Anonymous 03/16/23 (Thu) 19:42:37 No. 105229
I helped my cute mum garden in the past
Anonymous 03/17/23 (Fri) 00:17:31 No. 105239
I once followed the instructions on a beginner tulip growing kit and it grew but died later.
Anonymous 03/17/23 (Fri) 00:22:34 No. 105240
I have been thinking about getting a tiny cactus lately, but that's not exactly the same.
Anonymous 03/17/23 (Fri) 00:55:07 No. 105246 >>105250 >>105257
i've lived most of my life in an apartment and it's hard enough to keep 4 small plants alive and make sure they get enough sunlight from my pitiful window angles
Anonymous 03/17/23 (Fri) 01:32:04 No. 105250 >>105256
>>105246 I have an idea. What about mushrooms?
Anonymous 03/17/23 (Fri) 03:18:31 No. 105256
>>105250 Silly but interesting idea.
Anonymous 03/18/23 (Sat) 03:30:07 No. 105327 >>105329 >>105346
>>105279 Wow, I didn't think you could grow onions or shallots whatever those are in such a compact manner. There's over a dozen there i that little thing. Nice.
Anonymous 03/18/23 (Sat) 03:38:25 No. 105329 >>105346
>>105327 not surprising, doomsday guides frequently mention potatoes as something you can grow yourself in a tiny space
Anonymous 03/18/23 (Sat) 07:43:07 No. 105343
>>105342 I just did.
(It's really annoying for me to get my flip phone to take a picture and get it to transfer into my computer via bluetooth. Maybe someday I'll do it again...)
Anonymous 03/18/23 (Sat) 07:52:51 No. 105344
The mewkledreamy guy having a flip phone is shocking
Anonymous 03/18/23 (Sat) 08:13:54 No. 105345
FLIP phones
Anonymous 03/18/23 (Sat) 08:29:36 No. 105346
>>105327 >>105329 My mom planted some onions in a patch of dirt outside of her garden sometime in the 80's. They were still dutifully sprouting in that spot when we moved out in 06, long after the garden proper with its bag topsoil had died from neglect.
We did literally nothing to maintain them besides not eating every bulb.
Good shtf food. Or just something easy to start with.
Anonymous 03/29/23 (Wed) 09:24:08 No. 105875 >>105965 >>113698
Boy, indoor growing seems pretty complicated if you want to focus on growingn stuff that produces fruit and such. I read and watched a bunch of stuff about the light spectrum's influence on plants, like you want red light for plant growth and blue light for fruiting, or maybe it was the other way around. So instead of a white light, people sometimes use a light bar thing that has white lights, red lights, and blue lights, or some combination there.
This guy's channel does a lot of comparison videos which are fun to watch because you see time skip ahead and he talks about conditions and nutrition and stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7O8LuJzg3E (he does hydroponics though and I don't think I want to do that since it's more involved than putting stuff in dirt)
But, these fancy growing lights are pretty expensive. Hundreds of dollars for the ones with the best properties that can penetrate layers of leaves. I think it's meant for people that are growing lots of stuff, so that's not me (yet?). Then there are these things called "grow tents" that keep in moisture and have reflective surfaces to minimize the wasting of photons by bouncing more light around. And also you need to manually pollinate these inside plants if necessary since they're away from helpful insects and birds.
This really makes you appreciate all the stuff that happens naturally if they're outside.
I still want to try growing some stuff inside, though, but I guess I need to find some layered shelf thing first and see what lights I can get to go with it.
Anonymous 03/31/23 (Fri) 05:12:18 No. 105963
Got a pot for my moon cactus recently, but it's a bit large. Need to get some soil for it to fill it out, but it seems wasteful to order an ~8 lb bag of soil to then only use maybe half a pound at most.
Anonymous 03/31/23 (Fri) 05:26:03 No. 105965 >>105966
>>105875 I have a nice cheap layered shelf from Home Depot that came with a greenhouse-like covering and cost me only 50 bucks. Somewhat like this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7LSC4C3/ Anonymous 03/31/23 (Fri) 05:53:26 No. 105966 >>105969
>>105965 Wow, that's cheap. Well, I guess it's cheap because you need to buy a bunch of pots to go with it instead of the shelves being pots themselves.
I was looking stuff like this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S2TB2VN But, most of these are ugly. Even if the plastic is rated 'food safe', it still seems like such a clash to have dirt and plants sitting in plastic containers. It should be soothing to look at it, like this
https://www.amazon.com/Notume-Vertical-Planter-Flowers-Vegetables/dp/B097MSWHG3 But, that one doesn't seem as efficient space-wise, but it does seem like it'd be better at getting light to everything.
(I want this stacked stuff inside for herbs)
This stuff is more expensive than I thought it'd be.
Anonymous 03/31/23 (Fri) 06:35:05 No. 105969 >>105972
>>105966 >Even if the plastic is rated 'food safe', it still seems like such a clash to have dirt and plants sitting in plastic containers. An important consideration when it comes to potting type is that different materials will cause the soil to hold moisture longer, or dry out quicker. For instance, typical terracotta pots are slightly porous, so soil will dry out more quickly after watering. Meanwhile, plastic pots will hold onto moisture for far longer. This may be better or worse depending on what's being grown and your own skill when it comes to watering (namely, that you're not overwatering). But, plastic does have some material benefits like generally being lighter and more durable, whereas terracotta is heavier and more fragile.
Anonymous 03/31/23 (Fri) 07:03:26 No. 105972
>>105969 Oh. Yeah, I forgot about that part. The wooden one with an inner cloth seems nice, and since I'll keep it inside the wood won't rot. I now have a year under my belt of watering some houseplants so I think I kind of know how much to use now.
But, I also need to think of ways to keep my cat away from it. Maybe I can't use one that starts near ground level...
Anonymous 04/01/23 (Sat) 02:34:04 No. 105995 >>105996 >>106045
Maybe a bit of a sidetrack from a garden, but I think it fits the theme of the thread. What does /qa/ think about chickens?
I've heard they're pretty cheap and a bountiful food source that can provide you with about an egg a day, which can then be used for whatever you want. Most of 'amazing' features of backyard chickens I know of come from here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSvhneC5VCY but I've also heard my relatives talk all the time about how great they are as well. The only real issue I have with them is that they seem so good that I have to wonder if there's some hidden downside or limitation I'm missing that's keeping the majority of capable people from having them.
Anonymous 04/01/23 (Sat) 03:00:00 No. 105996
>>105995 We used to have them at our old house but now we don't have a chicken coup so can't keep them and so we gave them to my grandma.
They are easy to look after and they do eat food scraps so that's good. As for limitations, they poo so there is that, roosters can be a pain both because of how loud they can be but also how aggressive they can be(though not all are) but you don't need to keep roosters.
And also if you live near foxes you REALLY need to remember to lock them up before it gets too late or you can risk losing them all. We used to live in the country and my siblings and I were at or dads house and mum went to the shops so she was late in locking up the chickens, when she came back it looked like they had all been killed.
Foxes can be quick and they will surplus kill, it was really distressing to my mum and she said she would never keep chickens again. Though, it turned out that two chickens did actually survive, they had managed to hide so we did not find them and so then we did keep keeping chickens and we eventually got more as well.
Anonymous 04/01/23 (Sat) 04:23:32 No. 106045
Chickens sound pretty interesting, but I don't really like the idea of having outdoor-only animals to keep when I spend so much time indoors forgetting that the outside world exists. I think I need to get accustomed to this gardening thing first and then see if I can see myself doing animal care for something other than a simple cat.
An egg a day sounds really amazing, I didn't think the numbers were that high.
>>105995 Yeah, that video was pretty nice and I started watching his other stuff. He seems to live in a tropical paradise in that green zone of Australia, though, so it's important not to expect to have a similar experience on most of the planet. He has fruit trees fruiting in winter; it's hard to imagine.
Anonymous 04/01/23 (Sat) 21:33:16 No. 106385 >>106443
>>106384 probably has to do with how expensive they are over there
Anonymous 04/03/23 (Mon) 03:47:55 No. 106509
>>106384 Tomatoes are popular garden plants because they're relatively easy to grow and tomatoes don't store/transport very well so it's hard to get good tomatoes at the grocery store. Also most of the grocery store varieties are bred more for looks than taste.
Anonymous 04/04/23 (Tue) 08:18:11 No. 106554 >>106558
When looking at all this indoor plant info it finally hit me that a lot of these people are doing it for marijuana and not herbs and vegetables. Well, the information is still good, but the mystery of seeing so many different people interested in it is now solved. Suddenly it makes sense why these videos kept talking about removing odor, and it seems to be why these "grow tent" things exist? The only other stinky plant I'm aware of are strong herbs like basil. Man, that stuff was powerful when I was dumb enough to smell the plant in a store and almost gagged.
