Why You Shouldn’t Grow an Avocado From a Pit

...you should buy a tree from a nursery. Why? Bees love to pollinate avocado flowers. If you plant an avocado seed you’ll get some weird cross between the many different avocado varieties. Odds are it won’t taste good and who wants to water a tree for nine years only to get a bushel of foul avocados? So to review: if you’d like a houseplant go ahead and plant that pit. If you’d like to keep your hipsters supplied with avocado toast buy a tree from a...

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Saturday Tweets: The Weather, Moletakers and More Cats

...e (@lowtechmagazine) September 21, 2017 We do feed our bees, but only with flowers. Their honey is their medicine #treatmentfree #beecentered #nocompromise https://t.co/Zgaytsa9gE pic.twitter.com/6sCEJkfPLK — Natural BK Trust (@NaturalBeeTrust) September 23, 2017 "Cans are vital, preserving & transporting flavors that might be impossible to find out of season or out of range." https://t.co/DuS1N7vM0K — Ernest Miller (@RLMProvisions) September 19,...

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Reader Favorite California Native: Ceanothus

...ound covers that have dark green leaves and deep purple or sometimes white flowers. The reason I didn’t include it is that it didn’t meet my “bombproof” criteria, at least in our garden. It’s one of the many plants we’ve managed to kill. It’s true that once you get it going, other than yearly pruning, you can retire to the nearest bar and rest on your gardening laurels. But getting it established can be tricky. The most common mistake is over-wate...

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Saturday Tweets: Subterranean Heating Systems, Achocha, Tree Beekeeping and Valentine’s Day Cocktails

...— Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 Living Home Podcast 86: Redeem Your Ground – https://t.co/PqUrYU5Pgh via @Shareaholic — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 Raspberry Frappe, 1970 –Vintage Cocktail Friday https://t.co/jeodIFxf47 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 6 Flowers to Grow in the Vegetable Garden https://t.co/wcRz7RcI4g — Root Simple (@rootsimple) February 11, 2017 A Coffee Renaissance Is Brewing, and It’s A...

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Bidens rebuttal

...it was–so I let it be. Eventually it developed small unspectacular yellow flowers. In my mind it was a pretty-ish weed, unidentified, but fairly harmless. I kept meaning to look it up, and at the same time, I pondered pulling it because it was competing for water with my more officially invited garden plants. (Since then I’ve learned that it might give off competitive chemicals, so probably isn’t the best companion to plants I actually want to ke...

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