Good morning π enjoying morning sun and fresh air in the garden before the heat sets in, feeling thankful for today. I always enjoy your posts π
You're welcome π and my pleasure π They are some of my favorites.
I meant to write something more today, and maybe I will. For now, just this: I miss him. It hurts.
#parenting #grief #mentalhealth #suicide #photography #writing
Water spots on your plant leaves? Clogged mist heads? Fertilizers don't seem to go far as you think they should? Let's talk calcium carbonate!
I spent some time today cleaning out my Fre-Flo water conditioner and I wanted to share a bit about irrigation water and fertilizer utilization in #garden and #nursery situations.
This device here takes the calcium ions in our water and carbonate ions in the water and combines them back together into a form of calcium carbonate crystals called vaterite, which is like talc powder when dried.
Since the ions are combined into the crystal and remain crystalized in the water, they won't bond with other ions in the water or soil.
This helps prevent a few things for us in the garden:
- the calcium and carbonate ions from bonding with other fertilizers, helping to lessen the amount of fertilizers needed and improving the efficiency of microbes in the soil getting needed nutrients to plants
- helps us from getting water spots on our plant leaves in the nursery and clogging irrigation parts with minerals. The vaterite will wash off in the rain rather than form crystals on the plant surfaces.
Incidentally we're using this to treat all the water in our house/farm since it's in-line with the line from the well. So this helps with clogged shower heads and sinks and water spots as well as making soap go farther.
Inside this device is a core which is coated with a catalyst to combine the calcium and carbonate ions into crystals. The rough surface helps add turbidity to the water to ensure the ions come in contact with the catalyst:
The core fits into a pipe which goes in-line with your water line, so it doesn't impeded the flow of water:
This gets cleaned out 2-3x per year with some CLR (Calcium-Lime-Rust) solvent just to clean up the catalyst. There are no filters or consumables other than the CLR cleaner.
Here is the website for the company describing the science behind it:
https://freflowater.com/the-science-of-fre-flo
I learned about the effects of calcium carbonate salts especially with respect to soil science (fertilizers) from John Kempf via Matt Powers Regenerative Soil Science course. Here's an article on the interaction of hard water specifically calcium carbonate in agriculture:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-chemistry-of-bumper-crops-excerpt/
#plantstr #gardening #permaculture #grownostr
Great info! Thank you for sharing it π
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Expose your skin gradually, so as not to get burnt. Let your skin build protection (tan) a few minutes a day at first.
Another food source of Vit D is mushrooms, set them in the sun and their vitamin d content increases dramatically.
Awesome book! Mindblowing at times, compared to all the bs about nutrition we've been fed in recent decades.
Depends on plot, characters, and believable world-building. The subject of bitcoin is secondary to a good story. Some secondary features (meaning technologies, super powers, creatures etc) will entice me to try a book but won't keep me engaged by themselves.
Format and length aren't important to me.
Curious to hear how it turns out! It's been a while since I've made soap, but I've been hearing a lot of good things about tallow for skincare. I have some herb infused tallow I made waiting to go into salves.
The other day, I was helping organize a few things for a yard sale that was being held by my former mother-in-law.
They sat there innocuously on a cluttered table. White, with three red stripes each. Four lunch plates and cereal bowl. Near them a French press with a red plastic top and bottom.
My chest felt solid and I couldnβt complete the next breath. My stomach gave a sick little flip and I looked away, breathed, then made myself look back.
Once upon a time these were my dishes. Several years ago I gave them to my son to use when I left that house, when he refused to go.
Most of his things are still in the now-unlived-in house where he spent his last months largely alone.
For a while I ACHED to burn the place down. I felt, perhaps, that knowing those particular boards were ash would relieve some of the pressure of rage that my body contained. Contains.
#writing #suicide #grief #mentalhealth #parenting
Machine gun jubblies!
I love food but Iβm definitely not adventurous π€’π
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Several of these I wouldn't consider "adventurous" π
Body heat kills some viruses.
These were my dad's favorite berry π I had several volunteers come up in the yard at my old house π I nurtured them until I had to move.
This essay is one of my favorite pieces of writing. Evocative, sensual, wild, and thoughtful.
"The sun had just set. I was relaxed on the tree trunk, ensconced in the lap of lichen, watching the lily pads at my feet tremble and part dreamily over the thrusting path of a carp. A yellow bird appeared to my right and flew behind me. It caught my eye; I swiveled around-- and the next instant, inexplicably, I was looking down at a weasel, who was looking up at me."
"The weasel lives in necessity and we live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons. I would like to live as I should, as the weasel lives as he should."
https://genius.com/Annie-dillard-living-like-weasles-annotated
#writing #nature #mindfulness #reading #books
Garlic harvest
We had planted two 4x4' raised beds last fall. This one had 5 varieties: chesnock red, yuggoth, dw marbled, german red, and Siberian. The other bed was all Siberian, which we grew last year and really liked the flavor of.
Most of bulbs are in the shade curing, these few have orange spots on the skins. Maybe fungus? Going to peel and pickle them fresh instead of drying and storing them.
#gardening #homesteading #harvestr #abundance #garlic #garlicstr
Planting seeds from hybrids will result in some plants that are like the parent plants and some that have a combination of traits. All will still be edible potatoes :) Save some of the ones you like to plant next time.