I'm looking at this light right now, but I'm wondering if it's overkill:
https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Farmer-Dimmable-MeanWell-Spectrum/dp/B07TS82HWB I want to have a setup where I can grow a bunch of seedlings until little plants and then move them outside. But, uhh.. if I don't use a grow tent (which I don't want) then I'd have to drill holes in the ceiling? Not sure about that...
Anonymous 04/04/23 (Tue) 16:53:56 No. 106558 >>106563
>>106554 yeah that's way overkill for starting seedlings to transplant outside. Those are meant more for permanent indoor growing operations.
If you have a south-facing window you don't even need an artificial light, can just put them in the windowsill. Other direction windows might work as well depending on your latitude, time of year, and type of plant.
Or they make smaller lamp-style lights that can be set up on any flat surface.
Anonymous 04/04/23 (Tue) 22:07:48 No. 106563
>>106558 Yeah, the thing is that I think I also want to grow stuff inside, like herbs and maybe some little tomatoes. But, I can't just have them on the window because that's one of my cat's favorite spots. It looks like you can get a simple 'grow bulb' to attach to a lamp, so maybe something like that would work. I'm not sure if those are actually worth it when compared to a regular bulb, though. Growth light setup seems like the easiest solution, and I can dim it.
I was looking at pots and this seems like a pretty solution:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WWHQM3W I read from this guy
https://www.gardenmyths.com/fabric-pots-plastic-pots/ that the supposed benefits apart from appearance are negligible, but they still seem nice. I'm doubtful I'd buy them, but it's a cool idea for decorative stuff. As a side note, this site seems very informative.
Pic related seems cool, but not $300 cool. (It's just one of them, not the stack).
I guess, at the very least, I need to buy seeds soon. I think I already missed the window for growing Spring stuff directly from the ground.
Anonymous 04/04/23 (Tue) 22:12:12 No. 106564 >>106567
pic of cat on windowsill
Anonymous 04/05/23 (Wed) 02:36:30 No. 106568
>>106562 I think you are overthinking it, really people just like to have space and lawns provide space while being easier to look after than a whole garden.
Anonymous 04/05/23 (Wed) 04:00:47 No. 106571
>>106562 Speaking personally, I'd blow my brains out if I had to live in a town without lawns. I have no idea how the English do it.
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 01:11:44 No. 106770 >>106777 >>106782
I went to a local nursery and it's kind of surprising that at least 90% of the stuff there were flowers. Flowers are pretty and all, but I'm not really going to buy them unless they have other benefits.Basil (some 'Pesto' variety, smells strong but I don't want to be around it when I'm not eating it)Dill (used in cooking, but also apparently very good at attracting bees and other pollinators)Strawberries (the "Everbearing" variety that is a perennial in my climate. Some wild strawberries actually pop up in the yard sometimes)Lavender - bought a bunch, it attracts pollinators and more importantly repels mosquitos, or so I read. Also it smells really nice, even though none of these have flowers on them3 types of tomatoes (grape, roma and uhh... I forgot)Rosemary (smells really good)Cucumbers - I kind of just bought these for the hell of it because we did it when I was a kid. They grew absurdly well. Maybe I'll try turning them into pickles or something.
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 01:49:10 No. 106772
Also, I used a soil testing kit, which are apparently not very reliable for ph, but it relatively trustworthy for minerals and stuff. The part of the lawn I cleared out is really low in nitrogen, which I guess makes sense since the land has just been sitting there with grass after my parents used it for vegetables. I got some nitrogen fertilizer, some artificial stuff, but also some blood meal and feather meal which are slower acting since they have to be broken up through natural processes in the soil before plants can use them. They're not here yet, though, so I have to wait...
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 03:16:54 No. 106777 >>106791 >>106792
>>106770 >Basil >Tomatoes You should try to make a margherita pizza when those are finished growing! Bet fresh ingredients would make it taste really good...
>the cat found a strawberry plant and ate 3 of its leaves and subsequently vomited them up Heh... yeah that's why I keep my plants covered in a mini greenhouse so they can't go snacking on them.
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 08:07:14 No. 106782 >>106791
>>106770 pic of cat with the plants
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 08:46:19 No. 106785 >>106791
Grew a lot of chili plants with my mom last year but unfortunately they were all killed by larva. Will probably plant something easier this year like lettuce and some herbs. We have a garden box on the lawn. It would be nice to get something to grow there, but there are so many ants on our property, and spanish slugs are a huge problem here as well. I will try anyway.
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 12:24:22 No. 106787 >>106791
why dont you plant some catnip
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 18:50:08 No. 106791 >>106795
>>106777 >mini greenhouse That sounds interesting. Is it inside or outside?
>>106782 I think it'd be sending the wrong signal if I showed acceptance to him being near the plants. Well, not that he even listens...
>>106785 Oh, that's a shame. Have you looked up any way to prevent that stuff? Apart from pesticides and other poison, I think people should stay away from that stuff.
>>106787 Hmm... maybe, I looked it up and that has some anti-insect properties, which is apparently theorized to be one of the reasons cats are attracted to rubbing themselves on it. Interesting
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 21:11:57 No. 106792
>>106777 pic of cat in greenhouse
Anonymous 04/11/23 (Tue) 21:30:47 No. 106795
>>106791 It's an indoor one, pretty much or maybe exactly this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D7GHEES but I hooked up some grow lights to the interior on a day/night schedule.
Anonymous 04/18/23 (Tue) 17:38:24 No. 107049 >>107051 >>107172 >>108055
Garden blog update.
Anonymous 04/18/23 (Tue) 19:51:53 No. 107051 >>107104
>>107049 nice
I don't live in a place where I have my own garden to do things like that. My mother loves gardening but at my parents' home there's only an apricot tree and otherwise it's grass and flowers.
The grass is all crabgrass and basically always has been. When I was a kid I thought crabgrass was just normal grass and I never got why people made such a big deal about it looking good and needing maintenance.
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 03:41:23 No. 107104 >>107121 >>107128 >>107143
Hope it doesn't rain too much overnight because I'm not done preparing yet. It's such a weird feeling to actually pay attention to weather again
>>107051 She maintains the crabgrass on purpose? People usually hate that stuff and regard it as a weed to destroy
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 13:53:47 No. 107121 >>107137
>>107104 sigh ontopic sager
bump bump bump
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 17:26:30 No. 107128 >>107143
>>107104 >She maintains the crabgrass on purpose? People usually hate that stuff and regard it as a weed to destroy Thought that was weird too. I'm always trying to cut the bermuda high so it can choke out the crabgrass better. Might depend on your region though?
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 18:04:06 No. 107137
>>107121 Well, the thread is already full of my blogging so I figured I'd sage an unsubstantial post of mine
Anonymous 04/20/23 (Thu) 21:34:37 No. 107143
>>107104 >>107128 the crabgrass is the only grass there is at this point
if you kill it then you have dirt
Anonymous 04/21/23 (Fri) 19:47:19 No. 107172 >>107173 >>107179
>>107049 >I'm fine with losing at least half of my crop to birds and stuff, so my expectations are already tempered for such a scenario. While I was working the field today (never thought I'd say such a phrase) I looked up and noticed someone that would be feeling very happy if he knew what was going on. (not my picture)
It's inevitable that I'm going to be losing some leaves and fruit/vegetables to bunnies in addition to birds and insects, but owing to some stuff I said here I'm not too worried. I planted chives near the strawberries and also have some herbs sprinkled around stuff like cucumber plants. The strong pungent smell/taste of herbs is a defense they evolved that doesn't work on humans, but it does work on animals. Tomato plants have their own intense defenses so they don't need anything. I think I might plant some stuff around the tomatoes to make use of them, even.
But... I did forget to plant anything "repulsive" near the lettuce and green beans. I'm not even sure if they will grow since I'm starting them from seeds out in the field instead of transplanting, but I guess I should try to make plans. I'm planning on doing a giant row of onions since the only bag of starter onions they had something like 50 little bulbs, but I could place some of them around the lettuce and beans since it's another stinky plant that humans love and animals don't.
Anonymous 04/21/23 (Fri) 21:59:08 No. 107179
>>107172 plant a briar patch to throw those rabbits into
Anonymous 04/26/23 (Wed) 19:56:04 No. 107452 >>107459 >>108055
Garden blog update:
Anonymous 04/26/23 (Wed) 21:02:03 No. 107459
>>107452 the plants in my mother's garden have a hell of a time trying to grow through the kuso clay layer
they dont till or fertilise the soil though
the most successful plant is the apricot tree which makes apricots that are ok I guess, not super sweet with a great texture or anything but edible and the parents make jam out of them
i want a big yard with room for lots of trees. my aunt has a lemon tree, a pear tree, a walnut tree, and a mandarin tree. wanna live like that. and a cute kitty to roam that yard
Anonymous 05/08/23 (Mon) 04:27:49 No. 108013 >>108041 >>108054 >>108055 >>108656
>>108012 and of course... TOMATOES!
