Cant wait to see what you have in the works for the yard thats super awesome stuff. Will be neat to see a single tree turned into a full hedge fence, along with all the other cool stuff you have. Looking forward to how everything grows for ya.
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I would if there were less rocks. I’m going to have to find a good use for those. Can you believe people used to buy them as pets once upon a time?
Thank you! Right now I’m working with this blueprint:
My first move is to tarp everything
Using this (it’s a pack of 2):
Weather permitting, I’ll be broadforking and laying down Calcitic lime on Wednesday so that the next rain can settle everything down. I’ll pin the tarps after that.
I also have to decide what plants will go where and such, but I don’t have the best imagination for that.
The second 6x300 will divide some portion of the backyard. I’d like to do that in halves as I have a robust creature that likes to play back there.
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Super slick draw up 
a solid foundation to build on man very nice. I feel you, picking where everything goes and what to pair up layer etc is the most difficult step, besides keeping the gallivanting beast at bay haha. Have one of those here also, shes older now but still has zero chill in the tank.
I have no doubts it will be a sight to behold in time, a sanctuary for the soul.
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I ended up taking soil samples and broad-forking yesterday,
Afterwards, I added 20 lbs of Pelletized Lime to the Devil’s Strip, and then 50 lbs to the right and 50 lbs to the left.
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I’m unfamiliar with what you’re doing there… I’m guessing (so who knows how close I am, lol), you’re pulling up a TON of ground to fertilize underneath? That looks like an insane amount of work…
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Thanks dude. One of the reasons I’ve wanted to own a home is to gain the ability to do exactly what I’m doing now, so it’s really a dream come true.
You mention that you too have a possible robust creature, this is very good. I hope you give them a good pat on the head from Unc Christmas.
It’ll be a few years before we really see anything. Hopefully we’ll both be around by then.
You’re pretty spot on man, I’m attempting to employ a no-till method to aerate my soil and build upon it. For now, I simply went every 4-6 inches and lifted the soil so that the lime I added can work it’s way down the soil matrix to raise my pH. I’ll be covering up with the barrier I posted above and letting that sit until late Summer, where the next step will be to broadfork again but with the intent of producing a fine seed “bed”. I’ll then plant Sorghum Sudangrass as well as a faster growing erosion fighter and take it from there.
I thought it would only take me a few hours to wrap everything up yesterday, but I was out there until 2300 lol.
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I had some leaves in my backyard so I laid them down where I could, fully covering the Island and what had previously been a mulch bed.
When I throw the tarps ontop, it’ll lasagna them underneath.
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As for determining what plants I’d like to go where, I use GIMP and then a Adobe’s free background editor to visualize how my plant selections would look. Here are some examples:
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Right on man! Looks like a TON of work!
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Carrying along man, just pulled my plants all down and am proving I’m clueless when it comes to getting plants going again, lol
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This is so awesome! You could start your own high end landscaping business using tools like this 
Digging the progress man that yards goin to be poppin in no time, and will do shes spoiled rotten all will soak up all of the available affection in the room haha.
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Howdy pals!
How the heck are ya? Me, personally? Oh, well… I’m real spiffy! Just real spiffy.
Now, I will start off by saying I picked a whole bouquet of Whoopsie Daisies with these seeds I done diddly popped.
I went to go take pictures today and noticed something peculiar;
“Son of a bitch,” I thought. I still do, but I did at that moment too.
Whenever the Cake Faces flowered on me, I left the males in the 2x2 under a 24/0 photoperiod. However, once the females had at least some pistils, I switched the photoperiod to 12/12 but still kept them in the 2x2.
Whenever I germ seeds, I leave them under 24/0 until all have broken soil. I must have not remembered I had flowered the males in the 2x2 and left the program under 12/12. So, TL;DR, the Black Pishin and the Road Kill Skunks have been under 12/12 from the get.
So I transplanted the possible females into 1 gals and placed them in the 2x4 under the 12/12 regimen they were already under.
The males were transplanted into these bonsai pots I got once upon a time.
Except that one weird looking fella. I’m going to leave that guy simmering on low in that 2"x2".
Well, that just leaves the Black Pishin (which I’ve head has a 100% production rate [Disclaimer: I don’t know what that means.])
