I got a apartment at ground level with a big terrace. My household of 3 people (wife and kid) produce waste such as coffee, eggshells, tealeaves, bones and lots of peels. If i wanted to do potatoes on my terrace, how would i best mix this (aside from bones and peels) into something that gives the soil nutrition? Do i just mix the grounds and eggshells in the soil or do i burn them beforehand and then mix the ashes?t. clueless and only knows how to take care of flowers
>>2867111the answer has been either bury them if you dgaf or small scale composting. they probably wont break down very quickly in containers though and might just attract pests/animals tbqh
>>2866912Your minimum size for compost is a 30gal trashcan. That's rather large for a patio and you're not just using a full sized trashcan because it needs to have drainage, be turned and given air to breathe. Also compost piles work better if you give them a cover of woodchips and dirt to moderate their temperature and moisture while remaining aerobic. Anaerobic conditions will result in very bad smells and much slower breakdown of compostables.
>>2866931>always advise against growing vegetables unless you are going to grow enough to have surplus for trade or sale. vegetables are cheapWorst gardening advice. Grow the things you like. Growing things you want to eat means you will care for the plants more and enjoy the result more.Raddish and leaf lettuce are the fastest. Green beans are also just about the easiest and most productive.
im 90% sure some 20 years ago some anon covered his whole apartment floor with trasbags and dirt and grew potatoes until his neighbour down below started complaining about moisture issuesstarted with humble balcony garden but he ended up filling the whole livingroom too
>>2866912soldier flies or maybe bokashiworms are picky about half the shit you listedoyster mushrooms
Do you wear a helmet when you are riding your bike? why or why not? i used to be heavy into road biking and going FAST in traffic to show off and get my adrenaline going so i always wore a helmet otherwise i felt extremely exposed, but now that im older i prefer to just cruise on the bike paths and take in the scenery and smell the fresh air, so i stopped wearing a helmet and just let the wind blow through my hair
>>2860824Sorry it got stolen anon. Did you do bmx or was it just a fun stunt bike? Because if thats a daily rider and youre not under 16 its kinda gey.
>>2861269K dude.Sorry that happened but im not taking your advice.
>>2860654i'm pickup up a custom athletic mouthguard from the dentist next week and yes i will wear it biking, no i do not play contact sports, and i don't care how dorky or abnormal it is. if i wipe out on a bike or smack my mouth on a rock climbing hold, well i am just not going to live with a chipped tooth because of that>>2860688based helmet wearer. i always wear a full one that covers the ears on my moped. the next state over doesn't mandate helmets, which is insane because they also drive like shit. like one of my friends got hit and run, and limped back with a destroyed bicycle. i've seen people try to overtake others in the fucking shoulder of a highway in an active construction zone. it is one of the reasons why i've unironically thought of arming myself with caltrops, to disable cars that get too uppity>>2860671having biked as my exclusive mode of transportation in a major city for well over 5 years, i can tell you from experience that i will never ride a bike without rearview mirrors. it's basically the same thing as not being able to see the next boomer with a small penis in a pickup truck or SUV asserting his "dominance" because a 1.5 foot strip of green paint with a bike icon is an existential threat to israel>>2861259(((insurance companies))) yeah it's so they don't have to pay out anything cuz a death is cheaper than any injury in their jewish calculation>>2862477announcing you're passing on the left is perfect bike etiquette, even better than a bell i'd argue
No. Inconvenient to carry, no visor, looks goofy. I commute on a familiar route, and ride defensively. If your ripping trails on a mountain bike you obviously would want a helmet.
Mixed feelings. Have probably fallen from a bike twice in my life, scraped knee, no actual injury. Maybe ifyou were a child, elderly, really I think ithad farmore to do with the risk motorists pose to cyclists. Still can't see why you'd avoid wearing one though. Did today, heavy rain. My hood, goggles, head torch were far more value. Just didn't have a good setup.If you're using a road bike however, the speed you can reach, going downhill, if you ride like that then there's a serious reason to wear a helmetAlso bears mentioning, the crash helmet is made to protect from concusion, a state helmet has better coverage for where you are likely to hit awkward surfaces, then there's a full kabuto type arrangement when you're likely to hit trees. I think the helmet you want isn't always necessarily based on what you're riding, but where, how your riding
We can’t let it die
>>2865671Only when humans go extinct could you call earth beautiful. As long as these 2-legged hairless freaks are crawling around, eating and pooping and destroying nature, this world cannot be called beautiful with us here. Humans are a cancer.
>>2869164>can't be killedthis, even if humanity's sole purpose was to erase all life on the planet we still wouldn't be able to do all that much
>>2865671humans will die before this rock does
fighting against man made climate change is not about the earth, it's about a few wealthy individuals and politicians actively working towards destroying most of our habitable spaces and ability to produce food. this will disproportionally affect poor people by a large margin. these sociopaths are willing to kill billions of people for a quick buck, while they will continue to enjoy the fruits of your labor, while they continue to live lavish lifestyles that are already the result of exploiting masses of people.the planet will be fine, nature will find a way, even if large amounts of species will go extinct. in the history of the earth, humanity is nothing.they control the media and therefore, that's not a coincidence, that the richest people in the planet all have one or more media channels. divide an rule, while you are busy fighting with others over superificialities like the whole culture war bullshit, they walk all over you. the worst thing you can do is just to sit back and watch. find ways to get active, inform yourself and the people around you and try to stop the worst from happening. hope is not lost, make the best of the situation and support the people in your local communities.
