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Facebook and Twitter Buttons

Not to be left out I guess, I installed Facebook and Twitter buttons on the ends of posts.  This is mostly an experiment.

The truth is I don’t really use either of these!  Not enough time or interest I guess.  This means I don’t have a good way of configuring or testing these buttons, because I don’t really know what they’re supposed to do.

Do they do what you expect when you press them?  Would you like them to work a different way?  Please let me know.

Steph who does use both Twitter and Facebook said especially with Facebook she wouldn’t particularly press any buttons she came across, not knowing for sure what it would do.  She says she would manually add things to her profile page she found interesting.  Do you feel the same way?

What about just the commercial nature of Facebook and Twitter, do you object to me having their buttons on my blog?  Do you feel the buttons clutter the posts too much?  I’m still debating these issues myself.

I like to keep my readers happy, so please let me know what you think!

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Alliums from Owen

I was really excited the other day to get some alliums from Owen:

Allium triquetrum, Babington leek and Allium ursinum bulbs.

I should have taken this picture when I first got them!  They’re all suffering a bit from transplant shock, together with the warm sunny days we’ve been having over the last week or so.  They arrived in perfect condition, but now are a little wilted.

Anyway, it’s been more than a week and they’re still alive.  I expect them to make it.  I’m looking forward to eating some!

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Tim Peters Perennial Rye March 2011

About the only thing growing in the garden right now is the perennial rye from Tim Peters I posted about before last November, last September and June 2009.

The crowns are growing pretty strong now, and since I expect this to grow to about 2 meters high, I’m expecting to see a lot of rapid growth soon.

This is line #1 (the 5 rows on the left):

This is line #2 (6ish rows in the middle):

and this is line #3 (not very well defined rows, but everything to the right of the 2 paving stones on the left and not the plants along the left edge of the picture):

They all look similar, but different.  As expected there is also a lot of variability between the plants.

Now is a time I might try to do some selection.  I understand from Tim the crowns can be divided at this stage to make more plants.  I might be able to take pieces of selected crowns for growing in an isolated spot.

Rye requires a pollination partner, so if I take exactly 2 plants to an isolated place, they will cross in a controlled way.

Another thing I might do at this stage is rogue out weak plants, so they won’t pollinate the others.  I might fill the spaces with crowns from other plants.

I have some other garden space, so I might divide some crowns into it, but it’s not isolated from this space, so I would have to destroy what’s left here to keep it from crossing.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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Me

Patrick Wiebe

Landscape is the new square!

I’m not going to give any details until it actually appears, not a big deal really, but I was asked to provide a ‘landscape’ picture of myself for Internet publication.  I’m not really used to landscape pictures.  I guess like everything else wide screen, it’s what’s trendy now.

Since the picture is so wide you can only be in so much of it.  It really puts you under pressure to make the rest of the picture worth looking at!

Anyway, they didn’t tell me it had to be an exclusive picture, and since I don’t often post pictures of myself I thought I would share it with all of you too…