Try finding an open club with Toastmasters and go practice speaking and communicating with folks who are also there to practice speaking and communicating. That kind of space alone may give you the chance to see differences between their interactions and yours, but it’s an incredibly helpful group for so many people who struggle with their communication in everyday life.

That. Sounds. Awesome!

As a broad rule of thumb, any bulbs can be planted during the fall - onion sets and garlics do very well for us when planted this way in usda zone 5 / Trewartha Dca. The same goes for things like daffodils, irises, and other bulbing plants. Trees, shrubs, and perennial herbaceous plants will also benefit from fall planting, and come into the following growing season with a more extensive root system for it. We’ve also had success with things like kale, chard, and other hardyish cut-and-come-again leafy greens, so that might be worth experimenting with.

True summer veggies - peppers, tomatoes, anything that melts at the first frost - I don’t start until late winter or early spring (and those are started inside). Annual summer flowers get pretty much the same treatment, especially any that have a relatively short time to maturity. You could work those seeds into areas during the fall, but you’ll have a wider range of results and less direct control (but chaos gardening is cool).

I’m a little surprised your local birds let them get to that stage, to be honest! I’ve only threshed them once, for reseeding purposes, but did so with ¼" hardware cloth, framed with 2" sides, over a wheelbarrow. The mesh catches the seeds but lets the duff fall through with a little agitation. Otherwise I’ve hung them upside down within reach of the birds we raise for them to enjoy.

Can you dedicate a few square feet / a square meter in the garden for a few transplants? Having clustered colonies of these tall plants has treated us well, and if you’re doing the starts yourself it’s easy enough to multisow a few cells to get a head start.

Push for it in your state, first. We’re still in the first few cycles using RCV in Maine (I like STAR better) where folks are learning to love it, but there’s no time like now to get that ball rolling. More people need to experience it to shift the national conversation of “whether we should” to “which should we use”

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That’s a great looking plant

I think a broader pot is a good idea, as a wider mouth will make any root pruning or other work easier. We only have a few houseplants (because our cat hates anything that receives attention) but they get a bit of root maintenance done annually. It helps to keep them from strangling themselves and means I don’t have to use more floor or shelf space than I want.

For trellising “lazy climbers”, think more along the lines of an “H” shape - something you can slide under a branch or stem and then secure into the soil to support the weight.

For the northeastern US, I’m really a fan of:

• FedCo - employee owned and good selection, based in Maine. Orders ship in the spring, organized by frost dates
• edible acres - Based in upstate New York, Sean has been an inspiring force for me, and is an awesome person to interact with.

Though the above have more selection, for full disclosure:

Oh wow! And congrats, that first egg is always super exciting even when you know there’s more to come.

The muscovies have been great for all of those things, yes. There are several weeks each year where I’ve got to follow them around for an hour after letting them out just to keep them from hiding clutches from me though

Could you put the filter medium into another pot, perhaps? This is such a cool project, I wish I was more helpful to you

All is forgiven, my wife rarely gets any of our yellow raspberries for pretty much the same reason. They are too delicious

That’s fantastic, great job! Growing plants from seeds you’ve collected yourself is one of the coolest things I know of, and it’s one of the healthiest addictions around.

Yes, like this:

That’s awesome to hear, and I’m very glad the raspberry has begun to reward you for it!

What kind of ducks are you raising? We raise muscovies, ourselves. Please feel welcome to share about them over in !Animals and Pets

You got it right, softwoods are the better choice for rooting with hormone, be sure to keep it misted as well. If it’s got larger leaves, don’t be afraid to cut them perpendicular to the main vein to reduce water loss.

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Don’t give up, it’ll happen! I’ve only grown a few honeysuckle varieties but they’re fairly amenable to layering, if you’ve got the mother plant available to work with. If there’s a honeysuckle species in particular, let me know and I’ll check my books for you (it’s Dirr’s Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation usually)

Just don’t compare mine to Marth’s …

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