#volunteer plant

[inthecityofgoodabode]

April 2024: The First Week

Someone in the neighborhood was giving away "fill dirt" so we have two garbage cans full of free dirt:

Breakfast burrito - bacon, scrambled eggs, lettuce with homegrown cilantro & chives. The pale purple bits are the diced chive blossoms. You could seriously be a "gourmet" if you started to listen to what your grandmother & grandmothers around the world were desperately trying to teach you:

Lini 910 Lambrusca. This is an amazing food friendly sparkling red wine:

Volunteer cucurbit. We've got at least six of these coming up & we won't know what they are until they form their secondary leaves:

#garden #backyard garden #flower #clematis #front yard #iris #dogwood #chive #chive blossom #bee #tiny bee #beetle #star of bethlehem #gardening #dirt #oak tree #breakfast #breakfast burrito #lettuce #bacon #scrambled eggs #chives #chive blossoms #cilantro #lini 910 #lambrusco #food friendly #sparkling red #volunteer plant #volunteer cucurbit

[flimsy-roost]

i found a stray

#plants #volunteer plant #should I like rehome it or is it feral and fine

[tiabwwtws-art]

A little like redshift

#in stars and time #isat siffrin #siffrin fanart #siffrin #isat fanart #went to a nonprofit art org with intentions to volunteer with their gardening #and i came home with 3 plants a couple of handmade cups and this siffrin. i didnt do any gardening.. #also i realize that. this is very little like redshift actually #but the word has been glued to isat in my brain. like many things have been

[reasonsforhope]

"Around the capital beltway or Washington’s famous Rock Creek Park, you may see a group of people ripping up vines along the treeline beside the roads.

If you have then you’ve glimpsed superheroes who traded in their capes for gardening gloves and their time for the satisfaction of terminating an invasive species and saving a native tree.

Washington D.C’s “Weed Warriors” are a group of volunteers going back to 1999 that work for free to keep hundreds of species of invasive shrubs, vines, and climbers from taking over native ecosystems.

Among the 600 or so non-native invasive plant species found in and around our nation’s capital, some like Polygonum perfoliatum, also known as “mile-a-minute” vine, can be devastating. Suffocating trees by overgrowing the leaves in their canopy branches, mile-a-minute can kill thousands of trees every year.

Since 1999, Weed Warrior volunteers have logged over 135,000 hours of time weed whacking in Montgomery County alone. Anyone can become a Weed Warrior; the group works in units for two-hour spaces removing weeds or planting native species in their place.

These invasive species management events are led by specially-trained volunteer Weed Warrior Supervisors and/or staff from the Montgomery Parks Dept. Warriors can get certified to de-weed in their spare time, or lead events on their own. They can even have their own unique patch of ground in the D.C.-Metro area to control.

Why would anyone want to trade their free time or laboring hours away for free doing something our tax dollars are supposed to do for us? The answer is simple: it’s addicting.

“If I have any good mental health, it’s due to Weed Warrioring,” said 74-year-old area resident Barbara Francisco. “You have a sense of accomplishment.” ...

The Weed Warriors website states that non-native, invasive plant species (NNIs) can alter the complex webs of plant-animal associations that have evolved over thousands of years to such a degree that plants and animals once familiar to us are eliminated...

Anyone who feels this is something they want to contribute their time to can go to the Montgomery County Parks website here and look at the upcoming Weed Warrior events—the next one is October 21st."

-via Good News Network, October 12, 2023

#washington dc #maryland #montgomery county #biodiversity #invasive species #invasive plants #vines #weeding #united states #volunteer #collectiveaction #planetearthfirst #forests #parks #good news #hope

[magalimachete]

I WAS SO GIDDY WHEN THIS SCENE HAPPENED! 😍😍

MAPPA gave us an appetizer of him and my mouth is WATERING now. I need to be fed like right now!!! I need him to put me in a full Nelson because it would benefit humanity. 😅

I NEED HIM IN MY CERVIX. IT IS ESSENTIAL TO MY SURVIVAL. 🤤🤤🤤

#sukuna #ryomen sukuna #jujutsu kaisen #sukuna ryomen smut #jujutsu ryomen #king of curses #ryoumen sukuna #SUKUNA PLANT YOUR CURSED SEED IN ME #SUKUNA HIVE #SUKUNA NATION #SUKUNA IS DADDY #wreck my pussy Sukuna #I volunteer as tribute #RYOMEN PLEASE USE ME AS YOUR PERSONAL PLAY THING

[petula-xx]

For a few reasons, I wasn't going to grow tomatoes this year.

Then I added some compost to a few beds to help refresh them.

Apparently there were many tomato seeds in that compost.

Now I am growing around 200 tomato plants, but not all will survive.

Let the tomato Hunger Games begin!!!

