Another photo update of the mugwort patch at my community garden, now several weeks after it was plowed. It's Exhibit A for why one should never, ever till mugwort. I've tried to explain this to the person in charge but she just doesn't care. #allotment #garden #gardening #weed #tilling #plowing #mugwort #artemisia
Here's the horror show at my community garden that I described several days ago. The "tilled" section has been plowed and looks weed free and inviting. But in reality the lawn of common mugwort that was previously there has just been broken up into thousands of little clumps, soon to reestablish in areas of the garden that previously didn't have it. And then, just like in past years, gardeners will abandon their plots because the weeds are too thick and the vegetables can't compete. #allotment #garden #gardening #weed #nodig #tilling #plowing #mugwort
First Time in Ages
I just did something that I don’t think I have done since before Covid came along and mussed everything up.
As previously mentioned, it’s snowing today. Not a lot. We have about an inch on the ground. We might get another inch on top of that, but by no means is today’s storm anything to be worried or upset about, other than the fact that snow is always a pain in the ass. We are New Englanders. This is nuttin’.
However, I needed to go out and do the grocery shopping. My wife has been eating super healthy lately and she was out of all of the healthy things she needed for lunch. I had to go out and restock so that she could have a good lunch. That means I had to go out to the store before the snow stopped. Not only that, I had to go out before the snow removal crews started working. In other words, I had to drive in the fresh, untreated snow.
As previously stated, that was not a big deal. There was enough snow to make the roads a little slippery, but not enough to cause any real troubles for an experienced snow-driver. It made me think though… when was the last time I went out before the plowing started? I can’t remember. It’s been a long, long time. The last time had to have been pre-Covid lockdown. There hasn’t been a time since then that I had to be somewhere bad enough that I couldn’t wait for at least the plows getting one whack in. The only thing I could think of that would have made me go out right away was if one of my parents were in the hospital. If that happened I must have blocked it out of my memory. There was the drive home from Vermont a few weeks ago… does that count? I think the side roads might not have been hit yet, but the main roads had. I don’t know.
So I guess all I did today was spiritually renew my New England Winter Driver ID card. Yeah. I can still drive in the snow. Yippee for me, babie.
Well, as I mentioned, the old stop was at a T-intersection. I had to cross a single road to get to the stop, and because it was a bus route, the city ploughed it regularly throughout #winter.
Hereabouts, non-major roads are NOT ploughed until the snowpack becomes too deep for emergency vehicles. (The rest of us can just eff off, I suppose?).
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About 80,000 people are expected to attend the International Plowing Match in Lindsay, Ontario next week!
1916. 'La Triennale.' Exposition d'art français au profit de la 'Fraternité des Artistes'
![In the background is a man ploughing with a team of oxen. In front of the oxen is Marianne [Victory?] who is carrying an olive branch. A poilu in the foreground is looking at this scene.](https://files.social.samhenri.gold/media_attachments/files/113/216/009/577/425/558/original/39aead10e30d1a78.jpeg "In the background is a man ploughing with a team of oxen. In front of the oxen is Marianne [Victory?] who is carrying an olive branch. A poilu in the foreground is looking at this scene.")
Thank goodness farmers in #Spain are starting to take steps to save the land, and their livelihood:
"These farmers now use manure instead of chemical fertilizers, don't use #pesticides "which kill insects," limit use of #plowing "which damages the soil" and use plant matter to cover the soil in order to conserve moisture on the rare occasions when it rains. "
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-spain-lifeless-desertification.html
More shots, higher res: https://tamagosan.fanbox.cc/posts/5981881
More snow coming in 24 hours, the last of a long line of one after another recently. This one will be the biggest and the last for a time, up to12 inches (30 centimeters). This is my road I have to plow, just a portion of it which is a hill and it feels at times it's uphill in both directions. I plow down to the neighbors .5 mile away (0.8km) and he finishes the last 1/2 mile (0.8km). The first shot is looking down the hill, second uphill back towards my house.
Just another Winter day in Far Northern New York plowing
#Winter
#NNY
#NorthernNY
#Plowing
Just another Winter day in Far Northern New York plowing
#Winter
#NNY
#NorthernNY
#Plowing
