Did You Know Tomatoes Hate Cucumbers? Secrets of Companion Planting
While they might taste great together in a salad, tomato plants actually dislike growing in close proximity to any member of the cucurbit family, which includes cucumbers.
Companion plants assist in the growth of others by attracting beneficial insects, repelling pests, or providing nutrients, shade, or support. They can be part of a biological pest control program.
Herbs for School, Studying, & Education
The following herbs are for all those students out there!! The following will help repel insanity, increase concentration, and promote success. Please do not digest any herbs before doing your research, some of these are poisonous.
Acorns ~ Strength, courage, wisdom, luck
Almonds ~ Wisdom, happiness, prosperity
Balsam ~ Eases worry & mental stress, emotional balance
Bamboo ~ luck & wishes
Basil ~ Dispels confusion, fears & weaknesses, promotes success
Bay Leaf (laurel) ~ success, luck, victory
Benzoin ~ Concentration, soothing, relieves stress & anxiety, success in intellectual matters
Bergamot ~ Success, memory, eases depression, promotes protection
Black Cohosh ~ courage & strength
Calamus root ~ Gain control over a situation
Caraway ~ mental powers, memory
Carnation ~ strength, achieving balance
Cedar ~ strength, confidence
Celery seed ~ concentration, mental powers
Chamomile ~ reduces stress, promotes success
Cinnamon ~ Success, power
Cinquefoil (Five Finger Grass) ~ Stimulates memory & confidence
Clover ~ Success, luck, courage, edurance
Cloves ~ mental clarity
Cowslip ~ concentration, focus
Dill ~ Mental strength, concentration
Elder ~ Wisdom, inner-knowledge
Eyebright ~ memory, improves rationality, positivity
Fern ~ Mental clarity, dispelling negativity, concentration
Eyebright ~ mental clarity
Fenugreek ~ Focus, mental clarity, mental powers
Ginger ~ Success, power
Ginseng ~ Wishing root, concentration & mental alertness
Grape ~ Mental powers
Hazel ~ Wisdom
Hellebore ~ Helps increase intelligence
High John the Conqueror ~ Success, luck, courage, & happiness
Honeysuckle ~ success, confidence
Horehound ~ Concentration, eases anxiety, mental power
Lavender ~ eases the mind, relieves depression & anxiety
Lilac ~ wisdom, memory, luck
Lily of the Valley ~ Happiness, mental powers
Lemon Balm ~ Helps with anxiety & other emotional disorders, success
Mace ~ promotes self-discipline, focus, concentration
Marigold ~ Helps one focus on what truly is needed
Marjoram ~ wards off depression
Milk Thistle ~ Strength, perseverance, wisdom
Motherwort ~ success, confidence, strength
Mustard seed ~ courage, endurance, success
Mullein ~ courage, promotes protection
Nettle ~ dispels fears & darkness, strengthening the will
Oak ~ strength, knowledge, courage
Onion ~ stability and endurance
Orchid ~ Focus, Concentration, helps with memory
Oregano ~ strength, vitality, joy
Pecan ~ promotes success, helps obtain career goals
Pennyroyal ~ promotes peace, strength, & endurance
Periwinkle ~ power, strength, wisdom, promotes protection
Pine ~ strength, grounding, growth, repels negative energy
Poke ~ Courage
Rosemary ~ memory, clear thinking, concentration, repels negativity
Rowan ~ Power, success
Rue ~ mental powers, protection
Sage ~ Wisdom, mental powers, removes negative energy
Sandalwood ~ Facilitates concentration, dispels negativity
Spearmint ~ enhances mental clarity, memory, dispels negativity
St. John’s Wort ~ success, courage, eases depression & anxiety
Strawberries ~ increases favorable circumstances, success, good fortune
Sunflower ~ endurance, promotes positivity, wisdom
Tonka bean ~ Luck, promotes the accomplishments of goals
Vanilla ~ helps restore lost energy
Vetivert ~ endurance, helps overcome obstacles
Wahoo ~ Success, courage
Walnut ~ wisdom, mental powers, repels negative energy
Winter’s Bark ~ success
Willow ~ Wisdom, calming
Yarrow ~ Courage, confidence
trufflesome
I feel like people need to hear this. Including myself. Rest damn it!
How chronic illness works
At the start, you begin to establish your ‘new normal’ because you cannot function the same as you used to. This might mean a 4 on the pain scale on average, slight fatigue and stomach pain. You begin to figure out how to live life with these symptoms. You put heating packs on your joints and muscles sometimes and take some NSAIDS, you can still go to work or university full time but you feel like shit but somehow you manage to get most things done.
Then…
Things start to change
Your stomach pain turns into nausea and vomiting. Your pain increases to a 6, your fatigue becomes more debilitating. This is your new normal. You have to get used to this level everyday. This means that you have to sleep with a vomit bucket next to your bed because you throw up every night. Oh, and don’t forget to take your antiemetic. Your pain is worse so you have to take opiates now, which make you foggy and ‘hung over’ the next day. You’re too tired to shower and it drains you so much. You take medicine to combat symptoms, and other medicine to combat the side effects of the other medicine. You cannot work or study full time anymore. It sounds bad, but this is your new normal.
It does not stop there.
Symptoms change, develop or worsen over time. You may get medicine that can help it, but that is added to your new normal.
All the while, you’re asking yourself, is my new normal actually normal??? Would a normal person go to hospital for this? Would the hospital just laugh at me? Is there something wrong that needs attention in a time sensitive manner?
But probably not…
Time to establish a new routine, to fit my new severity of symptoms… because this is just the new normal.
[Jan 20, 2021]
Day of Productivity #1
So I'm terrible at posting consistently, especially for a challenge, so I'm gna do this new thing where I'm just gonna count up my days of productivity. (It'll stop when it stops? Idk! That's the fun for me, personally...)
Here's a personal project I worked on for fun this weekend: I'm working on turning some addressable LED lights into a useful application but I'm not done yet with the implementation. So, the lights are some dynamic mood lights for now!
[*sigh* click for better quality]
Angela Davis & Ursula K Le Guin, visionary women for a hopeful future
How to : Heroin Chic Make Up. (By Lisalikeslipstick)
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types of academics: tag yourself
nocturnal: messy notes, never sleeps, wakes up after noon, sarcastic, coffee addiction, turns everything in late, sweats, netflix, needs a lot of naps, deep cleans their room maybe once every 2 months, messy buns, says they’ll be productive but never is until it’s past 2 am
“perfect”: balances work, social life, and health, never sleeps past midnight, aces everything, pretty notes, coffeeshops and libraries, cardigans, makes their bed every morning, mom friend, skincare routine, organized playlists, neat handwriting, autumn, coffee with cream and sugar
extroverted: loud but beautiful laugh, twirly handwriting, polaroids, colorful pens, skirts, wants to/does dye their hair, goes to parties but leaves early, summer, travels a lot, teacher’s pet, throws sleepover study nights, paints nails while reading for homework, leather jackets
chaotic: amazing music taste, probably good with technology, doesn’t bond with professors, has few close friends but lots of acquaintances, parties a lot, never focused (but when they are they’re really productive), really bad at reading people, cram sessions, bad sleep schedule
independent: has only one friend per class, gets everything done on time, prefers office hours over asking questions in class, rain, print-out lecture notes, one yellow highlighter, beautiful smile, the color green, painter, likes studying outside, sensitive to high-energy people, striped sweaters
i'm 100% chaotic