#basil gardens

[perksofbeingbennie]

Ignore my cats hair on the blanket 🐈 I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take a photo of this book with my blanket. The purple rose almost looks just like the cover 📖

The book: because you love to hate me

Description: 13 authors team up with 13 influential book tubers to reimagine villains stories, feelings that we ones love to hate, now turned into something different characters that can be related to respected and even understood by their questioning morals.

Authors:

Renée Ahdieh

Ameriie

Soman Chainani

Susan Dennard

Sarah Enni

Marissa Meyer

Cindy Pon

Victoria Schwab

Samantha Shannon

Adam Silvera

Andrew Smith

April Genevieve Tuchholke

Nicola Yoon

Book YouTubers:

Benjamin Alderson (Benjamin of tomes)

Sasha Alsberg (a book utopia)

Whitney Atkinson (whittynovels)

Tina Burke ( Christina reads YA and the lid gables)

Catriona Feeny ( little book owl)

Jesse George (Jesse the reader)

Zoë Herdt (readbyZoe)

Samantha Lane (thoughts on tomes)

Sophia lee (the book basement)

Raeleen Lemay(padfootandprongs07)

Regan Perusse (PeruseProject)

Christine Riccio (polandbananasBOOKS)

Steph Sinclair and Kat Kennedy (cuddlebuggery)

[abeoo]

Basil being silly

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[eggsoupery]

I love your AU sm I think about it so often sobs

I've also been wondering how much the story would've changed if the headspace battle/healing/death rules didn't apply to the faraway cast.... by which I mean if Kel had really died after the Sweetheart battle. Surely that would've drastically changed like everything lol

I MEAN LIKE THANK YOU FOR NOT HAVING HIM DIE I WOULD BE ACTUALLY CRYING and it was probably the better choice for the plot anyway... but just food for thought

So originally i was gonna do that But…

I was like “I want to write the effects of psychological death and torment instead” like. dying so many times to the point they feel almost soulless, like a zombie. (Black Space is gonna have a sick twist to this, Headspace is just like a silly haha thing like lol we are now made of toast. Oh now we’re back. There is no toast concept in Black Space! so you’ll see what happens soon)

The realworld versions view turning into toast as a screwed up jab, almost like it’s making fun of them

Basil is going to hit a point where he doesn’t care if he dies anymore even if he’s torn to shreds and pieced back together; especially since he has Arum. He quite literally is a zombie. This is when his Stressed eyes become permanent. He’s also afraid Sunny will be afraid of him like this. :(

If these rules weren’t applied, well, it would just be a different ending lol. the deaths would be even more calculated and there would also be less of it generally.

also thank you!!💕💕

[daily-basil]

He's photosynthesizing

[balkanradfem]

So, you might remember I started fixing my abandoned garden, and I said I was going to do it in small increments, and then I never said anything about it again. This is because, after I started doing it, suddenly the temperatures dropped below zero, and we had frost! This is appropriate in November, but it was so sudden I didn't expect it. I hadn't even planted garlic yet! And now it was too cold to work the soil. Oopsie.

However this morning I woke up, opened the window, and realized the southern wind was blowing, which means it got super warm! I immediately dressed up, grabbed my garlic, and went to the garden. I couldn't plant my garlic in the area I had already cleaned, because it's the outer area of the garden, and garlic is the #1 crop that gets stolen, so I have to plant it sneakily behind other things, invisible to prying eyes. That means I'd have to clear off another area. Here's what I'm dealing with today!

I know this looks like such a flop but honestly, this is so good for nature. All of the plants have lived their life cycle, housed little bugs and insects, produced flowers for the bees, and then got obliterated by the frost, as it should be. If I just left them be, they would slowly decompose into the soil and make it more fertile. It looks chaotic but nothing bad is going on here! I am going to make space now because there are some regulations for how community gardens should look like, and if one looks abandoned for too long, it gets taken away. I'm off to work :)

I've been working on this for 20 minutes and I found some produce in here!

I'm shocked there's a whole zucchini in there, even after the frost, I've never seen that. She's a bit of a weird texture, because she's gotten frozen, but otherwise looks good! Certainly the slugs love it. I also found a little potato plant, there could be potatoes underneath her. And in the third picture, I'm holding young garlic! I usually find this in the spring, it's interesting it's already so big, I love that.

Another little task I had planned was to find basil seeds; basil will usually grow flowers when it's allowed to grow naturally, and then the flowers create little seed packets inside of them, and after those get nice and dried up, they're ready to harvest. Here's how it looks like:

If I rubbed all those little pods together, I would be able to find tiny black-brown seeds in there! I used to do that before, extract all of the tiny seeds and store them, but later I got lazy and figured I can just save this entire mess and plant it and basil still germinates just the same.

An hour of work later, I have dug out a giant lemon balm plant out of the soil, because it was taking up too much space (no worries about her, she'll grow back in no time, they're immortal), and took out most of the grass, dead plants, and weeds. Here is the cleared garden!

I've freed two small kale plants that could still thrive during the winter, and there's a few brassicas that look willing to go to seed, which would be great for me to have more seeds from them. Now I can finally focus on the task I've come here for; to plant my garlic.

