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So Fiona does this thing like most cats where she will charge you, chattering like she wants to have a deep convo about current events,...

Let me just say, we went a little overboard in prepping to grow stuff. At the nursery they had a bunch of tinctures, solutions and...

I attempted to make mozzarella. I was so close! But, I was too handsy with the curds and ruined the structure. Now I have something with...

Yes, I got more seeds. I can't stop whenever I want, damn it! Sort of... Anywho, very excited about some of these. More info once I plant...

Had the pleasure of visiting the Summer Winds Nursery in Palo Alto today. Beautiful plants and very friendly staff. Maybe too friendly....

Quarantine gives you a lot of time to mull things over, and the folks and I have been mulling over New York. I do enjoy the weather here...

BWAAAAHAHA! I found rooting powder! A little late for the basil cutting I took, which is doing well in the water, but still. Now I can...

We lost a mint today. Honestly, I think Mooma is overwatering. But it also didn't have a lot of good drainage, and you can see the soil...

We had to hit several Home Depots but eventually we found blood meal and bone meal in stock! Blood meal is a product from...

So! For the Puya, after soaking some seeds, I placed them into some dirt and covered it with plastic wrap. I thoroughly watered it before...

So I heard, on the street, that you can just sort of make plants root without rooting powder but taking a clipping and shoving it in...

My Dad and I have been going for walks to break up the monotony of quarantine, and we found what we think is a Rose of Sharon tree! The...

The peach tree is sadly suffering from leaf curl. From what I could find online, it is a fungal disease you can treat by topical sulfur...

Phylli, the pothos plant. She doesn't give a flying shit about her vine kids, but we do. I think she is a "golden" pothos but I'm not...

These are Dunn peas that I tried starting in water and transferring to a to-go container with dirt in it. I waited way too long with the...

Garlic down, I repeat, garlic down! Sadly both Leoric and Vecna, my garlic cloves, seem to have little white nematodes or worms. I knew...

I admit it, quarantine has exponentially increased my interest in gardening and eating things we grow. One of the things I have been...

This isn't mine, but because we reeaaaally want one, I finally caved and reached out to the San Diego Botanical Gardens to ask how they...

We have had a pothos plant for years and she survived an abundance of moves, being heavily cut back, and a cross country trip from MA to...