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This animation blinks between two images of our Mars Phoenix Lander. The first – dark smudges on the planet’s surface. The second – the same Martian terrain nearly a decade later, covered in dust. Our Mars orbiter captured this shot as it surveyed the planet from orbit: the first in 2008. The second: late 2017.
In August 2008, Phoenix completed its three-month mission studying Martian ice, soil and atmosphere. The lander worked for two additional months before reduced sunlight caused energy to become insufficient to keep the lander functioning. The solar-powered robot was not designed to survive through the dark and cold conditions of a Martian arctic winter.
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
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How to Get The Best Results From Your Compost Bin
If you want to produce the best compost you just need to follow a few tips and your garden will thank you.
Constructing A Compost Bin
Our compost bin is plastic and kind of looks like an upside down garbage can but you can construct your own compost bin with a few stakes and chicken wire. I would suggest you make it about 3 feet square for the best air circulation. That seems to be just the right size for everything to work right.
Filling Your Compost Bin (What To Put In Your Compost Bin)
What’s the best or most balanced mixture for your compost bin, for getting the best results in the shortest time frame.
Green Yard And Kitchen Waste
The green waste is usually high in nitrogen. It’s the green waste that activates the heat process in your compost. Some heat generating yard waste is better at heating, like fresh young weeds that haven’t gone to seed yet. Be sure you keep those grass trimmings as they work well too. We also use our kitchen waste, fruit, vegetable, coffee grounds. We don’t drink much tea but you can use the tea leaves as well, even the bag.
Brown Usable Waste
The brown waste is usually high in carbon. Brown waste includes leaves that fall in autumn, all those dead flowers, plants and weeds. You can also use those cardboard tubes from Christmas wrapping paper, foil wrap, etc. If you use straw to cover flower beds or strawberries you can recycle that through your compost bin when you’re done with it.
What Other Things Can Go In The Compost Bin
We have grocery bags that are made from recycled cloth but every once in a while we will shop somewhere they give us paper bags, if they don’t have a lot of colour or ink we put them straight in the compost bin, well I rip them up to make the pieces break down faster. We also use our egg shell in the compost bin but I also use them to keep slugs out of my garden. Don’t forget the paper towels you use they can go in as well.
Air Circulation For Breathing Room
Your compost bin works best when it has a good flow of air and will NOT stink like some compost bins do, those without a good air supply as it take more bacteria when the air flow is not enough.
Each time you turn your compost pile it will get a new supply of air and will loosen the compost for better air circulation.
Just A Little Water
We keep our compost bin slightly damp but not too wet. Kind of like a sponge you just squeezed the water from, it’s just damp.
Our compost bin has a lid on it that helps to keep a lot of the moisture from the green waste from evaporating so we don’t need to use water much at all, but we keep a close watch on it in the hot dry weather.
We started our composting without adding any extra soil to help jump start the process but I have heard that it’s beneficial at the start so feel free to add some top soil between the layers of compost. A small amount of garden soil between each layer will introduce the bacteria needed to start the compost cycle. The soil that was still attached to plants we pulled and added to the compost bin was enough for us to have great results.
How to Grow Upside Down Tomatoes
• To grow upside down tomatoes, you would need to use a container.Space for a garden outdoors is not required when growing tomatoes using this method.You wouldn’t need a huge space wherein your growing tomatoes will receive their required daily dose of six to eight hours of sunlight.The plants can easily be relocated to help them get sun exposure because they are in containers.
• Growing tomatoes upside down will require no more staking. As tomatoes grow heavier, they look for an erect object to lean on.However, because they are upside down, they will naturally grow straight due to gravity.
• Weeding is not necessary with growing upside down tomatoes.Because they are cultivated in containers, there are many other benefits that you could achieve. Weeding, dealing with pests, and requiring good soil are no longer big problems you have to worry about.
• Pests find it difficult to climb up to tomatoes grown upside down.Upside down tomatoes should be sufficiently spaces to avoid the spread of disease.
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The Magun Mk IX is considered the "Perfected Model" of the original Magun (Designated the MK I) crafted by Moogle and wielded by Kuroki Kaze (Designation: Subject Zero), The MK IX being the Accumilation of Multiple realms' worth of research, experimentation and prototyping into Magun Designs. Combining a Mustang Arms Diamondback Revolver's unique side-break system, 'Tround' bullets and double action trigger, the Mk IX can be used like a Regular revolver as well as Summoning device, the Triple Barrels built for Soil Usage set at the upper section of the Mk IX. The Magun Mk IX uses 'Soil', the remnants of destroyed realms, to summon Either powerful summoned creatures, or in certain cases, Lost Heroes and Heroines to provide assistance in battle.
~[Design]~ The Mk IX Magun has a Dual Trigger system, packing a Standard Double action revolver Trigger to fire the 10mm Tround Magnum Cartridges, and a ring-shaped forward trigger to fire the Soil Cartridges. The Mk IX fires the standard trounds from bottom-cylinder (Six O'Clock position, as gunsmiths call it), making it's recoil pattern fairly controllable. It also has a laser pointer set in the space between the Four barrels, allowing the User to either 'Dazzle' an enemy, or to better pinpoint a target. The three upper barrels enshroud the top half of the Tround cylinder, as well as cover the Break-Action locking mechanism. The chambering caps hold the internal strikers that fire the Soil Cartridges, and are unlocked by pushing the triple barrels forward once. Loading the Soil Cartridges in, automatically closes and locks the Chamber Caps. ~[Comparison to the Original Magun]~ Compared to the Original Magun, the Magun Mk IX is more compact, easier on the hand, much lighter, and doesn't require merging to the user's arm. It also has more Variety in combat, allowing itself to be used as a Standard Weapon as well as a Summoning device, and has the ability to Purify Soil rounds, making them far more effective.
The Mk IX at first glance seemingly lacks the Engine Module of the Mk I used by Kaze. This is factually incorrect. The engine module is actually hidden behind the Laser Diode, being made smaller and more compact compared to previous models, while also being just as efficient, if not moreso, than the Original system. The lack of Transformation capability was considered an 'Advantage' as well, as the designers found that standing out in the open and letting a dramatic drawn out transformation sequence play out, was just asking for the Wielder to get rudely interrupted mid-monologue... A detail that was not nixxed in the Mk II, Mk III, Mk IV and Mk VI models of the Magun series, and got a majority of their Users either maimed or killed.