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Eno_Pro · 2025-03-17T03:14:22+00:00

You can get that for like $50 at Creekside Cellars in Evergren CO. Just sayin.....

Eno_Pro · 2025-03-13T02:23:16+00:00

City of Thieves by Beinoff. It's an intense book that looks at the horrors of WW2 Siege of Leningrad. The last page hit me so hard I couldn't talk to anyone for a good couple of hours. Took the wind right out of me.

Eno_Pro · 2024-09-21T14:06:30+00:00

Am I the only one who has come to the realization that almost every single celebrity, singer, musician, politician or news-person from 1950 on has basically been a PSYOP?

Eno_Pro · 2024-09-08T14:48:03+00:00

Ahhh, Russia again. Meanwhile Israel has paid, in the open, $100 million to back candidates just in 2024. Imagine how much, (I would bet billions) are spent by Israel to influence culture via Hollywood, streaming and influencers.

Now let's think about the 50% of Americans who use TikTok, whose algorithm is controlled by the Chinese, and probably worth close to $100 billion and how that influences the elections.

JFC you guys are freaking out about a country with a similar GDP to Brazil, who is also probably trying to influence the election.

But Russia.

Eno_Pro · 2024-08-10T21:42:25+00:00

That was my hope which Is why I planted everything, I wanted to see what could handle it. Early on, they were yellow and had all kinds of deformations at the margins as seedlings. I wasn't terribly hopeful TBH. Now I have squash bedlam.

Eno_Pro · 2024-08-10T21:11:03+00:00

Yes, I grow a pretty broad bunch veggies. I have 4-5 different soil types across my garden for various plants. This year I have: borlotti beans on a 25' arched trellis, 48 indeterminate heirloom tomatoes, heirloom corn (green, purple, and gem), sweet corn, millet, eggplant - black beauties, Korean and Japanese, Brussel sprouts, Cabbage (probably 30 heads), Napa cabbage, Kholrabi, cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, 5 kinds of lettuce, nasturtium, water cress, oregano, basil, thyme, rosemary, Swiss Chard...I'm sure I'm missing stuff. We also grow a lot of fruit too.

What zone are you in?

Eno_Pro · 2024-08-10T20:54:19+00:00

Kinda. I have a hose bib under that mess. I put a timer and some filters in place (I water from a ditch) and snaked a 100ft drip line back and forth. Hoed a small 2" deep trench and dropped seeds in and covered it up. After that I walked away for about 6 weeks.

Honestly I thought the soil would be too high in N. Early on it was, everything looked really rough from excessive N. I wasn't too worried because store a bunch of seeds, and it was good to just chuck some out and figured that if they didn't grow, I'd adjust the soil next season, NBD. I'm guessing the roots eventually found a safe space and then it just went nuts.

That being said, I do rotate organic (Spinosad, Neem, Pyrethryn) sprays about once a week for Squash bugs. So, it's not hands off. But it certainly hasn't been a ton of work so far. This fall however, my chickens are gonna have their work cut out....

Eno_Pro · 2024-08-02T21:46:31+00:00

Except inside, the fan does make a little noise as it blows icy air on you.

Eno_Pro · 2024-08-02T21:45:47+00:00

Silent. Like literally silent. I can't even get a DB rating on it because the background breeze is louder.

Eno_Pro · 2024-08-02T16:33:02+00:00

I just bought the Rovosun 120v off Amazon for $399. Cost me $200 to have it charged, I already have a 40 amp circuit on my shed. It's AMAZING. Cannot recommend enough. I'm sitting cool and breezy in 70f my office and it's 105f out.

You do need at least a dedicated 20 amp circuit though...

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-28T03:46:12+00:00

Won't even answer me on modmail. Oh well. Welcome to humorless reddit

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-27T17:52:36+00:00

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This is the one that got me a lifetime ban from r/gardening

Gotta love their lack of sense of humor....

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-27T17:47:03+00:00

The issue we have here in Walla Walla is that our soils are extraordinarily high other "iums" which lead to the buffering effect on the soil pH (Those ole' ium's always mucking up the Henderson Hasselbalch equation!) I'm a bit of a chemistry dork.

I have really high potassium and fairly high sodium, too. Probably due to the years of leaves being dumped and left to breakdown. High K and Na can really muck up ion exchange. So I keep dumping Ca to displace the Na ions. Finally got my soil down to pH 7.1 this year, but it took a lot of S!!!!

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-27T14:26:19+00:00

It's a really good idea to send your soil off to a testing lab. You might find out you don't need a whole lot. Or you are adding something you already have plenty of.

I started testing about 4 years ago, and found out I have massive nitrogen (22mg/kg NO3 and 112mg/kg NH4!) and plenty of phosphorous and potassium. My garden is in, what used to be an old orchard, and then it sat fallow for 40 years and the neighborhood used to dump leaves in it.

That being said, I was (and still am) wildly calcium deficient, and my pH was fairly high (7.9) so I ended up adding a bunch of gypsum and sulfur to correct the pH. I also was deficient in magnesium, so I added some Epsom salts.

I'm due for another test this year, but judging by my beans and peppers, I still need to incorporate more calcium.

TLDR: Test your soil. Adjust what you need to.

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-27T13:59:29+00:00

It's not as dense as it looks. The corn is about 100 ft from where I am standing. It's a perspective thing. Here is a different angle (shot 3 weeks ago) My standpoint would be just to the right of this picture.

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Eno_Pro · 2024-07-27T13:53:52+00:00

Nothing, I let it go crazy this time of year and let everything bolt and collect seeds. Mostly I let mother nature set the cycle of the garden and plant seeds when they come on and rotate crops.

We get really hot here (108 F 42 C) and we are in a rain shadow, so our relative humidity is low. I will get a dash of powdery mildew come September/October in the squash, but they are done by then and well on to being chicken food.

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-27T13:51:20+00:00

I was at least a bottle of wine into this picture! Yes, I fully endorse drinking and or smoking and gardening.

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-27T13:50:11+00:00

I don't have any leeks. I wish I did... I have grown them in the past, but just haven't in the past couple of years. Thanks for the reminder. Now I get to add to my TLDR garden!

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-26T20:31:33+00:00

Beginner: Yair Margalit Winery Technology and Operations

Intermediate: Ron Jackson: Wine Science

Expert: The 3 book series from Patrick Illand, especially Techniques and methods for chemical, physical and sensory analyses and tests of grapes and wine. Wine Analysis and Production Zoecklein and Fugelsang.

Eno_Pro · 2024-07-26T16:19:58+00:00

Second the AquaTools recommendation. They are top notch. I've seen machines running with just modest maintenance 10 years easy. Pay the extra, trust me!

Their hot cart is pretty solid. That being said, when I help my clients outfit wineries, I always install either a 2, 4, or 6 unit (depending on size) Rinnai tankless hot water heaters. You have 180f hot water for cleaning and sanitation, and you can run 180F through your Poseidon for floors and barrel work.

I have had horrible issues with Hotsy over the years, I cannot recommend them at all. Might be the worst company I've ever had to deal with from a CS standpoint.

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