#soil ready

[gyunikum]

When Jere makes one of those posts on IG.

#Käärijä #jere Pöyhönen #this is the horniest post ive made about Käärijä and the last one #the soil is ready and fertile #oh my fucking god no i did not just say this

[midiport]

Gigabyte Gigabyte (2) Megabyte Megabyte (2)

#came out of dormancy and both of em decided to have babies ig #moved them to their own pots and they grew like crazy in just 2 days #there's still another baby plant in giga's pot but hes not ready to move out yet #giga is being so fucking dramatic bc i changed her soil she does this every month #i give her a worm then she's wired for the rest of the season #gigabyte tag

[hylianengineer]

Okay I'm done with the film review for my sociology class, now you can all have my rant about it, and it's LONG so it's going under a read more:

I'm watching that new Netflix documentary about dirt - Kiss The Ground. For context, I'm an undergrad researcher in biogeochemistry and I study the carbon cycle, particularly a very specific type of decomposition that occurs in waterlogged soils - methanogenesis.

I'm so thrilled that something this mainstream is talking about soil carbon, soil microbes (my beloveds), and carbon sequestration. They're talking about root exudates and mychorrizhae and agriculture as part of an ecosystem! That's exciting. There's also a really excellent dose of climate hope in this documentary - and I am really excited to see that concept getting out of niche environmental circles and into things that regular people might actually watch.

On the other hand, parts of this documentary tick me off. I do not consider Tom Brady, nor his wife, to be a reliable source about the importance of organic agriculture. I know you're trying to interest the non-science types but come on, that is a classic appeal to irrelevant authority fallacy. And they should have said the thing about how we do still have to stop using fossil fuels and reach net zero emissions IN ADDITION TO sequestering the carbon we've already emitted more than one time in the whole film, because I just know people are going to take the rest of this message and run with it in the wrong direction. And they are really hammering home the appeal to emotions in the first half, to the point where I think the core of their argument suffers for it. Are you trying to explain this thing to me or are you throwing around buzzwords and pictures of sick children in hopes I'll get distracted?

Also they keep introducing guests with credentials like "ecologist from the Rodale Institute." You know nobody knows what the fuck that is, right? (It's an NGO dedicated to organic farming, for the record, but I did have to google it, and they had multiple guest speakers from this group.) Come on, you have no credibility if I can't tell where your info's coming from, and most people are not going to do background research as they watch a documentary.

Overall, I agree with their main points but I'm annoyed with how they made them. They're right about the ability of soil to sequester carbon, they're right that it could play a big role in climate change mitigation, and they're right that helping the soil is also better for people, ecosystems, and the planet. They're right about no till farming, permaculture, and crop diversity. They're even right about the bullshit that is the US industrial agricultural system, and they dug into how it came about in the post-WWII era, which isn't something I see talked about much. Kind of baffled how they managed to talk about soil degradation in the Midwestern USA without getting into the unique ways prairie soil and roots work, and instead went down a weird rambly path about how plows are bad (true, at least here - I cant speak for ecosystems I don't know as well - but explained poorly) and cows are good because this system evolved to have bison in it (sort of true, but incomplete. Cows aren't bison and the differences do matter.)

Also, reduced meat consumption is a very common thing that a lot of experts say is needed for climate change mitigation, and don't think I didn't notice how you sidestepped the issue just to say 'cows are good actually, stop vilifying cows.' I call bullshit. Just because cows work well in some ecosystems on a certain scale does not mean that it's possible to farm meat sustainably on the scale we currently do - factory farming and feedlots (CAFOs, if you want to get technical) are what allows us to make this much meat in the first place. You just admitted we need cows spread out on a lot more land to making ranching sustainable, and then failed to address the fact that this idyllic system doesn't really mesh with a world in which everybody eats multiple servings of beef per day. I see that decision and I know why you made it, because asking people to make sacrifices for the climate tends to make them ignore you, I don't even necessarily disagree with that decision because I know you're trying to persuade normal people and not environmentalists, but don't think I didn't notice.

Okay, fine, NOW they're talking about eating less meat and how what meat people do eat needs to come from more sustainable agricultural practices. Good. Better.

