@richpuchalsky I blocked a local white saviour woman here, last year, for being a 'Karen' about me/Mom using cardboard to mulch/kill off unwanted weeds/suffocate unwanted lawn grass. She was trying to tell me that all my efforts are killing the environment & telling me to use shit that most poor folks can't afford to buy in large quantities. I informed her that I've worked on multiple small farms that also use cardboard mulching methods because they also can't afford to buy a bunch of shit to deal with larger acreages where there's too many unwanted weeds/old lawn grass. She said, they're all destroying the environment too by using cardboard đŸ€Ą White saviour types like her are condescending as fuck towards POC & small farmers, in general.

STFU, sit the fuck down. Unless you're offering to buy us all the shit you think we should be using - recognize that you have more privileges than most of us who have been doing food security, rewilding & Indigenous planting for decades - without spending a ton of money that we don't have to spend.

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I'm that neighbourhood weirdo who went around my 'hood, with little leaflets, asking for unwanted fish parts/meat bones/coffee grinds donations for my gardening purposes. I have no shame when it comes to trying to source free useful stuff for my gardening efforts.

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I started this huge pot of #sorrel from a small handful of free seeds, 4 years ago. I've been harvesting/eating from it, year round ever since! I keep roots mulched in Winter. It keeps providing fresh healthy food, every single season đŸ‘©â€đŸŒŸđŸ’šđŸ‘

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I make homemade banana peel liquid fertilizer, weed teas with comfrey & weed cuttings & fish/seaweed fertilizers - all natural. I don't buy fertilizer - no need to spend money on any, when I can make my own. I use large old food grade buckets to make my various #NaturalFertilizers.

https://theherbprof.com/how-to-make-homemade-banana-peel-fertilizer/

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How To Make Homemade Banana Peel Fertilizer (2026)

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Some of our homemade #compost #soil. It's like gold to us gardeners đŸ’šđŸ‘©â€đŸŒŸ
Prepping some large pots with it, to get ready for transplanting of my tomato plants in 2-3 weeks. I put a fish head & banana peel at bottom of each large pot.

#SoilHealth #Gardening #FoodSecurity #NaturalFertilizer #ZeroWaste #FrugalGardening

Morning transplanting is done đŸ‘©â€đŸŒŸđŸ’šđŸ‘
There's bok choy, sui choy, Chinese mustard greens & baby bok choy.
All transplanted to remediated soil area - it used to be lawn grass with crappy soil with too much clay. Now, I'm growing food on it 😁

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Making some weed tea with #comfrey leaves. One of 6 buckets of natural #fertilizer tea.
Some will be used as topical plant spray & rest used as soil drench at plant bases. I put the spent leaves at bases as part of mulch after.

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