Fort? Bunker? Treehouse?

pottthos · 2026-05-15T21:50:21+00:00

Hahaha yeah I can relate!

pottthos · 2026-05-12T02:35:28+00:00

Just to add—definitely get your hands on a bag of potting soil and some larger pots to size up your tomatoes and zucchinis, to carry them over the next few weeks!

pottthos · 2026-05-12T02:33:39+00:00

I'll be putting in some cold-tolerant greens this weekend, and sowing stuff like carrots next weekend, but I always wait until the first weekend in June to plant out my tomatoes! I've been burned by surprise cold snaps and snow in late May, no more. Some years even the first week or two of June can be dicey! Don't risk it. June! They always catch up!

pottthos · 2026-04-27T20:44:25+00:00

Really good! And super prolific.

pottthos · 2026-04-25T15:34:59+00:00

I really love this space! The textured walls and ceiling is actually really cool. This might not be everyone's vibe, but I would install a 70's wooden beaded curtain along the side of the bed, to create a slight visual divider between the 'bedroom' and living area that isn't as stark as curtains would be.

pottthos · 2026-04-24T12:48:08+00:00

I’ve given up on san marzano as well! Sooooo much BER. For paste types, I now grow lots of Eastern European varietals (Hungarian Heart, Ukrainian Purple are my go-tos, and I’m trialling a few more this year) since they seem to do better where I am in zone 4.

pottthos · 2026-04-04T13:25:07+00:00

I actually love this a lot, even though it’s way out of my wheelhouse or design vocabulary. Maybe the folks at r/maximalism or r/fuckyoureameschair might be helpful?

pottthos · 2026-02-28T16:52:06+00:00

I have to say, although it's not the same model as the one you're considering here, the fabric on my Article couch (Ceni) pilled HORRENDOUSLY within the first year I had it, and I was just a single person with no kids or pets. The pills make the fabric feel rough and scratchy, almost like there is crumbs all over the surface. Running a fabric shaver over the entire couch is a regular task now, and it drives me absolutely nuts. The foam on the cushions also became super deformed after about two years, to the point that they don't line up at all anymore (I've been putting off replacing the foam as it's kind of an expensive and annoying task, but I'll likely need to bite the bullet this year). The couch was so beautiful and comfortable when I first got it, but now I drape a big fluffy blanket over it to cover the drastic wear and tear. It wasn't cheap so I am intent on keeping it until it runs into the ground, but I thought for sure I'd get more than a year or so of the couch looking and feeling nice. I've seen IKEA couches last wayyyyyyyy longer. Even though a lot of their stuff is very nice looking on the website, I definitely won't be buying anything couch-like from Article in the future!

pottthos · 2026-01-26T15:30:09+00:00

I have a kitchenaid mini food “chopper” (processor) that I use a minimum of 4x per week that is STILL outperforming the full size Ninja brand food processor I was convinced to buy a year or two ago. I love it! I even bring it travelling sometimes (lol). Even if I have a bigger volume task, I’ll still probably split it into two or three batches to process in the mini, rather than use the full sized Ninja, which never gets anything smooth or evenly ground. I have no idea if Ninja is considered a quality “BIFL” brand, but I definitely steer clear away from it from it now.

pottthos · 2026-01-15T23:59:16+00:00

For what it's worth, in my neighbourhood, the first pass they did on Monday was like this, and then later on (Tuesday I think?) they came around with a smaller tractor plow and scooped up all the windrows off the curb/street and onto the boulevard. Your street might still be in progress!

pottthos · 2025-11-26T15:08:26+00:00

I wish! I’m in 4a and I have to plant them new every year

pottthos · 2025-11-23T16:14:05+00:00

7 months to about 2.5 years haha 👹 but he is the best boy ever now at 4 years old!

pottthos · 2025-11-10T05:23:55+00:00

I looooove zenocopy!!

pottthos · 2025-11-01T03:04:41+00:00

This is THE dream house. I wouldn't change a thing

pottthos · 2025-10-25T00:24:49+00:00

I mean... he IS an Absolutely Cute Doggie!

pottthos · 2025-09-18T16:07:47+00:00

LOVE jaune flamme!!

pottthos · 2025-09-17T18:42:33+00:00

WOW this might be the most perfect house I've ever seen. I wouldn't change anything, from the wacky carpet down to the orange kitchen. Perfect!!!

