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I am way behind in planning and preparing. Been depressed for a long time. It’s storming and I wish I had my shit together. Grow on anons… grow on.From better times.
>>2862904this is the tomato i have decided to grow this year
>>2862907if it makes you feel any better i kept spraying my older seedlings and now they're wilting
>>2862909Just 1? I grow like 7 -8 kinds at least.Gotto have some diversity bruh
Bees knees.When I move them into the box I will try to take pictures of the process, maybe take a picture of the queen if she is not well hidden.
>>2862904https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iitVZM8Hpoo
>>2862960>all the appeal to authority in the commentsBoomers were a mistake
>>2862925I'm doing 15 kinds this year
>>2862925>>2862974i make tomato sauce out of my tomatoes. this year im growing roma, rio grande and early girl
>>2862974Supposing I'm too lazy to can tomatoes and mostly use them fresh and in stews, what would I even do with all of these?
>>2862977tomato souppasta sauceeat them with saltfresh tomato juice
>>2862982Sorry, I asked that completely wrong. What I mean is how do I decide which types and varieties I'd actually want? Currently I have some Cherokee purples, but only a couple plants as a test. Do I just grow the right tomatoes for my use case or is there some merit in growing some sweeter ones vs. more acidic ones for different things?
>>2862983last year i planted 24 better boy tomatoes and while they did great they all matured at the same time and i was kinda overwhelmed with tomatoes. so daysnto maturity is one metric. shape is another, taste, disease resistance and productivity are a couple more. determinant and indeterminate is another choice. just experiment with different varieties until you figure out a system. thats what i did
I know there are chili peppers enthusiasts here, and I think I remember someone mentioned piment de Bresse at some point. I got some seeds from my dad who lives there, but I am in Mediterranean climate so I'm concerned they won't do well in the summer. Should I try to put them in the shadow or will they be fine? I never planted pepper before, but I have to cover my tomatoes or they get burned by the sun
>>2863015peppers love the blazing sun, the less water you give them the hotter they are if u want a milder pepper give them more water. i would suggest sprouting them inside and let them grow a month before transplanting them outside
>>2863017This variety is from an area with a super humid climate, they never heard of blazing sun, that's why I'm wondering if it will work since it's basically the opposite here. I will just see what happens I guess, a friend also gave me some seeds of a super hot pepper that came from Colombia, they must be pretty old though so idk if they will sprout
I recently bought a place with a considerably sized back garden. Ive removed the pool and much of the paving with plans to expand the grass area. Theres a bore hooked up to the sprinkler system so water usage isnt an issue. Previous owners went hard on Balinese flora for some reason so im removing most of it for wood chip garden beds and native plants (Australia). The cooler shadier back of the garden I was going to reserve for fruit trees and vegetable planters. At some point ill put a pond in and probably convert one of the three (why) sheds into a chicken coop. Im still an amateur and only terraformed the front garden area so far. Any general advice for layout.
>>2862907I need to start some seeds but I just haven't bothered yet. At least it's not really warm here until May.
i just planted this. PNW coastal puget sound area. they'll come up in 45F and they like full sun. I've grown thousands of them, it's easily the most reliable and tasty form of protein i grow. and the first thing to go in the ground.
>>2863032what's your climate?
>>2862983i love Romas because they're versatile, they're great for anything. i use them mainly for making sauce. i also like Cherokee purple for a large slicing tomato. I've found a lot of the niche smaller varieties are mostly for novelty. everyone always buys a "yellow pear" tomatoe at first because it sounds cool while your standing at the nursery. they don't taste that great.
>>2863056It's funny you mention that because that's almost exactly what happened, except online. Sungolds popped up for me immediately and the earlier harvest seems great even if the taste qualities are exaggerated.
>>2863055Western Australia. Summers are brutally hot and dry 34-40 degrees with very high UV. Its Autumn now and its still 35 most days. Winters can bottom out to about 1 degree but are generally only get to around 15-18 during the day. The back of the garden is well shaded and the garden beds are completely full of ferns which ill keep around the fence line. I want to grow chilis, cucumbers and capsicums for pickling, tomatoes and herbs for cooking. Theres two large and productive naval orange trees and lemons and limes already that Ill keep and some green apple trees that are struggling a bit. Id like to put in some avocado trees. Main objective for this year is grass and opening up the garden beds for native flowing trees and attracting more birds to the garden. I was thinking of putting up shade cloth over the planter areas and expanding the buffalo grass to cover most of the open areas.