I have 11 plants total with three different subspecies or varieties or whatever you call them.
Closest to camera on bottom left and bottom middle are grape tomatoes. Top three starting from left are roma (sauce) tomatoes. 2 you see on the right are "supersweet 100" cherry tomatoes that are supposed to taste really good, but they don't seem to grow as fast. Supposedly it has a long production time throughout the season so maybe it will make up for it. Some of the grape tomatoes are already starting to make tomatoes, so I'll take a picture of them in a week or so when they get bigger. After taking the picture I did the staking thing where you prop them up with string, so the next time you see them they'll be propped upward more.
Also in the bare area at the top I'm going to plant some watermelons and cantaloupe because there's so much space and I don't really want to fill it with a bunch of $5 plants, so I'm going with crops that take up a lot of space.
Anonymous 05/08/23 (Mon) 23:10:55 No. 108054
>>108011 >>108012 >>108013 gonna make a awesome pizza one day
Anonymous 05/09/23 (Tue) 00:08:41 No. 108055 >>108061
>>107049 >I'll be creating my own soon enough as I've already started a pile of lawnmower trimmings and discarded fruit/vegetables from the kitchen. I've never actually considered how mulch is made... Is it really possible to make it with such simple reusable ingredients? Because I've always wanted to get rid of the lawnmower trimmings I've dumped in piles in my backyard, and if I can put them towards actually helping to grow stuff that'd be great.
Aside from that holy crap you've put a good deal of thought into this garden. I'd have never considered such a strategical layout to attract maximize output and minimize losses to my garden before going at it blind. Although now that I know this will be really helpful when I go to start making my own outdoor garden, thanks.
>>107452 >it starts to solidify and turn into solid clumps resembling rocks Maybe if you've got enough of it you can at some point try making bricks out of it to create a homemade brick oven for delicious pizza. Especially with all the perfect pizza ingredients you're growing.
>>108013 Dang those tomato plants look like they're growing fast, where they the first planted? Also I've been sugar snap peas and not sure if they're similar to green beans or not. Do you need to set up a special sort of fencing for them to coil around and grow on? It's what I needed to make for the peas.
Anonymous 05/09/23 (Tue) 02:02:32 No. 108061
>>108055 >I've never actually considered how mulch is made... Is it really possible to make it with such simple reusable ingredients? Because I've always wanted to get rid of the lawnmower trimmings I've dumped in piles in my backyard, and if I can put them towards actually helping to grow stuff that'd be great. It is, yeah. Although, apparently what I was describing is compost and not mulch. Compost is decayed stuff that basically turns into something resembling dirt while mulch is more solid stuff that takes a lot longer to decay and is used as a protective layer on top. I'm using wood chips as mulch as walking paths and I put them around the tomato plants and will put them around the other stuff, maybe, when they get bigger.
To make compost you just put all the stuff in a pile and wait. You're supposed to keep it moist, though, so you should water it. The ideal setup is to have three piles. One pile is fresh, second pile is stuff that's halfway there, and third is the finished product. You move it from 1 to 2 and then 3 and then from 3 to where you want it on the garden.
I'm just using one pile, though and it works, you just have to move stuff around to get to the bottom when you want to use it.
>homemade brick oven That sounds kind of interesting, but also too much work. I guess I could look it up maybe
>Dang those tomato plants look like they're growing fast I bought them as small transplants, so they were already like 8-10 weeks old I think. It's the little plants in the tiny square containers. They definitely do grow fast, though. I'd say apart from the cherry ones they've already doubled in size from when I transplanted them about three weeks ago? I guess it's no mystery why they're so popular to grow
Anonymous 05/09/23 (Tue) 23:02:14 No. 108121
>>108014 Wow, that's really pretty. I've only heard of the white yarrow stuff. Supposedly that stuff has medicinal properties, too, but everything does depending on who you ask.
I think I got most of the garden set up now, and just in time.
May is apparently the rainiest month here so now it's time to test the drainage.
Anonymous 05/18/23 (Thu) 02:02:03 No. 108465 >>108466 >>108473 >>108481
Sister is visiting and got this picture. I have no idea what's going on with her phone, though, as this looks like a tiny image that was upscaled. You can at least see one of my adversaries and it's clear that I must formulate a plan to take action. I'm not going to do anything to hurt them, but I definitely don't want bunnies to eat all my stuff before it can even finish growing. They seem quite satisfied eating grass, anyway.
Anonymous 05/18/23 (Thu) 02:29:51 No. 108466 >>108469
>>108465 huhhh bunnies is there anything else wandering around
Anonymous 05/18/23 (Thu) 02:39:21 No. 108469 >>108472
>>108466 Squirrels, but I haven't seen them around the garden. Mice are probably around somewhere since any environment that can support rabbits and squirrels would certainly support mice.
Rabbits are the main problem, though, since they bite plants clean off at the stem instead of nibbling on leaves. If it's a small plant then it can't recover and dies, while it majorly delays the growth more established stuff. Little jerks.
They sure are cute, though.
Anonymous 05/18/23 (Thu) 02:52:08 No. 108472
>>108469 hmmm interesting
andean herders told me llamas were better than other livestock for grazing precisely because they bit it clean off rather than uprooting them like other animals do
but it's a radically different niche so it makes sense it wouldn't work like that in this case
Anonymous 05/18/23 (Thu) 03:02:18 No. 108473
>>108465 >as this looks like a tiny image that was upscaled. Happens when zooming if the camera doesn't have an optical zoom or multiple cameras at different zoom levels.
>Chicken wire fencing is the basic solution You could try getting netting. I've seen it used a lot when places are trying to grow flowerbeds and don't want them to be trampled or eaten by animals. Looks a lot nicer in my opinion. May not be as practical though depending on how much area you need to cover.
Anonymous 05/18/23 (Thu) 09:19:59 No. 108481
>>108465 if that rabbit turned around it would be well camouflaged
Anonymous 05/22/23 (Mon) 22:26:43 No. 108662
Oh, forgot the sunflowers. There's like 25 of these total around the South side of the house (which is where the most sun is if you're in Northern hemisphere).
Pic from two weeks ago:
>>108012 Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 02:57:12 No. 109426
Here are the cucumber, watermelon and tomato rows now. The speed that this stuff spreads is amazing. Just compare it to this, which is two weeks ago
>>108659 Cucumbers seem like extremely efficient plants in terms of leaf coverage and they even produce little sticky vines to climb stuff like bean plants. The thick stems that hold the flowers/fruit and leaves are also very spiky and I can't grab them without gloves. Very impressive.
Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 03:05:32 No. 109431 >>109433
>>109428 Do you have any cats? They can deal with rabbits pretty well.
Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 03:17:15 No. 109433
Can you spot it? It might not be too difficult.
That's it for now, picture-wise.
>>109431 Yeah, but they're indoor cats. I don't want them to potentially get hurt and I also don't want them killing what little wildlife is left
Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 03:32:19 No. 109437
File:beans.mp4 (19.32 MB,1280x720) [play once] [loop]
Green Bean Cam!
Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 19:16:58 No. 109460 >>109461
>>109427 Strawberries! Man, I kinda wish I tried planting those too, but not sure about what the yield per plant is and my garden isn't
too big yet. They're one of my favorite fruits and I can down a whole quart easily in a day if I'm careless. At the very least there's a lot of orchards nearby where I can get fresh locally grown ones.
Sometimes wonder if it'd be nice to live a life like that where you just grow nice food and make a living off it too.
Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 19:33:47 No. 109461 >>109469
>>109460 Strawberries don't seem like a plant you can rely on unless you have tons of them, like an entire garden filled. But, it's pretty rare to be able to grow fruit without trees or huge bushes that takes years to get established so strawberries are probably still worth it if you want something sweet. I only bought 6 plants to see how it would go. Unfortunately one of them focused way too much on flower and fruit production from the beginning and died, even though I kept trimming those away so it could focus its energy on getting established after transplanting it.
I also read that you should trim away the "runners" if you want to focus on getting strawberries in the year you plant them, but I'm keeping them because there's some space next to some of them and I have nothing growing there except weeds.
https://strawberryplants.org/what-are-strawberry-runners-stolons/ If you want greater short-term production from your strawberry plants you may want to trim those if you see them.
Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 20:50:04 No. 109463
>>109428 city rabbits just get like that when people keep their cats indoors, and there aren't any local coyotes or foxes to pick up the slack either.
My neighborhood is stock full of rabbits too.
I hunt rabbit occasionally, and can tell you that the ones even a half hour outside the city are much more alert.
Anonymous 06/10/23 (Sat) 21:54:35 No. 109469
>>109461 look how low that berry is no wonder they need straw
Anonymous 06/30/23 (Fri) 18:52:43 No. 110344 >>110346
Man, that's a TON of plants. How are they even arranged, are they mixed or something? I cannot tell them apart.