I made little holes with my spoon, and grabbed two biggest heads of garlic to plant the cloves. I'm not too fussed about it, as long as the bulbs are underground, you can't stop them from growing. If they're not in too deep, then it's easier to pull them out later! And my soil is more fertile on the surface as well. Usually during the winter, little rodends will dig a few of these out, to see if they're delicious, but when they realize it's not yummy, they just leave the bulbs on the top of soil. So I have to check on them a few times to make sure I plant them back! And they're so forgiving and strong, they just go right back to growing, bulbs are incredible.

I counted the garlic here, and there's 22 cloves, which should give me 22 heads of garlic in the late spring/early summer. I couldn't take any more pictures, because my hands were too muddy, but I planted additional two rows in a different location (in case thiefs find one location), and then I also had some of the 'spring garlic', which is a late variety, meaning it grows later, but lasts longer. Usually normal garlic will start sprouting in december, after which point it starts getting inedible, but late-variety garlic will stay fresh until spring. Planting garlic is so easy! The entire venture took me 15 minutes, and you could do this anywhere, and would be guaranteed some heads of garlic.

So watching these pictures you might think 'there's still so much weeds in here, you did not clear this off' and you're correct, I don't clear everything off! This is because I employ a different tactics in stopping weeds from growing; usually during the winter, I will cover the ground in a thick layer of dry leaves, so that light won't reach any of those weeds, and they stop growing just due to lack of sunlight. I'm not doing it this year because of one particular reason, and this reason is slugs. If I cover the ground in leaves now, they won't only protect it from the light, but also protect it from the cold. They'll prevent the ground from freezing as badly as it would usually freeze. And usually I love doing that, but this time, there are so many slugs in the ground that I want cold to eliminate. I'm going to leave my garden like this, and hope that we have an exceptionally cold winter and that slugs get deleted.

I planned to make a lentil soup today for lunch, so I'm grabbing some chives, and some kale to add to it! Kale is still thriving, and I'll be able to harvest it all winter. At this point I've been working for two hours and my pain started acting up, so I figured it was enough for today, and headed home. Here's all the stuff I brought home for lunch!

Zucchini, kale, potatoes, chives, young garlic. All great additions for my lentil soup! I love being able to get fresh food in November. The soup turned out amazing, I love lentils with potatoes and kale and garlic.

[death-by-mercury]

[grimmoire]

Before and after

[the-habitat-ring]

It’s supposed to freeze tonight, so you know what that means

A giant roasting pan of green tomato sauce!

[rewildandgrow]

Herb harvest! Here we have rosemary, lemon balm, tulsi, sage, lemon basil, Mexican tarragon, stevia, and mullein! 🌿🌱🍃

[sunny-sightings]

A bunch of books. Most of them are about gardening and indoor-plant care 🌸

[kittzuxp]

My answer to ship disputes will always be to make them a polycule.

Stan x wendy or stan x kyle? How about all three of em

Argos x mr plant or mr plant x mr flower (or argos x mr flower)? How about all three of em

Sunny x kel or sunny x basil (or sunny x aubrey)? HOW ABOUT ALL OF THEM.

Sonic x amy or sonic x shadow? HOW. ABOUT. ALL. THREE. OF. THEM.

[prince-liest]

Me: Ah, I only have two pots of basil this year, so I probably won't have enough to make pesto.

Meanwhile, the power of having moved somewhere with a full sun patio:

I didn't even finish pruning the plants! I left a few stalks because I usually prune off a stalk or two every week to use on my eggs every morning for breakfast. I just had to give them a heavier prune right now because they were trying to flower. Despite that, here's how the plants look AFTER pruning:

Ah, how far they have come from where they began. This all came from one little cup of basil I bought at the garden center and then propagated cuttings of into two separate pots.

Anyway, I'm deeply pleased to have the chance to make more pesto this year. The homemade stuff is always SO good. I'm also going to be trying it with walnuts instead of pine nuts this year, so fingers crossed that turns out well!

Year two of basil and it is the gift that keeps on giving. There's an old lady that walks her dog past my patio sometimes and earlier this week I was clipping off a couple of cuttings when she saw me and complimented my plants, saying that she loves basil. I gave her one of the cuttings and she was delighted. Basil for everyone!

[gender-ihardlyknower]

SunFlower napping

[ghettogardener]

Ooooookaaaay Round 2! Transplanted all.of those morning glories that shot up into bigger pots.

Distributed Marigolds into Basil and tomato pots.

Got 8 cucumber shoots transplanted into their own pots.

Planted Hollyhock seeds and a varying variety of different tomato plants.

My craft room is over flowing!! I can't wait to get the greenhouse back up. Hopefully it will be done by April 15th!

[yumiiyummech]

suddenly BASIL doesnt feel left out on national girlfriends day anymore.

in response to:

wendy kissing the girlies for national girlfriends day.

[cheezyhamster]

Delinquent Basil

Made 4 versions (with/without cel shading and with/without the bg) (rest under cut)

I think I'm finally getting a grip on phone drawing (computer is still my go-to though)