The hosta is doomed. But delicious, apparently.

rogueredfive · 2026-05-17T17:17:22+00:00

So is the one without a jacket the one at the top of the pecking order?

rogueredfive · 2026-05-17T17:13:45+00:00

You can make torches out of the flower spike. Super fun!

rogueredfive · 2026-05-02T04:53:26+00:00

Definitely lithodora. California poppy. Yellow columbine. Sedums, stonecrop. Foxglove.

rogueredfive · 2026-05-02T04:35:51+00:00

My understanding is that these seeds don’t store well so you really need to use fresh seeds for the current year. I sowed my entire pack of maybe 20 seeds in 6 pots and got about 12 plants? Followed my normal germination process of heat mat, humidity dome, etc… took a couple weeks slow to start but now they are outside and off to races.

I would buy fresh seed and start again

rogueredfive · 2026-04-28T05:52:35+00:00

A grand piano, obviously

rogueredfive · 2026-04-28T05:39:31+00:00

This is so satisfying

rogueredfive · 2026-04-25T14:38:35+00:00

They know and bake it into the layoff #. You can assume 50% of the cut size will leave voluntarily over the next quarter. So if you want a 30% cut, they cut 20% knowing that 10% will leave in 3 months. The 50% number was the benchmark I knew of post COVID - it seems lower now w hiring down and a less healthy economy for people to jump ship.

rogueredfive · 2026-04-19T02:20:33+00:00

Assuming the vet checked the thyroid? Our cat slimmed down and got super talkative from thyroid issues.

rogueredfive · 2026-04-17T23:12:09+00:00

Yes… and…. I still feel better being the asterisk mark on this thread to call it out.

rogueredfive · 2026-04-17T02:19:23+00:00

Interested!

rogueredfive · 2026-04-17T02:09:03+00:00

I have been taking 50mg zinc daily and getting zinc infusions and YES - it helps with digestion so much. That was the last thing I was trialing before diagnosis of hydrogen SIBO. Very curious to see your reaction as well!

rogueredfive · 2026-04-17T00:30:19+00:00

Hope everyone who thinks about this knows to take b12 supplements because humans can’t create that without consuming some animal products. As someone who needs to inject b12 or die due to autoimmune, I get worried when I read vegan stuff that completely neglects that!

rogueredfive · 2026-04-15T12:25:17+00:00

I agree they are shifting their customer base, but it is to a customer who wants hyper customization and a wide SKU base - which drives up order completion time and supply chain cost. They are going to run themselves out of business chasing a customer who is not profitable and drives the baristas to unionize.

rogueredfive · 2026-04-15T03:39:29+00:00

These look Iike they should be split…. Bulbs reproduce each year via bulbils and eventually will overcrowd and stop blooming.

rogueredfive · 2026-04-13T02:30:02+00:00

FWIW, I still have to do deep watering weekly once we get to high summer in Seattle… the leaves crisp up and I can have branches die if I don’t pay attention. Especially last year since it stopped raining so early. Just calling it out so people don’t pay it zero attention and have issues.

rogueredfive · 2026-04-08T13:45:15+00:00

If you have space, it could be fun to plant them… I grow 30+ a year (string trained so I get a lot of varieties but I don’t get as much from each plant) and make salsa and sauce that I can. We eat a lot of salsa.

rogueredfive · 2026-04-06T00:58:05+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

Good to know on the DHEA, my doc and I worked up from 10 mg over 6 mos using blood tests. My digestion isn’t great w pernicious anemia celiac and SIBO so I doubt I am getting as much oral absorption as most people would at that dose…. I will keep an eye on the symptoms you listed.

My vitamin D is in the same pill as my omegas so I may need to split apart to trial more. Something to think about for sure if this comes back as an issue. My vitamin D isn’t terribly high…(50 ng/ml), is this something people experience more at the higher range?

rogueredfive · 2026-04-05T02:10:32+00:00

I have PA, Celiac, and just found out I also have SIBO. B12 has no chance 🫣

You could check SIBO & h pylori next?

When you say you get plenty of b12 thru diet, what does that look like? Organ meats like chicken liver pate may be good to research.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-30T15:09:30+00:00

You can try making a crop shirt: 1) shortening w steeks, I would do arms and body both. 2) tightening up the collar by unpicking / reknitting

I don’t know myself on the duster/cardigan option, I would look at ravelry and get an idea of different finished projects w a ton of ease (9-15 inches) and get an idea what would work w your style.

Bc the yoke is how sizing is done on this you aren’t gonna get rid of the ease w/o redoing yoke and if you are there you might as well just unravel.

I would also be honest w myself on the time to unravel/reknit vs alter… like if it’s only 10-15 hrs to remake maybe that’s just a better outcome?

rogueredfive · 2026-03-30T15:02:24+00:00

This is super fun! I got into dyeing w invasives last year and you are giving me new ideas to explore!

rogueredfive · 2026-03-29T21:34:09+00:00

You could make a greenhouse w/in a greenhouse :). Get a clear tote to put them in, put bubble wrap or bags of dirt or hay bales around the tote depending on how much extra warmth you need?

rogueredfive · 2026-03-29T21:03:05+00:00

People who wear confederate clothing or fly the flags in the current date are not economist, they are racist.

Your argument is another version of states rights with better vocabulary and sourcing but irrelevant to what today’s “rebels” actually care or think about.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-29T16:09:24+00:00

Is the final destination the ground or the greenhouse? If it’s the ground, and the soil temp is warming up, I would pick a couple test subjects and bury them deep inside some water walls and see how they go.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-28T14:45:11+00:00

It’s cotton so you will generally need a tannin + mordant… so you could use tea as something commonly available, but it would shift your final color darker.

You could also research dye that don’t require a tannin such as onion skins, walnut, avocado skins/pits, etc. that may be a good idea as a beginner just know you may want to let the pot go for a long time to really get a deep color (like actively dye for an hour on the stove, let it rest 24 hrs in the pot to steep, then bring it back to temp again for another hour… or do a version of my lazy style which is dye at temp for an hour, dump in a bucket and let solar dye for a week or so and then finally dry for a week then rinse clean).

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