In the next few days I’ll show my processes for dehydrating potatoes and pumpkin and winter squash. Now I feel like a slacker. Really uncomplicated and surely anti-climactic. 
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That is what I got this year with no worm or chewed taters. I’m happy. Homemade potato plow worked wonderful again! I tried container potatoes without much sucess last year. Don’t know what I did wrong.
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I thought I probably posted this youtube site before 'Don so excuse me if it’s redundant. I don’t find this guy nearly as annoying as I do most other gardening gurus. Anyway he covers just about every facet of container potatoes.
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Strange things Brussels sprouts, some look like they should. although small, some look almost like flowers.
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Wow Jan, the leaves look pretty much untouched from caterpillars and butterflies. Either you guys are putting down some serious work with that or you are lucky to be spared, either way great job 
We have problems with the whole brassica family getting eaten here, one year we even tried Turex but it helped only a little.
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Wife did some canning by herself for the first time yesterday, putting away pears from the neighbors trees. It is very strange to me how many people have fruit trees and don’t eat the fruit. But will fuss and trim the tree perfectly and mow the grass under them as if it is a park.
If I had hogs, oh boy would they be happy critters getting to eat hundreds of pounds of apples pears and cherrys on the ground around here. The rabbits ducks and chickens sure love snacking on them
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It doesn’t work with cabbage here either, we have fabric over all the cabbage. it didn’t work with carrots this year either, may have fabric there next year as well. however, these are sitting in the greenhouse because I wanted to test whether it was possible to produce brussels sprouts.
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Yes. Row covers over brassica’s here or they will get eaten by moths, but they don’t seem to bother the Kale much. Can’t speak for brussel sprouts. yuck, gag, barf. My kids used to eat them like they were candy though.
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I thought I’d report all with our hydroponics this year in case someone is curious to try.
The best year so far for our tomatoes, still picking and putting in the windowsill to ripen. We’ll see when the cold temperatures stops this, we had frostnights for about two weeks. Not sure if this is thanks to the hydroponics or a coincidence.
The plants are getting sadder and sadder but still producing, weird thing is that the ones with more tomatoes look healthier than the other ones with a few.
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You feeding yourself interferes with John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and OTHER DEMOCRATS from forcing you to comply and eat what you are told by your masters.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is demanding that governments enforce bans on members of the general public growing their own food at home in order to comply with the unelected globalist organization’s “Net Zero” agenda.
a serving of food made from traditional farms creates 0.07 kilogram (kg) of CO2
- .34kg of CO2 come from you ignorant serfs trying to grow food in gardens.
…you greedy pig …
Why?
Because you ‘raise beds’
you build ‘garden sheds’
you build pathways
…these constructions had a lot of carbon invested in their construction.”
Poorly managed compost and other synthetic inputs contribute to “global warming
And not only that…
when you add plants to your indoor home and work environments:
According to the WEF researchers, greening indoor spaces can also come at an environmental cost.
They cite “carbon emissions” from the trucks that transport plants, plastic pots, and synthetic fertilizers.
These, they said, are made from petroleum and the harvesting of soil components like peat can “tear up slow-forming habitats.”
You greedy pig serfs think you have some right to have plants indoors?
You arrogant cockroach you.
And you think this is BS?
14 major American cities have set a “target” to comply with the WEF’s green agenda goals by banning meat and dairy products by 2030.
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care to share some source documents on the big scare?
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HI Johan, nice looking home hydro setup. Is it a fill and drain kind of system or is there a continuous small trickle? Do you start the tomatoes in soil or vermiculite? Also what substrate are you using in the buckets? We have a 60cmx120cmx200 cm shelving unit we dedicate to hydroponic greens. I like having midwinter greenery inside.
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I would like to know which cities, although I can guess. I want names, and do the citizens even know?. They might as well start learning to raise their own bugs-for-food now, so they can make up tasty recipes! Thanks, Tom!
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Apparently they are not all US cities Mike or at least I couldn’t find a list of them other than LA but I imagine like you do that they are the usual suspects.
It doesn’t scare me David. Typical WEF BS and they do not have the a source of future funding to carry out their agenda nor does the UN or the WHO. You can go all the way back to the early 1970’s when Kissinger, Nixons SEC of STATE stated that if you control the food you control the people. You can look that up. These people are nothing if not patient and always play the long hand.
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It looks like the banning meat thing is a European thing because they don’t want to import it because it hurts their economy. They have come up with various measures and schemes to try and reduce meat consumption for at least 5 decades.
The rest of the world appears to be saying things about food waste. It doesn’t surprise me LA signed on, or even if NYC, they both have tried several programs to try and reduce waste going to their garbage dumps. like plastic bags, or straws. Even in Michigan we are supposed to landfill yard waste. Construction waste gets separated, etc.
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Hi David. If I understand correctly it is a modified kratky so only gravity filling and keeping a constant level in the pipe. Made after Hoocho on the tube, I think I linked to a video further up in the thread, in june or so.
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Apparently there is a new study claiming manure and compost store more carbon in the soil. gosh who knew?
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Over on another thread I wrote:
“Working at a university, I learned that some folks can’t tell the difference between the two. Or won’t.”
These guys needed synchrotron light to figure out that adding organic matter (stuff with carbon) to soil adds carbon to the soil.
I rest my case.
To be honest, I couldn’t make it through the whole article.
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it wasn’t -quite- that simple. They figured out the carbon sticks to minerals and hides in small pockets in the soils and a few more underlying characteristics of how carbon is held in the soil. It wasn’t completely worthless, but it The overarching concept is pretty simplistic.
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If you have a synchrotron light source, and you want to keep it around, you need to find new things that it will do to justify its existence.
I’m getting to be a little cynical over some of these recent topics. I’d best start looking for the positive.
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