It's a busy spring for me! This is year two in a new home, and I've started converting larger chunks of boring grass into wildlife gardens and raised beds. So far this year I've put together:
New herb garden - Thyme, oregeno, borage, chamomile, sage, you name it! Already Planted!
A small cornfield - currently growing crimson clover and lettuce greens.
A small squashfield more crimson clover! And getting the eventual companion beans going!
A small wildlife garden - sunflowers, more clover, blue hubbard squash, and scarlet runner beans. Food for critters (and also trap crops to keep em off the human food!)
A second raised bed (for square foot gardening) - Currently has little gem lettuce, red fire lettuce, oak fire mustard greens, carrots, turnips and moooooore~
I also got a small plastic greenhouse this year, so now I have TEN MILLION tomato babies. Hooray!
The peppers I'm growing are not quite ready for transplanting yet, but they'll get there.
I mean, it's the space-time continuum, it's connected! As the documentary Stargate SG-1 shows, we're well acquainted with spatial and chronological drift over interstellar distances.
The Botany of Desire is a fantastic book and also documentary that discusses, in some part, plants being desirable to humans as a selective force. Plant species that humans value have a higher likelihood of surviving because we use them for agriculture, ensuring their ongoing existence. Everything from tea to teonanácatl!
Unfortunately so. They are an Eastern US species that has been moving ever westward.
And they are, in bird law terms, 'huge dicks'. They've been systematically kicking Spotted Owls out of their traditional roosting spots for about a decade now. Spotted Owls are pushovers, so they've been losing breeding ground.
And barred owls are not just dicks to other birds, they don't like humans much either.
A tiny sculpture of a solitary grouse in a field. The grouse menaces with spikes. The overall composition is realistic. This work represents terror. This representation relates to a Greater-Sage Grouse attacking the colony on 6th of Decembary, 5210.
Just your normal tavern drinking challenge offered by a reanimated skeleton proprietor! Quaff a flask of 'Bone Dry Rum' in under one turn of the timepiece without throwing up and you'll drink free for a year!
To be honest, would a spreadsheet not be a good use for this? There are FOSS asset trackers, but a simple .ods with a pictures column might serve you well.
Are there additional features/conveniences you are looking for?
I had everything inside last year and it started getting a little crazy! I like your greenhouse poly offcut idea, I'll have to check and see....
I'm growing my second generation of garlic, tomatoes, and jalapenos with seeds from last years harvest. The garlic is doing great which makes me very happy!
As Principal, teaching Juniors should be like handing out a boon from your deity of choice.
"Here, young one. Here is what you do, and why. Have an easily consumed meme to easily illustrate the concept."
Then you return to the ether, to watch with benevolent eyes.
David From Space @ emuspawn @orbiting.observer Posts 94Comments 226Joined 2 yr. ago
Don't worry, I'm sure we can come up with a way to explode the sun much sooner than that.