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⌈ Secret Post #5224 ⌋

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Gardeners!

[(Anonymous)]

How are your gardens going? What have you or are you planting?

Re: Gardeners!

[kaijinscendre]

Got our vegetables planted. Two tomato plants, 3 bell pepper, 3 cauliflower, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, and green bean bushes. Looks like one of the bell peppers will need to be replaced because something ate it or something.

For flowers, I got lantanas for the middle of the bed. Got some more dianthus barbatus since they were on sale. Hoping to eventually get all perennials planted eventually. So any ideas for ones that can survive zone 7 and enjoy partial shade are welcome.

Re: Gardeners!

[(Anonymous)]

Loooooove lantana! And thst sounds like a really great veg garden as well!

Re: Gardeners!

[(Anonymous)]

Lily of the valley, maybe? But that's more of a woodland groundcover. Or Japanese anemone or peonies. All of them die back to the ground in winter, though.

Re: Gardeners!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have a garden, but about a month ago I bought a little pot of a dozen lithops (the pot is only 3 inches across), and they're doing great. One is making new leaves and they're all bigger. They're so cute lol.

Re: Gardeners!

[bur]

I need to plant my tomatoes... I've been so lazy! Somehow the basil survived the snow and unexpected freeze, but the dill was a casualty. I have potato and lettuce sprouting, the red onion that was sprouting in the fridge is thriving in its new home, and the strawberries are flowering nicely.

Re: Gardeners!

[(Anonymous)]

Mostly wonderful. I'm still waiting on 3 or 4 plants to sprout to make sure they didn't die off last year (we had a late-season drought before winter), but so far everything else is either flourishing or at least sprouted on schedule. I had to work very hard to protect them over 3 nights of hard freeze but now we doin good.

I have a patch in front by the mailbox that is all native prairie - ironweed, butterfly weed, coneflower, lobelia, etc plus some shooting stars for spring - and in the back I'm slowly converting turf grass and hostas to all native plants. Goldenrod, penstemon, native berries in the sun and solomon's seal, rue anemone, and jack-in-the-pulpits in the shade. It's a labor of love and it's taking years to establish around 80 native species but it's worth it. And better than mowing!

Re: Gardeners!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm moving across the country in a month, so where I'd normally be celebrating little lettuces and spinaches finally getting growth spurts, I've been responsible and have...nothin'. :'( It'll be fun to start from the ground up in a new place, though, once I get there.

Re: Gardeners!

[(Anonymous)]

It's still a bit early to start here because we get freezing weather into May, but I've got a good supply of aged manure, grow bags and I hope to plant some tomatoes and peppers! And depending on how much potting soil I've got left, a couple varieties of basil and other herbs.

Re: Gardeners!

[pantswarrior]

My actual garden plot only has strawberries and blackberries and a blueberry bush that so far has produced one berry per year. I don't know what I'm doing wrong with the blueberries, but maybe they just need time to take. The blackberries and strawberries seem to be progressing as usual (despite something eating the strawberries down to the ground last fall, despite having a fenced/netted area for them, possibly I left the "gate" open), I think I saw a few beginnings of flowers on the strawberries before the late freeze, so we'll see what happens there.

Outside the garden plot, raspberry vines had taken over a corner of my yard beneath the lilacs before I moved in ten years ago, and only the last couple years have I been pruning them back, due to overcrowding and some kind of orange fungus on the leaves of some vines. Hoping it didn't spread to the ones that are left, but they're growing leaves at least.

Roses around the perimeter of the yard. Was too sick last year to really care for them properly, so it looks like a couple of them have died, and my favorite purple bush is a lot smaller than it was in years past because something (probably the backyard bunnies) munched on them in late fall. But most of them are showing fresh growth, and the ones that were well established and producing well before last year are especially seeming to be well.

The front yard is shady with three huge maple trees (which is why I have 21 mason jars full of homemade syrup!) so the bulbs my sister-in-law's mom planted here when my brother and his wife moved in have never done well. I've been gradually moving daffodils, hyacinths, and irises into the back yard where they can get sun... One of the two beds has been filling in with creeping myrtle I transplanted from my parents house where it was out of control (also have some climbing thing I can't identify that I also swiped some of, now grown all the way up to the top of my deck in back), the other with lily of the valley, and I've been adding a couple hostas here and there for interest.

