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  @uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za I know the feeling... every time the clouds thicken, the pulse quickens... is a line I will try to remember. I keep eyes on various weather forecasting services and plan a load-shedding routine when I see 2+ days of overcast sky. The two forecasts I check daily are yr.no and africaweather.com. First thing is to have the inverter off while sleeping at night. Second thing is to move contents of one fridge into the combined fridge/freezer so the first can be sw...

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  @econetwork@mas.to @RhinosWorryMe@climatejustice.social No, I do not think you will lose them in the dry season unless you have animals eating them.

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  @econetwork@mas.to Sorry, no website. Inspired by Nature. Born and raised in the south of Africa.

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  @econetwork@mas.to Pumpkin, cabbage, broccoli, swiss chard, lettuce, kale, onion, brinjal, green pepper, marrow, pigeon pea, cow pea, lima bean, fig, avocado, oranges, lemons, kumquat, gooseberry, raspberry, granadilla, loquat, nectarine, plum, sweet potato, potato, butternut, radish, beetroot, carrot. All grown with composted manure from our cattle and horses. Sweet potato leaves make good spinach. Also raise runner ducks, geese, chickens and rabbits. Ducks eat the snails in the vegetable gard...

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  @econetwork@mas.to My wife knows a lot about growing food. Our combined knowledge and experience work well, but we still learn by "trial and error" and go with whatever works. Local conditions dictate what we grow, so our diet changes according to what is available. We are in South Africa.

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  @econetwork@mas.to we have "pests", but grow enough to satisfy them and us. Vervet monkeys are the worst culprits. I spend a lot of time chasing them off.

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  @econetwork@mas.to I do not know. I just dig and see. If I am not happy I just leave them and check again after some months. I pick what I need when I want and leave the rest until I want more.

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  @econetwork@mas.to Glad to help. The best general advice I know of is that (depending on soil, climate and animals like mole-rats, moles, millipedes, etc., who like to eat underground/belowground storage organs), the best place to store underground/belowground storage organs, whether those organs are roots (as in sweet potato, beetroot, carrot) or stems (as in potato), is in the ground. Once the spuds have finished flowering, you may dig up a few to see what is there, before deciding to dig more...

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  @nova Screwdriver for scale?

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  RE: https://mastodon.africa/@polity_unofficial/116368946587214032 I know nothing about these things, like how they are worked out or what they really mean and whether they are reliable indicators of anything, but if South Africa's rank in equity markets is described as "outperforms" it must be a good thing, right?

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  2026 is the UN #international_year_of_rangelands_and_pastoralists https://iyrp.info/ #IYRP2026 #rangelands #pastoralists #pastoralism #nomadism #transhumance #landtenure #climateChange #flood #drought #landuseChange #resilience #vulnerablePeople #livestock #livestockHealth #livelihood #herders #indigenouspeople