how to keep wind from wrecking insect netting? - Lemmy.World

So last year I had tried using row covers to save some of my kale, spinach, broccoli, and cauliflower from bugs. I cut conduit tubing and hammered it securely to the ground and slid pvc over it making hoops. I draped the meeting over and secured it with clips as well as bricks. Well, the wind just wrecked it all, leading to decimated and futile attempts to secure my row covers. It seems like bunnies and the bugs leave my tomatoes alone, so this year I’m going to clip garden fencing and cage the kale, spinach, and broccoli to encircle square foot sections and then drape netting over reach individual cage. This way the netting has less free material to be caught by the wind. The only thing I haven’t figured out is how to tie the netting to keep it snug around each cage. I could do the mesh drawstring bags as an alternative, but that would cost more than a fool of netting from what I’ve seen.

Unexpected useful strategems? - Lemmy.World

Hey I was wondering which stratagem you tried out on a whim but ended up really liking? I’ve been switching it up especially since I read that EAT spam can mess up missions, as that was one of my go-tos. For me it has to be the gatling barrage. It peppers a concentrated area and can hurt all enemies from what I’ve seen. I love using it for Breach suppression and yesterday I didn’t see anyone shoot any rockets, so I swear it knocked down a dropshop on an elimination mission. Its use case is definitely limited, but when that case is present those repeated explosions feel nice to see.

My philodendron is a self-heading type and the stem is getting way too long! Is there a way to cut this back or should I propagate or repot? - Lemmy.World

A tree limb came down and snapped my milkweed. We had just talked to an arborist about trimming these guys. - Lemmy.world

They were about to bloom too!

Finished some stone edging for my garden! - Lemmy.world

Between work, the heat, and dealing with clay soil this took way too long to complete! I love how it turned out. The next step is using a hoe to slope the soil over the gravel, tamp it down, and plant some sedum ternatum for groundcover.