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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

See also our Environment community, which is focused on weather, climate, climate change, and stuff like that.

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What's growing on, Beehaw? (Weekly Garden Chat) (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 months ago by LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org to c/greenspace@beehaw.org

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Our volunteer cherry tomatoes have gone hard this past week, putting on tons of new growth and starting to fruit as well! Our slicers kind of gave up with the hot spell but are back to flowering and I'm looking forward to some really juicy ones.

This past week has seen me doing more forestry than gardening, though I personally conflate the two (I'm just pruning some rather large plants). I'm in the process of typing a write up to some video I shot which details what I'm doing - I'd like to post the video for you all, but I want to accommodate those of you who don't have the time or desire for ~19 minutes of me talking.

Here is a picture of a bee napping on some Joe Pye weed:

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[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

I will... My wife came home with boatloads of baby stuff we had to sort through so I didn't get to work on the write up for folks. By way of an apology, here are two of the books she got

[Image description: a photo of two children's books side by side. On the left is a green book titled "Butt or Face" which features a zebra's rump with googly eyes on either side of the tail. On the right is a book titled "Who Pooped on Me" depicting an evening sky in the jungle and an angry looking iguana with neon pink poop on its head]