Oh look at our free range eggs, they're orange and that means they have more nutrients. Do they? Please back up this claim with scientific evidence. Of course the farmer says his eggs are better, he raised them. It's plausible, but I am pedantic and a scientist and I want data. You have to prove things to me.

Overall not a horrible documentary but ticks me off in several ways and tries to cram too many different subjects into like an hour and a half. Also, visiting the film's website makes me MORE ANGRY because they say even STUPIDER things about how they think climate science works. They make it sound like carbon sequestration in soil is THE solution which is BULLSHIT. There is no THE solution, there's gotta be a bunch of em stacked on top of each other - according to basically every climate change mitigation plan I've ever heard of (Project Drawdown is a good example). There's this metaphor I like to use to explain this to people - there's no silver bullet, but there could be silver buckshot. I read that somewhere once and cannot remember where but I'll never forget it.

Anyways, if you want a good intro to soil health directed at non-scientists/environmentalists, Kiss The Ground isn't bad, but you gotta think critically about some of the claims it's making because some of them are bullshit.

#hylian rambles #hylian does science #it's time for soil ramblings babes #get ready to learn what a root exudate is #kiss the ground

[toxooz]

maybe im projecting but i feel like Ollie would have a FUCKING HUGE monstera plant in his house thats taking over his living room

#ollie #anytime someone asks about it hes just ''good camouflage for me :]'' #in fact i feel like he would have a shit load of plants from his home continent that his mom keeps sending him #but again maybe im projecting AHA #like yeah he can forge weapons of war with his eyes closed and can maul a grown man to death but dammit that man knows his PLANTS #anyway i got a monstera over the winter bc ive wanted one for the longest time but i was sO scared of killing it #bc its higher maintenance than succulents and snake plants all that #and brother i aint got the remembrance or energy or executive function to be taknig care of high maintenance plants but luckily #my obsession has taken over and im doin pretty good keeping up with watering and i plan on getting it better soil for fertilization #it seems to be doing well and is even growing 3 new leaves AAOOOOO #one of the juvenile leaves even grew a lil hole in it and im :') #but i still gotta properly repot it and actually put poles in it to climb bc theyre kinda half ass put in there #but sPRING IS COMING i am ready #also have a monster adinsoniiiiiiihowever tf u spell it but same applies #i feel like just having 1 (or 2 kindof) that are high maintenance is goin good bc i can focus most of my energy on that like a pet PFFT #bc unfortunately i fear that if i had a shit load of high maintenance plants i would get overwhelmed and involuntarily make them all die #which SUCKS bc i want my house to be infested with so many plants sOOO BAD ugh maybe one day i wont be mentally ill lmfao 💗 #ANYWAY more pon ti comin soon

[shinylayatha]

i got to premiere a monster I had in the back of my mind yesterday: gluttonous soil

it's a monster that is somewhere between a turbot and an earth elemental, mixed up with several teeth and eyes. it looks simply like undisturbed soil, until it feels weight on itself, when it then waits for the weight to move over its mouth before it chomps away

hard to kill since you basically have to destroy the connections between the grains of sand, which even gives off a bit of blood that seeps into the creature again, causing a blood frenzy as a defence mechanism

lots of fun to run and great for a trap or two. party yesterday encountered it in a smaller form (about 2m²), but I've planning to mayhaps hide one in the desert (like ... 1km²???), in the snow, in the jungle, etc.

so many ways to use them. the image of the party stepping onto a rock in the desert, the rock then shudders and reveals it is one of several eyes all around them staring hungrily?

yea baby

#having read nearly all of dungeon meshi in the last week and now I overthink monsters #but also it leads to great world building so who cares #also playing with the idea of having the gluttonous soil wrap itself around a cave tunnel #ready to chomp at anything trying to pass through the tunnel #i love it tbh #Overprepped DM thoughts #dnd #Aelerea and I am NOT under NDA

[landwriter]

not to sound like a country queer but man do i love my pitchfork

#gloam’s garden diaries #just something about #doing menial labour #getting all sweaty and dirty #accomplishing in a half hour what a machine could accomplish in a minute #but getting to look out on a newly arable spot!! #ready for seeding!! #ready for soil building!!!! #and thinking i did that with my body and a hand tool and nothin else #MAN just nothing beats it i tell ya #technically a garden fork but i’m going with the colloquial use here #also because i am viciously pitching enormous clods of couchgrass with it #that’s half the fun

