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Finally warm enough to start some transplants

submitted by Epictetus to Gardening 3 yearsApr 18, 2022 21:47:29 ago (+21/-0)     (Gardening)

8k plus seed starts, 200lbs of seed potatoes, four weekends of scheduled in situ planting.

I got the first batch of brassicas moved to beds, they should be fine since the last frost is four weeks away and they do fine freezing in the greenhouse.

Weent heavy on the medicinal herbs and European wildflowers again this year.

The irrigation ditch starts running water next weeks so everything should green up quickly despite no rain for months.

The bass and bluegill have started to get active in the pond, so the crawfish should be along soon to start harvesting.

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[ - ] dingbat 6 points 3 yearsApr 18, 2022 22:05:25 ago (+6/-0)

Looks great. Well done!

[ - ] Belrick 2 points 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 02:23:41 ago (+2/-0)

Yeah because sugar is what men eat.

Fuk this loser mentality of plant rearing

Ffs raise beef and lamb and pork

[ - ] Epictetus [op] 4 points 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 07:16:55 ago (+4/-0)

So raise livestock on not enough land, so I am still dependant upon globohomo for feed for them...

I do plants, other people in my neighborhood to livestock. We trade in the fall in spring, my canned and dried veggies for their milk and meat.

[ - ] JudyStroyer 1 point 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 09:13:55 ago (+1/-0)

That guy above probably lives in an apartment

[ - ] Belrick 0 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 00:04:02 ago (+0/-0)

I have three paddocks assigned to seven ewes and one ram.
Ten lambs last year.

About two acres to raise enough grass.

[ - ] Epictetus [op] 0 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 06:52:20 ago (+0/-0)

Which is very little meat in the long run.

Don't get me wrong, I would absolutely love to be able to cram some more animal protein into my setup, but it's just not possible with my goals. I may be able to get a small rabbit colony set up if I can get my kids to surrender a bit more of their play area, and am going to check out a neighbors setup and help harvest in a few weeks.

I do allow bluegill, catfish, and crawfish to fill my 50k gallon irrigation pond for an occasional harvest.

My focus is on staple veggies and herbal medicines, because I'm good at it, the land is ideal for it, and it produces in a quantity the feed my soon to be 8 person family. Maybe once my kids are older I can trust them to manage livestock on leased land from the neighbors.

I don't want to be in a situation where I have animals that need bought feed when I lose my job for not being vaxed or getting doxxed.

[ - ] Belrick 0 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 16:43:53 ago (+0/-0)

You are missing the point.
Sugar is poison not food.

Do why raise it? Because others told you to?

300kg of freezer meat last year from my herd.

But yes it takes land to live. Why do you think our enemies have been busily colonizing it all?

[ - ] Epictetus [op] -1 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 19:49:08 ago (+0/-1)

OK. Let me know how your fad diet works out. I'll continue to eat what my ancestors ate for millennium.

[ - ] Belrick 0 points 3 yearsApr 22, 2022 02:14:11 ago (+0/-0)

Meat. Our ancestors ate meat.
It's why they weren't obese fucks dying of heart disease and diabetes.

Plants are the biggest killers today

Any based diets are a modern well poison enabled by genetic engineering. Globalism and propaganda.

Prior to the cold war people ate meat because ants were seasonal and much smaller. More bitter. Less accessible and regional varieties only.

[ - ] Epictetus [op] 0 points 3 yearsApr 22, 2022 06:59:58 ago (+0/-0)

Grain is the word you are thinking of. The thing Roman soldiers mutinied for because they were forced to eat beef. The reason Egypt, Tunisia, Sicily, and Crimea were fought over so frequently. The reason men created civilization. You know absolutely nothing about plants, yet try to tell me about the history of them...

If you want to play neolithic hunter and survive only on the diet they probably did, go for it. I expect you are walking everywhere, expending huge amounts of calories for each kill you manage to make, and are only eating it raw or cooked over a wood fire.

And good luck with the biological accumulation of all of the hormones, pesticides, and prions that jews and chinks are putting in commercial feeds.

[ - ] Belrick 0 points 3 yearsApr 22, 2022 13:50:57 ago (+0/-0)

Plants are sugar.
For your words to have meaning. And they don't. You have to provide evidence of sugar being good for you.

Grains. Fruit. Bark. Leaves. Root.

All sugar. You get that kid? Lollies is all plants are.

Most sugars we can digest. Others are like dirt in that we can't digest them and therefor like dirt shouldn't waste our time eating.

Go on. Defend sugar. Or prove that plants are not made up of sugar and essentially nothing else but water.

And nice bs redditor cunt final argument. You know this about self raised food aka meat.

[ - ] Belrick 0 points 3 yearsApr 22, 2022 13:53:31 ago (+0/-0)

And addressing your other cunt statement so typical of a redditor.

Be Neolithic and walk all day to pick tiny amounts of tiny dour berries and tough hard tubers.
How efficient was that?

Oh wait. Whites domesticated Animals. Which helps when you're a carnivore
Continue thread

[ - ] Thisismyaccount 2 points 3 yearsApr 18, 2022 22:14:22 ago (+2/-0)

I second that, lots of work but it will be worth it. Well done.

[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 1 point 3 yearsApr 18, 2022 22:46:47 ago (+1/-0)

How many plants do you estimate getting from 200lbs of seed potatoes?

Also, do you harvest with a machine or use a fork?

[ - ] Epictetus [op] 2 points 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 07:19:35 ago (+2/-0)

2000lbs if I harvest everything at once.

100lbs is sown as row crops that get harvested as needed, by hand. The other 100lbs is leftover from last year's harvest and get planted anywhere in the yard I can fit it. It's there if I need it, otherwise it just composts itself in the ground over the winter to help build the soil.

[ - ] beanbagWizard 0 points 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 02:42:26 ago (+0/-0)

Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Are you looking at rearing any livestock as well?

[ - ] Epictetus [op] 2 points 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 07:20:52 ago (+2/-0)

I only have chickens, though I'm considering rabbits. I don't have room for more than that. There are other homesteads that do livestock and I swap feed and veggies for meat and milk.

[ - ] Ffat20 0 points 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 05:49:18 ago (+0/-0)

Looks like a slice of heaven!

Snowed where I am at yesterday

[ - ] Broc_Liath 0 points 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 07:21:54 ago (+0/-0)

Looks great! Nice work.

[ - ] Breeder -1 points 3 yearsApr 18, 2022 23:40:13 ago (+0/-1)

Fuck you. I woke up to snow today. Sorry, I'm stressed.

[ - ] Epictetus [op] 1 point 3 yearsApr 19, 2022 07:14:22 ago (+1/-0)

I would love to have another round of snow. I know it's coming, it does every year after a month of warm weather, but that's just the reality of the mountains. Usually doesn't cause too much damage though, I've learned what can hack it if I transplant early.