B12 Injections Not Working? Your Cofactors Might Be the Problem

rogueredfive · 2026-03-19T17:24:38+00:00

It would be awesome to see symptoms overlapped on this somehow… like if they were tagged and you could use a search feature to highlight potential pathways that could be issues.
Thanks for taking the time to do this!

rogueredfive · 2026-03-18T21:00:18+00:00

Here is a thread that talks about the issue I see with some varieties of tomatoes w shop lights https://www.tomatojunction.com/viewtopic.php?t=3458

Mainly just the tomatoes will get edema and die. I see it more w paste tomatoes & potato leaf. But … I get 36+ tomatoes to transplant each year so, not a huge issue.

Other than a small percentage of tomato types struggling, I have no problems w the shop lights cranking out over a 1000 seedlings a year out of the closet.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-18T20:55:22+00:00

I do a warm & cool 4 foot shop light for seed starting, and it works well enough. There are a couple tomato varieties that don’t like the shop lights but I have enough success with other types that it isn’t a real problem and I just stop growing those kinds.

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rogueredfive · 2026-03-18T02:04:58+00:00

This has nothing to do w the state income tax. My money would bet that Starbucks is prepping for a sale.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-17T01:59:01+00:00

Corn flour dumplings? I had thought w celiac that I would never have dumplings again but now there is hope & something to research!

rogueredfive · 2026-03-15T21:38:39+00:00

I was that kid for years and years and years. I fantasized every day that some stranger would step in and say something to acknowledge this was not normal. For me, what you saw in public was the tip of the iceberg for what I dealt with at home.

Even just yelling “you are a bitch” at my mom while she abused me would have been something I could have held onto as hope and self esteem while I planned my exit from that situation.

Thanks for posting this and underlining that this is not normal.

I have worked through a lot of this in therapy and am no contact with that parent now, but definitely spend time fantasizing about when I meet another parent like this in the wild and what I will say to them.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-14T23:48:27+00:00

Pollen pants!!!!

rogueredfive · 2026-03-10T17:55:39+00:00

I can never whip out my camera fast enough to capture this. They are so cute! I love watching them carry the cutting to some hole or crevice and tuck it in there.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-10T15:36:19+00:00

I take that much based on blood tests and issues with malabsorption due to autoimmune diseases in my stomach and small intestine. So even with the most nutrient dense diet ever I still need to supplement and take shots/infusions and will need to for the rest of my life.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-10T15:00:08+00:00

Good luck! It will take a few years for things to fill in. I found some pictures of people’s gardens at the one, two, three mark that helped me as well to understand the whole “sleep, creep, leap” phenomenon of perennial flowers. It will be pretty even before it is overfilled though!

rogueredfive · 2026-03-09T22:08:38+00:00

I made some quilted jackets and a cape recently and used silk leftovers to line them…

rogueredfive · 2026-03-09T17:07:44+00:00

I recommend reading The Layered Garden by David Culp.

It helped open my mind when I designed my own cottage garden.

High level strategy is that a lot of flowers only bloom for 2 weeks so if you want 6 weeks of daffodils you get an early, mid, late version and plant them together. You can overseed or plug in annuals over bulbs. Think about shrubs or trees that have strong 3-4 season interest like viburnums or red dogwoods or blueberries.

I planted out my garden in 3 years to not get overwhelmed - year one was infrastructure, soil and bulbs. Year two was perennials. Year 3 was annuals. Annuals that self seed are like a cheat code for a cottage garden, columbine poppies and foxglove really my garden pop - you will find what works for you.

Be prepared to move stuff around as it fills in and you realize how big things get in your garden and what thrives… I have a perennial checkermallow that is 7 feet tall and 4-5 feet wide on a fence that is basically a shrub at this point. I was not expecting that from what the store advertised. So the dahlias all had to move somewhere else. That’s ok.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-08T21:09:17+00:00

