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Christopher Weeks wrote:Well, I’m getting on to thinking about the harvest. I don’t think it’s quite time yet. And I think I’m going to lean things in favor of seed production this year for a couple of reasons: I want to develop my own grex or landrace, and my plants are really short anyway, so they're never going to be great linen.

The very tallest specimen I found is 44 inches but in general, they are more like 2 1/2 feet to 3 feet tall. I was expecting more like four or 5 feet…?

I think 3 feet is not bad. The most important is that there's one stalk, without any branching.

Tomato Hornworms do not live here in the Netherlands. Maybe because tomatoes are not native here? We are so lucky to be able to grow tomatoes (although most tomatoes here are grown in greenhouses), without the problem of the Hornworms.

There are some other related caterpillars here, f.e. the Sphinx ligustri (privet hawk-moth). They are fairly rare, so I am very happy if I see one of those! Yes, those caterpillars nibble on hedges, but they don't do much harm.
I understand it's different if a big fat caterpillar is eating your tomato-plants. I hope you all will get more parasitic wasps, birds and other predators in your permaculture-gardens.

I think: as long as there's room for them you can have plants as much as you like.
I have plants in the living room, the kitchen, the hallway and one of the bedrooms (the other bedroom is too dark).
These are the plants in the hallway:

Beautiful sunlight through the plants in my hallway (in my house plants are everywhere, except for one room, that is too dark).

Trace Oswald wrote:This is one of my favorites, largely because it was something I did that made a big difference in how I looked at things, and the post got apples, so I like to think it helped some other people change the way they viewed things as well.

The Importance of Doing Something.

This thread is great! I gave you one more apple for it!

My favourite had to be one of my BBs in PEP Textiles. First I thought of the hat(s) I knitted, but that did not have any apple.
But this one has apples: Make twine! Making twine (or string, cordage, thread) of plant fibers is something I still often do.
https://permies.com/wiki/105498/pep-textiles/twine-PEP-BB-textile-sand#1052503

I found this thread through 'what was your favourite post you earned an apple for?' I clicked on the link because I thought: this can be interesting! And indeed it is.

I am a procrastinator too. I am doing all kinds of activities ... but not that one!
And I found out it's true: do small (even tiny) steps, not all in one time, and eventually the 'hard' job will be done. It can take long, but it's also possible it isn't that hard at all.

G Freden wrote:...Interestingly, I don't water my aloes at all:  they get rained on when I put them outside for summer;  they go out there with very flat leaves and come back very plump, ready for another dry winter.

The climate here is often too rainy for the Aloes. One Summer they were outside and they got too much water from the rain, oe maybe the rain-water was too cold for them. Anyway: it was clear they did not like it.
So now I don't put them outside again. But of course when they stay inside I need to water them.

Jay Angler wrote:House plants can be a bonding experience between humans.
My DiL had brought a Spider plant with attached baby to my house for transplanting to a larger pot, but life got busy and the process got delayed until I insisted, today was the day!

They are both still here, as Mother Plant actually wants to land on her work windowsill which will happen at a lunch-time next week, as my house is much closer to her work. The baby is on my kitchen windowsill as it really doesn't have much in the way of roots at this point, and the windowsill will ensure it gets a little extra supervision.

I'm not good about houseplants, so I need fairly indestructible ones, or ones I value for a specific reason....

The Spider Plant is one of the most indestructable plants I know.
I'm a plant lover, with greenish fingers, but still I love those plants which always look good, even if for some reason I didn't have much attention for my plants.
My son and his family love to have plants, but they don't want to do much to keep the plants alive. So they only have Spider Plants, at least 10 of them!

Evie saw the Sci show and then reacted in her own way: