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I put fertilizer on the line of my prop that goes to the woods/park. Gonna make a thick ass barrier. Built and set up all the gardens gonna plant this weekend :)

Also fuck invasive honey suckle.
 
Bassomatic said:
I put fertilizer on the line of my prop that goes to the woods/park. Gonna make a thick ass barrier.
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Can you go into more detail on this plan? Are you keeping out humans, squirrels, enemy plants?

I abut a rental property and there's a fence, but the rental yard is covered with lesser celandine and it spreads by bulbule. I planted a scrap board vertically to cut off some spread to my side, but that was just the tip of the patch making contact. Next year there's going to be more.

"Insane person wood scrap stalagmite fence" is my root barrier plan so far, but I wonder if I could plant something like rhizomatic irises along the fence as a form of area denial. Probably wouldn't be thick enough in time, but might have worked if I'd started a couple of years ago.
 
My pepper seedlings I started late jan are growing nicely and I should get a nice head start this spring, my tomato, flower, and herb seedlings are all sprouting and growing well. I moved my figs and dwarf fruits trees outside. Now I have to get off my dead ass and sift all my compost and mulch everything. Every spring is a struggle trying to work outside between rain and "i'll do it eventually".
 
Aunt Carol said:
lesser celandine
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Aha. Mystery solved. I didn't know that hateful stuff traveled.

I carefully weeded out quite a bit of that last year (making sure I got all the tiny bulbs) and pitched it in the compost pile thinking it would die and rot in there. The other day I walked by the compost pile and what do I see? Lesser celandine growing merrily around the edge of it! FFS. It's ALIVE. And it traveled! Unbelievable. Even after being smothered by other thick and heavy stuff in there over a whole ass winter. Now I have to find time to dig it out and put it in the trash to go to the landfill. Like I shoulda done last time, apparently.

It's back in the original location too. Another "leave no tiny bit behind" menace. Good luck with yours. That sounds horrifying.

True confession: I actually planted mine. From a boosted plant. A family member moved out of their place, so I helped myself to some stuff in their yard one afternoon while the house was empty and on the market. Who's gonna know, right? Justa few plants. The new owners will never notice. I mistakenly thought it was Marsh Marigold. Argh. That's what I get for stealing a plant! (Or not being absolutely sure of what I was poaching!)
 
Had to plant my potatoes a bit later than planned this year, and those suckers were growing slips right out of the top of the box they were in. It took ages to delicately separate them from each other without breaking all the eyes off. Anyway, all our and planted now, and if I don’t see any signs of life I’ll just plant sunflowers in the potato sacks instead.

Speaking of which, I spent a while today weeding my borders, preparing the ground a little bit, and chucking down tall sunflower seeds just in front of my back garden fence. Not ten minutes later, there’s a goddamn pigeon out there, merrily pecking away at the prepared and seeded ground. So I suspect I’ll have no sunflowers and fat pigeon pal this summer. At least someone’s happy, I suppose.

Am trying yet again to grow dill. For some reason it will never grow for me. Thyme, basil and chives have gone in too, along with salad leaves and rocket. My plum trees blossomed well, my cherries are in full flower right now, and it looks like my apple trees are going to do well too. Last summer I really worked on increasing the quality of the soil/compost in my garden, and I think it’s paying off. The spring flowers have been huge, and the climbing roses are full of new shoots.

My dogs are obsessed with the blood, bone and fish meal fertiliser, though. The moment I open the tub, they were out back and sniffing the air. They’ve even tried digging in the ground where I raked the fertiliser in. I have no idea if the stuff is poisonous for animals or not, but I’m trying to keep them away from the beds and pots anyway. The chicken manure pellets I’ve used in the past are stinky, but the dogs barely bothered sniffing at it. I don’t smell much at all from the blood, bone and fish stuff, but whatever smell it does have is driving my dogs absolutely wild. I’ve had to lock the tub of fertiliser in the garage, as keeping it in the back porch means dogs trying to dig to get into the cupboard it’s in. It’s been great for my soil health, but my dogs are highly annoyed that there are no delicious treats to be had, despite the smell.
 
Anasa Tristis said:
I carefully weeded out quite a bit of that last year (making sure I got all the tiny bulbs)
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This is the horrible part, too, because it's like trying to dig up a granola bar intact. Each bulbule spawns smaller bulbules spawns smaller bulbules.

I look over at the yard next door and I start to get why you'd take advice from Henry Kissinger.

Anasa Tristis said:
I mistakenly thought it was Marsh Marigold.
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Me too, man. "Oh, what's this new friend growing by my drain spout?" I don't even have a deep philosophical problem with invasive plants if they're not objectively terrible. The problem is it grows those big leaves to choke other plants with shade in the spring. and then just dies back and leaves mud.
 
