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[–] 83 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I'm exclusively planting tulips for trade. I'm not missing out when the craze strikes again.

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  • [–] 46 points 4 months ago

    Sorry to say, but we’ve moved onto virtual goods to satisfy our crazes nowadays. Try planting those tulips in your homebrew farmcraft simulator clone and watch those profits roll in.

    NFTs = non fungal tulips

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  • [–] 63 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

    Plant mushrooms and poppies so you can just disassociate your way into the end times.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Yes, all potatoes. Make sure in one large area, all the same sub type as well. Nothing bad can happen.

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

    Surely, there is absolutely no precedent for anything going wrong in a scenario such as that.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Diversity! Gotta hedge those bets.

    That said amoc collapse probably isn't happening imminently, and would mostly only cause cooling in Northern Europe from what I remember.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    The answer is to plant native plant species. Your local wildlife will Thankyou as they unwillingly prepare to migrate due to climate change.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I was quite surprised, when buying seeds for my garden (I need heat tolerant varieties of everything) that some of the ones that were heat tolerant were also cold tolerant, either old varieties or sturdy hybrids.

    Green Magic Broccoli is awesome, and there are lettuces like that. And while our unusual double tap freeze this year wiped out most of my garden, the fennel, which is heat tolerant in my experience, just did not freeze. All those little hairy leaves were completely undamaged. I did not expect that!

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    What does AMOC stand for? Is it that atlantic air current?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Idk, but I think it's about the golf stream collapse and how it'd cool Europe down.

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    [–] 11 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Guerilla plant fast growing plants in vacant areas to suck up as much CO2 as possible?

    (Yes I know this is like a drop in the ocean.)

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    Plants and trees are carbon neutral. They release the carbon when they decompose.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago

    Not entirely. Some goes into the topsoil. Also if your guerilla project lives on one plant is replaced with another, so it is carbon negative compared with no plants in its place.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    You gotta sequester the carbon by harvesting the trees and then either building stuff (like buildings or furniture, not disposable goods) with them or burying/sinking them in anaerobic conditions so they can't decompose.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    biochar!

    Its basically just making charcoal from woody wastes(i use my pruning from my garden).

    making biochar using a pit. the wood becomes stable carbon and lasts hundreds of years. I grind it and put it in my compost then add the compost+biochar into my garden.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Biochar is cool and all, but it's still not as good as preserving the wood completely intact. The article you cited itself says "it is predicted that at least 50% of the carbon in any piece of waste turned into biochar becomes stable," which is quite a bit less than 100%.

    I suppose it's good for the twigs and other leftovers that aren't even good enough to be made into OSB or MDF panels.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    A little part stills goes to soil and other, we wouldn't have coal if old trees decomposed all their CO2 back to the air

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Coal only exists because the bacteria did not exist yet to break the plant matter down when those trees died. New coal can not be formed now that the bacteria exist.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I'm at the same latitude as Portugal and in low elevation. We didn't get above freezing for five weeks straight during part of this winter. We set a couple of record cold temperatures too.

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    [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I've heard a good rec is to give yourself a buffer of one to two usda zones plus and minus.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Why not do a mixture of both?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Plant a cold resistant garden for nuclear winter!

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