41/ I'm still not seeing a half acre garden here - I'm seeing you do the same sort of hobby tier thing that I do (but much smaller).https://twitter.com/MichaelTG09/status/1487106125912846336 …
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52/ ...and it's turning into decent soil. ...so when folks talk about how people should MERELY garden 0.5 acres, I think about the 0.2 acres that I've been working on for several years, w back breaking labor, and intermittent success. (btw, zoom in on that last pix for rocks)
54/ when I get into these random pissing matches with people, it often seems, after analysis, that we're arguing about things that we don't necessarily disagree on ... and I've got a theory
55/ autists like me aside, people don't say what they mean they say things that exist in the same conceptual / mood cluster as the thing that they actually mean Someone thinks "I, a woman, have self worth". OK, fine. But then they SAY "women are just as strong as men".
56/ Why do they say that thing, and not the thing that they actually mean? (a) bc most people are fuzzy thinkers (b) when people want to express things, they reach into the grab bag of preformatted strings that society has provided them with, and pick one semi randomly
57/ so perhaps we've got a guy who does some homesteading and makes cider. He feels proud of what he's done and wants to express "this is a good life I've made for myself, and people should respect it". ok. fair enough. and we've got some OTHER guy who says ...
58/ "if 1 home out of 10 ran a 1/2 acre garden, and 1 home out of 50 raised hogs at a semi-commercial scale, that would blah blah blah" the first guy hears this, through a noisy filter, and perceives it as "homesteading is cool" [ but that's not what the actual words were ]
59/ so now our guy who homesteads and makes cider throws all in on "1 in 10 people should run farms in the suburbs". Not because he believes the claim. Not because he's even THOUGHT about the claim. But because the claim lives in the same bag as his emotional truth.
60/ so then an autist shows up and actually LISTENS to the claim...and the autist says "lol, raising hogs in the suburbs is a TERRIBLE idea". but normie homesteader again doesn't hear the words, doesn't evaluate the words what he HEARS is "your tribe bad; your lifestyle bad"
61/ so now our normie homesteader is very angry that someone is disrespecting his life choices like that [ even tho he isn't ] and starts reaching for a stick - any stick - to attack the hater. He accuses the hater of being lazy. He accuses him of not wanting to work hard.
62/ when the autist reveals that he does work hard, and has raised big gardens, and has split firewood, those words go unheard, unevaluated ... and our normie posts pictures of MUCH MUCH SMALLER gardens and MUCH MUCH SMALLER firewood, as evidence that the autist don't farm
63/ if the autist sells a massive 650 page book for about half the common retail price of such things, accuse him of "grift" and selling courses, even tho he doesn't sell courses and sells the books near break-even prices. ...bc none of it is about facts...
64/ ...it's all about defending the ego against a thing that ...isn't even an attack on the ego.
65/ new fren just DMed to ask > I recently moved on to a half-acre plot, and I want to do some small time hobby farming - vegetables and the like, maybe a couple of apple trees. Problem is that almost the entire lot is infested with mugwort, with strong and healthy rhizomes...
66/ > ...How do I get rid of it without completely destroying my soil's ecology I've never dealt w mugwort, but I have dealt w weeds and Japanese Knotweed. For weeds, I am a recent and enthusiastic convert to 2,4-D either alone or in a commercial mix of 2,4-D, 3,6-D. ...
67/ It is a liquid that you mix w water at like 1:50 and spray w a backpack sprayer, or a riding mower tow behind sprayer. It blocks an enzyme that broadleaf plants need to live, while doing no harm to narrowleaf (i.e. grasses).
68/ poaster mentions "rhizomes" (i.e. a thick root that has lots of carbohydrates and can spread a plant laterally). Again, no experience w mugwort at all, but knotweed has the same, and my approach there is 1) get an injection gun [ look on ebay ] and inject ...
69/ ...full strength (sold as "concentrate") glyphosate (i.e. roundup") into the step of the plant. This gets sucked down into the rhizome and kills it. ...then for the 1% that survives the glyphosate, use a pick and shovel to dig up the rhizomes and discard in a dumpster
70/ very well said 100 square feet makes sense 1,000 acres makes sense 0.5 acres is the worst of all words too much to hoe, too little to drag a tractor cultivator overhttps://twitter.com/SporadicE5/status/1487131058122506251 …
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