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TIL our garden soil is pH neutral (to my surprise). Beautiful royal blue!
#SoilSamples #Chemistry #Gardening

Embedding the Teacher: Distilling vLLM Preferences for Scalable Image Retrieval
Eric He, Akash Gupta, Adian Liusie, Vatsal Raina, Piotr Molenda, Shirom Chabra, Vyas Raina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12014

Embedding the Teacher: Distilling vLLM Preferences for Scalable Image Retrieval
Text--image retrieval is necessary for applications such as product recommendation. Embedding-based approaches like CLIP enable efficient large-scale retrieval via vector similarity search, but they are primarily trained on literal caption-like text--image pairs and often fail to capture abstract or persona-driven attributes common in product recommendation applications (e.g., ``a gift for a mother who loves gardening''). In contrast, state-of-the-art vision--language models (vLLMs) can align t…

Gardening: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/11/09/gardening.html

Gardening
Getting the garden ready for a new season. I took down the …

#gardening #flowers #photography #bloomscrolling

A crown on the garden.
#BloomScrolling #gardening

The garden festival / Landesgartenschau was not just about #gardening. There were also events etc. (Which we didn't attend)
One place was about #floristry with really beautifully decorated arrangements. I'm always a bit jealous of such things. They look really beautiful, and requir…

Bahçe işiyle uğraşmanın en önemli özelliklerinden biri paylaşmaktır. İsteyen olursa mektup zarfıyla yollarım.
#garden #gardening #garten

End of the harvest season. Pulled the last of the tomatoes and peppers from our victory garden. I'm going to dehydrate about a kilogram of jalapeños and grind them into a powder.
#gardening

My daughter's cats are really into shrubbery. Big Monty Python fans...
#CatsOfMastodon #Gardening

One thing this article doesn’t get into: what’s next.
So national guard is gardening in the capital carrying guns.
But what follows having armed state militias deployed to a capital in most scenarios in history? Nothing awesome.

Scenes from Trump's National Guard Deployment to D.C.
Their presence has terrified some, relieved others, and left even the troops themselves confused.

A small part of this year's bean harvest.
#gardening

Making purple salsa with garden purple tomatillos!
Get roasted!
#salsa #cooking #gardening

And here's a good podcast to learn about gardening (and related skills, some of which don't require land):
https://www.revolutionarysgarden.com/

I don't think I have twisted off the cap for the cleanout since I bought the whole assembly... 5months? I only slid the end into the pipe in August so hadn't needed to screw off the cap. It took some leverage/persuasion to turn it.
But I was successful, and now the big filter can be drained. The water was actually higher than the bottom of the cap but no big deal, it's not really under any pressure.
#poolpond #diy #backyardproject #portalberni #gardening #pondlife

Pesto-making day. The basil and garlic are ours, the sunflower and pumpkin seeds and the olive oil (duh) are from the store.
#cooking #gardening

What Happens When You Grow a Tomato from a Burger King Whopper? - The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5YDjr25Cw

OK, this is more what I was expecting from my Sweet Peas; I think there's a couple of different varieties in this really high grade LIdl pack of sweet peas. Next year I should get some from better #gardening supplier.

Assembled a new potting table for Collette. Turned out nicely.
Collette has always had a passion for gardening, and has dramatically increased her gardening efforts post retirement. She’s been propagating roses this summer. Her first round she had about a 3% success rate. She’s learned and steadily improved the process. Latest batch - 40%. She has become a 10x gardener.
I’ve become a 10x furniture assembler.

First day post harvest madness underway: taco sauce starting to ferment, bruschetta in a jar ready to can, first batch of salsa verde in the hot water bath. So much left to do. 🌱 #gardening #preserving #peppers

One reason why we chose #Baiersbronn for our last vacation was the #Landesgartenschau (#Garden show?).
It would have been a gem for flower and garden

We grew the most gorgeous Brussels sprout plants this year. Of course, we didn't actually get a single Brussels sprout. But since it turns out you can eat the leaves - which we have in profusion - who cares?
#gardening

My dog Louie had his figs removed today https://mstdn.social/@RickGaehl/115088298279430576