>>2865671i won't be having children, so out of spite i want the world to end after i die
Does this mean no more comfy fire watch jobs?
>>2865989Conservation, policing, and sustainable foresty like controlled burns and stuff. Its called silviculture and you have to go to school for it. Thats right, park rangers are smarter than you.
>>2869102>Thats right, park rangers are smarter than youKekMost of them just sit in a booth all day doing nothingThe current policy for forests nowadays is "leave it alone" because everybody is too lazy to actually do work to properly manage wildlife habitat. And even if they wanted to they would need to jump through millions of hoops and red tapes so they can't actually do anything
>>2865528>every single one of them is fat/old as fuckI think the administration was right on this one lads.
>>2869143They're in admin roles. These are budget planners, logistics coordinators, policy makers. They don't work the field lol.
>nooooo you can't just distribute forest service leadership out to the parks where they operate, you NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED to maintain a useless salary guzzling group that does nothing, knows nothing, and only inhibits operation because things need to go through them and they never go to their office or pick up their phone, that's how our democracy needs to work you fascist chuddite!
>fuck up on trail>flag down helicopter>helicopter says you don't have an emergency, will come back for $650>say nah, don't wanna pay that much>never seen againhttps://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/molokai-jeffrey-zoltowski-21953090.phphttps://youtu.be/969apPFS5PEso I guess the most impressive part is he made it through ALL the stuff down to the beach but never made it back
>>2868996to steal his shit
>>2868285>made it to the beach why didnt he just walk around?
>>2868285The helicopter was already there and landed and was like "Nah, I'm going to let that seat stay empty."
>>2868285I hiked the Kauai trail from top to bottom. So far the trail basically stopped and obviously no one had gone that far forever or at least months.Getting back was so bad I cramped up all over and had to stop about twenty times re ascending.It's not that bad out there. Guy must have been a retard.But it was THICK as fuck literally 2 feet off the "trail". The "trail" could only be seen by looking straight down at times and assuming that it continued on.10/10
>>2870395hmm but this is molokai, not kauai
rate the geodome
>>2870292Without walls its just a weird pointless frame
>>2870292What does it do? Sweatlodge? Green house? Temporary tent?
Where is that? The plants look beautiful.
>>2870324i need to fabric it, it might be pretty ramshackle though
>>2870348>The plants look beautiful.>bongistani plants?>beautiful?
It's ok bro, this is biodegradable
>>2868733>>2869375Enjoy your rat infestation.
>>2869863>people that put their dogs' eggs in the bags and then hang the bang from a tree. how does that make senseHow indeed
>>2868356I once threw half a peach into a field, can you forgive me /out/?
>>2870309Diff anon here. Been doing the same for years. Never had a rat or mice problem. We have lots of neighborhood cats too.So not really a problem.
>>2870309I have never seen a rat or mouse in my scrap food areas, and I spend a lot of time out there. Funnily enough, I have seen mice near the businesses in town. But not my little patch.
I've been wanting to post these photos to 4chan.
Starting to wonder why these photos are uploading sideways.
Hm.
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>>2870016Most hobos here are just insane people or criminals from south america and mexico. White hobos just stand around all day panhandling for drug money now that the cops can’t get make them move along and shit up every intersection in the state. You can’t even go downtown in Providence anymore without being accosted by them. Whether you care about hobos or not letting them loiter and do drugs in public during the middle of the day doesn’t help anyone.
>>2870026when you phonepost to 4chungus the metadata flips it sideways. Idk how you'd fix that on your phone but on a desktop I just open them in Paint, save, then upload and they post with the correct orientation.
I just found out about bivy sacks, what the fuck? I always thought bivy sacks were those emergency things that you wrap around you to survive until you get rescued. I didn't know they make ones that are pretty much just a body bag where you can go in and sleep for the night. I literally just spent $800 on a UL tent because I like being as minimalist as possible. These things just seem too perfect, what are some cons?
>>2869603I used a bivy on a multi-week trip. They are hell in rain. But if the weather is good, they are a joy because you are actually sleeping outside. You have to plan in some time to dry out the condensation. Generally I'd pull out my sleeping bag and turn the bivy inside out at lunch time and drap them in the sun for half an hour.
>>2869659The things I've done to my woman in a bivy...
Swag>Bivy
>>2868955they're total shit but one of my comfiest memories is being warm zipped inside one while cold ass wind blows all around, for about 3 hours before i had to pull watch again
>>2868955Setting up when it’s raining is a nightmare all your wetness comes in
Can you read a compass? What % of the population do you think can read a compass? Do you think they are important to have innawoodz?
