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First for bee-flower appreciation

My pumpkins that were planted in August are the size of large tomatoes while in comparison the others I've seen are massive (imagine two footballs!). Am I missing a trick or were the others planted earlier?

>>2840413
You mean your plants are the size of large tomatoes?
if you planted your pumpkins last month then I'm surprised that they produced at all

So my chickens are growing up nicely
So far out of five chicks I have two chickens and three roosters
I'll probably kill two of em or use em for rooster fighting

>plant blackberry plant
>it grows a little
>yard guys weedwhack it almost to death
>few weeks later they do it again, maybe a third time idk
(I live with family I would have already fired them were it my choice)
>many more weeks later, buy another one and plant next to the first
I should specify here it's the saplings that are maybe a a twig and some leafs you get from generic stores.
>months pass
>the second one has grown a lot
>the first one is still super small and has maybe a dozen small leafs
I've used fertilizer, I've watered it, it's admittedly in not optimal clay but it's hard to do anything about that but again the plant 2 feet away is growing fine.
Any ideas?

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>>2840458
Be carful black berries are the most aggressive weed I have ever encountered
>If its in rock hard heavy clay then it might be trapped and the soil around it should be loosened
>Put some plant matter around but not touching the stem to help lock in the water
>water it at the base of the stem, if you water from over head the leaves might be scorched
>don't put fertilizers directly on the plant or they might scorch it as well

>>2840457
castrate them and make capon, best damn chicken there is.

>>2840485
My nigga I'm no surgeon
Also isn't their balls inside like their cloacas
I can snap the nuts off of mammals all day but I've never heard of a castrated rooster

>>2840458
>yard guys
Should have caged them or put them in a container or garden plot. Congrats on paying for a service to mow your lawn.

>>2840432
>You mean your plants are the size of large tomatoes?
Yeah. Oh is it, the packet said they could be planted as late as August

>>2840458
why on earth would they weedwhack an intentional planting

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Does anybody do aquaponics or hydroponics? I’m interested in trying a one tank system with floating raft in a 200g or so galvanized steel trough , with aerator and circulating pump. I get a few raccoons I’d need to protect the fish from. I’ve heard galvanized isn’t ideal, nor is single tank set up , but I’m willing to test it anyway. I’m interested mostly because I’m extremely tight on space and it may even use less water than a raised bed in similar sized container. If anyone does a raft system please share any advice.

>a bunch of tomato flowers bloom
>a few tomatoes visibly growing on the truss
>a bunch of little nubs that have clearly pollinated but haven't grown at all in several weeks
Anyone experienced this? Will they grow eventually when conditions are more favorable?

>>2840577
they probably think it's a weed since no sane person grows blackberries in a regular residental backyard

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>>2840618
>no sane person grows blackberries in a regular residental backyard

>>2840620
keep that shit under control or your entire yard will be blackberries

>>2840624
I grow clumping types, never had them send up suckers away from the plant. My raspberries and passion fruit on the other hand...

>>2840624
>keep that shit under control or your entire yard will be blackberries
haha, try goji berries on the otherhand...

>>2840488
>but I've never heard of a castrated rooster
Capon is the pinnacle of chicken, was/is a holiday delicacy in both in Europe and China.

>>2840624
This is a good problem to have

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What the fuck happened to my tomato stem and how do I save it?

>>2840740
Bend it over into the soil so it roots at some nodes above the damage

>>2840740
>What the fuck happened to my tomato stem
My first guess is that something's eaten at it, but frankly I have no idea.
>how do I save it?
I am not an expert, but in your position I would hill up some soil around the base of the stem, going above the damaged part (at least up to where that little shoot is coming out from, ideally a bit further) so that it can put out more roots above it.

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Harvested my first cannabis today. Turned out real good

>>2840740
Lookin like slug damage to me

>>2840828
Looks like terple but less purple

The leaves on my pepper plant keep falling off and the flowers dry up right away after sprouting. This is only on some of the kinds of peppers some have had 40+ peppers on it while others have only had 0-2 or others with 7 or 8. They're all getting the same watering and sunlight. What could be going on?

>>2840851
It sounds like some of your plants need more water than others

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>>2840839
Strain is Monster grown outside over the summer

>>2840769
>>2840788
I'm trying it, bros, but I think this plant is fucked. The damage goes all the way around the outer layer of the stem, which is where nutrients get transported.

I feel so bad for this tomato plant, it was doomed from the start. Accidentally let it dry out when hardening it off before transplant and it got sunscald on half its leaves, then transplanted it and all the new growth got swarmed with leaf miners, and now I notice this big fucking chunk missing from the base of its stem. At least I have another one, and that one's doing really well besides some leaf miner damage.

>>2840870
you could try rooting/growth hormone, it might be able to grow roots out from above the damaged area.

>>2840883
I've bunched some soil up above that part of the stem, but in this container I can only add so much more soil. If a few new roots are going to have to do 100% of the work from now on.... I don't think he's gonna make it. I'll see what happens though

>>2840480
I'll try these, thanks.

>>2840511
It's not me who is paying them so shrug.
He's not willing to do any yardwork himself at all and lives in a neighborhood with an HOA.
I think it's 150 a month too.

>>2840618
Very few things besides grass survive in this yard and even then I've had to reseed the grass twice. We've had some rodent chew through a palm tree killing it (wtf), a fence felled by wind killed a citrus tree, another tree exploded by lightning, and I forget how the 4th one died.
Rose bush mysteriously fell over (and sprouted again so not dead), half of a pine tree wither, and a Eucalyptus tree die somehow also now that I'm thinking about it.
This is all in a standard suburbia yard too.
So something that is resilient like a weed is basically my last option here.

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I don't even believe this so I will have to show you guys.
Look at this persian limes, before/after I started using cash crop pest control adhesives to get rid of the mining larvae that was destroying their leaves.
>Before
Basically using insecticides to try and control the larvaes, every two weeks or so using either neem or cypermethrin and others, it held them back for a week or so but the moths came and put the mining larvae and started destroying new leaves every time.

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Look how the leaves look now after only using the pest control adhesives, no insecticides at all, just the yellow tape with the glue that catches the pests.
>After

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I was even holding back cheering thinking it would be a false alarm and that the mining larvaes would attack again and damage the leaves.

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Perfect leaves, just like a brand new plant.
I have seen so many citrus here die because of these mining larvaes damaging them, both my tangerines and my limes look perfect now, all spotless leaves.

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I got even some courage to plant some oranges now, Citrus sinensis.

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Imperial orange.

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The blue pest control trap is catching fruit flies and others.

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>>2841225
Went back there again to take another picture because the wind made the tape move so the image got screwed up.

