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(DIR) Post #B0hlUAE9mmajXWs2AS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T12:57:39Z
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Today's wake up video is Gerald who will show you his 15 pound cabbage. This is my favorite kind of short "content" just seeing someone proud of their work who wants to share it with the world.I wonder if I could grow a cabbage in a pot in our roof garden? I've never tried anything with a winter harvest before and it seems like a missed opportunity. Time to learn about cabbage root systems and planting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRYwbGgd3XQ
(DIR) Post #B0hlp9HKVbA2g7MREm by pms@cupoftea.social
2025-11-28T13:01:15Z
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@futurebird I’d go for kale instead. It’ll cope better with root restrictions from growing in a pot and you can harvest many times over the season
(DIR) Post #B0hlyfdNa3MldMDNWC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T13:03:07Z
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@pms You see this is the danger of social media you see some guy with an amazing cabbage and can't get past the idea of cutting it in half. I would be very proud to have one the size of an apple. And I recognize your advice is more practical if we expect to get a few meals out of the garden. We grow the most expensive vegetables in the world up here.
(DIR) Post #B0hmDBJIbe4Hvhk3Ae by sundew@beige.party
2025-11-28T13:05:42Z
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@futurebird My favourite thing about red cabbage is that you can use the juice as a pH indicator!Just chop some up, steep in hot water, strain, and good to go!
(DIR) Post #B0hmOSDS5jizXzNkbQ by pms@cupoftea.social
2025-11-28T13:07:39Z
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@futurebird you absolutely could grow a cabbage. Large pot + lots of nitrogen. I bet you’ll have fewer problems with pests than I do.
(DIR) Post #B0hmUngnARhvsn8EOe by iwein@mas.to
2025-11-28T13:08:57Z
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@futurebird you probably know the science better than I do, but as I understand brassica is not relying on arbuscular mycorrhizae (~healthy soil) and likes a lot of nitrogen. This makes it easy to grow in containers, and that is also my experience.Fed them the worm compost pure and they thrived with minimal root system.Just need to watch the humidity carefully, because they don't like dry (at least the species I had)Waiting eagerly for the pictures 🙂
(DIR) Post #B0hmkg4DH57MsNepW4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T13:11:50Z
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@iwein I have so much worm compost. Really too much, I struggle to find things to mix it with so it's not overwhelming my plants so kale or cabbage maybe a good idea. (And the inedible leaves will help build the soil I think. I'm like a person on a spaceship up here. leaves and grass for composting are precious to me. I need MORE BIOMASS)
(DIR) Post #B0hmrahLdMjSFhG7w8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T13:13:05Z
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@iwein The phrase "dirt cheap" makes me wince. Dirt isn't cheap. It's really hard to get enough dirt around here. It's not like you can steal it from the park.
(DIR) Post #B0hnah0V1ZNyqlityC by mensrea@freeradical.zone
2025-11-28T13:21:09Z
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@futurebird @iwein have you tried tomatoes in your worm compost? my experience with them has been the richer the grow media the better
(DIR) Post #B0hoAGj4DMCxlWX84G by Photo55@mastodon.social
2025-11-28T13:27:38Z
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@futurebird Learn also about the Cabbage White Butterfly.One year one or more got into our cabbage patch.Later, we heard the seemingly synchronised sound of a myriad caterpillar mouths crunching the diminishing remains of our crop.#cabbage #apocalypse #butterfly
(DIR) Post #B0hos0evJOJgg1S784 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T13:35:34Z
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@Photo55 We found four of these caterpillars one year and I took them to school to keep as pets so the students could see them build their chrysalis. This meant that there was a time when I went to Zabar's to buy organic broccoli for bugs. My mother must never know of this.
