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Here we, here we,
@TresLabs I guess they don’t need a lot of root space, so as long as they seem happy then it’s all good!
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