So, there’s a colony of carpenter bees in a pile of wood chips in my backyard. The sting burns like a spreading fire. I’ll have to look into humane removal.
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According to Seek by iNaturalist this is a “yellow-faced bumblebee” and not a carpenter bee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_vosnesenskii
I bought a Thompson seedless grape vine a month or two ago and I plopped it down in the backyard, sunny area. I noticed it was growing fast but couldn’t quantify it so I’ve started measuring it. It has grown .5 inches per day since I planted it and then the last two days it has grown 1 inch one day and then 2 inches the next. What the what?
This enormous tree (eucalyptus cornuta ) in a nearby neighborhood succumbed to honey fungus disease. Not sure if bringing the wood home would spread the disease to my yard. It’s hard to gauge but the tree was enormous, towering over all the homes.
Btw, autocomplete keeps wanting me to say carnita instead of cornuta 😋
Found a stray kale growing in an old, overgrown, neglected raised bed. But, I recall the kale I planted in that same bed last year refused to grow well when I tended to it.
It’s loquat season in SoCal. My yard has only baby loquat trees I grew from seed so no loquats yet. But, these trees are all over the neighborhood both in planted by humans and planted by crows and squirrels. Some people don’t like them because the flavor is pretty mild but I like prickly pear and this is the “peach” equivalent.
#gardening
#gardening
bleak, man, bleak. Look up Korean Natural Farming on YT and you get cool sounding channels about sustainable farming and so on, but the thumbnails are all AI generated smoothslop 😭
Since I started on this gardening kick, YouTube thinks I am also interested in crazy survivalist, off-grid, homestead, trad-wife, content. I recall this happened also back a few years ago when I was researching permaculture - suddenly started getting 2a, offgrid flat earthers.
It happened again! I had been using this unopened bag of soil to hold down one of my kids gymnastic bars in the backyard so totally forgot about it. A few months later and here’s another giant “weed” sprouting straight out of it. It’s so strong I can lift the whole bag without it tearing. Kinda proud of it, tbh