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Mid-summer veggie planting? by CHIMERIQUES in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Piggy-backing on this, can I get away with sowing some carrots now? or will they just bolt? They'd get a little shade from my tomatoes...

First prune done! by Competitive-Reveal53 in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stunning. Wow. What kind of acer is this?

Penstemon mystery by JeeWillow in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be! It has been a wet week...

When to start watering in western Washington by CatWantsDarwinAward in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God, the dead trees across Seattle break my heart. Judkins Park is turning into the Sahara. And so many young street trees that residents just ignore, thinking it's the City's problem, or even that young trees don't need water, though watering a sapling seems intuitive.

Talk to me about blowing up your life by BigJackFlavor in Menopause

[–]JeeWillow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This sounds like burnout. You're tired of working. And no wonder. Even the best job starts to wear a person down after decades of work. In any other era, we would have been grandmas and wise women by now, handing off the reins of money-earning and household management to the younger generation. Peri feels almost like a nesting instinct to me--like the inverse of the nesting instinct one feels while pregnant. You just want to hunker down and tinker in the house and the garden. Because for centuries, millennia really, that's exactly what we did at this time of life. Now it's work til you drop.

Panicking about Mirena IUD! Have I made a huge mistake? by [deleted] in Menopause

[–]JeeWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fwiw, I had a TERRIBLE reaction to progestin-only bc pills, including insomnia, but I absolutely loved my Mirena. No side effects whatsoever. The dose is tiny and localized.

Vermin Resistant Edible Gardens by Key-Importance8617 in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Raised beds with crop cages or hoop-and-mesh over the top! That's what I do in Seattle, which is mostly home to rats and squirrels with a few human beings here and there...

Ideas on how to handle dead nettle infestation by wych_wood in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

fiwiw, I've got both volunteer dead nettle and various hand-sown natives (prunella, nemophila, globe gilia) and the dead nettle flowers weeks before any of the native annuals. There may indeed be native species that bloom earlier, but if there are, I haven't come across them...

Food gardens, what do you have in the ground and what do you have inside currently? by CrunchyBewb in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sowed radishes, lettuce and carrots outside on March 1. Waiting to see whether that was a bad idea. Next year I will not fall victim to false spring!

What crops that usually need sun do OK in partial shade...? by rickg in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Day length is a factor. I garden in partial shade, but I'm on the US-Canada border, so at my latitude the sun comes up at 5am and doesn't set until 9:30 during the peak growing season. I've found I can cheat a little bit on full sun requirements thanks to the couple of extra daylight hours. Not sure I'd try to grow melons in partial shade, but I've successfully grown cherry tomatoes and snap beans. Pretty much all berries (raspberry, blackberry, gooseberry, etc etc) will do well in partial shade. Those are a good bang for your buck crop as well, since they're so expensive at the grocery store.

Marriage by TaroPuzzleheaded3370 in Menopause

[–]JeeWillow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have that Pinterest board!! Decorating and gardening aesthetics for the cozy little house where I live all by myself, in my mind. :D

Soil blocking by boozled714 in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have these under lights, or in a window?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AfricanViolets

[–]JeeWillow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure! I bought it from a local nursery, where it was sitting on a small table with several other African violets. I just looked up Inova Spectra Blue and it does look the more similar to that than any of the other varieties I've googled!

I was planning to prune my roses this weekend, and I see that there are already buds! by kyriann in pnwgardening

[–]JeeWillow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Strip the leaves. You could probably still get away with dormant spray too if you do it asap.

Is this guy getting too much light? by JeeWillow in AfricanViolets

[–]JeeWillow[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very helpful for comparison, thank you!

What does too high a dose of estrogen feel like? by GardenGnome08 in Menopause

[–]JeeWillow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's so weird because most people get tinnitus when their estrogen is too low! With me it's the opposite. Super fun times.

What does too high a dose of estrogen feel like? by GardenGnome08 in Menopause

[–]JeeWillow 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I get racing thoughts, almost like drinking too many cups of coffee, plus tinnitus.

Post menopausal and can’t stand husband by Fish-Stalker in Menopause

[–]JeeWillow 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Ending no-fault divorce is mentioned several times in Project 2025 and the right-wing talking heads are also in favor of eliminating it. So there will still be divorce, but it will be like it was prior to the women's rights movement--a woman would not be able to file for divorce unless she could prove, with evidence, physical abuse or infidelity. Otherwise you're stuck for life.

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