#food crops

[petula-xx]

Potato onions. These babies have literally spent just 72 hours soaking in seaweed solution water.

3 days ago these potato onions were edible. I'm blown away by how much root and sprout growth has happened in such a short time. They are ready to plant out now.

Plants are amazing!

[welldigger62]

This is the 4th in this series-

Watching crops grow. This is 10 days after planting

This was 4 weeks after planting

This was 6 weeks after planting

And now we have 10 weeks after planting, or four weeks after the picture above was taken.

[20may]

Check out a few facts about pollinators!

The Pollinators are responsible for much more than food-crops. From biofuels to medicines, we rely on pollinators in much of our daily lives.

Few facts about pollinators. IPBES Pollination Assessment.

[sunsetcorvid]

dear mojang

add more crops in minecraft im begging you im on my hands and knees give us tomatoes give us onions give us strawberries give us peppers

add more food recipes please give us sandwiches give us more pastries give us pudding or some shit

sincerely, the farmer of every minecraft server

[timmurleyart]

Crop fields out west. 🥬🥦🌽🥕🌶🫑

[auressea]

Garden ALERT!

From Linda Gilkeson:

As we move into the El Nino weather pattern this summer, here comes the first heat wave of the season. Over this weekend, forecasts show highs of 26-28oC [about 80oF] on Vancouver Island and coastal areas and up to 34oC [93oF] further inland and up the Fraser Valley.

new gardeners that might need a warning: These temperature would be too hot for tiny seedlings, newly sown seed beds and plants that have been transplanted recently. No matter how well beds are watered, a bare soil surface can get so hot that seedling roots fry because they are close to the surface. Heat waves this early can also damage the new leaves of perennials and overwintered plants because their leaves have been used to cool, moist conditions and leaf cells have not yet adapted to hot weather. SO, start heat proofing your garden right now:

Hold off on new plantings: If you were planning to sow more seeds this weekend, just wait and do it later in cooler weather. Veggie starts in flats might be better off held in deep shade over the weekend rather than being planted out, especially if you don’t have the means to shade them well.

Shade seedbeds: If seeds haven’t come up yet, use burlap, old beach towels, bedsheets or cut open empty compost bags and spread them white side up, over the beds. Check morning and evening for signs of tiny green shoots, at which point, you must remove opaque covers and replace them with shade cloth or other sun screens.

Shade vulnerable plants: Especially important to protect are cool weather crops (peas, lettuce, leafy greens, any young plants in the cabbage family) and newly transplanted starts. Plants with large, soft leaves (squash, beans) could also experience sunscald injury, especially at the highest temperatures. Use horticultural shade cloth (get a fabric that provide 30%-50% shade, but not more) or use wooden or woven latticework covers (cedar lath panels are available at lumber yards). You can turn plastic lattice-work seedling trays upside down over small seedlings. These options let in enough light that you can leave the shade material in place until the heat wave is over. You can also use opaque materials, such as old bed sheets or any kind of lightweight fabric, lace curtains, lace tablecloths. These don’t let in enough light to be left in place for long so if the heat wave goes on more than a couple of days, deploy the covers by mid-morning and uncover plants in late afternoon so they have some time for photosynthesis in the cooler parts of the day. You can use floating row cover by folding it over several times to make it more opaque and propping it up on stakes so there is good air circulation under it (it was designed to trap heat so don’t cover plants tightly with it) . If you have installed floating row cover or insect netting over carrot and cabbage family seed beds to protect again root fly attack, leave the cover in place and lay shade cloth, curtain material, etc. on top of the insect cover.

Protect plants in greenhouses: Temperatures likely will get far too high without shading so cover greenhouses and tunnels with shade cloth. If that isn’t possible, then shade the plants inside the greenhouse using any kind of shading you can devise. Open vents and doors wide, increase ventilation, use high speed fans to dump heat.

Mulch as much as possible: Spread mulch right now on established plants, such as peas, cabbage family, new strawberry plants, onion seedlings. Mulch plants in greenhouses, too.

AND don’t forget to water: Most of us haven’t been thinking about irrigation yet, so don’t forget to check the soil for moisture and keep plants watered accordingly.

Harvest before the heat: Overwintered spinach, cauliflower, purple sprouting broccoli and other plants are quickly shooting up and this heat will accelerate that. For best quality you might want to harvest before the weekend. The last of my winter cauliflowers are nearly ready so I will cut them before heat causes the curds to separate and lose the sweet, mild flavour.

