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Here we, here we,
My Christmas cactus is starting to flower! It didn’t bother its arse last year so I’m thrilled
#florespondence these are the fruits of the soapberry tree (the genus name is Sapindus). It is not a berry, but a real natural soap. The fruit contains saponin, which creates bubbles in water. But it is probably too irritating, toxic even, for direct use.
Update: after a few escape attempts the lads are happily settled and have devoured so many banana peels and tea and coffee dregs 🪱
Bonus pic of the wormery inspector
The lads have arrived
Just hissed ‘YESSS’ with triumph when I turned to see a bee landing on one of my strawberry plant flowers
If anyone’s got any good tips or links then hmu 🪱
I need to look into how to build it myself since the ready-made ones you can buy seem to be very expensive for what is essentially a plastic chest of drawers
My thoughts are turning to building a vermicompost bin again 👀