I second the garlic recommendation here. It is more tolerant to nutrient and water variability than most crops. Slugs and many other pests won’t bother it.
If you do give it regular fertilizer and water then you can plant it extremely densely, seeding just a few inches apart. Great for apartment dwellers with raised bed or container gardens.
We plant around Halloween and harvest in early July. That leaves time and space for a late summer crop if you wish.
Also, garlic stores very well. We harvest about 100 bulbs each year from a small plot, maybe 2-3 sq m., and that gives us garlic for a year, fresh, cured, minced (into butter or pesto), and for gifts.
And don’t even get me started on how amazing and versatile garlic scapes are. The scape harvest is its own prized crop!
Added: I’m in Vancouver. Garlic seems to love the overwintering process here, usually with some light snow.
Wow. Sincerely enjoyed this. Will re-read for the tire model alone.
On the other end of the spectrum, playing purely for fun with no regard for simulation or realistic anything ... I'll take a 1980s spinner wheel Super Sprint arcade cabinet any day for guaranteed smiles per mile.
People often underestimate risks too. I'm following a thread on another forum where a guy made his own solar power system. Seems like a risk that it might not work, but instead it burned his house down, oops. Fortunately no casualties.
You really have to play dungeons and dragons with yourself, thinking up imaginative possibilities of what might happen at every juncture. Don't worry about nuisance risks, but try to foresee the potentially catastrophic ones and mitigate them.
In a feeble attempt to rationalize the Canadianism "pencil crayon"...
Pencils have cores based on graphite or charcoal.
Pencil crayons have cores based on wax or oil, with pigments added. This is basically the composition of crayons or pastels. Then it's wrapped in wood like a pencil. Thus ... "pencil crayon".
This recent episode of the Secular Buddhism podcast may be worth a listen. It gets into the enduring value and joy we can find in the good fortune of others.
Another fact you may find interesting because it's unique, I think, for a North American city of its size: Vancouver has no freeways.
Within city limits, there are no roads with speed limits over 50 km/h (30 mi/h), lots of traffic lights, lots of bus/bike lanes, and lots of congestion. The Trans Canada highway skirts along the side of the city but does not enter it. Things get slow, very quickly.
There are complex historic reasons behind this. Politics, activism, lack of federal funding, etc.
Thank you for the link! This potentially helps to explain the relative popularity of public transit. I’m glad at least some places saw the writing on the wall early with freeway-dominated cities.
I think Detroit is an amazing example in the US of how much a sole focus on building our highways can cripple a city for decades.
This feels like the trend of Americans having to start GoFundMe campaigns for surgeries and health care. (!) I mean, do what you feel you have to do in the urgent moment. But come on. What's the plan? This is not civilized.
You work towards reality tv where you vote on who lives and who dies. Used to be the domain of things like black mirror but the reality is coming far sooner than you think.
What would you suggest? I mean, we have a legitimate government that has been duly elected in what everyone broadly recognizes were free and fair elections. It just happens to be a government of crazies and grifters who our neighbors genuinely believe can save the country (whatever that means to them).
I spent so much time typing in the Star Trek game from that book into a Commodore Pet, and then so much time playing the game. Hunt the Wumpus as well. Good times
If you do give it regular fertilizer and water then you can plant it extremely densely, seeding just a few inches apart. Great for apartment dwellers with raised bed or container gardens.
We plant around Halloween and harvest in early July. That leaves time and space for a late summer crop if you wish.
Also, garlic stores very well. We harvest about 100 bulbs each year from a small plot, maybe 2-3 sq m., and that gives us garlic for a year, fresh, cured, minced (into butter or pesto), and for gifts.
And don’t even get me started on how amazing and versatile garlic scapes are. The scape harvest is its own prized crop!
Added: I’m in Vancouver. Garlic seems to love the overwintering process here, usually with some light snow.
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