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2026-05-07 09:33:43 CEST

#Organic gardening vs synthetic
Lots of box caterpillars around again this spring. The ones in the ground were hit bad last year and I have been trying to get them to recover, but it's a bit of an up hill struggle as the soil there sucks and there isn't a lot of it. Yet again the one in the pot that I planted and has had biochar, local microbes from imos and EM from the start is doing great. I should really do a brix reading but I keep forgetting to bring the meter 🤷‍♂️
https://blossom.primal.net/91da7f94c1ab1c03d8574ee94534d235e12453cd4030448db2901efc2802935a.mp4

2026-05-07 09:23:39 CEST

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Yeah they are pretty resiliant plants overall. I took some out of an area and divided them to put somewhere else and I must have missed a tiny piece and it's still trying to come up in the grass years later.

2026-05-06 09:54:00 CEST

Tree peony, cowslip and irises
https://blossom.primal.net/8b78325fab5ab5a95b411bbe581be46d60f5d3ff0ccd3fa8e95d689d2655b2b0.jpg
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2026-05-05 12:06:21 CEST

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Idiots because Blair seems to like him now apparently.

2026-05-05 11:29:57 CEST

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The ones who aren't causing crime themselves are being exploited by crime. So the 'refugees welcome' crowd who like to called people racist bigots for being against rape and stabbings are in essence pro slavery too. Not sure where they even have an arguement left anymore.

2026-05-03 20:14:26 CEST

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Well wasn't the only broken thing on nostr, been a good excuse to try it out some new clients.

2026-05-03 13:46:34 CEST

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Might be happening first at this rate 😄

2026-05-02 12:29:57 CEST

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Can't get it to load atm I will try and let you know when I have fixed the issue

2026-04-29 14:34:31 CEST

Ashmead's kernel an old apple variety the flowers are big for an apple. The fruit is excellent for eating, juicing and even cider.
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2026-04-28 21:55:05 CEST

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No problem, thank you . I will take a more detailed when I have more time.
When start9 release there new os I'm going to play around with relays again, it really didn't work well connecting over tor.

2026-04-28 19:31:37 CEST

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Ok seems to have done it, just copied and paste and it's connected. Perhaps it just needs some basic instructions with it to idiot proof it like the ones you wrote me 😅

2026-04-28 19:23:57 CEST

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That makes sense...I forgot about amber a bit as it didn't exist when I first used amethyst. I will work it out in due course.

2026-04-28 17:45:41 CEST

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😆 yeah if it just said wss:blahblah I would of worked it out but I assumed it was going to do something magic and sort it self out as the wss is in there and it started nostrconnect: though it also says coracle perhaps it only works for coracle.

2026-04-28 10:47:11 CEST

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Not sure how to make it work with a phone client like amethyst. The link opens a browser where I can copy the link but where does that link go in the client?

2026-04-27 22:05:49 CEST

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Yes, still tastes better cooked.

2026-04-27 20:31:35 CEST

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You can't eat the leaves on rhubarb just the stem it's more juicy and sour and I have never made swiss chard crumble.

2026-04-26 16:57:11 CEST

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The lady certainly didn't look like a knife pin cushion 😆

2026-04-26 16:53:21 CEST

Today I went to the circus. You know it's a good circus show when you are glad no one died 😅.

2026-04-18 10:25:04 CEST

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You have stumped me that's exactly how everyone makes it but you right it's not fat soluble. It is water soluble though. I do use it fresh but also use like you have made it for winter. Still works regardless of not really knowing what going on here.

2026-04-16 17:13:01 CEST

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If you have any calendula flowers see if you can add too. Can be a useful antibacterial addition.

2026-04-16 11:45:19 CEST

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Personally I think it's one the best medicinal plants I usually introduce it to the gardens I work in if I can because it's so useful for injury. Then if I don't use it then the bees get the flowers and eventually the garden gets some feed.

2026-04-15 15:57:07 CEST

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Didn't think about that I guess I will have to try that too. For myself and the soil.

2026-04-15 13:33:05 CEST

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Well it feeds on the allantoin they make anyway. All the Korean skin creams that seem very popular here all of sudden also seem to contain it.

2026-04-15 13:30:06 CEST

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Primarily medicine, feed second. That's why I find the earlier stuff useful. It only goes away with the frost here so near you does it keep going all year?
Going to be using it to try to make a bacillus subtilus feed later as apparently it can feed on that too.

2026-04-15 13:11:46 CEST

If you want your #comfrey way earlier in the season consider growing symphytum officinale too. Yes it seeds but it's not that bad especially if you have time to cut regularly.
I have been using it for well over a month now and the bocking 14 has barely emerged.
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2026-04-13 09:41:24 CEST

Fiat decay is creeping more and more into quality control.
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2026-04-12 11:28:01 CEST

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@nprofile…tat4 -working link

2026-04-12 11:25:52 CEST

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@Rusty is using nostr too so give him a follow. Always appreciate his information.

