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themightyfoo · 8 months

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Today's harvest from our square foot garden

#gardening #gardenblr #gardeners on tumblr #square foot gardening #raised bed gardening #grow your own food #grow some of your own food #climate solutions #things you can do to fight climate change #not the house of have-tos

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wildrungarden · 7 months

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9/18/23 ~ Marigolds I didn’t even try to grow. Just seeds that fell into the compost garden from last years flowers 🌼 featuring one of my now FOUR Marshmallow Root plants 🙌🏻 I am going to try and collect seeds from the Marshmallow Root this year.

#indoor garden #container gardening #sustainable gardening #vegetable gardening #starting seeds #grow organic #grow your own food #organic gardening #tomato garden #green witch #herb garden #cooking herbs #medicinal herbs #marshmallow root #marigold #compost garden #raised beds

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cave-monkey · 2 months

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Tripitaka constantly asking for food, especially in the earlier chapters, reminds me that he was possibly about 18-20 at the beginning of the journey.

A little beyond the true bottomless pit stage, sure, but maybe not quite outside it yet.

#jttw personal #food tw #this on top of being a relatively sheltered temple monk suddenly on an international cross-country trip #on horseback!#that his body was in no way prepared for. absolutely SHOCKED at his new calorie requirements.#someone teach tripitaka to forage so he can graze en route #I don't care if manual labor makes him squeamish #shove some self-sufficiency down his throat for his own good #he's not eating enough #all that constant traveling and he's consuming like. a single bowl of rice one day. a couple peaches the next.#swk who's subsisted on inedible metals for 500 years and doesn't actually NEED to eat or drink to survive: that's probably enough right?#just think of monkey king trying to keep a whole teenager fed though like damn rip buddy #(disclaimer: obviously tripitaka is FINE and - like the toilet - we are probably not meant to think about how bodily needs are being met-)#(-unless it's plot relevant. Counterpoint: I find this funny.)#(Give Sun Wukong A Raise Agenda)#(Tripitaka Learn To Feed Yourself Agenda)#(Your Diet Is ATROCIOUS (in true university-aged young adult fashion. to be fair.) But That Doesn't Mean It SHOULD Be)#(No Making Your Disciples Do All The Work For You Doesn't Count)#(Get Back Here And Be A Good Example To Your Students Young Man)

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poundfooolish · 3 months

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honestly unironically some of the most interesting conversations I have with people start with some variation of 'So this show/movie/book is NOT GOOD- BUT!!!

#zip it #sometimes bad things raise interesting points ideas or questions and you can just steal them #for your own stories and uses #sometimes there's a tiny little sliver of Good Thing or Compelling thing in there #the bad show is like one of those spiky puzzle trays with food in them and I am a hungry little housecat

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wholelottabotany · 1 year

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Food Growing Friday: Raised Bed Basics!

Raised beds are a very simple, manageable, and accessible way for people to establish their own gardens. It is not as daunting as it may seem, and it can be as DIY as you want. To start, all you need to focus on is the Frame, the Fill, and the Flood.

Frame: To start, you need a solid wood or metal frame. If you’re building your beds yourself, a great long-term wood choice is Cedar, which is naturally rot-resistant and not a bank-breaker compared to other woods. If you’re choosing metal instead, especially in wetter climates, you’ll wanna go with Galvanized Steel to avoid leeching and rust. Water Troughs are a great choice for this. You can customize the height of your bed to fit your accessibility and price needs, lower beds are more cost-effective, but higher beds are easier to maintain for people with disabilities and difficulty bending down.

You can also purchase easy-install raised bed kits from your local garden or hardware center, and not even worry about all this.

Fill: Your soil mix can make or break your gardening experience. You have to make sure that you’re not sacrificing cost for quality, and vice versa. To do so, it’s good to mix about 50/50 with cheaper topsoil, and organic compost. The compost you can source from a bag, or you can make it yourself if you have the resources. Also keep an eye out for local compost bins that you may be able to source from. Topsoil also can come from a bag, or any construction and landscaping projects in your area. Never be afraid to find resources in the community around you!

Especially with taller beds, it’s also smart to start with a layer of mulch, logs, or branches. Anything organic that can break down, but that takes up plenty of space in order to slow weed growth and lessen the burden of soil on your wallet.

