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[cravingcandy]

[equatorjournal]

[joga]

Rala Choi

[kaoaoanon]

it’s getting increasingly worse

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[lady-admiration]

[alisonzai]

[bogleech]

I like this, I mean, sometimes there’s an invasive species that’s going to completely wipe out a plant you’re trying to grow, and sometimes the plant itself is non-native and has no defense against endemic insects (such as…most things people traditionally like to grow, actually) but the people who just blast the shit out of their gardens with every pesticide and herbicide really need to relax. All plants evolved to handle some degree of being chewed on. One cool thing I hear some people have been doing is just planting some extra things that are even tastier and more attractive to “pests,” as basically a diversion, or I guess a sacrifice. It can apparently work pretty well!

[thehornedwitch-deactivated20211]

My mom did this with her garden! We planted a lot of tomatoes to appease the wildlife so they would leave the peaches alone, and lots of other easily-accessable Ground Plants For Munching, Many Of Which Are Tasty To Wildlife But Not To Humans to keep deer and other sundry creatures from eating all the leaves off of the fruit-bearing trees. Usually this was in enough excess that we could still feed me, my parents, my grandmother, and three of my siblings plus their offspring and wives AND the local wildlife flourished without issue. I don’t think my mother has used a pesticide in her life either. Seriously this works great. Also figure out what kind of moth and butterfly you have in your area and plant things accordingly for them. Caterpillars won’t bother your foodstuffs if there’s plenty of things they like (milkweed for Monarch Butterflies if you’re on the migration path) to munch and lay their eggs on/in.

[bogleech]

Tomatoes are hilarious they’re SO nutrient rich and fat and delicious to almost every general herbivore but that’s only because they’re so greedy and so competitive with other plants. They dig their own grave.

[fluidfyre]

I keep growing dill for just this reason! The swallowtail butterflies love carrot tops - and dill. So I can transfer all caterpillars to my dill patch and save my carrots :> 

So many people try to convince us we’re separate from nature but we never are. We are always part of the ecosystem, it’s just a matter of what we’re allowing to flourish there with us. 

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[emil-waede]

Solitude-studios.com

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[unsubconscious]

Jeremy Miranda

[ghibli-collector]

Chinese cinema poster for the remastered re-release of My Neighbour Totoro proves popular with the Japanese public. The image captures sisters Satsuki and Mei running though grass in the form of Totoro’s fur coloured moss green and pale wheat. 

[flowerytale]

Emily Brontë — Wuthering Heights

[peashooter85]

A remarkable dress dagger with rayskin grip and scabbard from India. Decorated with gold and silver, with Jade fittings studded with rubies, emeralds, and sapphires. 1700’s. Housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[robertocustodioart]

Kate Moss by Albert Watson 1993