Hey y'all! Good afternoon from Texas!
I stopped by a friend's new house on the way home cause he mentioned he had some new Roundup to spray on some weedy sunflowers. I went to dig some up for the seeds and to see if they're Jerusalem artichokes. They're not, but I still got some seeds. I love these wild Texas sunflowers. I hope these few seeds can grow into a little row out front to look pretty and help keep down the road noise.
Here's a generic pic since I didn't get one while I was there. Cool source too!
Anyways. After that, check out the radar!
It didn't rain. All that storm was headed dead for us. It must have gotten to our street and just turned east while I slept. It's okay though. There's higher chance of rain tomorrow. I didn't take it for granted though and I watered anyway. Barefoot.
Mom's a hippie flower child, which makes me half hippie flower child, so sometimes I like being barefoot outside.
Check out the fungi on thhe south bed!
The second pic is the other side of the log, but the same spot yesterday. So that little yellow pancake bit grew I overnight I guess. I know some fungi are beneficial and some aren't, so does anyone on what I'm looking at here? Its the second such patch I've seen yet in this bed, so I don't guess it'll be the last.
I think nature is onto me.
She's figured out how I deal with moles and she's using it to our mutual advantage. See, when I see a mole hole, I flood it. Nature must like that cause she has started sending more moles. I don't mind though, it gets water way down into the ground, which is super cool by me and I assume the ground likes it too because after a couple days, green stuff starts to come out.
Like this. Then it grows.
Like this. Then it gets bigger and needs mowed.
Like this. Guess I'll be mowing again soon. No pneumonia this time though, so that's nice. It's always cool not to have pneumonia :)
Gonna head out and find something in the yard that needs done. Not sure what yet. I had planned on watching the rain when I got up... Maybe I'll just sit and watch the chickens instead.
Stay relevant y'all
Nate
P.S. I had started writing this before bed. I fell asleep after writing out a paragraph about how excited I was for rain. Moral of the story: don't trust a rain storm that isn't in your yard.
howdy tonight @nateonsteemit! haha! the moles aerate the lawn plus helps you get water down deep, you might miss those little guys! thought it was gonna rain here too but didn't, here's to a nice rain tomorrow!
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Oh no!!! He was spraying Roundup? Arghhh. I wished people would get how dangerous that stuff is - for all of us.
Anyway - does the yellow fungi turn brown and powdery? If yes, I have it too. When you see it grow, turn it over because the black powder is not so much fun to deal with.
From what I read, it is edible and people are fixing it like scrambled eggs. But I have never been brave enough to try it - not without someone by my side who knows fungi really, really well.
And here is the latest podcast that for some reason did not publish via steempress on my podcast steemit blog :)
http://sustainablelivingpodcast.com/chicks-hen-start/
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Yes it does! When I spray it, it kinda washes off down into the bed. I'm not gonna eat it, I'm gonna let the soil here eat it. It'll make better use of the stuff than I will.
Check this stuff out too! It grew up in about five hours while I slept!
And then...
It rained tonight!
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You lucky goose!!!
We are looking at 95 degrees today - which is very hot for our area - and rain is not even in the conversation until winter...
Yup, they grow fast - but are breaking down the wood. The turning over trick works well for me, it seems to eliminate the brown dust - and I don't water my mulch LOL
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Yeah, California is having a hard time this year. The fires aren't near you, are they?
So I should be turning this over? In this bed I put down compost first, then cardboard, then this 6-8" of mulchy leaf stuff. I water it daily. Should I stop?
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Are you gardening in it? Sounds like a lasagne garden? Or are you trying to break it down for planting. Then you probably want to treat it like a compost and keep it at a certain moisture - like a squeezed out sponge ...
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Yes, I read a (very little) bit about a lasagna bed and ran with that. It's not growing yet, I kinda wanted to let the good yummy stuff soak in and plant it in the spring.
It's pretty damp in there and I see worms every time I dig a small hole to check. Exciting and encouraging!
This one was my first ever no-dig bed after I learned about them from @brockolopolis and @elfmyselfandi
I'd say it's wetter than a squeezed out sponge, so I'll cut back a bit on the water.
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