I'm curious to see how the irises will do, because I didn't even know what they were until I asked - they were just spiky leaves - and I just transplanted them last fall. They're definitely producing fresh spiky leaves, it would be great if they'd flower.

Aaand finally I so far have basil, peppermint, and cilantro for my bunnies. I usually keep them in pots so I can move them inside over winter and still give them fresh stuff (fertilized with their own poop, so it works well!), but I'm thinking about getting some more mint and just planting it in the yard and hoping that it spreads. Right now my back yard is like 30% garlic mustard, and well... mint would smell nicer when we mow. XD

Re: Gardeners!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm always buying more stuff to replace what dies or gets munched by critters; the only veggie I've planted so far that nothing has tried to eat but me is celery.

I have lots of natives, some flowers, and some tomatoes and peppers in nursery pots that need to go in raised beds or the ground.

My low-chill cherries have set a few fruit and so have the apricots, the navel orange has tiny fruit and flowers, one of the blueberry bushes is covered in little green berries, my sweet peas and roses are blooming, and my lilies are shooting up, but no flower buds yet.

I need to start more things from seed but I keep putting it off.

Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

I know everyone wants AO3 to have tag blacklisting. Honestly, I just wish we had an option for default language across all tags.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[philstar22]

I wish AO3 would restrict what can be tagged so we don't have any more Tumblr style tagging of fanfic.

I wish Slate hadn't gone paid only, I loved that site and used to check it every day.

I wish every website would stop using malicious ads and/or would allow adblock to be used on their site.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

Hard disagree. I love flexible descriptive tagging.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[greghousesgf]

I wish hulu would stop turning itself off literally once a minute. It's driving me bloody mad.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

In general, I wish 'dark mode' for most things was not white on black, but grey on black, because the white on black hurts my eyes even more that light mode.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[pantswarrior]

...I can't think of very many websites I love, in part because most of them do so many things I hate, hahah.

I just wish more people I like would use websites I like. For instance, DW instead of Facebook and Tumblr. :P

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

YouTube should be broken off from Google's corporate umbrella using antitrust law

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't love tumblr. I barely even like tumblr. But I must use tumblr because it's where my people are, so. The two biggest things I hate about tumblr are:

1. There isn't a function that allows you to disable reblogging on original posts (posts you make yourself). I think that is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard. I hate it, I've always hated it, I will always hate it. Yes, reblogging is basically the heart and soul of tumblr. But I still think there should be the option to make your own posts non-rebloggable.

2. When you block a tag, posts with that content still show up, they just show up as blocked. That is just so stupid to me. Why, why, why doesn't blocking a tag just make the post not show up at all?

IDK, I just feel like tumblr is so badly, lazily designed.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[epicurean]

Dreamwidth: it would be great if it had a spoiler tag in the comments like they implemented on lj. Also I'd love to buy a seed account, but that's just wishful thinking. I'm not comfortable doing fandom at large and would like to settle here on dw. Also expanding storage for images. PLEASE.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

I found that the AO3 script that let me limit how many tags show on a given fic (they end up in a little scrolly box if they get too long) to be really convenient and...

I mean the functionality exists already?

But I'd like it if they made that option an easy ticky-box in your User Profile instead of having to hang around in the back alley until someone tells you how to do that.

Re: Things you wish websites you love would change.

[(Anonymous)]

Responsive design based around phones. I don't fullscreen and prefer smaller text, so I keep running into it.

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve been reading a WIP, and character A is hiding something huge from character B, and B will find out, and will not react well, and I don’t know when, and I’m like...crying on the inside in advance. I’ve been doing fandoms for half my life, and I spend most of my spare time reading fic, so why can I suddenly not remember how I deal with this kind of Feels(tm)? nvm I just remembered my cycle is soon, so that’s probably why I’m freaking out over something so ridiculous. I kind of am freaking out though, and I had nowhere else to vent it.

[(Anonymous)]

Swear I wanted to suggest exactly that before I finished reading your comment.
I had my period earlier last week and suddenly I found myself having ALL THE FEELINGS for a dumb song I had on replay and I was honestly crying 10 out of 10 times I heard the song, and it wasn't even a sad song, just a fucking love song. The good part is that I managed to get out of the creative block I had been stuck in regarding my romantic original so yeah.