Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
13.02.2025 16:14 β π 491 π 256 π¬ 7 π 28
Broccoli harvest as big as my head.
#garden #phoenixgardener
09.02.2025 03:19 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Curly kale displaying negative curvature
Lacinato (aka dinosaur or Tuscan) kale displaying positive curvature.
Russian kale is flat
It's kind of fun that the three main varieties of kale represent the three types of surface geometry (negatively curved, positively curved, and flat).
02.02.2025 16:20 β π 45 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Just a few hundredths of an inch but we will take it. 159 days with no rain in the hottest year on record. The desert is struggling.
30.01.2025 17:22 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Quick #garden check in while trying to remain positive.
29.01.2025 05:11 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is my biggest pet peeve! They fill with all sorts of things.
23.01.2025 01:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
My office viewβ¦. Head down and #garden on. Just know that Iβm also plotting the revolution as I do so.
08.01.2025 05:55 β π 44 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
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Iβm a master gardener and writer living in the Southwest. Some people say I'm an obsessed gardener, but I prefer the word passionate. Either way, let's talk plants.
Retired from teaching but not from caring about all our kidsβ futures. Hence still fighting battles I thought we won and trying to be less furious and more effective. Native gardening! Cheesehead.
Transforming a lawn in the Philly 'burbs into an edible landscape & insect habitat. Growing new gardeners.
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Writing about land & memory. PhD in post-colonial stuff. Queer/bi/autistic. Shortlisted for the Nan Shepherd Prize 2023. Glasgow. Free π΅πΈ
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Professor of Sustainable Agriculture. Nature-based Solutions; Grassland Specialist; Expert Wildlife Gardener. Views are my own.
Gardener, veg grower, cat-lover. Organic. Permaculture.
Writer, Amateur Gardening mag.
BBC Radio Wales garden expert.
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Botanist. Talks about plants and food way too much.