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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Yep other EVs have this as well. The Hyundai IONIQ has great front sightlines for an SUV IIRC.

    Still a car, but I admit EVs are much less hateable in a city for multiple reasons. No stinky tailpipe, no roaring engine noise, and generally better sightlines and safety features.

    I think my ideal city would be mostly bikes and ebikes, with those vehicles that can’t be replaced by bikes being EVs.








  • Calendula, bachelor’s buttons, and strawflower are all sprouted and looking healthy! For food plants, I’ve only started greens so far (collard and tatsoi). Soon it’ll be time to plant peas outside though and I’m stoked! Also got some potatoes chitting on the windowsill to plant in buckets. Those did really well last year.

    Also we have one super collard who overwintered from last year and I’m excited to see what it does.

    I’m apprehensive about the bunnies this year but more prepared to do battle. Last year they mowed most of my new plants down to the ground until I put little fences up. This year I’m gonna start with the fences from the get-go and see if I can get more plants past the tender chompable stage and into maturity. The only problem is I tried winter sowing a bunch of natives this year so I’ll need to notice when and where they come up and get defenses around them.

    Apprehensions aside, though, I’m glad it’s spring! Bring on the gardening fun.


  • AFAIK, micro greens are just regular greens that you plant really close together and then harvest before they get mature.

    Please someone correct me if this isn’t technically microgreens but what I’ve done in the past to get mini salad greens is you just get one of those larger seedlings trays (or you can use old milk cartons cut in half), put some soil in it, and plant seeds in really dense rows (like >10 seeds an inch). Then you just harvest them when they get to be an inch tall or something similar. I just use regular collard, kale, mustard, and lettuce seeds from the garden shop.

    You can also grow stuff from the grocery store. One of my favorites to grow is pea shoots. You literally buy a bag of dried peas from the grocery store and plant them like I described above. Then harvest them when they get about 3-4 inches tall. They go great in spring salads. Mung beans are another grocery store staple that I love sprouting on my own instead of buying the sprouts.

    Not sure what your kit looks like but you can definitely grow micro greens in potting soil as well if you run out of whatever the kit has! Just make sure you’re keeping an eye on moisture so they don’t stay too wet or get too dry. Because micro greens are basically seedlings, you don’t actually need to fertilize them at all and they can actually grow in pretty spare soil.