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And the back side, these weird mosquito-like flies with a pointed beak are all fruit flies.

what a weird ad

>>2840413
should have planted them earlier.
a month ago mine was the size of a grapefruit, now its over 5 kg and turning orange

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Anyone else here do any perennial hybridizing/breeding? I grow and hybridize daylilies.
https://www.instagram.com/jaymalick

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Hello. When should I start harvesting my jalapenos? My mom got them from the store.So it was already like a three inch plant. I gave it more life

Sorry if this is the wrong thread. Could use y’all’s help
>live in downtown of small college town, lucky enough to have a big backyard (1/8 - 1/5acre)
>join “[State region] livestock keepers” Facebook group because want to get a chicken coop started
>find a post about a free billy goat
>chest freezer is empty, might as well
>bring goat and tether to trees or cinder block so he doesn’t escape or eat my garden
>couple morning later get visit from police
>someone called a welfare check on the goat
>probably my Airbnb host neighbor
>tell him goat is going in the freezer and also show him around the backyard to show that goat is not being neglected
>policeman says everything looks good according to municipal code and leaves
>buddy that was going to help me butcher goat has something come up, need to hold on to goat a couple more days
>other neighbors have only been curious about the goat, but I understand if they hate me now
>ffw today butcher prep day
>buddy comes over to talk over details (restraining goat, shooting, processing, etc)
>everything is set up and he leaves
>airbnb just neighbor comes out, phone recording and super confrontational , telling me that I have to humanely euthanize goat
>says it’s illegal for me to butcher goat at home
>put a complaint to the city
Can I really not butcher a goat in my backyard? I was going to take it to my buddy’s place outside of city limits anyway but now I’m curious. It’s for personal use, so I doubt I need some USDA certification. I think she was trying to scare me. Most laws I find regarding this are only in reference to commercial operations. This town is pretty outdoorsy, with waterfowl and deer hunting being popular. I figured I could process a goat in the same way I could process a deer or bear here. Any help would be appreciated. North Coast California for anyone interested

>>2841444
Can u just adopt the goat anon and make him ur friend/pet instead of eating him? Desu

>>2841426
Either when they reach their mature size and stop growing, or when they ripen and turn red. If you don't have immediate plans to cook with them, you might as well let them ripen and pick them then

>>2841445
I thought about it after a day. He was some FFA kids goat so he is really nice and sociable for a 3 year old intact male goat. Thing is he gets whiny when left alone and I am trying to keep my neighbors in mind, so I can’t get him more goat friends. In the time that I got him till now I couldn’t secure someone to take him in so my original intention has become my last resort.

>>2841446
Ty

>>2841447
Unless he becomes nasty or it's super expensive to keep him i would consider that option if u dont have any or many other let's if he's already socialized. Just play with him/pet him 2-3 times a day and keep him fed. Buy him some toys maybe. Maybe the neighbor could help? Idk. Life is amazing and unfair but also lovely sometimes Goodluck in whatever u decide

>>2840480
Blackberry brambles are a super useful fence/deterrent for animals and intruders.

I’ll just post up a fence and then let big stocks of transplanted bramble re-grow and eventually encompass the entire fence. Animals don’t like it and thieves will think twice. They are probably the 2nd most annoying and aggressive plant outside of bamboo, but at least bramble fruit and help local pollinators.

>>2841447
>I am trying to keep my neighbors in mind

You mean the ones who got upset about you killing the goat?

>>2841460
what about goji berries?

>>2841447
You have to kill after your neighbors confronted you about it, if you don't that means they won

>>2841460
>eventually encompass the entire fence
and then they'll encompass the yard, if your going to go through the trouble of growing something along your fence just use an actual crop like raspberries, grapes or domestic black berries

>>2841466
Only the AirBnb host got upset. The others were thought it strange that I had a goat out of nowhere
>>2841541
I have the hide hanging (salted) right now as I type

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>>2841546
You MONSTER you've killed a beautiful innocent creature. If you just went to the supermarket and bought some lunchmeat then no animal would have needed to die ever. What you've done is ILLIGAL (maybe) and you'll be hearing from the cops shorty

Hi, guys. I'm interested in homesteading.
Is it true that it takes 23 hours of hard work to stay alive and that it costs a trillion dollars just to plant a potato, so it's better to be a bitch wageslave for Shekelberg? The glowniggers on other 4chan boards said so, but idk.

>>2840740
>>2840870
Alright, this plant's not gonna make it. It's just getting yellower and yellower, not able to transport the nutrients up through that damaged stem. It's a shame because I grew 2 plants and this was meant to be my main tomato plant, sprouting 5 days earlier and starting out way healthier than the other one. I planted it in a 10 gallon bag and the smaller one in a 5 gallon bag, thinking this one would be the main star and the other would just be a "whatever happens, happens" companion plant tp see how the different container sizes affected things.

Now I'll have to rip the plant up and try to transplant the other one from the 5 gallon bag to take its place, but I worry about moving that one now that it's bustling with flowers and forming fruits all over. Is it alright to transplant it once it's become so established and actively fruiting? I'd scream if I ended up killing this one too. The sooner the better, though, I guess

>>2840740
Someone took a nibble.

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pepper spider

>>2841678
Cute little spidey. He's keeping it safe for you while it ripens

>>2841678
Pepper protects spider
Spider protects pepper
You protect both
Beautiful really.

>>2841425
That's a fun hobby, anon - I'd like to try something like that, someday. Do your flowers get a lot of attention from insects?

>>2841444
Hey, a couple of things:
Goats are herd animals, your goat needs a buddy if you're going to keep him as a pet
Your neighbor is really uninformed. Euthanasia with barbiturates is actually really painful for dogs. We know heart attacks are really painful in humans, and this is what a veterinarian does. The dog's brain has enough glucose to keep conscious for a good minute or two after heart attack is induced. A bullet to the brain is instantaneous and painless. Make sure though to shoot it from a distance of at least 10" and into the base of the back of the skull. If you put the muzzle right up to the skull the bullet could explode in the chamber. Google it first.
Barbiturates will also render the meat inedible so that's wasting the meat bad for the environment. The meat could feed a low income family for a month. Tell your neighbor.

>>2841444
In my state you can butcher animals on your property as long as they are for personal consumption, or for direct sake to consumers from the farm. If you wanted to sell the meat at a grocery store or farmer's market then it would have to be butchered by a USDA processor. Call your state department of agriculture and ask.

>>2841784
You could also sell him on Craigslist for $150. This time of year is breeding season and goat keepers are looking for Billy goats with different genetics to breed their does for the winter.

>>2841548
I work ~13 hrs a day. But I like it. But I will need to get some remote computer work for the winter in order to pay for building materials.

>>2841781
Barbiturates are literally sedatives.

>>2841800
"Phenytoin/pentobarbital (trade name Beuthanasia-D Special) is an animal drug product used for euthanasia, which contains a mixture of phenytoin and pentobarbital."

