#soil ammendments

[alchemisoul]

There's two types of people in this world who can read auras: the crazy kooks and wise women who live at the edge of the indigenous village, and the sociopaths and predators who know a victim when they see one.

The right to own guns should be understood first as the right to self-preservation and self-defense, the right to not only defend one's self and their family or those whose care is their responsibility - the right to not be or become a victim.

If the government demanded everyone turn over their guns tomorrow, who among us will comply? One things for sure, it won't be the bad guys. You can be 100% assured that bad men will not comply.

Good men who own guns keep bad men at bay. Good men and women, who are responsible, who own guns are not a threat to anyone not seeking to do them or their families harm. This is the case for the vast majority of gun owners.

My views on guns changed when I moved away from the city, where law enforcement maintained a constant presence, and into the country where emergency response times could range between 30 minutes to an hour or longer.

In rural communities where this is the reailty, the stakes of a home invasion are raised dramatically. If someone has the balls to show up on your property unannounced and uninvited, they are not fucking around and have arrived with bad intentions.

See the way our government treats us as is, like a corporation or a toxic partner - as bad as you will allow them to without protest. The 2nd ammendment is one that is nearly impossible to fully appreciate unless and until it was taken away from you.

Imagine the shit the government would pull without the 2nd ammendment - which is 2nd for a good goddamn reason. Beyond the 1st, none are more paramount. It is there to protect us from our govt. and just in case the 1st becomes infringed upon.

The odds of another country winning and maintaining a ground war on our soil is less than zero not simply due to relative military capabilities but sheer levels of individual gun ownership and the collective will of gun owners to defend their own.

"Do nothing unto anyone that you would not like to have done unto yourself. Seek peace, and never be the aggressor—but if anyone attacks you, we do not teach you to turn the other cheek."

"Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself"

“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

- Malcolm X

ByAnyMeansNeccessary

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[smudgekip]

2 and 9 for the asks 😊

9 Do i have a skincare routine: i dont consider it a routine, i wash the sweat off my face at the end of the work day and if i feel like spoiling myself i'll put coconut oil on before bed

2 thoughts on veganism: now you done it... i think it's dumb. Without taking supplements a human being cannot get all their required nutrients from a vegan diet. I will not fight anyone on this. I will block them.

If you really want to save the planet thru the things you eat, buy local!! Research farmers markets in your area, see about finding a local butcher, hell even learn to forage! But you are doing just as much harm eating vegan as you are not.

Veggie farms take up just as much space as cattle pastures, and the constant working of the soil without proper ammendments depletes the farmed area of nutrients for growing new crops the following season.

Anyway, thanks for listening to me soapbox!

#kip talks #ask game #i swear if you come for me i will not return in kind #there's a lot more i could touch on but this is already a lot

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[tinyshe]

Garden Report 22.03.10

A break in the weather and a bit warmer temperatures! Still lots of ice and frost but that should be coming to an end late March or early April (?).

Soil amendments:

neem cake pellets to all three grow beds, the gooseberries and the area next to them that I want to develop a grow bed. (neem cake is 2-1-1); turned into soil in main grow bed, sprinkled again liberally.

also grass hay to main grow box, nice thick layer (covered to keep it in place; will uncover for the rain that is setting upon us then turn under).

glacier soil given to each box and one set of blueberries.

crushed egg shells to the red flesh apple tree.

Propagation:

pennyroyal

thyme

ivy geraniums

black geranium

various succulents

rose

salvia (scarlet sage)

some unknown purple leave perennial that will have little purple or yellow flowers butterflies are suppose to like.

Seeding:

I don’t even have my trays ready !

Hen update: they thrive on being everywhere they aren’t suppose to be: in the house, in the new nettle patch I’m trying to propagate, in the bulbs beds or any potted plant. Eggs are getting more regular but there are still days the nest is empty and others we have triplets but usually one a day.

Worm update: they be working day and night! got to get that spout in the new bin and get ready to double the fun; There be some good tea and compost I need to get out and let the rains work their magic massage of the goo. I will also need to build a small frame / table / bench to keep the bin up and spigot elevated for use. I don’t want to be dragging it to the threshold of the lean-to, tipping it over to catch in a container on the stairs -- that is a disaster waiting that I would surely meet in some grand fashion.

