Today was planting out at the plot day, among other things.
I received more beans and some tomatoes in the mail today! Joy! It's like every week is a holiday when I get mail. Such a delightful surprise. But I'm waiting for a few more weeks to plant these beans. I promise. And I got so many, I'll be sure my fellow Boots also plant some too. :)
Instead, I planted in mini greenhouses again today. I got some rapini, purple coneflower, and ground/husk cherries going. The two bigger jugs were ones on the plot when we got here, and they had holes in them and weren't great for holding water. They are pretty primo for planting in though. :D The rapini got the 1 gallon jug, the ground cherry and echinacea got the big guys. Let's see how this goes!
Sifting through my seeds I noticed I have a couple that want to be planted when it's cold, so I tossed some Sweet Annie, Pan di Zucchero Chicory, and Verte de Cambrai Mache out to see if any of that will grow. I also spread some compost on the house, the bed to the right of the front door, and one of the planting beds next to the path. I started to put some on the hillside next to the house, but I still need to terrace that a bit more so the compost will stay up on it. The vertical nature of the landscape is kinda silly without some kind of terracing. It's like erosion central out there. I tossed some seeds onto it a week or so ago, and will continue to seed it with things with the hope that it'll actually grow something and the roots can work on holding that hillside up better. It'll also give me something to chop and drop next year for mulch. As it is, I'm going to have to take a walk to go find some long grass for all the mulch I need. Kinda wish I had a hand scythe for some of that. May also start some compost tea at some point.. probably after I get the solar installed on the house so I can run an air stone to oxygenate it.
Totally unrelated.. I brought my water kefir grains with me to WL and have started making second ferments with it. Usually I drink it too fast to make second ferments, but I've been working on enjoying it more slowly. Instead of adding the juice to the kefir and then drinking it all in one sitting, I'm mixing it up a bit and giving it some time to process the sugars in the juice/fruits/etc. The one on the left I made this morning - Tamarind paste with freshly brewed water kefir. The other one I made days ago - ginger and elderberry. I think I let the water kefir process too long and the ginger was from the previous 2F in that bottle - all in all it was more acidic than I'd like. I added the elderberry as an afterthought a day after tossing the kefir in with the ginger. Yesterday added a bit more brown sugar to it to feed the grains. Then this morning added a bit of lemon juice for more sugar/flavor pop. I think it'll spruce up after all of that. It wasn't bad, just like I said, a bit more acidic than is fun to drink. Haven't tried a 2F with the tamarind paste, so I'm kinda curious how those flavors will develop.
Hoping to get out to the plot again tomorrow, so I'll keep you posted on my progress. Probably a bunch more cold weather/early spring things to plant, and I got another gallon jug tonight that I can plant something in. Gonna make tiny greenhouses until it's warm enough to plant everyone outside. :)
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5 Moschata Squash, Echinacea (big), and Rapini
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Echinacea and Rapini
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5 Tomatoes (yellow pear, marvel stripe, black cherry, red currant) and Husk/Ground Cherry
Is there any chance you could upload these (or future videos) to youtube or vimeo? I think people are more likely to watch videos if the video is embedded in the thread and they don't have to navigate away. I tried to find a way to embed these for you, but I'm pretty sure we can only embed youtube and vimeo video formats.
Is there any chance you could upload these (or future videos) to youtube or vimeo? I think people are more likely to watch videos if the video is embedded in the thread and they don't have to navigate away. I tried to find a way to embed these for you, but I'm pretty sure we can only embed youtube and vimeo video formats.
Thanks!
I tried to embed them as well and was disappointed the html wouldn't work properly. Do you know why?
I'm thinking they didn't embed because they're hosted at odysee.com. I don't know anything about Odysee, but it's video player doesn't look like a youtube or vimeo player, so I don't think it can embed here.
Maybe you could upload them to youtube next time? If you don't want to be in their algorithums, you could make the video "unlisted."
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