#For mature pomegranate tree

[philoldendronindoor]

pomegranate

Pomegranate

The pomegranate is famously known as the fruit of heaven belongs to the berry family. Pomegranate fruit is a delicious fruit and has juicy grains inside. Grow pomegranates as large, shrub or small trees.

Types 

There are 1200 different varieties of pomegranate which have unique tastes and various colours. There are purple hearts, Eversweet, wonderful, kazake, red silk, texas pink.

Purple heart

Purple heart varieties are large with dark red. Fruits begin to produce at about 3 years old. Pick fruit off a tree when it is mature. These pomegranate plants grow 12-30 feet tall and wide. Provide lots of health benefits. They are the best immune boosters and good healers.

Eversweet

The color of the pomegranate is pinkish-pale red. Eversweet seeds are a little hard in texture and are highly nutritious containing vitamins A, C and E. Pomegranate trees are glossy, narrow leathery leaves which are lance-shaped. These varieties are self-pollinated. This is a national fruit of Iran.

Kazake

Kazake varieties produce medium to large size fruit. This is the most dwarfing species. This pomegranate plant is fast-growing with drought tolerant. This is a seeded fruit and it has a thick reddish outer covering. These flowers often fall off the branches rather than converting into fruit.

Red silk

Red silk is the best pot-growing variety, which is a semi-dwarf growth habit. It has dark red flesh and red arils. Grows trees in hot and dry climatic conditions. Its contain fibre which keeps our digestive system healthy.

Texas pink

Texas pink pomegranate plant produces attractive blooming which converts pink fruits. This variety is a famous ornamental fruit plant. Texas pink is a self-fertile plant. It has large edible seeds.

Wonderful pomegranate plant is the most common variety grown in the low desert of Arizona. Mix a teaspoon of natural honey in half a liter of water and spray directly on the flower with the help of a spray bottle. This will attract honey bees for pollination. This tip helps to increase the yield. This fruit is too sweet and highly beneficial.

Seed

In this Punica granatum fruit plant seeds are also edible. It contains vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. In average one fruits can hold 1000 seeds. Seeds are covered with glowing red skin.

Soil

For better growth and development prefers to grow in well-drained loamy soil. Soil mix with 80% bone meal and 20% neem cake.

Water

For mature pomegranate tree, adequate irrigation especially during the dry periods is very important to improve growth, fruit set, yield and fruit size. 

Sunlight

Select the location to keep the pomegranate plant with plenty of sunlight. In cooler climates, plant pome tree with western exposure. Requires 6 hours’ of direct sunlight.

Fertilizer

Good organic mulch and cow manure can improve plant growth and soil fertility. Application of vermicompost at monthly intervals.

Repotting 

Repot the plant into a new pot when the root bound occurs. Normally repot the plant for two to three years. 

Pruning

The best time for pome tree pruning is late winter, after harvesting the fruits. Branch pruning can increase fruit production. Pruning the roots will help to reduce root bound. Pruned the tree before repotting.

Benefits

Daily consumption of pome gives us strength and energy

Its contain fibre which keeps our digestive system healthy.

Punica granatum helps to increase appetite.

Punica granatum is highly beneficial for pregnant women.

Reduces pain in joints and arthritis.

Keep your earth clean and green...!

Pomegranate fruit plant

Blog created by: Santhionlineplants

[goldensunset]

GUESS WHO COMPLETELY BUNGLED THE FRUIT TREE THING IN STARDEW VALLEY!!!

[philodendronplant]

pomegranate

The pomegranate is famously known as the fruit of heaven belongs to the berry family. Pomegranate fruit is a delicious fruit and has juicy grains inside. Grow pomegranates as large, shrub or small trees.

Types 

There are 1200 different varieties of pomegranate which have unique tastes and various colours. There are purple hearts, Eversweet, wonderful, kazake, red silk, texas pink.

Purple heart

Purple heart varieties are large with dark red. Fruits begin to produce at about 3 years old. Pick fruit off a tree when it is mature. These pomegranate plants grow 12-30 feet tall and wide. Provide lots of health benefits. They are the best immune boosters and good healers.

Eversweet

The color of the pomegranate is pinkish-pale red. Eversweet seeds are a little hard in texture and are highly nutritious containing vitamins A, C and E. Pomegranate trees are glossy, narrow leathery leaves which are lance-shaped. These varieties are self-pollinated. This is a national fruit of Iran.

Kazake

Kazake varieties produce medium to large size fruit. This is the most dwarfing species. This pomegranate plant is fast-growing with drought tolerant. This is a seeded fruit and it has a thick reddish outer covering. These flowers often fall off the branches rather than converting into fruit.

Red silk

Red silk is the best pot-growing variety, which is a semi-dwarf growth habit. It has dark red flesh and red arils. Grows trees in hot and dry climatic conditions. Its contain fibre which keeps our digestive system healthy.

Texas pink

Texas pink pomegranate plant produces attractive blooming which converts pink fruits. This variety is a famous ornamental fruit plant. Texas pink is a self-fertile plant. It has large edible seeds.

