xylem

I love this idea! Looks fantastic

freesewing.org has a boxer briefs design if you're interested in making your own.

:D glad to hear it!

Loofah/luffa is so fun! I've posted pictures of mine here before, but I recently did a writeup of my experience growing them on the little personal website I've been making for fun - https://xylemphloem.xyz/blog/luffa/

This week I brought in a pot from outside to plant some pothos cuttings, forgetting it was the pot I had grown dill in last year! So now I have some baby dill seedlings popping up alongside my pothos!

I was just reading your post on solarpunk games - thanks!

I just completed my first substantial sewing project, using a pattern from this site! My hems aren't the most even and the neckline was really tricky but I'm pretty happy with it. This is the Sven sweatshirt design, and I used a somewhat heavy knit cotton/polyester fabric. It fits great (as you'd hope!) and will probably become my new winter pajama shirt.

The site is great to use - there are good pictures for how to take each of the measurements you need, and I liked the ability to manually optimize the part layout to minimize the amount of paper it used. I saw a tip on YouTube to piece the pattern together by taping it to a large window or glass door so you can see the overlap between the sheets, and that worked great for me.

My next goal is to do a Simon shirt in flannel - decent step up in complexity so I might do a few other simpler projects first.

Good to know - thanks!

FB marketplace may be where I end up - I've seen big fluid totes on there when I've looked in the past.

Good to know! A contractor we had doing some work on the house last year left behind a roll of thick poly sheeting so I was thinking about using that to make some floating row covers anyway.

I'll be sure to post lots of pictures this year! I also started a personal website recently for fun so I'll probably be putting stuff there.

I'm curious where you got your rain water containers - I'd like to get something around that size this year.

I'm planning to devote about half of my fenced garden space to trying a three sisters patch, and this year I'm going to be more strategic about where I put my potatoes so they don't shade out everything around them early in the season. I haven't grown beans or corn before but my squash did great last year so I'm looking forward to more of that!

I didn't have great luck with brassicas last year so I'm hoping to do better by starting earlier and figuring out how to fight the cabbage moths.

I also have tentative plans to build out a patio/fire pit area on the site of a pool and deck I tore down last year. I want it surrounded by raised beds with various perennials like blueberry bushes, and maybe someday a grape trellis. I have plenty of wood from that deck so I may also build random stuff like a bench to go inside my squash tunnel (:

This was a good reminder that I should start putting together a planting schedule and a seed order soon!

I use these at night if my feet get too cold, but this was a great reminder I can use them at other times too! Turned down my heat but am very cozy with a blanket and a hot water bottle.

Also, making covers for them was a great beginner crochet project.