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@thatguyoverthere Nah, I wouldn’t get too hung up on flowers. Just have a feel around the biggest.

Definitely lift them as you need them, they’re so much tastier straight out of the ground.

@thatguyoverthere It’s always tricky to call, I find. I’ll probably start lifting mine in a couple of weeks, so yours are likely ready now. Personally I like to start a bit too soon (one meal per plant stage), and then just lift them one plant at a time when I need them.

@ArtistBristol Who the fuck puts a bikini on a dog? At least the other thing is conceivably useful for keeping the dog warm.

@sim I’m typically around 7-8k at this time of year, which is about an hour walking the dog and about an hour pottering in the garden (plus the usual moving around the house stuff). When the weather’s less good, maybe 6k.

@sim Given you’re not used to walking, you might do better to build up more gradually.

Or you could do what @dave did and walk in circles around your house. How’s that going, Dave? Did you get back into it or have you ventured outside now the weather’s better?

@sim Keeping in mind that I’m forever stopping while Dog sniffs at / wees on things, I reckon about an hour and a half of solid walking would get you most of the way there. Four or five miles, maybe?

@thatguyoverthere @marlin @coolboymew Seriously, that’s actually some sort of North American mammal that we don’t have over here, like a “slender-tailed beaver” or something, right?

@thatguyoverthere @Humpleupagus @KiKi88 Can’t see the whole thread, but if you’re talking about the bomb threats made by the TQ against Target stores for — the horror — moving their “pride” merch away from the front of the stores:

WOIO reported that threats were also made at four other Target locations in Boardman, Ohio, Niles, Ohio, and Monaca, Pennsylvania.

Separate threats were made to several Target locations in Utah as well, reported CBS News affiliate KUTV, including stores in Layton, Salt Lake, Taylorsville and Provo

https://www.newsweek.com/target-faces-bomb-threats-amid-lgbtq-controversy-1802991?amp=1

@thatguyoverthere @caekislove @Royper That was my assumption, based on existing in-use designs. Being clear when I used means you can check it’s clean / empty.

I am relieved that the default power-cut state is opaque, though!

@thatguyoverthere @collatz Won’t hurt!

@thatguyoverthere @collatz I wouldn’t give up on it just yet. As far as I know, the danger time for grapes is in spring after the sap starts to rise, but summer and winter pruning are both ok so I would have thought autumn would be ok too, even if she took off too much for the time of year. Have you given it a mulch?

@thatguyoverthere @collatz Wait, how? Did she do it at the wrong time of year or something? Grapes will usually take any amount of pruning.

@stingray I don’t think I ever learnt one for planets, and am giggling at your typo, but for geological eras there’s one that goes, iirc:

Pregnant camels often sit down carefully. Perhaps their joints creak. Easing oil might prevent pain.

@thatguyoverthere I’ve never grown them, but I’ve heard that birds are much keener on purple than white, so hopefully your third tree will come into its own in a few years.

@thatguyoverthere Are they purple or white? Do you have problems with the birds eating them?

@thor I think you’ve never had properly fresh and/or appropriately-cooked vegetables, in that case.

@thatguyoverthere @dcgirl @ringo I’m pretty sure there’s an SF story about that. Spoiler: it doesn’t go well.

@ringo @thatguyoverthere @dcgirl What could possibly go right?

I mean, how would dosing work, for a start?

@thatguyoverthere @EvilSandmich Yeah, at least here it would just be a knock at the door.

Iirc, you can get daylight spectrum lights these days that are nearly as good.

@EvilSandmich @thatguyoverthere I am to this day astonished that I’ve never had a knock at the door, as it’s very visible from outside at night.