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I now regret not having picked up a gas mask. I could be outside planting the winter garden
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every garden on the west coast is now a shade garden
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Sep 12, 2020 19:21
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smoke flavor is going to become a major part of the caloregon appellation
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Sep 12, 2020 20:00
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do ashes blown in from somewhere else have the salts that pit ashes do, or is it all K?
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Sep 14, 2020 10:57
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I made like 50 quarts of tomato sauce and whatever, plus we dehydrated some. Thats enough. I harvested about 450lbs, probably left another 100lbs on the ground. Also made 16 qts of apple sauce from the neighbors trees. Whats left is mostly tiny tomatoes not worth dealing with. I cut all the plants to kill them so the pumpkins can finish up. I felt kind of bad, but I have given away about 200lbs to neighbors/friends.  My kids have really enjoyed playing tomato baseball, though.
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Sep 14, 2020 18:17
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how long did it take you to process all of those tomatoes??
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Sep 14, 2020 19:14
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The main timesink is cooking down the sauce. I have a food mill but I made some batches without removing the skins (you dont have to, its a flavor consideration, and skin has all the nutrients anyway). Basically, slice, throw into 4 gallon pot, heat up the tomatoes to smash them up, then simmer for like 12 hours overnight until volume is halfed or less. Can. Pressure canner takes about 30 minutes a batch of 7 quarts. Took a couple weeks but not constant labor really. I did some crushed tomatoes but compared to sauce they take up a lot more jars for a lot less stuff overall.
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Sep 14, 2020 19:19
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Ah ok if you're not de-skinning and de-seeding them all individually that's not insane.
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Sep 14, 2020 19:21
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Next year I'm going to do better successions and have a reasonable amount of food consistently for eating immediately, then some separate beds for canning, I think. Will post plans on that in forever when I finish them.
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Sep 14, 2020 19:23
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brugroffil posted:Ah ok if you're not de-skinning and de-seeding them all individually that's not insane. Oh yah I said gently caress that right off the bat. Tastes fine with them.
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Sep 14, 2020 19:23
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winter garden: trying some buckwheat, got spring onions, beets, brocolli, peas and, because they did so well during summer, an experimental patch of winter bush beans wish I could be outside for more than 10 minutes w/out getting winded
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Sep 15, 2020 22:11
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placeholder, anemic winter garden start photos coming soon
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Sep 29, 2020 21:56
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all my other artichokes look like the one on the left. what's up with the one on the right? winter peas  winter buckwheat  winter BEANS 
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Sep 30, 2020 22:29
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 Prepping for next year, the first half is tilled up so I can throw cereal rye over it (seed on the way) which is a bit late but will still work/grow. The grassy part in the back will also be turned over. I have room for 36 50 foot beds, not clear if I will go that far, though.
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Oct 14, 2020 15:59
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Paradoxish posted:it's generally a bad idea to use dog or cat poop directly as fertilizer, and you shouldn't really use cat poop at all growing up there was a family that would illegally use shovels of “night soil” taken from the trailer park sewage plant that was nearby their site. no. no thank you. I do not want any of your tomatoes.
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Oct 18, 2020 20:53
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pulled all the tomato plants out because it's frosty time harvested all my green tomatoes, made a soup out of them and a pair of my winter squash. seasoned it with basically cincinnati chili spices. p good after it sat in the fridge over night
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Nov 4, 2020 20:59
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The Voice of Labor posted:pulled all the tomato plants out because it's frosty time yeah sweet and pepper is really good on winter squash. if I don’t know they’re sweet enough I go sugar, salt, and paprika/cayenne on acorn.
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Nov 7, 2020 02:17
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I should've planted a second row of peas. I should've planted more greens. I should've started the romanesco like 2 months earlier. I should've started the beets in pots because they all got eaten.
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Nov 22, 2020 03:04
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Are we posting our growing season regrets? Because I regret not planting things earlier and betterishly. (I sincerely regret overdoing the number of different vegetables I decided to plant, this being year one. Also wish I'd planted more flowers.)
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Nov 22, 2020 07:53
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I regret not suppressing weeds more proactively.
