#gardening facts

[tenpolegardener]

I plant carrots and onions together. I know tomatoes don’t like cucumbers but some of the these I just didn’t know. I’m interested in companion planting.

#growing fruit and veg #companion planting #gardening facts

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 170

“Blue hydrangeas need acid to grow”

While not quite an accurate statement about how blue hydrangeas work, it reads better than saying blue hydrangeas require soil that has a pH of 5.2-5.5 to grow. And the above sentence just sounds kind of trippy. In fact, I had been tempted while writing it to put ‘acid’ in green since traditionally that is the colour we associate with acid.

But instead, I put the first line in pink, the second line in purple and the last line in blue, because of how growing blue hydrangeas work. In fact the hydrangea stickers gives a hint to the nature of how this fun quirk of the plant works.

The advice section of The Gardener’s Supply Company explains this well. The blue (and pink) hydrangeas we’re all familiar with are specifically the mopheads and lacecap hydrangeas. And they have an interesting chemical quirk where the colour of the bloom is dependent on the acidity of the soil. As stated before, a pH of 5.2-5.5 will yield blue blooms, and according to the website pink blooms happen at 6.0-6.2 pH. And while it’s not said outright, I suspect that going between those two pH will probably yield blue-purple or blue-pink blooms.

Now you might have to look around because if you look up this sort of thing, sites tend to give different pH, but I’ve linked the page I was pulling it from, but that’s the general gist of how the flowers work.

In more crafting news, I have discovered that the stickers I used (which was one of those stickers in tape format), don’t really stick very well. They’re not popping off the page on purpose, they’re doing that because they don’t stick very well. I hope that doesn’t mean this is going to be an issue with other sticker tapes, but it’s something to keep in mind.

Also I’m still having issues writing well with these new brush pens, I still like the plain black brush pen I own to write with.

#blue hydrageas #gardening facts #crafting #washi stickers #washi tapes

[purrfectlycontent]

till’s pupils reflecting red only when he’s looking directly at ivan

#my ramblings #all the little details they put in #the metaphors with the red and the shooting stars #it makes me wonder if part of the reason why they specifically chose these scenes is because of freedom #the first scene being ivan and till escaping from anakt garden #the second being death. the ultimate freedom from alnst #and there’s that whole thing with an eye (with black lashes looking like ivan’s) being injected with something red #sorry. i’m still not over this #in fact i have more questions #alien stage #alnst ivan #alnst till #ivantill

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

O, we are back. With water and stuff?

hungy

#answered ask #fairy au #dca fairy au #sundrop fairy #gardener y/n #the gardener #chow time #dca fairy au comic #fnaf daycare au #fnaf dca au #fnaf dca #fnaf sun #fnaf sundrop #sundrop #doodles #doodle sketch #he hungy #his stomach was in fact loud enough for you to hear

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 174

Despite what people complain and snark about, Bruce does in fact have contingency plans for pretty much everything. And while he doesn’t have an exact contingency for Jason apparently accidentally kidnapping the apparently prince of the Realms- some infinite space where the dead resided according to Zatanna and Constantine, he’ll have an existential crisis about it later thanks- he did have one for his kids accidentally kidnapping someone. 

He just doesn’t think that exact plan will work in this case, seeing as that plan had to do with civilians and not very large kings that could obliterate the entire world with a hand wave, nevermind the fact that they have so many armies. Not to mention what is apparently both the king’s second-in-command and brother. 

Well, if none of his usual contingencies won’t work and Constantine’s attempts at making a deal isn’t working, nor is the other’s attempts to talk the two down, then it’s plan Z time. Seduction it is. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #The league all ended up in the realms & Jason ended up picking up a child who was asking him questions #This was not noticed until Constantine had already finished the sigil to teleport them all out of the Realms #Which is when they both notice the child in Jason’s arms #and the fact that the child has a circlet-crown & galaxy cape #Danny isn’t happy to have been turned into his ghost age for his own health #He’s bullying Pariah into being a better person accidentally #Grumpy lad snuck out into the gardens instead of nap time just in time for the league & co to appear #Pariah & Fright finish the council meeting just in time to see a group of living disappear with the BABY PRINCE #They understandably panicked #Meanwhile Danny is having a blast asking this other halfa about his world full of heroes #Let’s be honest at least half of Bruce’s rogues have either been with him before or have an obsessive crush on him #And he knows how to flirt AND how to fight #No one is going to believe the league when they try to tell the others what happened #halfa jason todd #liminal batfamily