Blooming: (in protected/ south facing areas) violets, daffodils, magnolia, night blooming clementis, snapdragons, calendula, stinking onion flower/white bells, plum tree, asian pear, blueberries, borage, freesia, delphinium, few of the bush roses, camellias. 

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[mauricesmall]

Nature is the best teacher.

Be teachable.

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[spleen9000]

I saw a pilea moon valley and a persian shield plant at the hardware store the other day and they were only 4 and 7 dollars respectively and part of me is like... I WANT them. but also I probably do not need more indoor plants. where would I even put them. I should at least wait until my recent props & new peperomia are ready to be graduated out of their 2 inch pots. plus I might as well keep my plant buying to the plant sales at the free store since I know that's supporting something important. but also there is a pilea moon valley and a purple and black goth as fuck plant right there at the hardware store that I could obtain right now if I really wanted to. who knows when the free store plant sale will have moon valley pileas if ever. who knows if they will ever have a plant as hardcore goth as the persian shield.

#I need to exert SOME self control though. also I am running out of pots. #and I still don't have the soil ammendments I need to repot my 2 most in need of it. #why is it so hard to find 6 inch hanging pots. #I also want to get perlite and pine bark and coco coir and charcoal for repotting. and a stick for the philo to climb #although now I am realizing even though they didn't have exactly those things I probably could've at least picked up pumice as a perlite sub #and some orchid bark mix even though they didn't have the individual components for sale #and do like half orchid mix a quarter pumice and a quarter compost #and the stick could wait #spidey I will need a hanging pot though. its leaves are getting long enough that they hit the table its on now #I am trying to get into the practice of only repotting my plants when roots are stickin out the bottom #but I just always want to be DOING something for them you know. but I gotta let them just do their thing. #these two do definitely have roots sticking out though. but it's weird cause they don't feel pot bound toward the top but idk

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you have the spoons to answer a garden question my mom and I would be very grateful! Is it better to leave the cardboard at the bottom of the bed in one piece and flat? Or is it better to tear up and toss it in like you did?

Varies on your soil conditions tbh. I have really rich topsoil with a lot of worms and pretty good water retention, so I ripped the cardboard up so the worms could get in and the roots into the topsoil. If you've got really dry, poor soil, I'd reccomend ammending it a bit before putting your bed in (breaking it up with a hoe, adding soil amendement mix and compost), but if that's not doable for whatever reason, I'd leave the cardboard more intact and treat them more like very large, semi-porous container gardens.

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[ocotllo]

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[tatertotsforsupper]

This guy has some interesting thoughts about the 2nd ammendment and WHY we have it.

I know you’ll probably just brush over this post and call me a redneck hick or something, but I’m going to put the time to give an actual response to this because I think it’s very important that people understand why the Second Amendment is so important.

The use of this trite ‘drones’ argument is to suggest that America’s military power is far too powerful for the people to defeat, thereby making gun ownership for defense against Government tyranny unnecessary. The idea that the one with the bigger stick always wins is a common mistake. People often forget how the country started with a bunch of traitors and revolutionaries who were able to defeat the immensity of the British military.

If this argument was taking place in the 60’s, people would be shouting ‘napalm’ rather than ‘drones’, and yet napalm did very little in stopping the US from being defeated by a bunch of rice burning, pajama wearing, tunnel dwelling

Vietnamese. And speaking of pajama wearing, what about Afghanistan? You go find Al Qaeda and tell them about ‘drones’ and they will be quick to remind you that they were able to drag the US into an eleven-year, unsustainable war, the cost which helped lead America to an incredible financial crisis. If a bunch of cave-dwellers struggling with the cocking handle of Soviet-era AK-47’s can keep a war going for eleven years, thinks of what well-educated, well-armed, partially experienced American citizens could accomplish.

The point is not that you can win pitched battles against a modern professional military with all its weaponry as a ragtag citizen’s militia with small arms. The point is that you can fight.

You can bleed them. When the US Army come patrolling through your neighborhood, you might be able to take a few of them with you. Hell, you might be able to run away and do it again and again- theoretically, you wouldn’t be alone, and they couldn’t possibly engage in endless manhunts for every single person who dared to resist them. And they’d never feel safe, with the possibility of a sniper behind every window.

Of course the Army could call in artillery and air support to just level your neighborhood. What would this get them? Well, it would piss off a lot of people off when innocents die, and play into the hands of the rebels. It would make a lot of soldiers in the professional military seriously consider whether they were doing the right thing or not, whether they were on the good guys’ side. And finally, it would simply kill innocent people.

