Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...
Broccoli harvest as big as my head.
#garden #phoenixgardener
Curly kale displaying negative curvature
Lacinato (aka dinosaur or Tuscan) kale displaying positive curvature.
Russian kale is flat
It's kind of fun that the three main varieties of kale represent the three types of surface geometry (negatively curved, positively curved, and flat).
Just a few hundredths of an inch but we will take it. 159 days with no rain in the hottest year on record. The desert is struggling.
Quick #garden check in while trying to remain positive.
Veggies are my jam.
This is my biggest pet peeve! They fill with all sorts of things.
My office view…. Head down and #garden on. Just know that I’m also plotting the revolution as I do so.
