TRANSFORM Your Garden To A FIREFLY Habitat!

* Avoid pesticides and other agrochemicals.

* Protect from light pollution.

* Plant native species.

* Leave some tall grass.

* Provide moisture.

* Leaf litter and woodpiles also offer cover.

We crossed 25 watermelon varieties and got this!

These are landrace watermelons grown in a food forest permaculture.  David the Good is one of the few people other than myself who seems to grow what I would consider laissez-faire permaculture, which turns the yard into a messy but productive jungle.  :D

Remember that when you're growing landraces or even open-pollinated crops that you save, your plants will adapt to what you do.  If you don't want to weed or water, then select for plants that can beat the competition.  I throw garlic chives and other alliums all over the place.  Comfrey can take care of itself.  The vegetables are still in pots to minimize weeds, but I'm hoping to get a sunflower landrace going eventually because I am having crap luck with commercial ones.  I get a few that bloom but not many.  I'm getting a few volunteers, though, so I'm encouraging that.

Today's theme is Homestuck.


100quadrantedships  -- Because We Don't Have Enough Of Quadrants
Quadrants, homestuck, shipping.
[Somewhat active with last post in May.]

addme_fandom  -- addme fandom
Find friends who share your fannish obsessions.
[Active with one post in July.]

unconventionalcourtship  -- Unconventional Courtship
Brooding Strangers! Secret Pregnancies! Enigmatic Rakes! All those tropes (or conventions, if you will) you love to hate (until you discover their secret, tragic backstory and fall head over heels for them) are here, ready to be used for humour and awesomeness in a new fic about your favourite star-crossed lovers. 'Unconventional Courtship' is a panfandom challenge that aims to produce fics longer than 1,000 words based on a Mills & Boon/Harlequin novel summary.
[Active with multiple posts in July.]

Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This batch features hobbies.

Makeup art is a hobby that spans branches such as facepainting, bodypainting, cosplay, special effects, theatrical makeup, drag, kink, otherkin, gyaru, boudoir, glamour, and more. It all depends on what you want to make up yourself or a playmate as.

On Dreamwidth, consider communities like daily_gyaru, edgoreyanfashion, justcreate, sw_costumes, andthefreaksclub.

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