A drone strike might look effective when shooting at some desert hut, but that wouldn’t translate well to domestic, civil war. Every citizen the Feds bomb is one less taxpayer, one less worker, one less consumer. Every building is one less factory, one less office building, one less residence. Every bomb the Feds would drop on its own soil and people is destroying their own precious resources. Hardly a sustainable way to wage war. Every bomb dropped also invites more and more revolutionaries. If you thought civilian deaths in the Middle East brought outrage here, think about what American civilian deaths would bring.

Let’s say that two-hundred people gathered outside the Pentagon, protesting and screaming for blood? What is the Government going to do, bomb their own military installation? How is that drone going to stop an unarmed protest,

or even effectively distinguish between an unarmed protest and an armed one? How will that drone confiscate weapons and apprehend major revolutionary figureheads? Its been said before and I’ll repeat it, police states need police. Grunts on the ground. And that grunt is in for a bad day when he is head to head with an equally armed American citizen behind every door. In a few seconds, a simple Google search can show you all the shortcomings of drones and how one could combat them.

Further, this argument ignores the human element. Killing rag-heads video game style is one thing, but how is that drone operator going to feel when he is forced to drop bombs on his own countrymen? His brothers and sisters and friends. How quickly are those politicians- who we are so quick to call slimy and self-interested- going to switch sides to save their own skin? Even without this almost certainly occurring variable, military and police amount to a few million while civilians equal hundreds of millions. The military and government could not possibly just kill everyone who resisted them. Nobody wants to rule over a nation of corpses.

The aim of a tyrant is to control, not to kill. What they want is to be able to have militarized police point guns at people and cow them into submission to whatever dictates they might want to impose. If those people are instead waiting behind their doors and ready to shoot first when the jackbooted thugs come around, they’ve already failed.

So the point is to fight. If you resist, you’re not being controlled, and you’re also undermining attempts to control others who can’t or won’t fight; you might die, of course. That’s more or less why Patrick Henry famously said “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!”

As long as people can resist, they can be free, and tyrants can never succeed. But when you’re talking about people who have no firearms using swords and knives and clubs against modern military weapons it actually becomes pointless, because you can’t bleed them at all- they’ll just gun you down.

Finally, even if the Federal government and military were infinitely more well-armed and the chances of victorious revolution against its tyranny was one in a million, so what? Should we just give up without even trying to fight and submit to the jackboot of tyranny? What ever happened to Live Free Or Die? Aren’t our freedoms worth fighting for no matter the odds; are they not worth dying for?

The people who wrote the Second Amendment understood what Government oppression was. They knew what revolution entailed. And they understood that the American people may have to do something similar to what they did to ensure they remained free. So they made sure guns would be available for all citizens. But the main reason their ownership should continue is not to fight a war, but to prevent one. The Second Amendment protects the rest of our rights, and is a constant reminder to the Government that an act of unwarranted aggression against its people can be swiftly retaliated against. Ultimately, its not about guns. It is about liberty.

That’s why having guns is so important.

Put in simpler terms:

A fighter jet cannot stand on street corners and enforce no-assembly edicts.

A fighter jet cannot kick down your door at 3:00 in the morning to search for contraband or anti-social propaganda.

A fighter jet is useless for maintaining a police state.

Police are needed to maintain a police state. And no matter how many police you have, they are always out-numbered by the people, which is why tyrants throughout history have considered it vital that police have automatic weapons, while their subjects have nothing but sticks.

But when every random pedestrian might have a Glock hidden in his waistband or by his bedside, kicking down those doors suddenly becomes a lot riskier, lest you catch a bullet on your way in.

[otterplusharchive]

any time i have to do math in my soil science class i truly feel like that one joke about gay people not being able to calculate the tip. except its me not being able to calculate how much fucking limestone you apply to ammend the soil pH

[fiovske]

man, i really wish the MCU hadn't abused the Accords as a petty trigger for a Tony vs Steve feud bc the Accords are a very serious issue and the MCU doesn't examine the pros and cons of the accords or deal with any consequences of it thereafter, it just sidelines the whole political issue of the accords for a certified big bad™ Thanos bc clearly the MCU doesn't have the nuance to tell an impartial story of the Accords without taking sides.

