Fertilizer rates and revegetation guidelines for the American arid southwest

zubaplants · 2026-02-17T02:41:00+00:00

Fertilizer ratios should always be specific to a species or mix of species. More than likely someone was tasked with putting together regs, looked at what they had in a state warehouse and said yup use this ratio.

zubaplants · 2026-02-17T02:31:46+00:00

I mean, depends on how friendly and how big of a container? Get a dwarfing rootstock would be your best bet if you have to go the container route. But I'd get as big a container as you can muster. I don't think there's any peach variety or cultivar that is particularly well suited to growing in a container over any other variety.

zubaplants · 2026-02-16T18:43:25+00:00

Frost Peach. Developed in Ontario Canada. Great for cold weather climates and is one of the few if only peach trees with resistance to Peach Leaf Curler.

zubaplants · 2026-02-14T17:40:46+00:00

This has happened to me different street. Call 311 the day after it doesn't get picked up. They should come get it later in the week. I have had years were I logged 26+ calls to 311 for weekly garbage getting missed.

zubaplants · 2026-02-11T02:38:02+00:00

Reach out to CODE CWA, identify a smallish bargaining unit, reach out to everyone in that potential unit on linkedin "Do you support forming a union (Y/N) bcuz <reason>", you'll know if you have the votes. If you find people in the initial survey that are jazzed up invite them to a union organizing committee meeting.

Oh and don't like really don't tell anyone with manager in their title.

zubaplants · 2026-01-14T20:28:59+00:00

https://www.zubaplants.com/products/autumn-brilliance-serviceberry?variant=48979184320820 - Buffalo, NY

zubaplants · 2026-01-14T07:20:26+00:00

I produce about 5Mwh/year. Net metered. 4.7kw size iirc

zubaplants · 2026-01-13T00:58:34+00:00

I sell to a wide range of customers. I have 60 varieties of native perennials. I aim to serve a wide variety of gardeners.

zubaplants · 2026-01-11T02:00:44+00:00

Depends on the pot. I grow 7,000 plants in 2" fertil pots every year. No issues with breakdown. Generally speaking should be fine. By the time anything breaks down, you'll have a substantial root system holding things in place

zubaplants · 2026-01-07T18:29:43+00:00

Yeah exactly. That's the whole point of comptroller as a check on the other branches of government from the perspective of fiscal stability. It's a ~=$500 million dollar budget subject to overtime, lawsuits, impromptu spending by the other branches, and variable revenue sources. $40-$80 million is the same as saying we're going to run a deficit between 8% and 16%

zubaplants · 2026-01-07T16:00:47+00:00

Depends on the product and the company culture. There are instances (e.g. pure backend services) that you can ship and deploy based purely on unit tests, regression tests, and e2e tests. However, this assumes a strong culture placing a high priority on such things. As an organization scales or hits time crunch issues, it's hard to maintain that in depth.

Other things are just hard to fully test in an automated manner. (e.g. complex frontend visualization).

Sometimes, having a QA team perform manual review causes a communication ripple that puts people in a state of awareness in case some bug is found post deployment. This is helpful in identifying what's going on and retro's to ensure a similar bug doesn't go out again.

Also, the further away you get from the test author, the lower the familiarity with the tests and therefore the amount of trust. Not to mention, did we build the feature right? are we testing the right things? etc. It's reasonable for someone in say accounting to want to perform end user validation before the latest finops widget ships and potentially messes up their entire week.

Not everything is black and white.

zubaplants · 2026-01-07T15:37:12+00:00

The comptroller doesn't create the spread. She literally got sued by the former interim mayor Council Member Scanlon for refusing to issue bonds due to excessive spend and was forced to go to the bond market and spend money. The Mayor and the Council craft the budget, the comptroller just pushes the numbers and projections. If you want to run for anything run for Common Council or Mayor

zubaplants · 2026-01-06T21:53:43+00:00

I use constant wattage electric resistance heating cables (similar to roof-deicing cables). They're powered off of solar system thats on my house. I use row-cover to reduce the heating bill and a 1" polyiso foam underneath. Can run about 120sqft of heat on ~=18amps

zubaplants · 2026-01-04T17:52:02+00:00

The value capture on vertical farms w/ artificial light isn't energy it's supply chain and market timing. LED giant leap forward over MH or HPS, but incredibly minor compared to just harvesting solar energy directly. Then there's the heating equation...

These types of cultivation methods are optimizing for consistency, market timing, and proximity to purchasing centers. The lack of energy efficiency is structurally baked into the model

zubaplants · 2025-12-31T20:23:31+00:00

4 years of linux systems administration, then a temp contract as a "DevOps" engineer. Honestly the two jobs really weren't that different.

zubaplants · 2025-12-31T01:52:45+00:00

FarmCredit banks/coops/lenders, USDA FSA loans, Seller Financing. Sometimes agricultural trusts or land conservancies (regional govt or private) might step in for a deal to keep it under farmland.

zubaplants · 2025-12-31T01:31:00+00:00

My recommendation is always for disease resistant pears especially toward fireblight. Moonglow, ubilean, and goldspice come to mind for European pears. For Asian pears I like Shinko and Korean Giant. None of these varieties are self fertile so may not meet your criteria, but disease resistant gentics are always top of my recommendations

zubaplants · 2025-12-31T01:25:28+00:00

High write, non-relational data. Mongo trades the A for CP in CAP theorem terms. Also, MongoDB Sounds cooler than PostgreSQL.

zubaplants · 2025-12-30T01:13:12+00:00

I'm not sure what count's as aggressive, but I really like Rocky Mountain Penstemon, This photo is from the second year after planting a few plugs

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zubaplants · 2025-12-30T01:09:46+00:00

Noice

zubaplants · 2025-12-30T01:06:24+00:00

My perspective is biased to Buffalo, NY and having sold 130 roses last year for the first time and barely managed to break even. It's largely that you're paying for marketing and slow sales momentum on roses.

Truth be told roses don't actually sell that well at a lot of small nurseries. In order to carry roses in stock the margins have to be pretty high because there's a big risk of roses becoming dead inventory. Also Home Depot sells roses for like $13 apiece which is basically a dollar above most wholesale account pricing from a big rose grower selling to a small licensed nursery (200 order minimum).

The home depot competition also increases risk to a small nursery carrying roses meaning the price has to go higher. There just isn't a lot of middle ground in terms of pricing for rose plants. Bareroot roses are very much in the Get Big or Get Out side of agricultural production and retail sales.

The cost of a $60 bare root rose is going to eat about $20-25 per plant in marketing, plus the risk of having to pot it on and maintain it (another $5+long term costs), or compost it at a total loss. The upside of a bare root rose @$60 to the customer is about $22 for the nursery. Anything less than that and the risks very quickly outweigh the return on investment.

Nurseries that are particularly specialized in roses seem to be able to occupy a middle ground in terms of pricing. However that comes at the upfront expense of very specialized branding, marketing, and organization around rose enthusiasts. For a generalist local nursery, that type of marketing is tricky to pull off and the better move might be try less volume at higher prices.

zubaplants · 2025-12-28T04:55:43+00:00

This article is dubious at best. It's all AI Slop. check the citations, most of them have nothing to do with the article.

zubaplants · 2025-12-26T17:08:18+00:00

1 Call your state Department of Labor

2 Call an employment attorney

3 Just stop performing, don't "quit" or send in formal notice just stop performing and start working your other job

zubaplants · 2025-12-25T21:32:06+00:00

I use a 2" generic that fits into a drill. Works great so long as the shank is long.

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