[acanthemp3]

caught the stomach flu on the same day as my period started i cant catch a fucking break

#my abdominal muscles are in absolute shambles #i was throwing up all morning while my parents were trying to get ready for church hahaha #and im scared to eat bc i cant even keep water down rn but im so hungry..... #this js what happens when a kid throws up on u once while ur helping him put his jacket on and again when ur changing his soiled clothes #do not work in childcare if ur afraid of getting diseases bc theres always fucking something... #tw emetophobia #angel.txt

[jedi-bird]

Today is kind of an off day, so I decided to just keep organizing craft supplies rather than try to clean up more. I have now found enough pins to last me the rest of my life and then some; they are all neatly sorted by type in a box in a drawer. More buttons and beads have been put away, as well as jewelry clasps and hardware sorted out. More beads, because those are neverending. More crochet hooks, for the same reason. I also found another tub of crochet thread to rewind and I'm not looking forward to that.

#birdy tries to be a good adult #I'm tired but i don't want to rest #i kind of don't want to be alone today but i don't have a choice #i miss when my friend lived close enough to just be like let's go walk around a mall for a bit #or go to a park and just talk #this weekend was emotionally taxing #between a friend's funeral and my cat dying I'm just feeling bad #the weather is pretty nice and i could try going outside and working in the yard #but i kind of want to wait until i can go get potting soil again so i can start getting the new raised beds ready #and i need to figure out where I'm going to put my finger lime

[bunflora]

we went to a nearby plant nursery on my last day off and got just about everything we want to grow this season!! i’m most excited about the strawberries but we also got parsley and two bell pepper plants, one of which grows purple peppers?? i’ve never seen them before! i’m so excited for the first ones to come in :D

adrian is interested in growing flowers so he picked a really lovely bellflower plant and a small pot of alyssums. his mom grows flowers a lot so he’s got some basic experience already, though desert gardening plays by different rules than the midwest. it’s nice to see him all energized to help out, i think it’ll be good for both of us to get some sun and fresh air over the next few months :> if this batch goes well i want to get more vegetables to plant during our fall season!!

#i’m very much a beginner gardener and being disabled means i need a lot of help <:3 #but it brings me a lot of joy to be outside and caring for things #it makes mama happy too i think and she won’t be the only one around to help this year which is good!! #i hope addy is ready to do a lot of heavy lifting with the soil when we repot everything LOL #i’ll try to post pics and updates every so often over this season :> mostly for myself but maybe someone out there will like to see it too #moonspeak #luna’s garden adventures #<- new tag for this stuff

[madamescarlette]

love release weeks because I keep waking up with a different song in my head every morning and they suddenly worm their ways into my heart because of that.

#today the great war suddenly got to me!!! i was getting ready for the day and i was suddenly shot down at sight by their clasped hands #and yesterday i couldn't listen to anything but hits different!!! it will probably always make me insane! #mmmmm so much new soil to turn over in my mind. i'm glad a poetry month is coming up because between this and life i need to reminisce #thinking out loud

[subtotechno]

okay thats everything tended to. a think a few of the seeds have roots growing but it's just a hunch! just a hunch.

#soil's almost ready for the seed potatoes #bell.ring

[fourteen--steps]

Got my native garden plants todaaay! My favorite so far is the american dittany, such a cute little thing. I’m also really happy to be planting those scraggly looking ones on the ends, Torrey’s mountain mint, which is endangered in several states including mine.

I also picked up swamp milkweed, lyreleaf sage, wild bergamot, dense gayfeather (ngl mostly because of the name), and pink fuzzybean (ngl even more because of the name).

There’s still a few I really want that the county sale didn’t have, namely butterflyweed, some kind of beebalm, and my only nonnative addition, a lilac bush for my late miss Lilac. So will have to go looking at another nursery in the next couple weeks maybe.

#garden time #it rained all day today so planting will have to wait till it's not doing that #but still I'm so happy #I spent all of the last week getting the soil ready for my new little dudes #can't wait to get em in the ground

[00394]

shakes and vibrates i want to go get succulent stuff so bad

#i have to wait for my mom to be ready #AAAAAAA #i need to get shelf stuff and pots and soil and new plants