locally grown serotonin @starrycosmos@sunbeam.city

took a bunch of cuttings of the slowly dying Lena scotch broom, hoping at least one will root

(brooms are highly invasive in a lot of the so called US due to their prolific self seeding, but ours is a hybrid with unviable seeds but gorgeous bee attracting flowers, hence propagation by cuttings)

my Ozark beauty hasn't put out any flowers since early June :/ this is the one that's battling red stele so I've been lenient but cmon. it put out some runners tho, and I let some of them root in order to have a hopefully disease free plant next year (and I'll be using some preventative measures for this one), but I just cut them all off just now to hopefully get the parent plant to put out flowers again

thank goodness these tomatoes are determinate type and stand up 90% of the way on their own or else I doubt my slapdash solution to staking would work

also yeah, those fruit above the trellis? idk what to do with them. I'm just crossing my fingers that they'll behave

found some aphids on my carrots today. both pots had some affected leaves but I only found actual aphids on one leaf. they seem to swarm around one leaf at a time, so I just cut that one off and threw it out. I moved the pot I found them in away from everyone else and I'll keep an eye on it and the other carrots, spoons permitting

the dandelions have finally bloomed again c: I should take this opportunity to finally try out a recipe for dandelions. gonna start out simple and sweet, maybe a fritter or a cookie, and go from there

just finished "bullshit jobs" the other day. funny that I have the most time to read it *at* my bullshit job. next I'm gonna take a crack at "post scarcity anarchism". I hope I'll still be able to understand the more academic language while still only reading in short bursts

like there were sooo many anarchists, it felt safe

hey the queer liberation march today in nyc? goddamn fantastic

some of the lettuces are getting weirdly tall and stretched out :c

I hope it just means they're not getting enough light, not that they're bolting

the rogue lettuce has finally recovered, showing off some new leaf growth. it's recovered so much, actually, that it's got roots sticking out the bottom of the pot. but I don't have anything bigger to move it into,,,

also the strawberry is still losing leaves to The Redness ™️but seems to be putting out new leaves at about the same rate? so maybe it won't survive the winter but I'm confident I will get some sort of berry harvest from it (also I plan on planting some seeds from the first fruit I harvest)

had enough time this morning to give a garden a thorough inspection for the first time in a while. the tomatoes are putting out flowers, the first strawberry fruit is nearly ripe, the carrots are coming along alright (did a bit of weeding among the in ground ones), and the lettuces are enjoying the unusually cool june weather so much that even though I just harvested two salads from them the other day, they really need to be harvested again

and I'm very happy rn c:

my brother has wild strawberries in his yard c:

altho the dog is allowed free roam to pee and poo so I don't exactly trust them lmao