Can anyone recommend a #book about #plants that takes a bit of a scientific approach? Something that not only gives tips on HOW to care for them, but also explains WHY it works? Ideally covering the most common house and garden plants in #europe. Is there anything like that?
"Almost one-fifth of bryophytes – the plant group that includes mosses, liverworts and hornworts – in Great Britain are threatened with extinction, according to a new red list assessing their conservation status."
After spending nearly 20 years in an apartment, being in a house with a yard is so weird. Like, how do you actually plant things in the ground? I get how to use pots and window boxes and raised beds, but like… in the shitty dirt in my front yard? Am I supposed to use potting soil? Fertilizer? Just stick the plant in the ground and hope? #gardening#plants#yardwork#gardens#planting
It seems it's that time of year when I can stop struggling to identify tiny white-flowered weeds in cracks in the pavement and can turn my attention to struggling to identify the many relatives of the dandelion. This is my first of the year, in #Buckinghamshire; I think it's Common Cat's-ear but I'm always open to correction on these things. They all look very much alike...#WildflowerHour#botany#plants#flowers#wildflowers#plantscience#photography
cold frame update: left the lid off while i was away this weekend and there was a lake in the bottom, lol. i took the plants out while i drained this out. looks like they've been loving the weather.
Springtime palaeo #ecology jackpot on today's dog walk. More references to feed into my current project and reference collection. #plants#floraspondence@plants
Ps, if anyone wants to collect some of your local #wildflowers on your daily walk in some sandwich baggies (#garden is fine too) I'll gladly pay for the baggies and shipping. They're going to be used in a cool project I'm going to #opensource for #openscience (happy to share a demo, for those interested). 💚
When you come to a fork on the trail, choose the branch that looks like it might end with you lost in the woods forever. Regular folk don't use those trails.
Peas!
My life (just my meals really) are very pea-centric right now. So so many snap peas.
It is wrapping up though, final harvests this week and then it’s pole bean season!
For now it’s pea pasta salads, pea stir fry’s, pea garden salads… 😂
Thornburn’s Terracotta Tomato 🍅
This has been the fastest growing, healthiest and most sturdy seedling, an unexpected treat!
I got the seeds for free with my purchase at Baker’s Creek Seeds. A few of my other tomato seedlings didn’t make it so I thought I’d give this a try, I think it’s going to be a great producer.
The tomatoes are supposed to have orange-brown skin with orange-pink skin and be medium in size.
Are there any good actual plant growing games? Something beyond "seed, water, harvest"? Absolutely no weird microtransection for sunlight dystopians, especially not the ones masked as "self care" extra dystopian ones.
This is actually a pretty difficult thing, because I suspect the cost of making a game like this wouldn't make it sustainable. Farming Simulator is the closest one, though I'm not into the business side.
I tried to introduce someone in work to Mastodon. They asked if there were any plant based instances. Focused on gardening and horticulture. I honestly don't know where to go to find out if there are such instances. Any help people could give to find such an instance would be greatly appriciated.