John Scalzi: If you find yourself with a deficit of grass, here is some of mine

If you find yourself with a deficit of grass, here is some of mine

I will be touching grass today and you should too.

How are fireflies this year? Ours arrived later than usual but are finally showing up.

We had peak firefly about a week ago, it was lovely.

I saw quite a few on my bike ride last night as the sun was setting - more than I was expecting, honestly…

The summer tradition lived well in Missouri last week

I have a large yard as well. I put a bunch of trees on mine though.

You could fit a lot of roos in that garden

Would make one heck of a vegetable garden.

Technically speaking that's what it was prior to the house being built on it, since it was a cornfield.

Technically speaking, is corn a vegetable? *googles* Huh, technically, corn is a fruit. I would think you can grow fruit in a vegetable garden, but if fruit is the only thing in the garden, is it technically a vegetable garden or a fruit garden? (Surprising no one, botany is weird.)

Gotta be specific about your domain if you're gonna get technical. Tomatoes are a fruit, and tomatoes are a vegetable. Depends on which context; legal, modern western botanical or culinary or herbilogical..

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is knowing not to put it into a fruit salad."

The thing is, "vegetable" is really a food term, not a biology term. In other words, if you use "technical" to mean "biology terms", there is no such thing as a vegetable.

Does it not mean things that are not animal or mineral? With a bit of a grey area on fungi?

Botanically, I think only the bran part of corn is a fruit; the caloric part of sweet corn is a grain, albeit harvested in the “doughy” stage of development. HTH

Apparently, according to a certain technical point of view (queue Obi-Wan) all grains are fruit. Corn, wheat, oats, the whole lot. But as others have pointed out, it depends on which (or how many) definitions you want to apply. www.popsci.com/is-corn-frui...

The bizarre botany that makes corn a fruit, a grain, and also (kind of) a vegetablewww.popsci.com Corn is both a fruit and a grain, botanically speaking. But there's a slightly weirder reason that we also consider it a vegetable.

Of course i realize after hitting reply that i meant "cue", not "queue". My brain is frequently bad at picking out the right spellings for things =P

You think that's weird, try finding the scientific definition of "fish"...

Fish is more of a shape than a species.

Does that make a corn field an orchard?

Going full circle, I was always told corn is grass.

I thought corn was a grass.

Really simple: fruit is sweet and vegetables aren't and go in your main dish as the vegetable. Nitpicking doesn't change that it's the basic term for 'plant matter that's not sweet'.

But they literally call it Sweet Corn and put a cob of it beside my cheeseburger.

Sweet in comparison to normal corn, aka wheat.

With duck à l'orange for dessert.

Rhubarb is not sweet but generally does not go in your main dish as the vegetable. Tomato is a fruit that is not really sweet and does go into the main dish as a vegetable. It's a little complicated.

If we call it a vegetable, it's a vegetable.

Corn’s grain. Always has been.

And it was established later on in the thread that all grains are also fruits. I mentioned it to my spouse, who recently visited some relatives in the midwest, and they were like "oh, that explains wheat berries"

I used to live in a housing development called "Maize Meadows" that was built on a former cornfield. At least it was truth in naming. 😊

Your Gras looks much more green than mine. 😉😇😂

while being allergic to hay i'll have grass touching every part of my body today that isn't well protected against the elements

I just asked if I should mow the front and was told no need. I AM SO GOLDEN RIGHT NOW.

I went out to touch grass and saw that someone had spilled yellow paint across all the sidewalks and in the grass…wait, no, it was just all the neighborhood linden trees taking a HUGE pollen dump after a windy evening yesterday😂🤧

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