James Freyr

I think those are artillery fungus, and can shoot those little seedy things some twenty feet. https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/sumterco/2019/10/29/artillery-fungus-small-but-mighty/

Hey Jennifer, I think you're right along the lines of your thinking and those seedlings need something. I personally would opt for a blend of compost and worm castings - it's gentle and contains microbial life. If you prefer to use a fertilizer, may I suggest liquid fish + kelp, the hydrolysate kind. I am currently using neptunes harvest brand in my garden just so I can put food on the table while I spend several years healing and nurturing my garden soil and waiting for wood chips to decompose. I would shy away from nitrogen only types.

Megan Francine, I moved your post to a new thread here: https://permies.com/t/140994/start-post

Hope that's ok!

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Hi Megan, welcome to Permies!

I moved your post into its own new thread, I hope that's ok with you. It'll help keep things organized and also assist others in the future who may need help starting a new post or thread. Trace gave some good instructions on where to locate button for starting a new thread.

Here are a couple links to some tutorials we have:

https://permies.com/wiki/34193/permies-works-links-threads#267492 - This is the super list of all of our tutorial and how-to threads

https://permies.com/wiki/75685/Thread-Tutorial - Directly related to your question, here is the tutorial on how to start a new thread, complete with pictures for both mobile view and desktop view

I hope this helps and if you have any more questions, please feel free to reply in this thread and staff, or other nice people on Permies who know how things work (like Trace here), will chime in to try and help.

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I've had some less than desirable neighbors in the past and in my experience, getting someone else to change and live like I want them to live has been a dismal failure. I have learned through observing others that filing suit against a neighbor never resolves a situation and appears to make relations and situations worse. In the past, I have packed up and moved away from churls, realizing that I can only make decisions for myself and I am in control of only my life. Moving didn't mean I caved and they won, but exactly the opposite- I was the victor. Is moving to a new location an option for you?

I'm not a parent and can't really relate, but I think this is temporary and the long days and nights will pass. Your post makes me think of some wise words I heard a long time ago and I can't remember who said it to me or if I read it somewhere, but I imagine others have heard it too: Take care of yourself so you too are able to take care of others.

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Hi Leo! I'm glad you're here and thanks for coming to hang out with us and do a book giveaway!

Hi J.L.! I used to have a garden full of raised beds made from western red cedar. Here's a picture of them: https://permies.com/t/67972/personal-quest-super-soil#572669

I spent years nurturing and building the soil in those raised beds and I did not experience any detrimental effect of the cedar on the soil contained in those raised beds. The healthiest, most delicious and best looking plants I've ever grown were in those raised beds. I am not a scientist and have not gathered data from tests beds along side control groups, but based on my experience I tend to have my doubts about cedar having a negative effect on the microbiome as a whole in the soil contained in raised beds made from cedar. Hope this helps!