Emerging beans and cantaloupe in a row on giant garden bed
If you are concerned about rising food prices:
Cheapest way to turn your yard into a massive garden 🧵 1/
(TL;DR)
-contact info of arborists for free wood chips
-obtain “green” compost from local businesses
-height/fencing
-Cheap fertilizers
-planting this year and next
#gardening #garden
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14/ If anyone is having any issues getting started with their garden, feel free to reach out.
I’m mostly active on Mastodon (non-profit social media, not backed by billionaires) but will regularly check here if people need help. 💚
13/ Also, keep in mind that sweet potato leaves are edible. So definitely worth growing if you live in a hot climate. www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/26...
12/ Without adding any raised bed soil at all, the only things (in my experience) that will grow just in the mulch are Romano pole beans if you plant them 6-8”/17cm deep in the spring or sweet potatoes. They still need to be fertilized.
11/ then after the plant has sprouted and formed true leaves, dig a space 2-3 as large as the seed starting pot and fill with raised bed soil and plant the seedling and cover with a thin layer of mulch.
10/ The raised bed will be ready to plant directly into next year.
If you want to plant in the bed this year, you will need to start the plants as seeds in seed starting pots…
9/ Don’t forget the leftover water from washing rice and lentils makes great fertilizer. You can even grind up raw lentils to a powder, mix with water and fertilize you plants that way.
8/ Bokashi composting allows to you use alternative types of waste that are not typical “greens” but you have to buy bokashi bran. www.almanac.com/bokashi-comp...
Another fert method is to add weeds, trimmings and other greens to water in a sealed bucket set in the sun for 6 weeks to ferment.
7/ Fencing is the biggest expense. After building most of the raised bed pile, it’ll be sloped at an angle. Hammer down fence posts at the bottom of the slope, wrap the fencing around and then fill in the rest of the area up to the fence so that baby bunnies don’t crawl under any loose spaces.
6/ The pile should be over 2 1/2ft / 76cm tall at least. It is going to shrink down significantly.
If you are expecting to plant this year, you need to fence the entire raised area or animals will raid your plants.
5/ To build a giant raised garden bed, first shave the lawn as close as possible to the ground and lay down cardboard (make sure there is no tape/plastic) or layers of newspaper. Then start piling the greens and browns on top stomping down as you go to make it compact.
4/ And of course save all your trimmings, tea and coffee grounds to mix in the pile.
More info here: www.almanac.com/how-to-make-...
3/ Composting (to put it simply) is a mix of around 1/3 “greens” and 2/3 “browns.” The woodchips are “browns” so to develop soil, you need to mix in as much greens as you can find.
See if local cafes, restaurants, juice bars, grocery stores, distilleries (mash) will offer you free “green”waste.
2/ Two resources to obtain free woodchips:
The first link is free woodchips in the US and the second is in the UK.
You will receive a truckload of chips. It’s a massive amount. If you don’t have a pitchfork, I recommend you borrow or buy one.
getchipdrop.com
freewoodchips.co.uk/%EF%BF%BC
Emerging beans and cantaloupe in a row on giant garden bed
If you are concerned about rising food prices:
Cheapest way to turn your yard into a massive garden 🧵 1/
(TL;DR)
-contact info of arborists for free wood chips
-obtain “green” compost from local businesses
-height/fencing
-Cheap fertilizers
-planting this year and next
#gardening #garden
Thank you for your reply! I will definitely check it out ❤️
Hi, I just read an article about your book in the Guardian and went searching to pre-order it and couldn’t help but notice that there is a stark difference between the UK/CA’s title and the US’s.
Were there any other major editorial changes to the book for the US edition?
Thank you ❤️
Thank you Maureen 💙
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The 60 Minutes episode on CECOT that Bari Weiss cancelled was shown in Canada. Someone uploaded a recording of it to Internet Archive that you can watch here.
It’s horrifying. TW: torture.
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Libby’s website is not clear on how these recommendations are made. Is it based off of Amazon sales, Libby’s own popular downloads or what?
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A screenshot from the Libby app’s AI tab featuring a book titled "Rigged" by Mollie Hemingway. It includes a brief description of the book's content, which discusses election manipulation and the influence of media and technology on political narratives. The image shows that it was the top result under political manipulation and historical revisionism.
Image is a screenshot. I reported the title in the previous pic as being inappropriate and it took me to this page where it briefly discusses Libby’s use of AI. Text says: “Libby’s inspire me feature, leverages, artificial intelligence. Generative AI sometimes makes mistakes. When a mistake is inappropriate offensive or upsetting we want to know about it. We appreciate you taking the time to report serious mistakes. Reports are anonymous so we can’t respond directly. Libby and AI learn more about how we use artificial intelligence responsibly at overdrive.”
This is the main screen when you click on the middle button for the AI suggestion in the Libby app. The screen has a starry night sky, and the text says “inspire me with…” and has selectable items: fiction, nonfiction or a tag. At the bottom is a red arrow pointing to where the AI feature is on the app.
Disturbing!
Libby added a new AI feature to recommend books. The top rec under “political manipulation and historical revisionism” is by an oligarch shill and 2020 election denier.
Libby is an app for people to borrow ebooks from their local public library.
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