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The reason I tried to grow Eschscholzia californica hydroponically - with the Kratky method https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kratky_method - was partly because it was fun, but much more because they say that tea from the plant can help you with sleeping. I was hoping it should be the zopiklon flower. Or slightly more seriously, the fact the English name is California poppy could have a suggestive effect. The flower isn’t related to poppy, but maybe your brain just hears the word “poppy” and will think the tea has opiates in it. Anyway, forgett the last drivel, here's the result. (I haven't tried the tea yet.)



The other flowers, down in the corner, are from a mini eggplant that's growing in another Kraky system.




Then the number of infections in covid is apparently going down in this county (county not country). At least my dad said so over the telephone. It’s so easy to think: “Wow, and that’s in the middle of the winter and with no lockdown and no mask laws. Own responsibility, holistic view on public health and sustainable recommendations works.” But I know, it’s cherry picking and you might comment with your own cherry picking. Plus, it’s not over until it’s over. Ask the Czechs.
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Since I work extra in the bookstore I, yesterday, saw poetry books by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, the man behind the non violence sculpture outside the UN headquarter in New York.



Pic: wikimedia

The thing is that there’s copies of that sculpture all over the world. One of the copies is in Malmö, Sweden, by the central station. I have recently been to Malmö. Traveled there by train*, but I missed the sculpture. I would have liked to see it.

With the risk of being all over the place in one entry, I was in Malmö for a course. Among the people I meet there was a guy who has written a book about hydroponics and another guy who wanted to grow wasabi in hydroponics. Real wasabi supply cost as much as truffle, and I have online seen a title claiming truffle has a higher price per kg than cocaine. So why not try to grow wasabi?

*Of course by train, is it true that “flygskam” (flying shame) is like “smorgasbord” and “ombudsman”, Swedish words that have gone global?

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