Deluxestogie Grow Log 2024
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RoperLegacyWoods
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Looks like a library trip in the making.
I had a spare moment, so I made the 3 bud bags that I will need for this growing season. I purchased Agribon AG-15 from from JohnnySeeds.com. (50 feet of the 118"-wide fabric will make 50 bud bags. Agribon AG-15 is also excellent for a temporary row cover over delicate seedlings.) Depending on how I cut the fabric for a bag, it usually requires only 2 straight lines of stitching. I stitch the Tyvek name tag into the side seam, extending to the interior. Once the bag is turned right-side-out (so the seam margin is hidden on the inside), the name tag pokes outward. The tags are labeled on both sides, so that if one side fades in the sun, the other is still legible. Cutting the fabric, making the labels, and stitching the 3 bags required about 15 minutes total.
Don't know how to use a sewing machine? Ask someone to show you how to thread it, then sew two straight lines.
Bob
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RoperLegacyWoods
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That’s too good sir, thanks for making me laugh!Photo Edit SCANDAL!
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Today...today, I went out to my garden for the first time this spring. I did a bit of cleaning-up in the beds, while ignoring the fact that my lawn already needs mowing.
Bob
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GreenDragon
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Hopefully the "Oh-Deer" will start on the first try this year.
"Oh-Deere!" has passed on to a better place—behind the shed. I purchased a newer John Deere last summer. But I refuse to start mowing until I receive a sign from the heavens, like maybe the sun going dark at mid-day.
Bob
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RoperLegacyWoods
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Shrinkflation
I put in the same time and effort as previous years, but this is all I've ended up with, so far:
The other varieties are similar. The good news is that they appear to be growing.
Bob
I put in the same time and effort as previous years, but this is all I've ended up with, so far:
The other varieties are similar. The good news is that they appear to be growing.
Bob
I love weeds. I will regret mowing the lawn. (Officially, I am still removing fallen branches from the grass, in preparation for mowing.)
Sitting on my front porch, I watch the bumblebees, honeybees, bunnies, and birds luxuriating in the bounty of dandelions, wild mustard, chamomile, and a score of other minor weeds. Although some folks go out of their way to plant a selection of flowers specifically for their benefit to pollinators, I just sit back and wait for the first flourish of weed blossoms to give them their fill.
To be clear, I am not a commercial golf course, and I am not the lord of a manor. I have no pressing need to demonstrate my power over nature, or market my stunning golf greens. Even when I mow the grass, I seldom cut any closer than about 4 inches above the ground.
From my front porch, I have seen cows, horses, mules, skunks, raccoons, possums, voles, moles, mice, (an occasional rat), groundhogs, foxes, shrews, coyotes, stray cats, chipmunks, squirrels, cicadas, grasshoppers, a bazillion kinds of other insects, and scores of bird species, including hawks, kestrels, owls, vultures and bald eagles. And there are the daily bunnies and occasional deer that no longer fear my presence. This spring, for the first time in 25+ years of living here, I saw a meadowlark—loud and proud—saunter out of the pasture.
No need to leave home in order to spend some time in "nature". Nobody complains about my lighting up a cigar.
Bob
GreenDragon
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Sounds to me like you are taking a stand against commercially endorsed unsustainable monoculture agriculture, and instead embracing eco-friendly diversification and reversion to a historic prairie ecology!
This area was actually dense, mixed hardwood and conifer forest, before it became civilized into farmland. The belt of National Forest along the northern edge of southwest Virginia (~30 to 40 miles north of my home) looks kind of restored today. Hidden within that "restored" National Forest is a seldom visited trail, marked by a simple sign along a dirt road, that points to the last surviving stand of old-growth forest in Virginia. That spot was just too steep to make it worth cutting the trees. What is left to see by those few folks who venture down the difficult trail are 7 truly massive conifers (Eastern Hemlock, which can live for about 800 years). That's it. Seven trees. The region's bison and elk completely disappeared long ago.
What is now the Washington and Jefferson National Forest was easily purchased by the US Government in the early 1900s, because it was nothing but a barren, mountainous wasteland of tree stumps too large to remove, and nobody wanted it.
Bob
What is now the Washington and Jefferson National Forest was easily purchased by the US Government in the early 1900s, because it was nothing but a barren, mountainous wasteland of tree stumps too large to remove, and nobody wanted it.
Bob
Often, the best thing that can happen to something or somewhere , is that mankind takes no notice of it.
How often is that? We have x-ray lasers that can create a hologram of one molecule that appears the size of a grapefruit. We've sent spy cams beyond our solar system. And we have now littered one crater of Mars with "return" samples for which we don't want to pay the return cost.
As a scientist, I recognize that the very essence of science is to attempt to take notice of as much as possible. (The alternative was called the Dark Ages.) But mankind has always been a foraging species. The earliest value of North American colonies to their respective empires was as a seemingly limitless source of shipbuilding timber and naval stores (e.g. tar). That whole tobacco narco-state success came later.
Bob
The OG narco-state
These Comstock Spanish seedlings will need to grow a bit more, before I put them in the garden. With the other varieties, it is looking like I will end up with 32 total plants, plus one or two for the porch corner.
Bob
This afternoon, I heard a single cicada. Each time I stood to determine its location, it fell silent. Now I no longer hear it. One lonely cicada loudly chirping, "Look at me! Here I am! Look at me!", certainly wouldn't wait long, before it was invited to dinner by a chickadee, bluebird or cardinal.
Bob
Bob
RoperLegacyWoods
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Good morning sir,
These Comstock Spanish seedlings will need to grow a bit more, before I put them in the garden. With the other varieties, it is looking like I will end up with 32 total plants, plus one or two for the porch corner.
Bob
When do you stop heating them with the seedling mats? Or is there a process I missed in your books?
Typically after the first week.
Bob
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