So it's working as intended. I often think an actual way to address this would be to double the tax burden for each additional house held by any company and its subsidiaries - double taxes for the second, quadrupled for the third, and so on. Sure, there's going to be a stark correction when all those homes hit the market but it's better than bleeding families dry on renting them, and I'm not going to shed tears for people who paid 50k on their house and expected to sell for a million
I've been playing the coop online with a buddy and having a blast; from what I can tell the procgen is pretty much for raw material placement and the layout of some of the 'naturally' occurring tunnels and caverns.
Everything else feels stylized and I happen to like the art style, so it all feels handcrafted to me. If you're referring to the pool of craftable items, there's a slew of things to make but they're all very similarly themed which makes sense given that they're all 3d printed planetary exploration tools.
I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier, but what about Astroneer? It's closer to an adventure sim with rpg elements to it, but it's entirely about exploration and crafting all of your adventuring gear and your home base(s).
+1 for the monster hunter games, everything is crafted from monsters you hunt and there are tons of ways to customize your gameplay based on your play style and what you craft.
The Etrian Odyssey series also bases what you can craft on what you can find, but crafting is less in-depth than MH. That said, you also make all the maps which is a huge bonus in my book
I am more of a forest person than a beach person, but rarely turn down a chance to stock up on seaweed for the compost and gardens. If they're the european ones then I'll feel less bad about the one that found itself near trees unexpectedly =D
[Image description: a small green crab pauses on the sand among some seaweed]
I helped some family friends clean up their little slice of beach today and saw this little friend.
[Image description: a small green crab. The photo is taken from the crab's front left side.]
[Image description: a picture of a small green crab taken from above.]
A general rule of thumb is aged 1 year, especially if you don't know what they use or if they board/breed horses since there's a lot of variability there. If the part of the pile you're digging into had a good worm population that's a good sign for that section, but if you get into another area and the worms vanish then don't include that in what you take
That sounds wonderful! I really enjoy letting our lettuce cross and seeing the patterns of the next generation.
Got a horse farm nearby
Always ask what their deworming schedule is like, or how long they've aged their manure. It's good stuff, but even a few ppm of common deworming treatments can persist and cause problems for gardens and especially worm bins
Have you tried telling your sage how proud of the fig you are? That and some additional nitrogen inputs might get them to bounce back too
Huzzah! That sounds like such a neat tree!
Each bundle of flowers will contain several dozen individual blooms (see below)
I land more on the "ten iterations on every iteration that works" model of evolutionary pressures and the arms/gills race that ensues but I think this is appropriate regardless
People who know these kinds of things are particularly neat to me (like you!) I know they have a long life cycle if they make good decisions but didn't realize they were considered different creatures based on their developmental stage
We surprised each other in the garden today. Best guess is Notopthalmus viridescens, but the species has a lot of variation within the population apparently.
If you zoom in there are so many tiny pollinators
I brought home several many more plants than I donated, plus another book I have no space for. It's been nice knowing you plant nerds o7
This morning's plant sales got pushed to next weekend because of high winds and low temps, so I brought home all the shallow tomatoes that were donated so I could repot them. They'll go back to the donations tomorrow, but I took a few pictures for you all to help explain how and why to do this.
Here we have an example of what we're starting with. The plant itself is about a foot tall, but the pot is only 1.75 inches. The plant itself looks healthy but a little stressed. The square pot helps, but the whole thing is very top heavy. Planted as-is, this plant will need immediate staking and support or it will uproot itself. It will still have to expend energy creating new roots, and will be susceptible to summer heat. Let's move on to repotting.
Here's a top-down of our tomato in a 1-gallon pot. We're doing this with the original pot in place so we can determine which leaves will be removed and then safely lift the plant to do the pruning. Once we've pruned off a few leaves we'll place the roots at the very bottom of the pot and then fill the pot with substrate.
So, why do this? Every little hair on the tomatoes is an adventitious root - a specialized structure that will turn into a root in the right conditions. And we've just provided the right conditions. By giving the tomato a larger root ball, we're increasing the amount of surface area from which it can draw water and nutrients to produce tomatoes. This will not only improve the number produced, but also each one's nutritional value.
And here we have our plant repotted. It will have the whole week in a greenhouse with folks watering it to grow more roots before the plant sale. If someone asks me for advice on planting it when they get home, here's what I'll tell them:
If you're planting it in a pot, give it at least a 5 gallon pot, but 10 is better. Place the root ball at the bottom of your pot, and fill with your potting mix and fertility. If you're planting it in the ground, bury it as deep as you can, even up to the bottom of the very top most leaves. Then enjoy your tomatoes.
[Image description: roughly twenty American Persimmon seeds show off their taproots in varying stages of development while resting in my palm awaiting their turn to be transplanted]
I'm really excited that these germinated! We got a notice of poor germination tests from the folks we got the seeds from, so they shipped another ounce of seed out to us but far too late to let them naturally stratify over winter. So these bad Larry's got to stratify in our seed fridge through April.
I've never grown in those zones, but this page has a few tables of information that should help you out. Outside of the suggestions from A&M, figure out how many days you have til your average frost date and anything that takes fewer days to maturity is fair game