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You know a plant is shallow rooted when it is a member of the bromeliad family!
Fill the pot in with mulch and dead leaves. Then add a few inches of your good soil to the top. Water it thoroughly in, then plant the pineapple ad water again. Remember that all bromeliads sip water out of their cups on their leaves, not necessarily much from their roots, and hate having wet feet. Brom roots are mostly for stabilizing the plant upward so it can catch and hold rainwater an condensation.
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Agree with the spraying the greenery off with a hose first before bringing inside. I overwinter my tropical cannas on the screened back porch if they have leaves and inside if they don’t to combat this problem.
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Now, I may be making an unwarranted assumption. But by asking this question can we assume you are in the deep south? Here at my homestead in west Florida I do not breed the rabbits at this time of year. I will start breeding again in September. Because losing kits to heat stress is awful and they seem to be able to handle our coldest nights alright with the fur lining the nest tub.
As for mastitis, just like in humans it is pretty rare. It will help her if you give her the highest quality feed available and lots of it. And just like in humans, mastitis is indicated by abnormal swelling and pus like discharge from one of the glands. Shouldn’t be all of them. Just like in humans, without any kits to feed her milk will stop and she will heal and be ready for breeding in a week or two
I would not move the kits between them.
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This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by Tentance-KnottyPots.
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What is your location? Here in the deep south we don’t usually grow tomatoes over th hot part of summer. We replant in the early fall. It’s called three season gardening if I remember.
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Hey there. We are in west Florida, and our family has been gardening and growing food here for over 40 years. In a nutshell, I have learned that keeping the soil cool, which in turns keeps the roots cool, is the most important thing when trying to get your veggies to thrive long enough in the high temperatures. This is why many southern gardeners use the hot part of summer (now through beginning of August) to solarize and rest the gardening areas, ie mulch fertilize and wait. Then in late August and early September plant the fall plants including another round of tomatoes, cabbage, etc. Lettuces all winter. Potatoes anytime that’s not summer. Garlic and onions anytime that not summer.
You say you are using containers, are these wicking bed containers? If not I would highly recommend wicking beds. Otherwise you gonna be watering every day like my dad does when the hot breezes come through and dehydrate all the plants.
I grow very little in containers, but what I do have is grown fully in rabbit manure and still has to be watered every 2 or 3 days unless it rains. Peppers, basil.
I grow a ton of stuff in wicking beds, but realize that the things I am growing are not conventional vegetables and they can handle the heat, ie water spinach, water hyacinth, canna, taro.
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Ìt would be really great to have a marketplace like Craigslist only geared toward homesteading type of things. I would like to buy and sell to locals primarily. Facebook seller doesn’t allow animals, and I could grow a lot of baby bunnies if I could reach the community better. I also grow and sell permacultùre plants, some of which are in my etsy shop, but am limited there because of the cost of shipping and what plants will ship well. Do you really want to buy fruit trees online? No of course not, but you might from a local homesteader!
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All that has already been posted might be true, but also sme plants just can’t take full sun, or if they do limp along with a decent watering schedule they might not make a good crop for you. I have had a lot of plants over the years like that. Are they in full sun in this heat? Do you have some growing in partial shade that you can compare to?
I do most of my growing in wicking beds and don’t even fool around with annuals like beans. Water hyacinth is my go to food and fodder source for the homestead. However, my dad grows cowpeas, in part shade, and he waters every day with drip irrigation.
Every day.
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I’m not sure why your post was in my feed but I absolutely love everything you have been working on. I long to get out of suburbia and I have a piece of cleared acreage with no infrastructure or access to utilities. Thank you for sharing your journey.
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It has been a long time. I apologize for not replying to your email, I guess I was just a tiny bit jealous that you moved even further south where there is absolutely no frost in the winter.
I did read one of your books on Amazon. And I did find the Florida rabbit feed article of mine you reposted on a Florida survival website a while back. That’s some flattery, right?
Your fellow permie
-Chrissy
http://KnottyPots.blogspot.com
Formerly Eat your Sand
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Use dream by wombo and a simple picture editing app to create an illustrated story of your work. Keep in mind that some of the concepts will need to be edited and explained, kids don’t know what monoculture, soil food web, or biodiversity is. This is, sadly, a failing of our education system.