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[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Gotta get those microplastics right in there by the roots

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

It's what plants crave

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

solid blocks of plastic create microplastics when sitting in dirt?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Acidic soil + UV, for sure.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't get it. Are you a microplastics denier or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you watering your plants? Microplastics got you anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Maybe slow it down a bit by not directly putting more plastic in there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just think people here have taken the worry about it to ridiculous degree.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I wasn't worrying about it; I was glibly joking about the ecological disaster.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Me and my wife chose a more sporky solution.

A cup of sporks with vegetable names on them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And better than putting more plastic in the dirt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If you take the plastic out, it's not much of a problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

These are cute, but I use popsicle sticks personally. Fast/easy. Now drip trays and even pots... those I have been known to print.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Alright, well, I thought these were really cool. Just sayin'

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do we just have enough micro plastics already in the water and soil that these don't make a measurable difference?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I mean do you really think these would make a measurable difference? I'd be really surprised.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am a terrible gardener as I only recognize zucchini.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They're written in German/Austrian.

Paradeiser is tomato,
Kürbis is pumpkin,
Melone is melon,
Salatgurke is cucumber,
Melanzani is eggplant.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm a native speaker and I've never heard Paradeiser until three weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Native speaker of German or native speaker of Austrian? Because yeah, that's perhaps the most Austrian word in existence...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I was raised in near Vienna and I heard the word often. However I've moved to Tyrol recently and it isn't really used here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Here in Salzburg nearly nobody uses it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Paradeiser" ist Österreichisch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Interessant!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In April comes the "Bubatz" one? 🥸

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh is he Austrian? Whoops. I guess not then. But our brothers and sisters from the Alps are more then welcome to join us :D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

The "Paradeiser" gave it away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

indeed I am

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Found the Austrian

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

How to say you're from Austria, without saying you're from Austria.

But nice signs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Pics of your Salatgurke or it didn't happen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Hello fellow Austrian 👋

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have a different approach. I print very thin 0.2mm plastic strips and use label maker on them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

might as well cut up old yogurt containers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You don't have enough zucchini markers.

Hmm. How many kilos do you have? It doesn't really matter how much zucchini you plant - you will need at least three times as many markers as you think.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Post Melone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wanted to make something similar for my mom's garden, but yours look way better than what I had in mind. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

planing

Well I've used a thickness planer but it wasn't good for field work. I have a hand plane but please let me know how I could use it on my garden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No Triffid markers??

Normal ppl, harrumph.

: P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago