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I garden in the Mojave. Desert rat by birth and choice.

I’m trying my hand at Hopi Red Dye amaranth too. First time actually. Let me know if you have any tips!

Your San Pedros look great too. I’m propagating about a dozen cuttings currently…outside…which I know is unfair. One of a handful of perks of living in the desert I guess

The sunsets this time of year. But also ready for January to be over already.

I have never had a nap like this and I’m so jealous

Your saltwater pool will be in tip top shape in no time at all! 😘 JK. I have been thinking about hydroponics here in the desert. I enjoy learning about your journey

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Just beautiful. My lantana are all shadows of their summer selves in the desert winter. A few more weeks and they will start to take off.

I have a goal this year to read 50 books. Just finished the first one: Cactus Country by Zoe Bossiere. Next up: House of Rain by Craig Childs. #bookstr

My favorite recent sci fi trilogy is Anne Leckie’s ancillary series. The setup is wild (powerful ship AI ends up in human body and seeks to overthrow the emperor) and the story does not abate while casting light on some important contemporary themes: how we deal with injustice, what makes a life and what makes a life worth protecting, how should we understand freedom and technology, etc. I think about it all the time. This is something that good science fiction does well: takes a salient question (how should we treat people that aren’t like us?) and casts it in a new, otherworldly light. At its best it asks us to rethink our own relationship to the world. While I’m on it, another series that does this really well is Adrian Tchaikovksy’s Children of Time series. Totally transformed how I see and interact with spiders!

This is a really brilliant way of getting your ratios right. I once had a hot compost pile. It felt like achieving nirvana. Has never happened since! Just the slow grind of stuff becoming other stuff. But I’ll never forget that hot pile! Ha!

ā€œI too am not a bit tamed. I too am untranslatable.ā€

Got Whitman on the brain these last few days as I think about the wild gardens I’ve known and grown.

#nature #gardenstr