on that?

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submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This one is meadow-foam (Limnanthes douglasii). It's annual that is native to prairies of the west coast of North America. Smells great, looks cool, and bugs like it. Comercially, similar plants are grown for the oil from their seeds. The seeds off this one will just fall where they want to sprout up in spring of '22.

 

For me it is my phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) blooming. I throw some seed down wherever I don't have other plans because the bugs love the flowers? What have you got going?

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