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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.