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Your time is...extended.
Not the toil
not the burn
not the hunger
nor the yearn.

You may rest forever... now.
But your life's energy
Paid forward
It burns on man.

Decades of customers yards full
Spring here again this year
Buds bursting forth
YOUR HEART STILL BEATS ON MAN.
Oxygen, shelter, shade, beauty, food.

Babies will have babies that will sit in cool shade and clean air
They will grow and learn and love in, and what, you have left.
Others will pick up what you started and carry on.
You deserve heaven for this and I thank you.

We moved to our own place last October 30th.
Our lot is about 900 mts2 and I have been working the land in my spare time. Good thing is that working from home is a big benefit because I am able to just take a little walk through our yard and see how everything is going.

So far we have planted:

- cherry tomatoes
- tomatoes
- squash
- zucchini
- potatoes
- onions
- avocado
- arracache
- melon
- water melon
- orange lemon
- cas guava
- mango
- tangerine
- orange
- spinach
- blackberry
- coriander
- lettuce
- chamomile
- chive
- banana
- sweet corn
- sweet pepper
- hot pepper
- carrots
- papaya
- celery
- Italian parsley
- mint
- thyme
- aloe vera

We are still missing the coffee trees and other plants, but all in due time. Hopefully in a couple of months/years we will see everything fructify in the Lord's name.

310 small to minuscule potatoes.

All in all a disaster. But it was an experiment and I've got seed potatoes for the next crop. I've found potatoes don't like the shade or heavy wet soil. Her Hitler has ceded some of her sunny veggie patch to me and I'm now going to grow spuds in pots with very friable soil and in the sun.

The variety that seemed to do best is "Salad Rose".

Salad Rose:

https://i.ibb.co/VLcDxZJ/potatoes-1.jpg

The rest:

https://i.ibb.co/Y8V8YPq/Potatoes-2.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/M75Tmvn/Potatoes-3.jpg

If Mr Putin is intent on declaring WW3 I ask him to hold off until I get better at growing spuds.

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The Individual Pack is the pack of seeds you'll want. Click 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 2022 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬 for a list, descriptions, and pics. A government agent will bring them to your house. (supposedly. just found that site a month ago.)

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Being a canuck, I've been working on an idea for a high yield indoor garden & ordered myself a bunch of 50W LED grow lights for about 2.30$ a pop. I didn't want to spend on overpriced aluminum extrusion heat sinks & noisy fans so I figured I'd try a DIY water cooled fixture since I could use the heat to warm up the nutrient water. All the materials are leftovers I had laying around.

I used a copper sheet as mounting plates & made 2 manifolds our of 1/4" & 3/4" pipe, copper is a joke to solder but the next one will be aluminum.

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I made bus bars out of brass & 1/2" teflon to simplify the wiring. LEDs are 120v & .41 amps each.

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Then I mounted all that on an aluminum channel & a 1×2 tubing cut in 4 pieces. The fixture is roughly 20" x 94" with 16 LEDs.

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Let me tell you, this thing is fucking bright! Rough math makes it equivalent to 3300-4000W of incandescent grow lights. I figure it'll be good for at least a 3x8 area.

For now I'm using an aquarium pump in a bucket, I have to gauge how many fixtures I can run on a certain volume of water at a given flow while having good nutrient temps. The next fixtures will be smaller, I just had fun with this one.

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I have not one but FOUR buds on my peony! I'm so happy!

In your face @Psychicrussiaspy !

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Don't nibble on my tomatoes.

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This is my precious potted peony. Not sure if they are supposed to be potted but I can't plant it in ground so... whatever.

This is the third year. First two years I had no flowers. I was hoping for one last year but nada.