• 0 Posts
  • 7 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 15th, 2023

help-circle
  • shoo@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI'm not okay.
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    9 days ago

    Depends on if you have a healthy wild source that can seed itself in. My woodline is almost entirely invasives so it took more legwork to balance it out. I ended up mostly planting small trees/shrubs to shade out the weeds and letting Virginia Creeper spread (love that stuff).

    Barring that it probably depends on yard size and local climate. Might be more economical to clear with a sod cutter or spot weed + replace.

    Check for local native plant orgs, they can get you plants in bulk. They might also have specific advice, for example if you need to avoid seeding certain plants to protect a vulnerable local species.


  • shoo@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI'm not okay.
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    10 days ago

    While it’s better than keeping a barren monoculture lawn, keep in mind that letting things grow with no intervention will get you a lot of invasive species. If you want healthier habitat for your critters try to keep an eye on what’s growing and replace the bad stuff with native options.





  • shoo@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzEinstein-Landauer culinary units
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    There’s nothing inherently more natural about cooking in the metric system, people just prefer base 10 these days. People balk at 4 quarts to an arbitrary gallon but love 1 liter being the arbitrary cubic volume of 10 ten-millionths of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole passing through Paris [but not quite].

    Cooking by volume was natural before everyone had accurate kitchen scales. You didn’t have a digital tare button in the 1800s but you did have a bunch of containers in common sizes.

    what happen when you need 3/4 of a cup ? Or 1.5 cup ?

    Generally you have 4 sizes: 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4. You just use a combination of 2 sizes (1+1/2) or multiples of your smallest size (3x1/4).

    You usually don’t need high precision for cooking, common ratios are good approximations (1:1, 1:2, 1:8, etc…). Baking is a different beast and I don’t know how people did it before weight.

    Also, fuck tablespoons and teaspoons. They should just be replaced with 1/16 cup and 1/32 cup.