I think the best bet would be following recipes. That means finding recipes that minimize 'to taste' instructions. A lot can be done by look and texture, so you can be decent enough for anyone who's not a snob. Also, err on the side of too little salt and put some on the table.
Slatlun
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It is the same as other easily spreading plants. In their native habitats there are checks like diseases and predators. When you move them out of those habitats they can thrive at a new level because of the lack of those things.
You can look at wildlife/pollinator gardening. There are different focuses like rewilding or even restoration. There are also a lot of companies willing to sell incredibly invasive plants while calling them nice things, so buy from a reputable source if you do buy plants or seeds.
Absolutely, and just to expand on why they can be wildly inaccurate. Local governments have different ways of updating assessments. Most are simply small increases to the assessment every year. Small enough that they haven't kept up with the market. If you watch, there are usually huge jumps on assessed value when a property sells because that sale value (aka market value) gets recorded as the assessed value.
Refreezing is fine for safety (if you thawed it correctly). The main reason not to freeze and thaw things multiple times is that tiny ice crystals do damage to the structure of the food each time freezing happens.
In meat, that damage makes your meat dry out easier when cooking. That's normally a bad thing, bit it might actually be a good idea for making jerky.
In short, I would have no hesitation using refrozen meat to make jerky
Earthworms are invasive in parts of North America...
I appreciate your sacrifice. It would've been me if not you
Also, donate your time to review papers, an absolutely critical part of "peer reviewed journals", for the people charging you both.
That's a weird way to say "take a walk", but ok.
Connecticut, Arkansas, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia
Exactly what I was thinking. If I saw this I would look for hinges before stepping up.
The large flowered collomia (Collomia grandiflora) is just starting to bloom around me. They are annual and have cool blue pollen (typically pollen is yellow). You can see the pollen on the anthers at the center of each flower.
I am going to keep tossing these out into the ether unless I hear differently from the group. I have been doing flowers just because their showy, but if anyone has requests let me know (eg trees, sedges, garden plants). Also, I have been avoiding having pollinators in the photos on the assumption that any animal makes most people ignore plant. Any thoughts on that?
This one is meadow-foam (Limnanthes douglasii). It's annual that is native to prairies of the west coast of North America. Smells great, looks cool, and bugs like it. Comercially, similar plants are grown for the oil from their seeds. The seeds off this one will just fall where they want to sprout up in spring of '22.
For me it is my phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) blooming. I throw some seed down wherever I don't have other plans because the bugs love the flowers? What have you got going?
Roundup is a systemic herbicide. You have a chance of killing the parent plant since they share roots. It probably won't, but it seems pretty drastic when you could just pull any shoots. You can even pot them up and give them to friends.