#The volunteer tomato
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#quentin coldwater#alice quinn#jane chatwin#Ember and umber#Fillory#the magicians#magicians s1#magicianssyfy#The volunteer tomato#Hero complex#nosidekickspod
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For a few reasons, I wasn't going to grow tomatoes this year.
Then I added some compost to a few beds to help refresh them.
Apparently there were many tomato seeds in that compost.
Now I am growing around 200 tomato plants, but not all will survive.
Let the tomato Hunger Games begin!!!
#gardeners on tumblr#vegetables#gardening#home grown#self sufficiency#plants#tomatoes#self seeded#volunteer plants#compost
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I'm not gatekeeping, I just have some gates and I've sort of vaguely known they're there, I haven't kept them and the hinges are so rusty i doubt they'd close if I tried. But, like, for ages all that came through those gates were stray geese and a dog I think belongs to a neighbor but might just belong to himself and of course there's the hunching afflicted wrathbeast. That's just having a garden. Things grow there and random folks stumble in sometimes, mispronounce the names of my favorite varietals, say stunningly inaccurate things about them, and wander bemusedly back out.
As a surprise to probably no one I was a deeply lonely child. No one really got me or what my deal was, so when I found something I loved it was mine and mine alone to treasure. As I got older I found other people who liked 'my' things. Some of those people were horrible! But there was a kinship and it was okay to be a bit horrible so long as we could be odd together. Gardens are resilient things, they tolerate mistakes and abuse. It's absolutely wonderful to share, to dance to the same music, that imperfection becomes part of the joy of it, becomes a unique thing unto itself.
So imagine my shock when there is a garden party that rapidly becomes a festival. No one has ever really been here before, it's been me and the geese and that one dog and a few other weirdos. Suddenly my things, things people beat me for loving, are things everyone loves. All at once the landscape is unrecognizable and if I acknowledge that then I'm being a hipster. I don't mind the festival, it's nice, now it's much easier to get things I need without having to put on my trekking gear and hike out to the one obscure location that has The Supplies. It's not bad, it's just weird. It feels like there is something wrong with me instead of something wrong about liking what I like.
I'm not really talking about one specific thing here, there have been a lot of these moments where what used to be unusual or even shameful is now the big thing. And it's good, it's can be great sometimes even with the unforeseen bizarre bad parts. But there is this selfish little part of me that wants to cling to my unloved love, to put a raggedy LP on a barely working record player and lay on the wooden floor of my childhood home staring at a painting of a ship in a storm that is right beside a picture of a young man in a cap and a too large jacket and listen to sea shanties belted out by people not very good at singing while I drift and drift and drift away on the sound and the whitecaps to a place where there is only this. I love the new versions like a drowning man loves air, I am happy that people have found this beautiful thing and can enjoy it, but there is a tinge to it I don't like. A prick of pain every time I see this joy over my joy, over my joy that I was punished for, humiliated for, shamed for. I'm glad people can love these things without suffering but it makes my suffering seem so fucking stupid.
