ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
Go go go! My summer harvest is pretty much gone thanks to a combination of great heat and groundhogs. I'll still get some slicers and sweet 100's, but damn you are killing it. I think you've earned the right to do a little dance
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
Oh wow. These are gorgeous. Got any good plans for them?
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
I think you're on the nose, here. I laughed at the headline, but the more I read the more I see how fucked they are. Airlines. Industrial plants. Fucking governments. This one is big in a way that will likely get used as a case study.
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
👊
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
No idea. I still wonder sometimes where the disconnect was, but I also just try to not let things like that get to me anymore. I'm having mixed success
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
At the time I was 22 and didn't have a firm grasp on the idea I could tell someone being rude to go fuck themselves. It was just a bunch of old folks pining for the glory days of national pride and dysentery, but like, fuck. Snuff out a curious light like that.
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
I went to a panel presentation on the early colonies around the Revolution once. When they took questions, I asked if there was any special logistical problems Virginia ran into after due to how large the territory was and man, they treated me like a fuckin idiot. I still think about that. It's not, like, important or anything I just don't have a therapist for this sort of shit
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
They're actually just human portions of a hot dog for titans. You ever see one of those mother fuckers? You don't carry a three foot hotdog as thick as your leg, you wield it.
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
Note taped to the door: DO NOT use microwave cat is in time out
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
Are you sure your friend isn't just three beavers in a long coat?
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 95%
Torx should be the default over Phillips for sure. Phillips is fine for shit like access panels or screw terminals. Slotted is useless for anything but the adjustment on pots and thermostats. Robertson is just a proto-torx. Everything else either exists to make someone money or is a bolt
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
That's awesome! How many seed potatoes did you start with?
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
Ah, well. One dares to dream
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
What's the difference between a loyalist and a heretic?
Only commissars can shoot loyalists
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
Are you fucking kidding me? You're gonna look me in the eye and tell me the sail flying above the poop deck is called a spanker?
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
The reference mouse is oversized
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 98%
No one gives Tina Tumble credit for starting the whole upside-down-then-not movement
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
They're colorful and they have a flavor!
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 90%
Some of y'all out here thinking you looked cool in JNCOs, suckin' on a pacifier attached to your Tamagotchi
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 80%
He's cute, sure, but that litter fucker is gonna do some excavating. I can see it in his eyes. His giant, adorable, puddle-of-love eyes
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 80%
Bummer.
I'm gonna go with either spider mites or fungus/bacteria. Probably the latter like one of the leaf spots or possibly downy mildew, though it seems a bit deep into summer for downy. That last picture has some pinpoints of color on the leaf that look like they could be spider mite damage, but I'd still put the safe money on a leaf spot. This far along, you'd be able to easily find them if they're there.
Get what you can from it all, maybe hit it with some neem once a week to see if that'll slow down the decline, but I think that's just gonna be cucurbit hospice.
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
Y'all motherfuckers wanted a strong, traditional candy, now we're gonna get a Tianamandm Square
ThrowawaySobriquet 2 months ago • 100%
Ah man, that expression. Such a mood
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
Between him, This Old Tony, Electroboom, Big Clive, and Cody's Lab, I've learned to fuck up in the most spectacularly well-thought-out ways
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
No worries! I added some notes on support and irrigation I forgot to mention
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
We had an insanely wet spring, then have been dry for about three weeks before the storms that kicked through yesterday.
Damn, man. Two weeks of summer and it's already a drought on you guys? You're a masochist
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
Thank you! Here's hoping!
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
Yup! As was said, they're just cattle fence made into round cages. The bottoms I lined with some landscaping fabric for a growing medium (75/25 compost/soil) and planted the potatoes about half way down. From there I just mound up in straw.
Edit: I forgot a few details. They're held up on either side by t-posts. Nothing fancy, just driven in and wired to each post three times (top, center, bottom) for stability and support. I put sprinklers on the top because that's what I had, though I do want to do something different in the future. I don't like top watering, but I haven't quite figured out how I wanna do it otherwise. I'm thinking a strand or two of drip that gets mounded up with the potato as it grows, but that's experimenting for another time
There's some folks that will actually do a core of medium up the center for new potato roots to take hold in. I'm trying something that's a little more fertilizer-intense, but easier to scale up. Little blood meal every couple weeks while they're growing up then some 10-10-10 twice (once at the beginning and once again here in a bit).
If I can make this work in my home garden, I'm hoping to tweak it a bit for larger scale. We'll see
Just admiring the sprinklers in the morning light
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
It was a thread on a joke I made, so I didn't wanna seem like I was trying to make folks watch me jerk off by including it
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
Well, then Ontario Sucks
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
This is what happens when you beat a round of solichair
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
She looks like she's giving the ol' razzle dazzle
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
Jesus Fucking Christ! Someone do something about that toddler!
