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Steven
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Experiencing the change from city to country life. All zaps received will be recycled to fellow #nostriches
Replying to Avatar rabble

“Genocide is the intentional destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part.”

You don’t have to kill everybody in an group for it to be genocide. But can you really argue that what’s happening in Gaza isn’t destroying part of national / ethnic group?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

You don’t have to support or endorse anything Hamas or any other Palestinian group has done to see what’s happening is genocide. Nor do you have to that somehow Israel doesn’t have a right to exist when you condemn its state and military for their acts of genocide.

But, it’s not genocide. No matter how much you want it to be.

Replying to Avatar Nunya Bidness

I love a black walnut tree and have many of them. But the red squirrels don’t help me plan new ones where I want them :-)

Replying to Avatar CP

Let's talk tree #propagation in your #nursery by hardwood cuttings.

Like nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd had mentioned... this is like printing money out of nothing, but we're printing value through biological processes and our own resources.

Hardwood cuttings are pretty simple.

You just cut a dormant branch into a size you want and stick them in the ground, literally. Make sure they are the right side up!!!

Trees such as poplars and willows can be propagated by this method.

Here are some basket willows planted from 8" cuttings to get you thinking. I use them as a wind break:

About a month ago, I planted some 1' OP-367 Hybrid Poplars.

Here they are planted into some landscape fabric to keep down the weeds, about a month ago:

Now here they are 1 month later, I'd say average 2 stems, each 18" to 2' tall:

Here are some Silky Willows (Steamco) I planted last Thursday. Already putting on growth. Planted in 3' wide landscape fabric with drip irrigation under the fabric.

That's a black walnut in the background. Printing more trees via propagation from nuts.

Now let's look at the economics. 1 month in I have 4x'ed my cutting length on the poplars, which I bought for $2.50. In the fall if they grow no taller than they are now, I have $10 worth of cuttings.

This is the 2nd year for those basket willows. I cut them down to the ground in March and they've put on 7-8' of growth already on conservatively 30 stems on each plant. Say conservatively we have 210, 1' cuttings. So now I have $500 worth of cuttings per year possible from that one plant.

Let's say we pot them up and sell them like "fastgrowingtrees.com" does for $86.95 a plant! Now we have our single "parent" plant making us $15,000+.

At this point it's a marketing game.

Or all you chicken and duck farmers, use these plants in your chicken and duck yard for cover for your birds as well as to soak up the nitrogen in their poop. The birds will weed the trees for you and help them grow faster. Stack functions in your businesses and life.

Also as an aside.... these cuttings should go in the ground earlier than July! But they still work. Pretty forgiving.

#permaculture #grownostr #propagation #nursery #business #plantstr #garden

That’s great. Good stuff.

On my property I am trying to stop the poplars from spreading. They just want to take over my place. I am trying to get maples, hornbeam and tamarack to establish themselves.

I also have black walnut. They also want to grow everywhere I don’t want them! And cutting them down when they are young does nothing to stop them - they just sprout up new leaders.

Apparently one is as effective as the other…

Do you put the cleaning tab in the little receptacle, or just toss it in the dishwasher?

Replying to Avatar Sai

Kek

Sadly, true.

I worked with a guy who did that. He had 30 pairs of the same socks. I thought I found a loophole in his plan - what happens overtime when you wash some more than others and they no longer have the same look.

He said he wears all 30 pairs and then washes them at the same time.

He did the same thing with his pants.

Would you be surprised if I told you he was a systems engineer?

And I can confirm - they are all good boys!

Already received two notices this week that my personal info has been accessed by an unauthorized breech.

No system that stores your info is secure.