Wonderful

Wonderful pomegranate plant is the most common variety grown in the low desert of Arizona. Mix a teaspoon of natural honey in half a liter of water and spray directly on the flower with the help of a spray bottle. This will attract honey bees for pollination. This tip helps to increase the yield. This fruit is too sweet and highly beneficial.

Seed

In this Punica granatum fruit plant seeds are also edible. It contains vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. In average one fruits can hold 1000 seeds. Seeds are covered with glowing red skin.

Soil

For better growth and development prefers to grow in well-drained loamy soil. Soil mix with 80% bone meal and 20% neem cake.

Water

For mature pomegranate tree, adequate irrigation especially during the dry periods is very important to improve growth, fruit set, yield and fruit size. 

Sunlight

Select the location to keep the pomegranate plant with plenty of sunlight. In cooler climates, plant pome tree with western exposure. Requires 6 hours’ of direct sunlight.

Fertilizer

Good organic mulch and cow manure can improve plant growth and soil fertility. Application of vermicompost at monthly intervals.

Repotting 

Repot the plant into a new pot when the root bound occurs. Normally repot the plant for two to three years. 

Pruning

The best time for pome tree pruning is late winter, after harvesting the fruits. Branch pruning can increase fruit production. Pruning the roots will help to reduce root bound. Pruned the tree before repotting.

Benefits

Daily consumption of pome gives us strength and energy

Its contain fibre which keeps our digestive system healthy.

Punica granatum helps to increase appetite.

Punica granatum is highly beneficial for pregnant women.

Reduces pain in joints and arthritis.

Keep your earth clean and green...!

Pomegranate fruit plant

Blog created by: Santhionlineplants

[cvlutos]

“Αγαπητή μου Περσεφόνη”

| Repost: 01.12.23 | 1.0K | Mature |

Idia Shroud X AFAB!Reader

| Dark Content | Yandere | Smut | Dom!Idia | Aggressive (?)| Food Sharing | Pomegranates | Etc. | Proceed with Caution, Dearest. |

He commends you for your bravery.

To walk through the quiet empty halls of Ignihyde without care and worry. A ripe pomegranate, heavy, within your palms as you slowly open the heavy doors to the throne room. There’s a shift in temperature and a man who seems less focused on your arrival, but more so on his nap. One eye lazily opens, peering at you curiously, the quirks of his lips rising. He shifts, leaning further back in his throne, hair of fiery blue, shifting ever so slightly.

“Have you brought me a gift…”

His voice is deep and raises goosebumps on your skin, stopping at the bottom of the stairs. It’s almost out of character with how confident he seems. You shake your head, ridding yourself of the thought and offering a smile. You had searched this empty and isolated castle for hours, finding nothing worth-wild til you stumbled across a beautiful pomegranate tree.

With only one ripe fruit. Only one.

You hold out your hands, offering the ruby red pomegranate as a gift. The room soon grows uncomfortably hot, the once cold floor not hot. A surprised yelp leaves your lips, jumping onto the stone staircase that leads to the king’s throne. You stare at him in surprise and your lips downturn. You knew that he disliked pomegranates, but you had no choice, but golden eyes seem to glare at you, yet a pale hand beckons you forward. Silently.

He commends you for your bravery.

You walk up to the steps, your heart thrumming heavily in your chest, the heat slowly becoming unbearable. Yet he says nothing to you as you reach him, holding out the pomegranate for him to take. Yet he doesn’t take it. He stares you over before eyeing the pomegranate.

You try to move back, try to find just a second of cold freezing air to stop yourself from sweating, yet his hand lashes out, dragging you forward, losing balance in your legs, your knees go crashing into the stone floor, a cry tumbling from your lips, face leaning into the fabric of his pants.

He grips your wrist, even as he speaks. Holding it high above your head. “You know that I don’t like pomegranates.” You can feel a bulge began to form, nudging your face as you look up at him. He releases you, but you don’t move, watching him easily break the pomegranate in half, spilling juice on his clothing and some on your face. Your hand slid to his lap, slowly rubbing your cheek against his growing bulge, letting out a low breath.

“Stand.”

You rise to your feet, watching the king hold the pomegranate out to you, “Bite.” And you do. Hands cradling his wrist to take a bite of the fruit, several pomegranate seeds resting on your tongue. He drops the fruit carelessly, leaning forward to harshly grab your stuffed cheeks, bringing your lips to his.

He’s aggressive. Forcing you onto his lap, his sharp teeth biting into your lips, almost drawing blood. Pomegranate juices flow from your lips as he pulls away to spit the multitude of seeds out. You’re dizzy, his hands pulling and tearing at your clothes, eyes completely hazed over. His name tumbled from your lips, feeling him kiss your skin, spreading pomegranate juice along the base of your neck and collar.

You swallow the remaining seeds subconsciously, your hands seizing him hopelessly, climbing onto his lap. His hands slid down to your waist, pulling you closer to him. Growling into your skin. “Please��” A short whimper falls from your lips, gripping at the fabric of his tunic.

Your skin shudders as he runs his tongue along the valley of your breasts, his nails digging into your sides. Incoherent words tumble from your lips.

Pomegranates. The fruit of death.