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

#WHERES THE FIC AT IF SOMEONE WRITES THIS I WILL PAY THEM A HUNDRED DOLLARS😭😭 #kunikida serving the country while dazai's serving cunt😔 #dazai was born to malewife but forced to manipulate and i think that's the greatest tragedy of bsd #anyway some facts i would like to share abt this au thay i came up w while drawing!! #takes place in 1939 (start of wwii) and there was a mandatory draft that required one male over eighteen from each house to serve #both of them are still twenty two and had been engaged for abt two years before getting married that year #newlyweds! unfortunately kuni had to go fight and they were seperated :( #before the war kunikida was a math teacher at the local high school and dazai obviously managed the household and didn't work #he's hopeless at cooking and meal prep even w recipie books so they either get those prepackaged meals or kuni makes dinner when he gets ba #so like when he's making lunch for kunikida he normally just packs a basic sandwich w raw fruit #kunikida always appreciates the effort even tho hes probably sick of having the same thing everyday but he won't complain abt it #when kunikida joined the army he was relieved that the mess hall had better food than dazai #he was the only one in his platoon that never complained abt the food so his fellow soldiers assumed it was bc he came from a tough bg #when in reality he was just used to being poisoned on a daily basis from his dumbass husbands cooking and was hardly fazed from army ration #they write to each other although its more dazai sending and kuni receiving bc hes off fighting and doesnt have time to write back #dazai talks abt life on the homefront and how he has to grow a victory garden (everything is DYING HE CANT EVEN RAISE TOMATOES) #and kuni writes abt his fellow soldiers and how the war is going and when he thinks he'll be home and how he misses sleeping in a bed #ANYWAY yea thought i'd share sry for infodumping in the tags again #this post is for like the four ppl that care abt this specific flavor of knkdz so hopefully this gets four notes at least #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #kunikida doppo #doppo kunikida #kunikidazai #knkdz #lotus draws #bro sry for posting at two in the morning i couldnt sleep until i got this out of my head they have infested my brain

[nikidontsurf]

GEORGE HARRISON and PATTIE BOYD leave Kinfauns to go to the Walton and Esher Magistrates Court, March 18, 1969.

  She was at Kinfauns, their bungalow home in Esher, Surrey, playing genial hostess to a group of visitors from Scotland Yard’s drug squad. She recalled the events in her memoir Wonderful Tonight: ‘Suddenly I heard a lot of cars on the gravel in the drive – far too many for it to be just George. My first thought was that maybe Paul and Linda wanted to party after the wedding. Then the bell rang. I opened the door to find a policewoman and a dog standing outside. At that moment the back-doorbell rang and I thought, Oh, my God, this is so scary! I’m surrounded by police.

The man in charge introduced himself as Detective Sergeant Pilcher, from Scotland Yard, and handed me a piece of paper. I knew why he was there: he thought we had drugs, and he said he was going to search the house. In they came, about eight policemen through the front, another five or six through the back and there were more in the greenhouse. The policewoman said she would follow me while the others searched and didn’t let me out of her sight. I said, ‘Why are you doing this? We don’t have any drugs. I’m going to phone my husband.’ I rang George at Apple. ‘George, it’s your worst nightmare. Come home.’

The officers clearly thought the Harrisons would be at Paul’s wedding. The timing was not a coincidence. (...) Pilcher had already busted Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Donovan, as well as Lennon and Yoko the previous year. National treasures or not, The Beatles were no longer protected from the law. - ‘And in the End: The Last Days of The Beatles’ Ken McNab

  I was with George in the office when that call came through. It was the end of a long day at Apple. Pattie rang and said, ‘They’re here – the law is here,’ and we knew what to do by then. We phoned Release’s lawyer, Martin Polden. We had a routine: he came round to Apple, and we all went down by limousine to Esher, where the police were well ensconced by then – and I stood bail for George and Pattie. They went off to the police station. We were all extremely indignant because it was the day of Paul’s wedding, a poor way to celebrate it. The police can be so nice.

George was calm about it. George is always calm – he sometimes gets a grump, but he’s always calm – and he was extremely calm that night, and very, very indignant. He went into the house and looked around at all these men and one woman, and said something like. ‘Birds have nests and animals have holes, but man has nowhere to lay his head.’ – ‘Oh, really, sir? Sorry to tell you we have to…’ and then into the police routine.

That’s how calm and how cross he was, because, as he said, he kept his dope in the box where dope went, and his joss sticks went in the joss stick box. He was a man who ran an orderly late-Sixties household, with beautiful things and some nice stuff to smoke.

