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@thatguyoverthere As chance would have it, I was watching a UK-based “what’s going on in the garden this month” video last night, and one of the jobs she was doing was taking blueberry cuttings. I think you’ve got a decent chance.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/10/punch-a-terf-the-violent-misogyny-of-the-trans-movement/

If Clive or Sadiq or the Trans+ Pride crew could point me in the direction of any counter examples, of prominent gender-critical women calling for transgender activists to be physically assaulted, or getting stuck in themselves, or refusing to condemn those who do, I’d be keen to see them. But we all know they don’t exist. For all the allegations of transphobia hurled at gender-critical campaigners over the years, they are not the extremists and haters in this debate – and they never have been.

@starsstorm @eal @thatguyoverthere So’s eal’s forest!

(I’m amazed you’re not bored of those kinds of pictures from me, must be time zones meaning you don’t usually see them!)

@eal @thatguyoverthere Oh, ok, fairly open forests, then. Still, this is also almost all bilberry with a bit of grass mixed in. I guess they like the acid soil, peat up here and podzol from the conifers where you are.

@eal @thatguyoverthere Oh, weird: they grow wild around me (although locally we call them winberries, they’re basically the same) on the open moors. I can’t picture them in woodland.

@thatguyoverthere Didn’t last long, but it looks like it was a useful amount of rain, maybe half an inch.

@thatguyoverthere They’ve been passing either side of me for the last few days, been some bad flooding. They had to shut Manchester airport last night, for a couple of hours.

@thatguyoverthere It’s certainly making a lot of noise, and light!

Looks (and sounds) like we’re going to get the promised storm soon.

@thatguyoverthere ….

How does a statue trample something…?

@TinyHouse4Life @thatguyoverthere That was what I thought. They barely get through summer here.

@thatguyoverthere Also, you can get little dome-shaped cage-cloches that might be useful to prevent future trampling. And birds, and dogs, from eating the fruit.

@thatguyoverthere Normally (with a plant that’s relatively easily replaceable and that I know responds well), I would just chop the root ball in half.

In this case, I’d be a bit more cautious: soak the rootball in a bucket for ten minutes to get most of the soil off, then just cut off a corner with a good root and some top growth. I’ve done that successfully in the past with near-black hollyhocks, which never seem to come true from seed.

@thatguyoverthere I would at least try layering first, you’d be surprised how well some things do just from a healthy leaf.

Definitely move the second one, maybe even into a pot and pamper it as it may be more likely to runner than the original.

@thatguyoverthere Afaik, strawberries from seed are a bit of a sod. No idea if they come true.

I think I’d try layering and (careful, if you only have one plant) root cuttings. It seems like strawberries should do well with layering, given the way that the runners behave.

@thatguyoverthere Have you grown them successfully before? I wonder if you’re just too hot for them. Even here, they’re treated more as a winter bedding plant than a summer one.

@thatguyoverthere How’re your pansies, btw?

@Piss_Ant It was a Yank, but I suspect Canadia is nearly as bad.

“I live in a historic house, it’s over 150 years old.”

Lmao.

@thatguyoverthere @TinyHouse4Life Definitely worth a try.