I like using good ole fashioned #2’s ✏️ from time to time.

#artstr

We have a few estates sales for today.

What you got today?

First tomato of the summer 😋🤗

Roma tomatoes are one of the easiest varieties for me to grow, along with cherry tomatoes.

The last one I happened across ended up cohabitating in a large terrarium with our Leopard Gecko for a year. It was about 48hrs of random skirmishes to establish a balance of power, then by the end of a month they were actually curling up together to sleep. One got a regular diet of crickets. The other got baby mice. It was pretty cool. The snake would eat the molts from the gecko and vice versa.

Every 16-18 days we are hatching 30-40 Quail. We have a small 4 tier rack in our garage that house roughly 50 quail. We gather about 40 eggs per day (3 quail eggs equal 1 chicken egg). We feed our dogs any excess males that get culled. We spend roughly $20 a month on feed for the quail.

You don't need a huge amount of land to be more self reliant, you just need to have the will to do it.

#homestead #homesteading #selfreliance #quail #eggs #grownostr

Imma jack of all trades.

But what should I focus on for income....

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My bad people. I always hit repost when I wanna quote and my dumbass accidentally spammed the whole feed 😂🤦‍♀️

We have an exact replica that does the same. 😆

This fat #catstr sleeps like this all the time, right now he’s crashed next to my on my sons floor while I wait for them to crash #gn

Time for weeding, fertilizing and top dressing the plants in the #nursery.

Pulled the small weeds before they become big, fertilize with 1 tsp of Osmocote 14-14-14 slow release fertilizer, and top dress with a generous amount of worm castings.

It's like a forest of raspberries!

The long term plan is to get completely away from the commercial fertilizer by fertilizing with compost tea, but I'm not there yet.

The more I interact with people, the more I realize what I'd consider common knowledge, is not common. Specifically worm castings, I sold some blackberries yesterday and mentioned that I had just top dressed them with worm castings, and the customer had never heard of using worm castings as a fertilizer, or even what they were.

Other things to teach is the seasonality of fruits, and that different varieties of the same fruit produce at different times. For instance, I have 4 different varieties of red raspberries that, when planted out, should produce most of the summer up to the frost. But people don't know that so you have to mention it.

Final thing to mention is this little garden scooter that I got a few months ago from AM Leonard. This thing is a back saver and puts you right where you need to be at eye level with the plants.

#permaculture #gardening #wormcastings #propagation

Stop saying "I appreciate it"

Start saying "I appreciate YOU"

Easy compliment tweak that adds a little extra love to the world at no extra charge ❤️

Women atop a boat take a group photo as the U.S. Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron’s Blue Angels perform in the skies over, May 22.

#Picstr 📸 Kevin Lamarque

📍ANNAPOLIS, MD, UNITED STATES

#Grownostr 🔹 #plebchain