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This morning, I spot three nuts were scattered outside off the feeder and that could only mean some birds were at the feeder, and hopefully, they did get a good feast. Nothing in customer feedback box, but I did hear some noise from birds in the last few days, and Ive seen a bird standing next to the bottle twice, although Ive not seen any heads in the feeder.

One pepper plant has a flower bud, its not going to even flower, I could just pinch it, but I left it alone. Two other pepper plants look bushy, but they are probably just 10cm tall. I am thinking about topping tomato plants, dont know if that would work the same as pepper plants since tomato already loves to send out suckers.

Tomato is perennial in native habitat, which would be like in Central and South America, and they are here. Two plants survive and still flowering and fruiting. I better not top them since I only know two are indeterminate, the rest of seedlings, not sure what they are, besides they are still too small to have anything to be cut.

What else:

• The dill was wilting, that probably wouldnt work.
• Laptop fan is getting oddly loud with same setting, could be RIP soon.
• Raining all day, and foggy window, this Saturday could be below 10C again.

This morning I created an issue as title on a project called hawaii-terminal, thats kind of trolling, havent got any responses yet. By that, I meant getting closed without any comments.

Sadly, its the end of my grow light, the tomato was dead, the stem dried out. I sowed six green beans in it as seedling bottle and placed it outdoor. For some reason, I couldnt germinate green beans. Hopefully, they would come up.

As of the grafts, the tomato on basil seems fine, still alive that is; basil on mint is sorry-looking dead. Tomorrow, I will try again to graft onto a more thicker stem.

I saved some dill, one green and three roots, they are either purely green or root parts, not sure if the green will regrow root or roots shoot out greens. I have to say no.

Two compost container, one is mostly done, another might be half way. I will bag the finished part tomorrow. I noticed two cabbage ends grow new white stalks, I snipped them off, but I am thinking to regrow cabbage ends. I might also pot that poor orchid sitting in compost.

What else?

• Reported another GitHub spam account.
• Sowed five grape seeds.
• One of two left basil flower heads after pruning has snapped, which was flowering white flowers, too bad.
• Trying to write a script to download all my YouTube videos thumbnails, for big #1000. Currently, the number of videos is 857 (142 videos are not part of READYT), 73MB thumbnails, I am too early.
• Thinking about drying a section of corncob. I had dried a sweetcorn cob before, but I was hoping they would pop, they didnt, of course. I wonder if I can save cron seeds this way.

The tomato under grow light was flopping, I dont think its dying, just it wasnt rooted well and I gave it give some water a couple of days ago, didnt realize that it plopped down. The stem is still rigid, all is good, I hope.

The Google Consumer Surveys responses were still showing zeros this morning, maybe the update interval is relatively long, but it should be in real-time.

Finally, I figured out how to properly install Perl modules, or so may I think.

Those unripened tomatoes really take their sweet time to turn, only a few are in orange, some in yellow, half of them still is in green. But I am confident that they will all turn red this summer.

Two small bags of mushroom needed bigger rooms, but one of them had developed green mold, itd have to go to compost after its dry. The other one was fairly covering the cardboard in white stuff and has been upgraded, bigger bag and more shredded cardboard.

I reported two spam accounts on GitHub, one is selling love spell via phone, sounds ridiculous, but its true and I actually had just reported another one just a few days ago. The other account is selling skin care product, which has seemingly computer generated text with product name and a link embedded in the text and that totally make no senses as you read the words. Curiously, if its for avoiding lower ranking in search engine results or GitHub actually has some sort of detection mechanism in place already that we dont know.

What else today:

• The grow light doesnt seem to work, or its because the soil was dry, I just realized that, the surface felt really dry. I also swapped one LED with a red LED. I am considering to stop since the temperature is going back up.
• Planted another onion bottom, which would be solely for greens.
• The pruned green yardlong bean has died, the stem is soft. It might already dead, I just didnt realize.
• One tomato truss was damaged by the cold, which is already flowering, I cut it off and stuck it with sweet potato to root. The two seedlings I thought might not survive have perked themselves up.
• The preparation for potato growing is slow, barely half of the bag of shredded cardboard.

