Vegetable Garden Note Taking

A page from Thomas Jefferson’s garden diary. My worst mistake in the fifteen years we have been gardening here in Los Angeles has been my shoddy note taking. Even though we don’t have frosts to contend with, it still can be tricky to figure out when to plant vegetables. In a lecture I attnded at the National Heirloom Exoposition, Sonoma County gardening guru Wendy Krupnick had a simple suggestion for what to take notes on in your vegetable garden...

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How To Stop Powdery Mildew

...begin with some condensed advice from UC Davis’ Integrated Pest Management page: Preventative measures: grow resistant varieties find a sunnier spot for the vegetable garden back off on nitrogen Non-chemical approaches sprinkle plants with water mid morning–add soap for more effectiveness remove infected leaves promptly and dispose of them Fungicides: apply horticultural oil, neem oil or jojoba oil if the temperature is under 90° F. Do not apply a...

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Spam Poetry Sunday

...us is the ultimate purpose of these spam comments. This one was placed on our announcement for our upcoming coffee roasting class (not a popular or highly linked post), and linked to a page for a restaurant which is obviously just a place holder, in that it has no content or history or graphic design. And who the heck is Janet?...

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Saturday Tweets: Too Many Tweets!

...e written an open letter.#climatestrike #FridaysForFurture #schoolstrike4climate https://t.co/sf3uOLWQvR — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) March 2, 2019 If this is wrong, I don't want to be right pic.twitter.com/eTA6u41uc8 — 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) March 3, 2019 pic.twitter.com/6UKOTXeSwb — Cats (@SpaceCatPics) March 2, 2019 Caption this…🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/NVvkhpuvkj — Kevin W (@kwilli1046) March 7, 2019 pic.twitter.com/Ga2S4uwT76 — 70s...

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The Practical Side of Philosophy

How did I get through my entire education without studying so much as a page of philosophy? It is, after all, the foundation of all human knowledge. In desperate act of catch-up, I’ve attempted in the past few years an often difficult program of philosophical and theological self-study. Now, before you think I’ve gone way off topic on a homesteading blog, let me counter with a few examples of how philosophy can help navigate thorny DIY questions:...

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