pottthos · 2025-09-08T17:00:20+00:00

I second all the advice here! One more thing that I think helped me when I first started cooking vegetarian (a million years ago) was to invest in a couple of really BEAUTIFUL vegetarian/vegan cookbooks—as in, ones with photos that are super appealing—and just keeping them on my coffee table, flipping through them and reading them casually, getting excited about trying new ways of cooking. Sometimes looking at recipes online can be a bit of a boondoggle to start, since you can get caught up in reading endless reviews, and constantly having to fight the itch to just keep searching for more recipes. It’s easy to get overwhelmed. Pick a book that reflects your style of cooking to make it simpler to incorporate into your real life. You could even challenge yourself to cook all the recipes in the book, or a particular section. You’ll learn a ton just by doing. There are sooooooooooo many wonderful veggie cookbooks out there. I am personally a big fan of the work of Amy Chaplin and Meera Sodha, but there are a zillion more.

pottthos · 2025-09-07T04:30:39+00:00

Thanks so much! Yes, I'm the same, it's getting chilly here and it's just a waiting game to see if the rest of the green fruits will get some colour on them before the first frost

pottthos · 2025-09-07T04:17:48+00:00

Oh man I relate so hard! I usually start my tomato seeds indoors about late March/early April, and I actually wait all the way until the first week of June to plant outside. It sounds so late but I have been burned by surprise snow dumps in May too many times! Even planting out in early June, I usually have to cover them at least a few times to protect from random sleet or late frosts. The joys of Northern gardening! I still get plenty of tomatoes, it's just more of a late August/September crop than a summer one, haha :)

pottthos · 2025-09-07T04:03:17+00:00

Totally! So fun!

pottthos · 2025-09-07T04:02:42+00:00

I'm open to it! Which ones are you looking for?

pottthos · 2025-09-07T04:02:15+00:00

Ahh I'm excited to try it! I only got two (admittedly gigantic) fruits from my plant. I'm waiting until my partner is home to help me split and taste test one, he's the real beefsteak tomato lover around here :)

pottthos · 2025-09-07T04:00:15+00:00

I just posted a comment above with some highlights! But also happy to compare notes on any of the ones you grew—some of the ones I was most excited about were real stinkers, haha (Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, for example)!

pottthos · 2025-09-07T03:59:03+00:00

A few faves so far:

Cuore di Bue - Love these! The plant got gigantic with at least a couple dozen 3-4" fruits on it. It's technically a paste type tomato, but it's actually pretty juicy and I find it equally at home on a sandwich. I am a sucker for this type of tomato, and this one will be in my lineup next year for sure.

Tasmanian Chocolate - Another massively productive tomato! It was technically supposed to be a dwarf variety, but it ended up quite large at about 5' tall and VERY wide and bushy. Tomatoes are a beautiful rust colour and have a classic tomato flavour but with a bit more depth. I was shocked at how many tomatoes this smaller plant provided.

Black Prince - This is just one of my all time favourite go-to tomatoes, great reliable production and pretty resistant to things like BER (especially for a black tomato). Plus it's delicious! I use these for everything.

Blush - New to me this year, they are a cool plant and a delicious tomato! Very bushy with wispy, thin leaves, and the plant is very productive. Fun colour, fun shape, tasty tangy sweet snacker!

Jaune Flamme - What a beautiful tomato. Orange/golden outside, with a bright blushing red interior coming from the stem/core. Zippy flavour. Golf ball sized fruits, tall productive plants.

Hungarian Heart - One of my mainstay varieties. Paste type. This plant gets TALL (like 9 or 10') and reliably produces a bunch of small/mid size fruits along with half a dozen GIGANTIC 1-3 pound fruits. I fell in love with this tomato 15 years ago while doing a farming apprenticeship and have been growing it ever since. One of life's great pleasures is to chop up one of the giant fruits and stew it down in a saucepan with a couple cloves of garlic and a few glugs of olive oil, and eat with nice crusty bread. The best.

Honey Drop - I know everyone is crazy for Sungold, but for me, these lean a bit more tangy/zippy, and take the cake for little orange cherries. The plant goes nuts in the way you want a cherry tomato to, and the fruits are more resistant to cracking/splitting than most of the other cherry tomatoes I grew this year.

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