BECAUSE I’M ONE OF THE IDIOTS WHO LIVES IN IT!! part 1
The Amazon’s burning, the Great Barrier reef is dying, animals are going extinct like crazy and my god, I am so sick of seeing that fucking George Carlin “The planet is fine, people are fucked” reposted everywhere. You know, the one that implies even a vague attempt to do anything is naive and pointless. You know… the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place. Fuck off, George Carlin. Come on down, Guardians of the Galaxy:
(Peter Quill’s thoroughly indignant voice doesn’t quite come across in image form, unfortunately.)
So because I’m one of the idiots who lives on this planet, I’m trying to do at least a couple things with what I have. Even if that’s just trying to keep bees coming. Luckily, they really like this mint plant.
(See the little blurry bee?)
Round the front of the garden there are a lot of blackberries. I’m kind of half thinking of putting a sign up saying that if people can reach the blackberries from the street they’re free to take them, but I dunno how many people would want unprocessed blackberries.
I’m probably going to turn most of them into blackberry jam and dipense said jam to whoever I know who wants some. I’ve also been trying to move some of the blackberry bushes to the back garden where they could grow better, by digging them up by the root and putting them in pots, but that hasn’t really worked so far.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen –
I love spring onions, and one day the Internet told me, “Hey, did you know if you put the ends of spring onions in a vase with water and sun they’ll just keep growing?” And they DID! I mean, this has only been going on for a few weeks, but it seems to be working well.
And here’s some tomato plants, snipped with permission from someone else’s tomato plant:
To get tomato plants ready to be repotted you need to put them in water and wait a bit until it sprouts white roots. This one hasn’t grown many, but I think that’s probably because it had tiny tomatoes on it already and was putting all its energy into growing those.
THIS one on the other hand did really well!
Look at that! Isn’t that great? I’m going to plant it in soil soon and then hopefully a tomato harvest will eventually come.
Anyway. You can probably tell I know nothing about gardening, but I’m hoping to learn as I go along. I have no endgame beyond “hey let’s not intentionally fuck all this up for profit” which is more than some other people managed, so.