His hair is warm to the touch, your body shuddering, as Idia slowly rubs his cock head against your entrance. Your body shudders anxiously, desperate, nails digging into the flesh of his back, dragging a throaty groan from his lips.

The fruit of love and marriage.

Wife. The words burn your skin, feeling him sliding into you, a passionate cry tumbling from your lips. Your senses feel heightened—sensitive. As if someone altered them to their own liking. You asked him to marry you. You can feel him coating his cock head in your slick, prodding at your cunt. Before slowly sliding into you, creating a slight burn. He lets out a hiss, slipping through gritted teeth, your pussy squeezing him desperately.

Yellow eyes lock onto yours, urging you closer til he captures your lips in his. Just as the tip of his cock nudges your cervix. Swallowing a high-pitched cry. “Idia—” You sob into his mouth, shifting your hips, squeezing around his cock. Coating him in your sweet juices.

“[Name]—” He drags his cock out of you, feeling your walls clench and flutter, stopping to only his head remains. Your eyes flutter close, leaning your head against his shoulder. Holding your breath as your body stiffens in anticipation. Your slick sliding down the sides of his cock. “Breathe.“ A command. As you began to exhale, his cock thrusting back into you, a cry of shock slipping from your lips, almost biting your tongue. He laughs, leaning his forehead against your sticky neck. Slowly bouncing you on his cock, creating squelching and splattering cum on your thighs.

Your hands slid up to hold his shoulders, teeth digging into your bottom lip, quickening his pace desperately. He loves how wet you are, how much you squeeze him, begging for him to never stop. Your hips buck downward. His hands glided down to rub against your clit, your body shuddering, hips stuttering. You can feel a knot form in your gut, your cunt desperately squeezing like a vise. Earning a heated grunt from Idia, nails digging into your lower back.

“Πες πως με αγαπάς.”

—til the end of time

—til the earth unravels and leaves us, but nothingness in the never-ending void

—Our love shall remain

You can feel the knot snap, as he cums inside, gushing around his cock, spilling his seed greedily, mixing with yours. Your voice falls flat, a tiny whimper slipping from your lips, clinging to him hopelessly. Your body shaking and twitching. His chest heaves against yours, wrapping around your waist and slightly squeezing. He nuzzles his face against yours, letting the burning feeling of lust and desire sizzle into a cool fire of love. He plants a gentle kiss.

”Αγαπημένο μου Ρόδι.”

ⓒ 2023 love-thanatopsis — all rights reserved. Any sort of plagiarizing, copying, modifying, translating, editing of my works are strictly prohibited.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Earth Island Journal:

KOCHKOR KALDARBAEV REMEMBERS the forest of his childhood. It’s dense, with thickets of tall grass and brambles that make walking in a straight line impossible. Trees come in all shapes and sizes: spindly youngsters, stately elders, tiny seedlings peeking up through the forest floor. They come in all varieties, too, from hawthorn and maple to fruit-bearing trees like apple, pistachio, and plum. And everywhere you look, there’s the walnut: wide, smooth trunks branching off into bushy green canopies, with clusters of round fruits waiting to be cracked open to get at the creamy nut inside.

Kaldarbaev was born and raised in the village of Arslanbob in the mountains of southern Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation home to the world’s largest natural-growth walnut forest. Today the forest covers some 50 square miles of a fertile valley of the Tian Shan Mountain range, which stretches from Uzbekistan in the west to China and Mongolia in the east.

His father spent 40 years working for the then-Soviet government as a forestry officer tasked with keeping the forest healthy and managing how people used it — which then, as now, mostly involved harvesting walnuts, the region’s main source of income and a key ingredient of the local culture and traditions.

For centuries, every fall, the residents of Arslanbob and other villages dotting these mountains have left their homes and camped out in the dense forest, spending weeks shaking down the ripe nuts from the trees and collecting them by hand. Usually, this is an all-hands-on-deck job for entire families, including children. During harvest season, the walnuts make their way from local markets in the nearby city of Jalal-Abad to Europe and Asia, mostly along trade routes that once comprised the Silk Road.

But by 2012, Kaldarbaev could walk through the forest understory with relative ease. The thick undergrowth was mostly gone, as were the smaller, more immature trees, says the 51-year-old who followed in his father’s footsteps and became a government forester. Only the tall trunks of mature walnuts remained standing, spaced oddly far apart.

A similar fate afflicts much of Kyrgyzstan’s forests, which make up only about 6.2 percent of the country’s land area but are rich in biodiversity. Between 2001 and 2022, the mountainous nation lost 2,470 hectares (6,100 acres) of forest cover, mainly to deforestation, overgrazing, and desertification. In recent years, climate change and development have added to the pressures facing these forests, putting rare species like Malus niedzwetzkyana, or Niedzwetzky’s apple, and Pyrus korshinskyi, or Kazak plum, and Arslanbob’s iconic walnuts at risk.

This is bad news, not only for the villagers who depend on these natural fruit forests, but for the rest of the world as well. Many of the widely- loved varieties of fruits and nuts that we enjoy today — including apples, almonds, pistachios, pomegranates, plums, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears, and, walnuts — originated from the wild species found in Arslanbob and other temperate montane forests of this region of Central Asia. At a time when domesticated strains of many of these trees are becoming increasingly susceptible to disease, these forests of crop wild relatives are a valuable genetic resource that could be critical for food security in the future.

