Corymbia citriodora is supposed to work very well for repelling mosquitos. In my experience, it does nothing whatsoever, but I’ve also never seen a healthy tree, so your experience may be different.

Thanks! There’s still way too much grass for my taste, but it’s getting more lovely all the time. More durian would be nice.

Plenty of rain lately, so almost everything is growing a lot. Some of the jackfruits that I planted last year are still struggling, but most of them had some root damage during transplant, so I’m not surprised. Some of the new engkalas are really taking off now, despite everything in the world trying to kill them. I recently direct-seeded some Flemingia macrophylla as an alley crop in one area, but it hasn’t come up yet… I’m mainly doing maintenance this month: pruning some bigger trees, removing all of the little guavas that sprout up, and planting more pinto peanut. The grass is growing back in many areas, but I’ll keep chopping it down and uprooting it in front of the pinto peanut so that that can take over.

Edit: I smell a ripe jackfruit. I guess I’ll be eating that today.

Amazon Restore is one that I’ll be watching from now on!

Make a post: !plantswap@mander.xyz

This. Growing food is easy. Eating food is hard. Especially banana.

slrpnk.net already has its own XMPP chat option where one’s Lemmy username (e.g. user@slrpnk.net) is one’s XMPP address, and I imagine that other instances could do something similar if they wanted. XMPP is federated, so it doesn’t require any Lemmy-side coding for the federation aspect. For instance-wide chat (visible to all users of the instance), an implementation in XMPP would probably be easier as well, perhaps using some form of the group chat functionality. What does your proposal offer that cannot be done using XMPP?

Experiences like that are worth remembering. :)

Never heard of those dogwood fruits, but sounds like something that I would eat if I ever found it growing. Cool that you were able to educate those folks!

And let’s not forget those delicious ovaries! Sweet, juicy, engorged ovaries… Yum! 😋

I’d be interested to know how they turn out!

All solid choices by the sound of it. I’ll need to read up on loquat some more.

How fortunate that you experienced an abundance of fruit at an early age!

Though I hear Mullvad has its own Firefox fork now

Mullvad Browser? It’s basically Tor Browser without the Tor, meant to be used with a VPN instead. It has integration with Mullvad VPN by default, but that add-on can be removed, and the browser doesn’t need Mullvad VPN in order to function. Since the browser is based on Firefox, someone might want to fund Firefox development by using it with Mozilla VPN instead.

And the tree doesn’t get too big and out of control?

Good to know. Different plants probably have different sensitivities to it also.

Ah. I didn’t want to assume anything about your level of knowledge/experience. Apple trees and most nut trees can take a long time regardless, so time will tell how they perform…

Just so you know, being planted near black walnut trees also makes things grow slower. But yeah, I imagine that Maine would depress just about any tree…

Diversification is key to any successful investment strategy.

You don’t. Bamboo is not your friend. Bamboo is not anyone’s friend.