Posts made by kk

Plants made it!!!!

I might take post pictures of the efforts to save them - if I get unlazy, but i might not get unlazy, but yay!

I got neat pictures over winter snow over spring flowers which was kind of neat.

Over this already. Now we got hail before I got all/most covered. Because I was toooooo cold and hoping it would warm up a bit before the storm like it predicted, a tiny bit, just to above 40!!!!!

Will what makes it, but I might be basically starting over.

I am unable to sew and I don't now why. I can do lots of other crafty/domestic/eye hand coordinated things (cook, garden, wound care, etc). I even am wound vac expert which has some skills in common with sewing!

I think it is more of a mental, don't like sewing than a true /can't/ sew. I get super bored and the more bored I get the less careful I am with keeping the fabric pressed and the more funky my sewing gets.

Also as a person from a poor and strange background, we were encouraged to sew, sewing your own clothes is a virtue, fixing things to rewear is a virtue! No I hate sewing so much, I won't even sew a button back on protest. I am like sewing - I work hard and got out of poverty, so I can do things buy clothing and not sew!

#hatesewing

@derp

Thanks! I am making my plan now. I am lucky that I don't work fri and sat - and it will warm up on sunday by time I go back to work which should allow me to prep and do what I can. And I am lucky in that I have a billion plant pots which I can cover with.

@derp

I have a lot of planting buckets that are about 5 gallons - they do have wholes in the top for drainage, but I have so many I can cover most plants that they will fit over, I think.

Welp, it was in the 90s day.

We are predicted to get a foot of snow tomorrow and temps n the 20s!

My plants!!!!!

I am going to do what I can to protect them, we will see, it will be an epic battle to save plants.

It looks wonderful!

@raemira

I absolutely loved your pictures! It inspired to make a garden gallery. I sort of had one going on flickr, but I tried one there.

@kk

https://imgur.com/a/beoOS37

Whoops, I am messing around with the album!

Thats just some of my pics, lots of it is from seed, some started in feburary and I am very proud of those some of those plants.

@groth

It has been unseasonably warm here rather than rapidly changing. However climate change does cause rapid weather changes and so we we will see what happens.

I was worried about my woody herbs that were coming back early - that if dropped back too cold, it would kill them. While they can survive the winter, I think it being spring and then winter again rapidly would confuse them. That didn't happen and they are doing well.

I am seriously considering raspberry bushes. Raspberries are my fav food.

And I never had currants, but am curious about them! But now I might look into them.

@greenflashlight

I didn't sign anything! But yeah I understand the paranoia. Healthcare is a mess as you well know!

One thing that is crazy to me about gardening is if I went by the gardening guides based on traditional gardening wisdom for this area, I would be out there trying to seed cool weather crops right now.

It is 90 degrees with no upcoming rain and temps between 70-90 highs all week. This is not normal

But one has to adjust

And I am putting peppers in the ground like I live In California or something now!

Climate change is changing the gardening rules!

I have a lot of space, a plant obsession and autistic tendency to do things in this over the top way. Like I don't know how to get into things just a little bit. I can take it too far even with my plants. I might post some pictures if I can get them sized for msb or get unlazy enough to do so!

But I am Growing!

Herbs: Rosemary, Lavender, Parsley, Cilantro, Lovage, Oregano, Thyme, Calendula, Dill, Sage, Mint, Chervil, Winter Savory, Tarragon, Horehound, Lemon Balm, Basil, Chamomile, Cone Flowers (Echinnea) , Fennel, Sorrel, Rue

(I am growing several kinds of most, because I have no plant self-control!)

Nightshades

Tomatoes, Peppers, Tomiltilos, Huckleberries, Eggplant, Potatoes.

Brassicas

Cabbage, Collards, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussle sprouts, Kale

(we will see how they hold up in the heat - but most are in shade we will see!)

Legumes

Peas

Beans hopefully will start this weak - pole, bush, dry and snap

Root Veggies

Beets, Radishes, Carrots

(I haven started parsnips, rutabags, turnips yet and now wondering if it will be too hot!)

Greens

Spinach, Lettuce, Mustard, Chard, Argula

Cucurbitaceae

Cucumbers, Summer Squash, Winter Squash, Water melon, Melon

(I have bitter melon and luffa seeds - normally hot hot plants - but with the way the temps are going to think now might be the time to start!)

Other

Okra

Then I cam going to hopefully get corn going soon as it does pretty good in hot and dry, but I need to dig out space for it.

Berries

I just got strawberries going - but considering getting some berry bushes, but I need to dig out spaces for them!

Onions

Chives, Scallions, Garlic, Leeks, Onions

I got raised beds, containers and in ground gardens! Shade and sun places.

I have issues though and work myself too hard sometimes and go too far, like I am like I need to grow everything and fill up as much space as possible.

Then growing - marigolds, pansies, will do nastriums and sunflowers I do edible flowers,, pest repelling flowers or can be a bean trellis flowers!

I have irises because well they are all over here and I kept them!

At least I am ready for food shortages.

@derp

Yeah, time will tell if the changes happen and that back dated raise is more than deserved. I am most died in the line of duty and am one of the last standing who hasn't left!

It felt a bit validating I will admit to hear them, go /We need you. What will it take?/

And I realized I have influence there, more than I realized. I just had to put in my two weeks notice!

Not sure that there is many gardeners on MSB, but you never know!

But this year gardening where I am is crazy crazy. We are at 90 degree heat despite it being 2 weeks before alleged last frost, in a drought and already have red flag fire days. I think we are going to have an intensely hot summer.

I have some spring cool weather crops going, thankfully in the shade!

But his year 2 weeks before last frost and I am going right to warm season crops and wondering if It will get toooo warm for things like tomatoes!

I think I am going to hyper focus on the hot weather plants that normally are more suited to hotter areas.

And I want to focus on food crops as I am worried about food shortages or even just rising food costs.

So I am hyper focusing on

Peppers, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Summer Squash, Winter Squash, beans, etc.

And then of course herbs which many can double as medicines and at this rate, I am not sure they will not be a medicine shortage. I got tons and tons of oregano going much came back from last year - which is anti-viral, because at this rate one never knows.

When I put in my notice, my job asked me what it would take to keep you. They gave me a massive backdated raise and promised to make safety related changes. We will see.

Part of me is like, thank you, I really didn't want to leave, but felt I had to.

And part of me is like, why didn't they do this sooner?

Anyways, I am staying for now - but I didn't sign a contract and if changes don't happen, I still might leave.

There are consequence for shit posting - sometimes the consequences might be worth it sometimes they are not.

There are truths revealed in the Hogpit, but there are deceptions supported to.

The side that is the loudest or has biggest discord echo chamber might have the biggest bite, but they might not be in the right.

Creepers are revealed. Little people have a voice. Players learn about where to play and where not to play.

But shit posting always has a cost, a cost that some of us are paying now, myself most def included.

The immediate satisfaction of saying how much one hates soso and soso for such and such is rarely worth it.

But unveiling a serial stalker is a good thing.

It is really really hard to have the self control not to watch the hogpit if one knows they are being attacked on it. I will freely admit that despite knowing it would be best, I didn't have the self control to walk away and not read while I was being attacked and while friends were.

I have mixed feelings on if the hogpit should shut down, there are pros and cons, nobody is going to be happy with any choice and I am glad it is not my choice to make