Apache Kush its mockingbirds that are eating my tomatoes. I put a bird net over the plants but the birds are smarter than the gardener. Even, shiny objects don't keep them away. Obviously these are seasoned veteran crop robbers.
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Bloomin' Onion
First watermelon of the season.
First watermelon of the season.
Apache Kush
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Damn. They are crafty, medium sized birds, smart too. I feel ya...
I don't want to shoot them with a air gun because
there kinda cool and rare not really a small game bird I want to harm..
idk I might go Scarface and go to WAR!!
Apache Kush
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Nice Melon!
Will be huge come 4th of July, I did some watermelons too last year
look at my profile gallery check one massive one I got
Will be huge come 4th of July, I did some watermelons too last year
look at my profile gallery check one massive one I got
Living in a desert, water is a premium and the soil well there is none. Tons of wood chip and lots of water is the only way one can grow here.
I even built a aquaponic tank, to also grow fish. Running channel cat for now.
I even built a aquaponic tank, to also grow fish. Running channel cat for now.
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Finally covered the green house. Scrimped and saved up over the summer to buy the plastic. Now I need cheep heat.
Found this thing called a Rocket Mass Heater. It is a extremely efficient wood burning masonry/cob stove. That burns wood at super high heat. It burns the wood gasses so cleanly. That when at full burn. There is no smoke coming from the chimney, just steam and CO2. All so they use a 1/4 of the wood to get the same amount of heat as a standard wood burning metal stove.
This heat (through a horizontal tube/pipe)is used to heat a mass of clay/sand/rock. Which holds a releases the heat over time. A heat battery.
The cool thing is. They can be built for little to no money. I've built this one for under $50,oo. (2 bags of perlite)All the brick, barrels, and pipe were reclaimed. They clay, sand and fill rock were picked up from the river and around the house.
I'm running one in the house too. It still needs the cosmetic cob coat. To make it look better. It really cranks out the heat on pallet splinters.(pic that reads from chair)
Hope this helps some one looking for cheap heat.
Found this thing called a Rocket Mass Heater. It is a extremely efficient wood burning masonry/cob stove. That burns wood at super high heat. It burns the wood gasses so cleanly. That when at full burn. There is no smoke coming from the chimney, just steam and CO2. All so they use a 1/4 of the wood to get the same amount of heat as a standard wood burning metal stove.
This heat (through a horizontal tube/pipe)is used to heat a mass of clay/sand/rock. Which holds a releases the heat over time. A heat battery.
The cool thing is. They can be built for little to no money. I've built this one for under $50,oo. (2 bags of perlite)All the brick, barrels, and pipe were reclaimed. They clay, sand and fill rock were picked up from the river and around the house.
I'm running one in the house too. It still needs the cosmetic cob coat. To make it look better. It really cranks out the heat on pallet splinters.(pic that reads from chair)
Hope this helps some one looking for cheap heat.
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ambertrichom
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I am impressed! This thread is for the eyes. I have a garden that i love. Will be sharing
ambertrichom
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All but Dickcorns lovely post
Just picking mushrooms here.
All hand foraged- all edible. Some incredibly so!
King bolete---------(Boletus edulis)
Golden Chanterelle-----------(Cantherelus cibarus)
Matsutake----------------(Tricholoma magnivlare)
Shaggy parasol------------(Lepiota rachodes)
All hand foraged- all edible. Some incredibly so!
King bolete---------(Boletus edulis)
Golden Chanterelle-----------(Cantherelus cibarus)
Matsutake----------------(Tricholoma magnivlare)
Shaggy parasol------------(Lepiota rachodes)
Also this beautiful fungus.
In a group of fungi called --Ganoderma var. unknown. Perhaps someone out there knows what this particular one is. Ganoderma lucidum?
In a group of fungi called --Ganoderma var. unknown. Perhaps someone out there knows what this particular one is. Ganoderma lucidum?
I love Thrashers.
I have one that's been hanging out in my back yard for a few years. She has a deformed bottom bill. curves way down too much so she can't close her beak all the way, she's smaller than the other birds because she can't eat little things like seeds very well.
Anyway AK, hope you figure out a way to keep the birds and critters off the plants.
Apache Kush
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my bok choy comming up and filling in.... i made a mistake planting them to close togther but the damn seeds are so small they are almost microscopic so i need to thin this bed of bok choy out, i think they suffered and are on the small side
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snowpeas!
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... my peppers like to turn red...pheno type or climate???
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snowpeas!
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... my peppers like to turn red...pheno type or climate???
Apache Kush
Member
I found these two doing damage in the bok choy and peppers
Death to the Pilla's!!! Nice garden ya got going. Man I miss my garden in Humboldt, moved when it was about to start putting out......lucky new tenants had a garden full when they moved in.
Green Squall
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I'm itching to start gardening here in the Northeast, but as I look out the window, there is a few feet of snow on the ground with much more to come.
