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"Find a local knitting club, get involved in a nearby fiber arts guild!" Everything I've found online hasn't been active since 2020 💀

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I'm trying lacto fermentation for the first time! I'm trying various combinations of turnip, swede and carrot, with peppercorns, parsley, majoram, chilli flakes. Can't wait to see what happens...

[Image ID: Five recycled jars filled with different pickling vegetables. There's sliced swede in three jars, one jar with cubed turnip and one jar with batons of carrots. Some peppercorns and herbs can be seen in the bottom of the jars.]

#diy punk #solarpunk #urban gardening #lactobacillus #fermented foods #pickling #urban homesteading #fermented vegetables #alt text #image described

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This is folk punk

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4/18/24 ~ Martin helping with transplanting my bigger tomatoes! Slowly doing them all 😅 #badplantmom

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Hello and good day!

Just wanted to share a few Planting notes and whats been going on round my garden and kitchen~

Today I planted some

They look very lovely in the pictures, plus the Tubers that grow under them are said to be edible and similar to potatoes. I think their pretty and would like to try them once. I figure if no one in the household likes them I have tried them, and have a neat thing to share with friends at least + can share with the seed library or at a plant swamp :)

Also direct seeded some

Dill and cilantro seed. I've never been real great at making herbs grow well but this year I'm hoping is the year to change that :) with luck in a short time there'll be plenty for us as well as gifting, maybe trading and sharing (which is part of my ultimate grow goals :) ) but I'll be satisfied with enough to use here and self seed for future harvests.

Direct seeded some sugar baby watermelons to replace the bed the chickens dug up. (I'll need to make a new fence for this part of the garden, the old one was just simple wire fence. I'd like to put in a nice wire and wood one with a latch gate)

Tossed out a few handfuls of black oil sunflowers among the unclaimed parts of the back garden. With luck they'll grow pretty quickly to proffer some shade and a snack spot for the parrots again.

And of interest, the regrow from the store green onions is blooming some flowers! They are definatly determined lil plants!

I don't have pictures currently for the rest but I also got a bit of stuff done for both gardening and things to try out

🔨I made 2 olla's to try out in an attempt to reduce watering around the garden as well as to conserve water in the soil a bit more. Their just 2 unglazed Terra cotta pots, silicone sealed together and a cork put in one end. The water coaster I'm using to cover the top in between watering. I've never used them, or seen them used before so at this time its to test out for a future project. Plus i just wanted to see them in function :)

🔨 fully made a 5×2 raised bed for the front garden. A second is about 1/2 made. I need to get more wood to finish. At current fenced in spacing I could fit 2 more beds this size.

⛰️ got that bed lined out with cardboard, paper and filled with compost to settle (currently 6 cubic feet of composted manure) 🪶I still need to lay out water lines for both future rows, but want to get one more of the 3 beds built before I start laying that line down.

I won't be doing ground beds in this section due to the knowledge there are utility lines pretty close to the surface. ⭐️ALWAYS call or find out where your yards service lines are befor digging!! It will save you a lot of stress and financial strain⭐️

Plus I can make the raised beds deeper/taller for root crops like carrots or sweet potatoes without having to dig too deep 😉

Laid out some tarp to die off a section of yard to start an amaranth grow spot (end goal, 2 spaces for this. human food, natural dye work material and chicken feed)

That's it for todays lil blurbs :)

🌱🌻Happy Homesteading and Urban Gardening 🌻🌱

4 19 2024

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Is My Dream Coming True?

This morning I decided it was high time I thinned my Boston butter head bib lettuce. They have been growing like gang busters and had become too crowded. Many times when I thin out my seedlings I end up with mostly weak lanky plants. This time, however, the majority of the seedlings were strong and healthy. I just could not bear to compost them so I decided to pot them. I never did reach the…

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A small bit of visible mending on an old tshirt. Very happy with how it turned out.

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The inside and outside of a small darn on my PJ pants. I've been putting this off for weeks, but the hole was getting bigger. Better to darn it now when it's small. Might add some colorful embroidery, but honestly that takes so much time and energy. I am energy limited and can only do so much.

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pls give me 1(one) reason aces have ever been oppressed, and 1(one) example of aces being a part of lgbt history(before 2004 at least) and then maybe i’ll consider the idea that aces belong in the lgbt community lol

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personally i think you should be able to afford a place to live with a part-time job

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Making dandelion mead with my Gf. She's trying to win a local contest for brewing. Since we had plently of dandelions in the yard, it was an obvious pick. You can use any dandelions in this as long as they're still yellow and they havent been sprayed with pestacides. Other ingedants are black tea, honey (2lbs per gallon), Lemon juice, and champagne yeast. Really easy to do, the secret is to seperate the yellows from the greens when gathering dandelions though.

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Some things in my garden which are making me happy

1. My first garden bee sighting of the year. This guy is very generously pollinating my blackcurrant bush. The bush didn't grow a single berry last year, but it's looking great for 2024.

2. Rhubarb: my first proper harvest. I stewed it with ginger and have been having it over vanilla ice cream.

3. The tulips! Every day a new one opens. Over half of them are still to go. I used to think I didn't much like tulips but I've done a complete u-turn on that.

4. My tiny baby apple tree is getting ready to blossom. I was not expecting this at all; it was planted 3 months ago and looks like a skinny little twig. I won't let it fruit this year, but I respect the fighting spirit.

5. Pond... in the rain.

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sometimes my friends send me good reels

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