[farmobileo3]

Pot marigolds are in bloom. I can’t believe we planted fruit trees almost 2 years ago and they are healthy and growing strong . We planted fig, peach, plum, lemon, guava and papaya. The courtyard already had a mature pomegranate and loquat tree. I can’t wait until we can have a fruit picking event in the future 😋

[allgirlsareprincesses]

The Fairy Tale Brides of Willow (2022)

An Analysis of Chapter 6: Prisoners of Skellin based on ATU-408: The Three Oranges or The Fruit Maiden

Adapted from my Twitter thread

As @whattheforce mentioned in our recent podcast episode around 21:47, a prominent theme of this chapter was Thirst, and the desperation and poor choices that result from thirst of the spirit as well as the body.

This is also a main theme in the Fruit Maiden tale, where a prince cuts open three oranges (or lemons, pomegranates, apples, and even eggs) to reveal a maiden who begs him for water. The first two die when he fails to offer a drink, but the third survives and becomes his bride. Next, a false bride appears to impersonate the fairy bride and steal the prince. The fairy wife is transformed into a bird or fish, and she is cast into a well, a pond, or sometimes is even cooked on the order of the false bride. After her death, an orange tree grows at the place where she was buried or cast aside, and when the prince next cuts open a fruit from the tree, his true bride emerges and the false bride is punished for her impersonation.

In #Willow Ch6, we have several characters suffering thirst of body and soul, or replacing/impersonating others: Kit, Elora, Airk, and Hot!Crone. Taken with existing themes of consumption and rebirth, fruit maidens and imposter Maidens abound.

Kit Tanthalos is desperate to find her father Madmartigan, or at least find proof that he loved her more than Elora. This desperation leads her to nearly throw herself through the door to the otherworld, and eventually she *dies* from this unquenched thirst.

In fact, Elora hears Kit's desperate call for the spiritual water of truth twice before facing her a third time, when she literally casts her into the fiery lake. In this instance Elora is both the false bride who has replaced Kit, and the prince who will cut her free. In some versions of the tale, the false bride looks into the water and mistakes the true bride's reflection for her own. Elora has usurped Kit's role as Madmartigan's daughter and Airk's rescuer, and sees that reflected back at her as Kit struggles beneath the lake's surface.

Now, Kit has *died* and is floating in Elora's *womb.* Elora must cut open the fruit so that Kit might be reborn and Elora will finally see the aspect of her own psyche that Kit represents: her imposter syndrome, the belief that she can/should not be the Chosen One. Kit will then be restored to her rightful place as the true maiden hero: carrying on Madmartigan's legacy in the Kymerian Cuirass, rescuing Airk to atone for her dismissal of him, and uniting with her faithful lover Jade.

Airk meanwhile wanders the wasteland, ignoring not only his own thirst but the calls of the Crone as she tries to entice him into union with her. Eventually, his desperation wins out over his sense, and he drinks the cursed elixir. And no sooner does he *cut open the fruit* than the false bride appears, the Hot!Crone wearing a fair face who innocently asks to be released. Now the whole kingdom is at risk until the true maidens (Kit and Elora) reappear to reveal the Crone's true face.

Hunger, thirst, and desperation of spirit have led our heroes to their breaking points. Now they must confront the masks they wear and drink or bathe in the water of truth so that they can be reborn in wholeness.

Notes for further reading: Pretty much every version of this tale contains overt racism: anti-Black, anti-Roma, or antisemitic. False bride tales are consistently problematic for this reason and should be approached with caution, maturity, and a critical lens.

Sources:

In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender by Barbara Fass Leavy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_for_Three_Oranges_(fairy_tale)

[dhr-ao3]

The Serpent Deceived Me

The Serpent Deceived Me https://ift.tt/k5Bwu4d by ohthedrarry “What have you done?” Lucius spit out those same words he’d shouted at Draco all those years ago with equal venom and spite. “The serpent deceived me!” If Draco had been any less of a fallen angel, he might have felt his heart shatter. “I ate the fruit, but only because he lied to me!” Or: Draco, bored with exile from Heaven and curious about the woman his father made from Harry's own rib, slides into the Garden of Eden with one goal in mind: to make Hermione eat the pomegranate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and ruin her for his own enjoyment. Instead, he finds himself losing a lot more than he bargained for. A re-telling of the story of Original Sin from the Old Testament. Words: 4152, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: F/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Lucius Malfoy, Harry Potter, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Additional Tags: inspired by religion, Biblical Scripture References (Abrahamic Religions), Original Sin - Freeform, The story of Adam and Eve, Lucius as God, Draco as Satan, Harry as Adam, Hermione as Eve, Pansy as Lilith, Blaise as Uriel, Theo as Gabriel, Deception, Porn With Plot, Some Plot, Explicit Sexual Content, Dubious Consent, Cunnilingus, Vaginal Fingering, Vaginal Sex via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/q1giZb8 June 08, 2023 at 01:13AM

[phildendron]

pomegranate

Pomegranate

The pomegranate is famously known as the fruit of heaven belongs to the berry family. Pomegranate fruit is a delicious fruit and has juicy grains inside. Grow pomegranates as large, shrub or small trees.

