Flower that thrives in Death Valley may hold secret to heat adaptation: Insights into how Death Valley’s Tidestromia oblongifolia tolerates such high temperatures could help researchers to engineer crops that can survive global warming https://archive.is/0I9Vn
Earlier this year I decided I was going to try to grow tomatoes. I only have a small garden, but I managed to find a mini-greenhouse so that I could give the young plants a head start during the sometimes chilly Spring weather in northern England.
I bought lovely peat-free compost for them to live in, and dutifully watered and fed the plants. And during the couple of weeks of warm weather we had in late spring they flourished.
But now for the last month or so I've had lots and lots of very large, very plump, and very very green tomatoes.
I don't know what gods hang out on the Fediverse - only the coolest ones no doubt - but if any of them read this, could you please send just one week of weather that's sunny and warm (not hot, I don't want Med-level hot, just warm) to north west England.
Winter didn’t kill this perennial even though it dipped below freezing. The fruits grown from seed are highly variable and mine taste like sugary battery acid.
Well, it’s fruiting this summer and I was letting the birds have it (even they rejected it). The berries ripened until they fell off the plant. I tried the fallen berries and there is almost no caustic taste. Yay?
Ich habe aus Spaß 6 Kerne einer Zitrone in die Erde gesetzt. Nach 8 Tagen sind die ersten 3 Bäumchen ausgetrieben (Bild 1). Jeden weiteren Tag kamen weitere dazu. Jetzt habe ich einen Zitronenbaumwald 🌳 🍋 👍.
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Kleines Update. Allen Pflanzen geht es gut. In den letzten Wochen hatten wir hier relativ wenig Sonnenlicht, deswegen hat sich der Wachstum etwas verlangsamt. Ich bin dennoch sehr zufrieden. 😎 👍