Inge Leonora-den Ouden

I am glad my coffee plants are still alive, doing fairly well. But no flowers (yet).
If they need high altitude, they are in the wrong place here. I live at sea level.

Burra Maluca wrote:....

The UK in general makes use of weather stones, though they work best with a pinch of salt...

Here (and as far as I know in Germany too) there's a donkey with a tail showing those weather conditions. When I was young we had one of those, painted on wood, with a string as tail.

My father was a nature lover and he knew a lot about clouds. He tried to teach me about the clouds too. This teaching worked half: now I can understand what the colour and shape of the cloud indicates. But I still don't know the names of the clouds (like Cirrus and Cumulus, etc.). I can't describe it, but it's a certain dark grey for rain, and a different type of grey for snow.

Before it's going to rain there will be gusts of (cold) wind. You can hear it in the trees.

Here I showed, with photos, how I made my 'hay box', with all-wool cushions (click on the link):
haybox

Anne Miller wrote:...
This thread is an experiment with one:


https://permies.com/t/150474/kitchen/Experiment-haybox-pots

I see my 'hay box' is already here. Follow that link to read more.

Blake Lenoir wrote: Good morning friends! How's everybody? I wanna find out how I cure my sick plants in my gardens and saw the yellow in my potatoes also with brown leaves and and diseased spots.
Also saw some purple on my cabbage leaves and white patches on my leaves of my tomatilos. There's some more yellow from my Mexican Yam in my big pot. Any natural ways to save them from greater rot? Still don't know how I send pictures of my crops on this site, but send them to a friend who's a long time member of this site.
Please shoot back if you need me. Have a good day.

Hi Blake. In Permaculture the answer is often 'it depends ...' There is no easy cure. There can be many reasons why your potatoes have yellow/brown leaves. The same for the other problems.
The reasons can be too much water or too little, a lack of one or another mineral in the soil, a fungus, etc. etc.

Seth Cardenas wrote:BEL #94
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Hi Seth. About the small tree you show, you said it could be a Hawthorn. I know Hawthorns, they are native to my region. But I know too there are a few different species of Hawthorn, and probably varieties too.
In general the Hawthorns I know have a leaf shape that's not like what you show. But still your tree could be a Hawthorn, just wait and see until the berries are ripe.

What do you mean by 'earliest'? I have some vegetables I can harvest all winter long. So in January or February I can harvest them too. These are 'winter purslane' AKA miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) and lamb's lettuce (Valerianella locusta). And I don't even have to sow or plant them, they are self-seeding.
If sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes, Helianthus tuberosus) counts as a vegetable, I can harvest those tubers all winter long too (and in spring).

Tereza Okava wrote:We are not even in winter here (southern hem) and this year I've got it bad. To be fair, work is very slow and the world is a dumpster fire, so it's all piling up. I'm being very rigid with myself to make sure I exercise but everything else is really rough.
Supposedly there will be sun this week, but I'm concerned. There is a Super El Niño everyone's talking about that will bring more rain than usual this year, apparently. While it's not as serious as having a flood, when we go a few weeks with no sun, things get brutal.

Yes, the Super El Niño, I read about it. It influences the weather all over planet Earth. When one sea/ocean gets a little warmer, the water goes in a different direction than usual. It changes temperatures, winds, pressure in the air, clouds, etc. etc.
And those things (clouds, wind, rain, temperature) have their influence on us (and maybe on other animals too?).