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Is it this one? https://www.perplexity.ai/search/grass-like-plant-with-small-pu-WwPlyahzQfKcNnlzojw_7A#0 -
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Weeds are not all bad... https://savoursoilpermaculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/weeds_guardians_of_the_soil.pdf -
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Goats? That sounds significantly more hardcore than explosives. -
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As I understand it fodder peas would achieve the same objectives apart from the straw part as there is simply not that much plant material vs. the lupines. For soil improvement, the usual approach is to smother it in organic material, for example dump a ton of wood chips / manure / various... -
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Do you have any idea about whether your soil is maybe chemically extreme = very acidic or very alkaline? Beans are also in general quite sensitive to drought but some fodder pea cultivars are quite tolerant. Eso for example - we had Eso this year and there were basically 4 months of drought... -
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I think that if you decide to let them eat the peas up while still green, yeah they likely will eat the whole plant. We harvest fodder peas by combine though as we want dry seed to use soaked during winter. -
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Our crop of fodder peas was super mediocre but the ducks love it. Next year, fodder peas in our main field (2 x acreage) and sunflowers in the rest. The grains we can get just about anywhere, plus this year's spelt will last 2 years easily if not invaded by bugs. Country life is the life! -
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Awesome music / video editing :) Also, that's a lot of ducks. -
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I must have planted about 30 plants into 10 holes, 3 were ravaged by voles and the rest held back by drought as I didn't really water and it was an unsually dry year (no serious rain for 4 months starting May). The result does look nice but they are very small... Once baked there's just not... -
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This year's winter squash harvest is a little disappointing considering all the variety and quantity that we planted. Drought was a big factor and voles decided they like the plants as well. But it's not nothing. -
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Thanks for your feedback everybody. A genetic defect is what we suspected although the breeder was supposedly a particularly good one with decades of history and several awards. That's why we took the step of ordering eggs from another country in the first place. This may not feel obvious to... -
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The sudden death, the stunted growth, the strange feathering, all of it? -
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Today our little weird Welshie boy was found dead in the middle of the large duck house. There was no blood and no indication yesterday that this could happen. He was 5 months old and very strange - he remained small, was never fully feathered (areas with down remained) and those feathers that... -
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It's hot here as well! For three more days or so we'll be at 30 c... And then the real autumn rolls in. -
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Very nice, what is it called? Our similar looking one (meaty, really large) was Homestead but looking at the online descriptions I'd say it was mislabeled. -
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What on earth is a bindii... Oh okay. Ew! "Bindii dermatitis is a form of irritant contact dermatitis resulting from injury by the seed of the bindii weed." Does this happen a lot? Is it nasty for ground-foraging birds as well? -
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It's pawpaw time for us (46 N latitude), we like Sibley the best. Rheinischer Winterrambour apples to the right, they come in all sizes and shapes. One is even pretending to be summer squash.