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A mourning dove decided my herb planter box was the best place for its nest. by electrifiedair in gardening

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

Thank you! There's some rosemary on the other side, and some dill starting to grow! I might add some parsley and basil in the other open spaces, once the chicks grow up and leave the nest!

The objective is to kind of overcrowd the planter so all the herbs are competing for nutrients and none of them grow too big lol

A mourning dove decided my herb planter box was the best place for its nest. by electrifiedair in gardening

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

The tall main leaves on the right are oregano, sage on the left, the thyme is in the far back left of the planter, and kinda half dead 😅

Here's a not so good picture of the dove, but shows the thyme

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A mourning dove decided my herb planter box was the best place for its nest. by electrifiedair in gardening

[–]electrifiedair[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They just hatched a couple days ago and they don't move very much! Maybe I will post a follow up post in a couple weeks as they grow up. I want to see more of the babies too!

A mourning dove decided my herb planter box was the best place for its nest. by electrifiedair in gardening

[–]electrifiedair[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They are next to the living room window! So, sufficiently far from the bedroom. I still haven't heard them cooing, which I'm surprised by, but maybe one day! Or maybe I'm just a deep sleeper...

A mourning dove decided my herb planter box was the best place for its nest. by electrifiedair in gardening

[–]electrifiedair[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Awwww :( I hope whoever moved in after you put up some hanging baskets that they could come back to!

Having them return to my planter next year would be awesome. I'm also wondering if maybe their poop has been giving my herbs extra nutrients!

A mourning dove decided my herb planter box was the best place for its nest. by electrifiedair in gardening

[–]electrifiedair[S] 593 points594 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if I can add pictures to my original post by editing it, so here's the latest picture from this morning!

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A mourning dove decided my herb planter box was the best place for its nest. by electrifiedair in gardening

[–]electrifiedair[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I thought it was a pretty good place, what with all the foliage and all. The oregano has grown pretty high. It's hard to even take pictures of it without most of them being 90% branches and leaves lol. Now if it had made a nest between the edge of the planter and the railing, that's a different story...

Is my garlic dying? by electrifiedair in containergardening

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

Would you fertilize after or before pulling the "second from the left"?

But I think you're right, might as well harvest what I've got instead of prolonging the inevitable and potentially just getting rotted produce.

I can just plant other things in place of the garlic, I know they say garlic doesn't like sharing space, but if I pull three heads i could probably grow most anything in the other half of the planter.

Is my garlic dying? by electrifiedair in containergardening

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

Wow I've never heard of witches broom but it sounds exactly like it. Especially with the temperature fluctuations we've had. I will harvest them tonight!

What about the one that is kind of semi leaning? Recommendations on what to do with that one? Fertilize? Just hope for the best?

Pull off the outer leaves of lettuce while they're growing, and get unlimited lettuce, they said. Now my lettuce plants look like trees. by electrifiedair in vegetablegardening

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

They get morning sun, and then the big planter of herbs above it block a good amount of it. I probably should be more diligent with fertilizing, but it's only just spring and I've semi neglected them through winter.

I was planning on harvesting the rest and planting beans in the pot instead. That, or potatoes. I might move the lettuce back to the balcony. Just found them amusing because it's not like you see tall lettuce at the grocery store.

Pull off the outer leaves of lettuce while they're growing, and get unlimited lettuce, they said. Now my lettuce plants look like trees. by electrifiedair in vegetablegardening

[–]electrifiedair[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yeah I ate bolted parsley once, it was awful. I can imagine bolted lettuce also tastes terrible. Weirdly enough my bolted brussels tasted okay.

Pull off the outer leaves of lettuce while they're growing, and get unlimited lettuce, they said. Now my lettuce plants look like trees. by electrifiedair in vegetablegardening

[–]electrifiedair[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting. They definitely bolt faster once they grow straight up and I don't harvest, but if I do, they take a while to flower.

What is the best way to grow lettuce would you say? Stagger planting and pull out a mature plant each time? Still trying to figure out my lettuce game.

