#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. I am also pnw.zone/@clew for really local posts. Profile image looks grayscale but is a color photo; a gull on a gray day here is just that gray. Header, for contrast, is an edible-flower harvest, punnets of brilliant oranges and purply-blues and pinks, on a scrubbed washpack table.
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Last Notes npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew 1. I have a fridgefull of turnips and some other root veg 2. I also have a lot of "traditional" and "historical" and "peasant" cookbooks 3. Many of which are SUSPICIOUSLY LOW in turnip recipes! Like, zero! Luard, Miller: none. I am suspicious. 4. Saved by: Florence Lin's Complete book; steamed turnip cake! Yes! I can do that in bulk! Usha's Pickle Digest, one of the great cookbooks for many reasons Pleyn Delit Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking v 1. #vegetables #MarketGarden npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I don’t know that they fruit yet, but it’s getting closer Lemons are wonderful too but always need to be indoors in winter I think @npub1wx7…9rhs npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I’ve seen olives! @npub1wx7…9rhs npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Some branches are moderated and some aren’t, yesno? Mastodon _as a whole_ can’t be immune to spam either. I don’t know how to find good netnews despite remembering rn very fondly. @npub1gkf…355m @npub1jmv…l7za npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Seattle-Nashville specific view: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/the-seattle-story-is-now-playing-elsewhere-leaving-a-cautionary-tale/ Cites Geoffrey West, long a "cities maketh <strike>free</strike> rich" researcher, describing them now as class splitters. @npub1500…4yl7 npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Are they really that BIG? @npub1yce…80c3 npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Sparklers specifically? @npub1500…4yl7 npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew That is a weird collection of companions… parsnips take a long time in the ground and are harvested much later and have relatively weak top growth, so, lots of competition and then annoying harvesting of the potatoes. I’d go with fast cool-germinating above-the-ground crops to shade out weeds before the sweet potatoes get going. Harvest them from the vine edge outwards as the potatoes grow. Or buckwheat, pollinators early and lovely soil after. @npub1san…jgxu npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew I’m sorry it feels bad; both the plot and the dinner look good to me. Also fed up and behinder all weekend @npub13t8…2ksn npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@stanikomania/116370075147151558 Boosting this because I have heard people who needed to know say that Polish bra fitting is the best in the world. Especially for less common sizes. Maybe there’s overlap with #sewing and #MakeYourOwnFashion ? #note1778…hcgz npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew 1. !!!!! 2. How do the icicles taste? @npub1fqf…ajkk 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. Is this an overlap between hosting in the server sense and the human sense? Every couple of weeks servers hosting the Helpful Introductions protocol do a pairwise check to see if they have “looking” members who have liked each others stuff a lot, or liked the same things? @npub1k4x…8ap8 @npub1fp0…54p5 @npub1d93…cnl2 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? Until WWI people in novels are writing things with post office pens, or grocery pens, or saying someone’s handwriting is so bad that it looks like a post office pen. Until fountain pens were cheap and shock resistant pens lived on desks — “desk set”, eg. That’s the 1920s or later? https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=punch @npub1r02…f6ma npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew And then Le Carre for how it went wrong after the war, maybe @npub1uyv…yspw 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. If they succeed, insiders blame them for the anger to toss them out. @npub12pw…zvxn 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. @npub1xpr…wfz0 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? … and then drops it all at once elsewhere causing the floods… @npub1ke2…meew 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. @npub1n9h…4xgf 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? (I know that used to be part of the question, but I sure don't know the current answers!) @npub1cvz…gnh3 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). What do you want to grow? What *is* growing? Is the soil compacted or not? Does it get waterlogged in rains? Lots of sun, some sun? 3/3 @npub1atx…ad59 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!) Potassium fundamentally depends on your geology. Start by fertilizing your K-hungry plants. Also, unhealthy plants can give you a clue: https://www.rhs.org.uk/prevention-protection/nutrient-deficiencies 2/ @npub1atx…ad59 npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Totally talk to Extension if you can, it's their jam. Until then: don't worry about the pH, that's really close to neutral. (Don't know why they show it Above Optimum.) Some plants prefer to be farther from neutral but you aren't in any of the ranges where other nutrients get locked up by the pH. Here's a reference that has about half the plots I memorized for the first several courses in soil science: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2022-11/pH%20-%20Soil%20Health%20Guide_0.pdf 1/ @npub1atx…ad59 npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Lots of legume seeds don’t carry their microbes. Native plants will find native bacteria, but crops are different. @npub1e8n…jdmv @npub1san…jgxu 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. Also, all the buds are at the very ends of the branches - *can* i prune them without starving it? Prune a fraction, maybe? I’m trying to follow _Grow A Little Fruit Tree_, am at the 3rd year. #orchard #fruit #gardening https://ecoevo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/090/399/692/375/802/original/ce6fa02acd5ad161.jpeg 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. @npub1nf4…nqe4 npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew Has anyone made a *sound* based OS? I repeatedly hear about phone-based knowledge systems for small farmers around the world, which clearly get amazing amounts of stuff done, but also seem to be more than the system was designed for -- they're great for announcements but rough for finding wikipedia-like resources. [@mos_8502](https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502 ) npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew If you priced reupholstery against a custom couch, which *is* what you’d get, maybe that’s a tie too. But really, if the moneys in the budget — that’s what we budget for, living as we wish to. You also keep a local business with hands-on workers going. @npub1wdc…05ae npub1j82zzf990eq5wvdkahahp3euk8quavqju3n2vwfpq7yuecxrrkesfxzp4l clew 160 platforms! On 160 software bases, or are some of them same software, different management? This sounds like it’s worth an analytical essay. @npub1zdf…6u9l @npub10mk…2k2w