The Accords aren't necessarily a bad thing. There should be a legislature to keep this American private organisation in check! They run rampant on foreign soil and answer to nobody, that's vigilante work! and when someone comes into my own house, blows up my roof and says, "don't worry! this is for the greater good!" you bet i am going to be pissed bc idc what greater good! you just destroyed my own home! looking at Team Cap through the post-colonial perspective really rattles you, let me tell you that. People who are "superheroes" need to be held responsible for their actions.

Note: The Avengers don't even issue a public apology after Lagos, which should've been done pronto. Steve says "we can't save everyone" and it sounds dismissive bc yes even though you can't save everyone it doesn't really weigh on you that foreign civilians lost lives, on foreign soil bc you refused to involve some officials in the loop and evacuate the areas to avoid any collateral damage in the measure of lives. You should sign the Accords bc you owe it to the people you have sworn to protect!

On the other hand, Steve also has a point for not signing the Accords and i hate that the Russos make it more personal than political bc it is a political issue and should be examined as such! Steve's reasons for signing should've been more than just "the safest hands are still our own". As a non-American, that sentence terrifies me.

That being said, once they sign, a natural list of their names are made. And anytime lists are made the names on the lists stand as a threat, to others and to themselves as well. (this issue is very well explored in Agents Of Shield season 4 i think)

But the fact that you can't trust the people who are asking you to sign the Accords is also very telling. The militant agenda of "either sign the Accords or go to prison/retire" ...is messed up. But as Natasha's says, "one hand on the steering wheel and you can still drive". If you don't do it it'll be done to you anyway because 117 countries don't feel safe around you, pal!!!! that's messed up!!! if you wanna change some terms and shit, sign it! Get on board and work @ it from the inside. In cases like these stubborn headassery does not work! Plus, if you sign, you can have the Accords ammended, why give up that position of power that you may be able to hold if you just stop punching your way through things?

Also, we never see any consequences for people who sign, its just a passing ref of "The Accords". We don't see the red tape or the bureaucracy that goes into the agendas that Steve so vehemently detests, and fresh from the Winter Soldier plot, he has every right to. But then again, i hold a belief that TWS shouldn't have been a Captain America movie. At least not yet. We should've had a chance to explore Steve Rogers in the 21st century. He's a different man now from the one who went under 70 years ago. We should've had the chance to see him, his PTSD and his breaking and rising instead of him being used as a cardboard cutout of "Captain America: the concept". We don't get to explore the Steve Rogers story but that's a whole other post, anyway my point re: The Accords. You see when lists are made of people, there's a high chance of that list falling into wrong hands and being abused. Up and coming superheroes would have a hard time bc they are liable to being discovered. But they also need guidance and as bad as it sounds they are a threat to themselves as they are to the general population. But they are also people and its a very very tricky territory to deal in when you bring in the issue of enhanced humans etc. See, this is a very difficult issue and we should have actually had a nuanced movie that deals with the pros and cons of the Accords in equal measure.

Instead we get that the movie was basically to drive Tony and Steve into opposite camps so as the "break the Avengers apart" for angst value so when Thanos comes they're unable to fight back. Lame, that's a lame excuse.

What i'm saying is: The Accords shouldn't have been a Captain America movie in the first place. It's an issue that should have been examined more attentively for the complexity that it carries and independently of a bias that it is so inclined to bc of the damn title of the movie itself— at the end of the day it was a Captain America movie. And that itself explains why putting it a tailend movie in a titular trilogy was the wrong way to go about dealing with something of this magnitude.

#the sokovia accords #team cap #team iron man #team tony stark #team steve rogers #the whole team thing got taken too far #like the accords are a very complex issue #and the mcu sidelined it so hard i hate it #agents of shield examines the accords with more nuance than the mcu could ever dream of #its embarassing how dumb the mcu is #how blockbuster-centric #anyway this was just me rambling #tony stark #steve rogers #captain america: civil war #ca:cw #ca:cw discourse #fandom wank #a4 #avengers endgame #im just having thoughts i guess

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[arcticdementor]

Some days ago, Michael Rothman posted — I think on MeWe — how the plot we’re living through was completely unlikely and it would/should have been rejected by the editor without a second glance.

Some of the things he said were of course giggle worthy, because that was exactly what he was going for. Stuff like “this virus is lethal, and everyone is locked down to avoid it, but you’re still encouraged to go to the grocery store.” Or “You have to wear a mask on entering the restaurant, until you sit at the table, and then you’re magically immune, and can take the mask off.”