>>2863089>Theres two large and productive naval orange trees and lemons andyou should grow papaya, they will fruit their first year. also grow some mangos and figs
Have any of you ever setup a rain garden? Sounds like a neat idea
What's the space:food ratio for a hydroponic setup, how much can I get from one plant?
What are some "HECKING DO NOT PLANT!!!!" plants? Yeah I know the obvious like bamboo and knotweed, I mean useful or edible or pretty plants that grow quickly. I don't have the patience for shit like a japanese pine that grows 2 inches a year.I already have sunchokes but they've been kind of slow, probably because they're in thick clay. I'm going to move them this year to better soil. Gooseneck loosestrife is another "aggressive" I have that is barely growing.
>>2863132Houttuynia cordata
>>2863132I hear passion vines really take over
>>2863132the climbing plants I put along my front fence are doing so shit even though I am so nice to them.
>>2863132tree of heaven, empress tree (do not plant near house, will fuck up your foundation and your sewage/septic), chinese elm.
Trying for a third year to get my strawberries to come back. I haven't really looked at them yet (its still going to be too cold here in Ohio) but i found some everbearing plants at a hardware store that I'm starting to grow inside.Most of my garden is in raised beds, but the berries I have are going to be more on the ground (in larger metal raised beds)Has anyone had any luck growing them that way and coming back the next year after a harsh winter? Are there specific cultivars I should be growing instead?
>>2863181My advice is just skip the raised bed meme.
>>2863181They grow fine in the ground. Even if a few die they'll be replaced by clones the following season. I grow Albion, San Andreas, Seascape and Mara de Bois but I'm probably going to cull the Albion this yeart. 614
>>2863181i grew some from seed in a pot and it literally froze solid in the ice storm and theyre fine
>>2863181you could try alpine strawberries. they are much smaller than the domestic strawberries, but they tend to be able to survive harsher conditions.
>half of my order arrives from nursery>wait a week to see if the rest arrives>it doesn't>call them>they disabled the phones, too many calls>"we'll email you a tracking number when your order ships">i never got an email>"if your order is wrong or damaged you have to call us within 7 days"??????
>>2863207were you ordering something special?
>>2863209No, but it was a preorder so I've been waiting a while, and now they're out of stock.
>>2863214What a bunch of cunts.
any advice for separating two seedlings that came from one seed?pic rel, they're meyer's lemons I bought a little while ago, most of them sprouted into one seedling but this one is two for some reason.
>>2863218It's called polyembryony. The more vigorous of the two shoots is a clone of the mother plant
>>2863218My advice would have been pick them out very early while it's just a radical
>>2863220>>2863222is there any risk to repotting? Ive only done it with clumps around the roots, not clearing roots/separatingor since the taller one is likely the clone like you said, should I cut the smaller one? I dont want to since these two seem to be the most healthy of all of the seedlings that have sprouted so far
The broccoli seeds I collected from a flowering plant last year seem to sprout well. Here's hoping they grow as well as last year's plants.I've had some bad experiences with collected carrot and tomato seeds, yet I continue to be obsessed. At least the lettuce and herbs bring good seeds.
>>2863284ive had great luck saving seeds, they germinate much quicker. i havent tried tomato or broccoli yet but i save peppers, watermelon, winter squash, cantaloupe, black eyed peas and okra. i saved some seeds off some random onion seeds that popped up but cant remember what they are. i planted them and they all came up but we will see. i like to plant crossbred pepper seeds and sometimes they are awsome and sometimes they a produce few peppers or just die. might try to save tomato seeds this year.
>>2863286My Amish paste tomato seeds I saved from the year before last cross pollinated with a cherry tomato and made some trash grape tomato, so this year I bought pollen bags for my tomato’s to make sure that doesn’t happen. Brassicas will cross pollinate hard so if you’re saving seed from broccoli, cabbage, turnips, cauliflower, brussel sprouts at the time time they’ll get fucked. I’ll save the seed from my spring turnips this year and save the seed from my broccoli next year. When you save your tomato seeds you have to let them kind of ferment in a cup of water for a day or two to strip the slime layer off then you can dry them normally same for cucumbers
my pepper seeds are dead :(
What the fuck can I start planting in the UK around this time of year?
