Hugo Morvan

I've asked a Swiss friend, but she doesn't know of any scythe producer which will send abroad (to Japan). Doesn't mean it doesn't exist though. Also she's very surprised Japanese do not have the best scythes.

Very surprised to hear the Japanes do not have the best scythes in the world.. I just bang on with one of those old ones i found and 'sharpened'. I got another ancient one for removing brush on a long stick and a old hand scythe. Both treasures, i just paint the handle fluoresend red because i forget where i left it too often. I nearly cried yesterday.  Everything i found that comes from regular industrial with modern steel is very, very disappointing. This old steel is so much better to 'sharpen' it's unreal.
I used one new swiss real scythe not long ago, that was very good stuff. They should ship to Japan as well.
just my 2 cents of bla-bla. Good luck

I wanted to say 2 percent like topic starter. Just like the Epstein files btw ( it's a joke guys, don't flip).
Guess we'll never know. But i'm having a discussion with a friend who got really arsy about a topic he 'knew' everything about because the wholiness AI said a thing, so then it must be true, despite my experience of twenty year rendering. But i'm right. Cement does bond on cement. Not perfectly in many cases and it will fall off, but it can last 50 years or more.lime can fall of earlier.The AI grazes the internet and finds all drama stories people write about and not all the cases in which it went ok and concludes ok it can work.

Thanks Nancy. I'm very happy with how it turned out! Those peach trees are grandkids of a trio of varieties that grew in the housegarden.I'm slowly adding more diversity and expect a lot to pop up this year.

@ eino keitta, don't know what group of chemicals make plants taste bitter, i don't know if herbivores care much if stuff is bitter. Bitter is a warning for humans in case something is poisonous, but many bitter foods are the most nutricious. And as we're addicted to sugars naturally as kids need them and as a society as a whole with an industry literally depleting veggie varieties of nutrients to cater to that addiction we have a bit of a problem. I try to push myself in just being grown up about taste. I like beer. My friend made a beer with 17 times the normal amount of hops, i loved that one, but he had to bring it down because he lost money and it's making people sleepy.. But yeah, i guess we're all in this together that it's hard to overcome this bitter veggie sentiment, so here is just one thing we can try to make this wonderfull perennial more usefull for us as Permies.
@ Nancy, yours is sooooo greeeen. Mine tasted sweet i dare say but the stems were a bit fibry so i cut them up with a pair of scissors.

I've put a big black container over the sprouting good king Henri. It's foliage yellows out, but is crunchy and sweet, not bitter at all, and i asked a friend what he thought of it who really doesn't like bitter tastes. Not bitter.

Wlecome to Permies. Is it fair to say the scientific method is not dealing with real soil life? It mostly focusses on seemingly sterile lab circumstances and adds or changes one disease-factor/ bacteria and draws conclusions based on replicable experimentation which doesn't take into account any of the complexities real soil life offers. With billions upon billions of differing species that constantly evolve/merge and interact, modern science is hardly equipped to offer definite real life outcomes. We're dealing with complexities beyond human comprehension that affect the seeds, sadly.

It's not i'm unwilling to admit that science has offered progress in many obvious cases, it truly has. But the notion of killing disease surpasses the notion of raising plants in a way in which they're at their best. Not chemically disbalanced by industrial agricultural practices for starters, as to establish an optimized internal immune system. Sadly there is no money to be made for the industry which is lobbying our governing bodies so incredibly effectively (round up sorry to mention it). So basicly science looks to solve problems it helped create. Starting in a balanced system primed for biodiversity optimum might be the best starting point in my opinion, so it's up to us, dreamers, bumbling amateurs and experimental mad(wo)men to figure out a way out of this self-inflicted mess, mostly unfunded if not outlawed. And we're doing a damn fine job i'd say.

So i'm happy you're here with us to help our hive mind in the right direction if we get too unscientific!

Last year i tried to start seed-fennel from seeds. I managed to start 4 out of a whole balcony tray full of them.
This year while sprouting seeds to add to salads and what have you, i noticed they used small fennelseeds in the mix.
Got me thinking what if i mix those difficult sprouting seed-fennels of last year and have them soaking in sprouting hormone for a week or something.
They did very well and i got a lot more small plants now.
Normally i'm of the type of permie that doesn't like to go to length to 'spoil' seeds, and use diversity in variety to grow only easily growing plants, but for those who don't and for propagation sake i thought to highlight this method. It's not new, but worked for me, so thought to share.

I heard this crazy story about an island of the coast of Africa that had a container full of synthezers fall out of the sky, it led to a unique genre of music on the island of Cab Vierde. This amazing song is an example of the miracle!! It should be in Music of the Moment of coarse.

JOAO CIRILO with the song Po D'Terra

Artist Sierra Ferrell
Video Gladden House Sessions 2019
Music starts at 3 minutes in after little interview