No worries! I added some notes on support and irrigation I forgot to mention

We had an insanely wet spring, then have been dry for about three weeks before the storms that kicked through yesterday.

Damn, man. Two weeks of summer and it’s already a drought on you guys? You’re a masochist

Thank you! Here’s hoping!

Yup! As was said, they’re just cattle fence made into round cages. The bottoms I lined with some landscaping fabric for a growing medium (75/25 compost/soil) and planted the potatoes about half way down. From there I just mound up in straw.

Edit: I forgot a few details. They’re held up on either side by t-posts. Nothing fancy, just driven in and wired to each post three times (top, center, bottom) for stability and support. I put sprinklers on the top because that’s what I had, though I do want to do something different in the future. I don’t like top watering, but I haven’t quite figured out how I wanna do it otherwise. I’m thinking a strand or two of drip that gets mounded up with the potato as it grows, but that’s experimenting for another time

There’s some folks that will actually do a core of medium up the center for new potato roots to take hold in. I’m trying something that’s a little more fertilizer-intense, but easier to scale up. Little blood meal every couple weeks while they’re growing up then some 10-10-10 twice (once at the beginning and once again here in a bit).

If I can make this work in my home garden, I’m hoping to tweak it a bit for larger scale. We’ll see

I incorporated in Funkytown so disputes would go to their chancery court. The judge is an anthropomorphic hundred dollar bill wearing sunglasses. It was a no-brainer

It’s actually just a German superette. Bit of a red herring

It was a thread on a joke I made, so I didn’t wanna seem like I was trying to make folks watch me jerk off by including it

Well, then Ontario Sucks

This is what happens when you beat a round of solichair

She looks like she’s giving the ol’ razzle dazzle

Jesus Fucking Christ! Someone do something about that toddler!

Oh, so you’re in a real live desert. That’d be way too much work. I bet you have some beautiful natives growing out there. Sucks about the grasses, tho. I have enough trouble with bermuda grass, I can only imagine the problems from something that could be invasive in a desert

Daikon radishes. They grow in about anything and are especially good at clay busting. Grow a bunch then let them die back. Till them in and repeat until you get enough environment for the worms to take over the tilling. You can keep piling on radishes with something like clover and peas to add some nitrogen fixers. This is more a pasture revitalization technique, but if you don’t mind being the weird radish guy for two or three years (depending on local conditions), you could do it on a smaller scale for a lawn

Anytime I think of John Romero, I think of Daikatana and their ad campaign

Well, I might have spoken too soon. I neen on vacation this week and just saw the second most haggard groundhog I’ve ever seen strolling through my beds without a care in the world. I bet you anything that’s my critter

Hell yeah! That’s been a long time coming. I bet it’s gonna feel fuckin fantastic, but also don’t think you gotta rush yourself. That’ll get your hurt going for sure

The sunflowers are the top right. Top left was one half of my black beans. Some kind of pole bean that was given to me

I usually do stuff like marigolds and coneflower among stuff to keep them out, but I got lazy this year and they’ve been pretty merciful until the night before last

I had a cousin get thrashed by a buck in rut once. They have all the necessary bits to really do some damage

Since we’re in a science-themed shitpost area, I’d just like to take this moment to be both pedantic and gross in reminding folks that llamas and alpacas don’t just spit, they vomit into their mouths before givin’ it that hawk tuah

I love citronella when it blooms. I should put more of that out in my yard

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