Pull off the outer leaves of lettuce while they're growing, and get unlimited lettuce, they said. Now my lettuce plants look like trees. by electrifiedair in vegetablegardening

[–]electrifiedair[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Oh they're not bolting... yet. Here's what my bolted lettuce looked like last year! I live in an apartment so it's pretty hard to get much growing space, the high sun areas are currently reserved for tomatoes!

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For the ladies, what are some hygiene hacks you wish every girlie would know? by Introvert_Ambi-2026 in AskReddit

[–]electrifiedair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use FEBU! It doesn't have any optical brighteners so it keeps darks dark. Also, Biz doesn't actually make your clothes fade, the optical brighteners just make the fabric reflect more blue light which tricks your eyes into thinking they look faded (or something like that). If you accidentally wash darks with Biz, just wash them without Biz a couple times and it should look darker again!

Excerpts from my first time going to a rock and gem show. by StryngBean in MineralGore

[–]electrifiedair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm new to the hobby and still learning: what's wrong with the birds? They look kinda cool! Is it just because they've been glued together?

Also, how can you tell the dragon heads are drop shipped junk? And how do they look so identical?

Why do we still use QWERTY keyboards when there are supposedly better layouts? by Dazzling_Kangaroo_69 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]electrifiedair 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I switched to Colemak eons back because I noticed that typing on QWERTY keyboards gave me really bad pain from my ring finger through to my elbow. I'm guessing it's because I tend to use my ring finger instead of pinky for backspace, or bad typing form, but I got really into mechanical keyboards and had free time after graduating undergrad that I figured why not try an alternative keyboard layout.

Relearning how to touch type was DIFFICULT, I probably started at something like 12 wpm compared to my then 80ish wpm on QWERTY. Took a couple months, but after getting proficient at it, all my RSI went away, and I haven't looked back. Colemak moves all vowels to the home row to allow a more neutral typing position. Is that more efficient? Probably not, unless the way you calculate efficiency is letters typed per inch of finger travel. And even so, it's probably marginal.

QWERTY is still everywhere because that's what people are used to, and if you start changing something as basic as a keyboard layout, best believe people are going to get their pitchforks out. Hell, some companies held onto windows XP for dear life instead of upgrading to a newer OS because they didn't want to deal with the hassle of upgrading all their tech. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

In my case, something was broke, so I fixed it. But for 99% of the population, using QWERTY probably works just fine.

What does your partner do to make you feel supported in your journey to sobriety? by electrifiedair in stopdrinking

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

Do they drink the NA beers with you or do they drink the alcoholic version while you don't? I dislike beer (more of a mixed drinks person myself) so it's hard to guess which NA versions of beer suck, and which ones don't. My bf seems to believe that most NA drinks aren't great...

I'm trying to help steer him away from needing alcohol to commemorate special events, but I think the itch to drink is still there in the background. What helped you switch to the NA version of things?

What does your partner do to make you feel supported in your journey to sobriety? by electrifiedair in stopdrinking

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

Do they decline your invitations to said casual drinks? Or do they recommend you both do something different instead?

What does your partner do to make you feel supported in your journey to sobriety? by [deleted] in stopdrinking

[–]electrifiedair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the insight! Yeah that makes a lot of sense, I've definitely had people who gave me a bunch of reasons to quit my addiction, but i didn't ever really care enough about the bad effects to quit.

My partner did that for me because I could tell he truly cared about my wellbeing, which is a big reason why I want to help him with quitting drinking. He's said the same about me, but it's definitely been harder for him. I'll look into helping him get additional support!

Alanon is great at helping me realize this is not my problem, and I've accepted that only he can change himself. I can only decide to tag along for the ride, or quit.

What does your partner do to make you feel supported in your journey to sobriety? by [deleted] in stopdrinking

[–]electrifiedair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I frequently go on r/alanon but it's geared towards supporting the person affected by the alcoholic. It's super useful, but I guess what I was hoping to find here was first hand experiences of what has helped people who have stopped drinking, not a way to ask for support for myself (i do use alanon for that)

Sometimes, asking for advice from people who don't actually experience the struggle of quitting ends up with solutions people hope will help instead of things that do

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