>>2863308cabbage, or any brassica. lettuce, onion carrot are all early crops. look at what people traditionally grew and ate in your country. here is a based documentary about how britain survived ww2 food shortages.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OSxMUY_E07w&pp=ygUad2FydGltZSBraXRjaGVuIGFuZCBnYXJkZW4%3D
>>2862904bros i am having a little trouble with this years chili seedlings. it happened last year with some plants too. the germinate fine, then go into seedling stage and then are stuck there for months now. what am i doing wrong?temperature should be fine and i even use a grow lamp.
>>2863351Too wet?
>>2863351my peppers always kinda stall out also especially caribbean peppers. i plant mine in january to have them ready for spring
>>2863352that might be. i tend to do that. ill let them be for a while now>>2863364i started them on new years eve i think. some time in January.
>>2863368i have one of these "cripples" left from last year too btw which is just now full of peppers. so they do get there some day i just wonder why it happens.
>>2863368I'm not the most experienced but it seems like you have to water along with the root depth. It's OK to have the surface constantly moist when they're just emerging, but once there are actual roots you have to stop.
>>2863371that would explain why the ones in smaller pots do better. but i cant really replant them now. so i water em more i guess.
just thinned out my tomato seedlings, first time growing them from seed, and man they are stinky even as little babbies
>>2863383I like the smell of tomato terpenoids.
>>2862907With the double frosts here in Florida, all but my coffee plants died. You’ve still got some time left.
>>2863336really cool, thanks will give it a watch
I’ll be transplanting Turnips, red/yellow onions, broccoli, lettuce and arugula, And direct sowing peas and parsnips in 1-2 weeks under row covers. Garlics looking good.
redpill me on pawpaw
Would a pepper powder be good enough to stop the damn squirrels from eating my pecan seedlings?
>>2863501.22 is the most effective squirrel repelent
>>2863336https://youtu.be/OSxMUY_E07w?Fixed the AIDS tracking link fy
Can I just replant the stuff I get from the grocery store?Green onions are piss easy, but what about normal onions and garlic? I understand that things like carrots and celery are biennial.
>>2863529I had a white onion from the grocery store in one of the drawers in my fridge and forgot about it. Over a long time period, it started growing a stalk. So yeah, I think you could do that
>>2863529seeds are very cheap
>>2863530I read some stuff about different onion types and how it might not even make a bulb in my climate depending on the type.>>2863532I need to figure out how to start a bunch of seeds indoors.
>>2863533most vegetables just need moisture and heat and germinate very fast so you can just do them inside at room temp or outside with a lid or smth, some plants want like 80-90 degrees or sunlight or need to be chilled or need to be melted with acid but these are usually fruits or ornamentals, vegetables are very very easy as a rule
>>2863533>need to figure out how to start a bunch of seeds indoors.here is my ghetto setup. it works good though.
>>2863539Mine looks like this but I use a couple chairs instead of a bin.
>>2862904I'm about to go read the pastebin but I just got this and a few small pots, any comments or suggestions welcomed since it is my first time growing stuff.
>>2863544mint requires light to germinate, sow it on the surface and either don't cover it with dirt or sprinkle a tiny amount over top.carrots and turnips don't transplant very well so just direct sow them in the garden.lupine requires cold stratification, keep them in the fridge in a moist paper towel for at least 2-3 weeks. i think the butterfly flower also requires cold stratification but for a month or more.the passion flower are tropical and would benefit from a seed starting mat to keep them warm while they germinate.
>>2863546>the passion flower are tropicalThey have a pretty thick, pretty hard/brittle seed coat and may need to be scarified, in addition to needing 80+ degrees to germinate. They can take a seriously long time if you don't do anything to them.
>>2863546>>2863547I see, so put those in a ziploc bag in the fridge?Also yeah the turnips are going right on the soil, same with the carrots.Thanks for the help
>>2863549yeah, you can dilute a little hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle with water and sprits it on the paper towel to keep it from getting mouldy if you want.
