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  • That’s got a crazy amount of nitrogen, but that’s still just one of the big three…

    I spent winters shoveling literally tons of manure onto a field by pitchfork until I went to college. So deep it was literally just a field of shit by the time it was down, a solid 3-4 inch coating for acres.

    We still fertilized multiple times a season on top of that. But that was land that had been worked for generations. For a couple of years, replacing nitrogen is fine…

    Because people haven’t been growing crops there.

    What happens in a decade when all of that is used up? That’s my entire point, it’s kicking the can down the road. If someone doesn’t think this is a giant issue, they’re in denial or haven’t really thought thru what’s happening.

    There’s a reason hillbillies don’t like trespassers, it take a lot of land to feed a human.



  • but I thought, if you’re doing it right, you wouldn’t need any.

    I mean…

    Most people don’t just plant straight in the ground, they bring in “top soil” that’s already fertilized.

    If you just clear out grass and plant veggies, you might get a couple seasons without it, but probably not. Grass is terrible for soil quality and whatever you get isn’t going to be much.

    But even if you bring in top soil and do a raised bed, eventually the soil depletes, and you can either add fertilizer or replace the top soil which is the same thing.

    You’ll get something but not a lot, so especially in the context of a garden with a high enough yield to effect a grocery bill, it’s going to need a huge amount of land without fertilizer, meaning a lot more water and a lot more labor.

    Even if you’re trying to grow in harmony with a nitrogen fixer that’s just part of the equation.

    Edit:

    I just don’t think most people have an half acre of more land to devote to a garden without fertilizer. But some people do.


  • That’s not going to change the price of fertilizer, growing your own is going to get expensive too.

    Like, shit is accelerating the shortage, but it was happening anyways. And there’s legitimately no solution. There’s things we can do to mitigate it, but it’s just kicking the can down the road at this point.

    Like, you know how people always said “we grow enough food, it’s a distribution problem”…

    That’s not going to be true for much longer, the planet just can’t support anywhere near this amount of humans without fertilizer, and we’re running out. We need multiple kinds, and the ones we can “make” are made from finite resources.

    Shits going to get rough, and gardens are not going to fix it.



  • If you don’t know or want more info, you’re more likely to get that help by asking questions…

    The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. The code spelled out unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States, such as drugs, profanity, and sex. Under Hays’s leadership, the MPPDA, later the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began rigidly enforcing it in 1934.

    From 1934 to 1954, the code was closely associated with Joseph Breen, the administrator appointed by Hays to enforce the code in Hollywood. The film industry followed the guidelines set by the code well into the late 1950s, but it began to weaken, owing to the combined impact of television, influence from foreign films, controversial directors (such as Otto Preminger) pushing boundaries, and intervention from the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.[1][2] In 1968, after several years of minimal enforcement, the Production Code was replaced by the MPAA film rating system.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code

    The modern ratings system evolved from the Hays code, the fact that it was just the Hays code is why things were so uniform back then. The fact that there was no enforcement is why MPAA was standardized…

    If you’re gonna keep acting like you were, you’re going to quickly run out of patient people who are willing to help.

    You’d still be able to make your “slams” it’s just you’ll never actually learn anything.

    How you use social media is up to you buddy



  • Because societies usually progress…

    Like, there was (and still is) rules about acceptable behavior and a ratings system to reflect what something contains.

    A cartoon with a Y7 rating won’t contain as much as PG13 and neither will have as much as R rated. If something is “unrated” it means it doesn’t meet R guidelines, or that it was just not rated but would have gotten a rating.

    Like, it seems like you’re just unaware of ratings systems, despite them existing in every country I’m aware of.


  • What some people do, is epoxy seal the whole thing onces it’s finished, but then you’re committing to that look and it’ll take a lot of sanding to change it. It also means all the different pieces of wood can’t expand/contract on their own. But then you get that perfectly smooth easy to clean surface. I’ve never done it, but plenty of YouTube videos show the process.

    What Id recommend, is just paying attention now to if crumbs/dust/whatever get stuck there. And filling those places.

    If a quick wipe cleans out the cracks, not a big deal.

    If theyre deep enough to trap stuff, then yeah, you’d want to fill it to make future cleaning easy. Or keep a dustbuster handy. Like that corner with a triangle missing, crud will get stuck there and it’s going to always be dirty.

    But anything youd want to fill, now is the time. That way it can be filled, sanded level, and stained with everything else. It should all blend in this way, and not really be noticable.