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Nov 22, 2020 08:13
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I regret not buying a better auto watering system because the cheapish rainbird I used stopped working and I had to harvest my beans, peanuts, and peppers early. 😡
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Nov 22, 2020 09:02
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oops i bought a lil rose bush and fed it miracle gro all purpose like my peppers got. it totally filled out a 10'x8' trellis but hasn't put out a flower since april. i keep feeding too much nitrogen to things that don't want it
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Nov 22, 2020 10:32
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Apparently I didn't dry my used tea leaves enough before putting them into my herb plants. I ended up losing 4/6 of them to mold, including the mint one which was the herb I wanted the most.  I also inherited a revivable bonsai from a coworker and ended up completely forgetting to repot it so now it's actually dead.
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Nov 22, 2020 18:16
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wtf how do you kill mint with moisture It’s practically aquatic.
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Nov 23, 2020 03:05
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Anyone doing their own composting itt?
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Nov 23, 2020 04:09
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net work error posted:Anyone doing their own composting itt? yeah we just dumped our huge compost pile onto our garden, why
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Nov 23, 2020 05:00
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net work error posted:Anyone doing their own composting itt? yes do I do it well is a different question
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Nov 23, 2020 05:11
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how can you gently caress up composting
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Nov 23, 2020 05:44
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tossing in meat or grease is the quickest way too the less dumb way to mess up composting is to include diseased plant material, weed seeds or other pathogens without having the compost get hot enough to kill all that stuff. Not turning the compost will get you anaerobic decomposition, which makes a pile unpleasant and means you lose out out on nitrogen that plants can uptake. I guess you can mess it up by having the wrong ratio of "green" to "brown" material, or having the wrong moisture, so it doesn't really cook in the first place. It just breaks down slower, you still get compost eventually.
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Nov 23, 2020 05:52
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i regret brutally and insanely destroying my back such that i had to abandon my community garden plot to the weeds
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Nov 23, 2020 05:54
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I planted my tomatoes too close together and waited too long to start my windowsill peppers and chillies And all the other stuff that died or got eaten by stuff that could have maybe gone better too net work error posted:Anyone doing their own composting itt? When stuff dies and falls over and rots that's the same right?
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Nov 23, 2020 10:47
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I wanted to see if those that were composting use compost starter or not. I was thinking about getting a little tumbler to try it out.
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Nov 23, 2020 13:12
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I just have a spot on the ground for banana peels and coffee grounds. jesus does the rest
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Nov 23, 2020 15:04
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I built something that's about the third of the size of this 3 box compost bin and it's done me well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA6QNLaBEyc first box for new stuff, second box for stuff that's starting to look good, and the third box for compost that's ready for a new world
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Nov 23, 2020 18:34
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my regret this year is that i let a volunteer squash and two tomatoes grow, thinking i could train them out of the bed, but they ended up crowding my basils and garlics anyway, and produced almost nothing next year, any volunteers will be terminated with prejudice
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Nov 23, 2020 18:39
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I regret not transplanting my heritage tomato seedlings outside sooner. They were much more prolific than the lovely tomato plants I bought from Lowes, even with the late start. I started composting by repurposing wood from a scrapped secondary chicken coop. The project really took off when my friend donated several garbage bags full of horse poo poo. 
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Nov 23, 2020 18:49
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Maybe I shouldn’t have unsubscribed to the newspaper. I got horse poo poo delivered to my door every day.
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Nov 23, 2020 18:50
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net work error posted:I wanted to see if those that were composting use compost starter or not. I was thinking about getting a little tumbler to try it out. i wouldn't recommend one but I've never composted with a tumbler, and in a small, isolated system it might be useful. i rely on critters to bring the good microorganisms to my pile.
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Nov 23, 2020 19:06
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I football throw old vegetables and fruit into the woods.
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Nov 23, 2020 19:15
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I’ve approached like thirty tree crews so far and it’s got me ten dump loads of chips and one of logs. I got a bunch of cardboard from work and we’re gonna see if it can smother thistles. Are weeds kicking my rear end because I feed too much? I can never find enough mulch did ancient farmers cart leaves around?
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Nov 23, 2020 19:18
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