Anonymous 06/30/23 (Fri) 19:45:12 No. 110346 >>110348
>>110344 I think it looks bigger than it actually is because I'm getting up close to show detail. The sunflowers are at the side of the house if that wasn't clear, so they're not a part of it main garden. I guess I forgot to upload a full picture of it. Here is
almost a full picture of it from back in May. It's missing the one row in front with lettuce and green beans, but you can see the poles for the beans at least.
I can't remember the exact measurements that I did a few months ago, but it was around 400 square feet, or, uhh... *googles it* 121 square meters.
Yeah, stuff is getting messy, but when stuff gets big it prevents weeds from growing under it so I like it. I really, really hate weeds and removing them. The tomatoes are a lot messier than they should be because of the damage from wind. The cucumbers and watermelon are also messy, but I'm leaving them that way because the leaves block sunlight, which again blocks weeds. It's okay if it takes me some effort to walk through it if it means I don't need to bend over and fill 3 bags of useless plants I picked from the dirt.
From North to South by row it goes like this:
-Tomatoes
-Tomatoes
-Watermelon
-Cucumber
-[blocked by tarp]
-Onion and Chamomile
-"Wildflower mix" (to block ugly weeds), herb seeds that never grew so I planted sunflower, Basil, Oregano, Parsley, Sweet peppers, Marigold
-"Wildflower mix", "Pesto Basil", Sage, different type of sunflowers, Chives and Strawberries intermixed, Marigold
-Lettuce, Marigold, Green Beans
The wildflowers and Marigold are to attract pollinators, but I need a bad job of organizing the stuff. I know better now. The bees and wasps and other things seem to vastly prefer the cucumber flowers to anything else, but everything is getting pollinated very well.
Anonymous 06/30/23 (Fri) 19:49:29 No. 110348
>>110346 >but I need a bad job of organizing the stuff Bleh. did a bad job*
This was and is a good year of learning stuff from trial and error.
Anonymous 07/14/23 (Fri) 11:29:02 No. 111172
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Anonymous 07/23/23 (Sun) 22:30:49 No. 111569 >>111570 >>111605
Too many tomatoes and other things. I didn't grab any pictures (and there's nothing new to see) but there's simply too much stuff. I really don't think I like cherry/grape tomatoes after trying various recipes, but they keep making more of them so I decided to plug up the hose in the last row that has the little tomatoes in them so it no longer waters them each day automatically. But, we've also been getting rain and tomatoes are pretty hardy so, well.. I just grabbed the pruning sheers and removed them at the base. Since it's the last row I think I'll convert it into a row of compost and throw a bunch of dead stuff there to decay. There's also way, way too many cucumbers and I keep failing to find them before they turn big and orange and can no longer be used. I'm going to cut those away, too.
Anonymous 07/23/23 (Sun) 22:44:59 No. 111570 >>111571
>>111569 What about the capsicums and watermelons?
Anonymous 07/23/23 (Sun) 23:08:45 No. 111571
>>111570 The pepper plants didn't produce much, but it did make them. The problem is it that it grew the peppers right at ground level and they're deformed and some of them decayed because they were contact with wet dirt or something. I wasn't planning to use the peppers for anything so it's not much of a disappointment.
The watermelons grew and still are growing really well. The perspective in pic makes the pepsi can look bigger than it actually is.
They're pretty good, but I'm not huge on watermelon so I can't really judge the flavor fairly. I've been putting it into a blender and freezing it to make it into sorbet or yogurt-like stuff . There was only one little cantaloupe patch compared to the watermelon, but it's making about the same amount of fruit so cantaloupe seems more efficient.
I don't think I'll grow watermelon or cantaloupe again, but I had a bunch of extra space and it looked better than a tarp or weeds. I think I'll just fill it all with strawberries next time, but I'll need to grow them from seed or it will be expensive to fill all of it.
Anonymous 07/23/23 (Sun) 23:48:04 No. 111577
i love summer and i wish it was 30 to 40 degrees celsius all the time WITH NO HUMIDITY
Anonymous 07/25/23 (Tue) 02:47:05 No. 111605 >>111606
>>111569 >Too many tomatoes Yeah, I had the same thought with my gardening escapade. Tomatoes really are the most fruitful of anything I grew and I grew way too much to eat personally. Think in the end I'll just can a bunch of them to make a nice tomato sauce with. Although it is good to try and make sure that when you can tomatoes you do it right to avoid botulism, that stuff's really scary.
Anonymous 07/25/23 (Tue) 02:56:24 No. 111606
>>111605 >Although it is good to try and make sure that when you can tomatoes you do it right to avoid botulism, that stuff's really scary. Yeah, I was looking at that stuff, too. You put the completed sauce in glass jars and put the jars in boiling water for a bit.
I've decided to try freezing it. I'm reducing the sauce until it's really thick and like a paste and then I'm putting it in ice cube trays and I'll use this instead of buying little tomato paste cans.
I'm just sauteing it right now to reduce most of the liquid and then I'm going to "bake" it like this guide suggests:
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-tomato-paste-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-206853 And yeah, it's insane how fruitful tomatoes are. No wonder it's in so many shows.
Anonymous 07/25/23 (Tue) 05:55:24 No. 111609
>>111572 red are her peppers
Anonymous 08/14/23 (Mon) 00:44:06 No. 112549 >>112560
I got some basic houseplants for the first time. One step closer towards bringing my apartment to bare minimum respectability.
Anonymous 08/14/23 (Mon) 04:40:47 No. 112560
>>112549 Do you know what kind?
Did you buy any plant lights or are you putting them near windows? There's also species that require less light so it's okay to rely on existing lights in the house (although I think they recommend kitchen lighting with their big florescent bulbs)
Anonymous 08/14/23 (Mon) 08:27:14 No. 112568 >>113708
my houseplant is dying
Anonymous 09/12/23 (Tue) 01:07:43 No. 113701
>>113698 Sure. Man, it's hard to believe how little I knew back then compared to now, and how much more I still need to learn. Growing stuff indoors during Winter sounds like it could be fun.
I also read that I'm supposed to plant bulb plants in autumn and then I can ignore them until spring. So, at the last I think I'll get some garlic bulbs and bury then and forget them.
I'm feeling lazy about doing autumn gardening...
Anonymous 09/13/23 (Wed) 13:34:52 No. 113736
>>113718 It was a pot plant, a small one that came in a pot about the size of a boob. I kept it right next to a window. Two years after getting it I transplanted it to a bigger pot and I feel like it never really recovered. That happened a year ago. I would water it irregularly based on whenever I'd remember to. I don't know if it died from overwatering or underwatering, probably underwatering, but it's weird that it would be underwatered during winter rather than summer.
I think I didn't cover it with enough dirt because it always looked like the root started a centimetre above the dirt. Or maybe the dirt settled and subsided over time. The leaves started to shrivel up, going from the base of the plant to the top, and after a failed attempt to rescue it with some water I gave up on it.
Anonymous 09/13/23 (Wed) 13:37:00 No. 113737
anons grow op
Anonymous 09/13/23 (Wed) 13:38:07 No. 113738
it wasn't a weed
Anonymous 09/13/23 (Wed) 15:17:27 No. 113743
examined the pot now that the plant's dead
Anonymous 09/22/23 (Fri) 08:18:42 No. 114024 >>114054
>>113986 My cactus perished recently ;_;
Anonymous 09/22/23 (Fri) 21:45:18 No. 114054
>>114024 That sucks to hear anon. I originally had 6 cacti but gave away the other four, and mine were the only ones that made it through the winter. Since they're new cuttings (6 months old approx) I took them inside for most of the cold season.
>>114047 I water them once every 10 days, but I'll need to water them more often once the temperature starts rising. Otherwise, San Pedro are robust and don't need much maintenance if they're in a good soil.
>>114051 I especially like the cactus on the left, very nice. Cacti growing is a slow but rewarding hobby.
Anonymous 09/23/23 (Sat) 03:57:43 No. 114072 >>115468
well
Anonymous 09/23/23 (Sat) 16:33:33 No. 114077
autumn just snapped back to summer because of the storms
Anonymous 09/23/23 (Sat) 21:41:39 No. 114084
what....
Anonymous 10/24/23 (Tue) 22:04:56 No. 115468
>>115467 Mushrooms are cool!
I have no idea. I love seeing mushrooms pop up, but we generally only get these little white ones around here that aren't as exciting as those wide ones you have there in the image. Sometimes I don't even notice them until I'm emptying the lawnmower bag and there's a bunch of foamy-looking white specks.
>>114072 I think I might plant some bulbs in a few weeks. You plant them before the first freeze and they pop up in Spring. I've been feeling really lazy lately so planting something that you don't need to deal with for a few months seems like a good idea.