Types 

There are 1200 different varieties of pomegranate which have unique tastes and various colours. There are purple hearts, Eversweet, wonderful, kazake, red silk, texas pink.

Purple heart

Purple heart varieties are large with dark red. Fruits begin to produce at about 3 years old. Pick fruit off a tree when it is mature. These pomegranate plants grow 12-30 feet tall and wide. Provide lots of health benefits. They are the best immune boosters and good healers.

Eversweet

The color of the pomegranate is pinkish-pale red. Eversweet seeds are a little hard in texture and are highly nutritious containing vitamins A, C and E. Pomegranate trees are glossy, narrow leathery leaves which are lance-shaped. These varieties are self-pollinated. This is a national fruit of Iran.

Kazake

Kazake varieties produce medium to large size fruit. This is the most dwarfing species. This pomegranate plant is fast-growing with drought tolerant. This is a seeded fruit and it has a thick reddish outer covering. These flowers often fall off the branches rather than converting into fruit.

Red silk

Red silk is the best pot-growing variety, which is a semi-dwarf growth habit. It has dark red flesh and red arils. Grows trees in hot and dry climatic conditions. Its contain fibre which keeps our digestive system healthy.

Texas pink

Texas pink pomegranate plant produces attractive blooming which converts pink fruits. This variety is a famous ornamental fruit plant. Texas pink is a self-fertile plant. It has large edible seeds.

Wonderful

Wonderful pomegranate plant is the most common variety grown in the low desert of Arizona. Mix a teaspoon of natural honey in half a liter of water and spray directly on the flower with the help of a spray bottle. This will attract honey bees for pollination. This tip helps to increase the yield. This fruit is too sweet and highly beneficial.

Seed

In this Punica granatum fruit plant seeds are also edible. It contains vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. In average one fruits can hold 1000 seeds. Seeds are covered with glowing red skin.

Soil

For better growth and development prefers to grow in well-drained loamy soil. Soil mix with 80% bone meal and 20% neem cake.

Water

For mature pomegranate tree, adequate irrigation especially during the dry periods is very important to improve growth, fruit set, yield and fruit size. 

Sunlight

Select the location to keep the pomegranate plant with plenty of sunlight. In cooler climates, plant pome tree with western exposure. Requires 6 hours’ of direct sunlight.

Fertilizer

Good organic mulch and cow manure can improve plant growth and soil fertility. Application of vermicompost at monthly intervals.

Repotting 

Repot the plant into a new pot when the root bound occurs. Normally repot the plant for two to three years. 

Pruning

The best time for pome tree pruning is late winter, after harvesting the fruits. Branch pruning can increase fruit production. Pruning the roots will help to reduce root bound. Pruned the tree before repotting.

Benefits

Daily consumption of pome gives us strength and energy

Its contain fibre which keeps our digestive system healthy.

Punica granatum helps to increase appetite.

Punica granatum is highly beneficial for pregnant women.

Reduces pain in joints and arthritis.

Keep your earth clean and green...!

[vegaistrying]

Third time is the charm?

The Charm farm in the end of spring one

So, I just finished Spring in my third attempt to complete the Community Center in Year One! This time things are going a bit smoother, finally had some luck and on day 3 the Red Cabbage showed up in the Merchant and day 8 a fairy made some just planted stuff get ready, which allowed me to get the Coop going very early. I didn't forget about the trees this time and decided to wait until Summer 15 to try and get them cheap with the Merchant and on the 28th I got the Pomegranate one for 4500g! No luck with the Apple Sapling yet tho

On this note, I'm hoping to get the Rabbit's Foot and a Truffle from the Merchant as well because 8k on a rabbit and 16k on a pig is way too expensive for this challenge, and overall imo. The pig I get because Truffles are very worth it in the long run, but I really don't get rabbits besides them being cute. Will I get one in the future? Yes since this is a completionist farm, but if I can avoid paying for them now, I will.

Not that getting money is hard, last try I was able to easily get fully upgraded Barn with 2 pigs and a Big Coop full of ducks by half of Autumn at the same time that I finished the Vault, I just really don't feel like fishing that much if I don't have to lol. So I will wait for the Truffle and Rabbit's Foot until Autumn 10, which should be enough to get the items in time.

I have a bit of a pet peeve with the rabbit because on my first try at this challenge I didn't make it in time because of it. I bought the damn rabbit at the last days of Autumn, after the foot not showing up in the Merchant for 2 whole seasons (making it 3 by the end of Winter), it matured early Winter but didn't drop the item in time even with the required friendship. On day 2, Spring 2 the rabbit dropped it. I was so pissed and burntout (me and my cat where super sick so playing was an hyperfocus to scape anxiety, which meant unhealthy amounts of hours played) I wasn't able to play the game for 6 months after. So yeah, I will not take much chances this time.