2026-04-10 20:14:42 CEST

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Very nice design, unfortunately I can't zap for it too.

2026-04-10 10:56:31 CEST

I didn't know what was going on here so I took a photo.
Turns out it's worm pornography 😆
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2026-04-09 22:48:03 CEST

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It's not the easiest to control but I can think of worse stuff. We used to have land which had sheep on it many years ago and it would grow on a matt of 3 inches of soil on a concrete base so might do ok in a pot or tray or fenced in with edging of some kind. You will have to make sure you keep hacking it down otherwise it will set seed.
See if you can find a patch locally before you take the hard option especially if you don't like getting stung.

2026-04-09 19:45:58 CEST

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When I used to work bottling apple and beetroot juice for a organic juice company we were subcontracted to bottle for. We used to have to keep a bottle of the batch aside for testing for residue of pesticides etc. So I don't think it's all fudged and fake.

2026-04-09 19:34:32 CEST

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As a general rule of thumb with a bit of research to see if it's toxic to people, if it's plant that makes people pissed off and swear a lot because they can't get rid of it usually makes an excellent fertiliser. A lot them tend to end up being medicinal to some degree too.

2026-04-09 12:15:41 CEST

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Great in compost but try it as a foliar and root drench too. Sorts out all sorts of disease and pest issues.

2026-04-08 10:46:29 CEST

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...twine, butterfly habit I have even made some building material out of it before.
It's also probably the best around fertiliser you can make if you aren't using it for that slap yourself in the face and start using it.

2026-04-06 17:51:09 CEST

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Nice day here, should be better tomorrow and the day after so enjoy 🙂🌞 Hope all is well apart from the bilge tank 😆

2026-04-06 15:17:59 CEST

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https://youtu.be/ujWJi6OA2Qk?si=VzNqNhkAu9P0eji_

2026-04-02 17:39:52 CEST

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You lucky sod! 🙂

2026-04-02 09:48:57 CEST

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Indeed. They are Canadian though so can't trust them 😁. Sometimes they can turn up in July... bunch of slackers.

2026-04-01 19:03:47 CEST

Juneberry blossom 🙂
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/0da65c726c77148b9af0fcd16cf274640a3445d584b775113e5bf9d5fa458705.webp

2026-03-31 16:57:28 CEST

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Yeah must be that then 😆. Apparently it's mentally invigorating I think I will stick with lions mane though 😁.

2026-03-31 16:13:40 CEST

It's actually warm today 🙂🌞
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2026-03-31 15:38:50 CEST

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I keep finding these I think they are a russula associated with the trees round here. I need to find out if they are associated with ash trees as I always find them around big ones.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/1bd48d05f831982e506d4b84605570517f3f17905f4b241aa3ba48e485912d7e.webp

2026-03-31 15:36:08 CEST

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The Chinese eat it for medicine but then they eat almost anything. Can't say I have tried it or that it looks appealing 😆

2026-03-31 15:10:20 CEST

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Probably Jew's ear looks like it could be old elder wood. It's called that because Judas was said to have been hung on an elder and that mushroom always grows on it...must be an endophyte for it or something.

2026-03-29 19:38:00 CEST

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If you are in the U.S have a look at Paul Wheaton is up to and see if it fits your idea of what you want. You certainly have enough time to try different things out.

2026-03-29 19:26:04 CEST

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I bought this up before and I'm glad I'm not the only old bastard that made that connection 😁

2026-03-29 12:32:52 CEST

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Thanks, neither do I the conservatory and space by the windows are usually full this time of year though!

2026-03-29 10:54:05 CEST

Can't afford a full sized one in money or time. Let's hope neko-zilla 🐱 doesn't destroy it 😁
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/66870ac07dd92978811590b8e1b12fc5730160b95f40906a63d599c239a2cea2.webp

2026-03-25 11:59:06 CET

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As if you were going to cook the rice it so about half an hour to an hour. Spirulina you can buy online or you can grow yourself if you want.
Going to be looking into trying it with red algae too in case its different protein appearing -you can also grow that yourself.

2026-03-25 10:54:29 CET

Once you have your lactic acid bacteria add some spirulina. The bacteria breaks down the walls of spirulina releasing phycocyanin a light sensitive protein . That's the blue colour starting to appear below. Try it on your plants and but stand well back 😉
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/2577f84c10cdc4b3863d07b6d3eb8abb90ae08b73f3bdab198d0d25a40069f9a.webp
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2026-03-24 21:35:13 CET

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The Youtube algo is particularly annoying in the sense you click on on of these things you end up with more of them. I think I have about 3rd of my recommended video as obviously repackaged ai content by now despite me blocking the ones I see even more pop up.

