What Does California’s Prop 64 Say About Home Marijuana Cultivation?

...lights, fertilizers and growing mediums. Marijuana is the elephant in the gardening bedroom. I strongly suspect that the majority of money spent on fertilizers and gardening related products are for growing pot not petunias. This November, Californians will vote on Proposition 64 which will legalize marijuana for adults over 21. I thought I’d take a look at the text of the law to see what it says about home cultivation. Currently, qualified patie...

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138 Erics Gone Wild

...k.a. “East Coast Eric” of Garden Fork TV about concrete work, bears in the garden, plywood boat building and storm windows. Eric has been a frequent guest on the Root Simple Podcast and is back to fill us in on what he’s been up to under quarantine. During the show we discuss: Concrete work using a bonding agent such as Weld-Crete De-cluttering the garage A big gardening problem Building a boat Gavin Atkin Ultra Simple Boat Building 17 Plywood Boa...

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Saturday Tweets: Pawpaws, Tiny Apartments and the Wet Prince of Bel Air

...6 Pickin’ up a pawpaw, put it in the garden https://t.co/ySjGKVhOpW via @WVgardenguru — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 How to make zucchini butter: https://t.co/qsomTlR9qD — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 https://t.co/SKIBofeNZS: Massachusetts Man builds/designs 20′ “ROBOT TREE H… https://t.co/LlBFtzQljN — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 23, 2016 Whole Health Source: Do Blood Glucose Levels Affect Hunger and Satiety...

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Saturday Tweets: Styrofoam Catamarans, Bulb Mistakes and Luxury Bunkers

...e (@rootsimple) October 1, 2016 Bulb mistakes I have known and now avoid | Garden Rant https://t.co/OPNZehGVEP — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 30, 2016 Panic, Anxiety Spark Rush to Build Luxury Bunkers for L.A.'s Superrich https://t.co/Du53Wi0rDf via @thr — Root Simple (@rootsimple) September 29, 2016 Bikes shipped in boxes with TV set printed on box suffer less delivery damage https://t.co/yuMp7iVVKh — Root Simple (@rootsimple) Septembe...

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The Rain Got Real

...t porch start clanging before the approaching storm. I checked on our rain garden late last night (excuses for the bad photo) and the water level was the highest I’ve ever seen it. The rain garden gets all the water from one half of our roof which I calculate to have been about 1,500 gallons of water in the last 24 hours. To briefly get back to the Žižek book I rambled about last week, I was reminded of Lacan’s notion of the “Real”, that which is...

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