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  #gardening #jardin #garten #garden I grew this pomegranate from seed!! Its parent was “California White.” Pomegranates don’t come true from seed but seeds don’t produce vastly inferior fruit like the way apples do. Obviously this is no where close to being a white pomegranate so I get naming rights. What should I call it? Was thinking PommyPomPom Sparkle Unicorn Puppy

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  #solarpunksunday #solarpunk #photovoltaik #GreenEnergy Mexican startup, Greenfluidics produces a solar panel made with certain strains of algae, water and photovoltaic cells. The panels generate energy AND capture CO2. For every 1kg of algae, 2k of carbon will be captured. The biomass created are periodically filtered and can be used as fertilizer. As for energy, it produces comparable rates to current solar panels some of which is used to keep the installation going. https://greenfluidics.com...

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  #solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten #peppers #citrus Harvest today. Citrus are starting to ripen. Maybe next week satsumas will be ready. 😊

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  #citrus #gardening #jardin #garten #garden It was a bad year for yuzus. My tree isn’t very big and squirrels stole two fruit off of it last spring when they were still small and green. The result is that the one yuzu that ripened is a total honker. The other yuzu is from a friend’s tree. His trees are alternate bearing bc he doesn’t thin the fruit in boom years. Yuzu tea from dried yuzu peel is a biological imperative so I will be bereft this year. 1/2

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  #solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten Seed grown feijoa results. I have two trees grown from seed and they taste and look different. One is more oval/circular shaped and the other oblong. The oval shaped tastes the best. It tastes like cattleya guava and muscadine grapes and is quite juicy and succulent. It’s better than my pink guava. I’ve named it “chubby baby.” The oblong one tastes like green apple and the peel is kinda resin-y.

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  Israel is not just committing genocide of people but also cultural and ecological genocide. 90% of Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed in the last few years, farms and livelihoods destroyed. A network of Palestinians and allies seeks to preserve Palestinian heirloom seeds and cultural heritage. See below to support this group, order seeds, raise awareness and offer to be a seed saver. https://www.palestineheirloomseedlibrary.com/ #solarpunksunday #solarpunk #gardening #garden #jardin #...

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  #books #bookstodon #audiobooks Curious Does anyone else image search the narrator of the audiobooks they’re listening to? Just to place a face with the voice?

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  #gardening #cornell #CornellUniversity #garten #jardin #garden If there are any ladies out there who would like to know easy self-defense with plants, feel free to DM me.

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  #Halloween #movie #movies #film Seasonal reminder that the true monster of Jaws was the kid who asked his mom for coffee-flavored icecream. Depraved.

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  #solarpunksunday #GreenEnergy #photovoltaik #solar https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/30/cubas-pv-capacity-tops-1-4-gw/ Solar generates over a fifth of Cuba’s energy, much of it going to necessary infrastructure such as hospitals, clinics, radio, etc. “Cuba has installed 1.42 GW of solar capacity across 144 photovoltaic plants and expects to exceed 1.5 GW by the end of 2026. Renewables now account for 21.4% of electricity generation, while the country is also expanding energy storage and so...

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  #solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten #peppers So it’s this week peppers are showing stress from the Nor’easter 8-10 days ago. A lot of pepper and leaf drop. “Royal burgundy” beans? More like black. 😄 In other news, I ordered 16 new varieties of pepper for next year and another grower wants to trade seeds with me. Someone needs to save me from myself. 😭🤣

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  #gardening #garden #garten #jardin #bloomscrolling #FleurisTonFil #butterfly #mariposas #papillon #schmetterling Skipper on sweet potato flower 😊

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  #solarpunksunday #photovoltaik #GreenEnergy #solar #Agrivoltaics New agrivoltaic startup in Amance, France has reported 20% increase in maize yield when grown under solar panels due to decrease in water evaporation. https://www.tse.energy/en/projects/amance This follows reports of another agrivoltaic startup in France reporting better yields with grapes, Austrian reporting better yields with wheat and endangered wildflowers thriving and proliferating under solar panels in California.

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  #solarpunksunday #gardening #garten #garden #jardin Fruit and veg today 😊

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  Bees still need food in the fall. Wild asters bloom prolifically and support pollinators when most flowering plants are going to seed. Symphyotrichum racemosum, small white aster; Bombus impatiens, eastern bumblebee #nativeplants #gardening #jardin #garten #garden #bloomscrolling #fleuristonfil

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  #solarpunksunday #gardening #garden #jardin #garten #ClimateChangeGardening 1/2🧵 Leaf harvest: sweet potato leaves, papalo and muscadines. This is the last harvest for muscadines before they start to turn yellow. This is the first round for SP and the papalo got pulled bc the plants broke off from the base in the Nor’easter. My oven will only accommodate a few trays at a time so I can only collect enough in a day that will fit. It takes around 12h to dry SP leaves at 140F.

