Asking your local library to acquire a copy might sting a little less, even if they do purchase it through Amazon.

I’ve only grown grain for my cats…rye is an excellent catgrass.

I’ve got our lettuces, onions, and various cole crops started and planted!

I need to get started on the rest of what I’ll be growing this year…I haven’t gotten any garlic or potatoes started, ehh…

You have an obligation to protect the Earth! I suspect many of us will make popular and correct but extremely cool and illegal choices in the near future.

Re-reading the article, I understand the poor soul probably ate carrion that was shot with lead. I think my comment still stands.

It’s a bit more than a Sigh. Some fucker shot that bird. Perhaps they would like to feel the effects of lead in their gut?

I feel like I’ll be reposting this video a lot, but I love ✨ＬＥＡＦ　ＭＯＬＤ✨

In my garden, I took some chicken wire, a few stakes, and made a place for leaves, about 3-4 feet across.

Just like compost, mix it every few days and moisten it to the level of a damp sponge (appropriate for your climate). After a year (yes, a year), you’ll have a pile of broken down organic matter, and a lovely leaf mold environment.

Also, Leaf mold breaks down leaves way faster when you already have a starter pile of it to add to from last year.

I’ll have a small ambient heater in there, controlled by my home automation system! They are LED lights, so not much heat there. Our house sits around 50-60F usually, so I’m spending a bit of time making sure the insulation is good.

The Long Dark Wet is coming, and I’m setting up in indoor grow zone for the winter. I can’t wait to experiment! I’ll be attempting to keep a couple peppers alive, as well as a dill, some citrus, a lemongrass,and a few other things. Some of these would be fine being dormant in our basement, but that’s no fun!

Also Firefox on Linux, it loaded for me.

“I mean, it’s one plant label, Michael. How much could it cost, $100?”

HANDS OFF ME LEAVES, I NEED ME ✨ＬＥＡＦ　ＭＯＬＤ✨

I’m based in the Pacific Northwest, so here’s a few of my favorites in the region.

Seattle

Swanson’s is the normal recommendation, they are pretty cool. If maybe a little pricey.

RIP City People’s…

Tacoma

Calendula Farm & Earthworks is worth a visit! They have a good selection of native plants.

Portland Ave Nursery. This is in Tacoma! I’ve bought a few trees from them! It’s definitely got a good vibe.

Portland

One Green World is my current mail order choice for bare roots. They are in Portland, OR. I’ve visited the retail location down there, it’s a good way to spend some time!

Snohomish

Flower World is also very neat and very dangerous (for my wallet).

Garden cleanup continues! I’m doing the boring bits of tidying/repairing my cheapo greenhouse from last year. I’ll be putting some more onions in the ground just to have greens.

Cold weather is on the horizon - I’m rapidly building an inside grow zone to move some plants inside as an experiment this year. I’m getting cold frames and what not set up for outside.

Lots of things to chop down and replants, I’ll be trying a bunch of cool weather crops this fall since I built so many new garden beds!

I’ll be harvesting everything that’s still out there. We had a last little burst of warm-ish weather, and the poblanos put on some size, excellent! My everbearing strawberry plants are still going insane though and producing tons of fruit!

This goes hand in hand with green mulching! I’ll be doing some in-place composting this year. My mother did some experimenting with it last year in her garden. She sowed some crimson clover after chopping down and mixing everything into the soil. The critters did a great job over winter, and you just mow down the clover in the spring for an additional nitrogen hit!

Hey, I got a squash! Did I pick it a couple weeks early? Shut uP!!!

We’ve been getting corn, plenty of salad greens, green beans out the wazoo, tomatoes galore, and plenty of peppers!

I’ve been collecting the ground cherries dropping off the bush and made my first jam ever! It didn’t make very much… BUT IT’S DELICIOUS. It tastes like…roasted pineapple pie, maybe?

Correct, it’s Diatomaceous earth that got wet. :)

I think that’s the way to go. A bunch of northern countries have already started working on 2 and 3 - in that more natural, more restricted lighting is available in the city. Especially during the winter, it can suck when daylight lasts only 10 hours or less.

And the dark is just dangerous, even in modern times. For better or worse some primal part of me ‘knows’ that civilization means keeping the lights on and I think most people would agree. We can just be way more responsible and less impactful to nature with it.

We had a windstorm last week and one of my tomato trellises snapped, ohhh noooo! The good news is all the vines survived with minor injuries and are on a new trellis.

I’ve been getting ground cherries by the handful! Time to make jam…

We’ve been getting green beans galore, the peppers are peppering, and the corn continues to corn!

I’m very happy, as my pumpkin vines decided to grow four new gourds! Hooray! The kabocha I’m growing is also doing great, and has a couple new gourds as well! We won’t starve this winter!

The bad garden news is two out of my five cucumber vines have perished, for no real reason I can tell :(

That’s right politicians, it’s once again time for CONDITIONAL_SOUP’S THREE MINUTES OF TRANSIT.