Flood: Water! Water! Water! A garden can grow nowhere without it's beloved moisture. Different beds will have different watering requirements, depending on how well the soil drains, and how much the plants need. But for now, the set up. I have personally found the best way to irrigate a small bed is by drip watering, because it avoids issues like powdery mildew and water spots caused by overhead watering. You can either purchase grids to go across the entire bed, or you can get flexible irrigation tubing and directly target your plants.

#food growing friday #garden #gardenblr #food garden #veggies #agricultural science #earth science #botanical science #gardening #grow your own food #horticultural science #permaculture #plant biology #plant science #raised bed #garden tips #garden help #self sustaining

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originalitysquared · 4 months

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Lol I remember when I was short on money.

I literally sold my plasma.

Not everyone is healthy enough for that, I recognize that. But I would strap myself into one of those stupid fucking chairs before you ever caught an ebegging post on my blog. I'm tired of being opposed to begging being seen as me being more privleged.

Like lol sorry I'm not in a bad enough position to be completely destitute.

#i found grants that paid my rent and utilities #i found the city food bank AND the university food bank #i lived in an apt that was crawling with roaches and fleas and was literally falling apart.#my car broke down so I learned how to replace my thermostat on my own #like yes I am privleged cause I have a working body but that doesn't negate how hard I worked to be as precarious as I was.#like y'all are so happy to get mad at people like me and call me unempathetic #while rich people raise your rent every month

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planty-ankylosaurus · 1 year

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One of my least favourite things about renting is having to move after spending time and money fixing landlords shitty gardens. And houses, but I spend more on flower bulbs tbh. Anyway, starting again.

#my plants #gardening #me #ireland #grow your own food #raised beds #veg beds

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palestinenatural · 1 year

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just complaining keep scrolling but. love when my mom turns around and invalidates my entire cultural heritage thank you mama I also love colonialism and assimilation

#she was like. oh you were raised with significant influence of palestinian culture? name one (1) thing. you're not arab #OK? then why do you tell people I am.#and it's like. yeah we've assimilated a lot bc sitti chose not to teach her kids arabic #but it's not like she discouraged them from it. my aunts chose to learn #and my dad chose not to but he's encouraged me to learn and talk to sitti about her life in bethlehem #when he HAS discouraged me from our culture it's mostly been bc he thinks the political situation is hopeless #and he doesn't want me to get caught up in it. which I disagree with but that's not the point #the point is I'm entitled to reconnection. I'm entitled to my cultural heritage!#ultimately I think my elders' decision to just not talk about it was not their choice to make #anyway how dare she #she doesn't know what it's like to beg for scraps of your identity #it's insane that I feel so ashamed just casually bringing up palestine with my own family who is from there and has traveled there. why!#why did they isolate me from the community like that it wasn't their decision to make!!!!!!#why can they give it up so easily I don't understand #my mom is like it's fine to engage with the other half of your culture! as long as you don't do anything beyond cook food ofc

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healingheartdogs · 11 months

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Having to sleep in one and a half hour increments so I can wake up to feed baby mice formula with a paint brush is flashing me back to my kitten raising days but WORSE BECAUSE DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET WOODMICE TO EAT

#they're so cute though #the two of them cuddling and playing in between meals #feel like their eyes could open at literally any minute now #they were fully covered in fur and had teeth already when they were brought to me so they're probably like 11-12 days old #and very active now that they've had some good meals and some pedialyte #so they must be opening soon #wonder how much harder it's going to be to feed them once they can see me #they dont act scared of me anymore when i pull them out to feed them now but seeing me I imagine will be very different for them #0/10 do not recommend trying to raise orphaned field mice on your own if you have wildlife rehab nearby who will take them #it is so much fucking work #but the wildlife rehabbers near us do not take wild mice so #here i am #feeding mice with a paint brush #every two hours #if they were any younger there would be no hope for this and I wouldn't bother but once their eyes open they can start eating solid food #which will be my saving grace lmao #and then once theyre weaned I'll release them outside... once all the smoke is gone #not about to release mouse babies outside when the air quality index is 205 and a solid DO NOT GO OUTDOORS y'know #the air is so bad here from the fires #literally the worst air quality in the world rn

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themightyfoo · 9 months

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Square Foot Gardening Update!

