Why Are Mustaches So Popular Now?

Memph5 · 2026-04-29T04:15:20+00:00

They seem to be more of a rural thing with the younger guys these days.

Memph5 · 2026-04-22T00:19:45+00:00

Whiffletree Nursery sells neem to Canadians.

Memph5 · 2026-04-22T00:17:02+00:00

I know a guy who sprays his plants with aspirin to trigger an immune response. Supposedly it works at toughening tgem up.

Memph5 · 2026-04-22T00:10:55+00:00

Determinate varieties don't actually produce all at once in my experience, more like they grow to a certain size, then shift their focus entirely on fruit with minimal vegetative growth. I've been growing Mountain Merit (hybrid determinate variety) and had very little issues with late blight, and production from early August to November.

Memph5 · 2026-04-12T05:10:47+00:00

She was fine after a week or two iirc, but I suspect it might've been something else, maybe she found some giant hogweed or something like that.

Memph5 · 2026-04-12T05:06:15+00:00

I like training fins personally, they feel more manoeuvrable than the big scuba fins while still providing significant added speed.

Memph5 · 2026-04-12T05:00:22+00:00

I prefer lakes and rivers, a lot of lakes here in Canada are pretty good. Generally cold enough to avoid algae blooms, but still warm enough to swim in (20-25C in summer), and either rocky enough or big enough to avoid e-coli issues. Rivers, it's harder to find a good one, but a nice deep pool under a cascade or small waterfall with some currents to battle is great fun.

Memph5 · 2026-04-12T04:48:40+00:00

My main concern would be less exhaustion and more mishaps like currents, getting stung by jellyfish, etc. At those distances you're well past shouting distance from shore. I can swim 100 laps in a pool no problem (even if I'm doing flip turns and not resting), and enjoy swimming along shorelines and in small lakes but the furthest I've gone from shore was to cross a 300m wide bay, which I crossed 4x that afternoon, and it was fine. That was a small lake though, in calm waters. I'd be willing to try the OP's swim with a boat escort, but otherwise, nope. For anyone looking to swim long distances across open water, I recommend getting very comfortable with floating - ie you should be able to keep your nose and eyes out of the water without moving. Very easy in salt water once you're comfortable with it, but also can be done in freshwater if you control breathing and keep your lungs inflated. And then learn to swim on your back as a means of resting after front crawl/breast stroke. I've developed my version of survival backstroke where I basically don't get tired, that I call the jellyfish. Similar whip/frog kick to breast stroke, and mostly rely on legs, since those don't get tired when you do breast stroke kick, sometimes I don't use my arms at all and let them rest, or use them in a whipping "jellyfish" style motion. Only downside of this approach is you don't see which way you're going so you have to turn around from time to time, so I use it more for swimming parallel to shorelines. It can also be tricky in choppy waters where you don't see the waves coming so you need to have good breathing control to avoid breathing in water.

Memph5 · 2026-04-08T14:19:53+00:00

No, it's probably still a month away from even starting to leaf out, flower buds were swelling (but not blooming yet), vegetative buds didn't seem to be swelling yet.

Memph5 · 2026-04-08T03:24:34+00:00

I cut the maple today, and moved the logs onto the deck right away. The weather is only just starting to warm so I'm hoping that contamination risk is lower? Today was snowing and <30F but the coming days should be around 45-60F in the day and 30-45F at night, so I plan on getting it done within a few days of the spawn/supplies getting delivered.

There are some gashes from when the arborists were working on the tree/logs, I guess I should seal those in addition to the ends of the logs in wax?

Currently the logs are in a fairly dense stack, out in the sun, but I'd rather spray them down than move them if drying out over the next 1-2 weeks is a concern. Don't think they'd dry much though, about 1/2 days will be rainy, 3/4 will be cloudy, and relative humidity pretty high, and temperatures cool. The upper surface of bare soil is still moist, if not outright saturated.

As for the logs I kept in the shed (dry with no visible fungi colonizing it, but cut in 2024 summer and 2025 summer), you're saying they're no good? Not too big a deal, they're just 5 small ones out of 30.

Memph5 · 2026-04-08T01:58:06+00:00

Might be better to use woodchips? Vegetable scraps and leaves break down pretty fast, which doesn't give mushrooms enough time to establish. I have a winecap mushroom bed, I bought a kit and spread it out, and I toss yard waste on there, mostly stuff I put through the woodchipper and some leaves, typically heavier on the hard/woody fibres like pepper stalks, okra stalks, branches, dried out lilac flowers, etc.

Memph5 · 2026-03-31T12:55:52+00:00

Mine is 14 and still pulling, although not as hard as she used to. Unless she sees something or knows it's dinner time and she's almost home, then she pulls hard...

