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LallyLuckFarm

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

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Fungus gnats are extra annoying but something you can do in addition to watering a little less is to have some clean sand as a mulch over your potting mix paired with bottom watering your plants. I check my pots by feel on the bottom regularly to help inform when I water. For our inside plants and seeds I'm starting, I have a tray with ridges into which I can place the pots and some water. Seedling trays are widely available and a local greenhouse or nursery may have some headed for recycling rather than having to buy new plastic. If that same place does claim and mulches in bulk they may have sand that's suitable for short money since you only need a little bit.

By watering from the bottom, your potting mix will wick the water upwards through capillary action but the water will have difficulty moving into the sand because of the difference in texture and porosity and this will deprive the fungus gnats of the habitat they need to reproduce and continue to annoy you.

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Harmful? Probably not but I wouldn't eat them. What they are is an indicator of the mix being wetter than peppers generally appreciate, in my experience. I've spread winecap mushrooms throughout our space and they'll come up around some of the veg, but not around the peppers, which (ime) are happiest with damp-ish but not wet soil

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Certainly not the U.S. citizens

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Doooo iiiiit.

I don't tend to wilt the flowers in the sun, I pick fresh and dry almost immediately about halfway through the morning.

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I am really loving the rough edges and gradients on those petals, wow!

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That's a really beautiful rose! I bet your grandparents would love the colors it's putting out.

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Yum! I had my very first yellow raspberries last year and I was so in love with their flavor and color.

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Always a good trait in my book as well! The one in the post picture has a fuzzy stem, no thorns.

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I hope you're hydrating yourself as devotedly as you are your plants!

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! Yummy pawful you've got there

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You might only get green onions off of it at this point, but burying it like you asked will certainly get you more, and more nutritious ones. I vote yes!

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Here's hoping you get the right amount and timing of rain so your plants can be happy!

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Delish! I pulled about two pounds of scapes yesterday for making pesto

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You're crushing it! Hearing how happy this garden is making you just fills my heart, and these photos make my mouth water

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Best of luck! My beans tend to run roughshod over their companions.

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Hey great job! I know some folks who struggle to get roses half as beautiful as what you've grown! I'm sure those others will catch up in their own time

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Going pretty well so far! A friend reached out this morning to see if I would be interested in receiving some plants from her (yes) so in the near future I'll get to go hang out with an amazing person, and will get to grow some new plants with which I have no experience.

And I'm giving an introductory talk about biochar at my town library this evening, which will hopefully be a bunch of fun for everyone. I couldn't come up with as many biochar puns as I did for my compost presentation, so I'm leaning on memeing for levity:https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/acf7290e-980e-4ead-95ca-7cd3797ebee4.webp

I have no idea how attendees will react to these, as most of them are retirees.

Our solo duckling is still solo, which is concerning at this stage. That said, there has been a lot of co-nesting and additional shuffling of eggs between hens which likely impacted incubation. I'll keep my eyes peeled for more chances to shove pictures of ducklings in y'all's feeds

Have a great week everybody!

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Hello and welcome!

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Happy early birthday!

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shade hoodie

I have two shirts like this from (the company) patagonia and they breathe until I start to sweat about ten minutes later. If yours was better than that, care to drop a name for me to go look into?

Our boy would sympathize with Jean - he loves the beach but not the water. We still take him every so often, but he wants the smells right on the edge of the waves and sometimes the ocean sneaking up on him is just too much

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I really appreciate it, thanks!

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I'm so sorry for your loss and what you're going through 🫂

It might not be possible right now but please give yourself some grace. You were attentive to his condition and when it worsened you acted immediately. I can't imagine a better kind of human to place trust in, and I can't imagine him not knowing how hard you tried, how much you cared, or that he would ever blame you.

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I'll tell you that it does - or at least, the remembering becomes slightly less painful as time goes on. The lessons really stick, but it becomes easier to remember all the good stuff, and those are the things you should hold on to the hardest during those difficult times.

