Suzette Thib

The only plant this I am aware of that works with crawfish, is rice. My uncle would grow rice, then harvest in late summer, and then the crawfish through autumn and you start getting your first small crawfish in January, usually. Then by May they are finished and you put in rice, and so it goes.

After I plant carrots I spread a thin layer of, more fine than not, mulch over the top. This helps to retain the moisture.

Rebecca Branham wrote:My carrot problems here in the PNW has been slugs eating the young plants.  I've found seeding carrots during time periods of lesser slug activity helps.  And adding bonemeal helps solve the not filing out problem.  I can have lovely greens that don't have much underground.

When you trim your split ends, save the bits and sprinkle them around your seedlings. The slugs hate the hair getting stuck to them. Learned this from Parkrose Permaculture on YouTube and it works really well. Not perfect but drastically helps keep slugs away from seeds that want direct sowing.

I lived in 8b/9a for over three decades. My experience with the hibiscus family (roselle - we called them rosella -  and okra are in this category) is that they do best germinating outdoors, in the ground (not as transplants) and for me that was usually May at the earliest. Sometimes June and they would produce until killed by a hard freeze or we overwintered them indoors and they kept going the next year.

Laying down all cardboard. Mulch on top. Trench compost in place - cardboard and mulch on top. Three years time noticeable improvement. Can't imagine how wonderful after a decade...alas we have not let our feet rest more than four years in any spot. Maybe one day and then I can have more wisdom. Good luck!

Anne Miller wrote:My problem is with paper stuff.

Financial advisors say to keep paperwork for seven years.

Then what do I do with all that paper?  I don't have a shredder and I don't want to send my personal financial stuff to a landfill.

I have had this problem - did a little burn pile now and then or then I just straight up composted them.

Gumbo and roasted sweet potatoes!

Do you think doing a test batch with spicy peppers would make the veggies a bit more flavorful?

Nancy Reading wrote:Thank you so much for posting this!!! i now feel more normal I'm so glad I'm not alone in only cleaning significantly when we're expecting visitors to stay. It's usually Xmas, so we are doing declutter and clean at the moment.... One day, in my four dimensional organised house, it will be worth cleaning more often, but there is a phrase 'polishing shit' which comes to mind at the moment.
We do wipe and run the vacuum/brush around everynow and again, but actually going into the hidden corners and sorting stuff that has accumulated out of the way is far less frequent.

This is the thing! When I am really myself and reusing and repurposing...well, nothing looks quite like Southern Living Magazines; not to mention that we usually have old homes that we try to use up and repair instead of the trendy "upgrading."

Eight in the home. Five pets. We clean every day, something or the other and I try to declutter/ pare down an area every weekend or the evening if I power through!