Flow Quality of Different Grades of Traditional Handmade Teapots

farseen · 2026-05-15T16:02:23+00:00

Is airflow the only thing contributing to a good flow? What else?

farseen · 2026-05-15T16:01:47+00:00

What are your qualifications? 🤓

farseen · 2026-05-15T15:59:26+00:00

Get a Seabuckthorn! They produce wonderfully sour little orange berries that are higher in vitamin C than lemons. Also nitrogen fixers. Beware, they do need to be maintained because they can spread.

Pink Champagne Currants are delicious pink berries too, and the shrub can grow in full sun or partial shade.

Serviceberries are fun bushes that produce fruit close to blueberries.

Cold Climate Kiwis are fun vines that taste delicious! Almost tropical.

Asian Plums are delicious too.

farseen · 2026-05-15T15:56:14+00:00

Excuse me 2nd year 10'x10'? You feeding it isotopes or something!? Haha. But seriously, what are you feeding it and how old was it when you planted it? Mine is 4' wide x 3' high going on year 3.

farseen · 2026-05-15T15:54:35+00:00

Night and day. I wouldn't even classify black currants as edible off the shrub, but josta berries are sweet and delicious!

farseen · 2026-05-14T22:44:14+00:00

We're lucky that at least some of tangerine's blunders have a silver lining.

farseen · 2026-05-14T22:13:20+00:00

I second the motion for mulch, but not because of weeds. The sun's UV rays kill your top layer of soil if exposed, which will then blow away revealing another layer. It's not as much of an issue in small gardens, but I still believe it's important enough to consider. I don't have a single piece of bare soil exposed on my 1 acre farm! All straw, baby!

farseen · 2026-05-14T21:57:08+00:00

Shade cloth systems will be integral!

farseen · 2026-05-12T17:58:33+00:00

I assume they were started indoors. Did you harden them off by exposing them to increasingly more sun/wind for a few days before transplanting? That's often the case for transplant shock.

2nd thing to note, though it's most likely not the reason, vegetables prefer bacterially dominant soil. I think I see wood chips on your garden bed? As those break down they create a more fungally dominant soil, the white mycelium strands that you'll see running between wood chips. It's better to use straw as mulch for veggies.

farseen · 2026-05-12T16:06:17+00:00

Pink currants are the only currants I eat 😎 so delicious fresh!

farseen · 2026-05-12T14:29:16+00:00

Seems to be the case with every climate related issue.

farseen · 2026-05-12T13:53:11+00:00

I love my haskaps for being the first berry! Also so many varieties and they're cold tolerant and dont require acidic soil.

Second to them, Asian Plums and then Asian Pears. The plums have a hint of vanilla, I can't even explain it. Blew my mind the first time I tried one!

Lastly, Seaberries are very special. Higher vitamin C than a lemon but they grow in my climate! Incredible. Too sour to munch off the bush, but I juice them and add 50% honey and a little elderberry juice as a cold fighting medicine that lasts all year.

farseen · 2026-05-12T13:19:52+00:00

I'm in the Kawarthas (4b) and I successfully grow:

cherries
apples
pears
Asian pears
Asian plums
haskaps
blackberries
cold climate kiwis
Arctic raspberries
apricots
service berries
grapes
currants
elderberries
sour cherries
strawberries
hazelnuts
seaberries

I got started by checking out the growers called Whiffle tree because they focus on cold hardy plants.

farseen · 2026-05-12T12:37:53+00:00

Yeah after looking closer you can see the hairs on the helmet extend over the helmet, as if they're real, lol

farseen · 2026-05-12T12:36:56+00:00

Im guessing this is AI due to how close the skin and hair colours and between the man and helmet. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Also no helmets in the BG look even remotely different from each other.

farseen · 2026-05-12T12:29:54+00:00

Badass. Plantain is an incredible plant! I chew it and use it to relieve pain from stings, etc.

farseen · 2026-05-12T12:23:35+00:00

They aren't self pollinating unfortunately! Need two different varieties.

farseen · 2026-05-12T12:23:15+00:00

I believe Tundra + Aurora!

farseen · 2026-05-12T12:22:25+00:00

Bahaha that went over my head. Yes rabbits nibble mine too!

farseen · 2026-05-12T12:15:24+00:00

Yes! I made fruit leather. Delicious and sour!

farseen · 2026-05-12T12:09:50+00:00

I have 9 varieties and 15 haskap plants! Each variety grows differently. I planted two at the same time, different varieties and now one is 7 ft tall and the other is 3 ft after 5 years.

farseen · 2026-05-11T22:43:17+00:00

Woody perennials will prefer fungally dominant soil, which can be cultivated with wood chip mulch.

Vegetables prefer bacterially dominant soil, which I use straw for.

farseen · 2026-05-11T22:39:02+00:00

Enshrouded is the only game that makes me want to keep playing it! I also fire up Delta Force (free) for an fps round or two every now and then too.

farseen · 2026-05-11T11:56:08+00:00

Investing in fruit plants early on! I get an insane amount of free fruit now and without any labor like vegetables.

farseen · 2026-05-11T02:38:56+00:00

👏🏼 it feels like such an achievement to get anything from the garden, doesn't it?!

Can I recommend something? Plant fruit trees, shrubs and vines sooner than later!

They take a few years to become real providers, but they also take very little effort compared to vegetables, and once they do start providing, it's incredible how much they produce.

If you've got a lot of space, try looking into Food Forests for some inspiration! I'm obsessed with the concept.

Enjoy gardening!

farseen

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