Riona Abhainn

I don't take news fasts purposefully, but when I go on vacation I don't always know what's going on in the news, and its totally okay with me.  When I'm home though I feel like I'd rather know even when its bad.

Why are they called apartments when they're all stuck together?

Welcome to permies Craig.

I'm so glad she is enjoying herself.  I'm up at the top of OR and she's at the bottom, but you're right she is geographically closer to me than you presently.  And I'm so glad her beloved brother is joining her there, twins can have such a special connection and I'm glad they don't have to be apart for too long.  As for your oldest, her path can be different, and that's okay.  Timing is different for all of us.

Great suggestion about the fava bean plants Nancy, going to do it tonight for our Greek-style salad.

First pop-up garden/vintage+ stand:
So I set up with microgreens and some items to sell, I don't know of anyone who does edible things and non edible vintage items in their farm stand, so I'm doing it.  It will be occasional, maybe once a week if I'm lucky between doing other things, and it will be on days when my husband is around just in case.  And I will bring things out and put them away afterword, I'm afraid if I have an honour stand out all the time the landlords will catch me, and I'd rather ask for forgiveness than permission in life..  But when I did it a couple of days ago it was a start, and I felt that it went reasonable as a beginning.  I think I finally found a formula that is sustainable for me since other modalities of doing similar weren't phesible.  And of course this means I have multiple jars of microgreens going at once now.

I had my birthday and turned 40, so have entered middle age.  I'm thinking of it as a positive, like I've gained enough wisdom points and experience points to level up.  So far it feels okay.

I've shifted over to Christmas and winter songs now for singing, I will be doing such until early Jan.

I've learnt that I should leave radishes in the ground longer than they're supposedly ready, at least in autumn.  The one that survived the ravages of the squirrel has grown and is huge!  Eating that in our salad tonight too, plus leaves.

As a person with disabilities which make driving not possible for me, I will realistically be spending the rest of my life within public transit range.  Right now I'm just thrilled to be out of apartment life and have a small house with a small wraparound yard and landlords who are okay with me growing things, as long as I don't demolish the whole yard I guess.  Maybe its time to have some conversations about what counts as demolishing  It probably means no covering up the grass with tarps to kill it.  And that I can't fill my yard so full of raised beds and containers that the paths are too narrow for the lawn person to mow  But there is some wiggle room and I'm going to take it and put in raised beds as I can, now that I have a read on how the sun falls on my yard throughout the year.  My husband cooks for us a lot, I am doing my best to make compost, we're mindful about how we choose to spend money, we value connection with others, his goal this winter is to learn to make mead, that project will be happening next month, I've finally found a combination of side hustling formula that really works for me, etc.  I'm content with where we are right now and I don't see us making a move to something bigger unless circumstances significantly change in our life.  I won't even entertain the idea unless/until I feel we're making the absolute most of the space we're in now.

That is a really cool approach.

Nice post, great for apartment dwellers.

Thanks for sharing your results with us.

I'm super thankful for this thread.  The original poster lives near me and so the information is hugely helpful.  I've toyed with the idea of what would it be like if I could have a greenhouse someday, maybe I could grow some things that grow in zone 9 like bananas or coffee beans.  I know someone who is successfully growing bananas in his greenhouse in Portland.  But what this thread is showing me is that greenhouses are very high maintainance and, while that is worth it for some folks, I don't think it would be a realistic goal here in my household.  Our driveway is a little oversized so that idea of a small greenhouse in the driveway caught my attention.  But reading the progress and process of Timothy here showed me what it would be like, I felt like it was like looking into a possible future, like I could picture myself in all these situations in my own driveway (with a smaller greenhouse though haha.  I really appreciate this information, especially the pitfalls and challenges.  It also answered a bunch of questions I've been wondering about growing things in greenhouses in general.  So this is definitely a super useful post and thank you Timothy for documenting things for us.  Hopefully you're still around and will see this and can let us know how you solved some of these challenges.

I'm thinking about how to maybe try some of these things indoors since some space will be getting freed up in my house in the next few months, rather than trying the greenhouse approach.