Go go go! My summer harvest is pretty much gone thanks to a combination of great heat and groundhogs. I'll still get some slicers and sweet 100's, but damn you are killing it. I think you've earned the right to do a little dance

Oh wow. These are gorgeous. Got any good plans for them?

I think you're on the nose, here. I laughed at the headline, but the more I read the more I see how fucked they are. Airlines. Industrial plants. Fucking governments. This one is big in a way that will likely get used as a case study.

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No idea. I still wonder sometimes where the disconnect was, but I also just try to not let things like that get to me anymore. I'm having mixed success

At the time I was 22 and didn't have a firm grasp on the idea I could tell someone being rude to go fuck themselves. It was just a bunch of old folks pining for the glory days of national pride and dysentery, but like, fuck. Snuff out a curious light like that.

I went to a panel presentation on the early colonies around the Revolution once. When they took questions, I asked if there was any special logistical problems Virginia ran into after due to how large the territory was and man, they treated me like a fuckin idiot. I still think about that. It's not, like, important or anything I just don't have a therapist for this sort of shit

They're actually just human portions of a hot dog for titans. You ever see one of those mother fuckers? You don't carry a three foot hotdog as thick as your leg, you wield it.

Note taped to the door: DO NOT use microwave cat is in time out

Are you sure your friend isn't just three beavers in a long coat?

Torx should be the default over Phillips for sure. Phillips is fine for shit like access panels or screw terminals. Slotted is useless for anything but the adjustment on pots and thermostats. Robertson is just a proto-torx. Everything else either exists to make someone money or is a bolt

That's awesome! How many seed potatoes did you start with?

Ah, well. One dares to dream

What's the difference between a loyalist and a heretic?

Only commissars can shoot loyalists

Are you fucking kidding me? You're gonna look me in the eye and tell me the sail flying above the poop deck is called a spanker?

The reference mouse is oversized

No one gives Tina Tumble credit for starting the whole upside-down-then-not movement

They're colorful and they have a flavor!

Some of y'all out here thinking you looked cool in JNCOs, suckin' on a pacifier attached to your Tamagotchi

He's cute, sure, but that litter fucker is gonna do some excavating. I can see it in his eyes. His giant, adorable, puddle-of-love eyes

Bummer.

I'm gonna go with either spider mites or fungus/bacteria. Probably the latter like one of the leaf spots or possibly downy mildew, though it seems a bit deep into summer for downy. That last picture has some pinpoints of color on the leaf that look like they could be spider mite damage, but I'd still put the safe money on a leaf spot. This far along, you'd be able to easily find them if they're there.

Get what you can from it all, maybe hit it with some neem once a week to see if that'll slow down the decline, but I think that's just gonna be cucurbit hospice.

Y'all motherfuckers wanted a strong, traditional candy, now we're gonna get a Tianamandm Square

Ah man, that expression. Such a mood

Between him, This Old Tony, Electroboom, Big Clive, and Cody's Lab, I've learned to fuck up in the most spectacularly well-thought-out ways

No worries! I added some notes on support and irrigation I forgot to mention

We had an insanely wet spring, then have been dry for about three weeks before the storms that kicked through yesterday.

Damn, man. Two weeks of summer and it's already a drought on you guys? You're a masochist

Thank you! Here's hoping!

Yup! As was said, they're just cattle fence made into round cages. The bottoms I lined with some landscaping fabric for a growing medium (75/25 compost/soil) and planted the potatoes about half way down. From there I just mound up in straw.

Edit: I forgot a few details. They're held up on either side by t-posts. Nothing fancy, just driven in and wired to each post three times (top, center, bottom) for stability and support. I put sprinklers on the top because that's what I had, though I do want to do something different in the future. I don't like top watering, but I haven't quite figured out how I wanna do it otherwise. I'm thinking a strand or two of drip that gets mounded up with the potato as it grows, but that's experimenting for another time

There's some folks that will actually do a core of medium up the center for new potato roots to take hold in. I'm trying something that's a little more fertilizer-intense, but easier to scale up. Little blood meal every couple weeks while they're growing up then some 10-10-10 twice (once at the beginning and once again here in a bit).

If I can make this work in my home garden, I'm hoping to tweak it a bit for larger scale. We'll see

It was a thread on a joke I made, so I didn't wanna seem like I was trying to make folks watch me jerk off by including it

Well, then Ontario Sucks

This is what happens when you beat a round of solichair

She looks like she's giving the ol' razzle dazzle

Jesus Fucking Christ! Someone do something about that toddler!

Oh, so you're in a real live desert. That'd be way too much work. I bet you have some beautiful natives growing out there. Sucks about the grasses, tho. I have enough trouble with bermuda grass, I can only imagine the problems from something that could be invasive in a desert

Daikon radishes. They grow in about anything and are especially good at clay busting. Grow a bunch then let them die back. Till them in and repeat until you get enough environment for the worms to take over the tilling. You can keep piling on radishes with something like clover and peas to add some nitrogen fixers. This is more a pasture revitalization technique, but if you don't mind being the weird radish guy for two or three years (depending on local conditions), you could do it on a smaller scale for a lawn

Anytime I think of John Romero, I think of Daikatana and their ad campaign

Well, I might have spoken too soon. I neen on vacation this week and just saw the second most haggard groundhog I've ever seen strolling through my beds without a care in the world. I bet you anything that's my critter

Hell yeah! That's been a long time coming. I bet it's gonna feel fuckin fantastic, but also don't think you gotta rush yourself. That'll get your hurt going for sure

The sunflowers are the top right. Top left was one half of my black beans. Some kind of pole bean that was given to me

I usually do stuff like marigolds and coneflower among stuff to keep them out, but I got lazy this year and they've been pretty merciful until the night before last