kellan_the_tabby | just some more randomage

[Remy, a big black dog with white toes and a white splotch running down his chest and belly, is sitting at the corner of the house. He’s staring off to the left of the camera, ears folded over.]

Just some stuff. Like a dog.

& what a dog he is!

[Remy’s looking right at the camera now, tongue hanging out in a big smile, ears perked forward in a friendly manner.]

& then he jumped on me, because he’s large & appalling.

There was a mouse in my trash can late one night! I almost managed to get it into a container with a lid, but those little bastards can JUMP.

[A perfectly standard brown field mouse is sitting in the bottom of a translucent plastic trash can, along with an ice cream sandwich wrapper. It’s making no attempt to hide, and its ears and whiskers are eloquent of curiosity.]

I also finally got the eye plants into iNaturalist, upon which it declared that they’re actually called ‘saltlovers’, Halogeton glomeratus. They’re invasive, of course, deadly to livestock, & tend to show up on disturbed soil — which is pretty much what we’ve got here. We haven’t got a ton of it, & there’s other stuff that’ll crowd it out, so I’m not real worried about it being here.

Also, it looks like this.

[Clusters of tiny flowers, pink in the center with translucent white petals all round, fill nearly the entire photo. There are also a few equally tiny green leaves.]

They’re neato! We just don’t need em.

[This photo’s much the same, with the addition of bright pink plant stems visible in with the flowers. They’re nearly the same color as the center of each flower.]

Apparently they taste pretty gross, too, so as long as your livestock have something else to eat, they’ll avoid them.

Still gonna see about pulling a bunch of them once the flowers start dying, but if we’ve always got a couple of them around, I think we can cope.

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siliconshaman

Actually, those plants are possibly good news. They extract salts from the soil and concentrate them in themselves. If you harvest the plants and do not compost them but instead put them in the trash, or a waterproof pit, that will gradually over time remove the alkali salts from your soil and sequester it elsewhere. You should then be able to then grow less salt tolerant plants.