Would you look at this freakaploid

Edit: I've just learned this is not polyploidy, but rather fasciation.

So, uhh, would you look at this fasciating dandelion

#dandelion #dandelions #gardening #fasciation #fasciated

Well, my harvest (dandelions from the Beltline Trail in Toronto) is all washed and soon to be part of my evening supper soup.

#food #weeds #supper #dandelions #vegan #toronto

How important is a title for a blog in the grand scheme of things?

Rojie’s prompt today, May 26th, is:

If you could steal one trait from any blogger, what would it be?

I don’t know that there’s any one trait I’d want to steal from another blogger, it’s more something I’d like to copy from the entire blogging community, or at least the bloggers I follow. Some bloggers get dozens of responses to their blogs every day and they take the time to reply to each one of them and that’s not something I do. I blogged about this not so long ago but the search feature here doesn’t seem to work so good and I can’t find it to link back. So what I would like to steal from most every active blogger I follow is active engagement and gratitude.

About two weeks ago I punched some holes in the bottom of a 2-gallon plastic bucket and scooped some potting soil into it. Then I I sprinkled a bunch of Black-Eyed Susan seeds I got at the library across the top. The seeds were so tiny and they reminded me of chia seeds and I wondered if a person could eat them but the internet told me that the seeds are toxic to humans and I took that as a no. It also told me that handling the leaves, stems, or roots can cause a rash so that’s good information to know in case anything grows. And I think something is growing which is the whole reason for me talking about it now. Actually, I don’t think, I know something is growing in the bucket, I just don’t know what. It’s cottonwood time here in Minnesota and female cottonwood trees are dropping tens of millions of fluffy seeds that are floating around outside like snow and you can see in the picture below that some of them have landed in my little pot. So I could be growing cottonwood trees. Or it could be dandelion fluff and I’m growing dandelions which would be nice. Did you ever rub a dandelion under your chin as a kid and then if your chin turned yellow that meant you were in love?

Here’s my bucket of unidentified sprouts. Cottonwoods, dandelions, Black-eyed Susans, something that hitchhiked here on the Orion? Updates to follow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B55yVruFzJY&list=RDB55yVruFzJY&start_radio=1

why do people hate #dandelions ?

what has this beutiful #flower done to deserve such animosity towards it?
it makes no sense.