I took out the 1 gals I had placed in the 7 gals to prep for transplant.
The seedlings were then topped and transplanted.
“But Mister, Mister! What are those purple things in the back?”
Well, voices in my head; that’s Black Mondo Grass!
I was able to make 4 separate divisions
While this was an unexpected blunder, I’d like to believe that everything happens for a reason. As it turns out, I have an unexpected vacation back to the West Coast this upcoming month.
Well, mis parceros, that’s that. I leave y’all with this poem that reminds me of Confucius and his disciples:
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That’s awesome then! You can just chuck a bunch of seed and hope for the best at that point lol. 60% of the time, it works every time.
I appreciate that dude, but I think this’ll just be something I do for close friends and family. While money is cool and all, I don’t think it would represent the amount of labor well. However, if push comes to shove; that ain’t a bad idea!
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All caught up broski, 
Outside garden gonna be impressive sir. Hey did you plan on taking cuts before the accidental flowering?
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You’re going bigger with the landscaping, and I’m going to be scaling back and turning some of the flower bed footprint to lawn. I’m sick of maintaining it all.
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Hello! I read through all of this, your plants always look great! I hope the 12/12 from the start plants recover well. Your bread also looks great! That is a good reminder that I need to make bread soon. 
Doing some dinner rolls today, but maybe bread this week.
I look forward to continuing to follow your progress!
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I’m so excited for that front lawn man. I don’t expect my plant placements to be exactly how I’d like the first time around, but I’m going to be happier not having to stare at bare grass every day.
That was the original plan but honestly man, the more time passes, the less I want to keep cuts. My growing/lifestyle isn’t suited for it. Turns out only 2 of those RKS were female though. I’ll take some pics when I have some spare time. Been busy as shit man. My dear friend’s father passed of cancer and it rattled me a little. In a good way. Sometimes I get a bit too hyper fixated on nonessential shit. A good rattling puts me in check.
Good to see you around man.
I’ve been dreaming about working on my own lawn for quite a while now, so I’m still very much in the honeymoon phase. Though I bet I’ll also eventually get sick of maintaining it. Maybe in 60 or so years.
Howdy!
Now I’m a bit unsure that you truly have read everything when you say that my plants always look great lol. Welcome though pal. It’s always nice to have another bread maker in here. There’s a few of us already.
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In the broad scheme of things, they do! Also there’s always the chance I was high and skimmed part that was particularly less-great 
I’m working on reviving my sourdough starter that I let uhhh make beer for a while we’ll call it. Hoping soon I’ll be back to making stuff with that soon.
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I’ll be sticking to my journal and only a few threads I’ve subscribed to until it’s time to come out of hibernation for the Lemon CBDiesel Co-Op. So if you’d like to catch up, please stop on by! I’m a loner, have been all my life. I tend to jive real well with other like minded recluses. Time to stop trying to alter that. Sometimes life just slaps us real hard on the nuts and says “Happy Hanukkah”. During such moments, all we can really do is wipe ourselves off and whisper “I’m lactose intolerant.”
Road Kill Skunks
I ended up with 6 males, 2 females. Definitely not ideal conditions, but I’m hoping I at least end up with 200 finished seeds post processing. I had transplanted 2 males into 1 gals thinking they were female, so I untransplanted (?) them to the bonsai containers I have. They’ve been getting starved and unloved since. They’ll be flipped to 12/12 from 24/0 tonight and will be placed into the 2x4 by next week.
Black Pishin
Cake Face More like “Wow, I can’t believe these seeds were $200” Face.
Sadly, it seems like none of the possible parents for the Bombon Kush worked out. Pudding and Pucca came closest to being involved, but the fact that Pucca selfed was a huge turn off. Maybe the Cake face offspring will have something interesting, but the parents all have a sweet gas smell to them as of now. Nothing that really excites me.
The next in line for that project is Twat Waffle, which I’ll most likely pop after my next (and final) Co-Op.
Lastly, I have a mini vacation lined up next week. A homie will be watering the plants during my absence, so hopefully everyone survives. I’ll post pictures of my adventures as they happen. Built a cool little platform to sleep on in the car.
It’s finals week, so good luck to y’all doing college too.
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