vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 27/07/2026everything in consumer package goods is either downstream of the military, a solution in search of a problem, or will shortly be found to cause unexpected long term consequences. 010
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 18/12/2025Now now now let’s not leave the dog out of this entirely, this is the internet after all 010
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 18/12/2025The thing about book people is, they usually get the last word. 090
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 24/10/2025Please, my father was Mister Mustard. Call me 010
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 21/09/2025Time to start putting things up for the winter. Bourbon sage fig jam. 041
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 13/09/2025My beloved and I been having a rough go about the whole American project for a minute now, but we got a chicken 65 quesadilla from the Tikka Taco jawn on Preston where a Punjabi crew bought out the white boi burrito joint and we felt like patriots for about the length of said flatbreads 150
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 11/09/2025Lots of things happened last night but shout out to freezer martinis and fried chicken 020
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 08/07/2025Does it add flavor? Nope. But it feels lavish. 100
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 05/07/2025Caffè doing just fine as long as I don’t breathe too hard or often 010
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 19/06/2025Hydrangeas, marigolds, cone flowers, borage. All just steps from our house, though my arranging needs work 010
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 16/06/2025Grew those cone flowers, too, but it’s better described as “didn’t get in their way” 110
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 16/06/2025Yesterday I picked some of those flowers I mentioned because @ennuigo.bsky.social was redoing the florals for the week 100
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025It’s a dark art and I don’t pretend to understand it. I will start after the new year tho, I got a bench set up and everything 100
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025On impulse I plunked down a bunch of gladiolus around the place, this pot was the three I was sure wouldn’t make it. We respect a plant what will not die. 100
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025Foxglove loved the front yard: about half of these are volunteers from the initial two. Once we have a trouble of foxglove (foxdie? SNAAAAAAAKE) I'll probably try cutting some 100
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025@ennuigo.bsky.social planted this hollyhock last year and it was a challenge to keep it alive— something was snacking on its leaves pretty aggressively, just getting it to flower was an accomplishment 110
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025there's a reason starts are expensive: these...forget me nots? (oh, the irony) were started in probably April with the idea of planting them by Derby. it is mid-June. There's a reason nobody is particularly precious about seedlings. 🌱 210
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025an amaryllis that's flowered once next to tomato seedlings a neighbor grew and some strawberries in pots that yield pretty infrequently but man, that's a vibe 130
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025growing annuals and cut flowers as well, here's some what's the story (morning glories) training up 110
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025a plot of edamame that won't shut up about preferring pet sounds in mono (and a single pea shoot in the back what won't stop singing that Barenaked Ladies song, RIP brian wilson) 210
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025our first blackberry which I check every morning in anticipation of hand feeding it to @ennuigo.bsky.social 120
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025Lenny the beefsteak tomato plant, who is in tomato jail because he wouldn't stop getting spider mites 150
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025Companion plants kicking it in the dirt (tomatoes, marigold, basil, some kind of volunteer squash) 130
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025front: lavender, which prefers to be left alone, back is a dahlia that needs pruning and oh no I watered the mint oh god oh fuck 140
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025a container fig tree that doesn't know whether to fruit or grow and really, whomst amongst us 130
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025Bee balm, doing great in the sunshine. Attracts butterflies and bumblebees, smells of bergamont 140
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 12/06/2025Because I forced @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social to read the narration of my garden this morning, I give you: garden leave, presented by two weeks' severance. 4201
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 07/06/2025This place: the juice? Many are saying “could be” 010
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 22/05/2025Alright well that’s a hell of a start to the day please look at some pictures of our dogs 010
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 09/05/2025Bring! Back! Cranks! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u... 021
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 24/04/2025So @davidwondrich.bsky.social I'm guessing Trader Vic didn't have a ghostwriter for his books, yeah? @ennuigo.bsky.social found a copy of Kitchen Kibbitzer a few weeks ago and it includes a lot of interesting biographical anecdotes (and this absolute short story of a cocktail spec) 220
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net · 09/03/2025Which yeah, I forgot to post these from work yesterday (do you even lift toddy, bro) 310