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Idk if it’s a good omen or a sign of the end times or what but I just pulled a 48” mallow taproot whole out of my lawn (to be fair, I then failed to pull up one right next to it). Like… we’re only watering the lawn twice a week and half of it’s dead by this point, but this slid out so easily… 😳

I just had to share it with people who would understand my astonishment. Gonna have to figure out some sort of spell to cast to use the power boost from this monstrosity.

I’m doing a terrible job of keeping up with weeding this summer, but finally found a moment this morning to tackle some of the worst of it.

Lo and behold I pulled up the longest dang mallow root I’ve ever seen 😳 (sorry for the video link - I tried to take screenshots but I couldn’t get one that actually showed the numbers on the tape)

I feel like this is calling me to do something witchy with it, maybe as relates to prosperity or stability or the safety of my home…? Aloe types of mallow are edible but I think mostly it’s used for skin/respiratory/digestive inflammation, and parts of it are edible.

Would love any ideas on how to honor this little guy in a spell. I’m in a very arid climate that’s in drought right now so pulling this out whole was especially astonishing!

A local nonprofit focused on reducing food waste organized a giveaway of 21 tons of russet potatoes and I was lucky enough to get down there. Took about 100lbs home with me, gave away about half to neighbors, and pressure-canned what was left.

Normally I put up 7-14 cans a season (best year my garden had was 2023 when I grew & harvested 41lbs), so this was a stretch. I’m still waiting to harvest my own garden - kennebecs and Yukons - so we’re gonna end up with a waaaay more than usual.

I use the UGA instructions but this year I actually did an ascorbic acid soak (previous years I used lemon juice)

I’d love any recipes y’all have to share! We usually use them in chicken noodle soup and for breakfast skillet potatoes but I’m thinking I need to expand beyond that given the volume on hand 😅

P.S. the German word for flood (flut) is quite similar to the German word for pretty (flot) and I gotta say, this was a flot flut for sure!

EDIT: Here’s an imgur album with more photos & context that I put together to make it easier to see everything in one place: https://imgur.com/a/viTus8o

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Heyo 👋

tl;dr hoping someone can help me figure out steps to convert a zone to drip for vegetable garden.

I’m still pretty new to owning (and very new to understanding) a sprinkler system, and I’m looking for some help converting one of our zones to drip… but my perusal of how-to-vids on YT hasn’t seemed to apply exactly to this zone.

4 years ago, we had a professional either add or convert (I can’t recall which) a zone to our back yard specifically for two new garden beds that were created by installing a couple retaining walls. The zone goes from the main box (where the lawn zone also originates) and has two sort of “loops”, one in each bed, of black piping that sits under the mulch/half buried, and periodically around that pipe, some slim green hose feeds stake misters.

Not only are the sprayers not ideal for garden hydration, we are now on drought restriction, so I’m now more motivated than I had been to convert these to drip irrigation.

From my YT exploration, I can’t tell where to start with converting… whether I need something to moderate pressure or not, if I can use the existing black piping to build out drip lines, etc.

I’ve got a couple photos to start - one of the origin of the supply where it surfaces in a bed, and another of the mister stake; happy to take more if helpful. The garden zone consists of two 10x20 beds and the supply originates in each bed at a corner (that supply line is buried, snaking down and out of the beds to a line under our lawn down to the control box)

Apologies for not using precise vocabulary, I’m still new 😊 really appreciate any guidance - even links to videos that are applicable to my situation are welcome!