Anonymous 11/02/23 (Thu) 23:39:54 No. 115648 >>115649
After looking around online, I discovered that the tiny annoying flies in my room are 'fungus gnats' which are apparently finding a home in my potted plants. It even specifically mentions spider plants as something that they affect and I have three of those!
https://www.almanac.com/pest/fungus-gnats https://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7448.html I shall begin a campaign to wipe them out since they went from just an annoyance to me to something potentially harmful to my plants. I find it interesting that two possible natural remedies utilize nematodes and bacteria. I'd never expect to be growing specific bacteria inside a water pot as part of plant maintenance, but it seems like the easiest cure if my current methods don't work.
Speaking of, since a freeze hit a couple days ago I had to take what I could inside beforehand. I've got my lavender and rosemary inside my room and some other stuff in the garage. I had to make the decision to keep half of them outside and now they're dead and I kind of feel guilty. This is my first seasonal "die off" after taking care of plants and while it's part of nature it's a bit depressing.
Except the parsley. The parsley which I sliced apart due to overgrowth and then mowed over with a lawnmower has regrown multiple times and while everything else is wilted over and dead the parsley is still a bright green thriving out there. I wonder why this is why people use it as a garnish- this stuff is hardy. Actually I just looked it up out of curiosity and its frost tolerant down to 10F/-12C and lays dormant in winter and flowers immediately in spring. But, once it starts producing flowers it no longer produces new leaves and has completed its life cycle. Plants are cool.
I guess I'll just keep the rest of the plants indoors for fall and winter. As amazing as it sounds to be able to enjoy the freshest lavender possible (alive) inside my room, the plants only produce the wonderful smell when stimulated by touch, as it's a defense mechanism against insects.
Also, the rosemary is flowering and I had no idea it had such pretty purple flowers. Attached pic isn't from me but it looks similar.
Anonymous 11/03/23 (Fri) 02:53:00 No. 115649
This Fall I threw native seeds in a suburban backyard. I'm trying to make a pollinator garden. It's over 40 species selected to be adapted to the light and soil conditions. They're being sown in the fall so they can stratify. Hopefully they won't be eaten by birds.
>>115648 Fungus gnats are a common pest of indoor potted plants. I've gotten them before and found that nematodes get rid of them quickly.
Anonymous 11/06/23 (Mon) 21:01:08 No. 115809 >>115832
Fungus gnats, those must be what I had flying around my house all the time when I brought in some soil for my now-dead potted plant. That was so annoying.
Anonymous 11/06/23 (Mon) 22:15:50 No. 115815 >>115832
Yeah, these gnats are a pain. After only a few days I must have over 30 dead ones in the little vinegar traps I have placed around the plants. This will take a while to clear out. It's so weird, I would have guessed there's like 3-5 of them in my room, but they're so tiny that I must only be aware of a tiny amount of them.
Anonymous 11/06/23 (Mon) 23:39:51 No. 115832
>>115809 >>115815 Oh, I wonder if that's the reason I had such a problem with them as well since I just started gardening this year too and had the same gnat issue around the house. Put out so many traps in different locations and I had to have killed thousands of them but they never entirely left until just recently when the first frost came.
5 YEARS! 12/06/23 (Wed) 02:31:11 No. 117002 >>117012 >>117061
It's only been two months since I posted my San Pedro cacti here (
>>113986 ), and the growth is very noticeable. Once temperatures start rising after winter San Pedro cacti go through a big growth spurt that settles down when summer arrives, so mine probably won't grow this rapidly for too long. Apart from that, you can see I cut one of the pots so the base of the cactus can get more sunlight. I also got two very small cacti as a gift that are pretty cute.
5 YEARS! 12/06/23 (Wed) 10:55:29 No. 117012
>>117002 Those are really awesome. I love the effect of cacti indoors with nice cozy soft warm things. A sharp danger amongst the softness, like cat's claws.
Anonymous 12/07/23 (Thu) 06:19:21 No. 117061
>>117002 My grandma loved cacti and she had a bunch of real ones and fakes ones all over her house. Like, 30 of them or more and she had decorative stuff with cactus drawings and stuff. I'm paranoid about having the spiky ones since I have a curious cat, but maybe there's some soft spike-less types? Does it damage them to remove the spines?
Anonymous 02/01/24 (Thu) 09:54:19 No. 119287 >>119820
I was reading about all these fruit preservation methods and I thought the guy with a garden might be interested in getting a dehydrator.
https://www.thespruceeats.com/dry-tomatoes-in-dehydrator-1327566 Anonymous 02/15/24 (Thu) 08:50:13 No. 119820 >>119821
>>119287 Thanks for thinking of me!
I saw that in a random "different ways to preserve food" youtube video. I've seen those, but I'm not sure what I would actually use it for. A lot of these appliances are relatively cheap these days, but they still take up a lot of space and they're not used much. How often would I use a dehydrator? Once a year? I can't see myself buying specialty stuff; it needs to be multi-purpose.
I'm starting to look at stuff again this year, but it's very overwhelming.
The main places I'm looking at are:
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/ https://www.rareseeds.com/ These are two small-ish companies with great reviews and I ordered stuff from them last year, although not much since I started so late in the season.
If you're feeling bored, look through those and see if there's anything that looks really cool and maybe I can try growing it, although no promises. Brussel sprouts as a plant looks so weird and alien that I'd like to try growing it just so I can look at it. (Pic related)
I think I want to plant a lot more flowers, too. I liked looking them and watching them grow more than I thought I would and also it was nice to see butterflies and bees around. If possible I'd like to attract birds, too, but I'm not sure if there's anything I can do for that apart from attracting bugs for the bug-eating birds. Oh, providing shelter is good, but I don't think I'm ready for the commitment of growing a tree. Maybe some fruit bush plants in containers?
It's supposed to be winter, but it doesn't feel like it. I already see 3 onion stalks popping up from the ground because apparently I missed some when I harvested half a year ago. I'm sure it's going to be another hellish summer so I plan to wind down my manual watering by then and switch into a fully automatic setup. Last year I planted way too many tomato plants and also the cucumbers and watermelon grew out of control in the summer since I didn't want to go outside every day to maintain them.
Also, I'm going to invest in some soil block maker things and trays:
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/tools-supplies/seed-starting-supplies/soil-blocking/hand-held-4-soil-blocker-7862.html Anonymous 02/15/24 (Thu) 08:55:09 No. 119821 >>119822
>>119820 >but I'm not sure what I would actually use it for. My sister recently bought one, and we found that fruits dried this way makes for great snacks.
If you're trying to cut down on unhealthy sweets, this is an easy way to go about it without having to change your habits.
Anonymous 02/15/24 (Thu) 09:13:21 No. 119822
>>119821 Hmm... yeah that could work for store bought stuff. Dried apple slices are ridiculously expensive for how cheap apples themselves are. Hmm...
I have asked GPT4 for important advice:
What should I grow if I want to attract Kuon to my garden? Some of this just isn't doable, but it did remind me that I failed to grow mint last year. I'm definitely going to grow more herbs, although I never got around to using them much (I wanted to try making potpouri)
Anonymous 02/18/24 (Sun) 11:00:11 No. 120020 >>120033
I bought the first round of seeds from one of the places.
I'm not sure how many of these I'll plant in Spring or if they'll even sprout, but it will be interesting to try. I need to plan out the area soon and try to get the colors complimenting each other and stuff.
Plants https://www.rareseeds.com/turnip-hida-beni-red I thought pink turnips were only in Rune Factoryhttps://www.rareseeds.com/beet-golden Looks interesting! Beets that don't stain everything seems nicehttps://www.rareseeds.com/rosemary-rosy Rosemary smells so good and used in cooking sometimeshttps://www.rareseeds.com/carrot-new-kuroda Gotta have carrotshttps://www.rareseeds.com/pea-lillian-s-caseload Peas, too. Might order some different varieties laterhttps://www.rareseeds.com/tomato-orange-hat Dwarf tomato plant that I'd like to grow in a little container so I can give it to my aunthttps://www.rareseeds.com/ground-cherry-aunt-molly-s This seems really fun to watch grow. Little fruits that come pre-wrapped? https://www.rareseeds.com/melon-kajari Very cool-looking melons. Unlike last year I'm only going to have 1-2 melon plants. https://www.rareseeds.com/bee-balm-lemon Pretty and really good at attracting pollinators. Might try making tea out of it. Last year it never sprouted...https://www.rareseeds.com/chamomile-zloty-lan Pretty and like above I want to try making teahttps://www.rareseeds.com/lavender-torch-blue Really like lavender and this is a different type that I already have in pots (they're in garage right now)https://www.rareseeds.com/parsley-giant-of-italy Parsley grows so amazingly fast that I think I want to put these in a giant pot this timehttps://www.rareseeds.com/stevia Sounds interesting, not sure if I'll actually plant these but I like the idea of using them to sweeten teahttps://www.rareseeds.com/cacti-mixed $3 for random cactus seeds. If it works I'll give some to my momhttps://www.rareseeds.com/canterbury-bell-deluxe-rainbow-mix These look fake with how pretty they are, but being a biennial it only blooms in the second year kind of sucks. Not sure how I'll plant thesehttps://www.rareseeds.com/honeywort-kiwi-blue Really like how these look, especially the leaveshttps://www.rareseeds.com/milkweed-butterfly-weed For attracting and helping Monarchy butterflieshttps://www.rareseeds.com/morning-glory-mount-fuji-mix This below apparently pair well together, so I'll do that. Vines with flowers!https://www.rareseeds.com/morning-glory-giant-moonflower https://www.rareseeds.com/love-in-a-mist-mulberry-rose Ehh, not sure if I'll plant these, but they seem interestingI bought a lot more flowers than I thought I would, but I have a fair amount of space to work with and I kind of want to buy small plants instead of seeds for a lot of the vegetable/fruit stuff which is either not available online yet or is only available in actual physical nurseries. Also some stuff like corn I can wait to plant because they like the heat.