>>2841546
If you get the skull cleaned, you could sell it on Etsy for $300. The horns are nice.

>>2841801
Yeah, and you're not going to have a painful heart attack if you're unconscious.

>>2841743
They do! Especially hummingbird moths!

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Picked 1/3 of the apple tree today.

>>2841850
>that color
are those Cavendish type apples? I love Cavendish breeds, best apple smell ever!

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>>2841583
I was too much of a coward to rip up the plant and now I find that the first little cherry tomato that it grew is starting to ripen. It's not growing at all, so 100% of its energy must be going into this little fruit. With its dying breath, it'll see to the end the first bit of excitement it brought me with the first tomato that grew this season. And then I'll have to betray it and rip it out of the soil.
It's a harsh world, bros

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>>2841883
I’m not sure honestly. They are supposed to be a dwarf McIntosh, however the tree is not a dwarf by any stretch so you know how it is. They’re tart but sweet. They eat well. They cook well. They can well. All around great apples.

I need a mix that can hold more moisture in triple digit heat, any tips?

It's not worth growing leafy greens. Have to carefully check each leaf to make sure you don't eat a caterpillar.

>don't worry about leaf miners, it's just cosmetic damage
Now 90% of the leaves are damaged and the bottom ones are fucking white from all the tunnels. Gardening advice is ALWAYS WRONG. Only idiots give gardening advice

>>2842154
Thanks for the gardening advice

>>2842102
Aphids are extra protein anon

>third generation (saved seeds) of lettuce putting all my other plants to shame including the shiso mint
My delicious little friends

>>2841444
Nooo you can't butcher le heckin goat
Do muricans really think it's all sunshine and rainbows in the wild?

>>2841678
Use detergent water

>>2842192
why?

>>2842207
To kill mites that cause my leaves to curl
Use it lightly on just the leaves

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Seriemas drinking my chickens water and eating their corn bran.

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>>2840136
I bought this weird plant called a black Current, clerk said it was getting it's fall coloring in but that turned out to be a fungal infection. Anyone know anything about them? how do they taste? I've heard their popular in Europe but I've never tried them personally

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>>2842377
you got a nice garden. what trees are you planting?
>>2842377
the taste would be sweet berry like. hard to describe really. normally you rarely see it sold fresh and when then only on a farmers market when it is in season, but syrup, jelly and sweets are more common.

>>2842377
purple candy in the US = grape
purple candy in europe = black currant
Their flavor is hard to describe. Tart, tangy, kind of musky, kind of grape-y. Make sure whatever variety you have doesn't need a pollination partner, they're more picky than red/pink/white iirc

>>2841812
Why don't you try it and let us know how it feels?

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>>2842406
>what trees are you planting?
got an oak tree seeded with some Truffles, pretty sure that mice or moles have been eating them though
>you got a nice garden
pretty much everything has been eaten down by rabbits, slugs or elk. turns out 4 foot plastic fencing isn't good for much. all I've really got left is rhubarb, a pumpkin and a few fenced vegetables

>>2842377
There are a bunch of different currants: blackcurrant, redcurrant (including pink and white), green gooseberries (with red or purple sweet varieties), and some other random wild species. Red are used more for eating or cooking. Currants do pretty well and bear fruit in shady spots and are generally very small plants, good for a tight unideal space. Gooseberries are bigger and thorny bushes and need more light, and were massively trendy over a century ago in both Europe and America, similar to how figs are now. In the Western US the wild species fill the same role as elderberries along the shores of streams and rivers, and the bushes tend to be big. American golden currants are used as flower bush for landscaping in Eastern Europe and Russia, but have at least one named variety with improved fruit, the Crandall black.

Imported European currant bushes were eradicated and banned in America for a long time in order to protect white pines as a source of lumber, since they spread rust. Now they are legal in most places, but there aren't necessarily American-made varieties that do well here. Gooseberries are a different story and have some nice cross-breeds with our local species. There's an oddball currant-gooseberry-wild species cross called jostaberries that are more productive, but they forsake some of the unique features of currants in the process like the size and shade tolerance.

One of the most important improvements to European currants over the others is that the berries grow in clusters, sometimes very large ones, along spurs rather than directly on the branches. Some redcurrant varieties have massive picturesque clumps and are much simpler to harvest as a result. Pretty great.

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>>2842420
anyone else try their hand at giant pumpkins? lets see some pictures

>>2842422
She looks mighty smashable

>>2842263
I had never heard of seriamas. Thanks anon. Do you live in South America?

>>2842377
they are tart, and there is a chance bush can smell like cat piss from time to time (so is boxwood)
you should make jam or juice (usually people dont eat it raw, you will see why, it is not toxic, just fruit seems odd when is raw), dont be scared after your first touch with it, jam is way different than raw form, i hope you are not scared of sugar because you will need it to make currants tastier and preserve jam

>>2842428
>Do you live in South America?
Yes.
They eat snakes, good to have around the house, but they eat eggs and small birds too so you have to watch out for them.
Don't let them get too close to chickens.

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>>2842407
I have dozens of lazy vegan ladypiggies sitting motionless and lazily sucking at the extrafloral nectaries on my beans plants. Noticed a tomato plant is infested with aphids, so I moved them over. A few of them instantly got to work at least. Also first time seeing ladybug larva, and the white faced bug is an asian ladybug, I suppose.

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>>2842496
Didn't mean to reply to that post.

>>2842498
I can't believe you've done this

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>>2841888
An update on this saga for those who are dying to know: the plant seems to be doing better now. It's even producing new fruit, and I can see new suckers growing to replace the main stem that shriveled up and ended itself. I think it will make it after all, at least to some extent, although it has a lot of catching up to do.

when do you guys move your nice plants back in the house? (i live in western ny and its starting to get chilly)

>>2843039
I don't.
if it survives it survives and if it doesn't then it gets planted next year

>>2843039
bit before the first frost

-6C in the forecast for Monday. Might as well pick the last of my tomatoes this weekend.

>>2840136
>>518065256
Hi /HGH/
Made a thread on /pol/ about gardening having its own board. There's so many facets to growing and gardening it would be nice to have a board where things can be broken up into generals and stickys. What do you all reckon? It's as vast a topic as cooking and they have their own board.

>>2843401
you linked it wrong retard

Do you guys have any experience with cold-hardy nightshades like rocoto or the NA native physalis? Are any of them worth it? As I understand it, the larger fruiting kinds need much longer to develop which kind of negates the advantage of the early start in Spring. Someone has to have gone down this rabbithole before me though. Thoughts?

Picked the last of the beans I planted at the start of August after pulling my garlic. Pretty good haul from that planting. Prepped the garlic bed for planting which I'll do in about a week. I stocked up on compost in the spring so I was able to amend the garlic bed before planting. In the spring I had to pull off the straw mulch to add compost.

