#Soil, ecology, low-input #MarketGardening, women's history, material history, math, programming, literature of the long nineteenth, #waltz, #polka, leavened bread. Mostly around the Salish Sea.
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Last Notes npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I’m sorry it feels bad; both the plot and the dinner look good to me. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Page-sized rubber stamp? I think you can get them custom pretty easily now. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I’ve seen people recommend surprisingly short time gaps for pollination isolation- is y’all’s season too short or? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I don’t think they have a proper name really. given any horizontal pole or line you can zigzag from the ground to the pole and back as long as you want without cutting line or doing much threading — pin jute to the ground, throw a bight over the pole, bring the ball of twine through the bight to make a half-knot, step sideways one, continue. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew although since someone showed me how to do infinite tall zigzags right off the reel i don’t think I’ve used netting. Especially with jute, the plants grab pretty well. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I never have learned netting, but with the size of netting stick you’d use for peas it should work up quickly npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew #Seattle area #vegetable and herb gardeners -- the second Tilth edible plant sale is a few weeks out. Mentioning it now for people who plan ahead; also they usually need volunteers and I met great people when I volunteered. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew WOW that’s a circular hole npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@stanikomania/116370075147151558 npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Yes, there’s PFAS in sewage; it’s surprisingly unclear whether there’s any cycle of nutrients that isn’t already PFAS contaminated. We just look harder at sewage; we don’t know that there’s an alternative. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew The Seattle area does extraction at the end plant and we ship mostly phosphorus east to… orchards, forest re establishment? Engineering and social problem, that was. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Interception is enormously better — makes the urine and the poop more handle-able. BUT unlike the “wash it away” system it has to be handled. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Might be a very specific nutrient deficiency or imbalance— those often show in specific parts of the plant… jeez, the seed leaves are fine, and the tips so blasted. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew 1. !!!!! npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew #looking seems like a profile flag and one that should be hard for strangers to search. And yet, some process has to know in order to nudge people together somehow. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew There's a middle stage in which democracy has a better chance of surviving if more people are registered and attacked, because that commits more people to defending democracy instead of getting picked off one by one. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Riffing — npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew no tax deductions for flights as a business expense? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew “frugal” still strongly implies both low cost and high utility, I think… npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew … snow bank ramp over the gate? They always underestimate how much matter a gardener can pitch. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew "we might get our hair mussed" npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew ... disturbing but still not my point! Bt was an easy sell because it's a copy of a defensive chemical that evolved naturally. So if human use has increased resistance, what happens to the original ecosystem? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Not just crops, right? Bt occurs in nature and any ecosystem that was already using it is now a bit more at risk. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew The existing accountants are actually bring professionals, yesno? Acting to keep accountant licensure meaning what it used to. Which could be long term planning rather than virtue, but planning is rare too, so... npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Something like this npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew after all, my post office still keeps pens chained to the counters and those pens do hard work. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew That’s a fun question! I spent a tiny time looking for references in _Punch_ magazine but don’t see an efficient way. Somebody? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew And then Le Carre for how it went wrong after the war, maybe npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I tried it once and broke the grater, which was knuckle-shredding. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew We need a phlebotomist who’s good enough to draw venous blood without exposing it to any air & contrast it with arterial blood? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew There’s the “glass cliff” in companies— when they’ve painted themselves into a corner and all the survival strategies will justly make people angry, THEN you appoint an outsider CEO. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I shorthand this by saying “it’s built very neighborhood-y”. I think this gets across a lot of the difference, good and bad. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Taking notes? Cross correlating notes? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I’ve seen a parka suit in a museum made of tanned salmon skins. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew you do need a plan for what to do with the radioactive sunflowers npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Or a whole lot of labor, or intercropping or animals — none of these always suitable but there are a lot of tactics. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Oo tell me about the trivia and sheets? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew you can edit a post -- but everyone who has liked or responded to it gets a notification. So if you keep editing typos one at a time, their notifs are noisy. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Is that also causing our extreme drying events? When dry air with a higher capacity for humidity crosses a landscape, it sucks up more soil and plant moisture than the landscape is “used to” losing? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I often don’t like cornstarch pudding, and also have a corn-allergic friend, so I often use tapioca flour instead. No claim to authenticity and I don’t know if I’m aiming at exactly the same texture people who like cornstarch like. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew … suddenly a little worried — if you need the landline for emergencies because a cellphone isn’t reliable, grafting a cellphone into the handset isn’t going to help with emergencies, right? The important part of the landline is the line? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew We had such a year and the tomatoes were pristine AND THEN my poor sweetie annoyed the hive while UP A LADDER IN SHORTS and anyway were more cautious about wasps now. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew How dirty can water be and still be safely and effectively used for evaporative cooling? Is there anything that evaporates out of it that's dangerous? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Oh wow if you like Ruth Goodman you’ll like cob! npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew oh, I am confused between cob (unfired) and Cobb (glazed, ?brand name?). Sorry. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I would even try tinfoil on the sunny side. Hard on neighbors who have to look at it though. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew "I finished this and should be happy but instead am sad" npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Grams per square meter and separately price per square meter, how would that do for you? GSM is a standard for paper generally. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew AIUI the corn uses last years bean-nitrogen anyway (live beans keep their nitrogen!) so tight rotations will be good too. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew "Music making" like there are scores on it, or "music making" like it's the instrument but not real-time, or "music making" like it's an instrument on stage? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I don't think anything here is worrisome, and the out-of-ideal numbers will probably improve as you increase organic matter. That's slow but easy! Mulch with something well rotted, or just grow lots of things and leave their roots in the ground (and compost and return the tops). npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Nitrogen: well, nitrogen comes and goes, everything uses it and ALSO it's soluble in many of its forms. Thrifty: jump-start N-hungry crops with cautious N fertilizer, or plant peas or beans and use the N they leave on their roots. (Leave the roots in the ground when you're done with the plants!) npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Totally talk to Extension if you can, it's their jam. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Lots of legume seeds don’t carry their microbes. Native plants will find native bacteria, but crops are different. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew https://ecoevo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/258/364/966/217/946/original/8dfd93a17d007d3b.jpeg npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Computer printing history question: Why is imposition such a pain? At what level is “a page” so different from “this graphic” that imposition is still handled by different software than the rest of page layout? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Like internships in publishing and ?? now? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Somebody must be pruning or replanting to keep some of the woody plants about the same as in the painting -- the tall shrub/many-trunked tree between us and the chimney, for instance. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew But not hashtags? Is there a problem with them? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Took me a while to deduce which city — still not sure! Maybe some city and state hashtags? @npub1h9q…fkmf npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew #pruning advice please! I thought this little #CherryTree was dead; is it too late to do a winter pruning? Our cold weather was about two week of frosty nights, last month. The buds are showing green, just. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew What matters is if the annual harvest is the same size as the annual mineral influx to the sea, though. That’s all that needs to balance. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I wonder if harvesting biomass reduces the salinity. The Aral Sea is endorheic, so the only other way to get rid of the salts is that blowing dust. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Has anyone made a *sound* based OS? npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew If you priced reupholstery against a custom couch, which *is* what you’d get, maybe that’s a tie too. npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew We can’t possibly know what the carrying capacity is until we’ve stopped destroying ecosystems. We burn things up so fast that we don’t know if what’s left can maintain itself (including us). npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew 160 platforms! On 160 software bases, or are some of them same software, different management?
