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LallyLuckFarm

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

  • Banana

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  • That's actually the handle for holding it while you eat. Far fewer stringy bits get in the way if you pinch the bottom of it and split the peel from that end

  • There is only ONE kind of tea tree. Plz folks, make more.

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  • Ceanothus americanus produces the same compounds as C. sinensis, just without the caffeine. You can even make green or black teas with it depending on whether you oxidize the leaves or not.

  • A cutting off the ol' bush

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  • 🥰 it's just the two of us today so we're playing in the dirt pulling strawberry runners for markets this weekend

  • What are your favourite sources of information about fruit trees and how to grow them?

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  • The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation by Dirr and Heuser

    Grow a Little Fruit Tree by Ann Ralph

  • Recommendations for a noob plz?

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  • Mushi-shi. Incredibly beautiful art and wonderfully written stories about a guy who travels the countryside, using research and nonviolent methods to resolve issues between humans and the spirit creatures known as Mushi

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    Start em young

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    Some ducklings (mostly) grown up

  • Plants systematics according to NCBI

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  • Plants systematics according to NCBI

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  • Poaceae is essential to the survival of a vast number of bird, insect, and mammal species, people are just using it incorrectly

  • Fairies 🧚‍♀️ 🧚‍♂️

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  • Fun fact: in the northeast US and eastern Canada, you can support their entire life cycle by planting tomatoes and Monarda spp together!

  • I Need Wedding Advice

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  • I've given two of these after having been asked to do so during the reception (twice!). So here's some advice from an ad-libber, no bromance required:

    Tell a story about you and your friend. Maybe it's how you met, or an event that showed you that they were the kind of person you'd do this sort of thing for - either way, say something about this characteristic of your friend will help support their relationship with their partner. Try to fit in a joke about an annoying aspect of this positive trait that friends or family might have made in the past.

    If you know the spouse well enough, tell a short story about them and why they're a good partner for your friend. Drop a joke about how they'll (finally) be the sensible one who will reign in the annoying aspect you joked about earlier.

    Say something about how great they are as a team, and express a hope you have for the two of them as they start this new aspect of their lives. Tie it back to how they deserve great things because of the things you said earlier. If you wouldn't be the person standing there giving that speech without your friend, say so - regardless of whether you decide to speak about being trans during this speech or not.

    Remember that laughter is what happens when expectations are subverted in a surprising way, that everyone loves a good callback, and that groupings of three are more impactful, and you'll do great.

  • Babies!

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  • Wicked cute, thank you for sharing!

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    Streetlight Manifesto - Everything To Everyone - YouTube

  • Does anyone have any good gardening blogs?

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  • Huw Richards and Charles Dowding are both worth looking into

  • More sunflowers with a visitor

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  • Look at those pollen pants!

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    We've hit brave bird stage

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    Guard duty

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    There's always one

  • I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help.

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  • In my experience, the ants that nest in our pots tend to favor the species we let have dry periods between waterings - in other words, our driest pots. If we can get the ants out of the picture, the aphids will lose their defenses and your predators can have a field day.

    One method we've had some success with is submersion in water, using medium to large storage totes depending on the size of the pots. The tunnels flood and sometimes collapse, and you can flush them out.

    Something else you could use is diatomaceous earth, which is generally available in garden and hardware stores. Make sure to liberally coat the soil surface and stem, and try to dust the aphids as well. Don't inhale it. You'll need to reapply it whenever it gets wet, so I'd recommend bottom watering whatever you can - I have a few small (1m x .3m) rubber boot trays I use for that. Something to note is that the DE is a broad-spectrum tool, so it won't discriminate between the ants, aphids, or the predatory insects.

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    Almost bumbled the shot

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    A puddle of cuddles

  • how's your week going, Beehaw

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  • 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!

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    What's growing on, Beehaw?

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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.

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    Sambucus nigra in flower

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    The colors

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  • Coleus amboinicus -> Plectranthus amboinicus and I'm back to having no coleus, I'll never forgive

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    Duckling season begins

  • James Dyson reveals the future of farming

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  • 600G 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

  • What's growing on, Beehaw?

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  • We'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.

  • What's growing on, Beehaw?

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  • I'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 ......

  • What's growing on, Beehaw?

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  • I am stunned by how crisp those hoverflies in the photo are! And those lovage flowers are spectacular

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    When dad tells you you turned seven today

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    Guarding the rhubarb

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    Elderflower

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    What's growing on, Beehaw?

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    Juniper pets a pig