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[vanessarama]

I’m hungry but I can’t go get lunch because Rocket is sleeping on me

#the eternal cat dilemma #vanessarambles

[vanessaramadrama]

HI I absolutely ADORE your lantern bearer AUs and I would DIE for your art style??? You do SUCH a good job at conveying tone and you have SUCH a solid grasp on lighting omg [I’ve been staring at your Greg lantern bearer AU picture for ages I absolutely love it]

This ask made my night, thank you anon :,) I struggle with lighting a lot, it’s nice to hear I’m making some progress!

#I hope you’re having a great night anon thank you for the very sweet ask ❤️ #asks #vanessarambles

[adventuresingardening]

I am compiling a list of plants that are aggressively easy to grow here where I live, south Florida zone 10, at least here in my backyard with our sandy rocky soil and full sun. By “aggressively easy” I mean that once established, I can basically just do NOTHING for them and they will still thrive.

In no particular order: lemongrass, firebush, banana, yuca, culantro (not the same thing as cilantro), plumeria.

All tropical perennials, which is not surprising. The lemongrass I first had some difficulty growing from seed (the little sprouts can get washed away or rot in too wet containers), but once I succeeded and got 2 adults plants in the ground, they eventually flowered and then I had volunteers lemongrass growing up against the fence where the lawnmower doesn’t quite reach. It does benefit from aggressively cutting it back once a year to make room for new growth, but not its necessary if you don’t want/can’t.

The yuca came from a gifted cutting, and since then I’ve been able to propagate from taking cuttings myself. My original red dwarf banana tree was a gift, and I’ve been able to gift babies from that plant as well. The firebush is native here, and I bought it as a small potted plant when I found it at Lowe’s. It has since then grown into a giant beautiful monster, always full of pollinators, including the occasional hummingbird. I haven’t tried to propagate it, but maybe soon...

Culantro was also a potted plant buy at the store. I honestly forgot it existed, and it just keeps popping out leaves, flowers, and seeds where it lives, in its same pot hidden in the shade of some small bushes.

Plumeria is like yuca: take a cutting, stick it in the ground, watch it grow. Beautiful flowers and the occasional fun alien-looking seed pod.

As much as I enjoy the ritual of caring for plants that need regular attention, I really love having plants that I can stick in the ground and then just watch them do their thing. For the most part I only go in every few months to clean up/prune. But they’re fine without me and that feels really good! I like to imagine I gave them a home perfectly suited to them.

#vanessarambles

[testerblogoroo]

#vanessarambles #tag it #test #testing #12345

[vanessarama]

The stress pile did pile too high today. And the last straw was the fucking kitchen sink water valve leaking at which point I DID start crying. Fuck this earth I’m getting myself boba tea.

#it’s been a day! #vanessarambles

[vanessarama]

October should be 3 months long

#vanessarambles

[vanessarama]

My body is on Earth but my heart is inside the Orion spacecraft on its way to orbit the moon

#vanessarambles #Artemis 1 #artemis i moon mission

[vanessarama]

#ok trying this again since it appeared as ‘poll unavailable at this time’ when I tried posting without a ‘question’ #vanessarambles #anyway I have polls now :)

[vanessarama]

Why is all white chocolate disgusting except for Hershey’s cookies and cream bar?

#is it just balanced out by all the crunchy actual chocolate bits? #anyway. I have candies left over from the holidays and several of the winter themed ones are white chocolate #I eat them under protest (i want a snack but already ate the other chocolates) #vanessarambles

[vanessarama]

Garden to-do’s:

Call 811 prior to tree planting

Clear tree planting spots of weeds

Plant bahama strongbark

Plant green buttonwood

Pot up the pitch apple

Lay down cardboard and mulch in new raised bed spot

Put together new raised bed

Fill new raised bed

Top up small raised bed with soil and compost

Empty compost bin and reassemble/fix

Start November seeds

Start MORE November seeds

Finish pruning backyard bougainvillea

Clear front walkway patch of weeds

Mulch front walkway patch

#vanessarambles #11.21.23 update

[vanessarama]

It’s starting to be that time of year when there’s always food/snacks at our office. Which is great but also means I’m always sleepy

#the sugar highs and lows #vanessarambles

[vanessarama]

I miss drawing :( I only ever have time to have 1 hobby at a time and it sucks. I want to do everything but I work and I’m tired.

#I don’t have time or energy for anything anymore #I make time to garden on the weekends and that’s it. it’s all I can fit in #vanessarambles

[vanessarama]

Gardening YouTube is dominated by men, but who cares. All I need is these 3 women in central Florida showing me their Everglades tomatoes and acknowledging that the “planting times” maps on the back of seed packets don’t mean shit for us.

#vanessarambles #it used to be impossible to find south Florida specific garden videos #none of them are from SFL but they AT LEAST are in CFL and they go over differences for S C and N

[vanessarama]

I’m going to start being like conservative Christians on the internet who blame natural disasters on the “sinful” people who live there. Every time a strong hurricane comes here to Florida it’s because god is trying to kill Ron Desantis.

#to be clear. I’m from Florida. and it’s not funny when a hurricane hits us #I’m just real fucking angry at the political climate here right now #vanessarambles

[vanessarama]

One of my personal superstitions is that if I see a snake in the wild I think it’s good luck.

#based on nothing but I like snakes #saw a little guy near our front door today #vanessarambles

[vanessarama]

millennials are the way we are because we were born when Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune btw

#this is a joke post disclaimer #I know the years don’t line up exactly #vanessarambles