And I'm glad you shared with us, if for no other reason than helping you process your grief. I'm sure we're all sending our love, hoping to lighten the load in some small way.

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Hey congrats! That's awesome! Also very happy to hear you've found another outlet for your music and great people to boot

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Definitely giving the camera the stink eye

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My personal feelings on this:

youtube links should be accompanied by links to alternative front ends like piped.video for those who are yt-averse, but that it is okay for the canonical yt link to be included for those who wish to interact with the poster's channel. I think I have a preference for the piped.video link to be the post link and for yt links to be included in the body, but am fine with peertube links being the post link.

If there are accompanying documents, such as the slide deck I'll be using tomorrow evening, those should also be linked - it's my feeling that posts of this nature should be viewed as resources for the community. In my particular case, I'm happy to share both the shared file in my gdrive but also a .pptx file on an accessible filesharing site (especially if there is a consensus on which are most preferable from privacy and accessibility standpoints).

It is an expectation that folks posting their channels or videos engage with the community in other ways as well and are not spammy

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Just sent you a dm, but I'd like to respond here to let other Beeple know that if they're based in the US they should send us a quick message if they like milkweed bee heart emoji

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"Your honor, my client does not possess the funds to continue this trial, so we have crafted an offer to the plaintiffs: in lieu of compensating them for the hundreds of watches that have gone missing from their inventory, we admit no wrongdoing and they will be offered stock in his watch making company should he ever start one"

Maybe there's a word we could apply to situations where a group of people make plans to carry out an activity that is not legal for personal gain

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What a gorgeous picture! I adore asparagus in the fern stage

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Thanks! Another great thing about them is that they are a great forage plant for native bees during the late summer into autumn.

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There's a distinct possibility I've spent two years planting and splitting them on the undeveloped side of our street in addition to the ones for our customers and us.

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Lots of water breaks (not cold, but below ambient temps), cold compresses, sheltering under trees, cool showers, avoiding physical contact from the dog and cat

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We lost a few winter squash in this recent heat wave in the northeast, I sympathize and echo your hope for some fresh growth!

And as someone with a rocky history of growing peppers and who has a spouse that can't handle spice much at all, I'm super glad you're having a great time of it and will be enjoying peppers vicariously through you <3

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I've been referring to the lot of us as "Beeple", personally. I can't claim credit, it was how they pinged us on discord for one of the community polls and I just really enjoyed it.

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@rikudou is the contact point for this bot - you could reach out if they don't respond to being tagged

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I don't mind so much, to be honest. Like @TheRtRevKaiser said, I'm an old dog in a labcoat on the internet and asynchronous discussions aren't uncomfortable. I have an anonymous account elsewhere and I don't generally check it anymore, because I'm plenty happy with the conversations that do federate here. Besides, being here has definitely been good for my generalized terminally-online anxiety.

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Again, but differently in this instance.

What's growing on, Beehaw?

I've really been enjoying our haskaps (Lonicera caerulea) this week while waiting for the strawberries to ripen. The blackberries and raspberries have just been pollinated so there's still some time before those come into season, and the recent warm-but-not-too-warm weather has kicked our beans and tomatoes into gear....

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Well boo to the ones that up and died on you, I'm glad you have backups that are doing well. I'd be interested to know what you're thinking when you dig into (hah!) what should go into the onion bed, if you're so inclined.

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I'm a fan of walking onions, personally. That said, I'd encourage you to weigh the benefit of having practiced some rotation before it is the plan and ironing out the wrinkles you encounter.

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If you've got starts of something ready to go, I'd plant those to get a crop into the bed where the onions were and then work to get that crop's replacements ready. Otherwise I'd pick something that germinates quickly to seed out and then set about prepping for the next plants to go in. Depending on what your season is like, you might still be able to do an early summer / late summer / fall set of plant rotations

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