William Bronson

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Montessori kid born and raised in Cincinnati.
Father of two, 14 years apart in age,married to an Appalachian Queen 7 years my junior,trained by an Australian cattle dog/pit rescue.
I am Unitarian who declines official membership, a pro lifer who believes in choice, a socialist, an LGBTQ ally, a Black man, and perhaps most of all an old school paper and pencil gamer.
I make, grow, and serve, not because I am gifted in these areas, rather it is because doing these things is a gift to myself.
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I see stainless steel water bottles at the thrift store for cheap, and even the new ones are reasonable, considering their longevity.
One 64oz stainless steel "growler"  is plenty of pee to be transporting at once.
32oz is probably enough.
For bulk storage outside, consider a metal coffee carafe or an percolator.
Top the pee with a layer of vegetable oil to keep it from interacting with air.
For a huge storage vessel , get an old water heater.

8 hours ago
I had some pieces of 3/4" PVC pipe that were no where close to a full 10', and I had some stakes made of 1/2" emt.
I bent 3  of the stakes into 90° bends, and cut all the PVC to 5" lengths.
Putting it together we get a higher,pointier low tunnel.
I think I could build the same design with 1/2" PVC and 3/8" rebar.
23 hours ago
I planted two of these at my moms house, and last time I was there one of the was in full flower.
They didn't look like these florets so I pulled them of, hoping to persuade the plant to grow more greens..
2 days ago
Steves bean plants are up!
I finished their enclosure today(groundhogs and deer are the pests)
2 days ago
Here's some grocery store mustard and fava
5 days ago
This is the bed.
What you see is mustard from the indian grocery store and and fava beans from the Ethiopian grocery store.
I.planted some old dried up garlic in here, but nothing came up, so I'm hedge my bets.
Fava is the easiest bean I've ever grown, and the mustard greens are already tasty-spicey but tasty.
5 days ago
My garden coordinator asked me to clean up plot 8.
This surprised me because I don't think it's one of mine, but she thinks it is...
So I clean out the weeds, and transplanted the trees and bushes.
There are some big strawberry plants in one of the beds and I will probably transplant them to another bed that already has strawberry plants.

Might plant both beds with  corn, even though Its kinda late.
6 days ago
I salvaged more trees today, a staghorn sumac,a black cherry, and some kind of maple, plus two rooted elderberry and a bunch of elderberry cuttings.
This was at the community garden, so I'll put them all in the nursery there.
if I were at my house, I prolly wouldn't save the maple or the black cherry, but who knows what someone else might need.

Concerning the trees from my sisters house, I left the elms to dry out and I'll go back to take out the last one.

I really want a sweetgum seedling.
They grow impractically large, but the mother tree  at  my parents house is very dear to me and it's threatening to die any decade now.

6 days ago
I'm working nights right now, so it'll be a minute before I try them out, but thank you for these are fantastic ideas!
6 days ago
Go cheaper.
Get them from a indian,latin,asian or african store where they sell in bulk.
I've done this with great success with cilantro, fenugreek, various beans and other dry seeds.
I just sowed dill and mustard bought from the same place I got the cilantro, I'm fully expecting them to come up everywhere.

My theory is the above board good stuff is carefully treated, properly dried and sterilized.
This stuff is cheap, bulk and skirting import laws.
Not organic, but  grow it out a few generations and it will be.
1 week ago