SOON! Anonymous 02/18/24 (Sun) 21:20:02 No. 120033 >>120037
>>120020 Maybe you could plant some sage.
Anonymous 02/18/24 (Sun) 22:03:14 No. 120037
>>120033 I did have one sage plant last year and it grew very well, but I ended up not using it much at all. I really don't like the smell of sage and its recipe uses for me seem really limited (poultry I think). I think I still have some seeds from last year somewhere so maybe I could grow some in a pot.
After looking at this stuff, it turns out I probably will buy a dehydrator. It's used for herbs and apparently the dried stuff you make yourself is still a lot better than the dried stuff in the store. And if I want to try making potpourri I think it's used for that as well.
I think I'm going to buy more Reimu turnips too
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/turnips/hakurei-f1-turnip-seed-706.html I grew them in a container last year and they REALLY grew well even when they were stuffed together, but apparently I never took a picture of them.
Might try growing this "leaf celery"
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/herbs/herbs-for-salad-mix/cutting-celery-herb-seed-922.html because my attempts to grow celery failed last year. Although, I'll try again. With onion, carrot and celery being such a common mix in so many recipes I'd really like to be able to grow them all myself. Celery is apparently infamous for being difficult to grow...
Anonymous 02/18/24 (Sun) 22:21:04 No. 120039
Yep, just checked and I had Reimu seeds in the fridge alongside sage and some other stuff. It's recommended to keep seeds in the fridge if you're going to attempt to hold onto them.
I also read that you almost need to do it for stuff like lavender, it's called stratification and it mimics winter conditions
https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/seed-stratification/9646.html Anonymous 02/25/24 (Sun) 19:25:41 No. 120323 >>120324 >>120344
>>120316 Actually I do have something cool to report! The picture last night was using it, but you couldn't tell because I had no idea how to use it. After procrastinating a bunch (and forgetting about it)
I successfully cracked my brother's old smartphone that has a very nice camera on it. I don't have any phone service, but I'm using it as a camera.
Oh, man, this is going to be amazing this year. There's no way I'm not going to have a growth blog now.
Here you can see that last year's strawberry and chives are coming back already. (The green area is a separate pic obviously).
Anonymous 02/25/24 (Sun) 19:29:03 No. 120324 >>120325
>>120323 Actually I don't think I need JPG quality that high for these.. 5.4mb is a bit too much.
Here are more onions that I completely missed on harvesting... or maybe they split off or something. I don't remember how onions work.
Anonymous 02/25/24 (Sun) 21:56:04 No. 120328
Nice pics! You are definitely going to take pictures of your cat, right?
Anonymous 02/25/24 (Sun) 23:54:42 No. 120344 >>120811
>>120323 >I don't have any phone service It should be able to connect to wifi I think?
Anonymous 03/08/24 (Fri) 00:07:59 No. 120811 >>120812 >>123638
>>120344 I guess I could try that, but it didn't seem to work. I need to do more troubleshooting, I guess.
Here is a week of growth for the tomatoes. Middle pic was about 3 days ago and right pic is today,
These seem to grow far faster than other stuff. You can see in the right image that it's starting to grow its 'true leaves' in the middle.
The other plants are still tiny sprouts that look nearly identical. The heat mat I got is already making the other plants in the tray seemingly grow faster than other stuff, so maybe I should buy a few more of them. Then again, if I just close the air conditioning vent in this south-facing room the plants are in it will get quite warm up in a few weeks.
Anonymous 03/08/24 (Fri) 00:12:45 No. 120813
>>120812 and lastly a pic that is boring
except that it's catnip. I thought about growing this outside, but I've heard stories of it bringing neighbor cats into the garden, which sounds nice except that they can be destructive to plants
Anonymous 04/22/24 (Mon) 18:58:54 No. 123636 >>123666
Earth Day (thanks
>>>/spg/3014 ) update.
I decided not to do weekly updates for sprouts because it's not that exciting. The garden is a bit of a mess right now because stuff isn't sprouting as much as it should be. I don't know if something is eating the sprouts or if it's the weeks of windy days with no rain; there's a limit to how much watering I can do to cancel out the drying process.
Anyway...
I think I mentioned that the onions came back earlier, and since it's year two of their life cycle they'll produce flowers this year. If you want the best onions you're supposed to cut the flowers off so it doesn't spend energy on it, but I think the novelty of seeing onion flowers is more interesting and I thought I pulled out all the onions last year anyway.
It's out of focus unfortunately, but you can see the bulb-like thing that will turn into a flower near the middle. Just like with chives the flower stalk is far more firm than the other ones. I looked it up and onion flowers don't look that amazing, but it will still be cool to see.
Anonymous 04/22/24 (Mon) 19:03:46 No. 123638
Transplanted the tomatoes seen here
>>120811 It's really cool to have grown them from seed. You can get tomato plants quite cheaply since they're so popular and abundant, but I'm not sure if this specific variety would have been available locally (San Marzano II) and even then I don't regret spending time to grow them from seed. The price is cheaper, sure, but just seeing the process was worth it.
You can see how DRY the dirt is even though I watered last night, so like 12 hours later it looks like a desert. Thanks, wind.
Anonymous 04/23/24 (Tue) 04:36:29 No. 123666 >>123673 >>123674
>>123636 >I think I mentioned that the onions came back earlier, and since it's year two of their life cycle they'll produce flowers this year. Ohhh yeah, this is just your second year doing this. How much of What you're growing came back from last year's yield? Seems like you have strawberries, chives, and onions, but was there anything else? And will you be able to get some seeds from the San Marzano II's you're growing this year that you'll be able to use the next? Also from what I understand of the sauce process for San Marzano's they're best made into sauce when canned, though I grew some last year and made them into sauce fresh and it wasn't bad at all either. I really like the variety you have going here compared to what I tried last year and failed with just making a huge thing of tomato sauce and some parsley/catnip... Think targeting certain meals would be much better (and strawberries, love strawberries though don't know if my porch garden has the space for them).
>I cut off all but one of the flowers because I'm worried it might have died otherwise, like the strawberry plant I had last year that had 6 strawberries and 4 leaves and died from its own mistake (and my ignorance in not cutting off the flowers). Uhhh, just a bit confused here are you supposed to cut off all the strawberry flowers or leave one of them...
>>123643 Really cool pic
Also do you need to worry with the onion at all about your cats getting near and trying to nibble on it, or is it safe and they won't intentionally poison themselves?
Anonymous 04/23/24 (Tue) 05:21:08 No. 123673
>>123666 >How much of What you're growing came back from last year's yield? Seems like you have strawberries, chives, and onions, but was there anything else? Just those, and they were surprises because I wasn't planning on any of it. I was pretty sure I pulled out every onion and I tore through the entire garden with a lawnmower and then a tilling machine. I really wasn't expecting anything to survive. Nature is pretty impressive. Also I have an onion growing in the lawn itself and I forgot to take a picture of it. It's just three little tendrils poking out but it's pretty funny.
It was only one small strawberry plant, and it's not doing too well. Somehow it's missing 70% of its leaves which isn't a good sign. I bought some more strawberry plants, though, but I think I'm going to keep them in containers since it's easier to manage.
>will you be able to get some seeds from the San Marzano II's you're growing this year that you'll be able to use the next? Yeah, it's an heirloom plant which means it's genetically stable. The newer hybrid stuff has reduced fecundity or fails to keep its hybrid traits for the next generation. I triple planted the seeds in each little cube and all 3 germinated each time so I used 24 seeds out of the 80 or so in the pack. I'm thinking of adding more since I have so many seeds left over.
>from what I understand of the sauce process for San Marzano's they're best made into sauce when canned Yeah, they're specifically known as paste tomatoes. Lots of juice and flesh within a thin skin and few seeds. I actually learned of them because of this cooking youtuber which someone linked here once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMMFUKibW-c Basically the gist of it is that he thinks they're the best, but they're obviously far more expensive than the others when you buy them. But, it's not like it costs me more to grow than other types of tomatoes.
