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muy bella !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Vincent van Gogh’s paintings of flowers

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Medical room… I am in love. Swooooooon 

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Avenue of Poplars, 1884

Vincent van Gogh 

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It’s painful but we really must talk about it…those unwanted visitors that keep popping up in your yard. I’m not talking about the in-laws; I’m talking about those gosh-darned, cotton-pickin’, sons-of-a gun weeds. Where did they come from, why do they stay, and why the heck are they growing...

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Georg Dionysius Ehret, Opuntia Ficus - Indica, Prickly pear, 1761. London. Watercolor painting on vellum. Source

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18.05.2014 I learned yesterday that when you see a bee on the ground that isn’t moving, it’s not necessarily dead, it’s probably just dead tired from carrying lots of pollen and needs re-energising. So if you mix a tiny bit of water with some sugar and let it drink it will give it the boost it needs to continue on its way. Bizarrely, this exact thing happened today! I found a knackered bee, mixed up some sugar water, gave it a drink and watched it guzzle and guzzle then suddenly come back to life. It was amazing! Thank you patrick, it was an excellent tip that i’ll never forget and will continue to pass on to others!

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#bees

[oldmosswoman]

My thoughts are to plant the egg shell with the tomato, cracking the bottom and pulling the shell up the stem a bit to irritate the slugs. I regularly distribute crunched egg shells under the tomato plants to repel slugs, they hate the abrasive little daggers.

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I did not know this! Good information!

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You are also preventing blossom end rot (calcium deficiency)!

#fertiliser #seedlings #DIY #garden hacks #mulch

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tell me your secrets

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A map of urban farm projects in NYC, from The Potential for Urban Agriculture in NYC by Urban Design Lab. 

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I think the salvia may be blooming by tomorrow.

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Salvia tea ♥ 

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Salvia officinalis. Illustration by P.J. Redoute from ‘La Botanique de J.J. Rousseau’ (1805).

 Missouri Botanical Garden.  https://archive.org/stream/mobot31753000809605#page/21/mode/2up

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China’s Surreal Urban Farms

As its leaders often remind the world, China has 22 percent of the world’s population, but less than 10 percent of its arable land (as much as one fifth of which, it was recently reported, is severely polluted). People find ways to make up for the shortfall. For centuries officials have complained of peasants cultivating marginal lands, and for just as long Chinese farmers have been geniuses of agricultural improvisation, making use of whatever land they could find when they needed it.

Today, the country is in the midst of a massive shift from countryside to city. Much of it has occurred at will, as ambitious migrants have left the fields to seek new jobs and new experiences in the factories of China’s booming cities. But many others do not move at will. Instead, they are expelled from their homes and into strange new lives as city folk as the fields they once tended give way to new roads and shopping malls or slip under the rising waters of newly risen dams. Still others fall somewhere in between. They may find themselves following their children to new lives and new status as members of an urban population that, for the first time, in 2011 exceeded the number of those remaining in the countryside. China’s leaders hope that 70 percent of the country will be urban by 2030.

In cities, old rhythms of life die hard, and even as more and more farmland on the outskirts of urban areas disappears, new transplants and old holdouts continue to find patches of ground to plant.

Tim Franco, a Shanghai-based photographer, has spent time on these “microfarms” in the heart of the megacity Chongqing, where the changes underway across the country appear especially stark. Some farmers grow food to feed their families, others to supplement their incomes, and some because, with the city closing in all around them, it’s the only thing that makes them feel at home. Please click on images to enlarge.