But there’s a lot more he didn’t say. Which is even more insane.

…

But you kind of need to unpack their back brains to understand the origins of their panic. You see, these people know a lot of things that just ain’t so. Their picture of the world has some contact with reality — maybe — in that I think they recognize things like air, and trees and sometimes even humans But when you get into why things happen and how, well! They might as well live in an alien world, as the picture has bloody nothing to do with ours.

Part of it is that most of them work in professions that involve the manipulation of symbols, but also that the way to get there is to go through college degrees and at least pretend to be indoctrinated. I don’t think the leftists were pretending. They are, as I said before, the good boys and girls. The respect authority kind. I think they bought it.

…

You have to understand: as far as I can tell leftists have a pre-scientific mind. They’re moved by impressions, and deep set beliefs. And, because most of them really don’t believe in anything beyond their personal life (and I don’t mean supernatural, they also don’t seem to care much for what happens to other people or the world, after they’re gone. They might in fact not fully understand that one day, inevitably, they will be gone) the most important thing in the world is to keep their own personal life.

And they’ve never looked at numbers. And are unlikely to understand them, if they do. Their ideas of the world are formed on the penumbras of entertainment, the “news” and the system they were taught in school.

…

So here we are, a year of two weeks to flatten the curve. I don’t even know what our governors THINK they’re doing. I understand Polis, who must be innumerate and have trouble counting his fingers and getting the same number twice in a row, still thinks if he unlocks completely people are going to drop like flies, and 10% of the population will die. But I also think somewhere, in his walnut sized brain, a suspicion might be forming that when people are let out to live normal lives they will talk to each other, realize almost no one died who wouldn’t have died of anything anyway, look at what he’s done to our capital and our beautiful state, and that he’s going to be chased out of the state by Coloradans wielding torches. If he’s lucky of course.

And he’s not wrong. But what’s plan B? Keeping us locked up forever?

Why not, the amazing geniuses who used this plague of madness to take over DC seem to think they can stay there forever, if they just keep it surrounded by razor wire, and keep hunting “extremists” and “insurgents” under everyone’s beds.

That CDC thing, instructing the armed forces to hunt down insurrectionists in their midst identifies things like supporting the 2nd ammendment, thinking you have constitutional rights, or, you know, being anti-abortion as being “radicalized.”

Yes, you read that right. In the US, in the 21st century, believing you have rights as an American, the rights enshrined for us by the constitution, means that you’re dangerous, and a terrorist.

Oh, and communicating online is “escalating violence.” I swear I’m not making this up. By the lights of that briefing, I’m engaging in violence right now. Against whom,you say? Well, their cherished beliefs.

…

And the problem is this: In the real world, out there, this is unmaking civilization, and destroying mankind’s ability to look after itself and to advance.

Already, connections, and the ability to get food — which the US grows the most of for the world — is breaking down in other countries. Already, even here, we have people in serious trouble financially, physically, etc.

Someone posted on farcebook a while back that the biggest hit from this nonsense will be this year. We’re going to see people die in droves because — having pre-existing conditions — they couldn’t wear masks to go to the doctor. We’re going to see people die in droves, because a lot of medical professionals — I swear I’m not making this up — are refusing to touch their patients while giving physical exams. A lot of people are going to die because they didn’t get needed tests. (I live with two people who are a year late on blood tests, because they’d have to wear masks while waiting, and that gives them problems.) More, a lot of people are going to die — are already dying — from despair and depression.

…

Michael Rothman wasn’t wrong. This novel isn’t very convincing. It reminds me of those novels of the seventies, written by authors on drugs, and accepted by editors on drugs, which strove to me “far out” instead of rational.

So far, it gives me a Phillip K. Dick vibe. The novels, not the movies, which inject some coherence.

Only Phillip K. Dick was chaotic, not malevolent. His novels didn’t seem to gloat over the inherent destruction of humankind.

And I’m getting a very strong feeling that’s how the novel ends. Humans, having run away from reason (perhaps driven mad by the very pace of progress) take apart the civilization that allows them to exist.

Right now I see two ends. One of them has the astronauts in the ISS trying to get Earth and getting no response, because the madness escalated, and everyone is dead.