There is a certain temptation, a bitter agony, that makes me want to hiss like an abused cat and cling jealous to my silly little toys. It's not that I want them all for myself, it's that I can't let go of that little kid with a bruisy eye sulking because no one wants to play with him. It's the whisper of, "We can be friends but only in secret. I don't want people to know I'm like you." It's the enthusiasm that rapidly becomes muted because the whole world is demanding to know why you can't just be normal for once. But that same temptation to lash out is the one that makes me reach out my hand instead, especially to people who are like, "Wow! I've never been to a garden before. I'm gonna screw this up. How do I not screw it up?" because now they're that bruisy eyed kid no one wants to play with. I can't protect the person I used to be by becoming the exact thing that hurt me. Gotta keep the gate open, gotta get used to new things even if it takes noise cancelling headphones and an entirely rational amount of backsliding, gotta wake up every day and keep trying even though the world keeps throwing curveballs that no sane person could anticipate. It's all okay. We're in this together and we're all gonna be okay,
#ramble#personal#it's my birthday#the landscaping folks killed quentin#quentin was my volunteer tomato#my personal support worker might be dead bc we had a meeting at noon and it is 4:30 and zero0 texts#i have an unfathomable sadness to me#it is like a monster sitting on my chest‚ one that is large and heavy#this is the first diary essay thing in a long time but as I said in the post i am backsliding#podcasts are one of the weirdest things I'm a hipster about#because my dad had this crinkly cellophane case full of cassette tapes of the HHGTTG radio play#and another case full of _The Shadow_#which made me the only third grader in possibly the world who regularly used the phrase “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?”#I also listened to a recorded TTRPG game in fucking 2011#The Drunk and The Ugly#specifically their Little Fears campaign and their Maid RPG one shot#i'm also having basically a weird meltdown over DID and multiplicity for reasons i cannot get into at all#but i am gonna have to tell my therapist that either Internal Family Systems is very good for me or else extremely bad for me#one of those two and zero inbetween#grey areas are for chumps and losers#i do not want to pathologize this one highly specific aspect of myself#only one person remembered it was my birthday#in all the world i am so lucky to have a person who remembers my birthday and cares
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I love when a manga is just a thinly veiled loving explanation of a the intricacies of a real job.
#the one I’m reading now is about a female knight who gets isekai’d to Japan on a farm and is learning all about#how produce goes from farm to grocery store#the art is really pretty#Then there’s that one that’s all about the Japanese public library system and the delinquent who volunteers at the library#The is shit should be anime for pbs for real#I’ve never wanted to eat a tomato more in my life
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Helped prepare tomatoes and bell peppers for freeze drying today.
Went by pretty quick since I have gotten more used to the routine.
Also got to go into the walk in freezer again. I needed that.
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10.18.23 • 🎃🍃🍁🍅
#personal#keeping chickens#volunteer gardens#cherry tomatoes#natureblr#plantblr#pumpkins#chicken coop
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I found an interesting, faintly thorny plant with delicately pale purple flower growing around my compost. After a little searching I identified it as Solanum carolinense, commonly called "Carolina Horsenettle", but also affectionately referred to as "the Apple of Sodom" or "the Devil's Tomato". I am still a fairly miserable gardener, but I have been blessed with the favor of nightshades.
#i would pay you to take some of my tomato volunteers#nightshade#toxic plant#native plants#poison path
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This is why grandpa likes me. Yes he's 90 and has alzheimer's. But I don't baby him. My mother in law said there's bananas here, and to slice one up in his cereal. If you ask him he'll say no, but if they're just put into the bowl he'll eat it.
What the fuck. I give the guy choices. Hey good morning sunshine it's time for breakfast. Here's your favorite cereal but you need more than that. I can add a banana to it, or a side of yogurt with fresh blueberries or a glass of V8. After you're done with coffee you need to hydrate so do you want sparkling water or flat?
#I used to volunteer at a nursing home as a teen#Seriously treating people like this as something more than toddlers goes a long way#V8 is a tomato based veggie juice for those who don't have it in their country#It's honestly my go to for breakfast
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I got a lot done! Managed to get one box completely weeded. The fava beans were still alive under all the weeds, so i picked some of the bigger ones (and the ones that broke off during weeding) to give to my stepmom, since she's the reason I planted them :>
#fun times ahead#sama's gardening adventures#the ground is extremely wet so#not ideal but!#those weeds are BIG#so the extremely soft dirt was needed#whenever i do it when it dries out more it's infinitely harder#i think i'll try to do the other box tomorrow#see if my tomatoes will start volunteering as they always do lol#got about 100 pots indoors of seeds that might or might not grow#and need to plant beans out in the boxes#yey a good day#scratch on me aaaaarm time for bandaids
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OTP this, OTP that. My OTP for Mikoto isn't KamiKoto or MikoKuro or MikoMisa or MikoHaru or MikoTen-- can you tell I don't know the ship names for the last two?