(DIR) Post #B0hpHawpWn0uSq1oES by iwein@mas.to
2025-11-28T13:40:10Z
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@futurebird yup, sounds like my previous situation. Tomatoes and peppers are even better at taking pure compost, so I'd have those in the summer and then grow the cabbage in the same pots after the season. After a year (tomato/pepper->brassica) and a bit of mulch the pots are good for all kinds of plants.I took the paper waste from my neighbors as mulch, for lack of natural woody sources. Worked just fine. All this trouble because buying soil is cheating of course 🤪
(DIR) Post #B0hpOzg1z5J1BehNGy by iwein@mas.to
2025-11-28T13:41:32Z
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@futurebird ehm... I can neither confirm nor deny that I know for a fact that is definitely possible 😅
(DIR) Post #B0hr9erJIqKsBYn0gS by ira@beige.party
2025-11-28T14:01:05Z
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@futurebird Love this guy’s red cabbage-print outfit. Do y’all have a worm compost box? I’ve been wanting to finally get one, myself. We live in an old-town where there’s no organic waste pickup (otherwise common here in Germany) — because of rats, I suppose.
(DIR) Post #B0hs1F4HPOaHpmPH6m by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T14:10:51Z
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@ira Yes we have worm compost, vermicompost and I love it. I especially love how it smells. Which is what worried me most when getting started. "would it smell bad?"I'm very selective about what I put in the worm bin only vegetables, very little starch and in small consistent quantities. NYC has industrial mass composting that takes everything from bones, to fat, to bad cheese. So, I sort the food waste, keeping the easy to compost raw greens and veg and letting the city do the hard stuff.
(DIR) Post #B0hw7kuILQnU8R67MG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T14:56:51Z
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@ira Discovering how worms can make soil has forced me to come to terms with the fact that when you are in a forest and smell the wonderful wet, fresh but earthy smell of good soil it is probably some mix of fungi and worm poop.But I suppose the human brain is set to process those smells as clean and nice since roots dug from such soil are nutritious and there are few pathogens that can harm us. While other kinds of waste are naturally repugnant.
(DIR) Post #B0hx0A2P7oSfiLpimu by ira@beige.party
2025-11-28T15:06:34Z
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@futurebird Isn’t it fascinating how the sense of smell, archaic in its origins, has an unerring and embodied sense of morality? I trust the worms. The fungi, so ancient, have their own agenda that may/may not include our well-being. Ha! Truly Chthonic ones, these two subterranean alchemists.
(DIR) Post #B0hx24PX174gqFYrDc by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T15:07:02Z
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@ira It seems geosmin is the compound the gives soil a smell, though there are many others, like a complex perfume. Geosmin is produced by bacteria and humans are very sensitive to it. In small amounts it's present, but too much and it's not. Consider how blue-green algae can smell gross. This seems related to how we decide if water is OK to drink. The threshold where you can detect this compound is tiny.
(DIR) Post #B0hxEvdwvRAfPlR7qK by BarneyDellar@mastodon.scot
2025-11-28T15:09:19Z
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@futurebird Never mind the cabbage, it’s the cabbage suit I’m interested in!
(DIR) Post #B0hxKqwPJz06ZHtY48 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-28T15:10:26Z
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@BarneyDellar dude has drip.
(DIR) Post #B0hz22UEN3iimYs8cy by yPhil@mstdn.social
2025-11-28T15:29:22Z
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@futurebird You never realize what RAIN does to crops before you start missing it. Yes, you heard it right, you can miss the rain. Hopefully this winter will be wet around here, hasn't been for 8 years. Eight-dry-years. The girls languish over their winter apparel in the closet, longing for gloves and furry collars.The street dogs drink detergent from the car washes.And the cabbage, man, the cabbage. Like tennis balls.
(DIR) Post #B0hzrCmfqRDhUJtel6 by ira@beige.party
2025-11-28T15:38:39Z
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@futurebird “The geosmin threshold” sound like a Le Guin poem still waiting to be unearthed (heheh). Perhaps the seeker must pass this scent border on the way through the labyrinth to the subterranean reservoir of collective memory, whose waters are watched over by the long-blind whale with its cavernous, sinuous heart.
(DIR) Post #B0iDCacPirO2tXcniK by stevenaleach@sigmoid.social
2025-11-28T18:08:09Z
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@futurebird @iraIt amazes and astounds me that earthworms are "invasive species" in North America.What filled that niche before the ice age?Was it always similar earthworm species and they were just re-introduce?
(DIR) Post #B0iPTGs1b8i21HeCm0 by fembot@mstdn.social
2025-11-28T20:25:38Z
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@futurebird omg, the matching jacket and hat. 🥲 A cabbage-patch elder!