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Deworm your dogs + acts as a mineral supplement, clean water, keep pests away, my dad eats it daily mixed with a glass of water 75+ yrs old and still sharp as can be, I use it as a plant supplement for my peas daikons and night shades. Experimenting this year with squashes and greens. seems good so far.

DE as a plant supplement improves the structure, roots, and resilience of the plant. Think of it as collagen for the human body, as DE is to plants.

My mammoth melting snow pea leaves are the biggest ever seen by the seed specialist at the company I bought them from. Some are as big as my open hand and I have an XL hand. Look at the pics, the peas fought with the crab grass, cleavers, pineapple weed, and potatoes…..and they won.

This is a combo of black strap molasses and DE. Both for animals in bulk from the ranch store.

3.5 gallon bucket probably 20$ usd

50 lbs Perma-Gard DE around 30-40$ usd

These supplements are super versatile and go a long way for little $$$

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Indian Toilet Paper is a plant that is supposed to stop an asthma attack.

Put dried leaves in a bag and breathe.

It grows all over the west coast. might be worth doing some research.

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Welp, a few things I remember he said was, in the city there was no way to grow food on your patio because people would steal it immediately.

Recently he told me that “no name brand” clothes in the USA are super cheap (take notice), and that everyone in Bronx / Queens were such nice peoples. Bud. he’s telling me the rough areas of our country are a cake walk for him. I’m bracing for impact is all I gotta say.

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Those nation-wide boating accidents are happening more frequently.

It must be the same people that are burning down food processing plants and oil refineries.

We should tell Brandon to hire less arsonists for his administration.

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Jean will e-mail you a monthly price list and the available beans in stock. They said minimum orders directly from them are 1000+ lbs. and you have to haul it yourself. Maybe ask the lady up front any details you need to know beyond what I told you here.

You can order 25 lb bags from WinCo in the bulk food section and they get it to the store near you, but they will mark up the cost roughly 50% from what you see on the monthly price sheet. All you have to do is call bulk foods and they’ll take the order, call you when its ready, and you pay when you pickup.

I tried to sprout garbanzo beans and they did not sprout so I can’t say for certain other beans will sprout. The ones I mentioned I know sprout for sure.

Also, their bulk bags of popcorn sprout and grow well.

Last time i checked they had no whole peas, I wanted a few bags for a potential cover crop.

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For animal food like grain with molasses. DE is used as an “anti-caking supplement”. I guess that means it prevents the food from clumping together so much the animals don’t want to eat it. So, in essence you can add a bit of molasses to your grain, then add DE as a mineral supplement. You might want to google all the minerals that are in DE.

This is kind of the old school way done before fertilizer was readily available.

DE can be a soil amendment, you want to mix it in the soil before planting. Or you can add it to water.

Water dispersal is tricky because the DE does not stay suspended in water for long. Your soil must drain well and accept water quickly for this to work. I recommend sandy loam or peat moss with vermiculite, then i take that and mix it 1/2 and 1/2 with my local dirt. Sometimes sand is added to keep the soil from clumping when wet. helps drainage.

I add a fist size volume of DE and a fist size volume of molasses in a 5 gallon bucket, stir frantically and immediately pour onto already wet soil. I have tried to “reasonably overfeed” blooming tomatoes with this mix and failed to see any negative effects. I don’t have an accurate measurement of how much to put on each plant. I increase application rate on plants as soon as i see flower petals start to open up.

The molasses makes all of my seed stock smell like bee pollen or just sweet pollen in general.

I verified it when both my daikon and pea seed had the same smell when dried and in jars.

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Yes! I’m the guy that picked up the “bad veggies” from the back of a grocery store chain to feed animals.

I planted Miyashige Daikons so the tops would regrow and seed for me. Some of the carrots will survive for more than 1 year of seeding. They are monsters.

I also did some Detroit beets for seed and that went well also.

Most of the bad veg went to my chickens, they are savages and hunt mice and snakes. For egg layers, White LegHorns are my favorite! I can’t believe how well they survive the wildlife while free ranging.

There’s a reason FogHorn LegHorn is a cartoon character.

The store closed down 6 months ago so I don’t get fresh old veggies anymore but I tell you what, I fed a lot of “2 legged animals” with that free deal.

