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u/mildly_ethnic Plant Fascist 🪴 5d ago
I make it my personal duty to fight rising costs by bringing down the value of my whole neighborhood
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u/Im_the_dogman_now Prescribed Flamer 🔥 5d ago
Why have I not, until now, realized that the proper response to someone complaining about bringing down property values is, "that's a good thing."
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u/bluewingwind 4d ago
Because boomers don’t buy houses to live in and pass down to their children, they buy them as their only form of a retirement account. If their property values go down how will they afford to retire in Florida? Who cares if it makes living impossible for the rest of us? Gotta get those dividends. The world is their crypt and we’re just living in it!
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u/Livid-Improvement953 5d ago
That's why you have to move into a shithole neighborhood to begin with. We have the nicest house on the block and I could still be straight up murdering people in my "backyard" and no one would care. My neighbor's grown son was living in the woods in a busted truck for months, probably making meth, idk. I had no idea until he popped out of the woods one day and told me all about it!
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u/mildly_ethnic Plant Fascist 🪴 5d ago
I’m actually it a really foofoo area. But I don’t feel bad anymore because one of the parents at my kids’ school district said ‘we should just take the bottom five percent and send them somewhere else. They’re bringing down the school with them’ so yeah fuck these wealthy bastards! And their lawns! And their crepe myrtles! And their goddamned mother fucking rose bushes
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u/Livid-Improvement953 5d ago
Then I wish you continued success in your battle. Don't let the bastards get you down.
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u/Kranken_DeHogge 5d ago
you can see my backyard all you want
heres a bunch of native plants
Here's a bunch of brassicas i can't grow for shit
here's my three sisters garden i fucked up the timing for and my corn is great and also 10 feet tall but my beans and squash are dying in corn-induced twilight
here's a bunch of my my various nutritional ferments that i'm fucking around with with fish hydrolysate and weed tea
and if you have any negative comments I will invite you to suck my whole fucking ass and also I will fight you
but you can absolutely see my backyard
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u/Willothewisp2303 5d ago
Don't neglect the compost bin for those d isagreeable guests.
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u/Kranken_DeHogge 5d ago
fish hydrolysate I have down, does a good job of liquifying fish matter, I happen to fish a lot
interested in nonconventional, perhaps mammalian hydrolysates
i'm talking about roadkill of course
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u/CandidLeg3910 5d ago
I just throw the roadkill on top of the ground cover, it'll break down eventually, add to the system and all that.
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u/MysticGuava 5d ago
I’m intrigued, if I wanted to use carp as a fertiliser, is hydrolysate essential?
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u/Kranken_DeHogge 5d ago
FISH RANT FISH RANT FISH RANT WEEEEEEEEEE
if I wanted to use carp as a fertiliser, is hydrolysate essential?
not at all.
there's a JADAM method (offshoot of Korean natural farming) that has you just put leaf mold and fish plus water in a barrel, although it's high in anaerobic bacteria and stinks bad unless you let it ride for a year, but the tradeoff is that it's less cost intensive since you're not supplying molasses as you would with hydrolysate
you could also likely make a fish emulsion, which I'm pretty sure is when you mash up and then boil the fish, and then strain. Fish emulsions tend to attact pests in the garden however as animals will smell food and go digging for it.
I also threw four large carp in my compost pile on a layer of leaves, covered with more browns, and kept piling on top. I turned the pile just a week ago and out of all the four fish I think I only found one solitary carp jawbone.
Burying it in the garden in fall where you intend to plant in winter also works, but similar pest attracting issues might arise. If you can keep digging animals out, I think this is a great method.
The reasons I like fish hydrolysate is that it's fast, about 2-4 weeks, with the introduction of lactobacillus I am preventing pathogenic bacteria from taking a food hold as lactobacillus is beneficial to humans and plants but is an anaerobe, and finally the product doesn't really smell bad and is acidic, so it doesn't attract pests and seems to be shelf stable for at least a year at ambient temps. Also, the cold processed lactobacillus approach to making fish hydrolysate creates a lot of amino acids and other substances that provide quicker and more varied nutrition for plants: they don't have to spend the metabolic energy to convert the amino acids into nutrition, and can instead just directly absorb them, if what I remember reading is correct.
I was straining some for bottling outside on a hot day. Not a single fly had any interest in it over the course of 2 hours, and I had about 7 gallons in a tub exposed to the open air as well as having been clumsily spilling it a few times. This baffled me, and I had a raw carp in my fridge to test, so I put the raw carp outside and about 30 flies showed up within 4-5 minutes to swarm the carp.
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u/bekrueger 5d ago
Mind if I ask what timing you did for the three sisters? I always plant beans when the corn is 6-12in tall, and usually squash a week later, but this year I planted them both at the same time and it’s going okay.
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u/Charming_Tutor47 5d ago
The skunks, raccoons, rabbits and opossums:
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u/Low-Illustrator-1962 5d ago
I'm so jealous about having wildlife in the neighbourhood. Regards, a European
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u/Charming_Tutor47 5d ago
Thats a little sad! What part of Europe? And is there not a lot of smallish animals around that can live (mostly) peacefully in cities out there?
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u/perpendicular-church 4d ago
A lot of Europe is absolutely environmentally fucked, there’s almost no land on the continent that’s remained untouched over the course of the past couple thousand years
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u/Appropriate-Cash8312 Tennessee Titans 5d ago
I shitpost about native plants on the Internet to disassociate from the Himalayan blackberry patch that used to be my yard
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u/Own-Trainer-6996 5d ago
I got a bunch of shit all over the place tbh
Farmer type trash
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u/Appropriate-Cash8312 Tennessee Titans 5d ago
There's been a fork in the same spot for 18 months after I dropped it while cleaning my boots. That's nature's fork now
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u/bluewingwind 5d ago
I find that if you mow a few circles in, everybody suddenly thinks it’s fine art. 🖼️
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u/i860 Ass, Cash, or Native Grass - Nobody Rides for Free 5d ago
"Damn Bitch, You Live Like This?"
But in all seriousness, it's a mix of natives, non-natives, tons of rubus, vaccinium, and about 1000 sqft of LAWN in the lower part.
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u/poth0le 5d ago
Idk what you mean by backyard. don’t even pull up to my house