Small scale permaculture nursery in Maine, education enthusiast, and usually verbose.
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There are something like twelve common names in english, it was introduced to me as “oregano brujo” (wizard’s oregano). It’s most strongly oregano in its aerosol phenols but when I’ve used it in meals (usually in a slow cooker) it’s got notes of the thymol that come through.
Coleus amboinicus -> Plectranthus amboinicus and I’m back to having no coleus, I’ll never forgive
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•James Dyson reveals the future of farming4·13 days ago600G of strawberries retails for £4.50 (Tesco). If this whole setup cost only a million pounds, a producer would have to grow 133,333,332G worth of strawberries to pay it off, and this assumes nothing breaks (ever) and that there is some way to harvest that many strawberries without paying labor, packaging, licensing, and other costs. I feel like this was a cool tech demo but that’s about it
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?3·13 days agoWe’ve grown butternut and pumpkins on trellising with no significant weight issues - one or two huge guys that I cut off to cure elsewhere while the others kept growing, sure. If you’re doing cukes, zukes, or other summer or small squash you should be good to go though.
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?3·13 days agoI’m so glad the exclusion barrier is working for your squashes! Can you train them up some trellising with any sort of ease?
I think that whst I thought were Brussel sprouts are actually cucumber, and what I thought was cucumber is Brussel sprouts so neither is where I wanted them
Oh no …
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?3·13 days agoI am stunned by how crisp those hoverflies in the photo are! And those lovage flowers are spectacular
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?3·13 days agoI mean this as constructively as possible: that’s not a composting toilet and the practice you’ve described raises health risks for you and the people to whom you give food.
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?3·14 days agoI usually prefer non-human animal manures for that sort of thing. Are you using a composting toilet or some other mechanism to reduce pathogenic potential?
That is a good morning!
I bit the bullet and ordered some shirts to wear while I’m working the market stand, and I’m hopeful that they make everything more cohesive. Logo is the front, catchphrase is the back:
I helped a friend out of a bind this week, and tomorrow I’ll be helping another friend start to transplant his garden from his old house to his new one. Hopefully this heat dome doesn’t ruin our efforts.
Friendly reminder that lightning bugs need tall grasses present in addition to wildflowers and leaf litter. You can also improve their survival rates by removing artificial lighting or even just setting any safety lighting (like motion activated lamps) to their shortest “on” duration. Another obvious step is to avoid pesticides.
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?3·19 days agoI adore how consistently I get to learn about unfamiliar plants when you post! Your space sounds so lovely 💕
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?1·19 days agoWe’re in USDA 5, and looking at its cold tolerance we still trend lower than the -10C/14F I see listed for it, sometimes for weeks on end.
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?2·19 days agoThat’s a good move, if it weren’t for our plant nursery we would be extending the sorrel harvest the same way.
Those passion fruit are awesome, and I wish I could grow them here without needing to bring them inside for winter
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?3·19 days agoI like sage with butternut squash soup, personally. And there’s probably still some time for you to get a harvest of those.
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?2·19 days agoRad! We’re just starting to hit the kind of temps that tomatoes and basil appreciate, but our sorrel has already bolted.
When you say ornamental, do you mean P. incarnata? Or some other kind?
LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPMto Nature and Gardening@beehaw.org•What's growing on, Beehaw?2·19 days agoThat’s a bummer =/
Could you fence off the squash in some way? Maybe plant some sacrificial ones elsewhere while you protect the ones that are for you?
First and foremost, I appreciate how patient and helpful you’ve been; thank you.
That’s how I’ve been doing it for a while. Two years at least, as that’s when I first bumped into the pictrs limitations. I’d done it before on other message boards but made full use of it since landing at Beehaw. As of yesterday it started giving me the album links instead when following the steps as you’ve outlined.
The alternative mentioned by Blaze and seconded by PenguinCoder does what I need very conveniently
Someone on the town crew was out with the boom flail mower, mowing on the sides of the road. Ostensibly, it’s to keep the drainage channels clear and to reduce plants from reaching out into the road. Guy mowed my entire front row of ferns, skipped some lilies, then mowed down my flowering and decorative grasses. At one point, he must have lifted the boom to avoid an Iris, but then brought it back down on another flowering grass in the middle of my front gardens. They’ll survive, but my front garden is going to look destroyed for a few weeks at least while they recover.
In more positive news, we had some friends and their son visit on Sunday. My wife took the other ladies around to walk in the gardens at one point while I was cooking - I found out later that we’re part of the inspiration for some folks who are looking to start a sober living space!