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Imogen SB (4507 KP) created a video about track Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks in Ultimate Hits by Garth Brooks in Music
Apr 4, 2019
Meeri Phillips (21 KP) rated Good Omens in TV
Jun 2, 2019
Fantastic
Watched the whole series. Really enjoyed. CGI not brilliant but definitely passable. Tennant is great as a demon, the only part I didn't think flowed was the scene with the plants. The whole series made the demon seemed a little more neutral than the whole putting the fear of everything into the plants. Otherwise fantastic if you want a funny and enjoyable fantasy.
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Dean (6921 KP) rated Medicine Man (1992) in Movies
Apr 30, 2019
An enjoyable drama as a scientist is close to discovering a cure for cancer but bulldozers are closing in on the area of forest where the plants with the possible cure are located.
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Nov 18, 2017
Katey Bassett (610 KP) rated S-Town in Podcasts
Oct 13, 2019
Favorite podcast
This podcast left me wishing I got to meet John and have a drink with him while we talked about trees and plants and shit. Definitely wish someone like John was my neighbor!
Simon Sinek recommended How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Your Personal Green Space in Books (curated)
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This is an amazing reference book. It begins with some general chapters on why you should save seeds, the anatomy of seeds, and some basic techniques for harvesting seeds, hand-pollinating, basic general principles of seed storage and the like. Then it dives into the real meat of the book, the chapters on the specific plants. They're divided into the six broad categories listed in the subtitle: vegetables, herbs, flowers, fruits, trees, and shrubs. Within those chapters, each species is listed separately, with notes on the scientific name, the species family, the plant type (annual, biennial, perennial), seed viability, how many plants to save seed from, spacing for seed saving, and then a few paragraphs on flowering and pollination, any isolation requirements, and specifics on how to harvest, clean, and store the seeds for that species. It also has germination and transplanting notes for each species.
This would be an invaluable reference manual if you intend to save seeds from your plants and become self-sufficient, but it's still useful if not, for its notes on the pollination of each species. The isolation requirements are especially interesting; there are some plants that will cross-pollinate with plants 10 miles away! The sidebar on pumpkins and squash was also fascinating - I didn't know so many squash were technically the same species as pumpkins, just different cultivars. And that means they'll cross-breed if you're not careful! Even more fascinating, giant pumpkins aren't the same species as jack o'lantern pumpkins, so they won't cross breed.
I will absolutely be adding this book to my collection as a reference manual.You can find all my book reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.com
This would be an invaluable reference manual if you intend to save seeds from your plants and become self-sufficient, but it's still useful if not, for its notes on the pollination of each species. The isolation requirements are especially interesting; there are some plants that will cross-pollinate with plants 10 miles away! The sidebar on pumpkins and squash was also fascinating - I didn't know so many squash were technically the same species as pumpkins, just different cultivars. And that means they'll cross-breed if you're not careful! Even more fascinating, giant pumpkins aren't the same species as jack o'lantern pumpkins, so they won't cross breed.
I will absolutely be adding this book to my collection as a reference manual.You can find all my book reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.com