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
Oh, so you're in a real live desert. That'd be way too much work. I bet you have some beautiful natives growing out there. Sucks about the grasses, tho. I have enough trouble with bermuda grass, I can only imagine the problems from something that could be invasive in a desert
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
Daikon radishes. They grow in about anything and are especially good at clay busting. Grow a bunch then let them die back. Till them in and repeat until you get enough environment for the worms to take over the tilling. You can keep piling on radishes with something like clover and peas to add some nitrogen fixers. This is more a pasture revitalization technique, but if you don't mind being the weird radish guy for two or three years (depending on local conditions), you could do it on a smaller scale for a lawn
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 96%
Anytime I think of John Romero, I think of Daikatana and their ad campaign
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
Well, I might have spoken too soon. I neen on vacation this week and just saw the second most haggard groundhog I've ever seen strolling through my beds without a care in the world. I bet you anything that's my critter
Hell yeah! That's been a long time coming. I bet it's gonna feel fuckin fantastic, but also don't think you gotta rush yourself. That'll get your hurt going for sure
The sunflowers are the top right. Top left was one half of my black beans. Some kind of pole bean that was given to me
ThrowawaySobriquet 3 months ago • 100%
I usually do stuff like marigolds and coneflower among stuff to keep them out, but I got lazy this year and they've been pretty merciful until the night before last
They topped all my sunflowers, about 30 bean seedlings, mowed down one of my full-grown bush beans, and over-pruned one of my watermelon vines in a single night. I saw some spots where they nibbled at my potatoes as well. These suburban deer are a menace. With as many dogs as we have running around here, you'd think they'd stay away, but no, they don't care I'm gonna have to build a fence next season
The plant is still small, but it's putting off a few here and there and man are they tasty. Looking forward to getting enough to actually do something next season
Trying to get in the habit of taking more pictures for work stuff. An abandoned sunflower bed that is gonna get planted with various squash. Hand weeded with a hori-hori and some shitty knee pads. I also forgot my gloves today
The heat is starting to climb, so the early season stuff is starting to struggle a bit. Looks like terra cotta beats plastic and big beats small. There you go, empirical evidence of a fact everyone already knew: plants prefer the expensive pots
Some kind of beautiful black widow, probably a Northern. Built her web on a bag of potting soil, so I had to scrooch her along. Absolutely gorgeous and huge! She was definitely well fed
My pak choi army has fallen. I sent them out to harden and the slugs just rolled over them in a night. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/82027e40-083e-4c33-b620-2ece00a09035.jpeg) ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/25d4a7f7-5b89-42a0-be4e-cdb589e556a8.jpeg)
Metal of some kind, probably thrash or hardcore
Spent the day pulling honeysuckle vines out of a homesteader client's back fence. I turned a perfectly good set of pruning shears into beaters pulling all that stuff out, but this guy was just extra in every way
Corn is finally peeking out, but something has been digging it up and chomping seedlings, too. I shotgunned it, so I can afford the losses. More stuff in a comment to follow
Daikon goes boom. Pak choi is on the way up with it. Gotta solve my soil issues before I put these down. Speaking of soil issues, I probably gotta start over on my squash bed. Nothing looks too happy in there and instead of watching it die a slow death, I'm just gonna direct sow everything after I get some amendments in with it. In the mean time, I'm just watching these guys revive some hope for a summer harvest
I got sick a week and a half ago, so things got a little messy. We're back on schedule, tho. Kale has been the hero this season. Couple broccoli doing what I ask. Slugs got all my first round peppers, so on my back foot there. Herbs need to be moved out into the sun and a new round of starts there. Tomatoes in the ground, started a bunch of tubers (daikon, french breakfast radish, and beets). All of my pak choi is ded, which makes me worry for the ten million carrots I have coming up. Started like, 30 pak choi to make up for it (get em young, cut em in half and roast em with salt and pepper, finish with Lao Gan Ma. One of my favorite veggies). Garlic and onions coming along, taters growing, put down some corn and spinach yesterday. Been having hard luck with the spinach. Had an unidentified rodent living in that bed picking off my seedlings as they sprouted. Took the cover off and let the ferals deal with it, so here we are again on a fourth round of direct sow and I STILL AIN'T GOT NO SPINACH. Oh, I put some watermelon down, too. Makes an awesome cover along my walkway and the ferals love to hide in it. Also, watermelons, I guess. Squash arch is archin, but I worry about my soil out there. Same mix I used for the hugel and the new beds and I'm having problems. Shouldn't have rushed to get them done, but hey, that's my problem now.
Doing a crop walk for one of my clients this morning. Air was real still, goats were only a little bit desperate for grain. Good start to the day
A bit ago I posted [this image](https://lemmy.world/post/14474359) and a sharp-eye named Even_Adder (not sure exactly how attributes work on Voyager yet) saw that something was written to it. I dug around a little, but couldn't come up with the answer, so I figured what the hell and sent them an email. The Institute has responded. Light the beacons! Or whatever we're supposed to do. Wait? I think it's wait. I'll post an update when we get an update.
Garlic has taken off like whoa. Pak choi is starting to like the weather. Broccoli and kale joining in. Still skeptical of the lettuce tower. Still got a ways to go til everything is in the ground, but all the ground is ready now. LFG
Everything is for the good of the enterprise, even if you have to bomb your own camp
Of course they're folk punk
Got it plumbed, taped, tested, mulched, and ready for plants and only _checks bare wrist_ three weeks left til Frost Date. Hugel got the same treatment, but I was a bit shy on the mulch. I usually use crushed leaves from my backyard for this, but I didn't have near enough to do everything I'm laying down. This Fall I'm definitely gonna drive through the neighborhood snatching the leaf bags folks put out. Suckers. Just giving away free brown
I'm grateful for my patient and loving wife. But I just finished lunch, so lets go play in the pile for a while! Show me your playgrounds! How's everyone's season so far?!