I harvested the onions and garlic yesterday - this is what I got from my raised bed in the hellstrip by the street. A 2x5 patch yielded 27 heads of hardneck 'Killarney Red' garlic and 20 'Yellow Rock' onions that I planted last October, along with 20 little 'Candy Apple' red onions that I planted in April for use as scallions. I'll replant those little red onions and two dozen of the largest garlic cloves in the Fall. Onions and garlic are dead simple to grow and make a good beginner crop.

Here's how the raised bed looked on May 3rd. The onions are in the left midground, the garlic in the right midground, the leeks and potatoes are visible in the background. I reserved the empty foreground patch for a pole bean planting I planned for late May. A few scallions spilled over into the bean patch because I intended to take them early, before the beans took over.

Here's how the pole beans looked as of this morning. I built a trellis between two beds to increase the bean growing area and make them orders of magnitude easier to pick. The bamboo I got from a patch growing in my Japanese-style back garden. The bare patch on the extreme lower left of the photo is where the onions and garlic were.

Here's my husband showing one day's bean and tomato harvest. This is what it's yielding every 3-5 days.

And just for giggles, here's my flower bed that's in the hellstrip behind the beans, sweet peppers and tomatoes. The gladiolus and cosmos are just starting to bloom; the bachelor buttons and nasturtiums have been blooming for quite a while now. (In the spring it's a riot of crocuses, daffodils, irises and hyacinths.)

If there's enough interest I can post how to build the watering grids. Building them yourself is far cheaper than buying pre-assembled ones online.

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wildrungarden · 5 months

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11/21/23 ~ Lil Brussels coming thru at school 🥹🥹

#indoor garden #container gardening #sustainable gardening #vegetable gardening #starting seeds #veganuary #grow organic #grow your own food #organic gardening #brussels #brussel sprouts #raised garden beds #raised beds #eat your vegetables #eat your veggies

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docholligay · 2 years

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Are you out of your fucking mind? Now, I am not enough of a gun enthusiast to know when the long-range rifle of that particular ability came into being--my grandad would have known--but I know it wasn’t in common usage. quite a bit of the “could kill a soldier at 1000 yards and anyone behind him” was a myth. 1000 yards is such a long fucking shot, y’all. You cannot possibly understand if you don’t shoot.

A moment’s research tells me it wasn’t even in the Olympics until 1908 even though free rifle was already an event.

EVEN if they have like, a Mauser, which is a WWI “sniper rifle” so too early but it’s the only gun of that vintage and style I’m familiar with, let me tell you what,. accuracy at that distance isn’t just....done by the gun. There’s a whole level of skill behind it, and let me tell you some guy shooting from his high armpit AIN’T DOING IT.

also there’s a reason you don’t stand for this shit. This is a long-range setup

At that distance, every TINY FUCKING TWITCH MATTERS. People who are skilled long-range shooters are extremely good at quieting their bodies, and even then they need a bench. There’s a whole breath-holding thing, etc, I will never be a long-range shooter like this and that’s fine, we all have our gifts.

“They must have one of them newfangled rifles” Oh fuck off not to sound like an NRA fuckl but the rifle doesn’t shoot itself, my dude, he could have the nicest gun under Chstendom and he’s not gonna be able to hit jack or shit like that.

#Doc watches Legend of Calamity Jane #Calamity Jane ep 10 #god this just reminds me of all that gravy seal bullshit about prep #lol gary part of prep is learning to raise food and being able to run for more than 2 minutes straight #I reckon--I reckon I'll beat you to death with the butt of your own rifle

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queerlyglittering · 1 year

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some of y'all never had parents who aggressively shamed you for making even a little mess or even just mere evidence of your existence and it shows

#personal #ignore me #directed at people off of tumblr #who lack literally any degree of consciousness of their own mess #never mind basic conscientiousness toward others around them #it's one thing to make a mess in your own room - your personal space where only you live and no one else usually goes #it's another thing entirely to just. drop food and trash and toys and other belongings anywhere they happen to fall out of your hands #treating the floor of communal areas like it is one massive dumpster that you live and play in #and not caring at all about the fact that such mess stresses literally everyone else in the house out #including the pets!!!!#mama cat has to wade through an ocean of toys and garbage just to get to the ONE SPOT *I* cleaned up for her to keep her new babies in!!#i am not a maid!!!!!!!!#i should not have to clean up after you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#I'm gonna start charging for it i swear to motherfucking zeus #like i understand there is a gulf of difference between 'not caring about cleaning bc your parents don't care and so you were never taught'#and 'raised by an abusive parent who was a hoarder herself but god forbid her kids' rooms don't look like magazine spreads'#but there's GOT to be some fucking middle ground to be found here. meet me in the fucking middle.

