Stupid effing Robin!!!
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Comments (34)Edging out of dormancy with warm days and low 20's just before dawn- Light skiffs of snow a couple of days in the past week, which is great. We need the moisture. Buds are swelling everywhere, but only the pears are trying to bloom. The plum and apricot must be a week or two off, and the apple is just barely not dormant. Crocuses and japanese iris are still blooming, lilacs are not there, and garlic is barely peaking through. Red wing blackbirds are nesting, robins are back, and osprey are reclaiming territory. Geese and ducks are on the nest, and the students are driving too fast. It must be spring! :-)M...See MoreI did something stupid... :(
Comments (18)A lot of plants actually do require sodium...even discounting C4 plants. Though the amount needed for health rarely needs supplemental amendment help, it is considered an essential micronutrient by many. If we want to be technical about it...there's a chunk of people who don't consider sodium an "essential" micronutrient...and some that do. It's one of the more debatable and debated nutrients out there. I happen to fall into the camp that it's an essential functional nutrient and here's why... I don't want to get too "heavy" into this, but long distance ion transport in plant tissues is achieved very easily via sodium and it's "negative" effects are excluded in various blocking mechanism sites in the plant's pathway (depending upon the plant). Plants have evolved to use sodium to get solutions in water and plant tissues where it needs to go in a kind of osmosis effect. Sodium is an important "transport nutrient" for many other important processes in many plants even though it is rarely involved in the makeup of many essential plant chemicals/compounds. It accomplishes this better and way more efficiently than any other cation (even potassium). You can kinda think of sodium as a "movement booster" for both water and complimentary nutrients/compounds/etc in the solution hitching a ride with the Na+ getting where it can do more good in a much faster manner. This action especially aids a lot of quick water movement through the plant and cell walls up until the Na is excluded from the process. This exclusion happens sometimes in the roots, sometimes in parts of the stem, and sometimes all the way to parts of the leaves...partially blocked and sometimes almost fully blocked. Like many things biological, these systems can be "overridden" by an excessive amount of sodium and if the plant cannot deal with excess, damage can occur. Beyond that, some non-essential benefits from sodium help form chemical pathways for some sugars in crops we enjoy...such as carrots...as well as being quite important to glucose production in sugar beets. Sodium and glucose (sugar) have a somewhat weird, yet important relationship with each other in this respect. It all comes down to energy storage allocation, but it results in sweeter carrots and beets you can make table sugar out of for us humans. In many C4 plants (especially low-water adapted C4 plants) sodium is a crucial part of the plant's water management scheme...from water movement to stoma control keeping the plants from losing water through transpiration...as well as some other metabolic things which would require a lot more explaining, mostly involving pyruvic acids and their role in glucose use in photosynthesis in C4 plants. This post was edited by nc-crn on Sun, Oct 6, 13 at 8:00...See MoreRoses that make stupid songs run through your head
Comments (26)Among the more inane things I do upon seeing certain roses, is to utter particular words or phrases -- some of which happen to be song lyrics. There are three of the roses linked below planted next to my compost bin. Every single time I visit that distant part of the garden and see her ever-present and always cheerful blooms, I spontaneously greet her by saying, "Well, coo coo ca-choo to you!" A somewhat wacky lyric fragment from a really terrific song . . . The gardener's compulsive utterances, however, probably qualify as being stupid. Here is a link that might be useful: Apologies to Simon & Garfunkel...See MoreNewbie with, yes, a stupid question :-)...Datura
Comments (7)If they are datura they will most likely not grow from cuttings, they usually only grow from seed but brugmansia will grow from cuttings. You could pot up the plant and overwinter it or just start new seeds. Some people on this forum have clever ways of covering the seed pod with a used dryer sheet and twisty tie it over the pod or a foot of a nylon to prevent the seeds from scattering. If you can you post a picture or a link to the datura flower, I bet someone here can identify it for you. I am better with brugs than datura but I am learning ;D. Oh, and the only stupid question, is the one that you had and didn't ask! :P lol....See Morerina_Ontario,Canada 5a
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