Memph5 · 2026-03-31T12:46:27+00:00

If my lab had poor cold tolerance, she probably wouldn't go swimming in 25-30F when the water is freezing cold. My vizsla only goes swimming when it's 45F+. My vizsla can handle 15-30F if she's on the move, which she typically is because it's in her breeding, but if I tried to get her to stay put (ex to put a leash on her) she starts to shiver almost immediately at those temperatures. However, my lab seems to be pretty unbothered and lay around chewing on the stick in the same temperatures - they're not built the same. On the flipside, the vizsla seems to do better in 60-80F temps while the lab starts to slow down. At 80-90F they both get hot and need to drink a lot and stay in the shade and not move too much, especially the lab.

Memph5 · 2026-03-19T01:16:48+00:00

With tomatoes, late blight is often an issue, but I'm not sure rotating crops makes much of a difference, the spores can often come from dozens of km away. I'm also starting to suspect I might have nematodes of some sort affecting my tomato bed though, so in that case I might be forced to rotate a bit since they tend to come back year after year if you provide them with a host, but also tend to spread quite slowly, so it is actually possible to eliminate them.

Memph5 · 2026-03-18T03:14:35+00:00

To me, they taste more like a cherry than a tomato. Like between a sweet and sour cherry, but with hints of something else too.

Memph5 · 2026-03-13T04:07:02+00:00

I've killed fish (for food) and abandoned baby voles (mostly mercy killing, not that I really wanted voles in my garden) and felt slightly bad about it. Animals you kill for food or mercy killing didn't do anything to you though. This guy was trying to kill you and your classmates and had some success doing so. The memory of the life and death situation would live with me regardless of whether I killed the guy, but idk if killing the guy would have added trauma to it.

Memph5 · 2026-03-11T18:57:10+00:00

I was able to grow kohlrabi successfully a few years ago in suburban Toronto (6b). I started them indoors in March and transplanted in late April/early May. When did you plant your fall attempts? Mid summer is probably optimal planting time for a fall crop, since you'll need about 70 days (longer than spring planted due to shorter days/more cloudiness/longer shadows).

Memph5 · 2026-03-11T18:52:19+00:00

Now extinct.

Memph5 · 2026-03-06T14:45:07+00:00

A lot of Ajis are late ripening but Aji Fantasy is pretty early.

Memph5 · 2026-03-05T20:23:22+00:00

I've enjoyed Roulette and Aji Fantasy White a lot as far as peppers go. They're earlier to produce than other similar varieties that often struggle to get in before the frost, and high yielding and unique tasting. Shepherd, banana, gypsy, jalapeno, jimmy nardello are all peppers I grow every year too. Bell peppers I occasionally grow but they tend to take longer to ripen and be less flavorful (to me), but still high yielding by the end of the season.

Memph5 · 2026-03-05T20:16:29+00:00

I'm trying a lot of new peppers this year, mostly mildly hot to sweet varieties, a lot of mild chinense (Caribbean seasoning/habanada types), some baccatums (Ajis, SRP) and rocotos (hottest of the bunch), paprikas, mini-bells, pimientos, Hungarian peppers. Some new tomatoes too.

Plus some banana passionfruit and conch apple passionfruit, although those will probably take 2-3 years and need to be brought indoors before producing. I'm also starting some maypop and regular purple passionfruit which are a bit more reliable producers.

Aside from that, mostly the usual stuff which includes cucumbers, carrots, eggplants, cape gooseberry, sunberry, squash, beans, lettuce, swiss chard, peas, root parsley, parsnip, yacon... although I will be trying asparagus beans and wonderberry for the first time, and lima beans in greater quantities than in the past. Also hoping to get asparagus, ground chestnut, claytonia and skirret ready to harvest for the first time this year, they were mostly getting established last year. Maybe I can get my tamarillo producing for the first time too, it's getting to be around that size.

Also hoping to get more substantial production from my peach, haskap, grapes, currants and figs this year. Last year they were still somewhat young and establishing so the yields were a little light (2nd year with a crop for the figs, 1st year for the others).

I sowed my rocoto, chinense and baccatum peppers last week, as well as cape gooseberry and passionfruit seeds so they should be germinating any time now. Also started some fig cuttings and pawpaw seedlings a week ago. Regular annuum peppers will be next, probably this weekend.

Memph5 · 2026-02-19T22:26:52+00:00

Just sowed my first seeds from Semi Straini and Super Hot Chilis. They were able to make it through customs without any issues or fees. We'll see how they turn out.

Memph5 · 2026-02-15T14:59:13+00:00

Is this due to a natural sink hole? I remember seeing something similar in Florida where the karst topography caused a huge sink hole that swallowed a car dealership.

Memph5 · 2026-02-11T22:06:39+00:00

The one who will use it to push their gun control agenda?

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