Spring has come but i feel no joy. Don't want to plant anything. Not enjoying the work. Depressed because I can't get a fair price for anything I grow, people don't even want to pay supermarket rates for organics, nobody wanted to help harvesting last year, massive labour shortage.

>>2843894
>Spring has come
????

>>2843921
What is the Southern Hemisphere, Alex?

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Fucking tree mice (dormice, say google)
Previous years they were eating on an ornamental pomegranate tree, but they moved to the ones with good fruits
Sometimes my cats catch them but it's not common

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Impossible to find sedum ternatum "woodland stonecrop", even though supposedly native to Eastern u.s, but can't find at home despot et. al. Had to order it. Chicagoland area (5b) is now having patchy frost advisories. Not sure if g2g in ground bc frost, or should overwinter in garage.
Thoughts? Trying to google, but not getting consistent answers, and I don't want this sorry ass excuse for a 4" plug to die

>>2843959
Get a Chartreux cat. One of these wandered into my garden last August and when I couldn't find his owner he stuck around. Completely butchered the mice population in just a few weeks.

>>2844189
With my neighbour there's at least 7 cats that hunt daily here, they have reached equilibrium with their preys a long time ago, and they still bring back something almost every day

Two light frosts so far, but I think I can keep my tomatoes truckin' until November for one last harvest.

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Anyone else plant spineless prickly pear cactus?

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>>2844258
The ones I have here have small thorns the size of needles, really hard to remove once they stick to you.
The plant is outside and it's the middle of the night, I don't want to scare the tapirs and the wolves so I will not take a picture now.

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this year i have some special chillies in my windowsill/indoor garden. pic related is habanada, a habanero mutant that is not hot. the plant was a joy so far, grew into a massive healthy plant and produces pod after pod, the rippend from green to a peach color. only downside is the flavour is not that strong. yes you can pick up some habanero notes, but it's not that strong.

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>>2844354
my Aji Dulce / Caribbean Seasoning Peppers where a bit tricky, the plant itself did grow nice, classic tropical habanero bushes with big fat leaves, but they weren't productive, only after I gave them a lot more space and an additional LED panel they started producing pods.
they ripen from green to red and look like brutal hot scorpion habaneros. the taste and smell is just amazing, there is zero heat but the habanero smell/taste is so strong that when you cut one in the kitchen you can smell it from 3 meters away and 1-2 small pods in a bowl of salad will spice the entire bowl with habanero taste and if you burp 3 hours later you get a habanero burp. amazing little chilli.

>>2840655
>Caponisation is the process of turning a cockerel into a capon.
>Caponisation can be done by surgically removing the bird's testes, or may also be accomplished through the use of estrogen implants.
>With either method, the male sex hormones normally present are no longer effective.
>Caponisation must be done before the rooster matures so that it develops without the influence of male sex hormones.
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capon
>bacha bazi is the pinnacle of paedophilia, was/is a holiday delicacy in both in Europe and China.

>>2841460
based

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>>2844258
It's morning now so here it is, prickly pear planted near a palm tree, almost 5 years old.
Tangerine on the left, behind an eucalyptus I am using as windbreaker and for logs later.

>>2844301
i think you win the price for most wildlife in your garden price this year hands down.

>>2844258
>spineless prickly pear
I had no idea they existed, but now I'm interested

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Cleared out the squash patch today.
Got about 50 butternut.

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>>2844478
'boutta nut

>>2844481
Carlos!

>>2840136
Apartmentcuck here, what's the most useful plant I can grow indoors? Mainly looking for herbs or something to keep the bugs away.
>Inb4 use your balcony
It's very small and my roommate and I use it as a DIY work space

>>2844513
You can balcony with edge baskets going outwards and not lose space. Some herbs help repel insects; it's partly why terpenes and epiphytic waxes evolved.

>>2844400
Tapirs started eating the corn bran I put for my guinea fowls in the morning, they are also eating any fruit that falls from the trees, that is Inga feuillei ( ice cream bean ), cashews, mangoes, guavas, so many others I will miss some even if I list it all.
Macaws started coming in the morning to eat cashew nuts from the trees, parrots started eating my guavas and mangoes too, so whatever they don't eat on the trees and falls on the ground the tapirs eat.

Nice fall rain today, good to get some moisture in the ground before it freezes solid. Tomorrow I'll plant next year's garlic. I'll have to cover the carrots tomorrow night, but they should be good to stay in the ground until the end of October. The longer I don't have to deal with storing them inside the better.

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>>2844549
have you though about getting a jaguar? you sound like your garden could use an apex predator.

>>2844576
The rain has turned to snow. Accumulating on the grass, but the road is still too warm.

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>>2844604
Some slow release moisture for the new apple tree. Not that it needs it since I've been keeping it watered.

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I have a few different plants growing indoors at the moment but im pretty proud of my pineapple plant. I started growing it back in December from the cut top of a smaller pineapple. Hopefully planting it in a larger container sometime this month.

How do I over winter relatively young and fragile plants in containers?
Do I just bring them into the room?
Do I cut them back?
Do I leave them out?

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>>2844719
If you’ve got room you can bring them in and put a light on them and watch your watering.
Alternatively, layers of plastic or glass.
Ideally you want cold frames inside a low tunnel surrounded by straw if you’re going the unheated outdoor method.
Look into the winter harvest handbook by Elliot Coleman.

I planted an extra row of garlic vs what I planted in my raised bed last year, 107 cloves. Now to wait 9 months.

>>2844840
how do you keep that much garlic after harvest?

>>2844844
Right now I'm keeping what I planted this year in the basement. I'll see how long it stays good down there. I've also been giving a bunch to family. Next year I'll have to give away more or find a way to preserve it. I had a lot less last year and none of it sprouted before I could use it.

>>2844258
I grow prickly pears but no spineless variety. They're an absolute god-tier plant
>no watering
>immune to drought, hurricanes, flooding animals, dismemberment
>spread like hydras
>huge delicious fruit that tastes like raspberries
>entire plant is edible raw

>>2844367
>>2844368
This species always gets consumed by scale here in Florida. This one and opuntia humifusa. Opuntia stricta on the other hand is the best tasting one and never has scale issues

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>>2844844
you weave am in a strand and hang them forma wall. onions the same

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>>2840136
My watermelon

>>2844913
That whole thing is yours? All of it?

>>2844917
yeahy

>>2844858
What about hardneck?

>>2844913
>>2844917
>>2844920
From 2011?
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/big-ripe-watermelon-in-a-summer-garden-gm168263448-17487573?utm_source=pexels&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=limited-results_photo&utm_content=srp_page_end_media&utm_term=blok%20çiçekler

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>>2844958
>>2844913
>>2844920
Oof.

