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POTATO HARVEST DAY! (12th Sep)
The winning variety was Kestrel, with over 3kg. Red Duke of York also did well at around 2kg. Sharpes Express, a little heritage salad potato, gave me about 800g.
This year was a drought through July and August, which will have affected yield. I did water, but not anything like as extensively as commercial farms would. The potatoes were grown in straw that had been used as chicken bedding.
I am extremely happy with the outcome, especially given the low inputs.
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I'm really excited about this garden, because while I grew up on a small organic farm, I've learned a lot in the years since I left home. A lot about mycorrhizae, soil bacteria, interplanting, insectary plants, and passive water catchment techniques, and I'm really excited to try them on a bigger scale than my back yard.
So let's look at a few of the design guidelines I have for this place.
1. Use practices that encourage mycorrhizae & other soil microbiota. In practice, this means we will not dig in the soil if at all possible, we will keep the soil covered with mulches (including living mulches), and we will keep healthy roots in the soil year round (either by having a living mulch or biennial & perennial crops). We will also not be using concentrated forms of fertilizer, such as inorganic, bone meal, guano, etc, as these have been shown to disrupt the relationship between plants & mycorrhizae.
2. With few exceptions, crops will be inter-planted, usually with plants that have been shown to reduce damage to crops, improve the health of the crops, fix nitrogen, or support native insect species.
3. There will be a lot of insectary plants, and large areas for native plants to grow. We will encourage species that support native pollenators & birds, discourage invasive species, and work to make sure our garden benefits the surrounding ecosystem. We will not be using pesticides, herbicides, or inorganic fertilizers.
4. We will be using passive rainwater catchment practices to retain as much soil moisture as possible and reduce irrigation as much as possible. This will look like the use of mulches, incorporating as much organic matter as possible, and possibly the construction of swales.
If you want some resources on these matters, here's a reading list, ranging from memoirs with good info to books with many case studies
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming, by Masanobu Fukuoka
The Ruth Stout No Work Garden Book, by, you guessed it, Ruth Stout
The Complete Guide to Restoring Your Soil, by Dale Strickler
Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard
Mycelium Running, Paul Stamets
#gardening#organic gardening#permaculture#save the bees#sustainable gardening#mycorrhizae#no till#no dig#tiny farm
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Today's garden tour ...
The scallopini is sprouting 🌱 !!!
It's happening
I see it 👀
#Life
#food#no dig#no till#regenerative agriculture#plant#grow#gardening#beginner#growing#bark mulch ground cover#mulch
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Spent some time in the garden today, it's coming together nicely.
Brought some compost & grass clippings to help build up the organic matter:
We'll keep layering leaves and clippings as we get them, but I did start sowing some seeds in one area.
I saved a lot of seeds this summer, so I was able to take the calculated risk of sowing a bunch now, even though it's kinda late and this is less than ideal conditions. I was able to sow some kale, lettuce, arugula, and mustard greens. If you know about mycorrhizae, than you probably know that brassicas are one of the few families that don't use mycorrhizae- which is why 3 out of the 4 I mentioned are brassicas. They're getting planted straight into compost as the first generation because they'll be just fine even without a good mycorrhizal community.
I also sowed a beneficial bug mix, extra cover, and some self-heal in what in the future will be walk ways.
After that, I did a bit of work on the native plant area, pulling and cutting off invasive species. Here's some of them:
Two kinds of invasive blackberry & scotch broom. That area has a lot of salal, evergreen huckleberry, and Doug fir coming up. I'm going to maintain part of it as a praire environment, but encourage trees where they already are. They're far enough away from the main garden area that they won't shade it for many years.
Here's a look over some of the area, and it demonstrates that it looks a bit funky at the moment:
It's a mishmash of different mulch-like garden debris, but we'll keep adding until winter sets in. By spring it'll be well decomposed, and we'll have a much richer soil to plant in.
#gardening#no dig#sheet mulching#no till#permaculture#sustainable gardening#organic gardening#plant based permaculture#vegan permaculture
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Pangur fanart is always so fun to receive, but I do giggle sometimes at the yassification
#pangur#she has ears that dish forward and an oblong skull and a Weiner dog body#silly creature#I hope this isn't taken as a dig at anyone! I really do love seeing the drawings people make!
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goodbye dear jellie. thankyou for keeping me company in countless survival worlds
(old work- cats 2021)
#goodtimeswithscar#jellie the cat#gtwscar#i’ve drawn her so many times that it was too much to dig out every instance#instead here’s my favorite and one that meant a lot to me at the time. she’ll live on through every creeper kept out and bed shared.
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i know he ate a cheese
#my art#pokemon#maushold#pokemon scarvi#scarvi#i named my maushold suds n duds. in my mind the little baby mausholds are actually just made of cloth and the big mausholds knitted them#they're not evil but they go into a dissociative state and commit atrocities#like eating a whole choese#maushold the best pokemon ever made. i think it can digging in the ground for tubers#personally
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Crane Wives songs will be like *folk guitar intro* ooowoahhhhhhhh ooowaoahhhhh. I am a wolf in the river. I am worried that I'm too volatile to ever be in a stable relationship. *guitar interlude with some percussion now* ooowoahhhhhhhh ooowaoahhhhh. There is ash in my hair. I am so tired all the time. I think I'm a bad person.