What's the oldest seed you've managed to grow?
For whatever reason, even though I sowed all my vegetable seeds at the same time, Cyclanthera pedata is miles ahead of everyone else and has 2 or 3 sets of leaves.
>>286355210 year old pepper/tomato seeds>>2863555i did a big dumb this year and started my hot peppers and tomatoes at the same time, now my tomatoes are like 3 inches and my peppers haven't even grown their true leaves yet.
>>2863468Get grafted varieties, wild fruit is hit and miss with mostly misses. Look into Peterson and KSU varieties. I'm planting 6 more this year
>>2863559Yeah same with mine. My peppers failed completely, but my Physalis are like... not even 1cm.
>>2863529>>2863530>>2863533Onions are also biennial plants. They rely on daylight hours to bulb up so if you had a long day onion in your short day climate it would never grow even it could grow the second year
>>286355210,000 year old date palm from King Ablakniha's tomb
its supposed to get down to 20f the next couple of nights, what are some ways i can protect my fruit trees, onions, garlic and cabbage?. i was going to put big 55gal trash bags over my fruit trees and cover the rest with tarps. i might put jars full of hot water around my trees also
>>2863626Shit, my blueberries are flowering. I don't want to lose them.
been moving one of my raised beds and when digging up the soil this little fella and a friend dug themselves out of the soil to glare at me
>>2863645He should be grateful you didn't eat him
Im still pulling up parsnips i overwintered
>>2859559>>2859361Thanks anon, I got 120 cm x 45 cm x 180 cm version and it's working quite wellWires are quite stiff and I got zero sag, also very useful for hanging lights
>>2863665i see this and i feel in my heart it's way too advanced for me but it's a fucking $10 metal shelf from amazon
>>2863665Damn, I have to finish my new setup already. The frame has been sitting in my room for a month, but I've been too dysfunctional to install the lights, lol. Picrel is my old setup (60 x 60 x 40 cm) that I'll move to an unheated garage, and use for seedlings that want less warmth.
>>2863670More like 70$ but mine is one of the largest variants with 5 shelvesIt's really simple to set up, get some lights, wire them into plugs, use some kind of highly sophisticated switching box like in picture and plug it into a power socket timer
>>2863756Also I strongly recommend this type of light where wires come out somewhere on top, not on side, takes significantly less space without a wire sticking out to one side, unless you want to daisy chain them I guess
>>2863822>Few tips:Don't start all seeds at the same time. Peppers will take much longer to germinate and grow than melons (~10 weeks versus ~4 weeks).Get the seedlings closer to the lights, either by lowering the fixture or raising the containers. They are leggy. Ideally, you want your seedlings to stand straight without support.Start slow-growing plants like peppers in small pots (or cell trays) and pot up as they grow. I think it's much easier to manage.Unless you have strong lights, use heat mats only for germination. Basically, you need an equilibrium of light and temperature. If you increase the temperature, but not the light, seedlings will try to find it by stretching towards the light source.
>>2863847Bitch, I spent like 15 minutes on the reply, and the post got deleted, lol.
>>2863214Demand they reimburse you or open a fraud claim against them if you used a credit card.
Any tips for growing wasabi, ginger, and mushrooms? I‘m looking to make use of an area on the side of the house that gets zero direct sunlight. Any other recommendations?
So you can use a battery to help grow a plant?
>>2863887Disappointing that it didn't grow some 18650s
Is it safe to plant outside yet?
>>2863964Depends on what you’re planting and your temperature lows for your area
>>2863964How are we supposed to know where you live and what you're planting?
>>2863965>>2863966East Coast US. We had a bad freeze the past few days but it's going back to the 50s at night after today. Surely that won't happen again in another week, right?
Fuck it we ball
>>2863964>>2863967Fuck, I'm in Georgia and my seeds just sprouted, I was getting hopeful.
>>2863967For summer plants, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, beans, squash, cucumbers, melons, that sort of stuff. Lows>55 Fahrenheit. If you’re growing peas, beats, brassicas, lettuce, cold hardy stuff youre already good to go
I don't even plant stuff until May here because we often still get snow in April.