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>>2844971
Also, kek.
>GGGGGGAAAAAAAYYYYYYY

>>2844957
same, just bind them to a bundle and hang them, best way to store garlic and onions.

>>2840136
I'm not really one for public servers but I might join and give it a try. I've been trying to get more into gardening and I'm not really a fan of reddit so that community is out of the question

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>>2844741
I don't think any of them will survive outside.

>>2845131
What even are those? Goji and a sunflower?

>>2845132
goji and an apple(I think)

>>2845133
Apples have serrated margins, those look smooth

>>2845134
mm, it is possible it's sunflower. A lot of stuff got dumped into that pile.
It had like 20 apples thrown into it and this popped up, so I initially though it might be a freak apple seed that decided to come out early.
But now that you mention it, it could have been a stray sunflower seed. It would make more sense.
Oh well, I guess I leave this one outside and stratify the apple seeds in the cold. Hopefully some of them pop next spring.

Guess that only leaves the question of the goji.

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>>2840136
I found this plant on the side of the highway and Im currently propogating it. I have no clue what this/if its poisoned/etc. So if anyone can id this thatd be awesome.

Also should mention its propogation is going amazing.

>>2845261
According to my plant identification app that's an Oregon crab apple. If they are crab apples they won't taste good and probably won't produce for at least a decade BUT they can be used for cider

>>2845265
I saw that too, though it perplexes me how it was growing on the side of the highway. I'll check the plant on my way home to see if it actually is that. Should mention this is in Ohio so it could have arrived via some sort of shipment by accident.

>>2844958
Yeah so I sell stock photos of my plants sometimes. what of it?

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>>2844972
hello riley how's the garden

>>2845275
Who’s Riley?
I’m still busting ass on apples and squash.
>>2844478
>>2841850

>>2845274
Weird how you haven't grown another watermelon to take a picture of in nearly 15 years grandpa

>>2845261
>>2845265
Hawthorn not crab apple

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The jabuticaba tree I gave to my mom two years ago has begun producing fruit. Just two, for now, but we're in early spring, so I believe she's gonna have many more. The fun thing is that neither of us have ever eaten the fruit.

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This is what it looked like when I bought it and before transplanting. I gave it a serious prune afterwards to remove branches that were crowding the centre of the plant because the fruit actually grows on the trunk and not near the leaves.

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lotta ladies

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Hardest seed I ever got, Pterodon emarginatus.
Had to use pliers to break the shell around the seed.
It's medicial plant, if you put the seed in your mouth and give small bites on it it releases an oil that cures sore throat.
Some people make teas with it for pain as well.
>pic seed with the shell

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Shell removed.

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Tree looks like this when flowering.
I collected 30 seeds from the highway, had to do a water test: put them in a bucket of water, the ones that float are spoiled or don't have any seed inside the shell.
Just planted 10 of them.

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insect hotel is a go

>>2845679
>you vill house ze bugs
>you vill build them ze pod

>>2845781
zey will pollinate my fruit trees
und, I will. be happy

I bought meme peppers and they didn't even grow right

>>2846025
I also bought meme peppers and they didn’t do shit.

>>2846025
>>2846042
quality posts

>>2846097
Hey you’re really uppin the ante yourself!
Carolina Reaper.
Planted in mid May.
Grew to about 3 ft and then didn’t produce any flowers or anything.
I’m in 5a here and going to get frost this week or next.
Don’t meme pepper.
Just get a decent habanero if you want hot.

>>2846107
At least I know know what you are talking about. I grow different habanero varieties but I do grow indoors under artificial light. Some of the more tropical variants I seeded in February and only now they bear good fruit, i wouldn't had a chance if i tried is outdoors.
on the plus side, those habaneros are perennials, my plants currently turn into real little shrubs with wooden stalks and I hope next year they perform even better.
Sorry for your bad luck with the reaper, but then it might be better this way.

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>>2846111
Yup. Look at this pathetic faggot.
I had Anaheim peppers ready by end of May.
I’ve been eating peppers for months but fuck these meme peppers.
I had some decent scotch bonnets last year I might do that again. Flavorful but hot as fuck.

>>2846107
At least ghost peppers are a normal, known variety. I bought an unstable crossbred striped pepper and they ended up ripening with no stripes and the wrong base color too

>>2846111
>on the plus side, those habaneros are perennials, my plants currently turn into real little shrubs with wooden stalks and I hope next year they perform even better.
Wow, I did not know this. So I can have a habanero as a houseplant and it will continue to bear fruit. That's excellent.

>>2846147
yep, i have a piment de bresse which is now 3+ years old, and it produces more fruit each year. it looks like a little bonsai with a wooden stem. i cut her back a little for the winter but in spring she just made some new leaves and then started producing peppers like stupid. Like she has all the roots and stem it needs, just pump all resources into chili pods. I had 3 harvests from that one this season alone.
I plan the same for my habanadas and aji dulce, keep them as houseplants all year for years to come, just they won't make it trough the winter without additional light.

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>>2846137
my scotch bonnet crossed with something peppers are growing better in my 4 inch pots than in the much larger ones, where only one of those pots produced peppers too... but at least they are tasty as fuck

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>>2846156
I wish I'd use a potsize smaller, the habanero strains did grow so big and tall that I had problems fitting them under my light rack. can't really see it on the pic, but the habanada on the right has around 20 ripe fruits on it and 50 pods growing, the aji dulce each has around 50 pods growing.

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winged bean update

i don't remember what i said about it a few months ago, but i had it outside for the spring planting time
it looked like it was dead, so i didn't really care, but its fucking back somehow
it just started growing again about 2 month back now, and since theres some freeze warnings, i put it inside

guess its staying the winter again, this plant appears to be damn near invincible, i love it

>>2846352
Those are some pricey buckets for plants man.
A food safe 5 gallon bucket is half the price as the little feed bucket you’re using and you can drill some decent drainage in it.
Some people have more money than sense. I wish I had either.

>>2846364
at the time, they were the only ones that were for sale where we were at
they're holding up great though, they've been in use for about 3 years now

I just bought a house on 1/3rd of an acre, the front half of which is house and garden, but the back of half of which is clear lawn with a few established fruit trees on the sides. I want to grow a decent amount of food from it, and it's in a nice 9b area with high rainfall.

However, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I nearly let someone spray the house boundary with bifenthrin against termites until I realised it would nuke all the pollinators for years. Got any book recs? I'm currently reading Permaculture One by Bill Mollison and Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier.

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2025 officially wrapped up with picking of the last 30 lbs of carrots. Started regularly getting below freezing at night so it was time to pull them. Trying storing without washing this year.

>>2847107
Looking for a climbing plant suitable to extend the height of a regulation fence.

Can't put lattice up higher than the fence, but can lattice up to the full 6 feet of the fence. So the hope is that the plant can free stand over the fence and provide a visual barrier

>>2846806
Well start by getting a copy of the property map, putting some clear plastic sheets over it that you can mark.

