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>>2852759the indoor winged bean flowers
Some of you guys must be fig growers right? It's pretty trendy? My soil sucks for vegetables so I've been reading a lot about trees with useful foliage like Chinese toon and strawberry gum. Fig leaves come up quite a bit in this discussion as being kinda similar to pandan. Is that really true? Do they smell and taste nice, or is it mostly planty with a hint of something nice? If you have any other suggestions I'd love to hear them.
>>2852791Fig trees definitely have their own smell and it's quite noticeable, I don't think I ever ate the leaves but it should be very aromatic Also it's very phototoxic and the latex is corrosive as well, so don't be a retard
>>2852791IMO fig leaves smell like cat piss, some more than otherst. 30+ fig trees
>>2852837Maybe it depends on the variety? It's in some Old World recipes. The claim I see online is there's like a rich nutty fragrance when you crush them. You might have to pick young leaves and toast them to get anything out of them.
What's up guys I'm gonna grow my own food next year. What are the best sources for info that isn't some retarded YouTuber nor 4chan paste bin of schizo shit post rants I'm starting with two 4' x 8' x ~16" raised beds and soil from local nursery.I want to grow enough lettuce onions tomato peppers carrots and more, family of 4. Experience is hydroponic tomatoes in an apartment that turned out pretty good.
>>2852908Grok is pretty good unironically if you give your location and ask for varieties for the climate. He's good at tables and lists so you don't have to read each individual listing on a store page. A lot of advice is going to be specific to your climate and your space, so only you can really decide what to do. I recommend just looking up each plant and learning its life cycle and its general locale/strategy, so when they say some carrot variety has been improved to work in hotter weather or denser soil you can have context for why they needed that and whether you need it too.For example:Carrots and anything else in the parsley family struggle if your Summers are hot and they're under direct midday Sun. They like to stress flower, ruining them for eating purposes, so it's important to know their limits and keep them a little shaded or plant them only during the cooler parts of year (they're cool climate plants so they won't die). If you live in a cold area, the reverse is true instead and they need the Summer.Many crops get overly mature or go to seed and need to be harvested at the right time. Everything takes a different amount of time to grow so you can break up the year into multiple harvests and replantings, whatever can tolerate the weather that time of year. Tomatoes (and peppers and cucumbers) are different because flowering is good and they keep flowering forever until the cold stops them, but the space is basically producing nothing during Spring while they're establishing, and then nothing again once the weather cools and for all of Winter.As you can see this is mostly a time management problem. With care, you can always have something to harvest. Onions can be planted right away in Spring and you can pick and eat them in the early stages and make room for the mature bulbs later while doing it, so you always get something. Even better, there are perennial onions and stuff like chard you can harvest all year long, but only really the tops.
