Hugo Morvan

According to this website they love to swim. But don't fly.
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So a small gate around your pool will do to keep them out. You have to give them their own pool though! A kids pool at least.

You're right about the delicate balance. Don't get koi, they eat plants till nothing is left.

Hi Nina. These Indian Runner Ducks seem all the rage. I don't know how much that helps. Thinking a bit of having some myself. but i do have a pond, frogs came, as they do. I put in some small fish that turned out to be waterplant eaters. Right now they should start! If they didn't die.. Had them for years, never fed them. They are Scardinius erythrophthalmus fish an interesting species, that starts eating plants when they grow a lot and keep musquitos down. I still have slugs though and would like less of them, but don't know if i can be bothered with the placing of a fence. How high does that need to be? Knee-high?
The plants i had came from my parents who'd done a walk along a river and everywhere they found a new thing, they brought a bit. And i've been kayaking in lakes to gather plants. It never got out of hand too much. This year i put a rake in and dragged some out on the shore to mulch down. But then, i didn't have ducks so far. I guess they'll eat them until it's gone. Most ponds with ducks i see are algaegreen and plantless.

No this one is pot and camembert cheese.

I have too many peach trees. First i wanted them and now i want some dead. They're in the wrong place and can serve as a bean rack. Saves me time. building racks...So, half a year ago i ringed one....But it couldn't care less. It has leaves and fruit and all.
I have ringed another one, just now....
Why won't it die!???!

Grey hairs here.
I don't think Permies is the best place to attract young people.
It's very intimidating to them. Putting your thoughts on 'paper', where everybody can read how inexperienced you sound, forever and ever. Only to get told how it's not what you think, back to school, boy!
Cause eh, you come from school where most are kept prisoner by the ever-repeated lie of an easy bright future, and you know nothing about nothing but books when you left, just parotting what the book said, no critical thinking skills. Ok they know of computers and social media a lot better, but not about gardening or anything related.
And because they know of social media, that's where they gather. Instagram, snap chat, tik-tok ,telegram, name it. Endless lists of chit-chat and visually pleasing (nonsense) coming by in a stream, there they say things to each other. That is where Permies should be if it wants to attract youngsters to a Permaculture lifestyle. Time is ripe, because they're down and out, depressed and repressed as no generation has ever been.
They need our help, or better guidance, more than ever. And we need their energy, and enthusiasm and young strong bodies more than ever.

Beautiful yuri. i wonder sometimes what has come of these villages. Wish you all a beautiful life!

Allen Ayers (post above) Sure. Nobody here said. Even if something is superinvasive on your land and very time consuming and it really bothers you, plant a lot more of it, and everywhere you can.

It's a bit about the difference what the expert say is invasive and what is actually really helpful in a certain setting because it thrives easily.

My family has a holiday home at the beach, the dunes have always been protected area, some special type of grass they have planted there. It attracts sand build up and grows above.So the dunes grow and stop the sea. It's native, but they planted for millions of euros after the war when it was destroyed.
Then it got invaded by a certain rose. Nobody said a thing, over time people consider that rose as belonging there. It keeps taking a bigger surface of the dune, fighting the native grass and winning.
In recent years autumn olive has arrived, the government knows about it, i checked it out online. It is spreading like wildfire in their precious dunes. Me i like this, from a permaculture point of view, i see succession, i see trees starting to grow in the dunes, because the rose and autumn olive are building soil and retaining water. It's some kind of new global tree guild forming in front of my eyes, building soil and forest where the native fauna could not have gotten to forest.

I talked to a member who works for the government out of curiosity. She knew as well. She spend her freetime digging out some invasive herb. And didn't care about this Autumn Olive spreading.

It's just so cynical. They only make rules for ordinary people to have something to forbid them. Like little children, and they can get control over our lives. And they can get money from the government from the taxpayer to go in and "do something" to protect the ever changing nature which is only doing what it has always done, taking sunshine and converting that into building soil. Taking money from the taxpayer and fight nature, but have a lot of minions working under you.
At the same time they make money from garden centers that have sprung up selling Autumn Olive.

It's about money, power and control and they use people worried about the environment(ecologists) to spread the word.

Definitely if you look at it that way if you got skills. I could buy many times over what i can grow and then eat toxic rubbish, become fat and fall ill. Maybe start drinking as well because i miss my green outside time. I could stop handing out trees, shrubs and sharing while i'm at it. Feel moody and disconnected with no purpose in life, maybe buy some more "shit i don't need" can compensate for that. Get a faster ride than the neighbor and a blonder gf...
Can my gardening improve? Always. In many ways, that is the journey i chose to take with sustainable gardening as a life style.

They have divided up the world, nothing astonishes me anymore!
Nothing astonishes me anymore!
Nothing astonishes me anymore!

If you let me have Chechnya,
I'll let you have Armenia.
If you let me have Afghanistan,

etc.

The breeding projects are very important, they mean i get seeds send to me, i have to overseed and start culling for some characterists. Like if they don't want to stand upright on their own, but sprawl on the floor, if the pistol is not out in the flower, but sits inside like with normal flowers, taste things like that.
The more people join, the faster progress will go. the faster progress has gone, the easier the breeding program will become, the more people will join, the more scanning for favorite characteristics will happen.
It would be good to get the people of the projects into contact if they are not already.