#gardeners on tumblr #vegetables #gardening #home grown #self sufficiency #plants #tomatoes #self seeded #volunteer plants #compost

[miabrown007]

the Unsleeping City said a good life is where you contribute to a community and help to lift up others and you all work to care for each other, and they have been so right for that

#i want to live that life 🥺 #i want to volunteer and do something that matters and helps #and have an apartment with all the plants and huge bookshelves and the sunny mornings with the love of my life #and our celestial dalmatian #Ester just being the most relatable character in the show i love her so much #the unsleeping city #d20 #dimension 20

[plantanarchy]

I love you disaster pollinator bed.... this bed has three species of milkweed, fennel, dill, wild yarrow, and mountain mint which have all intermingled and spread nicely. Plus a lonely liatris cultivar which I may move because it is far too civilized and doesn't compete well. The swamp milkweed suffered this year because of the dry spring but the showy and common milkweed and yarrow and mountain mint are huge and thriving. All about to bloom.

Milkweeds are host plants for monarchs, dill and fennel for swallowtails, and yarrow provides a long-blooming nectar source.

#also i found the yarrow as a volunteer while weeding at work and dug it up #now it spits out babies anywhere it pleases #but theyre easily controlled #my plants #garden content #native plants

[crookedchook]

Livia got an upgrade! Waited to post this so the new tank could really get established.

She's now in an Imagitarium glass versa 6.6 gallon. Never used this brand before but very happy with the results. Plants are doing wonderfully, including a new aponogeton that is determined to cover the top of the tank.

The wiggle-fish was originally in a Fluval Spec V, but the filter pump gave out, followed shortly by the pump that I replaced it with. Sooooo clearly the aquarium gods decided that I needed a new tank.

#betta #bettablr #fishblr #planted tank #aquarium #chookchat #hard to believe ive had this little feesh for a year now #she looks so teeny in the new tank #so fun watching her zoom around and explore #was thinking about getting floaters #but the aponogeton has volunteered to fill that role

[mothshrub]

(Covered in mud and hauling a tree and pounding stakes in till your hands are sore and your shoulders hurt) this is... huff... just like... phew... my vidya games...

#coral island #tree planting #personal #volunteering

[inthecityofgoodabode]

February 2024: The Last Full Week

Our volunteer Red Russian kale that is on its 3rd year:

Dinner one night this week. Those are our homegrown broccoli & brussels sprouts:

We installed the gate from Plot 420 in the backyard garden:

And two of the three cattle panel trellises that we brought home from there:

#garden #backyard garden #collard green #frost #flowers #spring flowers #daffodils #volunteer plant #kale #red russian kale #homegrown vegetables #vegetable garden #gardening #hellebore #sunset #twilight #dusk #tree #moon #sky #celery #bottle #aquatic snails #mollusk #the wasteland #power lines #bird #bird in flight #crow #dinner

[rebeccathenaturalist]

It’s Tell a Friend Friday!

Please enjoy this photo I took of one of many western red-cedar (Thuja plicata) seedlings I helped to plant at Willapa NWR last month.

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#Tell a Friend Friday #TAFF #western red cedar #Thuja plicata #cypresses #cedar #trees #plants #nature #PNW #pacific Northwest #Willapa NWR #Willapa National Wildlife Refuge #volunteering #habitat restoration #restoration ecology

[kihaku-gato]

Spotted some Juncos from the window this morning feeding on the New England Aster seedheads. I'm glad my lazy butt never got around to cutting off the seedheads.

#tbf I'd rank New England Aster volunteer plants as a lesser of evils compared to say- wild clematis volunteers #we had to cut the clematis down early this year cause they were gonna reseed out of hand on us u_u #ramblings

[hexandbalances]

I found an interesting, faintly thorny plant with delicately pale purple flower growing around my compost. After a little searching I identified it as Solanum carolinense, commonly called "Carolina Horsenettle", but also affectionately referred to as "the Apple of Sodom" or "the Devil's Tomato". I am still a fairly miserable gardener, but I have been blessed with the favor of nightshades.

#i would pay you to take some of my tomato volunteers #nightshade #toxic plant #native plants #poison path

[vampyrfag]

being soo so brave rn guys

#cool lesbians from my class organising a group to do volunteer planting and conservation work and i signed up .. :)

[extinctworld-ua]

If we will get lost for more than one month — that's because of russian terrorists, who gonna blow up Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and create another ecocide.

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was occupied by russian invaders on 4.03.22. And since then Ukrainians live in fear of new «Chernobyl disaster». And our command not exception... (we live in Odesa right now)

We all hope, that will survive this night...

If you wanna help Ukrainians — spread this information!

If you wanna support personally us — you can donate 1$ to us and we will in turn donate it to volunteers, who are bringing closer time of peaceful life.

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#zaporizhzhia #nuclear #nuclear power station #nuclear power plant #russia is the occupier #occupation #stop russia #russia #terrorism #help #ukrainians #support #ukraine #ukrainian #life #danger #volunteers #spread #information #survive #chornobyl #chernobyl disaster