Rick Gaehl (@RickGaehl@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image As mentioned in a post a couple of days ago, we've had a good year for figs here. Apparently, figs were one of the earliest plants to be cultivated by humans, and examples have been found dating to before 9000 BCE This was significantly before the earliest known domestication of wheat, barley and legumes. #Photography #Closeup #Fruit #Gardening #History

emptied the pond overnight. We have had so much rain this past month! All are full. I am going to drain it all and keep it drained until I get the pumps wired and can habe them installed and running. Don't want the water to get stale and unhealthy.
I think I might hire a stone mason to build the wall.
moving the pump into the intake bay now. It should be empty by the time I am back from the day's ceremonies.
#poolpond #diy #backyardproject #portalberni #gardening #pondlife

Aren't Mimosas cool!
#plants #Mimosa #nature #gardening

how do you even make a Lycra top hat Bruce https://mastodon.social/@chest_bot_shop/115385401693084912

Wie cool ist denn bitte Teppichverbene? (Rhetorische Frage.) #Garten @gardening https://www.mein-schoener-garten.de/gartenpraxis/ziergaerten/bluetenrasen-ohne-maehen-11676

The fruits of tonight’s mad dash harvest of the feral garden to get as much picked before the cold snap starts signaling to the plants to slow down. I think we have some work to do. 🌱#gardening #oklahoma #okwx

Hierarchical Vision-Language Retrieval of Educational Metaverse Content in Agriculture
Ali Abdari, Alex Falcon, Giuseppe Serra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13713 https://

Hierarchical Vision-Language Retrieval of Educational Metaverse Content in Agriculture
Every day, a large amount of educational content is uploaded online across different areas, including agriculture and gardening. When these videos or materials are grouped meaningfully, they can make learning easier and more effective. One promising way to organize and enrich such content is through the Metaverse, which allows users to explore educational experiences in an interactive and immersive environment. However, searching for relevant Metaverse scenarios and finding those matching users…

What Happens When You Toss Potatoes in a Raised Bed and Come Back 125 Days Later? - The Gardening Channel With James Prigioni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBIni-eB1A

Since it seems frost may finally be on the cards this week, we picked all the tomatoes this afternoon. With a little luck, we'll make and can green tomato jam tomorrow.
#gardening

About to enjoy a Leffe Brune in the evening sunshine after a little gardening #beer

Let me convince you to grow anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum). The flowers, which looked nicer last week (and on the plants I just harvested), are bright purple and are favorite of bees. But, IMHO, the leaves are the best part of the plant. Used fresh or dried they add a sweet anise flavor to black tea and they make really great ice cream too (akin to mint).
#gardening

Who needs to carve pumpkins when you grow zucchini that look like this?
#gardening

got home in the dark last night and left in the dark this morning but there has been #poolpond progress in my absence!
The fence builders started!
They augered post holes. They managed to not cut any pipes or wires in the frontyard pond... the holes are BIG.
Glad the fence is happening though. The rains have come with a vengeance and the ponds are filling fast! I wil feel much better knowing no one can get into the yard and be in danger of falling in.
#building #portalberni #diy #gardening

#sunviva turşusu yaptım. İlk turşu deneyimim. Başarırsam seneye daha da geliştiririm.
#garten #garden #gardening

I have no idea what it is..
#photography #gardening #plants #green

Got my water/utility bill for the spring/summer yesterday. (we get billed 3 times a year as part of our general city utilities bill including water, sewer and garbage/recycling fees).
Figured it would be a big water year this year so I've been wanting to see this. And of course, I have data going back to 2019ish.
Today's bill only goes to August 1st, so it doesn't include when we started to fill the #pondpool!
This was already a dry year in the spring and we were doing lots of watering in the front yard for the new ground cover in the modified driveway and the 3 new fruit trees.
Verdict:
2024: Apr 12 - Aug 7: 122, 200L
2025 Apr 14 - Aug 1 (7 less days!): 136,600L
It will be interesting to see if the August pond filling will add a big chunk onto our summer/fall consumption or if that is offset by both the brief August water restrictions, and the departure of both kids this fall to consume other people's water. ;=)
If you want an indication of how much water people use vs. yards: look at our August 2022 bill, which captures when we were on our cross-Canada roadtrip for 30 days in July/August of the 100 day period.
#water #consumption #gardening #utility #PortAlberni