2026-03-24 21:27:08 CET

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It's not they are always wrong..for now but you can see where this is going if people decide to stop posting real content and not getting any reward for doing so.

2026-03-24 21:11:36 CET

People are using AI to repackage original content on YouTube into their own channels kind of how I 're-wrote' content off Microsoft Encarta or the 90's internet before the teachers cottoned on to that kind of thing - but with less far accuracy and far more gusto.
The difference is they are getting payed quite a bit through ad revenue to rinse and repeat. Once you see it is really obvious. AI Slop is bad but slop feeding off the creativity of another is incidious so how long before Youtube Ouroboro's itself to death?
Could nostr help fix this sort of thing? Or are we doomed to bad advice because a data centre went with more compelling rather than accurate information because it was told to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2CX3RfZ_0g

2026-03-24 12:56:07 CET

If you know you are going to be eating some rice pre soak it and strain it and keep the water around to ferment for a few days then use on your plants and seeds you can even dilute by half with some chlorine free water.
Won't cost you anything and the lactic acid bacteria stops prevents 'damping off' from fusarium. Plants will grow better in general too.
You can use kefir and other probiotics too.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/a955f22083c4407b28e8634c72da5af0ad6f22c651d50a3a2183dc250ed72ac7.webp
#permies
#permaculture
#gardening

2026-03-23 15:43:32 CET

Today's adventure was breaking into my own car lol.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/5af9466fb571c0b158f2b492c5bda97fca25a8a3200efe437e0ce6b3681ee133.webp

2026-03-23 13:54:07 CET

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Yes its a weeping ornamental cherry.

2026-03-23 13:05:23 CET

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2026-03-22 22:07:58 CET

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6 months later: New mRNA vaccine launched for bovine neck cancer funded by Peter Theil.

2026-03-22 16:57:34 CET

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😅 my customers garden is silty and dries out crazy fast thought you were having similar issues

2026-03-22 16:52:53 CET

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Keep adding biochar and you can grow anything, here I have had a blueberry in the ground for several years which shouldn't be possible on clay with limstone in it.

2026-03-22 16:34:20 CET

Do the work buy some ph strips instead it costs pennies and takes the guess work out and will help correct some of the false assumptions in this chart. You might have alkaline sand or not acidic enough peat to grow blueberries for example. I have never had a problem growing rosemary or lavender in clay.
Infact my clay soil is on limestone so you might assume it's alkaline right? But in reality its slightly acidic.
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2026-03-22 10:08:38 CET

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I can think of other completely preventable issues proven by statistics that kill and harm far more people than that... Yet it's an issue they have done precisely nothing about for years.

2026-03-21 14:39:31 CET

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Propolis

2026-03-20 13:35:19 CET

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Well that interesting. Does the carbon instantly suck moisture out of the air to make it heavier?! Either that or they are cheap Chinese scales that's a possibility too 😆

2026-03-19 22:47:57 CET

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That would be Scilly 😂

2026-03-18 20:03:44 CET

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Remember this? I guess they turned up too early or forgot they left the oven on last time 😁 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BfuTaAThfjQ

2026-03-18 19:05:25 CET

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😁 I'm just going to blame 'some proto indo european language' at this point or the Japanese invasion of the Bell beaker people 😂 . I thought old English might provide some clues which is closer to German and most close to Frisian. But some times I am searching and it says in old English it can be both?!

2026-03-18 17:44:33 CET

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I started to try to find out I think I am more confused than when I started 😂

2026-03-17 22:49:52 CET

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Not getting so many truely bloody dreadful tattoos would be a start....

2026-03-17 22:43:41 CET

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Personally, I hope we end up deporting Curtis 😂

2026-03-16 22:28:37 CET

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Looks like she is using Uranium glass to water with... I have no idea what the small amounts of radiation would do to the water though in terms of plant growth!

2026-03-15 19:22:56 CET

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You can pop round use my bin as it's one of the highest rises in the country I guess they decided not to take the piss and cut the bin service… that's probably next year..

2026-03-15 19:09:31 CET

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Its pretty easy to make a little 8/16/etc bit console emulator

2026-03-15 17:35:28 CET

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@nprofile…dl06 you know those PE mushrooms you posted the other day.....

