Melissa- The Desert Smells Like Veggies

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 — 👍 491    🔁 256    💬 7    📌 28

Broccoli harvest as big as my head.

#garden #phoenixgardener

09.02.2025 03:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 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 — 👍 45    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 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 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quick #garden check in while trying to remain positive.

29.01.2025 05:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Veggies are my jam.

25.01.2025 16:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is my biggest pet peeve! They fill with all sorts of things.

23.01.2025 01:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My office view…. Head down and #garden on. Just know that I’m also plotting the revolution as I do so.

08.01.2025 05:55 — 👍 44    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0