Fungus gnats are extra annoying but something you can do in addition to watering a little less is to have some clean sand as a mulch over your potting mix paired with bottom watering your plants. I check my pots by feel on the bottom regularly to help inform when I water. For our inside plants and seeds I’m starting, I have a tray with ridges into which I can place the pots and some water. Seedling trays are widely available and a local greenhouse or nursery may have some headed for recycling rather than having to buy new plastic. If that same place does claim and mulches in bulk they may have sand that’s suitable for short money since you only need a little bit.

By watering from the bottom, your potting mix will wick the water upwards through capillary action but the water will have difficulty moving into the sand because of the difference in texture and porosity and this will deprive the fungus gnats of the habitat they need to reproduce and continue to annoy you.

That looks delicious, and well plated to boot - great job!

Hey congrats! That’s awesome! Also very happy to hear you’ve found another outlet for your music and great people to boot

Certainly not the U.S. citizens

This was me all day in the heat, but far less adorable

You’re crushing it! Hearing how happy this garden is making you just fills my heart, and these photos make my mouth water

We raise Muscovies, who are generally pretty decent with rearing their young. I’ve only had to mother one duck since starting, but it’s a lot of work when they imprint on a human. Our drake only has a problem with his male offspring, and generally only once they begin to reach maturity.

I updated the post but to put your heart at ease: one of the hens has taken little Niji in and they were making happy little duckling peeps when I last looked in on them.

Delish! I pulled about two pounds of scapes yesterday for making pesto

Here’s hoping you get the right amount and timing of rain so your plants can be happy!

Doooo iiiiit.

I don’t tend to wilt the flowers in the sun, I pick fresh and dry almost immediately about halfway through the morning.

I’ll tell you that it does - or at least, the remembering becomes slightly less painful as time goes on. The lessons really stick, but it becomes easier to remember all the good stuff, and those are the things you should hold on to the hardest during those difficult times.

And I’m glad you shared with us, if for no other reason than helping you process your grief. I’m sure we’re all sending our love, hoping to lighten the load in some small way.

You might only get green onions off of it at this point, but burying it like you asked will certainly get you more, and more nutritious ones. I vote yes!

! Yummy pawful you’ve got there

I hope you’re hydrating yourself as devotedly as you are your plants!

I’m so sorry for your loss and what you’re going through 🫂

It might not be possible right now but please give yourself some grace. You were attentive to his condition and when it worsened you acted immediately. I can’t imagine a better kind of human to place trust in, and I can’t imagine him not knowing how hard you tried, how much you cared, or that he would ever blame you.

Always a good trait in my book as well! The one in the post picture has a fuzzy stem, no thorns.

I really appreciate it, thanks!

I’d bet you could boil some marshmallow root in water, then strain and reduce before letting it cool a bit, adding it to the yogurt, and whipping it.

shade hoodie

I have two shirts like this from (the company) patagonia and they breathe until I start to sweat about ten minutes later. If yours was better than that, care to drop a name for me to go look into?

Our boy would sympathize with Jean - he loves the beach but not the water. We still take him every so often, but he wants the smells right on the edge of the waves and sometimes the ocean sneaking up on him is just too much

I am really loving the rough edges and gradients on those petals, wow!