In One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka said something like "Nobody's garden is the same, and no two gardeners are the same. Experiment and find a system of gardening that works for you." That is a really loose paraphrase, but I thought that general idea was brilliant advice, and I decided to follow it. Some of the ways I'd been taught to do things (or learned through research) were not working out for me for one reason or another.
Today I started an experiment to attempt to solve one of those problems.
The problem is that I'm not at home to cart tender seedlings indoors and then back outside as conditions dictate. With the exception of tomatoes and peppers, all of the seeds I've started indoors and then put outside have dried up like vampires in the sun. They can't survive the transition from indirect sunlight to direct for the 8 hours that I'm at work. People who don't have to sit in an office for 8 hours a day can drag their seeds back out of the light after 2 hours, and then gradually increase the amount of light until the seedlings are OK with being outside all day. Apparently tomatoes and peppers are more tolerant of suddenly being blasted by sunlight.
So I decided to start some of my seeds outdoors so that they'll grow up with the sun and wind and not die from shock when they meet the sun and wind for the first time. I didn't just plant them into the ground itself because I've still got about a month before the last frost date for my area, and I don't want to tempt fate.
I want to avoid dumping water on the seeds before they get established, so I drilled holes in the bottom of a nursery tray. The idea is that I'll be able to put water in the cover that the tray is sitting in and the water will wick up through the holes. I hope. This is an experiment! :P
Here's sunlight shining through the holes I drilled in the tray. (I got to use a power tool, woo! :P You know, I think that's the first time I've actually used a drill. Huh.)
I totally put the wrong dirt in the tray the first time. I wanted to kick my own butt. Luckily I noticed before I planted the seeds in it, so I dumped the potting soil back into the bag and poured the sterile seed starter mix into the tray.
Then I soaked the mix down with rainwater from my rain barrel and started planting the seeds. I've never planted calendula before, and the seeds are weird! I'm not sure if these are really little seed pods with the seeds clinging to them, or if the whole thing is a seed.
Oh, and the snow peas! I think I have three that have broken through the dirt so far. It just rained on them, so hopefully that will compel more of them to sprout.
Today I started an experiment to attempt to solve one of those problems.
The problem is that I'm not at home to cart tender seedlings indoors and then back outside as conditions dictate. With the exception of tomatoes and peppers, all of the seeds I've started indoors and then put outside have dried up like vampires in the sun. They can't survive the transition from indirect sunlight to direct for the 8 hours that I'm at work. People who don't have to sit in an office for 8 hours a day can drag their seeds back out of the light after 2 hours, and then gradually increase the amount of light until the seedlings are OK with being outside all day. Apparently tomatoes and peppers are more tolerant of suddenly being blasted by sunlight.
So I decided to start some of my seeds outdoors so that they'll grow up with the sun and wind and not die from shock when they meet the sun and wind for the first time. I didn't just plant them into the ground itself because I've still got about a month before the last frost date for my area, and I don't want to tempt fate.
I want to avoid dumping water on the seeds before they get established, so I drilled holes in the bottom of a nursery tray. The idea is that I'll be able to put water in the cover that the tray is sitting in and the water will wick up through the holes. I hope. This is an experiment! :P
Here's sunlight shining through the holes I drilled in the tray. (I got to use a power tool, woo! :P You know, I think that's the first time I've actually used a drill. Huh.)
I totally put the wrong dirt in the tray the first time. I wanted to kick my own butt. Luckily I noticed before I planted the seeds in it, so I dumped the potting soil back into the bag and poured the sterile seed starter mix into the tray. Then I soaked the mix down with rainwater from my rain barrel and started planting the seeds. I've never planted calendula before, and the seeds are weird! I'm not sure if these are really little seed pods with the seeds clinging to them, or if the whole thing is a seed.
And then I drilled more holes and stabbed labels into them. Here the seeds are sitting on the table on my front porch. (As you can see, it happens that most of the seeds I planted start with "c.")
They're going to stay out there unless it gets really cold. Hopefully they will sprout! If they don't, I guess I'll be buying a lot of seedlings. :P Well, most of them I can sow directly into the ground - I'm just trying to give them a head start on the growing season.
They're going to stay out there unless it gets really cold. Hopefully they will sprout! If they don't, I guess I'll be buying a lot of seedlings. :P Well, most of them I can sow directly into the ground - I'm just trying to give them a head start on the growing season.
And back to the tomatoes and peppers. The tomatoes are searching desperately for the sun, so they're going in the east-facing dining room window right now.
I have two cayenne seedlings peeking through their soil, and the dirt in several other pepper containers is looking rumpled, so there will be more pepper seedlings soon. Yay!
I have two cayenne seedlings peeking through their soil, and the dirt in several other pepper containers is looking rumpled, so there will be more pepper seedlings soon. Yay!
Oh, and the snow peas! I think I have three that have broken through the dirt so far. It just rained on them, so hopefully that will compel more of them to sprout.