Back to the current run, this is how thing are going! I love having the spreadsheet to help organize my thoughts, even if soma stuff (like the fish and trees) are a bit messy lol

So latter today I will begin the summer. The plan is to focus on the tools upgrades to be able to get into the Secret Woods and take that Fiddlehead Fern, and also get the dirt space of the farm clean and covered with sprinklers so I have more free time in Autumn to get all the money and stuff I need to fully upgrade the House, Coop and Barn.

Really feeling more confident in this run and exited to finish this challenge and start the less strict completionist stuff. After some painfully frustrating stuff that happened in my life this week I really can take a win in the silly farming game that I love so much to make me feel better.

Thanks for reading this far <3

[thepomegranatewitch]

Today’s work at The Fifth Acre:

remove filaree from two patches, transplant baby chard, dig shrine garden path, plant grocery seed saved kabocha in a dandelion zone as cover crop, empty clean decomposed granite slurry from sandbags into shrine garden path. It’s more of a purple blue than gray in person. Now: to rest!

Slowly moving towards more food sovereignty and better soil.

Image description. Two slides. Slide one shows a grayish sand path meandering through a 15 foot garden with cover crop, pomegranate and yucca trees, and mature chard and blooming broccoli in front of a gray wall. Slide two a garden bed defined by concrete steps in background and in ground wood on two sides with four inch and smaller chard plants planted in a zigzag. Blooming sourflower and california poppy buds are visible.

[tariqchosenone]

Song of Beauty

A woman shall look like a mannequin smooth and perfect, glossy kin and a narrow tree and voluptuous pomegranate cheek, painted like the color of a rose.

Mountains of Zion and Lebanon shall arise from her chest and her hair will be akin to the finest perfumes of holiness and glory.

Her vineyard is consistently pruned and all the fruit are ripe, young, healthy, and no acid shall arise from the juices. Only the juice of red spiced wine.

This is a beautiful woman.

Only a warrior that has been through a long hard war with battle scars and has achieved the mark of blood with the arrow and bullet is worthy of this woman.

His ointment will be Gucci and Versace and he will be strong and have the spirit of a strong tall mature tree and its leaves will be blessed and prosper until the end of  ages.

A holy and righteous cow is blessed, the skinny Lamb and Goat is beautiful in its own right but the secret is the fat calf with a large lily at the tip.

Skin and bones is Lamb, a man can not be pleased with a dinner of skin and bones.

A true warrior that is full of strength and the sturdiness with trees wants a large and fat and obese dinner.

A fat and large cow is blessed. Forsake the skinny lamb.

All praise to the maidens that listen to Lizzo and Megan Trainor.

[zerogate]

As early as 50 C.E., the theologian Philo cautioned against a literal interpretation of the Garden of Eden, writing, “To think that it here meant that God planted vines, or olive trees, or apple trees, or pomegranates, and any trees of such kinds, is mere incurable folly.”

The fourth-century Christian thinker St. Ephraem, in his Hymns on Paradise, similarly cautioned that, “It is with the eye of the mind that I saw paradise...” But theologians who argued for a symbolic reading of “the divine garden” remained a distinct minority. St. Augustine registered the conflicting points of view. “Some interpret [Paradise] in an exclusively corporeal sense,” he wrote. Others give it “an exclusively spiritual meaning,” and still others take it in both senses, “sometimes corporeally and at other times spiritually...” St. Augustine personally favored the literal reading, and shaped the convictions of later generations of Christian theologians who maintained that the earthly paradise had not disappeared, but had only become inaccessible as a result of mankind’s fall from grace.

Centuries later, in 1617, John Salkeld synthesized prevailing views on the reality of the Garden of Eden in his work A Treatise on Paradise and the Principle Contents Thereof. Relying on theological authorities such as St. Augustine, Salkeld set out to prove that the earthly paradise was “a real and corporeal place” and not merely metaphysical. Catholic dogma at the time supported the same literalist point of view, insisting that descriptions of Paradise were “not allegory but history.”John Calvin, the sixteenth-century Protestant reformer, similarly declared that the Garden of Eden was “situated on the Earth, not as some dream in the air.”

In the fifth century St. Augustine admitted that, “It is probable that man has no idea where Paradise was.” Medieval geographers located the lost garden everywhere from the North Pole to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, although the prevailing Church view held that the earthly paradise lay “in the east,” in the regions of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers or in the farthest reaches of Asia, at a great height so as to have been unaffected by the waters of the flood. Like Yangsang, the terrestrial paradise was described as a place of eternal spring, neither hot nor cold and filled with fruit-bearing trees and healing waters. Early in the eighth century, St. John Damascene wrote that Eden “was temperate in climate and bright with the softest and purest of air. It was luxurient with ever-blooming plants, filled with fragrances, flooded with light, and surpassing all conception of sensible fairness and beauty.”

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The belief in a geographical paradise persisted widely until the end of the seventeenth century when the Church conveniently declared that the Garden had been erased from the surface of the planet by the Great Flood. The question then remained not where Paradise lay, but what it meant. Although the expulsion from Paradise is the core western myth, the notion of the fall was a later accretion.

