LallyLuckFarm

@LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org

Small scale permaculture nursery in Maine, education enthusiast, and usually verbose.

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Help transplanting burr oak saplings

Last autumn I stored several acorns in a 5-inch pot that was filled with potting soil and covered. I took the cover off 2 days ago to discover 7 saplings between 3 and 7 inches long. They are too big for the pot I was storing them in. Are they safe to transplant at this stage? What size pot should I transplant them in? How do I...

LallyLuckFarm,

My oak experience isn’t with burr, but they have relatively fragile taproots at that stage of development. I have successfully extracted some from a similar situation by sssssllllloooowwwwwwllllyyyyyy submerging the pot in a 5 gallon bucket until the potting mix and saplings floated themselves out of the pot, allowing me to separate them.

@LibertyLizard might be able to offer better advice than I can, they’ve been doing some oak transplanting as well.

LallyLuckFarm,

I’m really proud of you for rescheduling and not just canceling your appointment, which I did for years every time I had finally reconvinced myself to resolve my anxiety and depression. I’m hoping things line up better for you in May.

LallyLuckFarm,

Built a new PC for my wife and I, first I’ve done in over a decade. Mini ITX boards are wicked cute but it did start feeling a little cramped by the end. I also built a little egg washing station to hopefully save me some time cleaning eggs this year.

LallyLuckFarm,

Same! Just a little south of there though

LallyLuckFarm,
  • Plants, particularly perennial ones
  • Plant propagation
  • Compost
  • Biochar
  • Garden design
  • Dog training
LallyLuckFarm,

This past week was a bit of a doozy. Lost power and a way out of our dead end street on Thursday morning when a tree fell across our road and took a power pole with it. A neighbor who’s an electrician and I cut the way out for the street and cleared one travel lane despite the fire department’s protests, while two other neighbors with plows cleared what they could. Power was restored Sunday night, but none of the crews cleared the road obstruction, so another neighbor with a bigger tractor than the rest of us rolled up and cleared it.

I’m fortunate enough to be able to carry on phone conversations while I’m doing the tasks for our nursery, so I started calling the town manager and the chiefs of the fire and EMS crews to start a conversation about having a real plan for the next time it happens. And it will, because Maine passed a law several years ago that incentivized the power utility to do as little as possible maintaining the trees near the lines. I started a text chain with the neighborhood to keep them updated on what’s being discussed and to solicit feedback and suggestions for the solutions we’d like to present to the town, and that text chain has gotten the neighbors offering further assistance to each other to help recover from the storm (does my little socialist heart proud!). Folks have been dropping off cookies and stopping by to thank me, even though I keep telling them it’s just my way of repaying them for being wonderful neighbors.

In other news, all the plants I stupidly potted before the storm survived!

LallyLuckFarm,

Here’s what Wageningen University has to say about this collection:

This collection holds 1,180 drawings, the outcome of 40 years of root system excavations in Europe, mainly in Austria. The drawings, their analysis and description were done by Univ. Prof. Dr. Erwin Lichtenegger (1928-2004) and Univ. Prof. Dr. Lore Kutschera (1917-2008) *, leader of Pflanzensoziologisches Institut, Klagenfurt, (now in Bad Goisern, Austria).

Their work led to a number of publications, and is a counterpart to the work by John E. Weaver in Nebraska, USA. These scans of the original drawings, made by Univ.-Prof. Dr. E. Lichtenegger (d. 2004), cover not only a wide variety of species ranging from agricultural crops to associated weeds, but also natural vegetation, from orchids to alpine shrubs and trees. The drawings represent rooting systems of individual species carefully isolated from their environment, and drawn in fine detail.

This image shows one of the teams doing the excavation and measurements on site.

LallyLuckFarm,

My pleasure! I finally have a stable Internet connection again to load the source pages

LallyLuckFarm,

My neighbor here in Maine came down the road to see if we had felt it too. Apparently my wife felt it in the house, and while I didn’t feel the quake I definitely noticed it when all the trees dropped their snow loads at the same time.

What's Growing On, Beehaw? Weekly Garden Chat

There are about a hundred potted perennials out on my front lawn right now as the latest wintry mix hits our area, and someone dropped off a huge box of cell trays and small pots to us yesterday. Some of them will go to our local library for their gardeners workshops and to prep for their annual plant sale fundraiser, some will...

LallyLuckFarm,

I love seeing the daffs, they’ll even poke through the snow to tell you spring is just around the corner

LallyLuckFarm,

Oh lawd, she comin https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/90a8d811-6ddf-41f0-9c53-27dddb14c87a.webp

(we’re the orange dot down by Wells and Kittery, in the Berwicks). But I have a suspicion you’re going to get it worse than we do.

LallyLuckFarm,

Those are nice, we’re still trying to gather the money to do one of those or a battery bank for our solar panels, but both are pricey. At the moment we just have a small genny to run the fridge and the well pump

LallyLuckFarm,

If you can, see about cropping some of the photo, or uploading to a client like imgur or imgbb. Beehaw uploads have to be less than 4mb, and below 4000x4000 pixels.

@remington and I sympathize with you, we’re getting hammered by snow right now

LallyLuckFarm,

Diluted urine would likely be okay, lots of nitrogen and a decent source of trace elements to boot. It’s definitely been a boon in some of our heavily wood chipped gardens

LallyLuckFarm,

Phosphorus is what you really want for better fruit set, and the normal range present in urine is 68-874mg/g in males and 56-846mg/g in females, so you’ll be supporting that aspect of their development as well.

LallyLuckFarm,

Fingers crossed for you, that’s awesome! A buddy near me went hard ordering saffron this past autumn but we have some time to go before they’ll pop

LallyLuckFarm,

Yum! I was hoping to make hot sauce last year but there was just too much rain for happy peppers.

LallyLuckFarm,

Really almost any scene from Arrested Development, but I’m particularly fond of the mock trial episode’s scenes.

In one, Judge Reinhold (from Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is appearing as himself getting ready to launch a court show called “Mock Trial with Judge Reinhold”. One of the main characters is talking with him about appearing on the show and asks if they’re only doing the show because of Judge’s name, at which Judge gets upset and stomps off declaring “we’re going with my original idea and calling it Mr. Reinhold’s courtroom”.

In another, Michael (the main character from the above scene) is talking to his brother Gob about appearing on the show and Gob has nothing but bad ideas.

Michael: I’m not going to let you turn this mock trial into some kind of a …(trails off)

Gob: you were gonna say mockery, weren’t you?

Michael: I was in trouble like three words in

LallyLuckFarm,

I found both!

youtu.be/Og9_wGXJFKs?si=om85b0-zDMfxJESP

youtu.be/oMPSaqnDFAE?si=UVhzeFJLrYMXzoR3

LallyLuckFarm,

Here’s hoping that the trees get to stay where they are, but I can’t stop chuckling at where you pulled the story from

LallyLuckFarm,

Hey! How’d things go? Hoping you had a really great time with your sis

LallyLuckFarm,

I was too, but that’s a huge step you took and I wanted to cheer you on! I’m so glad she’s into it and so supportive, and her gesture on Easter is truly amazing and so respectful.

My wife is in the same boat, in that she really only does mascara and eyeliner, but she watches makeup tutorials from people like Trixie Mattel and practices when we don’t have anywhere to go. I’m sure some other folks will be able to point you to other good resources as well.

Anyway, YAY and CONGRATS!

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