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Jessica Chasteen
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Hillbilly Hope Dealer Born of Royalty 👑 & Heresy 🕊️ @Garden_Variety_Jess #GardenVarietyJess 🎥🎙️ #GardenVarietyBlog 💜💚

Sowed some lotuses (loti?) today in my pond! 🪷 If they do well, I will update yall. 🤞🙏

Question for #gardenstr: is it just me or have you noticed a ton of reply-guys who are obsessed with “invasive” plants lately (most every platform - Reddit, TikTok, IG, not as much here)? Just seems like a lot of angst on that topic all the sudden. 😅 #asknostr #gardening

GM 🤙 I got my first impersonator over on the TicketyTok. They’ve been filling my comments with video-solicitation comments. For the record, I never make videos with just text on a black screen so if you see alt-me out there (garden_variety_jess0), do me a favor and report them. I already tried and TikTok said they’re not violating any guidelines. Lololol. #tiktok #socialmedia

Yeah one of the first things I mention is that if the answer to “why can you not forgive yourself?” Is “because I secretly know I’m gonna let myself down again” then that’s a personal responsibility problem and needs accountability applied.

One of the trending search phrases on #tiktok right now is “how do you forgive yourself” which is a really interesting phrase to go viral (though not surprising with the current level of collective guilt for perpetuating mass violence, but I digress) - but it provided the opportunity for me to pay forward a lesson my old therapist taught me: the why not and so what method. Enjoy. 🫶 #selfforgiveness #selflove #therapy

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRKP4ntj/

I used old rail ties at my last house - they were neat

I took them away from my front flower beds and just use an edge tool and mulch, but I do see the appeal of having a solid border of some kind to block light because the grass is less likely to run under them into the beds. I suppose a low hedge row would work for the same reason. Or cardboard but it’s less pretty haha

What’s your least favorite garden task? I’ll go first: moving border rocks 🪨 lol like I know, I know, it’s free weightlifting, but if rocks could not be so heavy, that’d be great. 😅 Where’s my anti-grav inventors at??

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I don’t have one that is quite that short, but I can make one if that is helpful! Lmk

You guyssss my first Apple 🥹🥹🥹 #gardenstr

GM 🌞 These lilies are radical. If you lean in close, you can hear them whispering: “Stop using tax dollars to fund suffering!” Lol but seriously.