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A Few Tea Transplants

2018-05-22

We are trying a few new Andean tubers this year to see how they fare in our climate. I placed some in potato bags and others in a raised bed lined with cinder blocks to keep some of the underground critters from feasting on them this fall.

Once again, we haven't managed to clear an area on the hillside above the house to transplant some of our tea. So I did the next best thing and cleared an area just below the road that has a lot of Alder trees providing shade. The 18+-month-old tea plants in poly bags have good root systems and allow a longer tap root to develop. Of course it takes a much deeper hole to transplant them into the ground. So far I only have a portion transplanted, about twenty-eight of them.

We also direct sowed into the ground about 500 seeds towards the end of last summer. Some started sprouting before the cold weather set in but had little time to develop, so we figured we'd probably lose most, if not all, of them. Surprisingly, a few made it through the winter with some bits of green showing and are only "mostly dead". Even more surprisingly, a bunch decided to pop up this spring. I still have a LOT of weeding to uncover them, but so far it seems that roughly twenty percent (20%) have sprouted ... even with the rather mild winter, many more than I expected. And a survival count after the first year or two will likely be an order of magnitude smaller ... sigh.

A Few Tea Transplants

2018-05-22



We are trying a few new Andean tubers this year to see how they fare in our climate. I placed some in potato bags and others in a raised bed lined with cinder blocks to keep some of the underground critters from feasting on them this fall.




Once again, we haven't managed to clear an area on the hillside above the house to transplant some of our tea. So I did the next best thing and cleared an area just below the road that has a lot of Alder trees providing shade. The 18+-month-old tea plants in poly bags have good root systems and allow a longer tap root to develop. Of course it takes a much deeper hole to transplant them into the ground. So far I only have a portion transplanted, about twenty-eight of them.



We also direct sowed into the ground about 500 seeds towards the end of last summer. Some started sprouting before the cold weather set in but had little time to develop, so we figured we'd probably lose most, if not all, of them. Surprisingly, a few made it through the winter with some bits of green showing and are only "mostly dead". Even more surprisingly, a bunch decided to pop up this spring. I still have a LOT of weeding to uncover them, but so far it seems that roughly twenty percent (20%) have sprouted ... even with the rather mild winter, many more than I expected. And a survival count after the first year or two will likely be an order of magnitude smaller ... sigh.





















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Merchants of Poison Report final 12/05/2022

(with 579 cited references)


Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php    

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

Song and Lyrics © 2010 by Michael Adams, All Rights Reserved

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