To-may-toes 🌱🍅 This one plant was slower to ripen and all of the fruit seems to be going off at the same time (the other 2 have some ripe, some not, some still growing) From those other 2 plants (+ the only ripe yellow tomato) I made caprese-ish and it is SO GOOD.

I searched "fish" on my phone and got mostly not fish, but a few successes! This was the funniest one

What do we think? Is this what a yellow tomato looks like in blush? 🌱🍅 None of the yellow are ripe but clearly the red are ramping up. Not as determinate as I thought, though, as new flowers are still starting...

nope I'm wrong, male but no preggo. this one is tho

Also the first round on my tiny bell pepper may actually happen? 🌱

Another plantpdate with repeat harvests 🌱 Huge bok choy round 2, and round 3 has been started. Lettuce round 2 finally doing well. Poop free! Surprise, there's a strawberry round 2 coming...!

It's been happening! 🌱🍅

Tomatowatch continues. Almost thereeeee 🌱🍅

Nightshade specific plantpdate 🌱🍅🌶 A whole 2 tomatoes of approximately 100 appear to have BLUSH!!! Bonus, jalapeño is very productive so I made some poppers the other night. There are many and it's great

My two cherry tomato varieties, still no blush. I have learned the round ones will ripen red (3 plants) and the teardrop ones will ripen yellow (2 plants). The bigger of the yellow plants is taller than my waist. My guess is that red are determinate and yellow are not 🌱🍅

Feeling compelled to show the dill and cilantro seeds that I'm allowing to develop. It's cool because lots of insects are visiting them 🌱 Still have lots of dill edible too. Not so much cilantro (for now) but parsley can substitute it sometimes...

Haven't plantpdated because heat wave and wildfires. Today was better (in n95) 🌱 No poop lettuce here: 2nd round bok choy about to harvest (miraculously unbolted, but 3rd round died). A cute leafhopper (Acericerus sp?) on one of my chards. Lemongrass is the one plant improved by the heat it seems

My lettuce is basically bolted but yeah I ate one last harvest today *smugly indeed* Got plenty of poop free kale, chard, bok choy, and many herbs continuing 🌱

For those inclined to suggest this is artificially enhanced...it is a real thing. Here's an explanation of the aragonite structure from a reputed source. peabody.yale.edu/article/the-... What I do want to know is why the music is the horny 90s song Butterfly by Crazy Town?

Planty surprise! 🌱 I had this one pepper a friend gave me 2 months ago that literally wouldn't grow. It has new leaves now! Tomatoes, chard, and kale for success. I found cabbage caterpillars and tossed them away so they couldn't eat kale

Even with a smartphone I was literally this meme

we're clamposting, post a clam

Nice choices. My alternate would have been related to the Arctic, not by landscape but because the artist Kenojuak Ashevak was Inuit. My grandfather had a print of The Enchanted Owl, it's probably one of the most famous Canadian works of all time

I have a print of Lawren Harris' Pic Island on my wall. But (maybe because it's not in my daily life) Lake and Mountains is the more impactful of his works

I promised some #bloomscrolling 🌱 This year, besides marigolds with the tomatoes, I have 2 colors of petunias. The best annual I could find for FULL sun. Only one of the hanging planters still hangs (they don't fit my railing well) so the other is on the ground lol

Welp I was going to leave the bgpt account unblocked so there would be context, but it started going back liking my old skeets, which is creepy. This is what I replied to

Uh oh in a few weeks I'll be in danger of too much tomato 🌱🍅 3 of my plants are like the fruiting one. The other 2 have similar leaves but are dramatically different sizes, so might be different types (my friend had 3 types of seeds). We will see...

While we're complaining about genAI being shoved into every nook and cranny of the publication process, who asked for this either??? IT IS AN ABSTRACT ALREADY. 🧪 (cropped because it's not the authors' fault and possibly not anyone associated with the journal. Publisher is Wiley)

So far, with a lot of attention, plants are doing ok(ish) in the heat 🌱 I got to eat 3 strawberries so far! They taste more complex than even local ones from the store. Lettuce, cilantro, dill all madly bolting, need to plant more. New bok choy grew (indoors last 2 days) but hit by leaf miners 😭

Bug feet train, quote with some (dead) bug feetsies www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Canadian Atlantic has surprisingly interesting hermit crabs, if you count waters offshore of southern Nova Scotia! Parapagurus pilosimanus can wear a carcinoecium formed by a large zoanthid coral! 3/7 🇨🇦🦀

🇨🇦🦀 CANADA DAY CRAB THREAD 🦀🇨🇦 Canada encompasses 3 of the world's oceans, so let's meet crabs from each one. In the Arctic, the spiky king crab friend Neolithodes grimaldii is found offshore (300-5000m depth). Same genus, different species, as the famous baby 1/7 🦑🧪

Omgomgomg 🌱🍓🍅 One strawberry is almost ready!!! (It's whiter on the other side) Tomatoes magically appeared on 2/5 plants!!! Arugula bolted so it's pesto, chard is too productive so I'm pickling, and why not see chive vinegar. New arugula and lettuce are tiny so it'll be kale/chard for a bit