Southwark Queen Village Community Garden

26 Plants that LOVE Coffee Grounds! Love your morning cup of coffee? Don’t toss those used grounds! They hold a secret power to enhance your garden.

And there's the salad!

Pre-colonization Glass Gem Corn, Indigenous to North America, regrown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties.

Ever listen to the sick beats of rhubarb growing in the dark? Forced rhubarb, which is made to mature in near total darkness, grows at such an alarming rate—as much as an inch a day—that it actually makes squeaks, creaks, and pops as it gets bigger. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound
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The technique makes for sweeter rhubarb, growers say, as well as a percussive, chaotic rhythm.⁠
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Please enjoy this kaleidoscopic tart to the smooth sounds of rhubarb snapping & crackling on SoundCloud: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound
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Just perfect!

This is a big one!

Thinking about joining the cicadas this summer and just screaming for six weeks straight. You?

This spring and early summer, two groups of cicadas—known as “broods”—will be waking up during the same season to serenade us. How nice. What’s the buzz? One brood lives on a 13-year cycle, and the other lives on a 17-year cycle. The broods will emerge at the same time in a rare, synchronized event that last occurred when Thomas Jefferson was in the White House. You might say, it’s been a bit. Brood XIII cicadas will appear in the Midwest, mostly centered in Illinois but also stretching into Wisconsin, Ohio, and Iowa. Brood XIX cicadas have been spotted over a much larger geographic area that includes Missouri, Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland.

When the cicadas emerge, they’re not exactly quiet about it. They’re heeerrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeee! Cicadas emit a high-pitched buzz, or mating song, that can reach up to 100 decibels—roughly equivalent to a lawn mower or jackhammer. WHAT??? ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO A LAWN MOWER OR JACKHAMMER. OKAY!!!

Image: Closeup of a cicada. Possibly ready to scream.

Gardening gives you the time and place for contemplation 🙃🥰🧅👩‍🌾💚

He’s got a point…

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