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arceus-forbid · 1 year

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you go online and everyone in the replies of a post really acting like they’re a Pokemon Professor 😭

#and then you go to their profile and they’re like 22 and super into one type #like type specific trainers not to dunk on you but just bc you really enjoy certain kinds of pokemon doesn’t immediately make you an expert😭#one time someone tried to imply i was neglecting my Leafeon bc they saw in a picture she was the only one in my party without a food bowl #girl she’s a plant type she is literally photosynthesising #she eats carbon dioxide and sunlight and water #yes she can technically eat food but that’s mostly reserved for treats bc she’s a spoiled spoiled girl #like i appreciate those that are genuinely trying to be informational but i stg there are so many ppl #that’ll just try and tell you how to raise your own pokémon #i stg #pokemon irl #pokemon #pokemon blogging #pokeblogging #pkmn irl #unreality

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unopenablebox · 2 years

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on the other hand i deeply love all seafoods and people don’t like that either

#people will claim to love seafood and then they watch you eat ten oysters on your own and think it's ''weird''#also tinned fish. sardines and anchovies are extraordinarily good #oh and KUGEL. remember that time in college i got bullied for bringing kugel to a potluck #it was ostensibly a shabbat potluck even! i just hadn't thought about the fact that our host was like a megalapsed semiconvert #and no one else in attendance had encountered an ethnic jewish food in their lives #and also bullies were there.#no hate to megalapsed semiconverts but they often don't eat a lot of kugel.#box opener #food #ok. i will admit an exception to my seafoods thing. i prefer clams that are not like 20% sand to clams that are #still good! but i was not raised on sand clams and am unused to it

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orcelito · 1 year

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Staying out of tales of arise Anything bc I think I do want to experience this game organically bc those plot twists hit me like a fucking TRUCK.

I did look up an estimate for how long the game is tho. I'm at like 30 ish hours and if you focus on plot alone it's like some 40 hours. But I have been doing side quests lol so it probably isn't even 10 hours remaining.

A Little scared of how things will be after this point tho. The Vibes will definitely have changed. And oh God I just want to hold Alphen so tightly. He doesn't deserve this.

#speculation nation #tfw ur amnesia was a blessing but now you remember and suddenly you have to deal with Extreme Trauma #and he was already traumatized!!!! he was already traumatized and now hes even more traumatized!!!!!!#but let's be real this group is made entirely up of very traumatized people lol. such is the way of this world.#this game is so fucking brutal tho. like im used to tales games hitting much harder than you expect #but they went out of their WAY to make this one really fuck you up #im absolutely in love with this game. but WOW it is not for the faint of heart lmfao #which sure is something to say about a very anime looking game where you can go to the Owl World and the Owl King will give you outfits #and you can wear ridiculous accessories even during serious cutscenes (a tales game Classic)#and also you own a ranch.#i still cant wrap my head around that one hfkshfj like what do you MEAN i own a ranch?!?! and then i just Kill the animals?!?!?#like ya food meats but i thought raising chickens would give me eggs. me cooing at my grown chickens then going into the menu #and it's like 'your chickens have reached maturity! items received: Chicken Meat" and i was just like. 'O-oh.'#and then the chickens were GOOOONE but at least the cats and dogs stay around without me EATING them #i. prefer to not visit my ranch. i dont want to be reminded that all these animals are gonna die.#hfkshfjd and YEA ALL THIS alongside some stunning displays of moral ambiguity #& the utter horror and injustice of 300 years of subjugation #perfectly captured right down to the erasure of culture. these people having to look to ruins to get in touch with their culture #bc it was Taken from them.#just. it's a ridiculously over the top anime game just like any tales game but wow. wowowowwow #and im saying this after playing tales of xillia 2. aka still the only game that made me cry Twice.#arise is truly an astounding game. it's very definitely in the running for my favorite tales game.#we'll see how the ending goes lol but given everything ive seen so far. it is Likely to be just as stunning hdkshfj #raving about this game when i should be going to sleep. man . man. ..

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