The other? The other cuts 100 years ahead to cavemen scratching the soil amid the ruins of the civilization of “the gods” who came before them.

I don’t like either. I always thought those endings were a cheap cop-out.

It’s time to realize that the curve is more than flat. That what we face (and mostly now have herd immunity to) was at WORST a bad flu. That our supposed betters are a bunch of arse-monkeys who don’t even understand plain facts, let alone science.

Is it time for torches and pitchforks. Oh, more than time. Because unless the torches and pitchforks come out, those two endings are all that is left.

They weren’t fun or clever even in the seventies. They were exasperating. And eventually people got turned off from reading because of them. Because anything is better than irrationality that thinks itself clever.

It’s even less fun living through this. The seventies are dead. Stop taking hallucinogenics and look at reality. The danger was never what you were sold. Keeping insisting that we’re all going to die doesn’t make you clever or superior.

It makes you a caveman who is afraid because the shaman told him only the magical fabric on face can protect him from the wrath of the science gods.

And frankly the rest of us are looking up how to make torches, and there’s about to be a run on pitchforks, as we speak.

#sarah hoyt

[tinyshe]

Garden Report 22.03.19

Its been a week of garden task more akin to commando raids: slay the hedges; slash the shrubs; bucket brigade the soil amendments; plant seed to explode in the coming days. Its a frenzy with an hour here and few minutes there to make an impact. Every year Mother Nature slumbers and I tippy-toe around thinking I have plenty of time ... but she doesn’t wake gently but rather like a hungry lioness POUNCING. Yeah, SPRING!

Planted: snap peas, purple peas, french marigolds, tiger paste toms, dill, basil, Peshwar poppies, an heirloom variety mix of cosmos (seashell, psyche, Versaille). All tucked in a tray perched on the worm bin (just asking for trouble at this point in the lean-to).

Need to get my seed box organized differently. Still not happy with it.

I came up short on small pots, forgetting last year I did pop-up pots and seeded Kat’s stuff in the plastic so I had to order some because they weren’t available locally. What I did seed I put in the plastic clam shells I save (recycle containers for seed pots) but e just don’t use a lot of things in plastic. I also have some floating ag cloth coming in (again not available locally) because of the feather thug live that's not moving along. Looking back on my notes  in my garden journal, 2020 was the first run in with these types of sparrow. This will also help with the cabbage moths (Pieris rapae)  I can also use it to extend my in ground season, getting in a few more colder quick crops. I ordered a stronger mil hoping to get more than a couple of seasons out of it.

This morning, too early for the neighbors, the hens started screaming about ‘scary creatures’ in the holding. Its pouring rain but i gingerly creep out, trying to spy the culprit. Nothing. But the girls are insistent so I throw a couple of rocks in random directions (not flushing anything) but they are satisfied and go back to being grumbly hens that are not thrilled with the rain and the lack of hot porridge. No sooner back to my desk with a comforting cup of coffee (I know its not Sabbath, hush and let me sin in peace for the day is long and I am short tempered -- its medication at this point) off they go, this time, even louder if there be such a thing! Grabbing coffee and go. Stand in the doorway. Cooing at my dear little featherbrains. They eventually start to settle except Alcott. I’m not doing my part (to her satisfaction) so she stays on high alert, craning her neck out, eyeing every twig and leaf that could hide The Enemy. Me: ‘hush-hush. hush-hush. Stop looking for trouble! Turn yer face away! Look in the other direction,Alcott-te-be.’ and I swear, right on cue, she shuranges her head about without change of expression, still on high alert and starts to puff up like she’s going to pop off so I start singing to her the hush-hush song as I sway in the doorway with my mug clasped to my chest. Crooning for Chickens. I’m sure the neighbors, if they didn’t think it before, are now confirmed in their suspicions that I have gone mad. News flash: always been this way >:)

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what I have learned from my cursory research on houseplant potting mixes:

pretty much everything besides succulents can benefit from mixing in some coco coir for more even moisture absorption & retention, and pretty much everything can also benefit from adding a generous amount of perlite for increased drainage & aeration.

epiphytes & semi-epiphytic plants benefit from mixing in chunky organic materials like bark chips and charcoal, whereas succulents & semi-succulents benefit from adding inorganic materials to break up soil such as gravel & grit.

gravel/pebbles in the bottom of the pot are never a good idea, and store-bought potting mix almost always needs to be ammended for better drainage.

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