It's Mikoto x Communication
#tomato rambles#to aru#raildex#misaka mikoto#having her rely on others goes without saying#yes yes we all know that#what *I* want is#someone get this girl someone to lecture her on magic#and make her sit down for it#drill it in to her damn head#anyway i volunteer aleister#its your damn aaa man#stop nerfing her kamachi#blah blah blah poster child of science#bs#if hamazura fucking shiage#a two bit antagonist of the week#can be taught the existence of magic after being elevated to third male protag#then your most popular character can be fucking taught magic#ok tag rant done
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i love how i have no gotdamn clue what's growing in my garden anymore
#genuinely it's so fun its like a scavenger hunt every timr#its a permaculture garden with minimal input so i only check it a few times a month#so everytime its like. what will it be!!!#apparently my giant chamomile from last year did properly go to seed bc there's like 20 chamomile plants#popping up in random spots#found a random volunteer tomato. who knows what variety that will be#(away from the ouroborus tomato patch might i add)#nasturtiums from last year did indeed fuck and now i have several brand new color variants#california poppies are going insane or so i think they're california poppies. who knows anymore#rose is going sicko mode and so are the onions and broccoli#it speaks
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May 2023: The First Week
Monday’s strawberry harvest complete with squirrel gnaws & slug bites:
The western border of Lichterman Nature Center:
The second round of free volunteer tomatoes:
We planted volunteer tomato seedlings in these hay bales to see if they had been treated with Grazon before applying the hay to our garden or using it for compost. It is still early so we’ll see how things go:
Treated the strawberries with diatomaceous earth to fend off the slugs:
This is the first year the grape has tried to make flowers:
The dog & the goddess:
Our fairy lights from last year died so we had to run new ones:
Cozy place by the fire:
#seen while walking#chipmunk#garden#backyard garden#strawberries#lichterman nature center#volunteer tomato plants#free plants#hay bales#tomato seedlings#strawberry plants#diatomaceous earth#romaine lettuce#grapevine#grape blossom#dog#Lhasa Apso#silverback#fairy lights#fire pit#peony#yellow peony#life in memphis#patio goddess
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Muceres 2020
Tomatoes!
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Ah!
Apparently the transplanted volunteer passionflower vine has been blooming for the past few days and I missed it thanks to the excessive heat warning. Plus the fact that it's facing away from the house.
There are even two fruits setting on the spent blooms.
Plus there's this blossom that'll be open in the morning and several more buds formed (one shown here).
I've got a few more transplanted vines in a different area that aren't doing as well (the opossums keep trampling it) plus one of the vines in the original volunteer location regrew from a broken-off taproot that's doing great. So I have the potential for some staggered blooming too.
No idea if these are perennial here or if they just reseed themselves. The site where I think the volunteers came from had a lot fewer come up this year, but we had a weird weather year last year. So I guess we'll see.
#going to try to nab one of the fruits once they mature to save seeds from just in case#if i get to them before the squirrels and opossums which have taken every single tomato grown in the back beds this year#maybe i'll encase one in a wire cage#can't bitch too much since it's certainly thanks to the wildlife that i had these volunteers in the first place#might see if i can get one to grow inbetween the dumpster and the privacy fence in the alley#i think the neighbors would get a kick out of it#there's a rose of sharon there now (started this year so still spindly) and i've got hyacinth beans growing over the fence#(my fence is stained teal on the alleyside so it looks great with the pink and dark purple)#we'll see#passionflower#gardening#free plants#dispersion of seeds by wildlife
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We're on our garden bullshit again. Professor X better come get these mutant ass tomatoes.
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i should relistwn to that episode....
#man. man. ghostkicks.......... ghostkicks smith college girls for i-d mag 2004!!!#pd lb#anyway HI making dal my brother volunteered 2 make the roti yayyy#its going OKAY because i had to jump right into the kitchen as soon as i got back from work & quick showe R#& didn't have time 2 make lovely onion & spices & tomato & olive oil paste for the lentils bc SOMEONE didnt turn them off after the timer#rang!!!! so its all going kind of backwards. but. good evening regardless. can't wait 2 watch pd after this..
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