At the end of the second century, Christian writings by St. Theophilas of Antioch and St. Irenaeus reveal an understanding of the story of Genesis prior to the invention of original sin. According to these erudite bishops, Eden was “a means of advancement” for “maturing and becoming perfect.” The eating of the fruit of knowledge did not condemn humankind to suffering, but the act of disobedience ultimately furthered its maturity and capacity to perfect itself. Eden was thus not so much a perfect place, but a place where being could be perfected. Mankind’s departure from the enclosing walls of Paradise and its bucolic luxuries led the first couple to become all that they could be. As the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in 1785, it was a necessary transition from an unreflective, animal state to one of full humanity. Freedom, he suggested, begins when the nostalgia for a perfect place ends and one embraces the present moment. 

Nonetheless, Paradise persisted as a perennial dream and an incentive to geographical discovery. The religious dissidents who abandoned a repressive Europe for North America discovered what seemed a blessed land, where history could begin anew. They described New England as being “like the Garden of Eden, a new Eden.” In a more literal sense, when Columbus sailed close to the isthmus of the Orinoco in South America, he believed he had discovered one of the four rivers that issue from Eden. As he wrote to Queen Isabella of Spain during his third expedition, “I believe that the earthly paradise lies here.. which no man can enter except by God’s leave.”

The belief in Eden, the widespread conviction of an impending apocalypse, and the desire for gold and fortune led to voyages of discovery in which explorers saw in the lands that opened before them the shape of a lost paradise. Following Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci (1499-1502) surveyed the coast of Surinam and Brazil and wrote that: “If the earthy paradise exists anywhere on earth, I think it must not be very far from this area.”

Yet as D. H. Lawrence recognized, to believe in Paradise was to consign oneself to Purgatory, to be forever seeking something beyond the horizon, beyond life itself. “Why pin ourselves down on a paradisal ideal?” he wrote in 1953. “It is only ourselves we torture... Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss.”

--  Ian Baker, The Heart of the World 

[littlecarnet]

So today happened to be full of my mom...

I live pretty far from society, so getting a knock on my door is super rare. What greeted me was a delivery man with a form to sign to hand over two trees. I thought it was a mistake at first but when I saw my mom's name on the address, nope. I had them bring the trees around the back to the yard and they went on their way.

The trees are a young fig and olive, they came with a card, these were a gift from my mom's orchard down south. That much I could guess. Back when I lived with her, her and dad, before he passed away, created a really beautiful garden that had olives, figs, peaches, apricots, pomegranates, plums, apples, pears, pecans, and I forget what else. I recreated a tiny version of that in my yard. I guess she thought she'd help me out with cuttings from her mature trees.

I appreciate it, I just got shocked that she'd literally send me trees. They are pretty cute I admit, but sadly that olive won't survive in the colder region I'm in, it'll have to be strictly inside. I realized she's going to turn me into her. She has trees inside her house too, mainly citrus. I'll bet they're already in full bloom.

This reminds me of a funny story from my childhood.

It was a very hot summer, too hot to go to the beach, so my mom put a pool inside the house, complete with real palm trees. It was probably the weirdest thing I've woken up to in my life. This set up just popped outta nowhere. My brother woke up and was super excited, and they wasted no time swimming. My dad came home, and he wasn't even phased by this. In his words " She's done weirder". However he did bring up how she was going to drain the water. As usual, she always did these things on impluse, but my dad thankfully had a plan and siphoned it out through the patio door when we needed to refresh it and eventually dismantle it. We kept that pool for a month. It was nice. Weird but nice.

Later, she'd turn the room into a campsite... That's a whole other story. Lol

She also included a recipe for her melitzanes papoutsakia. I've been craving that since I visited her in December. I've tried my own but just doesn't taste like her's. My falafel does though! The trick is putting just a bit of sesame oil in it.

[chewablepebbles]

So far I have mature pear, pomegranate, and fig trees. Saplingwise I have mulberry, lychee, longan, and cherry. My apple and peach trees did not survive the summer due to the lack of acclimation. I'm hoping to retry those and get in some oranges, persimmons, pawpaws and rambutans this year because it's supposed to be a slower start to the heat. I'm excited for the mulberries because they were cuttings from my neighbor, so they should be fine and also produce a lot once they mature since there are nearby trees.

[quransurahverses]

6:140

Lost indeed are those who have murdered their own children foolishly out of ignorance and have forbidden what Allah has provided for them—falsely attributing lies to Allah. They have certainly strayed and are not ˹rightly˺ guided.

6:141

He is the One Who produces gardens—both cultivated and wild[1]—and palm trees, crops of different flavours, olives, and pomegranates—similar ˹in shape˺, but dissimilar ˹in taste˺. Eat of the fruit they bear and pay the dues at harvest, but do not waste. Surely He does not like the wasteful.

[1] Or trellised and untrellised.

6:142

Some cattle are fit for labour, others are too small.[1] Eat of what Allah has provided for you and do not follow Satan’s footsteps. Certainly, he is your sworn enemy.

[1] Strong cattle like camels and oxen can be used for labour, whereas smaller ones like goats and sheep are not suitable for labour but are good for their meat, milk, hide, etc.