Still nothing from the seed tray, so I resowed more. Maybe it was too cold, I might get a big bunch of sprouting since the tray is now on the drying box to keep warm, just have to remember to spray, or they will really dry out.

I have been caring for a carrot top for almost three weeks, water changed every morning. Its lush thick green, so many stems from that top and tiny little leaves. They are not tall, just about 10cm, and I havent seen any roots.

Yesterdays accidental tomato cutting is wilting from top two leaves, so I topped it off, maybe it just wouldnt work in the soil directly without rooting in water first. I also topped a pepper plant, which had a tiny fruit for a month or longer, it turned into a disgusting yellowish color, no good, just cut it off and prompt more growth.

The weather forecast is getting more extreme, this Sunday would 6-3C, a few more degrees colder, we might have snow.

This afternoon, I watched a YouTube recommendation video about a produce review called Click & Grow Smart Herb Garden Starter Kit (59.95), a growing kit with builtin growing light, basically you just assemble it, plug in, and fill up the water reservoir, then that 21st gadget will take care of those plants. Its designed for people who dont have the knowledge or the time.

Frankly, this is worse than people put a plastic plant on office desk, in fact, I would prefer people have a fake plastic plants than buying a product like this. Lack of knowledge or time is simply an excuse, the time you go to the website and process your order is more than enough to read one or two article about growing any plants which you want to order with that kit. You can buy a good-looking plant from big stores or garden centers these days, if you still not to sure how to start from seeds.

Its a journey of growing a plant, people buy this kind of product, sooner or later would either sell it or just put it in storage room, because there is no true joy in growing this way. I dont even know if you can call it growing. Nothing is learned and experienced, because nothing you do is growing except filling in water. You dont prepare soil, sow seeds, care it, water it, check up on it, re-pot it, and so on.

This morning, I cleaned and tidied up the front window sill. Removed most of golden pothos (devils ivy), only two left for climbing up a wire I just added. They will be trained just as one in my bedroom, which has climbed up and half way of the top bar. The removed pothos, I packed into a bag and sealed it, not sure if those would turn into leaf mould.

There were many of green tomatoes still on the vine, the temperature is really low, dont think they will ripen, so I took the bigger ones, but still left teeny ones on the vine. I took a portion and placed in with banana, the rest went into a brown paper bag. It could be a race.

Afternoon, I decided to prune bean plants, yes, pruning, bean, plants. The two yardlong beans, still alive, the vine still green for at least a meter, but no buds, except the Chinese red noodle one, which actually has six flowers, I was wrong yesterday. The green one is pruned back for about 20cm, and 2 or 3 segments. Hopefully, it will start new branches once the temperature raises up.

While pruning, I spot two caterpillars, this wasnt the first time, but it seems every time when I saw one, they all were on bean plants. They must be insects particularly like bean plants. I moved these two to purple dick, they can nibble all those leaves, if they like those.

I have too many tomato seedlings, and those indoors are really small while three have been under the cold weather outdoors, looking very healthy. I might give up those indoor ones, besides, two plants still produced flowers up until one week ago.

The pink flower plant, I am thinking about trimming it. Heavily. And training it to grow into a cylinder shape. Its supposed to grow wide, but there really is not much of space for it. Or I could train it on railing like two tomatoes are doing now, or I could weave those branches.

Today, I learned the most effective way to get rid of fly, the ultimate weapon against new hatchlings,

Organic and natural,

My fingers.

I made breads and their shape is perfect for pocket sandwich. I cut one into half, hollowed one half, drizzled some olive oil over the inner sides, then stuffed in some usual salad ingredients. I had lettuce, tomato, onion, red cabbage, and chill.

This salad didn't need any dressing except the olive oil. I didn't add any salt, ground pepper, vinegar, or lemon juice, only the olive oil. The bread tastes sensational with olive oil, I think I could just eat the bread with oil. Bread soaked with olive live has heavenly-like flavor, simply amazing.

I seem to love cold food recently...

Cold pasta soup

Usually it would be something like pasta salad (cold) or pasta soup (hot).

Fruit salad and tea

Fruit soup