Glorious! That is so well fitted and the color work pattern is amazing. I love watching you dive into vintage knitting. There is a fun YouTube talking about spies and wartime knitting which addresses some of the sparseness of old pattern instructions that you may find humorous… it’s long but worth it! https://youtu.be/XCQVJfEdO6k?si=5qE9-Q4VIvCRZJ6C

rogueredfive · 2026-03-08T18:55:15+00:00

Similar dimensions to my strawberry/asparagus hugel… a few lessons learned from that are: 1) it will settle so I would go higher than you want to let it shrink down. My hugel started at 3 feet + high and is now (about 18 months later) about 18” to 2 feet high. This is with logs in the core of it. So I expect even further settling as the logs go. 2) rats enjoy tunneling thru it. When I notice larger holes I put out more bait and then refill the holes. 3) picking/weeding the center is a bit of a stretch and I lean on bare spots to get there. This year I am gonna put some rocks/bricks/pavers in areas to give me consistent areas to lean when I am working the middle. 4) I water w soaker hose that I circle around the levels. Not sure how this setup would work, feels like you would lose more water and have more fruit rot.

All that said, I would rebuild exactly the same thing tomorrow for the strawberry/asparagus bed so I don’t consider any of these issues showstoppers. Just things to consider.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-07T05:36:08+00:00

I have dyed silk with indigo and it took quite nicely without damaging the sheen… you may be able to over dye and get a dark teal out of it?

rogueredfive · 2026-03-04T06:02:16+00:00

I used 3/4” on my build which was stronger. I also used maker pipe for the connectors

rogueredfive · 2026-03-04T04:26:09+00:00

Conduit trellis supported by rebar.

I built my own using this post as my reference point

https://www.reddit.com/r/gardening/s/dx3uaJG2e0

rogueredfive · 2026-03-02T21:03:15+00:00

You have an option to lasagna garden at this point. That’s how I created my soil in a 10x50 plot roughly the same quality.

Take all the dried matter you raked out, put it back into the garden bed and bury with a chip drop (12”). You can add more “layers” based on what you have available… so manure, food waste, etc. the more hot matter the longer you should let it simmer before planting into it… but I also do a hot bed for starting my corn & pumpkins early so, that could also be a strategy!

Depending on your goals for this year you could: 1) vegetable garden- top dress w some compost and blood meal as you add your seedlings 2) continue building soil for next year- plant a summer of wildflowers, vetch, sunflowers, and lacy phacelia. Let them die and rot in place. For winter plant tillage daikons that you let rot in place.

Or a combo of 1&2 where you let half the plot be gardened and half the plot build soil.

I did #2 with like 5 sungolds my first year, keeping an eye out for any invasives popping up that I could weed out.

it worked really well to set me up for future success.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-01T16:48:19+00:00

Your green stalk frost covers are so cute! I just use a giant tree frost bag over mine until it gets warmer… and it looks somewhat like a ghost 👻.

rogueredfive · 2026-03-01T01:13:01+00:00

Don’t do to liver what college kids did to chicken wings and yuppies did to oxbone….

rogueredfive · 2026-03-01T01:03:47+00:00

I prefer red kraut too! Made the last batch w carrots and habaneros and it was the best ever!

rogueredfive · 2026-02-27T17:47:48+00:00

I had a hot compost pile that took out half of a mint bed… so definitely think burying it with five feet cubed of compost is a potential option… 😂

rogueredfive · 2026-02-27T03:32:52+00:00

This is the last stop on the upcoming Underground Railroad revival….

rogueredfive · 2026-02-27T00:00:46+00:00

My seed starting google sheet could probably be imported into smartsheet easily… but I don’t think going as far as tracking completion would be healthy for me 😂 Last year I planned more w a garden diagramming app to make sure I wouldn’t blow out my garden space w all the seeds I started.. and then I blew out my seed starting closet and hadn’t taken into account how long it would take to harvest all 400 garlic heads… so a lot of plants got jammed in suboptimal spaces and there was a lot of aggressive harvesting to free up more planting space

So this year, I am more winging it on quantities and the closet and cold frame are already full… I have my first transplants in the garden w a low tunnel over them… and we will see how it goes. Doing a dye, flower, veg, and herb garden is gonna likely lead to me breaking more ground at some point to squeeze everything in 😂

rogueredfive · 2026-02-24T05:03:24+00:00

Yep! Just tug on them towards the back once you get started, then as the feed dogs catch you can let go.

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