6:143

˹Allah has created˺ four pairs: a pair of sheep and a pair of goats—ask ˹them, O  Prophet˺, “Has He forbidden ˹to you˺ the two males or the two females or what is in the wombs of the two females? Tell me with knowledge, if what you say is true.”—

6:144

and a pair of camels and a pair of oxen. Ask ˹them˺, “Has He forbidden ˹to you˺ the two males or the two females or what is in the wombs of the two females? Or were you present when Allah gave you this commandment?” Who does more wrong than those who fabricate lies against Allah to mislead others without ˹any˺ knowledge? Surely Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.

6:145

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden to eat except carrion, running blood, swine—which is impure—or a sinful offering in the name of any other than Allah. But if someone is compelled by necessity—neither driven by desire nor exceeding immediate need—then surely your Lord is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”

6:146

For those who are Jewish, We forbade every animal with undivided hoofs and the fat of oxen and sheep except what is joined to their backs or intestines or mixed with bone. In this way We rewarded them for their violations. And We are certainly truthful.

6:147

But if they deny you ˹O Prophet˺, say, “Your Lord is infinite in mercy, yet His punishment will not be averted from the wicked people.”

6:148

The polytheists will argue, “Had it been Allah’s Will, neither we nor our forefathers would have associated others with Him ˹in worship˺ or made anything unlawful.” Likewise, those before them rejected the truth until they tasted Our punishment. Ask ˹them, O  Prophet˺, “Do you have any knowledge that you can produce for us? Surely you follow nothing but ˹false˺ assumptions and you do nothing but lie.”

6:149

Say, “Allah has the most conclusive argument. Had it been His Will, He would have easily imposed guidance upon all of you.”

6:150

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Bring your witnesses who can testify that Allah has forbidden this.” If they ˹falsely˺ testify, do not testify with them. And do not follow the desires of those who deny Our proofs, disbelieve in the Hereafter, and set up equals with their Lord.

6:151

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Come! Let me recite to you what your Lord has forbidden to you: do not associate others with Him ˹in worship˺. ˹Do not fail to˺ honour your parents. Do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for you and for them. Do not come near indecencies, openly or secretly. Do not take a ˹human˺ life—made sacred by Allah—except with ˹legal˺ right.[1] This is what He has commanded you, so perhaps you will understand.

[1] For example, in retaliation for intentional killing through legal channels.

6:152

And do not come near the wealth of the orphan—unless intending to enhance it—until they attain maturity. Give full measure and weigh with justice. We never require of any soul more than what it can afford. Whenever you speak,[1] maintain justice—even regarding a close relative. And fulfil your covenant with Allah. This is what He has commanded you, so perhaps you will be mindful.

[1] i.e., when you testify or judge.

6:153

Indeed, that is My Path—perfectly straight. So follow it and do not follow other ways, for they will lead you away from His Way. This is what He has commanded you, so perhaps you will be conscious ˹of Allah˺.”

6:154

Additionally, We gave Moses the Scripture, completing the favour upon those who do good, detailing everything, and as a guide and a mercy, so perhaps they would be certain of the meeting with their Lord.

6:155

This is a blessed Book We have revealed. So follow it and be mindful ˹of Allah˺, so you may be shown mercy.

6:156

You ˹pagans˺ can no longer say, “Scriptures were only revealed to two groups before us and we were unaware of their teachings.”

6:157

Nor can you say, “If only the Scriptures had been revealed to us, we would have been better guided than they.” Now there has come to you from your Lord a clear proof[1]—a guide and mercy. Who then does more wrong than those who deny Allah’s revelations and turn away from them? We will reward those who turn away from Our revelations with a dreadful punishment for turning away.

[1] i.e., the Quran.

6:158

Are they awaiting the coming of the angels, or your Lord ˹Himself˺, or some of your Lord’s ˹major˺ signs? On the Day your Lord’s signs arrive, belief will not benefit those who did not believe earlier or those who did no good through their faith.[1] Say, “Keep waiting! We too are waiting.”

[1] This refers to disobedient believers who neither did any good nor repented before the time of their death or the arrival of the Day of Judgment. This is supported by authentic narrations from the Prophet (ﷺ).

6:159

Indeed, you ˹O Prophet˺ are not responsible whatsoever for those who have divided their faith and split into sects. Their judgment rests only with Allah. And He will inform them of what they used to do.

6:160

Whoever comes with a good deed will be rewarded tenfold. But whoever comes with a bad deed will be punished for only one. None will be wronged.

6:161

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Surely my Lord has guided me to the Straight Path, a perfect way, the faith of Abraham, the upright, who was not one of the polytheists.”

6:162

Say, “Surely my prayer, my sacrifice, my life, and my death are all for Allah—Lord of all worlds.

6:163

He has no partner. So I am commanded, and so I am the first to submit.”

6:164

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Should I seek a lord other than Allah while He is the Lord of everything?” No one will reap except what they sow. No soul burdened with sin will bear the burden of another. Then to your Lord is your return, and He will inform you of your differences.

6:165

He is the One Who has placed you as successors on earth and elevated some of you in rank over others, so He may test you with what He has given you. Surely your Lord is swift in punishment, but He is certainly All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.