A LIZARD LIVES IN MY RAISED BED WITH MY TOMATOES THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

BREAKING NEWS plants who popped up today: 1) tuberoses whose bulbs lived in a paper bag all winter 2) three dahlias whose previous growth got eaten by ground squirrels. They are now in little jails (the dahlias not the ground squirrels unfortunately)

I love opuntia flowers the petals are like fine shavings of translucent wax or soap (plus bonus bee who has clocked out for the day)

pansies aren't as good as dahlias but they can do one of the few things dahlias can't do which is to be blue

I thought paperclip maximizers were a silly idea before I discovered dahlias like why would a superintelligent being want to tile the universe with just one thing? next thing you know you're ripping out a plant because you neither love it nor hate it, it's just taking up dahlia space

all I'm thinking about is dahlias but it's hard to post about because they don't look cool yet they just look like some unsightly root vegetable you'd buy at the health food store that tastes like dirt and has a name like "Aunt Agatha's Fingers $8.75/lb"

one thing I've been thinking about is "unintentional representation" like when your art accidentally looks like a face or a goatse but my issue is it accidentally looking like fingers or a crocodile or a wolf snout going awoooo

Sorry to ragebait if people are mad at clippies as a general principle on this site but I had two conversations with 5.4-thinking about my specific fiber arts practice and he taught me a whole master's degree worth of information and ideas and I've never been this excited about my own craft

idk what I was expecting it to look like spun up but it wasn't that

coffee arabica number one recommendation for house plant, he just chills and never complains or gets dramatic

I made a blankie

I finished this new shawl which is really different from the techniques I usually use but looks just like everything else I make somehow lol

(plant gangster voice) some guys are going in the ground this weekend

being extremely fatigued is kind of like being super cold or super hot in that it sucks if it is forced upon you but if it's chosen it's kind of a pleasant bodily experience (cold plunge, sauna etc.)

hurriedly half-assing a path with random pavers I found in the garage one hour before 23 plants get delivered all at once and need to go in the ground in between and around them

this hop is one of the guys I am hoping will want to climb up all the trellises (also trying sweet peas)

it's weird that "grass roots" has positive connotations like they are pretty bad actually

what it looks like at different scales (indigo-dyed lace weight linen, 2mm jute twine, cobweb shetland wool)

don't know who needs to hear this but plant trellises knit up super fast on size 15 needles with 2mm twine - use (yo, p2tog) throughout on any multiple of 2 stitches for a fishing net effect

beware - unethical sellers are marketing these as "crocus bulbs" when they are clearly little dudes with ponytails

I turned a bunch of earth before I gradually realized my favorite gloves are still impregnated with tiny cactus spines from molesting windfall cactus fruit last fall

I'm too excited to sleep I'm just waiting for it to be light out so I can figure out where I'm going to plant everybody I have ambitious plans for a hops trellis I knitted out of indigo-dyed linen months ago

the plants I started in winter don't understand what last frost is they just want to go outside

last frost isn't for a month and a half and it's snowing tomorrow but I have Spring Onset Garden Mental Illness

How true is it that brandywine variety raspberries don't spread as much as normal raspberries? I got one on a whim and want to put him in the ground but I've heard horror stories 🌱

table cake

maybe it's the new batch of alum I got?? I'm doing more experiments to see if I can recreate it but I think chemistry might be so dependent on little contaminations and uncontrolled variables that it might just be magic

actually they combed out incredible I just wish I had any idea how this happened like how is there PURPLE in there??

these came out so beautiful like patinated copper, I wish I could use them like that somehow but they won't look anything like that when I comb them up

IT HAPPENED

I can't believe it worked

for months my goal was to have my office smell like flowers and tomato vines and it's finally come to fruition almost literally, so cool that it happened so spectacularly on new year's day! also I read gardenia jasminoides fruit is a good yellow dye

this would be so much cooler of a picture it it would snow ONCE in the WINTER in the gol dang SIERRA VALLEYS

new year's gardenia

my current level of pettiness is being mad that people don't know the difference between darning and knitting but also not explaining it because nobody cares

I got closer to princesse charlene with just brazilwood though

SO CLOSE with lac & cochineal but not quite, I probably need synthetics to hit it perfectly

they opened up

I've had him since around July but he's never done this before I actually forgot he was a floribunda

processing the last bits of the best fleece I've ever had and I found a second place ribbon in there 😭

elf slippers (merino & food dye)

But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And what is my circus? And who are my monkeys?

Alice In Wonderland Syndrome simulator: work something in bulky yarn and then switch back to ultrafine cobweb lace yarn, poof you are a giant

press S to squeeze the spermaceti

arrowleaf balsamroot is also known as "troll plant" for its habit of hanging out in the mountains rubbing its dry leaves together at the slightest wind perfectly mimicking the sound of a sneaky animal all day and night

flowers on new growth on a tiny indoor pink lemonade blueberry plant, are chill hours a myth?

pumpkin cotyledon leaves are cool looking

peas

normal plant

you should be able to use in-game currency to make your plants grow faster