Also, speaking of tomatoes I tried something new with these that I learned last year too late. You tear off the lower leaves of the plant and submerge the plant deeper into the soil when transplanting. Tomatoes, clearly an advanced vine species meant to survive forever, grows new roots out from the parts of its stalk that makes contact with soil. So, you cut off the leaves and bury the lower part of the stem when transplanting and you trade off a slower start for a far more robust plant later on.
(also this plant looks a little yellow, I hope it's doing okay...)
Anonymous 04/23/24 (Tue) 05:39:07 No. 123674
>>123666 > Think targeting certain meals would be much better That's not a bad idea. My current plan is growing a lot of stuff to throw into a food processor I bought and then attempt to make good vegetable smoothie things. If I can't, I'll just chug it down since I'm pretty good at that.
Ohh now I remember. These little things here are golden beets:
>>123639 https://www.rareseeds.com/beet-golden >Uhhh, just a bit confused here are you supposed to cut off all the strawberry flowers or leave one of them... Not exactly, but that's probably what you'd do if you wanted to grow the biggest one possible.
It's hugely energy intensive for a plant to produce seeds/fruit. When you want a plant to focus on establishing itself you cut off the flowers so it can redirect the energy to growing more roots or leaves. This was all news to me, I saw a strawberry plant that had 4 flowers on it and 4 leaves and thought "Wow, so productive, I have to buy
this one" but there's a reason the other plants weren't that way. The plant had no chance to survive when it was pulling all of its resources into so many fruit when it didn't have the, uh, "infrastructure" to support it. I also read that you're not supposed to allow strawberry runners to spread until year three.
I've removed about a dozen strawberry flowers across 5 plants so far and will probably allow them to be pollinated in a month or so. It feels bad to know I'm removing future fruit, but it will allow the plants to grow stronger and might make the fruit taste better, too.
>Also do you need to worry with the onion at all about your cats getting near and trying to nibble on it, or is it safe and they won't intentionally poison themselves? Oh, I only have an indoor cat. I'm pretty sure onions and chives are strongly repellent to other mammals, though. Humans have learned to enjoy pungent stuff, but it's a protection against other animals. That's why last year I planted the strawberries next to the chives, although it turns out I still had to cage them.
Anonymous 04/23/24 (Tue) 22:28:09 No. 123678 >>123679
>>123640 >but if I didn't overwater it would have turned into a block of dry dirt. Thanks again, wind. Isn't molch supposed to help with that sort of thing?
Anonymous 04/23/24 (Tue) 23:45:36 No. 123679
One of the tomato plants snapped in half...
>>123678 Yeah, but mulch also blocks sprouts and since most of my plants are still in the sprouting stage I can't really use it. And a lot of the stuff I'm growing isn't really compatible with mulch to begin with since it's small and compact. I'll put mulch around the tomatoes in a couple weeks. My priority was getting as much stuff in the ground as I could because of pic related.
Quite worried about the 'breezy' stuff... might have to stake the tomatoes even though they're so small.
Anonymous 04/26/24 (Fri) 07:18:24 No. 123756 >>123757
>>123719 Looks like free meat to me
Anonymous 04/26/24 (Fri) 07:45:22 No. 123757
>>123756 Nah, I like seeing them around and I don't mind if they nibble on leaves once plants are actually grown and won't die from it. This area isn't as rural as it used to be and I appreciate any animals I'm able to see. There's some holes in the fencing between yards that could be fixed, but there seems to be an understanding to keep it open for rabbits to run around. (or maybe people are just lazy, but it doesn't seem to be the case)
Anonymous 04/28/24 (Sun) 23:19:26 No. 123842
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Garden survived. Not much I can do when there's 4 inches (10cm) of rain in a few hours. I'm going to have to replace some mulch since it's floating around to the other side...
Anonymous 04/29/24 (Mon) 02:38:57 No. 123845 >>123963
>>123843 very very nice sounds but also very very bad situation
is the mulch and that still floating around? if there are clusters i would try kinda pushing them against something they could stick to (or maybe bunch them up) but i can't tell if there is any such spot at all
Anonymous 04/30/24 (Tue) 03:29:42 No. 123872 >>123963
>>123844 AAAAAAAAAAAA! Man that's gotta suck when nature just decides to take a big wrecking ball to your plans. I guess at the very least this maybe fertilizes sorta the soil maybe? Or maybe not. Feels like a few days of being submerged would be devastating to a plant, but maybe they can survive somehow... Hopefully at least.
Also are peas not the plant you grow on a fence-like setup? Feel like I've seen them grown that way before, but maybe it's another type of bean.
Anonymous 05/03/24 (Fri) 04:56:49 No. 123963
Everything survived the flooding, even the peas here
>>123844 But, it's a huge hassle to do stuff outside in all the mud and some things simply can't be done due to soil softness, like planting the stakes. I really need to get the stakes in the ground and netting placed so the peas and beans can attach to them.
The neat and orderly rows of mulch between the dirt rows have been wrecked by dirt transported by the water. The whole reason to have rows of mulch is to NOT have dirt there since weeds love to sprout from it. So now I uhh... well I guess once it dries out I'll try to rinse out the mulch in plastic containers or something? This sucks.
5 days ago: 4 inches of rain
2 days ago: 2 inches of rain (in 15 minutes)
Tonight: 2 inches of rain
Saturday: ??? inches of rain
I guess we're safe from drought. I didn't take any pictures because it's so messy and wet and ugly, but I guess I could do it soon.
>>123845 Yeah it's mulch that was visibly floating around. The dirt is the reason why the water is brown. The rows of dirt for plants are higher in elevation so there isn't much danger of the mulch flowing into it. It's aforementioned dirt moving to the rows of mulch that SUCKS.
>>123872 My success rate for these peas and beans were like 30% so I didn't put anything down until I knew stuff was actually going to survive. I had to do a lot of transplanting which stakes and netting would interfere with.
Anonymous 05/06/24 (Mon) 00:14:10 No. 124091
Sigh... so much rain. I just looked and the rainfall total from last 10 days excluding today is 7 inches, and today will add another 2 inches I bet.
Anonymous 05/06/24 (Mon) 22:40:38 No. 124136
I wonder how much industrial farming builds stuff like drainage canals and stuff. If that's even possible
Anonymous 05/06/24 (Mon) 22:41:51 No. 124137
on topic sager deserved it
Anonymous 06/23/24 (Sun) 03:54:50 No. 129046
Sigh... It's so hot out, lately. I keep getting bitten by SHAB s when I go out to do garden work. Hmm.... I need to start wearing a SHAB keeper suit when going outside and also start putting a SHAB net around my bed at night. But that would also keep out Kuon . Bleh...
Anonymous 06/26/24 (Wed) 02:02:01 No. 129203
>>129201 >Most of the pea pods got flooded in the soil Pea "seeds", that is. They never germinated and just rotted away in the ground.
Anonymous 07/22/24 (Mon) 11:38:27 No. 131301 >>131304
>>129201 holy flip its zundamon
Anonymous 07/22/24 (Mon) 17:42:15 No. 131304 >>131308 >>131311
>>131301 Ah, yeah I was going to bump this thread again, but somehow this old smartphone thing started having issues interfacing with the computer. I have new pics, but I can't upload them. It was having issues charging, too, but I was at least able to fix that. It was saying the USB thing is wet despite not being wet and I had to find a way to bypass that and blahblah I'll try to fix it later and upload pics again.
Anonymous 07/22/24 (Mon) 22:28:55 No. 131308
>>131304 if you do bring meowers plz
Anonymous 07/22/24 (Mon) 22:35:02 No. 131311 >>131312
>>131304 you should figure out why wifi doesn't work. That's how most transfer is done. Otherwise pic yourself up a cheap digital camera
Anonymous 07/22/24 (Mon) 22:39:12 No. 131312 >>131313
>>131311 Oh, not wifi, just using a direct USB connection. Didn't think about using wi-fi since it's less elegant than a direct connection.
Anonymous 07/22/24 (Mon) 22:41:24 No. 131313
>>131312 i tend to email myself stuff because I'm primitive. But there are probably filesharing options like mega... or probably something like google drive...
Anonymous 07/22/24 (Mon) 22:44:27 No. 131314
although, if one wanted to try they could try for an FTP or similar type of solution
Anonymous 07/24/24 (Wed) 06:11:21 No. 131340
>>110294 You just unlocked a fond memory I have of childhood. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my Great-Grandmother with a bucket of "snap beans" that we prepared for lunch together. She made homemade fried chicken and biscuits along with sweet corn and green beans. Along with a massive jug of sweet tea. Then she wrapped it all up picnic style and we walked over a mile into the fields where the men were working to have lunch together.
I want to go back.
Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 02:15:20 No. 132131 >>132132
Here's a picture, but it's not much better. But, you can see some of its orange coloration here.
Apparently these are called "hummingbird hawk-moths"
https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/humming-bird-hawk-moth Anyway, that's all I wanted to post for now.
Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 02:28:21 No. 132132
>>132130 >>132131 that really is a cool bugger neat
Anonymous 08/08/24 (Thu) 10:32:19 No. 132148
>>132130 sounds like a shab getting biting
Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 06:26:43 No. 132595
I think this will be the last update for a while. I'm just harvesting stuff and I'll plant some new things for autumn in a few weeks. Probably.
I'm definitely not buying marigold seeds again, unless it's a different variety. Each flower turns into 40 or so seeds and you can see all the flowers here
>>132128 . (the seeds are long and thin, each little 'stalk' thing). These marigold plants have been producing flowers for a month now and show no sign of stopping, so presumably until the first freeze. I don't understand how people can grow things like tulips where they bloom for a week in spring and then spend the rest of the year as large grass.
Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 06:31:42 No. 132599
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Speaking of spiders, this one has been hanging out for about a week. Pretty big. It seems to be holding and eating something it caught and tied up. Camera focus seems to struggle a bit on this.
Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 16:26:01 No. 132607 >>132610
>>132601 do the wabbits love them?
Anonymous 08/21/24 (Wed) 20:07:19 No. 132610
>>132607 The problem with rabbits is that they greatly prefer sprouts. So one rabbit could just go down the row and take bites out of them and kill 20 plants for one meal. Once plants are established they're not as damaging. I've seen a couple rabbits around, but not as much as last year. I don't think the garden has much they like this time.
Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 12:33:50 No. 137036 >>137037
so what sort of dumb fruitards are you going to plant this year
Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 12:38:56 No. 137037 >>137038
>>137036 Not sure yet, I've been kind of procrastinating about things. Do you have any suggestions?
Sadly most fruit is from trees or other things that take years or even decades to get established and of course they're HUGE so it's really not going to happen. Stuff like strawberries or blueberries are about the limit.
Oh, I do want to grow potatoes. I thought they were something you plant in summer since it's an autumn crop, but nope you do it in early spring and build up a hill of dirt as they expand.
Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 12:41:55 No. 137038 >>137040
>>137037 passionfruit vines seem like theyd get you fruit fairly quickly my older brother had some
i thought about saffron for when i get my garden but the climate in australia's all wrong. saffron wants frost during winter. also the bulbs are still pretty expensive it doesnt seem like you get much of a return on investment unless you do it at scale for a long time
Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 12:43:23 No. 137039 >>137040
an apricot tree my parents planted some time ago is taller than me and produces like 200 apricots each season
Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 13:03:26 No. 137040 >>137041
>>137038 Oh, I thought about saffron briefly when I noticed the price of it at the store. I've never actually eaten it, I was just curious about it. I assume there must be some complex process to it that makes it annoying, like vanilla. It must be expensive for areason.
One of the youtubers I watch about gardening is Australian and I'm quite envious of all the stuff he's got going on. I think I linked him in the thread somewhere. My area gets really hot in the summer but we still have weeks of freezing temperatures so anything tropical is out of the question. Oh, and lavender, which I really like, dies here because of the humidity.
>>137039 Yeah, you can get dwarf trees (my family had them when I was a kid) but they're more susceptible to diseases and it explains how we lost all 3 of them during one summer. There's grafting, too, which is kind of horrifying as a concept but it's how most people grow apples.
Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 13:10:20 No. 137041
>>137040 >I assume there must be some complex process to it that makes it annoying, think its literally just you cant automate picking the little threads out of the flower (yet...) and each thread weighs almost nothing
Anonymous 01/20/25 (Mon) 13:54:18 No. 137043
reading about it on wikipedia
Anonymous 03/11/25 (Tue) 08:11:49 No. 138685 >>138686 >>138691
Meteorological
Spring is basically here now. I should have bought some early-Spring seeds already, but it's not too late.
Do you guys have any suggestions on what I should try growing? Some flowers and some relatively easy crops would be good since I want to focus on some computer stuff this year and don't want to spend an hour each day watering and weeding and such.
This area does get very hot in summer, so crops that aren't can't tolerate that are a no-go.
I buy my online seeds from
https://www.rareseeds.com/ and
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/ so give a look if you're bored and have any suggestions for stuff I can grow and blog about this year!
I already know I want to try growing the following this year:
Turnips, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes, Pumpkins, Strawberries, Peas, Green Beans, and I guess some herbs. I don't really like leafy stuff, but maybe I could try something? I'm not going to grow tomatoes because it's not good to grow the same stuff in the same area year after year. Maybe I'll grow some in a container.
Anonymous 03/11/25 (Tue) 11:17:17 No. 138686
>>138685 potatos so you can snack on a lot of french fries :3 *pokes you in the tum*
peas and green beans because
>zundamon Anonymous 03/11/25 (Tue) 20:12:13 No. 138691 >>138693 >>138742
Planning to plant pole beans again this year after skipping the past one. Will prepare separate seedlings during May to plant at the start of June.
No strawberries this year since they have not been productive in recent years and blackbirds have found a taste for it.
>>138685 >[...] it's not good to grow the same stuff in the same area year after year.
That is probably the reason, the health and output of the plants went noticably down after four years in a row.
Might be time to try tomatos now, potatos sound good too since I have a lot of comoposted soil now.
Anonymous 03/11/25 (Tue) 22:34:12 No. 138693 >>138694
>>138691 >girl Do you have proof of this
Anonymous 03/11/25 (Tue) 23:14:38 No. 138694 >>138756
>>138693 Your Zundamon has grown a bit different I guess.
:D
Anonymous 03/14/25 (Fri) 00:26:29 No. 138742 >>138755
The grubs pupas I keep inadvertently exposing/killing when tilling are apparently june bugs. They're supposed to be really damaging to roots so I guess I won't feel too bad when I accidentally kill them. May their corpses nourish the soil.
Last chance for crop/flower recommendations as I'm going to buy seeds in the next couple days!
>>138691 Nice! What type of bean exactly?
>That is probably the reason, the health and output of the plants went noticably down after four years in a row. I'm not sure if that's true, but maybe you need new crops if it's the same strawberry plants coming back? I've had terrible luck with strawberry plants producing much fruit after the first year. Maybe it's a fertilizer issue?
The thing I heard about tomatoes is that if you keep growing them in the same area nematodes will start showing up and they can be devastating as they spread around underground. There are anti-nematode crops like marigolds, but it's best to avoid the conditions where they can show up.
Anonymous 03/14/25 (Fri) 18:30:01 No. 138755
>>138742 >May their corpses nourish the soil. Spoken like a druid.
>Last chance for crop/flower recommendations as I'm going to buy seeds in the next couple days! A bit of Lemon balm can be nice to spice up a salad if you like a lemon-like scent. Sunflowers are nice to brighten up your outside area a bit (they might get huge in good conditions though) and if you like small birds you can let them pick out and eat the seeds later.
>Nice! What type of bean exactly? A variation of Phaseolus vulgaris called 'Blauhilde'. From my experience they are very productive and tasty.
>I'm not sure if that's true, but maybe you need new crops if it's the same strawberry plants coming back? Forgot to mention it weren't the same plants/generations, also don't know which species I tried so far.
In my region, a new batch of strawberry-plants usually need a season to settle and are then productive for two following seasons. I then completely wipe them and let a new set of plants and their offshoots grow there in a managed way.
>The thing I heard about tomatoes is that if you keep growing them in the same area nematodes will start showing up and they can be devastating as they spread around underground. There are anti-nematode crops like marigolds, but it's best to avoid the conditions where they can show up. Good tip, will keep that in mind. I actually noticed some when I spaded my wiped strawberry-patch last year. Am not a flowers guy but I guess it is time for marigolds in that part this year.
Anonymous 03/14/25 (Fri) 18:36:11 No. 138756
>>138694 What happens when they pollinate each other?
Anonymous 03/15/25 (Sat) 11:20:17 No. 138776
>>138765 get them
they're resistant to vtubers
Anonymous 03/21/25 (Fri) 07:01:51 No. 141033
>>141030 Oh yeah, it’s planting season. Ought to get to it myself as well.
Anonymous 04/01/25 (Tue) 10:14:07 No. 141401
>>141396 on topic sager
deserves it
Anonymous 04/02/25 (Wed) 23:43:11 No. 141519 >>141521
>>141517 nice
how long do you think it'll take for the water to drain?
Anonymous 04/02/25 (Wed) 23:45:00 No. 141521
>>141519 Probably days. I need to get more wood chip mulch to put in them as they soak up the water and keep the plastic from getting damaged from the sun. This would be really bad to have sitting water like this if it was further along the year, mosquitos and stuff would be breeding in it.
Anonymous 04/04/25 (Fri) 22:39:33 No. 141564
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hehehehe