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  #solarpunksunday #solarpunk #GreenEnergy #photovoltaik #solar Austrian agrivoltaics provider EWS has reported a 14% increase in winter wheat yield at its Sonnenfeld research site in Bruck an der Leitha compared with a control area without PV modules. Earlier this year, Sun’Agri in France reported an increase in yield for grapes and in California, increase in endangered native wildflowers. Agrivoltaics for the win! 🏆💚💛☀️ https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/25/ews-reports-14-higher-winter-whea...

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  #solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #garden #peppers #ClimateChangeGardening Fruit, peppers and other veg today 😊 This week is harvesting sweet potato leaves for drying. Wish me luck. It’s a 43ft long planting bed, the vines are 15-20ft and climbing all over the place. Deep breath.

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  #solarpunksunday #solar #photovoltaik #GreenEnergy 6 papers came out this spring and summer about breakthroughs in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell technology. Perovskite can catch higher energy light than silicon and so improves energy capture/efficiency. Key to the improvements shown in the papers is durability with thousands of hours of field testing in ambient environments as opposed to glove box tests. Papers listed below: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-76713-y https://w...

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  #solarpunksunday #solarpunk #plastic #plasticpollution #fossilfuels Teen in Ireland invents “Eco Purge, a plant-based, biodegradable plastic. Once disposed of, the plastic takes up to two weeks to degrade and release enzymes into the environment that break down existing microplastics in the surrounding soil and water.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-high-schooler-invented-a-plant-based-plastic-that-removes-microplastics-from-the-environment-as-it-biodegrades-180989254/

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  #solarpunksunday #solarpunk #gardening #jardin #garten #peppers #garden Peppers and fruit today. I think a katydid is chomping my madhatters. Most of this week’s were half-eaten. They’re eating the leaves too.

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  #solarpunksunday #solarpunk Engineers in Chile develop a living wall air-purifier that traps wood smoke from stoves. You can grow fruits and veg on it too. https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/biofilter-green-wall-improves-air-quality/

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  #solarpunksunday #solarpunk #energy #fossilfuels #war #politics #Pakistan https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/7/how-pakistans-solar-boom-is-shielding-it-from-worst-of-iran-war-crisis A quarter (!) of Pakistani households now use solar panels. This seems like a major win for the climate and Pakistan’s energy independence but if you read the whole article, it puts lower income households at a bigger disadvantage.

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  #solarpunk #solarpunksunday #energy #fossilfuels Switzerland is densely cloudy in winter when energy is needed the most. So engineers installed solar panels above the clouds on the sides of mountains. It’s so effective that they’re expanding the project to other mountains. https://www.ecoportal.net/en/switzerland-5000-alpine-solar-muttsee-dam-winter-power/28487/

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  #solarpunk #solarpunksunday #cleanenergy #solar MIT scientist created a new type of solar panel that is transparent. It picks up only infrared and ultraviolet light. These can be used on windows or any clear pane (like cell phone screens) as well as flexible surfaces. “They estimate that using coated windows in a skyscraper could provide more than a quarter of the building’s energy needs without changing its look.” https://energy.mit.edu/news/transparent-solar-cells/

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  6/ Bokashi method of composting allows to you use alternative types of waste that are not typical “greens” but you have to buy bokashi bran. https://www.almanac.com/bokashi-composting Another fertilizer method is to add weeds, trimmings and other greens to water in a sealed bucket set in the sun for 6 weeks to ferment. Don’t forget the leftover water from washing rice and lentils makes great fertilizer. You can even grind up raw lentils to a powder, mix with water and fertilize you plants that...

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  5/ If you are expecting to plant this year, you need to fence the entire raised area or animals will raid your plants. Fencing is the biggest expense. After building most of the raised bed pile, it’ll be sloped at an angle. Hammer down fence posts at the bottom of the slope, wrap the fencing around and then fill in the rest of the area up to the fence so that baby bunnies don’t crawl under any loose spaces.

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  #solarpunksunday #climatechange #ClimateCrisis Former employees at NOAA created a nonprofit independent website for trusted climate information after Musk/Trump dismantled climate.gov. “The website features Climate.gov's 15-year collection of climate news and stories, expert blogs, visual status reports on key climate indicators, maps and data pathways, climate literacy resources, classroom materials, and restored access to the Fifth National Climate Assessment.” https://www.climate....

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  Advice please Rats or squirrels in one night ripped off, ate and vomited out at least 30 peppers. I’m finding separate little piles of puked up peppers in different places. This is really devastating. My first harvest has been wiped out. Did they learn their lesson or do I need to cage all my pepper plants? #gardening #jardin #garten

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  Peppers and fruit the rats/squirrels did not eat (or tried once and rejected) Ají cacho de cabra Ají chinchi amarillo Grenada seasoning Peppapeach stripey Physalis grisea and wild tomato Ones they did eat were ají habanero, ají dulce orange and thunder mountain longhorn. The first two are heatless but the last one is 70k SHU. #gardening #garden #jardin #garten #solarpunksunday