2026-03-14 18:13:15 CET

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No, he's just French. That will come later when they they break out the coke

2026-03-13 15:50:24 CET

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The ductility of the balcony is incredible the shipping container hits it and there isnt even a scratch 😂

2026-03-13 14:56:56 CET

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Luckily its there side to maintain. It's usually pretty windy here this time of year and October. But the last super strong storm we had a few trampolines go flying 😂

2026-03-13 14:37:29 CET

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Was about the similar here perhaps a bit stronger and falling apart fence has now decided to relocate next door 😂

2026-03-13 14:16:33 CET

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I knew it! Must be true 😁
https://blossom.primal.net/9c6a2d2e4bc345f36f749e5e7ea72df4cf513faf8e7efd3739d40b2c6603456f.jpg

2026-03-12 21:32:18 CET

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Looks like a Norfolk island pine, araucaria heterophylla. Certainly a very bushy one.

2026-03-12 20:37:44 CET

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But you can drop the price? So everyone will mark up like crazy just in case but it could potentially be cheaper at the end of the day if your lucky?! Wow, what a great way to make things worse lol

2026-03-12 20:09:32 CET

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They have been doing that for a while. Saw videos of that sort of thing years ago. By the time it gets to June this war it will have be going on longer than WW2 which is crazy to consider.

2026-03-12 19:56:22 CET

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Africans and Asians like the rest of Europe.
https://eadaily.com/en/news/2025/10/05/the-dead-are-replaced-by-outsiders-zelensky-inflicts-a-double-blow-to-ukrainians-rada-deputy

2026-03-12 09:59:24 CET

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@rusty as quartz allows UV through have you used your spectrometer to see the difference between natural quartz and fused quartz and typical window glass and borosilicate glass as I have read the latter can allow UVA and UVB through it.

2026-03-12 09:01:28 CET

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I was outside watching a meteor shower late one day and the sound was so loud it it sounded like a bomb going off I was genuinely astounded no one turned their lights on or woke up to investigate the noise so I looked into this and eventually found out about the Frey effect too. It's turns out when meteor is entering the atmosphere (and this one was low I could see the tail for several seconds) it emits a host of EM rays including xrays, microwaves and they must have pinged my skull making the auditory effect in my head.

2026-03-11 21:00:47 CET

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I don't think any take Bitcoin yet but I don't want to find out as a third party either 😂

2026-03-11 20:47:13 CET

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Yeah I will have to see how it goes with someone I can meet more easily in person first. I am not going to chase you down when your cruising around the place.

2026-03-11 20:19:38 CET

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Perhaps we should be organising some of this stuff on here? Not sure how it would work but I would be interested to give it a go.

2026-03-10 21:04:19 CET

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I hope they all leave and set up Moltspace instead 😂

2026-03-10 18:56:07 CET

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Chocolate covered of course.

2026-03-10 18:55:39 CET

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Tell him it's $24 of hobnobs he is bound to cave then.

2026-03-10 10:14:43 CET

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Unfortunately that place isnt quite as amazing it could be. Its not that it looks bad but considering how old it is I hate it when an interior designer decides it needs 'sprucing up' and ends up making it look like most of the other pubs in the area. Compared to the National Trust pub in the area which the last owner stipulated cant be changed it (even after it caught fire at one point) it looks brand new.

2026-03-10 10:04:37 CET

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Last time there was a big run on fuel a few years back I remember it ran out around London so my customers couldn't get back. But there wasn't even a queue for petrol here.. It was just people in the city panic buying and making life difficult for one another!

2026-03-10 09:51:48 CET

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But that might make the Daily Mail useful for something though 😁. I remember reading on some permaculture site even worms in a worm bin was didnt seem to like consuming the Daily Mail 😂

2026-03-09 09:35:55 CET

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Thankfully we dont use a lot of gas in the spring and summer as its is not petrol i don't know why the daily mail has decided to conflate the two words in a newspaper article perhaps they need to get some more American ad revenue.

2026-03-09 09:10:38 CET

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You don't need the synthetic phosphates if you didn't have the people killing the fungi with stuff like glyphosate 🤦‍♂️

2026-03-09 09:09:11 CET

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Its the same here, except it rarely gets super hot and it generally goes away by itself as the grass grows again likely due to the bacillus subtilus. There maybe a few edge cases where the moss might be inhibiting the grass from taking hold but thats because the environment is basically too shady for grass so you need a different type of grass. By the time you have sprayed the ferrous sulphate and scarified the moss you have disturbed the grass and so need to reseed making it more like an annual. Never understood it. The only thing that does make a difference is improving the drainage of the soil but no focuses on that (apart from using those hollow tiners) but then they mess it up again buy killing all the worms with the synthetics.

2026-03-08 23:40:58 CET

"Glyphosate inhibits melanization and increases susceptibility to infection in insects"
Don't worry melanin is just the important superconductor material your brain needs to function correctly. Keep spraying it on crops to 'ripen' them for harvest I'm sure that will be fine, Bayer CEO Bill Anderson says its safe after all.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8115815/

2026-03-08 23:08:11 CET

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Couldn't agree more never understood it to be honest.