Work out the prevailing wind direction, the angle of the sun in both summer and winter, take soil tests in a mason jar to work out if it's sandy, clay, and PH test some of them to get an idea of the soil is alkaline or acidic.

Many land owners don't know how to do this, can't be bothered, figure they'll do it later. But it just doesn't work like that, and nobody can help a land owner who's ploughed ahead building and planting things in stupid places.

>>2840136
Ok plant boys Noticed my qt boss had a nose bump. She got all shy about it, went on about how she hates it and no one is supposed to notice it. But she was still laughing the whole time. I then made a comment how I always wanted to touch one.

She said I could touch hers and put her nose close to me. I ran my finger over it a few times and said it felt how I always imagined. She found it funny then she went on again about how she hates her nose bump

Can this bite me on the ass and be used as a HR issue against me? Even if she was the one who told me to touch her nose? Also is there a way to make her feel better about her nose bump? It's actually quite nice and suits her. I quite like it

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my indoor peppers keep on giving, pic related. Piment the Bresse is done for this year, you can see a few bigger pods, thats them. But the Siberian Pepper is just prolific, it is still flowering and making new pods with natural light at the window sill only. Only problem, they are too hot for me, 35k-50K Scoville and it's this nasty Cayenne heat that comes on slow and then builds and builds. Guess I dry them and use them as hot chilli flakes.

>>2847197
Very nice. My Rocoto Rojo is also still really productive but this Siberian pepper sounds pretty good. Definitely going to buy some seeds and try this variety out.

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Picked a poompkin other day lads. This is my threadly contribution.
Also some green tomatoes.

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Grapefruit trees are doing good, I'm in new york so they came inside a couple weeks ago. No fruits yet, or even flowers, but grapefruits take a long time to do any of that normally.
Did a very aggressive prune, I'm hoping to keep them around or below head height. I don't want them to outgrow the pot or be hard to move around, basically doing a little bonsai action since these things can get like 20-40 feet tall. It's about nipple-height right now, and I don't want it to get much taller.

There's 3 trees there in the same pot, all grown from seed, and I'm trying to prune them so I have one tall, medium, and short.

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>>2845660
Sprouted, less than 2 weeks, usually takes three weeks, there is a thick layer of oil that surrounds the seed, takes some time to get it all off so that the sprout doesn't get harmed.
Hopefully soon I will have a nice tree, with seeds that can be used to cure sore throat and a tea that helps against rheumatism.

>>2847309
>>2847419
>>2847424
We' on side postin' hours now bois.

>>2847458
>>2847419
I googled how to remove exif data and after reading for 2 minutes it didn't tell me, so I posted.
Not my problem if people have my GPS location and social security number, honestly.

>>2847419
>so I have one tall, medium, and short
Why?

>>2847526
3 grew in the same pot, and I don't want to kill any of them, even if it results in sub-optimal growth.
But this gives each of them a designated leaf area. If they were all tall they'd just compete endlessly and there'd be no leafs down below. Basically I'm seeing what I can do with 3 trees in one pot. I'm not too worried about the results.

>>2847545
do you trim the roots also in 3 layers or just let the plants fight it out themselves?

>>2847568
They've been fighting, I didn't really expect all 3 to survive this long. The bottom one is the runt, and the middle / tall one are fighting, with the tall having slight supremacy so far, but none of them are sick or dying in any way surprisingly.
I would have done something funky with the roots but at this point their roots must have grown together in a homogeneous mass. Next year I'll cut them back and see what I can do with them.

>tfw low-key considering squatting on a house that was abandoned for years
>probably won't go to jail for trying to do so
>literally can get keys for it
>old barn that has no use now because nearby fields got sold and built over even earlier, so maybe demolition for some garden space
>a bit of forest behind it
>middle yurop
Thoughts?

>>2847645
buy some land whilst it is still affordable, and even if it is just for a garden plot.

>>2847667
This. Most cities will sell blighted properties that have been demolished for a fuckin steal. Tax sales right now too. Buy out from under someone struggling then evict them.

>>2847667
>>2847670
To be fair, I want to kinda start squatting that house because it's been literally unused for years, unless you count looting and some hobo making mess there once.
I live with parents so doing anything in the backyard is a no-no because I'm just dumbass getting weird ideas all the time and the only available terrain is a piece of damp forest.
Buying a land is too much commitment and I would prefer to save up for a house (that's cope, I'm too much of momma's boy and a lazy/ADHD wimp in general)

Is it better to till via turning up entire piece of earth upside down with a shovel or should I cut out the grass with a hoe?
We usually just turn over the dirt.

>>2847645
>>2847760
I don't see a problem with you planting a clandestine vegetable bed in a abandoned lot. however I don't recommend demolishing a barn for it. why don't you start smol with a few pots or a garden bed and see if you like it and take it from there?

>>2847799
>I don't recommend demolishing a barn for it
Yeah, I went too far with that. I was thinking about freeing up space because right behind it is a forest (the whole thing is pretty much overgrown, obviously), but I read up a bit on forest gardening and it got potential.

Are garden beds necessary? I might stick out a bit too much and that also implies having to get and carry store-bought dirt for that, not quite sneaky, having to lug sacks of earth.

>>2847805
why don't you just get a few pots for starters, put them in a sunny space and try growing some simple veggies and kitchen herbs?

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I realize I might get some biased answers asking in here, but I'm at that point in my life where I'm considering buying a home for myself. I have to be honest: I enjoy city life, but I also feel deeply rooted in growing my own stuff, no pun intended, and just generally enjoy living in nature. So I'm torn between buying a smaller, more expensive flat in the city, or a bigger house on the outskirts, with some nature around. Has anyone faced this predicament before? Can you tell me about your experience?

>>2847814
Can't go wrong with extra space. You can do more with it. Bought my first house, a terrace in a green belt village recently. Has nothing much garden wise, but there are local allotments nearby and it has a nice garage to tinker in. I'd say flexibility in options for what you may want to do with the property in the future would be something to keep in mind.

Don't go for the city, nature literally improves peoples health. More space = more options for the future.

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>>2847814
Can't exactly relate because I would not enjoy living in a city myself, but I'll give you my take anyways. My apartment in college wasn't bad but after a few years I couldn't wait to have my own home that wasn't attached to other people. My first house wasn't much different than anywhere else I have lived, suburban, again not bad, but as time went on I grew increasingly tired of living around people. I didn't even like being outside to take care of the yard. I had talked about wanting to save up and move somewhere more rural but with no specifics in mind, and then a year ago I stumbled across a 1 acre property just below the foothills that was right within my price range. I faced my own predicament: stay where I was, relatively safe and comfortable in a place that was paid off but I wasn't completely satisfied with, closer to my family and everywhere I knew, and face the fact that I was just fantasizing about greener pastures? Or call my own bluff and actually go for it?

