Stampede!
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The situation in Rafah is tragic and inhumane. Herding people like cattle into, essentially, city size pens and then bombing them until they either stampede into Egypt or perish is the crime of the century.
I don't know the politics of the Egyptian President Sisi, but I would think stampeding people or animals into your country is an act of war.
How this relates to our own southern border were the Mexican Army to stampede the people of various nationalities there into US soil is a big question.
Our government seems to want them here.
Are the Houthis the only people on this planet who have huevos?
Asking for oppressed friends everywhere.
A break in the weather here will allow me to get the seed room ready and start germinating some broccoli, onion, and lettuce. I may start some tomatoes just to give them a little head start.
I have a large picture window with a 2 ft ledge facing south in the living room that I can use to move them when they get taller.
Have lots of potatoes left over from last season that are growing out of the boxes. They need to go in the ground real soon.
Question. Does anybody know if you can remove the long "eyes" from the potatoes and still successfully plant them?
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Good morning e1, Thanks for the OT. Don't know about
stampeding as an act of war, but it is definitely a war crime and a crime against humanity.
Not a farmer at all, but I am largely Irish, if that helps. Not sure wht you mean by 'removing the long "eyes"'- are they the same as ordinary "eyes". I had always heard that they were completely necessary, possibly the germ tissue of the plant. Just to check, I did a quick search which went to the seed savers exchange blog ane found the following
So pretty sure that they are crucial to the process.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks for the response, EL
At the present time the eyes are growing out of the box. Some are seven or eight inches long. I have to plant them so far underground or bend them into a spiral to get them under. I'm not sure if I can leave four or five inches of them above ground and still get them to grow properly.
I guess I can experiment, I have three boxes of them, and they are small egg sized whole spuds.
I plant them just the way they are without slicing up.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Maybe lay them on their sides with only the tips
sticking up out of the soil. After all, iirc, once they sprout and start growing one regularly buries all but the top few leaves anyway, at least for some types.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Experiment with them... it's a good thing...
I think EL is correct. In my fairly long experience with growing potatoes, they will grow along any length of stem, and put out potatoes there. So if you lay the stems on their sides, you might get quite, large, dense plants that way.
One of the best way my husband and I have grown potatoes, and we are going to try it again this year, is in very, very deep beds. The seed potatoes, with sprouts, are put at the very bottom of a hole about 2 feet deep. As they grow, soil is constantly hilled up around them and the hole is eventually filled in. Every foot about the seed potato is full of more potatoes at the end of the season. Mind, potatoes will NOT grow below the seed potato, no matter what kind of planting or hole they are given, although roots will.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
speaking of food, something in South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/3252577/potential-carcinogens-almos...
be well and have a good oner
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Interesting Phenomena
The basement bootlegs under the mansions revealed by the recent landslides.
I wonder why they didn't go the other way, towards the hill. Probably the utilities got in the way.
While there at the SCMP it clicked on the sub-divided flats into coffin homes also. 2.5 ft by 5.9 ft.is really small, especially for $1300 per month.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
As expected the US vetoes Security Council resolution
concerning Gaza. Thusly showing that they are equally responsible as Israel in the committing of GENOCIDE.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/us-vetoes-un-security-council-resolution-urg...
The following part is complete balderdash!
Empire of Lies
Putin is spot on, again.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Classic fake news
Bold = True
Italics = false
totality is false since the conjunction requires TT=T, FF=F, and TF also = F
be well and have a GOOD ONE
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Sadly another "Kangaroo Court" is now in session.
His name was Gonzalo Lira
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Will this "....left blank....." be the final wording in any
joint G-20 statement?
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/israel-hamas-war-splits-g-20-risking-paralys...
I believe
as the economies of the western cabal shrink and flounder, a whole new G-7 and G-20 will emerge.
Most likely among the BRICS+ NWO.
Brave new world, indeed.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Sisi is in a really bad place,
politically, geographically...He cannot allow the Palestinians into Egypt, but he can't push them back to Gaza to be murdered, without making the regions Arab countries his new enemies.
Meanwhile, Texas is making headway on the flood of illegals coming through.
I wonder if Biden can make it through the day without making a fool of himself.
So, Navalny died, finger point to murderous Putin.
If the NYT office building gets blown up...I leave it to your imaginations.
Thanks for the OT, E1.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
TPTB
are frantically grasping for anything, anything to divert attention away from their incredibly foolish escapades in Ukraine.
If just three of us put out there on the intertubes that Russia has reverse engineered an alien warship it would be all over the MSM in hours.
Yes, they are that desperate.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
As far as The US keeps pointing its fingers at Putin for
Navalny's death. Remember this.
The circumstances seem very convenient with additional funding for Ukraine and Israel at a standstill.
A sensible mind
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would be able to see thru this little distraction
it is meant for the less thinking group as cover
for the next diversion
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
It's time I asked for clarification
I keep hearing about Rafah, but I don't really know what it is, where it is, and just what the story is; it sounds like it's not part of the Gaza Strip, so I am a little confused.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
It is in the Gazan strip.
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
"Reverse-Exodus"
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
I totally
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981