Very cool!
oh wow that's stunning. nothing like that in Australia!
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The question on CITIZENSHIP is missing big time....In the attached flier it is stated that "Census results are used to decide the number of representatives each state has in the U.S. Congress." As per our Constitution only US citizens suppose to vote for members of Congress, so if you also count all the ILLEGALS, certain districts can be re-districted' and end up with an extra Congressman, but who is going to vote for him/her, and who shall he/she represent? Representation without taxation??!!!
The flier further says "That money is used for services for children and the eldelry...". I DON'T particularly want my tax dollars used for those services' for all the illegals in my district, and believe me, there are plenty of them.
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Is it true that the Census Bureau plans to count same-sex couples who say they are married regardless of whether they have a marriage license? There are only 5 states where it is legal for homosexuals to marry. If this is so, you are violating the Federal Defense of Marriage Act. This would be a lie and an inaccurate census.
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Just got off the Veteran Owned Business U.S Census conference call. We work with around 7,000 active veteran owned and service disabled veteran owned businesses. I assure you the Census information you provided on veteran owned businesses will go a long way in helping fellow VOBs and SDVOSBs/DVBEs at the very minimum feel like progress is taking place! While I suspect the economy over the past few years has caused the number of businesses to decline, those of us who continue to push on have a renewed sense of pride seeing (and hearing about) said numbers. I'm sure all our members join me in saying "thank you" for this detailed information, and equally important, for continuing the support and momentum that seems to be growing by the day.
Thank you!
Brian K. St.Ours
Founder
VeteranOwnedBusiness.com
(877) VOB-List
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Yes, for sure don't forget the enumerators in the field who walked and visited every location.
The reinterview idea seems like a good one. You have to have tried tracing your ancestry to understand the importance of getting yourself counted in the Census every ten years, whatever you have to do. Hopefully, you are fortunate enough to have had ancestors who participated in their Census, so that you are able to research your family tree effectively. Otherwise, your job will be more difficult. Think of your descendants and how they may in the future attempt to research your family tree.
Thank God I found this discussion. I was so angry at Ms Acocella that I had started to write my very own letter to the editor. I'm very relieved to learn that better minds (and pens) than mine have undertaken this rebuttal. I hate how any twit who speaks a language automatically considers themselves a linguist (I love the gender neutral plural btw, and have not shied away from teaching it as tomorrow's standard English to my ESL students)...
I was teaching that day at Valley Stream Christian Academy. When the first plane hit, the office staff instinctively knew it wasn't an accident. We gathered the students around two radios; we all wanted to be together, comforting the few students whose parents worked downtown. I didn't have a cell phone in 2001. I made a list of the people I had to call/find when I got home: cousins in 1 NY Plaza, the World Financial Center & the Stock Exchange; friends where I used to work in 1 Liberty Plaza; friends who live on W4th Street & 1 Irving Plaza; my cousin the rookie cop & my friend's firemen brothers; my friend who takes the Tubes from Hoboken into the Trade Center; my sister-in-law working in Pentagon City. . . over 30 people.Everyone came home. It had taken some of them 2 -3 days, but everyone came home.
I, too, was a NRFU and VDC enumerator. I had a surprising number of people tell me that the questions were unconstitutional, that the President is a communist and the Census questions are part of some plot, that "the government doesn't need my phone number (or age or race or whether I have a mortgage)", and one woman who told me that she was "not supposed to talk to me" because she "heard it on the news". I tried to explain to her that the news programs were probably telling her that she IS supposed to talk to me but she insisted. LOUDLY.
She closed the door in my face after telling me that she had to "talk to my lawyer" before she could talk to me.
I returned a number of times (and, often, could hear people inside or spotted them peeking out through the blinds) but no luck. Eventually I used a proxy and got minimal data but likely not what the Bureau had hoped for.
Chad's comment (above) about countering some of the anti-Census radio blather might have been worth a try. It felt awfully alone out there.
PS. My crew leader's response was to "just try again" because the LCO would not accept refusals until we had been turned away at least 3 times. Maybe this level of support from our management has something to do with the Director's points #7 and #10 (above).
RA-G: Yes, that sounds right. I don't think I thought it through all the way, which is why I left it as a question. I didn't feel like I had reached a conclusion I could comfortably assert, and your comment probably explains why not.
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Thank God I found this discussion. I was so angry at Ms Acocella that I had started to write my very own letter to the editor. I'm very relieved to learn that better minds (and pens) than mine have undertaken this rebuttal. I hate how any twit who speaks a language automatically considers themselves a linguist (I love the gender neutral plural btw, and have not shied away from teaching it as tomorrow's standard English to my ESL students)...
Jennifer,
The article you cite is from three months ago and discusses many of the cuts we initiated in order to fund higher priority programs, like the Economic Census. We're now at a different point in the budget process where the House Appropriations Committee has proposed deeper cuts. These cuts mean we cannot do all the work the Congress has asked us to do, which would force us to cancel major programs.
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