[oakkayblog]

Re-examining 10 science-challenged ‘studies’ suggesting GMOs are harmful — Genetic Literacy Project

Re-examining 10 science-challenged ‘studies’ suggesting GMOs are harmful — Genetic Literacy Project

[crunchchute]

imagined Sam begging for food like a dog

[panthermouthh]

“When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

[snekdood]

so I found this really cool website that sells native seeds- and you might be asking me "snekdood, haven't you posted an entire list of websites that sell native wildflower seeds that you're going to add on to soon?" and yes that's true, but that's not the kind of native seed im talking about rn.

see, on my quest to find websites that sell native wildflowers, I came across this dope ass website that sells seeds that have been farmed and harvested by ntv people traditionally, i'll let the website do the talking:

so anyways this is the coolest website ever. you can find the wild relatives of chiles on here called chiltepines, you can find different colors of corn and cool squash's, and every seed from whichever farm has it's own lil origin story written about it. you can also find other veggies here that are already commercially available to help fund and support this organization. as well as there being a cool gift shop with a lot of art made by different native folk from all around as well as cookbooks, jewelry, pottery, weavings, and clearly plenty more:

as well as a pantry?? with premade soup mixes??? and i really want to try them now??????

anyways I think its worth snoopin' around bc I'm almost positive you'll see something you think is cool (oh also if you happen to have some seeds passed down from ur family too and ur also native they seem like they would gladly help produce more)

[iconceptsstuff]

Best Farm Management Software

[welldigger62]

Second in the series-

Posted previously, this is ten days after planting.

This now one month after planting, corn and beans

[cerealkiller740]

1963 Orange Crop frozen punch

[typhlonectes]

There are more than 1,000 varieties of banana, and we eat one of them. Here’s why that’s absurd...

The lack of diversity could mean the fruit’s extinction. It offers a stark warning of what could happen to other key foods.

Most people don’t question why every banana they’ve ever eaten looks and tastes pretty much the same. Most of us will never try a blue java from Indonesia with its soft, unctuous texture and flavour of vanilla ice-cream, or the Chinese banana that is so aromatic it’s been given the name go san heong, meaning “you can smell it from the next mountain”. The demand for low-cost, high-yielding varieties has resulted in vast monocultures of just one type of globally traded banana, and this is true of many other crops as well. Homogeneity in the food system is a risky strategy, because it reduces our ability to adapt in a rapidly changing world...

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/1000-varieties-banana-lack-of-diversity-extinction

[the-face-in-the-mirror]

*waking up in the middle of the night to create the rewrite* Da hoes gonna loooooove this~.

As vaguely promised, here is Ban! The Sin of Greed himself, finally with a bit less red on him. But, of course, still with his slutty little crop tops, as he deserves. Might not be able to mansplain, manipulate, manwhore his way out this one, though.

Long hair on Ban does things to me so i’m subjecting all of you to the mullet. But it’s okay, because he looks good in almost anything. This outfit is largely inspired from a few of his Grand Cross outfits that I took a liking to, especially the jacket with the fur collar. I think it gives him more of that fox look, while also emphasizing the Greed aspect and how he likes nicer things; fur coats or even coats with fur linings or collars are typically viewed as being more luxurious, and I think it looks good in him. Same goes with the fur-lined boots.

As stated above, the steel-toed boots and armoured claws are good for both combat and scaling buildings. I like to think Ban is good at scaling buildings since he climbed the Sacred Tree so easily, and he’s a thief so why not let him be a thief. Let him get up to sketchy stuff, it’s what he deserves. Additionally, I thought it might be cool to make Ban a Beastman, or at least half of one. He always had a few characteristics about him that were just a bit too animalistic to not be explained. He hides it pretty well, and it’s likely that most of the Sins don’t actually know about it, bar Meliodas who’s known him the longest. And, despite what you might expect, I think it might be neat to make Ban a Werewolf rather than a Werefox like Zhivago. You would expect a Fox, which are sly, cunning, untrustworthy, thieving—most of which Ban is, but I think making him Wolf reveals the parts of him that aren’t as often considered, like his bravery and loyalty—if not towards Liones then towards Meliodas—and his fiercely protective nature.

In my mind, the “tattoos” on each sin have always seemed more like brands; they’re technically criminals, after all, and tattoos CAN technically be removed even if it would be harder in this setting (bar some sort of magic, probably). Brands are much harder to get rid of, if not impossible, and I think it would suit their perceived crimes. However, because of his regenerative healing, the branding iron never quite worked on Ban, so they said “fuck it” and whipped out the stick and poke.

And that’s all for Ban for now. I’m quite proud of this one. Let me know what ya think, if ya’ll are so inclined, and I will see you relatively soon!