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Post by graceomalley on Aug 15, 2024 7:22:17 GMT
Happy (probably very) belated birthday gist🍷🎂..off to watch airplanes with the g.kids at coningsby this morning..no sleep,and a heap of stuff to do here first😴
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Post by graceomalley on Aug 16, 2024 19:13:49 GMT
 This is why I love living in rural lincs💜 |
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Post by writerspanic on Aug 26, 2024 17:34:42 GMT
Putting a dash cam in daughter-unit's car.
Doing spousal unit's laundry.
Adding a 20w light to the basement stairwell so the dog can see all of the stairs and quit thinking that she's about to dive into a black void (silly doggo).
Changing the hornet traps in the garden
Adjusting solar panels
Toking a rather fat one
Considering Ice Cream (Butter Pecan or Peanut Butter Cup)
Getting acquainted with UK Hippies after a long time away. (waving from Atlanta)
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 26, 2024 20:59:09 GMT
Reading all that it makes me think i need get out of the coffin more in the daytime.
Welcome back 🤠
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Post by graceomalley on Aug 28, 2024 18:34:27 GMT
Today I've been nursing the poorly cockrel,he's improving.and sorting the dying veg and herb beds ready for the move about planned.and building of bigger beds for next year😊
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 28, 2024 18:41:31 GMT
Almost everyone i know has done really bad this year with produce except them with polytunnels. Lost all my plants in spring.Weather has scotched most of stuff. Im getting I a polytunnel for next spring.
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Post by writerspanic on Aug 28, 2024 20:14:02 GMT
In the past I was not into gardening at all. I had no talent for it, I could kill a cactus. That all changed when I got a Hibiscus from the local Future Farmers at the high school. It was in a plastic pot and for a couple of years it didn't grow very big. A couple of years ago I replanted it by the street in a small flower garden. Within 6 weeks it was 8 feet tall and looked like a giant marijuana plant. Even the mail carrier asked about it repeatedly. But one day THIS happened..... ![]()  (Marijuana doesn't have big red flowers)
Also, the whole plant is edible, tastes like lettuce sort of. Not bitter at all. |
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Post by bernie on Aug 28, 2024 21:05:28 GMT
Our rhubarb has done brilliantly. All the rest has been rubbish. Just keep pushing the odd sprouting potato into the ground at random and you will always have spuds growing wild.
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Post by oldkeith on Aug 28, 2024 21:38:11 GMT
Our raspberries have done quite well so far, and the Autumn raspberries have come on early, but that's about all. Most of the leafy vegetable stuff never made it due to slugs. Apart from the rhubarb, which like Bernie's, has done well.
Slugs don't like rhubarb - oxalic acid?
We had folk rarely seen for months visiting us looking for rhubarb....
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 28, 2024 23:15:38 GMT
In the past I was not into gardening at all. I had no talent for it, I could kill a cactus. That all changed when I got a Hibiscus from the local Future Farmers at the high school. It was in a plastic pot and for a couple of years it didn't grow very big. A couple of years ago I replanted it by the street in a small flower garden. Within 6 weeks it was 8 feet tall and looked like a giant marijuana plant. Even the mail carrier asked about it repeatedly. But one day THIS happened..... ![]() (Marijuana doesn't have big red flowers)
Also, the whole plant is edible, tastes like lettuce sort of. Not bitter at all. I used to grow those in a big polytunnel years ago..Very beneficial tea and juice from them. |
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 28, 2024 23:41:40 GMT
Our rhubarb has done brilliantly. All the rest has been rubbish. Just keep pushing the odd sprouting potato into the ground at random and you will always have spuds growing wild. Where i am the ground is still sodden just inches below the surface and im on a hill,everything rots,have to grow everything in pots but the wind here burns everything off too.Ive got a couplr of buckets with potatoes starting theyll be ready b4 the season of C******** ho ho ho Pretty much everything i had growing went into a mass extinction event in May. Ive got some herbs and Clematis and a couple of shrubs in big pots that have survived. Not wasting time next year,its 8 metre polytunnel and grow bags....table,comfy chair,coffee pot slow cooker,laptop,one way or another something will get done. |
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Post by writerspanic on Aug 29, 2024 2:05:27 GMT
After getting sacked to celebrate covid, I took on whatever projects I could get. One was a vertical farming group contracting to Bowery. One of the things I write is service instructions. They were using an open source software called FarmOS. As I used it I came up with a plan to automate a home food garden. I have a 1 acre plot with the house, on the side of a hill, surrounded by pines and sweetghums.
While I see some advantages to vertical farming, like, if you're going to set it up on Mars, I think it's needlessly complicated. Especially the obscene cost of Fanuc robots. But vertical is great for keeping the crops free from chemicals or bugs. It's like a clean room.
What I was thinking was that a small farm, using a limited set of container sizes could be managed literally by remote control. As in, from a tablet. On a beach. In the Caribbean. It would require at least two wireless robots. One configured like a forklift and the other configured for dexterity (operating irrigation hoses, valves and spillways) using articulated arms.
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Post by bernie on Aug 29, 2024 7:43:00 GMT
We are dog sitting this week for my stepdaughter. Looking after a flatulent boxer.
I can't wait for this week to end
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Post by graceomalley on Aug 29, 2024 8:56:39 GMT
We 'll have less of that ch*****as word cris😜..we 've not done too bad with what we could come up with this year.strawbs not bad,beans loads,salad leaf loads.courgettes loads,tommys really good,4 tubs cooked and in the freezer,bowls on the worktop,ripening on window cill,and still producing,although the plants are looking tired now
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Post by parrotandcrow on Aug 29, 2024 11:45:49 GMT
I think all boxers are flatulant, bernie it's in their dna. Cris, that C word will not be tolerated, get a grip, man. |
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