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Oh very interesting! Can you give some background about the hugulkultur bed? When did you make it? What kind of logs and how deep are they? Well rotted or more fresh? Is this the first year?

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She had antennae like black snakes, and right away I knew she was trouble.

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You know when you see a minivan completely covered in homemade signs about trump and Jesus and illuminati and stuff? Like it looks so unhinged that you just feel bad for the mental health of the person driving it?

That’s what this ad looks like. It looks like how Trump thinks. Unwell.

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Well I for one did not know that actually!

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Hey I’m the moderator and yes that’s exactly what happened. It was an “autumn theme” woodworking contest. I was just thinking that it would be great to do another contest. Would you like to pick a theme? Could be something like “make a tissue box” or “make something Christmas themed”.

NataliePortland Mod ,
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Thank you yes that’s exactly what happened. Sorry it’s been so long. Let’s have another friendly woodworking contest! Then we can replace the spooky coffin 😁

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Thank you so much! Last year was such a disaster for me. Tried new things and they failed big. So seeing such growth this year is really making me feel good about myself and skills. I’m following to the letter this book “growing organic vegetables west of the cascades” by Steve Solomon and I love it.

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Oh I’m surprised to hear there’s no sun in Germany. Is that unusual for this time of year? Well it’s not too late to get some starts going in pots.

Oh and yes it’s a small garden it just feeds my wife and I with a nosh here and there. But thank you!

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Thanks. They’re just to let the dog know where not to go. She understands well actually.

My beans are called Rattlesnake. What do you grow?

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I think it’s like 8’ x 5’? 19 plants

Thanks, I haven’t successfully grown one before.

Ohh that’s bolted hard! Poor lil guy. Is it kale?

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We don’t have rabbits! But I bet my wife would love it if we did

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Ya I think I’ll have to do that. Seems like everyone with raised beds grows better than me

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Oh Salem- You’re my neighbor!

Wow you have so much, you should share some pics with us!

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I might. I want to get good at growing in the ground before I do raised beds. So that I can better appreciate and utilize them.

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Never heard of Saskatoon before what’s that like

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I bet they were remembering the story of the Egyptian Archaeologists who discovered a jar of honey and they all had a taste. Then they found a fetus in the jar.

Oh you know what- Snopes says it didn’t happen!
It’s maybe just an urban legend.

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It’s unreal the weather you suffer through!

I’m on lemmy.ca just for the friendly atmosphere, but I can’t imagine living there! With all that free health care and poutine

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Maybe it’s not surprising but as an X-ray tech we wear a badge that records our radiation exposure. Every quarter it gets read and if our exposure is too high I can’t work anymore. Maybe for the rest of the year, maybe forever. I’ve never heard of that actually happening though.

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I usually freeze them all for smoothies but I think I have to make jam this year I have too many

NataliePortland OP ,
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I only leave them on because I’m too lazy to take them off. I add them to my smoothies like that and the leaves don’t seem to affect the taste at all so what the heck they can just stay on it’s fine

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There were a handful of these made at the time and now there is only one remaining, in Margate NJ. I have a tattoo of it and it looks just like that one except without the flames.

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Right on! Will do

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Thank you that was great to watch

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I didn’t believe it until I tried it myself. Don’t water cucumber seeds when you plant them. Only give them water after they emerge. They will! And they will be less likely to develop powder mildew.

This is from Steve Solomon’s book “growing organic vegetables west of the Cascades.” Amend the soil with fertilizer, then mound up a low hill 18” wide and 3 feet from other plants. Push your fist 1.5” down into the center of the hill this restores capillarity, which he talks about often and I’ve been restoring capillarity for all my seedlings this year and it’s an amazing trick. Water can pull itself up from deep underground using …. Shoot. What’s that word? Where water climbs up a tree? But when you till or fluff the soil before planting you break it up so that there is too much air between soil particles. The water can’t climb up. Think of a time you saw a deep footprint in a muddy ground. Not only did the footprint hold water better than surrounding soil, but even after it dried, at night the footprint could become wet again. This is from the capillarity of the soil. It’s compressed enough that water can travel in it.

Before I plant any seedling now I press on the soil, like with the edge of a board. Place seeds in the hole, or valley, then sprinkle soil on top. And water them too. But only with the cucurbits don’t water them until they emerge. And they will!

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Ya I guess that’s the word. Seems pretty obvious now 🤣.

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I did it with Romaine and it went great. I did water the romaine and I found the soil under them to be better at holding water. Also I just planted our tomato starts and pressed firmly on the soil around the stem. I’ve noticed the soil where I pressed holding water on hot days when all else is dry

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If I used my grass clippings I would end up seeding my garden beds with grass. Straw can have some seeds but generally very little

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I do the same thing. I get clean pesticide free straw bales very cheap, about the price of a 6 pack. Straw insulates and helps the beds retain moisture. I use it to hill up the potatoes. Then you can leave it over the winter and in the spring your beds will be so amazingly soft and full of worms. The straw blocks the soil from getting compacted by the rain, and worms will run around loosening the soil.

When you remove the straw it’s halfway rotted. Perfect stuff to make compost with, I like to add my Austrian winter peas to the straw, run them through my lawnmower to chop it all up.

Some people here have said wood chips but you should never put wood chips on vegetable beds. It can be okay around your flower beds but use it sparingly. When wood chips break down they use up the nitrogen in the soil. Straw doesn’t have that effect.

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This was great. I’m locked in!

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I like this story. I hope the nice bat is flying around now chomping mosquitoes

NataliePortland ,
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Subsistence farming is a terrible way to live

Ma’am are you okay?

NataliePortland ,
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I’m speechless. I have no speech. How on earth can a person wake up in the morning and have a thought like this.

NataliePortland ,
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I want to stop ruminating about things I wish I would have said or some stupid thing I did say or why did I do that

NataliePortland ,
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I live in a major city but like I’m in a bad neighborhood so there’s only one grocery store within 5 miles. It makes no sense. A food desert in a major city so that I’m forced to drive just to like get screws from a hardware store or toilet paper or something

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Why do I still have to see Goebbels stupid fucking face on links.

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Haven’t visited Reddit since I came here last summer. I love it here. It’s not perfect, but it’s ours

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I mean to be fair, there’s nothing you can write on a bomb that makes it better

“Hope this message finds you well”

“Tell your mother I said thank you for the birthday card”

“Save 10% at checkout when you enter the code FREEPALESTINE”

NataliePortland ,
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That was fun to watch

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Wait I don’t get it. Please send help. Is it like a flowchart?

TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up.

The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!

NataliePortland OP ,
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Well I fill up 1 gallon zip locks and freeze them

NataliePortland OP ,
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It’s easy! Actually these are from seeds I harvested in a park. After the flowers bloom the seed pods will develop. They can be opened up and planted in autumn or spring. Lupines are legumes like peas, so look for pea pods and let them ripen until the seeds are black
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NataliePortland OP ,
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No kidding? Where is that?
They’re native in Pacific Northwest and in fact one variety is the host plant for the endangered fenders blue butterfly

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