Brother, I have never been happier. It's not out in the middle of nowhere but it is significantly more private and I absolutely love it. Instead of neighbors there is a plum orchard on one side and a tangerine orchard on the other. The only other house visible from mine is on a larger well kept property across the street, with a nice retired couple that left cookies on my porch last Christmas. It is a significant change and a lot to take care of but it is absolutely worth it. I started out planting a couple avocado trees I got for free, then bought half a dozen fruit trees and plan on doubling that, with plenty of room to spare. My first year gardening didn't do great but I still had tomatoes all summer, and I know what to do better next year. The house itself was a slight downsize from my other place but it's very comfortable and I spend way more time outside than I ever did before. It's not even a question in my mind. Get the bigger place close to nature. Cities will only get worse.

>>2847811
I would prolly get bored with such small scale, considering the amount of time you need to wait.
Butt obviously, if it's was much bigger. I could get overwhelmed.

>>2848078
I kinda understand now why your parents don't want you in garden.

>>2848080
...
Years ago I was excited about growing some extra stuff in mother's garden but in the end either I forgot to weed it or was too afraid to accidentally pull out the crops.
I think I would need a plot on my own for that psychological effect but there is no space in the backyard, balcony or at the windows.
And there of course would come father's snide comments about everything I can't do ideally or me being "weird", so I wanted to do it outside parents' view.

So I guess you got me.

>>2848082
Keep it simple, a few pots, some basic veggies and herbs. It's enough work and enough stuff to figure out. If it works, it works and you had a good time and some veggies to impress your parents. And if you fuck it up, then it's just some old pots and a few seeds you lose. If you build a huge garden plot for your fist run chances are you end up like the first time.

>>2848083
Yeah.
I think I will try to squeeze few extra pots somewhere and grow herbs. Herbs are always good to have.

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>>2847909
>>2847971
I appreciate the input.

Finally going to get a killing frost in 48 hours… feels bad bros.

>>2848143
Sounds like the same for most of us in the eastern US. I'm ready for it, it's been a good and productive summer and we're almost three weeks past our expected first frost date

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>>2848175
I can tell when I’m depressed because I do a shit job in the garden. I always have more than enough for winter I just feel defeated by the year(s).
I want to start fresh. We own our house but I want to move and have some acreage and get a new perspective.
Too many things have piled up and gone wrong here. I’d rather just clear out and start fresh.
Covered the herb garden going to try to get the rosemary thyme sage oregano and tarragon to last to Thanksgiving.
Going to kill the turkey in a couple weeks been fattening her up on apples.

>>2840595
Look up Murray Hallam's stuff on aquaponics

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Not really a home grown thing, but I spotted these fungi whilst walking the dogs today. Bongland for those interested.

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>>2848612

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>>2848613

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Bros i need some help. Some might remember me from early this year and as you can see the whole thing worked breddy gud. However I have a major problem with lice. The only way I could get rid of em was to have the plants outside in the summer.

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>>2848616
As soon as I take em back in the lice go full retard again. I've tried total niemoil Holocaust and it just killed most flowers and a lot of lice but they come back.

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>>2848617
Nuking the entire room with picrel didn't work either.

I had the idea to put the plants under the shower to simulate rain and wash em off. Stupid idea?

I am also asking myself if I can cut the chili's down, thereby completely cleanse them from lice, repot them and then start their "next cycle" clean indoors. Or should I kill them, nuke the room and start completely anew?

>>2848618
Dust the fuck out of them with kieselguhr. Make sure to dust the soil too.

>>2848616
>>2848617
Spider mites and aphids being my main problems, pyrethrin works well for me. I have to spray 3 times over the course of a week or two to make sure I get all the eggs as well

>>2848623
First time I hear of that. Where would I get it? Garden center?

>>2848616
>>2848617
Never had lice, but I had great success with predatory mites doing a genocide on my fungus gnats. I see the sell both ladybugs and certain fly larva to predate on lice. I really like the predatory mites because they triggered some cascade, i still see maybe one fly a day, but thats it, anything more than that gets eaten and they have no way to grow back in numbers.
>>2848612
>>2848613
nice, we should do the shroom thread again.

>>2848626
Redpill me more on these predatory mites. I had to a of gnats and flies and aphids this year. Fuckin cabbage worms fucked my shit up too.

>>2848626
This might be a good idea I forgot you can do that lol

>>2848633
Chili guy here.
I remember there is some Crumply stuff you can buy online with these mites and stuff in it and you put it into the pot. I think that's it. Gonna try this next. Obviously lady bugs inside would be problematic this is my livingroom

>>2848636
Respect. I’m the guy that got meme peppered hard. Like I said, habanero from here on out.

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What size should I be picking these at? The okra is pretty good but the slime... I might not grow this next year

>>2841425
That's pretty cool. What is your process?

>>2848659
I don’t know shit about okra but shouldn’t it be green?

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>>2848633
I have around 10 large pots with chillies indoors, had fungus gnats, they became a massive nuisance with dozen do hundreds of gnats crawling around and buzzing up whenever I touched the plants. I bought some 2000 Stratiolaelaps scimitus mites, paid around 16$£€ + shipping, they got delivered by mail, they are in a vermiculite substrate in a little plastic container same as take away food uses. added two spoon full of substrate to my plant pots. 1 week later i had to remove my glue traps because they crowded the traps and gnats started to disappear. after around 3 weeks there was hardly any gnats around to the point that some day I see one (1) some days none at all. And it keeps holding, looks like the mites established a balance, as soon as there are gnats reproducing, mite start to reproduce again and knock the gnat population back to near extinction levels since both adults and larvae mites eat gnat larvae.
I grow veggies and don't want any chemicals on my food, I'm very happy with how this worked, I tried BTI and nematodes before, results where mixed at best.

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>>2848612
I found these while walking my dog. I think it's sulphur tuft? They look really cool when the setting sun hits them.

We get the edible giant puffballs around here sometimes too, but they're hard to catch before the bugs get to them.

Putting thumb pots with herb seeds near radiator is a good idea, right? I have like only one place with radiator and decent space and maybe some light as long I get some table to put them on window's level.

>>2848667
Yeah I got some red ones. They were very slimy
Next time I will do the normal green ones

>>2848625
Yes. also called diatomaceous earth.

I just gassed everything and then gave every plant a shower and cleaned up the whole place. Gonna get the mites too.
Also cut down one reaper and two jalapeños as an experiment since they where done anyway. I hope they come again.

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>>2848682
Screenshotted and saved. I also don’t want chemical shit on my food that’s one of the reasons I grow my own food.
Last of the harvest after the freeze.
I’m kinda pissed because it is going to be 70 this weekend now too.