#the crane wives#crane wives#never love an anchor#tongues and teeth#coyote stories#the fool in her wedding gown#emilee petersmark#for the record this is not a dig at all#i adore the crane wives#1k#10k
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Barney, snoozing on a hilltop, in the summer of 2009.
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Video description: 1 min of me preparing a garden bed for the next season. The voice over is captioned.
If you like these kinds of videos and want to see more of me pottering around my garden, check out the rumade youtube channel.
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I’m not immune to slasher comedy coming of age musicals. Apparently
#they’re cute! whatever!#starkid#nerdy prudes must die#this was a bit of a style test I really like the designs in the musical#I think they dig a good job getting just cartoony enough so I wanted to emphasize that#hatchetfield#my art#fan art#nerdy prudes spoilers#starkid fanart
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drew up a pretty quick design for a harengon swarmkeeper ranger/rogue for a oneshot i'm playing this weekend ♡ their name is fennel and they go by fenn (they think it sounds much cooler)
#art#ID in alt text#furry#d&d#d&d art#harengon#perhaps i'll dig up the old umbel family art i did a while ago to post here. i think you all would like it#this lil dude's whole family is named after parsley family plants#actually maybe i should even.. redraw them.. i like them a lot
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This is what we're starting with:
As you can see, the soil doesn't have much organic matter, and it is rather sandy, without aggregates. The plants that are here right now are mostly non-native grasses & catsear, with some hardy natives like selfheal.
We're going to start by deep mulching (often called sheet mulching or lasagna gardening) this fall, with an eye towards planting in the spring. We will plant some things this fall, mostly leafy greens & raspberries once they've gone dormant. The deep mulching will add lots of organic matter, support soil life (which in turn supports plant life), kill off the grass, and just generally improve everything.
One of the big things we'll be doing is interplanting, with a wide range of species. Some to help support mycorrhizae, some to make it harder for insect pest to find our crops, and some to provide habitat for beneficial insects. Things like white clover, marigolds, and yarrow. I don't have pictures to post of that yet, so you'll just have to imagine!
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It's Danny's first time doing his taxes, and he's reaching out to an online friend to help him.
This is how he discovers that as far as the rest of the world is concerned, Amity Park is a barely contained zombie outbreak.
He'd made an online friend, Bart, and they played video games a lot.
Danny's fulltime job is inventing alongside his parents, and as that makes him self-employed (he doesn't work for his parents just next to them), this makes his taxes a little...scary. And it's his first tax season.
He reaches out to Bart, and asks if he knows anyone who files as self employed and if they'd be able to give him some guidance.
He can't ask his parents because, apparently, they've just been throwing random numbers on the papers and have no interest in actually doing them. Danny would like to do this properly.
Also he would like to know how his parents haven't been arrested? Questions for later.
So he shoots a message to Bart, who's apparently in the middle of some sort of sleepover with all of his old friends. Bart assures him that it's fine, and they'll all pitch in to help.
They just need to know his city and state so that the nerd of the group, some guy named Tim, can look up local state and city tax law.
When he tells them he's from Amity Park, there's no response for a good ten minutes.
What follows is a barely legible request for a phone number to call, and a group of people on the other side shouting and asking how he's avoided dying in the hellscape zombie apocalypse that is Amity Park.
Danny has no idea what the other shit means, but he's not about to dodge a chance to make a dead joke when he has one.
"I mean. If you wanna get technical, I didn't. Is...that something that'll effect my taxes?"
OR: The GIW has been lying to keep the Justice League and Justice League Dark out of Amity Park by declaring it a Disaster Zone, stating that not only is there massive pollutants in the air and soil, but that the undead run rampant and are barely contained.
The wording they use, however, is a little weird upon closer inspection.
It never specifies zombie, and it never says what pollutants.
Danny's not super interested about that, though; he just wants to pay his taxes so that the IRS doesn't kill him in his sleep.
#dpxdc#dcxdp#dp x dc#dc x dp#phanfic#story prompt#tim absolutely digs into whether or not being dead effects his taxes#kon starts questioning whether he should be paying them?#is he even a legal resident of the usa?#tim should he get naturalized?#bart wants to go to amity#because talking and sentient zombies are cool as fuck#cassie is not super on board with going to amity park#she has a few more questions before agreeing to a field trip to go there#and there will be a field trip to amity park#a city of technically undead due to ecto contamination functioning perfectly normal?#fuck yeah they wanna see this twilight zone bullshit
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Simon Fairchild
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#i dig that lil cat movie#puss in boots#puss in boots the last wish#shrek#i guess. ill add shrek. lmao
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