>>2863982Third week of April is usually safe for me but I’ve had snow on May 8th… that fuken sucked.
i have created life in the desert. roughly 40 bags of compost manure later, and removing a ton of rocks by hand. i also checked the law and theres nothing saying i cant grow birdseed with some alfalfa. i even got some pumpkin sprouts going from where i smashed one a while ago. next season is when ill try growing some fun stuff. pioneer plants and whatnot
>>2863994my king the humble coneflower provides a great deal of small seeds for the finches
>>2863994Plant a Mesquite tree
>>2863982Holy fuck you actually post everywhere, don't you? You really love generals.
Added sweet potatoes to my collection, it's getting crowded here, I'm planning to utilize the entire space once I replant peppers and start watermelons
Poncirus trifoliata survived winter remarkably well, didn't even drop leaves despite -15 C frosts, really nice it's evergreen in my climate, I didn't expect something so closely related to citrus to be this cold hardy at all.
Is gardening going to be worth the cost this year when fertilizer cost end up soaring?
>>2864056There are a lot of hybrids with it with varying amounts of hardiness. Good dessert eating qualities are usually inversely proportional to hardiness, but crosses with kumquats can be continuously flowering and juicier if you want to use them green.
>>2864048???are you my assigned agent?
>>2864078gardening is a poor mans hobby, only consooooooomer retards make it expensive. all you really need is some dirt, seeds and water. if you need fertilizer use piss
>>2864078i was thinkin that too, but lowe's is still nearly the same price. 5lb bag of 10-10-10 is like $8 instead of like 6.50 a couple years ago. manure bags were like 1.89, now they're 2.59. i guess just be very selective and have a plan
>>2862904Behold my anona
>>2864130Cries in zone 7
>>2864131Pawpaws mein nigger
>>2864132Yup, already planted one. Although its supposed to be self fertile variety I'll probably add more in the future, but I'm short on space.
>>2863674>Damn, I have to finish my new setup already.And here it is. 60 x 60 x 160 cm. 5 levels. 450 W (18 x 25 W) of lights. It's so bright it doubles as room lighting, lol.
>Plant 4 strawberries 3 years ago>Have more strawberries than I could ever need nowI need to clean this up a bit but I have no idea what to do with them
>>2864140Neat, they also double as space heater once you run a lot of them, I'm currently running 250 watts of lights and the amount of heat they emit is noticeable
>>2864157They definitely need thinned. If you don't want to transplant them somewhere else in your yard just put em in a pot or trash bag by the street with a "free strawberry plants" sign
>>2862904>discord: https://discord.gg/TvN3Ed4Gehtranny discord
central florida, that hard freeze last month has really fucked up everything here. 25F, they said this was a 50-100 year cold snap, and it's depressing seeing everything I planted be so dead. anything green got killed, even the grass in everyone's lawns, and most non-native tropical/warmweather trees seem to have lost at minimum any branch thinner than an inch thickness. I have a few tree species that are showing signs of coming back out way down their branches, and few that I'm still nervously waiting on.as for palm trees, unless it was a native palm or a date palm, it's lost every frond and possibly completely died. there was so much stuff dead, you could smell it in the air for days after the cold snap anywhere you went. waste management has been running extra yard waste collection for weeks to try to keep up with the piles forming in everyone's lawns.some of my landscaping is growing back from the root at least, but its going to take years to get it back to where it was before this. shit sucks.
>>2864186i just copied the last thread, i'm not in the discord.>>2864078make your own (picrel)
>>2864078Theres so many easily available sources of fertilizer/Organic matter >Urine Mainly nitrogen >Animal bones Phosphorus, calcium >Wood ashes Potassium, trace minerals >Leaf mold Potassium >Animal manure NitrogenI have an equestrian center near me that has mountains of half composted horse manure for free. I shot a deer this year and turned its bones into bone meal, i collect my piss and charge charcoal and ashes from the fireplace with it, and or dilute and liquid fertilize with it, and I produce about 100 gallons worth of compost every year from garden waste, food scrap, yard waste. Thats enough to top dress all my vegetable beds.
>>2864200Just desserts for a climate change denying chud state that fights any pro environmental regulations
>>2864078I am looking really into bees so that I can get into dehydrated bee pollen and other stuff, but there are meliponines here so I don't have to deal with stings.
