The mint is alive! I completely neglected to containers with mint in the far-away garden. All dead. Well, placed them outside with the rest anyway. A few weeks later, both pots now have fresh tiny mini mint. The plants just won't die. One of them has completely died back multiple times now but there has always been enough live underground to resprout and try again. #Gardening

On what's soon our land, there's a dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) growing next to the garden beds for cultivation. People keep telling me to chop it down because it will take the water from the garden and get oh-so big. After some research, the current plan is to keep the tree. Do any of you know Metasequoia well enough to tell me if that is a bad plan? And does anyone know if the deciduous needles (what a concept!) compost like leaves or needles pH-wise? #trees #gardening

My lettuce seeds are starting to be ready for saving. I'd never had a chance to let lettuce go to seed before. Fascinatedly, I observed the entire life cycle. We've now reached "blow ball" stage, and I can pull the seeds off to save them. This year, saving seeds seems to be the main purpose of gardening. Without grow space, it's more than I'd hoped for. Lettuce seeds, salad seeds, marigold seeds, three kinds of bean seeds, spinach seeds, and corn salad seeds. It's something. #Gardening

What resources can you recommend on taking care of fruit trees and trees in general? The focus should not be maximum harvest but maximum tree health. Once I'm done with all my theory here, I get to switch to application: the new garden is waiting fo rme. Thanks :) #gardening

I am on page 42 of my master thesis. The nerd in me is very happy about this random fact. (It'll be interesting to see how this mere PDF export from .md to .pdf will be affected by final formatting.) #KatesMasterThesis

Do you think Mirabelle plums are suitable for jam/jelly without adding pectin? When I complained about not having a source of pectin, some of you insisted I could learn how to do without instead. Do you think that's worth trying with Mirabelle plums? #Gardening #homesteading #canning

„Could you please continue the petty bickering. I find it quite intriguing.“ Mr. Data

I didn't enjoy using HortusFox. Are there other recommendations for self-hosted plant management? #gardening

Received my first donation in months yesterday. It's amazing how excited I can get about 5 bucks. The validation I get from even such a small donation, because someone thinks my work is worth supporting with real money brings the necessary push to keep trying.

I got three blueberry plants last year. They were tiny then but are putting on good size and even produced some fruit this year. Some of them dried out during the heat waves, so I collected the dried fruit. Now, I've placed one berry each into pots to see if they'll sprout. I didn't remove the seeds from the fruit or anything, just planted them whole. The hazelnut and willow also got to move from the water they rooted in to their own pots. Cultivation is such fun! #gardening