I saw some largish plastic pots on the footpath yesterday and the remains of a bag of manure so went to check if they were still there… they were so I guess fair game?

Carrying the pots back sucked, felt like I was going to puke, and I don’t know what to plant. But not being able to do anything productive is making my brain eat itself.

Perhaps they might be big enough for individual vegie plants of something. Zucchini? Mini pumpkins? I don’t have any stakes or the seeds.

I think I’m going to push some spinach seeds in the gaps between the carrots. Perhaps pull the half eaten ones up to make room.

I wish I could grow stuff in my backyard and not be limited to tiny pots… but I just don’t have the energy or strength to deal with the creeping grass that would only grow back under the fence from the neighbours yard. It would choke out anything I planted.

I’d have to get organised and do the soil test as well to ensure it was safe to grow edible produce.

Perhaps dig up the soil to aerate it, made more difficult by having put weed mat down in the past (the grass just grew right through) and old buried rubble from the builders that I couldn’t dig out. I’ve never been that strong and am just becoming more disabled.

I’d love a Meyer lemon tree in a pot but that would be a hassle to move.

Fatigue is absolutely flattening me but I went out and weeded my little window box pots.

There were tufts of grass taking root so I relocated them to the dead spots in the cat grass pot. (I have a few on rotation - when the current pot of cat grass by the bowl gets too grazed down it goes outside to recuperate and the other one gets moved back inside.)

Almost all of the tops on the carrots are gone so I don’t think there will be any seeds to harvest. Wondering if I should dig the roots out to plant baby spinach or just leave them in there to compost.

Yeah. So not a good idea

Fuck Colesworth. Having a disability and requiring both generic brands and delivery makes it hard to have other options… but don’t think I haven’t noticed the gouging, or how toothless the recent trust busting measures were.

I don’t know anything from experience but be careful. I heard that in America places like Target will literally wait and let you ‘get away with it’ until it reaches some cumulative amount where they can charge you with a felony.

What an odious woman.

If she’s so concerned about people in poverty I have a few ideas… but that’s just a smokescreen for wanting things that will bolster her own wealth and further her agenda.

I finally put that rosemary into a proper pot. I’m amazed it survived this long

My back door has a weirdly elevated door frame so I can’t even chuck a door snake on it. It has to be a giant rolled up beach towel and still doesn’t work

Damn, Power And Water cracked down on bottle-sharing now? /s

That’s how corporations nickel and dime you. I resist subscription services almost completely (I pay for cloud backup storage for my phone in case of breakage/theft and that’s it) because as well as being a constant financial drain they inevitably degrade and enshittify, often even removing things you paid for

Yeah, I saw that and was like wtf. I kept that link because it links to Food Connect which also has info on food resources/community gardens and was fairly simple.

The Ceres one was a bit more involved, having all of the planting guides by month and seemingly aimed at people with larger/more established gardens. https://ceres.org.au/nursery/seasonal-gardening-advice/

Maybe I can get it to grow mushrooms, double the yield

The paper cup my growing rosemary sprig is in looks mouldy… oops. I might have to repot that at some point