First time fig grower, planted this last year. I should prune all these suckers right, and can I take cuttings from these?
>>2864247Yes, cut them off, stick them into something well draining, keep it moist but not wet and put them in shade until they develop rootsI would leave one or two of them so I can replace this heavily leaning stem with it later though, leaves laying on or right over soil are susceptible to diseases and block airflow into centre
>>2864249Thanks for the reply, pruned them off, saved a few i liked. Cut under nodes and stuck them in a bag with moist peat moss for now
Will this grow light make the seeds sprout or am I fucking retarded?
I reburied my raised garlic bed in snow yesterday since it came uncovered during this week's melt, and there happened to be a big pile of snow next to it. I don't want the garlic thinking its time to wake up too soon.
>>2864281Is that towel even wet, looks dry
>>2864281any light should make a seed sprout, they really don't need full spectrum for sprouting.
>>2864281>>2864318Most seeds don't even need light to sprout, especially large seeds like those in the picture.
>>2864247All the red colored ones are dead I'm afraid. I would cut everything but the main branch off, then cut the main branch ~18 inches from the soil just above three outward facing buds
pollen
>>2864473this is a blue board, you can't talk about that here.
>>2862904I eyeballed some probably inorganic slow release fertilizer into my tomato starting pots should I be worried about it burning the seedlings and if so how or when should I remove the seeds
>>2864489you don't need to fertilize seeds or seedlings, wait till they get at least a few inches tall before you do that.
>>2864492Problem os I already incorporated it into the soil medium
>>2864475
currently germinating trinidad scorpions and carolina reapers on an old heating pad from the 90s but they havent done shit in three days. perhaps i am too retarded for this
>>2864540super hot peppers like that take several weeks if not a month+ to germinate, just keep it moist.
>trying to grow rare milkweed>packet said doesnt need stratification>still nothing after a week and half>now realizing maybe I put them too deep (an inch under) instead of surface sowingWell that was a waste of 10 bucks
>>2863887>bury a tomato slice with a dozen seeds>pierce center with battery>a single sprout shoots up in the center like it's the battery itself that growsThanks, I hate it.
I want to grow big tomatoes in my apartment, and recently picked up a deal on a grow lamp and tent. I have very little natural light in my apartment and I've never grown anything before. I'm also severely retarded. Could you please let me know if this plan sounds OK ? I really like really good tomatoes and I want to make them myself and enjoy them year round. >2x2x4 grow tent>full spectrum grow lamp, ~24" above seedlings>2x 7 gal fiber pot full of potting soil and perlite>trellis>fan on low>couple brandywine tomato seeds, bury them 1" deep in the center of each pot, keep them moist until they sprout>cull the weak seedlings after about 2 weeks>water only when dry>all-purpose fertilizer each week after 4 weeks >prune suckers, tie main stem to trellis>starting month 2, cal mag with every water, switch to bloom fertilizer, start hand-pollinating>month 3, water every day, start harvesting>start a new plant every 3 months, rotate themis this TOTALLY CRAZY???
>>2863887Holy fuck, call me Ted, because I hate AI
>managed to get an apple tree cutting to take root>currently only about 15cm/6" tall above the soil>this year it's putting out tiny flower budsShould I be removing these, or leaving it alone? I was wondering if taking them off would encourage it to focus more on growing instead.
>>2864663Sounds pretty good overall, will work well once you iron out the detailsalthough>full spectrum grow lamp, ~24" above seedlingsYou can put it much closer and run on lower power early on (f you can)>trellisI would advise tying them with flexible tomato string instead, it has a big advantage of being able to let down some of it to lower the main stem when it's about to reach the top, this can increase the useful life of it substantially >bury them 1" deep in the center of each potJust under the surface is fine too>prune suckersNot necessarily, if you feel like you have space for more stems leave one or two and let them grow, later when they are huge you can top off and use lower sucker as the new stem>cal mag with every water, switch to bloom fertilizerYou don't really need to, bloom fertilizer especially is just a marketing gimmick, as long as you pollinate them it'll have more flowers than it can feed >month 3, water every dayToo much water, it can cause them to crack and invite fungal diseases, watering a bit more is ok but this is just asking for trouble>start a new plant every 3 monthsYou can keep them alive for way longer than that if you manage suckers and new stems well, I have had 2 years old indoor tomato although that was slow growing type
>>2864247Winter hit that tree hard. What zone? What drainage on the pot?
