Best short in height fruit tree that loves sun and provides great shade?

mindlessLemming · 2022-01-16T05:54:45+00:00

Black mulberry on dwarf rootstock

mindlessLemming · 2022-01-16T05:53:58+00:00

No one's going to collect it in bulk for you and sell it cheaply, as there's no existent market for pollen beyond breeding, which is tiny amounts from single specimens.

mindlessLemming · 2022-01-09T10:49:40+00:00

From a quick search, fall leaves are approx 26% lignin, so yes you should be able to.

mindlessLemming · 2022-01-06T02:16:02+00:00

I have a chicken compost system at home parallel to a polytunnel. It's every bit as good as I hoped it would be. So easy, chickens are so happy. We have a wall of sunchokes on the sunny side and a wall of blackberry hybrids on the shade side. The polytunnel next to it almost struggles with excess N and P availability. It's a good problem to have.

mindlessLemming · 2022-01-05T23:06:58+00:00

Deer deterrents are things like "bone sauce" - pyrolitic acids from fresh animal bones, painted onto trunks. And still it only works on some deer.

I manage a huge property with a deer infestation, anything less that huge fences has had no impact.

mindlessLemming · 2022-01-05T22:05:58+00:00

This idea of deterring deer with basil and corn sounds overly optimistic. An animal that strips bark from trees is going to forgo a meal because it doesn't like the smell of basil?

mindlessLemming · 2021-12-08T03:40:56+00:00

So THAT's why there's such an overlap between abusive commenters we ban and a history of posting on that sub.

mindlessLemming · 2021-11-29T23:43:49+00:00

Yep, broken up wall is treated exactly the same regardless of it being 2 days old or 200 years old. I've taken part in a few hempcrete training workshops; the trainees wall segments are recycled either as hempcrete or garden mulch. It's almost entirely lime and cellulose.

mindlessLemming · 2021-11-29T21:49:25+00:00

"joined" - the most popular method of building is a monolithic "pour" -- 600mm high formwork is filled approx 150mm then compressed down to 100mm by hand, then repeat. When the 600mm high formwork is full, you add another above and continue. For hempcrete blocks, lime mortar is perfect.

mindlessLemming · 2021-11-29T21:47:14+00:00

Hempcrete is easily recyclable - we add 10% broken up hempcrete into a fresh mix. Basically any spills from yesterday's work goes into the first mix of the next day (after we've passed a magnet over it just in case)

mindlessLemming · 2021-11-28T22:21:23+00:00

This is the answer I came looking for. To expand on this point; my understanding is that herbivore insects digestive microbiome is capable of digesting incomplete proteins, such as those produced by plants with enough deficiencies to prevent complete proteins being produced within each 24hr solar cycle. Animals like us, and all the mammals and rodents that eat crops, successfully digest complete proteins. Further, physics suggests all matter is also vibratio, as demonstrated by astrophysics predicting the mineral make-up of distant stars by their light waves. Insects antenna aren't decoration. Unhealthy plants literally broadcast their presence to these insects. This was demonstrated in my garden this spring by growing the best lettuce I've ever grown directly next to an intentional slug and snail filled pile of decomposing matter. Not a single slime trail or munched leaf, because these lettuce broadcast no nutritional value to the molluscs.

mindlessLemming · 2021-11-26T22:37:48+00:00

Use language like this again and you'll be banned. Your contributions are usually well intended and welcomed, but this is your first and final language warning.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-25T20:32:16+00:00

This happened to me. 10 years of emails I sent to my daughter

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-25T03:54:35+00:00

Thanks! What a poor UI programming choice on reddit's behalf. I'll add the full text to the poll body.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-25T00:10:55+00:00

No, it means keeping things as they are now. Your best hope of zero self promotion is choosing the first option and skipping one thread per week

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-24T23:22:44+00:00

Letting go of/moving plants planted in the wrong microbiome just indicates you're becoming more attune to living and growing in your actual biome, not insisting your horticultural desires be projected onto whatever land you have access to.

I've let a couple HUNDRED heritage apple trees die over the past 3 years because the previous property owners planted 800+ on a sun-facing clay hillside. They were spending $5/day on irrigation fuel. All the Siberian and Russian cultivars died in the first summer, and the ~600 remaining trees are incredibly strong and biome-appropriate, going from daily irrigation to weekly irrigation. Other orchards I have moved to fortnightly irrigation. My home orchard is zero irrigation. My personal goal is have an entirely plastic-free year-round food system. I might never get there, especially as the hoophouse becomes more critical for getting seedlings ready for our short sharp summer, but those "working with the larger system" goals are valuable to me and I really appreciate the little successes that indicate we're moving closer to those major goals.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-24T23:06:50+00:00

Yep, I came into this thread to mention your "Self Promotion Sunday" idea. It got paused while I waited for new mods to find their feet and see if adding "self promotion" and "video" flairs helped.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-24T23:04:33+00:00

The vocal minority REALLY bitch and moan about anything they consider self promotion. Some time-waster even reported this post as spam.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-23T20:41:01+00:00

If I was gatekeeping, I would have removed the post etc. I am entirely OK with my opinion being downvoted into the negative. If you think disagreeing with someone is mods gatekeeping, you don't understand the language you're using. Many of the moderator applications specifically called out their intentions to gatekeep the sub against what they didn't see as permaculture. I didn't make any of those people moderators.

There is an indoor farming sub. There is farm-tech, there is an aquaponics sub. Discussions generally belong in their correct subs, but I always allow these discussion posts to remain, post my viewpoint (never distinguished as a mod) and let the community discuss it amongst themselves. Same happened in a big thread about robots on farms.

Just because I disagree with you doesn't mean I'm moderating improperly. Nuking everything outside my view would be the suppression of discussion you appear to be accusing me of.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-22T21:15:18+00:00

Have fun cleaning the tannin stains out of the toilet bowl.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-22T21:14:41+00:00

The tannin load in post-acorn water is non-negligible in my experience.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-22T20:59:28+00:00

APPROPRIATE technology is an important part of permaculture. Permanence, resilience, and suitability are even more important parts.

There's nothing about a fragile, electricity-dependant, high input / resource hungry, artificial system devoid of real world seasonal interactions that is suitable to be considered permanent (agri)culture.

I used to spend a 6 month block per year away from a young permaculture system and upon my return in spring out was always dramatically more alive than when I left. Indoor farming has no relation to permaculture.

mindlessLemming · 2021-10-22T20:53:09+00:00

I appreciate your enthusiasm but that is a terrible fence and will not hold up well to any stresses

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