>>2869838magnetic declination. it will throw you off by potentially miles over a long enough travel distance. solution: memorize roughly the declination for your area, or keep an atlas with the compass which should have the declination either printed or hand-scrawled on it
>>2868921>Can you read a compass?Yes>What % of the population do you think can read a compass?Of the outdoors crowd maybe 10%>Do you think they are important to have innawoodz?Depends what you are doing. In winter they are absolutely essential but in the summer I have been fucked over too many times by magnetic rocks to use them for navigation and find it's better to just learn to read a map.>you can do triangulation using a map and compass without ever knowing what the numbers on the compass are or which way is N
the little arrow thing points north right?
>>2869933if you never hike long distance though, is it worth knowing or keeping in mind?
>>2870329Well....When you get lost and dont know what direction to go "only 50 meters from the trail" turns into "body was found in a ravine 3 miles away" pretty damn fast.
Permethrin. Anyone have experience using this stuff? I'm getting sick and tired of getting covered in ticks and finding them all over my car days after I go out hiking or whatever. I'm gonna buy some clothes dedicated to dowsing them down with permethtrim and bagging them each time I finish my outdoor stuff and tossing them in th dryer. I'm just wondering a few things:>Does it actually work>can I get sweaty in the clothes treated with it>how long does it last on clothes. Any other advice will be appreciated.
Reminder: it's already been posted in this thread but wet permethrin is extremely toxic to cats
>>2870187>wet permethrin is extremely toxic to catsnot only to catspermethrin also kills fish or reptiles in low dosesluckily it's not a forever chemicalwithin 1-2y it's completely goneusually much quicker, within a few days in water
I'm thinking about getting a battery operated fogger and some Ecovia MT for my yard. Anyone have any experience with this or other ideas?
>>2869787I missed this comment. Can't be serious lol or is this top tier 4chan?
>>2869309i treated my shit with it a few weeks ago and havent gotten a tick since. i had gotten one earlier this year on my crotch, the little bastard. but not since i tweaked out and treated my socks, gaiters, pants and shoesseems good, ill probably treat again within 4 weeks instead of the 6 it says on the canister
ice chest upgrades.
>>2870245use bread not sheet cake you want crust free, like electro made bread, i think the sugar would be bad for high temp.
tin foil over the logo, blocks the sun.
>>2870247You can buy a 1x15ft roll of aerogel for 40 bucks
>>2870262looks like Rupert drops impregnate into fiberglass batten, got a picture of your quote?.
buying a white, marine cooler
Are they inevitable, bros? I just lost my insurance and it's scary knowing that a single tick bite could literally bankrupt me.
the danger of lymes is massively overstated its very easily treatable. people claiming that it gives them lifelong issues are just housewives looking for an excuse to not do anything all day
>>2869815Alpha gal is just as if not more scary than lyme. All it takes is one unlucky bite and you can't eat meat for the rest of your life. A very rare portion of those infected can eventually eat meat again, but a single tick bite can re-activate the infection once again much easier.
>>2869387You can negotiate the amount down, apply for charity care, and/or set up payment plans with the hospital, these things are actually easier if you're unemployed and without insuranceProblem is those people tend to also be very low IQ individuals who cannot even fathom to do a simple google search and would rather use the internet to complain endlessly instead
>>2870038>if you're unemployed If you're unemployed you should basically have "universal healthcare."Poors in the U.S. actually have pretty good healthcare, I was on medicaid for a long time and they would pay for pretty much everything without literally any trouble whatsoever.Covered my Dupixent injections (generally around 50K a year worth of shots), deviated septum surgery, lower jaw surgery, a root canal, all my medication, ER visits, basically anything you can think of.Never paid a single dime, and I live in a red state.The ones who get fucked over insurance wise are the middle ground of those who make too much for Medicaid, but not enough for good insurance or to pay for expenses not covered by their insurance.
>>2868688Can't believe my parents fell for the american dream meme desu
The snowy world you grew up in no longer exists. There are those out there who made billions depriving you of snowy winters.
>>2857989>made billionsdoingit,,,forfree.
>>2857989>-15C = snow>-14C = BLAZING HOT DESERT OMFG
>>2857990the conditioned response destroys the ability to think, NPC-kunmy family's land was wheat country, now it is fucking cactus countryyours will be next
>>2868861>oil companiesOh no won’t somebody think of the evil mega corporations
>>2867431>anti-climateoxygenigger,,,O2 isthe Real Danger@!,,,,its the Cause ofire!,think of the Children!,,,we mustopit!
Is this a good shoe? I'm looking for a shoe that's under $100 just for walking on trails. I'm into outdoor photography and most of the paths I walk on art dirt and gravel. The main issue I have is walking in mud when it rained the day before, so looking for something that I can easily wash off. I'm not and /out/ person really. But I do have to walk on trails to get to shooting spots.
>>2870218those are fine for what you need but since you dont need anything special i would just shop the clearance section on basspro and you may find something better for less.