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Hiding in my hole the past decade coming up with ways to help everyone.

I try not to leave the house if at all possible. And my sleeping schedule is erratic so I have extra time to think. My boss is an A-hole but at least I’m self employed.

I’m pounding out as much as I can because the symptoms of Europe collapsing are enough evidence for me to think we are on the cusp of the collapse. I’m hoping someone will take notice of a few of these ideas and use them to make life better.

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Thank you for the compliment, I MacGruber stuff all the time.

The reason there are rows of 6 red but only rows of 4 blue is because blue requires more voltage to run for some reason.

The red parameters ran on 1.8V-2.1V, While the blue ran roughly 2.8V-3.2V.

They are wired in series to get to the 12V rating needed to run each rail.

The array is built on a 12V grid so it will pull the necessary juice to run and run off a battery system. My main issue with running directly off a 12V battery is the LEDs will run at 100% all the time, I prefer to wire mine running at 65-70% of their maximum wattage capabilities. It improves energy transfer efficiency and reduces heat run off, increasing the longevity of the LED as well.

I think the hot glue can only transfer so much heat to the heat sync before it melts again and the LEDs would get loose. Once again I had no problems with this potential issue but its there. In hot climates, the weather plus the LED heat build up might partially melt the glue. I wouldn’t be surprised.

Running them at 100% can kill them within a few years time I’m told.

My 110W array never lost a bulb either and it ran at 100% but only for around 6-12 months straight id say.

LED’s put out heat, so if you decide to ever make one yourself, make sure the heat sync is big enough to remove the heat. add recycled computer fans, i dunno.

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Yes, the alkalinity and protein combo is supposed to piss off mold.

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FYI, poor air circulation is a main cause of powdery mildew. Most people remove the bottom foot of leaves from tomatoes and other plants solely so the air can breathe thru the plant. And that removes unwanted humidity traps.

Powdery mildew does not like alkaline stuff, I don’t usually get any mold on my stuff and I suspect it is from using diatomaceous earth as a soil amendment / supplement. Its calcium so it has an slight alkalinity i assume. I suggest adding a bit of DE to your soil during preparation, or taking a fist sized amount and disperse into 5 gallons water. Then quickly stir and pour so the DE does not settle out of the water solution.

My mammoth melting snow peas got a little powdery mildew this summer but it was wet and they were partially shaded til noon, the other half of the same row was fine. Sometimes its just bad weather that messes stuff up. I kept cursing the weather this summer because high winds kept blowing over my Daikon radish flowers for seed. It is what it is.

The seed company which I will not name but you all have heard of….. I talked to the seed specialist and he said hes never seen pea leaves that big before…….ever.

I told him of my supplements and he said he was going to go get some. lolol

I’m in mold hell near Canada so I’ve had to test a lot of weird stuff. I have to say feeding the plant with certain things, keeping the greenery dry, and proper manicuring for ventilation are the 3 biggest helpful things I was able to do to prevent molds.

Here’s my pea pics for verification

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Yeah, it’s Mullein. It grows naturally in my backyard.

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YES THIS!!! It’s also called indian toilet paper, its the softest leaf stuff around. lolol

The seeds were used by natives to knock out fish for easy harvesting, fyi its illegal as hell to fish this way now.

Study this plant, its versatile as hell.

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I would like to remind everyone that we have a wonderful opportunity coming in the next few decades.

A grand solar minimum allows extra cosmic radiation to hit the earths surface. I suspect this will mutate plants, some for the better or worse. If something odd happens to your veggie plants and you like what you see or taste……please keep the seeds.

I recently had purple Russian fingerlings grow white eyes. The only potato I could find online that looked similar were the “Masquerade Potato”……Which does not have purple meat.

So…..Um……What should we name it?

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I had the pleasure of meeting a Cuban born USA citizen. He was a real bastrd, called me dum dum all the time…worked for the g man.

He got caught on a mission in South America and they ripped his whole upper palette worth of teeth out, he managed to escape when 1 guard went on a bathroom break. He had cigarette burn scars all over him.

He said that a nail (hammer nail) in Cuba was basically currency, trade them like dollars.