It's not too late to plant for fall. The single most useful thing you can put in the ground right now is the stuff that blooms after everything else gives up.
By late summer, most gardens are running on fumes. The big summer flowers are spent, and there's a stretch in early fall where a bee or a butterfly can cross a whole neighborhood and find almost nothing to eat.
That gap lands at the worst possible time. It's exactly when the migrating monarchs are passing through, trying to pack on enough fat to make it to Mexico, and when next year's bumblebee queens are fattening up for hibernation.
Two plants fill that gap better than anything else: goldenrod and asters.
They're the last gas station on the road. Goldenrod alone feeds well over a hundred kinds of caterpillars on top of all the bees and butterflies working the blooms, and the seeds carry goldfinches into winter. Asters do the same job in purple.
Plant them together and your yard becomes the loudest, busiest thing on the block in October.
Spraying roundup on weeds in the cracks of your driveway is kind of silly. Boiling water will do the same job better.
Pour it straight onto the weed and down into the crack. The heat ruptures the plant on contact and it wilts within the day. A stubborn deep-rooted one might need a second pour, but that's the whole method.
Roundup's own label tells you to keep it out of storm drains. And a driveway is basically a funnel straight into one. Every rain carries whatever you sprayed down the gutter and, in most towns, straight into the nearest creek with nothing in between.
Boiling water kills the weed and stops at the weed.
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Mass arrests have been reported. The DOJ has charged 324 defendants, including 96 medical professionals, across 50 federal districts and 12 state attorney general offices in connection with healthcare fraud schemes involving over $14.6 billion in alleged losses.
The Scots took over Boston and they belt out OUR anthem, word for word, in a pub!
The Europeans and Japanese at the World Cup have made the world appreciate America.
(Maybe they can teach the Democrats).
@FOS We really should send a giant thank you card or some kind of plaque declaring appreciation for the Scott’s visit to the U.S. they’re amazing ambassadors for their country.
Scotland fans have donated nearly $30,000 to charities in Providence as a thank you for welcoming them for their World Cup matches.
• $10,000 to the children's hospital cancer unit
• $10,000 to soccer for underprivileged kids
• $6,500 to help kids learn bagpipes
My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸:
- Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans
- Talking to strangers is normal here
- My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store
- Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane
- You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it
- High risk, high reward is real
- Way more people are entrepreneurial
- People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute
- Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class
- Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant
- Cars. Enough said
- Americans have perfected artificial sweets
- There’s still more freedom here than in Europe
- One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America
- As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸
Europeans and American patriots!
Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.”
Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large.
I need your help to generate media pressure and hope to be acquitted.
They cannot silence the truth!
Thank you for your support 💪🏻🇫🇷
What in the spirit cooking hell is The Silkworm novel by JK Rowling aka Robert Gilbraith for? Has anyone read these noir mysteries? Why do the trannies hate her again? She seems to be bringing woke narrative to the masses with these books.
This woman discovers the ultimate Karen antidote while visiting Texas. Now, she says she never encountered any in the entire state until she got to the leftist conclave of Austin, where she had to endure three separate Karens. What’s her secret?
Fake a French accent and roast her to her face.
‘Are you one of those Karens we’ve seen online? With that haircut? From California?’
Karen shrinks, gets embarrassed, and walks away.
Pro tip: Europeans are ‘more cultured’ so they instantly self-destruct. Austin in shambles 😂🇫🇷
Now, not sure this all went down like she says it did, but who else is trying this next time?
Gen Z choir, the Voices of Freedom, leading patriotic marches for Team USA and America 250 🇺🇸
The group says its goal is to unify America, "one song at a time 🦅"
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools just paid $95K for a lesson on the First Amendment.
That payment is part of a settlement with Gabby Stout— the high school student who painted a patriotic tribute to Charlie Kirk on a spirit rock last year.
Although Gabby had gotten permission—and although other students had been allowed to paint messages in support of causes like Black Lives Matter—school officials responded to Gabby’s message by painting over it, publicly accusing her of vandalism, interrogating her at school, and calling the police.
@ADFLegal helped Gabby sue the district late last year. Now, besides the payment, the district has issued a statement of regret for its actions and changed its policies to respect students’ free speech rights.
Schools can’t censor student speech just because they don’t like its message. ADF is thrilled to get this vindication for Gabby, who courageously lived out her own admonition to “live like Kirk.” I think Charlie would be proud.