Recent content by LaurenRitz

I don't know if it would work for everyone, but I ground up horseradish into a slurry and poured it in their holes, around plants I wanted to protect, and across the forecasted route. Usually took about a week for them to vacate for the season.

It may come down to importing native bees eventually. Ground nesting bees, mason bees. All I have seen in the last three years is carpenter bees. I've been pollinating my fruit trees with a paintbrush this year. Fine when it's a few blossoms on immature trees, but next year... I mow around...

This area has been mowed grass for so long that both pollinators and predators are in short supply. I need to have reliable flowers before I can expect either to return. It wouldn't be fair to bring in a beehive only to have them travel miles after the redbuds stop blooming. I'll be planting...

I spiked the search engines once by using the word parthenogenesis.

What is TEG? I don’t think ypu meant Thromboelastography.

I just hit the buy button at Experimental Seed Network. 🤦‍♀️

With the grains and pseudo-grains I'm more thinking about winter forage for the velociraptors. Many of those plants are pretty drought tolerant, and if they can reseed themselves I can let the chickens in during the winter and lock them out in the spring so the system can recover...

I need to plant corn, finish the beans, and start on cover crops. Experimenting with pseudo-grains this year. Amaranth, quinoa, sesame and chia are in the ground.

I get that. My obsession with seeds and planting should be in the DSMV.

Not a matter of "hearing," technically, but I'm happy to let you ramble.

Case in point. It was time to plant chia and I could NOT find the seeds. I had them 10 minutes ago! Finally found them, tucked down inside one of the pots I set out to plant the chia in. A logical place, since I intended to plant them. Wasted half an hour searching.

I walked into this room while initially touring the house. There was a grow light in the ceiling fixture and built-in shelves. My growers heart immediately wanted it.

Seed closet.

I did find my apricot seeds, though. They're coming up in the pot marked "currants." 🤣

Yup. Me too. Buy a new one, go to put it away in the "logical" place, and viola! Problem is, I find things when not looking for them and go "Oh, I need to put that away," and I move on. Then I can't remember where I saw it!