Hi hello could we please make sure that no one watches this and that it flops. Moffat can’t get back on his bullshit in 2020 let’s all leave him back in the 10s thank you very much.
Just a few reminders
FUCK THIS GUY
This is the same man who:
joked about the Ninth Doctor sexually assaulting Nancy from the Empty Child (watch the behind the scenes, he openly jokes about it, and basically calls Nancy a tramp for having been a teen mother, despite the hinting that the situation wasn’t one of choice),
wrote Madame du Pompadour as a sex fiend when she suffered from vaginismus and suspected endometriosis to the point that she would barely even kiss Louis – the King kept her because he was in love with her mind, but none of that came across – this would be a fact the Doctor knew well, because he fucking reads,
said if RTD hadn’t put Rose in another Universe he would have killed her off because she was not classy enough or good enough to be the Doctor’s wife,
said Rose was the sort of character you were shocked wasn’t teen pregnant but had clearly been around,
said he chose Karen Gillan for Amy when he saw her in the hallway, and she was more attractive and skinny than the actress that had hit the mark in her audition
calls women he finds unattractive ‘dumpy’
is fatphobic
is racist
is homophobic
is misogynist
joked about Rose’s abusive ex boyfriend ‘’just being sick of her’’
joked that her being lost to Pete’s World was “convenient” for the Doctor, so his cloying needy girlfriend could be gone from him,
said that the most romantic part of the Time Traveller’s Wife, the problematic book that he based River Song off of, was when she purposefully met the Time Traveller before he ever met her so that she could lie about him marrying her and make it so that he purposefully continued meeting her thinking she was his wife out of love – and. look. what. he. wrote, he literally said “if you watch it, you’ll see that he never actually married her, River isn’t the Doctor’s wife but he just lets her think she is”
said the part in the Time Traveller’s Wife where she had sex with him before his vasectomy so she could get pregnant by him despite his insistence to her that he didn’t want children ever is ‘so women, right?’
is rumoured to have been handsy on set with his female actresses,
made multiple comments about how women try to trap men
wrote a scene where the Doctor forces a kiss from a lesbian woman
joked about Amy Pond not being as sexy if she was poc
joked about how the Doctor was supposed to save the universe if she was menstruating
made abrasive comments about Jodie being cast as the Doctor
called David Tennant ‘overrated’
made all of his actors sign an agreement that they could never reprise their roles on DW without his express permission
joked about asexuality not existing re: sherlock, saying it was an excuse
said he only casts female actresses that he finds attractive
called his wife a whale and said she deals with everything to do with the kids because that’s her job
joked about bisexual people being selfish
joked about lesbians still liking men
He was the worst thing to come to Doctor Who, and the amount of people who defended him as “well he was just kidding!” split the fandom. This man is a crusty old bigot who is way too high on himself. Do not support him, don’t watch his stupid shows, he doesn’t deserve the money.
For this season, the farmers we work for are letting us use a field to grow some produce to sell at market. And we decided to try out some no till techniques since this is pretty low risk for us. This past winter we tarped off the section we wanted to use with some plastic that we got for free from a farmer friend. I think we laid it all out in early January. We originally used landscaping staples but found that the plastic tore really easily so rock bags work better.
And then we waited!
We occasionally had to go out and adjust the plastic when it was really windy and it came loose from the rock bags but other than that we didn’t do anything. Ideally, what we wanted to happen was the plastic warm the ground enough to cause seeds to geminate but then they wouldn’t get any light and ultimately die. Thus helping to reduce the weeds that would come up in the spring.
Then this spring it looked like this! Very nice and weed free, plus lots of organic matter added in. We also had to use a metal detector to find our staples since they had torn out.
At this point we broad forked half of the row we needed to plant and then used a cultivator to break up the clumps. I think if we had needed to we could’ve seeded right into the beds at that point. But instead we transplanted dill, parsley and basil. (The basil wasn’t doing well in the greenhouse because it was staying too wet and didn’t have great air flow so we decided to plant it early instead of risking it getting diseased.)
We put some row cover on to protect against cold overnight lows and pests like caterpillars and groundhogs and there ya have it!
The only worrisome parts we’ve encountered so far are: 1) there’s a lot of Johnson grass in this area because it hasn’t been in production and J grass is a pain in the butt and hard to kill. 2) the ground was harder than we would’ve ideally wanted for transplanting but again, this area has probably never been tilled but has been driven on a lot so it’s pretty compact. I don’t think one season of cultivating the ground is going to loosen the soil up but hopefully it’ll be enough for the plants
Awesome! You might see if you can get your hands on some mycorrhizae to help build the soil / soil life, especially if you think you might be doing this for more than a season. We’ve been experimenting with different products, so far ‘Mykos Xtreme Gardening’ seems the most promising - https://www.xtreme-gardening.com/mykos
