Damn, I’ve been struggling this week with whether I should leave my PhD program with a master’s or keep toughing it out, and this really hit home for me.

This is my first year with an in-ground garden in Zone 6a! Here’s what I’ve got:

-Plant more peppers, I eat a lot of peppers and could use more

-Plant beans/peas earlier

-Plant okra later

-Only ONE cucumber plant!!! Just one! No one needs more than one!

-More ground cherries, they did great and I love 'em

-Wouldn’t bother with celery again, probably

-Would give radishes another shot, they did okay. I’d do kohlrabi again too

-Planted too many types of lettuce

Huh, I’ve never considered estimating the weight of my hands, but after reading I can see the importance/application.

Love the contrast of all the greenery with the jelly ears!

Leishmania too.

Bird’s nest is so crazy looking! I found some near me last year and I’ve been watching for it to pop back up.

Congrats! Welcome Twix!

That would be an interesting shake-up to the current models of endometriosis. Seems like it would warrant an examination of total intestinal and genitourinary microbiome in people with anemd without endometriosis.

I struggle with that too. It makes me feel a little better that they’re going straight into the compost pile to become nutrients though.

It looks pink on the inside, is that unusual for puffballs?