It snows in the central plateau of the North Island and about 1/3rd of the bottom half of the South Island
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It snows in the central plateau of the North Island and about 1/3rd of the bottom half of the South Island
I think potting mixtures are given fertiliser mixes according to what they were meant to grow. Some have slow release fertilisers for pot plants/shrubs and trees which can last up to 2 years. Vegetable designed potting mixes for tomatoes beans etc usually require a mid season boost.
From your previous post on the subject,I got the impression that you live in a apartment, therefore your plants are container grown which hardly pays its way. however I find strawberries make a better return.
It was -10C here
It must be weird around Christmas for people in the Southern Hemisphere.
Jura The idiot
General
Great day yesterday in the middle of Central Europe: "Remake of an Incident in the Czech Border Area in September, 1938" (don't worry, the reenactors "from both sides" are all friens 
and no politicians or something involved!)
About 50 rifles and several light machine guns firing at the same time, it's a ... strong experience for everyone, isn't it? (must be terrible when real bullets are flying though) Anyway, "during the incident, both sides suffered", members of the Freikorps Sudetenland:
and of various Czechoslovak armed services:
(but again, no worries, the fallen guys just stayed put for some time in 1938, however, several incidents like this had happened :-( before was signed three quarters of century ago ... and people here have been arguing about it since then)
I don't do reenacting, I ask questions LOL
and no politicians or something involved!)About 50 rifles and several light machine guns firing at the same time, it's a ... strong experience for everyone, isn't it? (must be terrible when real bullets are flying though) Anyway, "during the incident, both sides suffered", members of the Freikorps Sudetenland:
and of various Czechoslovak armed services:
(but again, no worries, the fallen guys just stayed put for some time
in 1938, however, several incidents like this had happened :-( before was signed three quarters of century ago ... and people here have been arguing about it since then)I don't do reenacting, I ask questions LOL
vesicles
Colonel
Say hello to the start of the grant season! Feb, June and Oct are usually the time to submit NIH grants. Hence the crunch time for preliminary experiments, contacting old buddies and old mentors for that letter of support, figuring out budgets, AND a ton of grant writing. I just submitted one yesterday @ 4:55 PM (supposed to be due 5pm yesterday). Just found out I was missing several important documents at the last minute and did a Hail Mary to the finish line... I actually finished the grant two months ago. Only a week after I was done with it, new data came out and completely overturned my initial hypothesis. So I had to rewrite the whole grant. Of course, we had to do a whole series of new experiments to validate the new data and the new hypothesis. So During the past month, I was pushing my people so hard trying to get them to finish the experiments. And I was also pushing myself to the breaking point trying to finish the grant. I can't believe it that we actually did it! One off the list. Another one due next Monday. So I have to get back to that one. And there is another one due in a month in July. And another one in August and another in October. Nonstop...
I/We will say a prayer for you brother, as I know you're an honest hard working man, and the work you are doing will help us all to be healthier, and happier, so pray for vesicles brothers, he's trying to help us keep these circulatory systems up and running, when they ain't, it ain't no fun,,, really, been there done that, and have the bed pan to prove it..... brat.
Great work, vesicles!
And good luck on getting those grants.
The type of research you do is critical and I wish you the best in it.
solarz
Brigadier
Last year, I had a pretty good harvest of tomatoes, but it was a pain watering 11 pots every day. Plus, the plants became so top-heavy, they would all fall down when it's windy.
This year I decided to diversify and use some bigger pots.
I've grown strawberries before, but they all turned out very small and not in great numbers. I may give them another try next year.
I don't use potting mixtures either. They're too expensive IMO. I just go with black earth and manure.
vesicles
Colonel
Thanks guys! I do need those prayers, my men! With a funding percentage down to single digit (<8% last time I checked), one needs a small miracle to get funded! Of course, on paper, they say young investigators get better percentages (up to 15%) because they want to nurture the next gen scientists. However, the reality is that the big dogs get the most of the bite because...... well how do I put it nicely..... they are well-connected
That left little meat on the bone for us young guys... So the only thing to do is to throw enough stuff on the wall and hope one of them actually sticks... I only apply two cycles a year, but some young faculty in the Dept actually applies 4-5 cycles each year. That is so much stress. I simply can't do that. I need time to actually do science and publish papers, instead of trying desperately to come up with ways to beg for money all the time. No wonder so many people are leaving research and academia... OK, enough complaining! Let's hope I get it, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one