thrawn21
@thrawn21@lemmy.world
Just a rock-licker who loves all things sci-fi, boardgames, and growing my own food, especially heirloom tomatoes.
- Comment on My coleus is booming ♥️ 3 weeks ago:
Oh dear, I just thought that they’d get leggy like basil, maybe I should pinch the flowers off…
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to houseplants@mander.xyz | 4 comments
- Brought my Celestron NexStar 6SE out on a camping trip last weekend and pointed it at the moonlemmy.world ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on Microdosing psychedelics shows promise for improving mindfulness in adults with ADHD 11 months ago:
As someone with ADHD, the results of this study are encouraging, but limited. They summed it up well in the article, but the study only covered people who were self-microdosing and then self-reporting, which leaves lots of uncontrolled variables.
“This study is a naturalistic prospective study, meaning that we measured participants over time without manipulating any variables such as substances and doses they used for microdosing during the study,” Haijen said. “In contrast to a controlled lab-based study, where drug- and dose uniformity is guaranteed. Also no control group was included, so we cannot say if this effect was purely because of microdosing, or if other factors, such as placebo- or expectancy effects, were the main force behind the changes we observed. So this study should be seen as a first step in this research direction, as more and controlled studies will hopefully follow.”
- Comment on Cucumbers mean time for pickles! 1 year ago:
I grow pretty much everything from seed because it’s crazy cheaper (after some upfront costs). For the price of one or maybe a few seedlings, you can buy seed packets with hundreds of seeds. Seeds also make trying out unique plants possible, as often times nurseries don’t carry a wide variety to choose from.
- Submitted 1 year ago to gardening@thegarden.land | 4 comments
- Comment on Mushrooms in my garden 1 year ago:
Yep! I wanted to kill the pervasive bermuda grass without RoundUp, so I used ChipDrop in late 2021 and got something like 70 cubic yards of mulch piled on my front lawn. Gave a little bit away, but used most of it to bury the grass around my front yard garden, which is about 1,750 square feet in total. Here’s a before and after.
Annoyingly the grass is so persistent, it’s still poking up through the mulch, but by pulling those stolons when they appear, we’re slowly winning a war of attrition. I don’t use the mulch on my raised boxes or where I’ve planted in the ground, there I use straw, but I run drip lines under the straw so it really shouldn’t matter for water infiltration.
I have noticed a massive uptick in the bugs in my yard, the mulch is decomposing fast and is loaded with worms, millipedes, grubs and beetles, which has brought a lot more birds around too. I also noticed that the tomatoes I planted in the ground adjacent to the mulch took off way faster than those in my boxes, despite the boxes having been filled with the same soil from the front yard (excavated for a driveway expansion), and lovingly amended with excellent compost.
[Image description: two rows of young tomato seedlings planted along the edges of an arched trellis. The closer row is planted in a raised bed, and is noticeably smaller than the farther row that is directly in the ground, despite them having been planted at the same time.]
- Comment on Mushrooms in my garden 1 year ago:
The sign of healthy soil! I live in a dry area, and buried my lawn with about a foot of mulch, and I find it funny when wood-loving mushrooms pop up overnight, within a day or so they’ve been dried into little pseudo-rocks.
- Comment on First peppers from my personal cross. Yellow brain strain X blue ghost purple 1 year ago:
There is one!
!hotpeppers@lemmy.world
- Comment on First peppers from my personal cross. Yellow brain strain X blue ghost purple 1 year ago:
There is one!
!hotpeppers@lemmy.world
