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Advice WantedGrowing Food In Large Containers
Posted April 11, 2021 by Nasrin in Gardening

Hello fellow ladies of the best circle (don't let the others know!) I come seeking advice! Help!

I am getting keys to my forever home next week. It's a beautiful 1920's house I can give lots of love and wull own outright. I'm needless to say: extra excited and feeling very liberated.

The garden needs a lot of love and soil remediation, and I'll surely be begging for your wisdom on it soon but I want to start with outdoor food containers. I would like them to be elevated as chronic pain makes kneeling / stooping very painful.

Questions:

  1. I would like to grow chard, carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, and small potatoes (the finger sort). Ideas on depth of the raised planter? I was thinking two feet but I can't find any root length information for food crops....
  2. Since I live in a desert and will be moving from a zone 13 to zone 9b/10a am I going overboard in having the containers under a cover? I'll have a long side deck off my kitchen I would like to use. This should provide shade. FYI my UV index rating at my new home will be an 8 (I am in a 10 to 10+ area now).
  3. Has anyone ever "plumbed" their containers? I want to put in a drain at the bottom of each and then let that water drain off onto the ground where I can plant a fruit bearing tree that can use the excess. Any particular angling needed to ensure gravity "works" and they can all drain together?
  4. The community In moving to is very small and has cooperative food gardening, any high yield container crops I may be missing that might allow me to contribute extra crop and is nutritionally dense?

I've been collecting seeds and starting research but sometimes exposure to those with experience is best so I'm hoping some of you have ideas on how to help make my crazy plan work.

Thank you in advance!

29 comments

[Deleted]August 9, 2021

Tough shit, losers. Make up your alleged minds.

corporalwojtekAugust 9, 2021

alleged minds

I’m wheezing.

[Deleted]August 9, 2021

:)

GelatinousRubeAugust 9, 2021

They know we're doing thoughtcrimes. ha!

bannedrui_resinAugust 9, 2021

When you read feminist theory and post on ovarit, it becomes organized thoughtcrime. Such very illegal crimes.

[Deleted]August 9, 2021

Ooh that just brought to mind a quote about Lord Vetinari, one of my favourite Discworld characters: “Crime was always with us, he reasoned, and therefore, if you were going to have crime, it at least should be organized crime.“

bannedrui_resinAugust 9, 2021

I love me some Terry Pratchett, and Vetinari is very fine, but I would prefer disorganized crime, please. In roundworld, organized crime is some of the most violent and terrifying of all male behaviour, no? I am thinking of drug cartels, pimps, slavers and people smugglers. They have to be ultra violent to dissuade rivals and witnesses because they cannot call on the law to protect their 'business' and 'property' like the rest of us can.

[Deleted]August 9, 2021

Absolutely. I wouldn’t want it either, even with the guilds Vetinari encourages. I just liked the quote wrt us having organised thoughtcrime.

bannedrui_resinAugust 10, 2021

Shall we have a terven matrician? I'm imagining her administrating Ovarit expertly (with the help of a paperwork loving lady, Drumknit) and gazing upon the internet denizens over steepled fingers while plotting sorry, planning, everything.

[Deleted]August 10, 2021

Love that idea! Especially Drumknit. 🧶

NotCisAugust 9, 2021

So I've heard:

  • Don't assume my pronouns
  • Magically know my pronouns and it's offensive if you don't
  • If I list two, use both
  • If I list two, use one more than the other
  • Prepare for constant changes in pronouns
  • Use them often in conversation to validate me, and now:
  • Stop using them

GET A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deleted]August 9, 2021

The one thing I like about Contrapoints is his irritation with pronoun circles- like, I have long hair and nails and makeup and boobs and facial feminization surgery and girly clothing and a modulated voice, you should be able to guess I want to be "she" from this pile of cues.

TinyCatSkeletonAugust 9, 2021

This goes beyond moving the goalposts; this is building a whole other stadium across town.

lucreciaAugust 9, 2021(Edited August 9, 2021)

If I wanted someone to bark endless contradictory commands at me, I'd buy a Bop It.

Researcher1536August 9, 2021

Hahaha

ItsCalculatedAugust 9, 2021

I love when they say such blatent nutbar things like this for everyone to see.

Talking directly to a person I use you, when talking about a man I use he and with a woman I use she. Calling yourself a nb doesn't change the fact that you are female or male. It's fine if anyone wants to be silly, but am I, a grown woman with a reasonably working mind, obligated to participate in this nonsense? Seriously?

LunarMooseAugust 9, 2021

I read somewhere on this site, that I was supposed to offer useful comments. I find that so hard when half the time I just want to write: F-off.

Apricot_IbexAugust 9, 2021

I find that to be a useful comment in this context. 😆 It was certainly my first reaction and it would be useful…for venting. Lol.

[Deleted]August 9, 2021

New day, new rules.

DoubleAntandreAugust 9, 2021

I will not dance your stupid off-balance dance, no matter how often you think you change the steps.

IrishTheFrenchienon-cis logicAugust 9, 2021(Edited August 9, 2021)

you guys

I thought we weren't supposed to say this anymore because it's not inclusive? 🤨

s/

ETA: 1000+ likes. What social media is this from?

TheRoyalJesterfAugust 9, 2021

I just love how they can tell that even their "allies" don't really believe in their identities (hence, the performative over-use of pronouns). I just love knowing they know they're getting clocked like Big Ben lol.

actualdykeAugust 9, 2021

classic narcissism. they will literally never be satisfied no matter what you do bc it's not about validation or dysphoria; it's about being able to control what others think and say.

cranberrysaladAugust 9, 2021

Agree with other commenters on the narcissism. And agree with the author in that you really can see people falling all over themselves to virtue signal. It’s like when hardcore Christians fall all over their posts to capitalize the H in his when referring to Jesus/God’s pronouns. Gotta pander to your cult!

Note: I live in the Deep South so I see the “it is His will” bs a lot on social media and things like Next Door (really), I’m not religious and don’t run in right wing circles. It’s just as unavoidable as TRA bs for me.

JenniferLiamAugust 9, 2021

Imagine wanting to do the right thing as a trans ally. It's literally impossible. Everything you say CAN and WILL be used against you in the court of trans. Luckily I don't give a damn..

Apricot_IbexAugust 9, 2021

A narcissist’s ramblings usually do contradict themselves, since the goal is drumming up attention and making people feel bad while ordering them to fulfill endlessly changing, impossible tasks for you.

[Deleted]August 9, 2021

Someone with no real problems. The epitome of entitlement.

[Deleted]August 9, 2021

Psychological burn victims