 In my opinion he didn’t have to be busted because he was doing nobody any harm. I still believe what they did was an intrusion into personal life. - Derek Taylor in ‘The Beatles Anthology’

#i think pete shotton's recollection of that event involved george chasing one of the photographers #through his garden with police running after them and the whole thing looked like a slapstick comedy #and i believe it did in fact look like that #mustard yellow turtleneck jumper you know it's serious #they look so good #pattie boyd #george harrison #the beatles #beatlesedit #thebeatlesedit

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

It's gonna be my BIRTHDAY soon and I really need to rustle up some CASH so if u feel like this blog has made your life MEASURABLY WORSE (or just weirder) over the past year, perchance consider tipping your town fool? THANK YOU (kofi / paypal)

#i am wiggling the bells on my stupid hat in a suggestive and inappropriate manner #I'm a public jester in the sense that i am constantly in the town square singing bawdy songs & hitting myself in the face w/ garden rakes #despite the fact that literally nobody requested my presence #so not a jester not nearly of a high enough class to be a jester #a rodeo clown perhaps #...quick someone make a alignment chart of tumblr funnymen the categories are #first axis ranges from Court Jester to Town Fool #second axis is just clowns. Mimes. Rodeo Clowns. Circus Towns. Villainous Clowns #I have no idea how you would organize that spectrum but surely it must exist. the Spectrum of Clowns

[maplebitts]

It’s always hard making the first move

#hazbin hotel #lucifer morningstar #hazbin lucifer #lucilith #lilith morningstar #hazbin lilith #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin hotel lilith #lucifer x lilith #don’t mind that fact that there both terribly drawn #Lilith is referring to the garden of eden

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #681

Splendid garden eel!

These fish, like other garden eels, pretty much live their whole lives in their burrows. A garden eel digs its burrow tail-first, and secretes mucus to glue the grains of sand at the sides together, and after that they're all set! They feed on plankton, so large groups of splendid garden eels can often be seen facing the same direction, towards the current.

#they only move their burrows to get closer to potential mates pretty much #fish #fishfact #fish facts #biology #zoology #marine biology #marine life #marine animals #sea creatures #sea animals #sea life #fishblr #eel #eels #garden eel #garden eels #splendid garden eel

[statelibraryqueensland]

Wading through the vanilla extract flood memes of February 2023.

(Wooden boat being used to ferry pedestrians in Brisbane's 1893 floods, LINK)

#flood #vanilla extract #vanilla extract sweep #vanilla extract poll #historical photo #floods #historic floods #brisbane #brisbane flood #1890s #1893 #fun fact this flood left two tall ships beached in our botanic gardens #and before they could figure out a way to feasibly remove the ships from the gardens another flood came and washed them back out into the ri #river #we are not talking little wooden dinghies here either #these were BIG SHIPS #shipping discourse #19th century #colonial architecture #australia #australian history #queensland #qld #slq #victorian #victorian era #sepia #meme #tumblr polls #polls

[lynnical]

Bob's not the smartest man

#spooky month #spooky month bob #bob velseb #spooky month cult #spooky month ignacio #fun fact my friend calls the cult members the 'garden gnomes'

[chanceofraine]

We twa hae run about the braes

And pu’d the gowans fine

But we’ve wander’d mony a weary foot

Sin auld lang syne.

#over the garden wall #otgw #nye #new year #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #weird christmas #pinescones #wirt #auld lang syne #rock fact #over the garden wall fan art #otgw fan art

[good-beans]

I really love the contrast of mundane work with the arts in Double. The whole thing takes place on a dull train, and the one shot of the platform should evoke feelings of boring, 9-5, cog in the machine work. However, the scenes are filled with artist mannequins, artistic overlays of drawings, notes, paint, ripped paper textures, photography glares and effects, and scribbled notes. It just really drives home that feeling of "creative mind who's fighting with burnout and career-oriented society"

#milgram #mikoto kayano #its always so nice to see the prisoners interests pop up in their video! #sometimes its hard to tell whats symbol and what they actually enjoy (does shidou like gardening? does kazui like theater?) #but the fact mikoto is confirmed to enjoy photography and design is so cool ;-; #rose posts

[cleanbutsalty]

ITS ALMOST OCTOBER!!!

#wirt #wirt otgw #otgw #wirt fanart #wirt over the garden wall #otgw fanart #over the garden wall #over the garden wall fanart #greg #greg otgw #greg over the garden wall #beatrice #beatrice otgw #beatrice fanart #rock facts #rock facts rock #autumn art #autumn aesthetic #cartoon #cartoon network #cartoon fanart #my art

[kermitthesog]

The bisexual chaos when you’re with your boyfriend and he’s super cute but then you see his stepmother and think she’s ABSOLUTELY STUNNING and keep saying it over and over. Yeah I’m looking at you, will solace 🤨

cant believe that actually happened in the sun and the star and Nico was like “yeah I’ll try to ignore that you’re staring at my STEPMOTHER?”

#so much chaos #THE FACT THAT SHES NICO’S STEPMOTHER?? #bisexual #bisexual chaos #tsats #the sun and the star #will and nico #will solace #nico di angelo #nico and will #rick riordan #persephone #hades and persephone #persephone’s garden