#Bolting

[thestudentfarmer]

Hello and Good Day everyone!

I hope everyone has been well and has been able to work in their garden or towards any of their sustainable, self-sufficient or homestead journey this week :)

We've started getting what might be monsoon weather coming in. (Mostly just wind though. Some dirt. No rain though :'( )

The carrots I left to grow seed did some toppling.

They were about 5+ ft tall (almost as tall as me!). Kind looks like someone sat down in between 'em and pushed em over lol

I've done a bit of doctoring to raise them up a bit. But not everyone was save-able. I knew a few weren't gonna make it, so i Figured I'd take the opportunity to show different stages of carrot flowers real close :)

This is one of the unfortunate carrots I couldn't save. I was working on propping and heard it snap in the soil.

Check out that fat taproot! My soils isn't too deep (pipe concerns.) So I'm pretty sure it woulda been fine if the soil was deeper. I plan on cutting this open to show the different inner parts later :) I will not be eating this carrot, but instead will be giving it to my chickens.

This is the stem, it was about an inch round and at full height was about 4 ft tall.

The circled part I believe is called an intercalary node, the link below has more in depth info if you are curious and want to look up or know more :)

https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/intercalary-meristem

This pic has a few different flowering stages.

Some quick info,

A carrot flower is called an umbel and is a type of compound flower.

Each flower on the tip of the umbrella shaped structure has 5 petals and are white in color. (Thes petals fall off when they begin developing seeds)

The kinda scraggly looking umbell in the center is losing its flower petals and seed is starting to come in! 🥳 as seed develops id suggest getting some organza bags or similar to keep them from falling to the ground. I still need to get some myself.

They, to me don't have much scent but are very pretty! And the variety of pollinators in the area love them.

Plenty of bees, unfortunatly I haven't been able to catch pics of the butterflies yet!

And flies! I had to look it up but flies are pollinators species. Guess no fly traps in the garden for now.

And one last pic for today, this one's not a carrot but chard! I've not yet seen chard go to seed so this will be a fun learning experience :)

Definitely bolting action going on.

Bolting is when the weather changes too fast (usually seen when it gets too hot) and the plant panics and tries to seed as fast as it can.

I'll be keeping and eye on it and posting as it changes :)

That's it for now everyone, I hope you all ahve an amazing weekend!

🌱🥕Happy Seed saving! 🥕🌱

5 4 2023

[astonishing-andress]

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[boltlightning]

when a brit is playing an american and it's getting really emotional and the actor is holding onto those hard r sounds by their fuckin fingernails

[felidaeng]

a trio of beastiesss

(edit because i didn't expect these to blow up: these are pokesonas, not redesigns! i like the paradox trio 😌)

[dykealloy]

what do you mean jennifer saunder's shrek 2 cover of Holding Out for a Hero didn't play over the entirety of dressrosa arc

[lokh]

guess who just finished their taz balance relisten

[its-where-the-wild-things-are]

[oddthesungod]

Shocking! ⚡️

[gatorsportsfan]

Monmouth football transfer tracker: Receiver Dymere Miller bolting. is Jaden Shirden next?

Monmouth football transfer tracker: Receiver Dymere Miller bolting. is Jaden Shirden next? Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement

[gertrudegluttony]

Still Meaty And Cute ☺️🥩