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I'm getting ready to start a worm bin. I bought and drilled the bins, got the bedding set up, ordered the worms and am gathering the first load of kitchen scraps for when they arrive. 
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The arrived and through some apparently very involved wrangling they were shuffled into the bin. They immediately started trying to leave. This morning I woke up to about 20 worms all over the kitchen floor. They have sufficient food and moisture in there, and the bedding is fluffed up and well ventilated. For now I am shining a clamp light down over the open bin to suppress their adventurous tendencies, but I am concern.  A few web sites (and the Uncle Jim's Worm Farm instructions) say that they will be restless for the first 48 hours or so, I hope that they will settle in soon because I don't want to be sweeping up their dumbass dried up husks all over the floor every morning.
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Jan 27, 2017 13:38
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The bin has a lid, but it also has many air holes because otherwise they would suffocate. They are mostly just curious, it seems. They're not all trying to get out anymore, but we'll see what happens when the sun goes down... Edit: WORM UPDATE  After shining a light in the bin for a day, they made it through the night with the lid on and everyone seems comfortable now. 
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Jan 27, 2017 19:13
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I'm trying to find a definitive guide to container gardening vegetables in New-England-type climate (zone 3). I've found too many click bait sites and too many sites that assume you're living in SoCal. I have some indoor space for seed starting and overwintering, but I can't find a good resource. Any recommendations?
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Jan 31, 2017 13:28
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Cool, that's extremely helpful!
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Feb 3, 2017 16:42
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Sprouts are also a nice easy option, and you can get some really good spicy ones with radish or mustard seeds.
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Feb 14, 2017 13:33
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Planet X posted:Anyone do worm farming? Considering it, as I want the fertilizer for my garden. I just started a month ago and it's great so far. We live in an apartment so it's the easiest way to compost indoors. They are fat and happy on all our vegetable scraps and coffee grounds
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Feb 27, 2017 00:22
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Do not grow more than 1 zucchini plant.
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Mar 8, 2017 20:02
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IIRC amaranth is pretty weedy. Arugula can spread surprisingly far if it goes to seed.
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Mar 9, 2017 13:38
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Suspect Bucket posted:CANADIAN GEESE ATE ALL MY CORN STARTS loving gently caress kill them all 
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Mar 13, 2017 21:44
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Here are my tomato starts: Do they look OK so far? They're going to go 2 to a bucket eventually.
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Mar 14, 2017 19:28
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Got 4 of my tomato plants into their buckets:
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Apr 3, 2017 15:07
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PokeJoe posted:How does that watering thing work Planzzzzzzzz:  
Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Apr 4, 2017 |
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Apr 4, 2017 02:32
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ROFLburger posted:I'm growing tomatoes and a bunch of herbs on my apartment balcony. Are birds eating my veggies pretty much guaranteed to be a problem? Should I start setting up a chickenwire enclosure now? If they're young tomato plants, YES, COVER THEM NOW. I just had two of my plants completely pecked off to stubs by stupid motherfucking sparrows trying to find nesting material. 
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May 3, 2017 19:51
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:
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May 31, 2017 01:15
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Started a hugel mound today. 
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May 30, 2020 23:16
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They say if you live in a cool climate that you should plant your garlic in autumn and let it sit in the ground over the winter, so maybe it’s coming up now?
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Jun 1, 2020 11:40
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If you have buckets with reservoir sections in the bottom, you could run a long PVC behind them with tubes running into each reservoir.
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Jun 17, 2020 01:20
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goodness posted:The picture is a bit deceiving. It would only have standing water in it for an hour or two while the pots soaked, most of the time would be dry. I was thinking something like this:  With PVC pipe and pipe fittings, spouts hooked up to holes drilled in the bottom part of the bucket (like the homebrewing buckets with taps in them)
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Jun 17, 2020 15:36
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Worms are great. Get red wigglers. Don’t get them from Uncle Jerry’s necessarily, when I ordered some they went nuts on arrival and started to make a break for it. It turned out a lot of them were a different species that doesn’t like being moved around.
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Jun 19, 2020 01:50
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Rad toad. We've got a disused pool in the backyard and don't want to pay to have it fixed, so right now it has several hundred tadpoles in it. Can't wait to be a froglord
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Jun 23, 2020 14:05
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DrBouvenstein posted:For the love of your neighbors (and yourself) PLEASE tell me you put some mosquito poison in there? Yeah, I'm using dunks and they're effective so far  There are also tons of water striders, damselflies, dragonflies, backswimmers, boatmen, diving beetles, and other friends. Oh and a duck who visits once per day to take a bath.
Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Jun 23, 2020 16:04
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gently caress GRASS
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Jun 24, 2020 02:09
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You can pick them way earlier and they will ripen off the plant FYI I pick mine when they’re just barely staring to change color and they ripen great.
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Aug 9, 2020 19:28
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Platystemon posted:Walnut trees, for instance, produces juglone that inhibits the growth of competing plants around the walnut’s dripline. It also makes horses sick. juggalone, got it
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May 9, 2022 11:26
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Gothmog1065 posted:Anyone have a recommendation on melon slings? I've seen a bunch on amazon and the like, just don't know if there is a better brand/way to get them. I was looking at something like this, saw the smaller vinyl net types, didn't know if there was a general recommendation. Old t-shirt
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May 22, 2022 03:23
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IMO don't bother, worms et al. will keep it aerated fine as long as there is good layering.
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May 23, 2022 16:47
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Arsenic Lupin posted:We also tried Ruth Stout's method of composting in place in the garden rows (using a mixture of weeded plants, straw, and table scraps as mulch) but I don't remember it working well.
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May 23, 2022 17:45
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Mikey Purp posted:What's eating my zucchini plant? We don't really get rabbits or deer around here, could it be squirrels, or even my dog? Last year groundhogs ate EVERYTHING in one of my beds.
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Jun 4, 2022 19:03
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Don’t dox me
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Jun 17, 2022 11:31
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Paradoxish posted:Possibly weird question, but do birds typically dig 6" deep holes that tunnel down at an angle?
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Jun 19, 2022 12:00
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I have a bunch of Ailanthus trees thicketing in my yard and they’re encroaching close to one raised bed. I haven’t cut them because I understand this will make the problem worse. All the resources I see online say the only way to control/eliminate them is with concentrated glyphosate or triclopyr applied to the bark or through “hack & squirt.” But I’m kind of freaked out of introducing that stuff anywhere near my happy organic yard where bees sing and frogs play old-time baseball. What do
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Jul 27, 2022 23:07
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Hack and squirt is pretty much the most precise, targeted way you can apply an herbicide. It won't kill any bees or flowers or anything-it's only going to kill the trees. There's no runoff or overspray if you're careful, and it ensures that only the target trees are getting the herbicide. I use a spray bottle and put undiluted 41% glyphosate in it and give each wound a squirt or two. At least 1 'hack' per inch of diameter of the tree is the usual rule I think. If you want to really get anal about reducing the possibility of overspray, you can cut the trees down and brush glyphosate on the stumps, but it's very important to apply it ASAP-like within a minute-for best effect. That goes for hack and squirt too technically, but usually you squirt as you hack.
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Jul 28, 2022 11:40
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Free pseudocereals
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Aug 4, 2022 14:32
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:Plenty of folks grow plenty of tomatos in 5 gallon buckets. You might need to water them a little more frequently than you would plants in the ground, but if you’re in a colder climate the soil in a bucket will warm up faster and might extend your growing season. 
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Apr 26, 2023 19:13
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Just don't do that if you live somewhere where they're incredibly invasive. Or maybe it's too late to care about that.
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Apr 27, 2023 14:34
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When I did mine cut a hole in the inner bucket into which I put a plastic takeout container with a bunch of holes poked in it. The container was filled with potting mix. The wick container was suspended 3-4 inches into the reservoir.
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May 5, 2023 17:59
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Get them a weeding knife.
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May 13, 2023 18:17
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Ask me about mowing my lawn with a scythe
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Reporting from the trenches in the war against the Tree of Heaven in my yard: Last fall there were 3 trees of about 1.5-2 inches diameter each, growing from a single root system spread over about 25 feet. I treated the lower bark of each one with triclopyr last fall and waited 30-60 days, then felled them. Unfortunately, I don't think the triclopyr was strong enough and now each stump has aggressively sprouted. There are also small seedlings in my raised bed, but I don't think they're from shoots (I'm PRAYING that the thing doesn't take over one of my raised beds). I am being vigilant about pulling the seedlings daily. My question is, should I do foliar application of triclopyr on the stump sprouts? If so, should I wait until late summer for root uptake? The stumps are very small and the sprouts are green and haven't formed any bark, so there's no real hack-and-squirt potential there. It really sucks because this thing is deeply intertwined with a bunch of good plants and I don't want to kill them all with triclopyr. Like shoots coming up in between branches of a plum tree, in between irises, in between rose of sharon, right beside my tomato plants...
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