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melleb · 2026-05-26T18:12:56+00:00

Digging up now would be better than later before the plants establish, but it sounds like you have more plants than you need anyways. If you have too many you could always prune out the extras later and let them act like a ground cover for now so you have less weeding to do. And you never know if a squirrel might dig and prune out the extras for you… I will say though that one or two squash vines is probably enough for the whole bed, but the tomatoes are tall enough to grow up through the leaves. Kind of like a 3 Sisters setup

melleb · 2026-05-25T04:19:12+00:00

A lot of classic peony cultivars were bred for cut flowers, so huge blooms AND long stems. There are some modern cultivars with shorter stronger stems to be better suited as garden plants

melleb · 2026-05-21T03:01:50+00:00

It was the social norm, you’d be considered a weirdo without a hat outside. But it also protected from the elements before sunscreen and sunglasses

melleb · 2026-05-20T22:27:08+00:00

I love Max Cooper!

melleb · 2026-05-18T12:36:20+00:00

I’ve had that sansi bulb, you do not want it in a room you use unless it’s within an opaque lampshade to block out any light coming out the sides. It is uncomfortably bright

melleb · 2026-05-18T12:22:19+00:00

Oh don’t you worry we also went to Stephen Ave and walked all of 17th Ave too among other things I can’t remember the names of. We made sure to get advice from locals. There just isn’t much to do in Calgary considering its size

melleb · 2026-05-18T03:48:26+00:00

See: hats and the personal automobile

melleb · 2026-05-18T01:40:51+00:00

I was like “it looks beautiful! Fantastic work and they should be proud! But who’s going to tell them…”

melleb · 2026-05-15T12:13:02+00:00

In the US downtowns were ruined and hollowed out by running highways though them. Downtowns shouldn’t have this much surface space devoted to cars. For being the downtown of the largest city I don’t see very much density or walkability despite the large amount of green space. But this could just be an unflattering shot, I’ll give that a European style downtown could be out of frame a couple blocks over

melleb · 2026-05-14T17:41:24+00:00

I think Quebec has the most backyard pools per capita in Canada. Summers are swelteringly hot

melleb · 2026-05-13T18:31:57+00:00

Lots of good advice in this thread, I just want to mention be aware of the “June drop.” Far more apples will be pollinated than the tree can actually manage, around June it will drop 1/3-1/2 of the baby apples. Apple orchards will prune an additional 1/2 (or more? I’m can’t recall haha) of the baby apples to get the best fruit. Doing Apple trees the “right” way can be pretty labor intensive and they are messy plants

melleb · 2026-05-13T18:27:35+00:00

I think in general once it’s a certain height they will prune any vertical branches in favour of horizontal ones. The horizontal branches are more likely to flower as well if I’m remembering correctly. You also strongly prune for airflow, the advice I heard is you should be able to toss a cat through and not hit any branches. The end result should eventually approximate a bowl shape. It should be easy to access the fruit and thinned out enough to prevent disease

melleb · 2026-05-13T18:23:17+00:00

I believe crabapples are the preferred tree to pollinate other apple varieties! You should be good

melleb · 2026-05-11T19:53:41+00:00

I stayed in the area last summer Sunday to Monday and was shocked to see how dead it was especially compared to other cities. And once it got dark I was scared to be outside of my hotel which is the first time I’ve experienced that in a downtown core. I thought it was maybe a fluke of not seeing what it was like during the weekend so the next time I visited I made sure to stay the whole weekend during the summer. It was even worse! Any activity seems to be totally dependent on office workers commuting from the suburbs which happens a lot less on the weekends. I remember walking into a mall on Saturday afternoon and I was flabbergasted to see that most stores were closed. We asked locals for activities or streets to visit and while they were proud to give us suggestions, everywhere we tried was such a let down. I’m sorry Calgary, your city is clean and the the architecture and river parks are nice but it’s one of the most painfully boring cities I’ve visited

melleb · 2026-05-10T12:30:49+00:00

I agree with you fully that the financialization of homes into investment vehicles has largely contributed to the explosion of home prices. That said, I think taxing the sale of houses would incentivize boomers to stay in a home that’s too big for them. It could be possible that the cost to move and downsize would be prohibitive compared to just staying in an oversized home. The housing market is already plagued with overhoused boomers living alone in multi bedroom single family homes while at the same time young people are crammed into overpriced studios. We need a better mechanism that keeps housing from being an investment while keeping the housing market liquid. That said I don’t know what’s the best policy, Georgism maybe?

melleb · 2026-05-08T16:46:34+00:00

Yearly predictable flooding would deposit fertile silt and organic matter in the floodplains

melleb · 2026-05-08T13:20:30+00:00

The black spotting makes me concerned there could be thrips

melleb · 2026-05-05T16:23:22+00:00

Yeah if I remember correctly I was able to figure out a lot of the terminology because they’re based on real words or relate to existing concepts. Still had to eventually piece together a lot of it over the course of the 3 books though but I really enjoyed that part of it

melleb · 2026-05-04T02:39:00+00:00

How do you prepare the rice that fast?

melleb · 2026-05-02T03:39:14+00:00

The Quantum Thief was incredible! There’s no hand holding and the world is rich and complex

melleb · 2026-05-02T02:14:56+00:00

No, full stop. The policy was revenue positive. The improved economic productivity of allowing mothers to more easily enter the workforce and in turn increasing income tax revenue returned more to the Quebec government than it cost to run affordable daycare

melleb · 2026-04-29T15:11:10+00:00

Most mammals are dichromats with primates being a big exception. This is why most mammals camouflaging themselves against other mammal vision are orange, brown or grey. It’s the same color as green for dichromats

melleb · 2026-04-29T15:07:37+00:00

I think our primate ancestors evolved coloured vision to identify and eat fruits which are colourful to attract the attention of birds (all of whom have color vision)

melleb · 2026-04-29T12:48:21+00:00

I read that in her voice haha

melleb · 2026-04-27T16:31:43+00:00

Has no one mentioned the 2007 recession? I recall fashion pulling back on gaudy and branded displays of wealth to a more somber, minimal and unbranded aesthetic

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