>>2848618
Unironically try using things like cinnamon, most insects absolutely hate it. Get really finely ground stuff, mix with some water and detergent, then take your plants outside and spray (not during a hot part of the day), and in a couple of days you should have no more bugs

>>2848734
What can you do with those green san marzanos?

>>2848744
>detergent
Is that safe for plants? I know it messes up bugs quite a bit, tho.

>>2848744
I'll try. can't hurt. But I've just inspected the ladies and I find no lice. I think putting the plant in the shower was a good idea actually lol. I'll just water them like this from now on. My theory is that mostly the rain outside misses.

>>2848810
I should probably do it once more today or tomorrow to make sure I got em all

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Also for anyone thinking about it:
Don't fall for the growbag meme at least not indoors. They are just nasty. Get proper pots and put drainage I'm em instead of these moldy pieces of shit.
Also make repotting much harder.
Really hate em.

>>2848814
Odd, I like mine, yes they do look a bit dirty after some use, but they do work nice and the plants like them. also watering from the bottom works just fine.

>>2848815
I got them because plastic stuff got really damn expensive here. I guess its not for me. Tying to repot anything out of these makes me fucking furious lmao
>squats in the garden screaming at a plant

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>>2848784
I blanched the hell out of them so I could half ass peal them and used them as sauce filler. 7.5 (ish) quarts out of the last batch. I grow a lot of tomatoes and we eat a lot of homemade pasta and pizza. This is the fourth and final batch.

>>2848828
Nice sauce anon. Also I am happy mine looks similar. The one from the old Italian lady next door looks much darker but she said its more like tomato concentrate. She is quite the bitch anyway.

>>2848693
Love how silky-smooth they look.

>>2848803
generally yes, it basically just dissolves the waxy outer layer that a lot of insects have as protection, which then exposes them to whatever insecticide you're using. Just use plain stuff

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My Aji Dulce non hot Habanero plants are finally producing pods in quantity. The taste is just awesome, intense taste and smell like stupid hot Habanero, 0 hot.

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Going to view my first allotment on sunday, looking forward to it lads.

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Does anyone here have experience with growing chayote?
I brought a fruit back home with me while on vacation, and the seed started to sprout, so I just potted it, and grew it in my raised bed. During summer, it took over the yard, but now that is almost time for the first snow, it still hasn't shown any signs of flowering.
So in short, how hopeful should I be that I can overwinter it, and how likely is it that it would bring fruit next year (if it survived)?

>>2849116
Godspeed anon. I like my dirt like I like my slaves. Black as night.

>>2849195
Oh hello Bruce.

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what's the almost perfect tool that pulls weed off from their roots and covers more weeds per pulls? I'm currently living in Thailand for work and the house that I got has a huge lawn that just itches my soul to put some plants and vegetables on it. However it's wild overgrowth but manageable for a small scale hobby. I tried asking the locals on how do they clear the weeds and the options are either it's too pricey (overcharge because I'm a gaijin), slave-tier or hazardous to the soil in long terms, in which I'm not a fan of. My goal is to revive the lawn to be harvest able and beautify the house since they don't have HOA menace here.

>>2848659
to prep the okra, you need to wash them under running water quickly and strain the water. never soak the okra in water because the slime gonna be more intense. boil piping hot water + tbs salt in saucepan and use tongs to pick an okra and dip them for 3-5 seconds in that hot brine water. now you can use them as ingredients especially stir fry or eat them in salad with dipping sauce that slightly salty/spicy. You can also bake them like eggplants. They're not good in soup based dish but some people like the slime as they said it's good for the pussy lubrication in females and cum production for men, usually when eaten raw. I guess you just need to get used to the some slime. :DD

I never had any luck growing pineapples from tops, probably because of a non-sterile environment, or too much mold already on them, or something, but we got one at a plant store for like 30 bucks that was already growing a pineapple.
The pineapple didn't get full-sized, it was maybe 1/2 the size of a normal pineapple but very sweet.

Anyways, now the plant is growing a new one and will send up pups soon hopefully so I can grow some more. I'm surprised such a small plant can continue to grow pineapples, those things are supposed to get huge but they kept it in a small pot (thus the small initial pineapple too), and I don't think it's ever gonna get big because it's new york and it'll have to be moved inside every winter, where it seems to be dying back a bit from the cold and lack of light.
But so far it's doing great.

Tips on choosing and purchasing land? General lesser known advice?

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>>2848614
Shroom posting continues, went for a walk and spotted these on an old tree stump, they're a species of Ganoderma according to google image search.

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>>2849755
The stump in question, there's a fair few of them.

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>>2849757
Also spotted these in a farmers field, looks like a mix of beets and carrots or something, any of you more knowledgeable folk able to shed light on these?

>>2849758
Image search tells me it's phacelia tanacetifolia, likely used as a cover crop. And probably sugar beets

>>2849810
Cheers anon

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So far I've been busy with exams and shit and have been away from my garden and chickens
But they're now full sized
Roosters are roughly 5/6 pounds each and the chickens are like 3/4 pounds
I wonder if I should cull them

>>2849334
I will try that next time to see if it helps. I didn't notice the big cums even though I had it in soup often.

Where can I buy apricot cuttings of the Blenheim or Moorpark varieties if I'm in the EU?

>>2850057
You managed to make a post on 4chan, you should be able to solve this.

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>>2849116
>>2849209
Allotment has had its first trimming. Posting piccies for you all. Cut a bunch of the grass/weeds covering it and it really reveals how uneven/bumpy the ground is. Top and bottom is covered by two large sets of brambles, both sending tendrils out across the length of the plot.

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>>2850113

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>>2850115
Fuggin aussie camera.

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>>2850118

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>>2850119

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>>2850124

>>2850113
Congrats one anon, looks like a nice quiet piece of land and you even got some trees! Have fun turning that into a comfy garden.

>>2850118
Good luck with your blackberry eradication, anon

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>>2850210
>>2850232
Cheers anons.

Operation Bramblerossa/TDB began today. Rite ball ache. Managed to level half of the clump under the silver birch trees. Was hoping to snip them at the base and pull them out but they were woven into one another with a bunch of rogue currant & raspberry canes in the mix too. Decided to adopt the method of gradual snipping/lopping from the tips into pieces a couple of inches in size and letting them fall. No clue what i'll do with the waste, just leave them where they land and jump on anything new sprouting up. Will probably repurpose the patches of brambles in another year.

On the bright side, it really opens up the plot not having a wall of brambles there.

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>>2850266
>No clue what i'll do with the waste,
burn it!

>>2850267
We're gonna need a bigger bonfire.

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>>2840136
I'm overwintering this pepper plant I have a couple leaves sprouting out from it now but some of them are a little deformed and have little black splatches any idea what this is