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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Thanks for your advice. I’ll try giving them more nutrients and keep them damp. This will be difficult for me because I’ve conditioned myself to only water when the top 3 - 5 cm of the soil are dry… I killed more plants by overwatering than uunderwatering…

    They alread have fruit but I read that cucumbers keep producing fruit as long as I harvest them before they’re fully ripe.





  • I haven’t found any signs of spider mites (no webbing).

    I’ve taken the affected leaves off and started feeding the plants with proper nutrients (COMPO Grow Organic for the time being, because its available and at least works great with my cannabis plants). Maybe my home made slurry is part of the problem.

    I’d think that the cucumbers don’t get too much water because I water them when the soil is dry about two knuckles deep which proved appropriate for Alle my plants.



  • No I don’t think so. In German it’s called “Jauche” and is a natural fertilizer that you get when you let plant parts (often nettle or goutweed) sit in water for a few weeks.

    I thought the drainage of the soil was good enough. It’s potting soil mixed with ~ 10 % perlite for drainage. The pots I use are textile pots with good drainage and I try to wait wi watering until the soil is at least 3 - 5 cm dry.

    Maybe you got have a point with your suspicion that the container maybe limiting the plants… Next year I’ll definitely plant my cucumber plants in a raised bed.





  • I see what you mean, but this is not about having a strangle hold on the world or being the world’s reserve currency. This is about having your own currency and collecting taxes in this currency. As long as a country collects taxes in its own currency there will be demand for that currency.


  • Okay, but even if the USA can’t change the law regarding states bonds, it is virtually impossible that people stop buying US states bonds since the US Dollar is kinda like the most established currency in the world.

    So your argument is completely theoretical.



  • Then stop selling bonds and start investing directly (build schools, repair bridges, pay your employees, etc.).

    Countries don’t have to take the detour through state bonds because they can make money out of thin air. State bonds are a self-imposed and there’s no law of nature that mandates using them.


  • They seemed to think that tax revenue in some way has to happen for spending to happen.

    Noo!

    But the federal government creates money ex nihilo.

    Yes!

    Money has to be created before it can be destroyed through taxation.

    Yes!!

    We do not rely on the money of the wealthy. What matters is actual, real resources and services we can provide.

    Yes, yes and yes!! ❤️

    Thanks for your concise explanation of MMT! I wouldn’t be able to phrase it this well. ❤️