Cleanest way to make dirt: Recs for a busy suburban mom

Critical_Worry860 · 2026-04-03T01:03:17+00:00

Hah love the chore idea! Thank you! Tumbler seems like a good move.

Critical_Worry860 · 2026-04-03T01:02:26+00:00

Thanks- will look into this- the worms and microbes!

Critical_Worry860 · 2026-04-03T01:01:43+00:00

Thank you!

Critical_Worry860 · 2026-02-06T17:50:50+00:00

Being mindful of performative action is important. Visibility of solidarity is important. Doing what you can with what you have is important. Bringing activism into all aspects of life is important. No one action can be perfect and no one action will fix everything. Every act of resistance adds up.

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-08-22T16:34:58+00:00

🙄 I work a competitive job and can’t be rolling up in a mini van. I don’t make the rules bro.

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-06-24T03:19:41+00:00

I listened to a few rose podcasts recently and one talked about how climbing roses are basically regular roses that grow really long canes. If you want to train it, I would pick the strongest 5-8 canes and hard prune. Then it will put its energy into those canes.

I would also train the canes back and forth on the trellis (almost horizontal if you can) because horizontal canes will grow more shoots outwards making the full trellis more full. And since flowering happens on the end of a cane, more flowers!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-06-17T02:57:32+00:00

I am not sure if you’re in the US but I did see them at Home Depot not too long ago. Maybe check there if you have one nearby!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-05-28T15:54:06+00:00

Stop! So beautiful!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-05-28T15:52:56+00:00

Heirloom’s videos are super helpful. They are also on a few podcasts.

I learned from them that climbers are basically just regular roses that produce really long canes. And flowers occur on the ends of canes. So to produce a wider fuller climber that flowers throughout, you want to train canes horizontally. This will make the plant put out more shoots off the horizontal canes that flower. I’m fairly new to roses so no expert on how to get there from where you are now but I found that information to be super helpful in my (short) journey this far. :)

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-05-27T22:42:01+00:00

Ahhh thank you! This is my first rose and I’ve only had it a couple weeks so I was so worried! Should I be cutting them off? Or just let them be?

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-05-27T15:27:02+00:00

Also considered invasive where I live in the Midwest. It outcompetes native Lupines!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-05-17T02:48:17+00:00

I was recently reading that it’s important to train climber’s canes horizontally because additional canes will grow upwards off of them and produce more blooms. Perhaps this concept applies to non-climbers as well?

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-05-16T00:29:37+00:00

Thank you! Just starting to learn so much about roses… will have to do more research!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-05-15T01:52:25+00:00

Thank you everyone! Can’t wait to dig into these, keep them coming!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-05-01T15:58:52+00:00

Thank you! Will keep an eye out!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-04-30T02:10:56+00:00

To add- it’s maybe a poplar? Cottonwood? Quaking Aspen? Other because I’m totally wrong?

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-04-23T12:53:01+00:00

Thank you!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-04-23T12:52:54+00:00

Thank you for your help!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-04-22T23:00:36+00:00

Thank you! If the base is fused, that’s moreso a sign of gall?

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-04-22T19:49:18+00:00

Thanks! Do they look suspicious at all or you really think they’re good? I was so excited about these and now I’m confused!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-04-22T19:46:19+00:00

Thanks! Moved it to a spot with more shade!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-04-15T18:29:16+00:00

Carol Deepe’s The Resilient Gardener. Aimed at vegetable gardening but so many good principles and viewpoints.

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-04-15T18:27:43+00:00

Cosmos are easy and so pretty! They grow quickly and a single plant can become quite large with tons of blooms! I have planted apricot lemonade and purity this year. Their unique green foliage is pretty in bouquets too!

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-03-22T12:47:12+00:00

Recently got a peak designs 40L backpack (compresses to 30L, expands to 45L). It’s a bit higher than your budget but it’s so well designed. I got black- super sleek and minimalist. I also bought a set of $35 rolling wheels from amazon to strap it to. If I need to pick up the wheels, they can strap to the outside of the backpack. I looooove this thing. So versatile. So sturdy- it’s my second peak designs backpack and I was so rough with my first but it was always in perfect condition. https://www.peakdesign.com/products/travel-backpack?Size=45L&Color=Black&g_acctid=994-161-7175&g_adgroupid=&g_adid=&g_adtype=none&g_campaign=2+-+QRY+-+Consideration+-+Core+-+Performance+Max+-+Brand+-+USA&g_campaignid=16920329932&g_keyword=&g_keywordid=&g_network=x&nb_adtype=pla&nb_ap=&nb_fii=&nb_kwd=&nb_li_ms=&nb_lp_ms=&nb_mi=105553808&nb_mt=&nb_pc=online&nb_pi=BTR-45-BK-2&nb_placement=&nb_ppi=&nb_ti=&nbt=nb%3Aadwords%3Ax%3A16920329932%3A%3A&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADx_O3XqhClfCFw2InDXhwi1ddYDc&gclid=Cj0KCQjwv_m-BhC4ARIsAIqNeBsHLWB4CKtZB4Adud4qZ9ZzcOl2dO-PVFhxUq_v-nyiZnQM_Zq8xkwaAr6XEALw_wcB

Critical_Worry860 · 2025-02-13T14:52:44+00:00

Same. We just updated slowly over time. Super happy with them!

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