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LallyLuckFarm

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Small scale permaculture nursery in Maine, education enthusiast, and usually verbose.

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LallyLuckFarm OP , to Composting in I gave a talk at my library for Learn About Compost Day
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Happy to share!

LallyLuckFarm , to Composting in May 29 is Composting Day. Share pictures of your composting setups!
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Thanks! I actually used to do presentations for a living so this is a nice chance to stretch those mental muscles again. I'm going to ask to record it, but if the attendees are leery of it I'll just record the audio and run the slide deck over the narration to share here.

LallyLuckFarm , to Composting in May 29 is Composting Day. Share pictures of your composting setups!
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I'm glad you have a sick sense of humus too =D

I'll see how they feel about me recording it... I didn't really put any presenter notes in the deck so it might not be as useful. If they let me record I'll happily post it here, otherwise I'll type up some notes and links before sharing the deck so it's more actionable for folks.

LallyLuckFarm , to Composting in May 29 is Composting Day. Share pictures of your composting setups!
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I'm actually giving a talk about composting at my town library tonight! Here is a slide from the presentation:
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/20d49f77-1156-4965-9955-60925a963cac.webp

And a picture of one of our actively turned piles:
https://i.imgur.com/cSS9UQm.jpeg

LallyLuckFarm OP Mod , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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We hit 90F yesterday and I watered some of our starter trays like six times, I feel your pain. How are the pumpkins' roots looking? If they're starting to bust out at the bottoms (or sides of you have that kind) it might be time to think about giving them some more space, and the additional soil will increase the amount of water they can have available throughout the day

LallyLuckFarm OP Mod , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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I think they're all looking good! You should be proud of them and yourself

What did you end up changing to protect the pumpkins, if anything?

LallyLuckFarm OP Mod , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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I agree with @PaddleMaster about the protective gear if you've got permission to do the work there. Have a change of clothes and some rags with texture, soap, and water to wipe any skin that gets the urushiol on it.

But hooray for the rest of the green you've got going on!

LallyLuckFarm OP Mod , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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As promised:

Serviceberry
https://i.imgur.com/nIt9n3U.jpeg

Sea kale
https://i.imgur.com/toNXt8s.jpeg

Wild ginger
https://i.imgur.com/oMsSq0Z.jpeg

LallyLuckFarm Mod , to Nature and Gardening in Starting a Serrano, a Hungarian cheese pepper, and a cherry tomato in my backyard!
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Is there a certain pot depth you'd recommend? I imagine part of the reason is to prevent excess water wicking into the substrate in the pot, but would be concerned somewhat about accidentally air pruning roots in a gap.

LallyLuckFarm Mod , to Nature and Gardening in Starting a Serrano, a Hungarian cheese pepper, and a cherry tomato in my backyard!
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I was curious how you'd float or secure the plants in the nutrient water, thanks for sharing! Wishing you many happy harvests of fresh food!

LallyLuckFarm OP Mod , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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Here's a little PDF for you from treesaregood.org about pruning but you should totally make a thread about it ;D

LallyLuckFarm Mod , to Nature and Gardening in Looking for book recommendations
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Homegrown Harvest: a season-by-season guide to a sustainable kitchen garden from the American Horticultural Society is a good one to check out.

LallyLuckFarm OP Mod , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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Thank you! The secret is killing a ton of plants until you improve enough to keep them alive, and then killing more until you can keep them happy bee fingerguns emoji

Spider mites are a tricky pest when the plants prefer a dryer soil, but I've had some success with a layer of sand on top of the potting mix, which might be worth a try. And there are so many cool varieties of basil that I totally encourage you to try from seed! I know you're going to have that kitchen garden rocking in no time

LallyLuckFarm OP Mod , to Nature and Gardening in What's growing on, Beehaw?
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I'm very excited to see how this works for you! Wishing you the best luck finding your peppers and remembering to take lots of pictures to share here bee laugh emoji

LallyLuckFarm , to Chat in i dont wanna
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I hadn't heard that, but that sounds like a huge missed opportunity. I loved the master sword trials from BOTW and would enjoy having new and more intricate shrine puzzles for the new mechanics

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