>>2864132Is pawpaw neurotoxicity legit?>>2864133Plant 2.
>>2864499I'm hard
Spinach plants germinatedPlanted them outDisappeared Not eaten, no sign of snail trails, Disappeared
>>28648736-7. It was a harsh winter, I should’ve put them in the garage. The plants still alive and I cut it back like >>2864328said but it might just end up re growing from the root at this point. I have my main vegetable garden to worry about right now so I’ll just wait and see when and how it recovers
Are fruit trees worth it? Seems like a lot of time effort and money when the space could be given to something more productive.I'm still traumatized after buying a couple apple and pears and all them dying from some fungal shit.
>>2864874Yes but as far as I know you have to eat a ton of it for it to be a concern>>2864889God damn right they are, especially native stuff that doesn't really need spraying. If you want to try apples and pears again, look for more fireblight resistant varieties online. A lot of local nurseries might not have stuff that is preferable for your area. As far as productivity, look into fruit tree guilds
>>2864877>Disappeared >Not eaten, no sign of snail trails, Disappeared
>>2864891>Yes but as far as I know you have to eat a ton of it for it to be a concernYeah, but toxicity is toxicity and the way they're toxic is that it straight-up kills neurons. As much as I like the idea of native fruit, I don't like the idea of drooling and shitting myself. More than I already do, anyhow.
>>2864874Pretty sure the toxicity is linked to bitter compounds that the improved varieties select against anyway
>>2863529Potatoes from the store suck to grow. They're sorayed with an anti rooting hormone to get them to market, and thus they make stunted taters. However if you can be patient and grow those, you'll normal your yields back out.
Wage slaving has been especially shitty lately, but coming home and seeing my seeds sprout made me happy like work never could.Pic related are my maca seeds. Not sure if I can get them to harvest in Central Europe, but look at those things!
Last year all my veggies died and I gave up, this year I figured I'd try harder.
>>2865034What did they die of?
>>2863994>any port in a stormi made it through a week of 95Freedom temperatures and now we have tropical storm winds
>>286503931degree nights well past when we should have had frost kept coming. Squash bugs and cabbage moths got the rest.
Is no dig a meme? It sounds like you need to buy an huge amount of manure every year.
>>2865045>>2865041the duality of homegrown men
>>2862904gimme a good starting resource on gardening pl0xyes, i've checked the pastebin, it's a mess
>>2865069An incredibly vague question gets an incredibly vague response; youtube. What do you want to grow and where are you?
>>2865057Worse, it's a cult, it solves all of the gardening problems and if it doesn't live up to it's promises that means you are no digging wrong
>>2865089Yeah I started to feel that way, reading what redditors are writing about it (which is already a bad sign that they won't shut up about it)Even the relatively small 50sqm i'm cultivating calls for 2000 litres of compost every year depending on who you ask, it's not very believable that so many people are doing this as written.I guess I'll continue improving my soil as I am. Although, sowing rye/vetch over winter actually sounds pretty good.
>>2865089So you're saying it's a load of bullshit
>>2865057Yes/no? The practice of just letting the soil ecoystem sit undisturbed and adding material in from the top like happens in nature is definitely sound, and so is the idea of plant roots year round helping with cooling, water retention, etc. like you would get from mulch. The idea that it's absolutely superior is a meme the same as native plants. The correct takeaway is probably something like you shouldn't assume a bed is dead just because it hasn't been dug up or fertilized in a while, depending on whether there are the right plants there or at least some organic matter year round helping maintain it.It's very hard to accept that not digging is somehow beneficial if you have shitty soil that needs it real bad, but it stands to reason some of these lazy perennial/food forest plots somewhat cycle nutrients like they would in nature. Plants do piss out of their roots a cocktail of waste unique to them which is how they attract only certain bacteria to them, and a million generations of that dead bacteria does add organic matter, so there are useful concepts but it's retarded to think no-dig is a magic bullet.
