elle sagenev

My beautiful husband swore in church and was promptly stung by a wasp. Do I think it was sent by God to deliver retribution? That's up to you. AHAHAHHAHAHAHA I kid, I kid.

Yeah they aren't going to listen to you. I do talk to farmers and what I've been told is, "Would love to see that work". I think that's the key. They're not going to go on your word here when they have $300,000 tractors they're making payments on. They need to see this working. Costing less. Being easier. If they don't see it, they won't believe it.

That was amazing. Thank you.

Gregory Campbell wrote:Initially prune it back to 2-3 bines and direct them to the trellis. Keep pruning the new shoots at least weekly. The shoots are a delicacy in Europe and starting to catch on in the States.

How would you go about eating them?

I took somr hops rhizomes from a massive plant near my work. It came up this spring and is extremely healthy but also out of control. It's planted next to a trellis. Not quite tall enough to start up it. What is doing is spreading in all directions under the mulch. I went out just now and pulled up everything not growing in the direction I want. I'm wondering what I should do here. Is this thing going to take over the garden?

This rock is something we harvest from the fields in front of our house. I love it!  I have used weed fabric along the fence. Not ideal but I have laziness regarding weeding obvs.

I had some super weedy flower beds. Since they were already planted I decided to use shredded paper to suppress weeds and then mulch. As you can see not having a planting plan or defined planting area my flower area is stupidly planted.

I have a lot of failure. I think that's a combination of not spending money on it and being less than involved continually.

So I spent some money and made some new beds. Cardboard, compost and rock edging.

A lot of people may be experiencing this late snow and freeze this weekend. I had some things growing already. Trees were in bloom. bushes were sprouting. Herbs were coming back and I had some things I had grown from seed and planted out. Fennel, mustard, and a few other herbs.

So yesterday I went out with some wood shavings and covered all the plants. Then my son went around with pots and put a pot on top of each plant with a rock to hold it down in the wind. Fascinated to see if it helped these things live.

What did anyone else do?

He made another video