Kubuntu & Gardening
May. 5th, 2012 03:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzI have so many names for this new release of Kubuntu and not many of them are good. Somehow it managed to get my printing killed yet again, and now I have "orphaned packages" because some didn't update and others have.
This will take some sweat and pain to set right, probably on the part of NoKey since I don't know anything about Ubuntu other than what Synaptic Package manager and Apper can do.
No printer also means no scanner, but I don't need a scanner to keep track of my job applications. It also means no fax, but I dropped off this week's work sheet at the job agency so they could fax it for me.
Choice names for 2012.04? Putrid Parmesan springs to mind. Or Partisan Proliferate. Or Perhaps Patrician? Although I'd settle for Perfect Parsley at this point.
In other news, the garden is doing great and yielding things already. Mainly weeds, which I suspect to yet again be Galinsoga (Dutch: knopkruid), a.k.a. the bane of my existance, which only comes up because I don't have mulch on my beds. I'm diving into permaculture yet again, but my garden is too full to add mulching plants (plants that you harvest leaves (or grass can work) from to mulch the other beds so stuff like Galinsoga does not come up). I could add straw, but I'd need a lot. I am betting on the indestructible spreading power of the wild strawberries.
Aside: now that I am looking up these plants in Wikipedia (ideal for all plant names translations!) I realise that we don't have wild strawberries in the garden, but rather mock strawberries. They look very similar, but they flower yellow in stead of white and aren't nearly as tasty as the other kind. Still, they spread like wildfire and create a wonderfully loose top soil. For permacultural purposes, they are nearly as good, except that they aren't as tasty to humans. The other functions (creates shade, loose topsoil, covers ground) remain intact, and I suppose birds will eat either fruit eagerly.
The other thing the garden is yielding, next to the first california poppies, bits of glass, and very old and weathered coins, is a very thriving courgette plant. It's growing mighty strong, with its main stem already nearly as thick as my finger, and getting ready to flower.
Now that I've removed some mock strawberries from around other plants, they are coming too: budleja, Veronica, and some other bee-lovers.
Tomorrow some Anarquendor will drop in for a crafts day, which will fill the house to the brim and see me mostly doing some catering and fixing some imprompty braid-solutions. Just in case I do get around to some sewing, there's banners we can make and I've pre-washed the fabrics for the avatar. Too bad I seem to have misplaced the pattern I made...
This will take some sweat and pain to set right, probably on the part of NoKey since I don't know anything about Ubuntu other than what Synaptic Package manager and Apper can do.
No printer also means no scanner, but I don't need a scanner to keep track of my job applications. It also means no fax, but I dropped off this week's work sheet at the job agency so they could fax it for me.
Choice names for 2012.04? Putrid Parmesan springs to mind. Or Partisan Proliferate. Or Perhaps Patrician? Although I'd settle for Perfect Parsley at this point.
In other news, the garden is doing great and yielding things already. Mainly weeds, which I suspect to yet again be Galinsoga (Dutch: knopkruid), a.k.a. the bane of my existance, which only comes up because I don't have mulch on my beds. I'm diving into permaculture yet again, but my garden is too full to add mulching plants (plants that you harvest leaves (or grass can work) from to mulch the other beds so stuff like Galinsoga does not come up). I could add straw, but I'd need a lot. I am betting on the indestructible spreading power of the wild strawberries.
Aside: now that I am looking up these plants in Wikipedia (ideal for all plant names translations!) I realise that we don't have wild strawberries in the garden, but rather mock strawberries. They look very similar, but they flower yellow in stead of white and aren't nearly as tasty as the other kind. Still, they spread like wildfire and create a wonderfully loose top soil. For permacultural purposes, they are nearly as good, except that they aren't as tasty to humans. The other functions (creates shade, loose topsoil, covers ground) remain intact, and I suppose birds will eat either fruit eagerly.
The other thing the garden is yielding, next to the first california poppies, bits of glass, and very old and weathered coins, is a very thriving courgette plant. It's growing mighty strong, with its main stem already nearly as thick as my finger, and getting ready to flower.
Now that I've removed some mock strawberries from around other plants, they are coming too: budleja, Veronica, and some other bee-lovers.
Tomorrow some Anarquendor will drop in for a crafts day, which will fill the house to the brim and see me mostly doing some catering and fixing some imprompty braid-solutions. Just in case I do get around to some sewing, there's banners we can make and I've pre-washed the fabrics for the avatar. Too bad I seem to have misplaced the pattern I made...