>>2862907My goji berri plant survived the winter.Now it's growing nicely, time to repot it into a bigger one and put it outside when frost passes.
is anyone using dandelions for anything?im attempting some dandelion jelly and my pectin ratio isnt working as expected time for another batch.
>>2865102What are you supposed to do with goji berry? It's kind of gross. I have some growing in the corner somewhere
Any idea what this is? South florida. I have never seen it flower
>>2865120is that a ragweed
>>2865119>What are you supposed to do with goji berry?Dunno, I will figure that out once I get the berries.>I have some growing in the corner somewherehow and why?
>>2865057>you need to buy an huge amount of manure every year.Only for the first year, after that its the usual amount. Personally I haven't seen any noticeable improvement in plant yields or anything but covering the entire garden with cardboard did do a number of the local weed population, I haven't seen bindweed in years.
>>2865123I got it as a gift and tucked it away. I didn't like the taste much, but I don't have the heart to kill it. I am curious what you will do with the berries and will be looking for an update.
>>2865126Obviously I will try eating them raw.Then also sun dry them and see how that changes taste.Lastly I will try adding it to soups, supposedly it adds some kind of savory flavor or something.I don't much care for taste as long as it provides nutrients, as in some vitamins and health benefits. And supposedly it produces fruit well into cold times, so I could get some of that during a time where other things don't produce much of anything.Again it's more of an experiment.
>>2865120Ragweed
>>2865136I believe it's added to soup mainly for Chinese medicine (four humors) purposes. As I understand a lot of these other nightshades are more fruity/berry-like like black nightshade, litchi tomato, physalis, etc. but with a tomato taste mixed in and varying bitterness. Some of the more loved ones have improved varieties that take out as much off flavor as possible, but Goji berries are sold primarily on health claims and tradition so no one is scrambling to improve it. The temperate ones with significant improvements are generally Summer annuals and not widely grown, with the actual serious crops like lulos and tomate de arbol being restricted to the tropics.The closest thing to Goji berries that gets actual culinary use is probably European barberry, and that just stays on the branch all winter until picked. Viburnums like guelder-rose and nannyberry do this as well, although I have no idea where you'd get a nannyberry. Medlars are also grown for this timeframe but need to blet before they're any good to eat. IMO they all provide nutrients so selecting for taste is a luxury you have, especially at the individual variety level. I bought an Autumn olive for this same purpose, since I want to just eat it rather than process it.
>>2865121>>2865144Looks like I will destroy it
>>2865191artemisias actually look nice smell nice and are delicate to the touch, but yeah not my first choice for one
>>2865089It pales in comparison to the native plant cult
tips for growing potatoes from sprouts would not go unappreciated :)
>>2865222It's basically impossible to fuck up potatoes, just put them in the ground. Plant two weeks before your last frost date
>>2865223aye
>>2865159>Viburnums like guelder-rose and nannyberry do this as well>guelder-rose>The fruit is edible in small quantities, with a very bitter taste; it can be used to make jelly. It is however mildly toxic, and may cause vomiting or diarrhea if eaten in large amounts.[12] The ripe fruit is often ignored by birds and avoided by humans due to a foul smell emitted when crushed, described by some as "musty socks" or "urine and vomit".[13]why recommend this?
>>2865243Look it up under the name highbush cranberry and you'll see tons of people recommending it
>>2865259>>2865243Viburnum trilobum (American highbush cranberry) is actually palatable compared to the Guelder Rose
uh oh stinky
2 of my pepper plants getting big. Rest are a bit further behind but doing well, I had to start a second batch due to poor germination of the first ones. 11 varieties of petunias doing well. Geraniums way too big already. Starting tomatoes next week. 5 of my 12 lighting positions in use. Upper one is deliberately tilted due to difference in plant height and I didn't want to clear off one of he other 2 unused racks yet.
At least half of my yacóns rotted in storage overwinter, only one has any life signs
I built my wife a thing to smoke weed under.
what could be causing these holes in the leaves? is it getting too much sun or something? its a plum tree.
>>2865368Someone's eating your leaves
I don't know if I am overwatering or underwatering my basil, but some leaves are turning yellow. On the plus side, most of my other things seem to be going well