Got home from work to find the Amaryllis I've grown from seed has finally opened its flowers for the year. The first few years here were a bit of a struggle for it after I moved it up from Florida, where it basically grew year round in extreme heat, but thankfully, it's seemed to have acclimated by now.

The pinks and greens may not be to everyone's taste, but it's the culmination of over 5 years of careful husbandry to even get my first flower from this plant 3 years ago lol
 

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Back in autumn, I decided to try taking a green onion from the store and planting it and it's grown really huge over the past couple of months. It's even started to bloom.

I use a lot of green onions in my cooking, so it'll be nice not having to pay for them.
 
Aunt Carol said:
Can you go into more detail on this plan? Are you keeping out humans, squirrels, enemy plants?

I abut a rental property and there's a fence, but the rental yard is covered with lesser celandine and it spreads by bulbule. I planted a scrap board vertically to cut off some spread to my side, but that was just the tip of the patch making contact. Next year there's going to be more.

"Insane person wood scrap stalagmite fence" is my root barrier plan so far, but I wonder if I could plant something like rhizomatic irises along the fence as a form of area denial. Probably wouldn't be thick enough in time, but might have worked if I'd started a couple of years ago.
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The house I own is JUST a tick under a half acre (like a few sq feet) we have some land behind and it borders a city park. Maybe 10 feet of woods till it drops a bit to a creek then 50ish feet? till a field.

I'm mostly trying to make the sound barrier more and fuck the deer off who eat too much. I've pulled as much honey suckle as I can and fed the roses extra hard. The deer leave that area alone and my stick/compost piles.

Basically it's trying to grow the stuff that does grow in the woods and keep deer away. I used a bag of cheap 10/10/10.
 
I planted too many pepper seeds, assuming a poor germination rate because some of the seed envelopes were starting to get old. Wrong! Almost every seed came up, and now I have too many pepper plants. I hope my neighbors like jalapenos enough to take a plant or three. If I knew of a way to ship plants to my fellow kiwis without ensuring mutual dox, I'd offer to to sell some to the rest of you crazy farmers.

My tomato starts are also doing very well. I'll probably be selling extras to the neighbors, but at least I don't have as much excess as peppers.

My beans and peas are planted. We'll see how many come up. I wouldn't mind having the same problem with the beans and peas that I have with peppers.

I've got one more week were the outside temps are going to be kissing freezing, and then I'll be starting my squash and cucumbers. I used to start them inside, but would kill like half of them transplanting them because their roots are so fragile.

I'm going to try growing beets again this year. Those will also have to wait until next week when the overnight temps stop hitting freezing.

AnOminous said:
It also gives the basil a bitter flavor, which ruins sweet basil. Pinch those little buggers off whenever they appear.
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Edit to add: While this is true, bees seem to really like basil flowers. IMO, its worth having at least one basil plant around that you deliberately allow to flower to attract bees to the garden. As a bonus you get free basil seeds at the end of season. Just watch out for Japanese beetles, because they also really like basil flowers.
 
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They weren't kidding when they said Megatron Jalapenos are early bearing. This plant is only 6" tall and I wonder if I should get rid of the blooms to encourage more vegetative growth.
 

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Moist Boys said:
You don't really need to prune peppers unless they get asymmetrical growth. A vegetative nutrient like Maxigrow should be sufficient until you get a good bloom set and switch to something like Maxibloom, Masterblend, or Jacks 3-2-1.
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I'd much rather use piss, cover crops, and compost to enrich soil than some expensive synthetic shit. Its all basically free...
That Jack's stuff is like $150.
 
Moist Boys said:
No, it is not. I'm paying less than $0.04 a gallon.

You're never going to see any sort of production facility or commercial greenhouse using organic for exposure to pests, disease or the ability to control inputs.
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i didn't realize you ran a commercial greenhouse. soon they will all have nothing but GMO too and you will be a fool for not buying into that newfangled shit.

my pee is full of nutrients and is free...actually better than free because it saves a lot of time/money using/cleaning a toilet to flush that sweet golden plant food away like a fool. haven't had any issues using it. i think it works especially well on fruit trees, which are probably the best thing to grow in terms of amount of work:food output.
 
TheVoodooThatJewDo said:
pee
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I wouldn't ever use any human waste for fertiliser if it is something you're going to eat. We say the same type of stuff for shit or period blood. Just do not use it on crops. I'll piss on the grass or whatever and not care but I'm not going to put something that my body expressly wants to get rid of on something that will then be going back into my body.
 
femboy fart huffer said:
I wouldn't ever use any human waste for fertiliser if it is something you're going to eat. We say the same type of stuff for shit or period blood. Just do not use it on crops. I'll piss on the grass or whatever and not care but I'm not going to put something that my body expressly wants to get rid of on something that will then be going back into my body.
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pee is sterile and its great fertilizer. unless maybe you're doing chemotherapy or something.
i'm not saying to use human shit, since that is risky unless you know what you are doing, but pee is not risky.
 
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