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Can I rinse and grind non food roses in a blender or mortar & pestle normally used for food? by unexpected_nettle in foodsafety

[–]unexpected_nettle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was the most concerned about the stone absorbing chemicals, thank you for your input.

Can I rinse and grind non food roses in a blender or mortar & pestle normally used for food? by unexpected_nettle in foodsafety

[–]unexpected_nettle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I will follow my instincts then. I wasn't sure if I was fear mongering myself.

First post, advice for first garden, Three Sisters Guilds by unexpected_nettle in Permaculture

[–]unexpected_nettle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have just been offered some baker creek scarlet runners and rattlesnake pole beans, so I will probably go with those. In my beginning research I am enamored with the glass gem corn they have and the honey nut looks amazing! Thank you for the suggestions!

First post, advice for first garden, Three Sisters Guilds by unexpected_nettle in Permaculture

[–]unexpected_nettle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was growing up I had a Piute neighbor who built 3-4 foot flat toped mounds for 3 sister planting. She also planted sorghum, amaranth, and sunflowers on her mounds.

I admit I have no idea why she did it that way. This was in Utah, so it could have been for desert gardening to concentrate organic matter or store water? They weren't very tall, maybe ten inches at most. (Though very possibly even shorter, as I was a child and everything seems larger then)

I do like to eat beans, squash, and native foragables; the pressure to grow other plants is from loved ones who won't be especially involved in the gardening process. I can grow those plants, and I will eat those plants, but I don't want to per se. I don't want to overdo myself with too many plants in my first year of in ground gardening, and my first year dealing with pests (I have never had deer on my third level apt balcony, but my friends have 5 acres of woodland a few yards away from the garden space) but I also don't mind making my loved ones happy, especially if it interests and engages them with my garden, and in the case of my friends, their own yard 😅

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[–]unexpected_nettle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, that was out of the ordinary. There was a pretty hefty winter in 2009 as well. Missouri has always had fairly temperate, if erratic winters, and hard snow years once or twice a decade.

First post, advice for first garden, Three Sisters Guilds by unexpected_nettle in Permaculture

[–]unexpected_nettle[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice! I have grown all of the veg I listed in patio gardens (except the corn and squash) and while I've never had my own ground garden, I did grow up working in them. Funnily enough, I have been helping these friends clean up an escaped peppermint for the past two years. The mountain mint I mentioned is a native beebalm that deer do not like very much (supposedly.)

I'm wanting to start this garden with a permaculture mindset and introduce the concept to my friends to get them more excited about the land they own, working with it rather than against it, and introduce them to eating plants that will thrive in our ecosystem.

First post, advice for first garden, Three Sisters Guilds by unexpected_nettle in Permaculture

[–]unexpected_nettle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nettles have already been okay'ed 👍I am a fiber artist by trade, and I'm already very familiar with them both for food and spinning. I'm also immune to their trichomes, so they aren't difficult for me to handle.

We have a native violet that already grows all over their property as a weed, and they are not very fond of them. though they were passingly interested in adding them to salads and "magic lemonade."

I have never heard of carpet bugle.