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We have had heavy rain every day and it's flooded all the Carolina Reaper pots but 2 sprouts have shown so far. Gonna try planting the poppy seeds today for *cough* homemade poppy seed bagels
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TETRABAX said:
Has anyone tried adding earth worms to potted plants or is there not enough there to sustain them long term?
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Depends on how big the pot (I'd say 1 gal or bigger is probably most ideal)/how many you want to add but I haven't had an issue with adding a couple in the past. I've had more success with worm bins
 
heisenbuug said:
Depends on how big the pot (I'd say 1 gal or bigger is probably most ideal)/how many you want to add but I haven't had an issue with adding a couple in the past. I've had more success with worm bins
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Hmm, I'll have to look into sustaining a worm bin. I'd like to have some level of automated re-fertilization but I'm not familiar enough with the species to introduce it. I think I just need to do a bit of research and run some experiments if the data isn't out there
 
TETRABAX said:
Has anyone tried adding earth worms to potted plants or is there not enough there to sustain them long term?
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The issue here would be moisture/temperature control. In nature the worm can move to areas with the right moisture and temperature. In a basic potted plant it usually dries out at some point, so keeping the worm alive would be a challenge. Many worm bins are kept in areas away from light (and heat), and usually it's fairly damp, your basic potted plant is going to get too hot for worms I think.

Maybe a good spot to start would be to stop by your local bait shop and take a look at how they keep their worms. At one fishing camp the worms are kept in a shaded shed, in a concrete box, with a styrofoam lid.
 
Might be the boringest thing to grow but rewarding to dig up and eat. No chemicals.

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Also picked a pound of black currants and made a pie. Happy Sunday farmers.
 
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Can of Spam said:
If everything makes it to the 4th without any one group of plants severely dying, getting diseased, or otherwise bug-infested; it will be a new milestone.
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I am pleased to report that nothing totally died, the diseases seem mild, and the bugs are manageable. Except for the grasshoppers, fuck them.

I'm still going to count it as a milestone. :)

I need to figure out what to do with way too many green onions, other than letting them go to seed. That's how we got to this point to begin with. I suppose I could just top them to prevent the seeding, but between more green onions or more weeds in random places, I'm somewhat indifferent at this point as to what seed wins out in the battle for the sidewalk crack.

Crex Crex said:
Tomatoes were ripe enough
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Crex Crex said:
I think my neighbour stole some of them.
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Did you figure out if your neighbor is a lemon tomato stealing whore? I'm fairly certain that's grounds for war if they don't give you something delicious in return by the end of season, and did in fact steal your 'maters.

Oxyjen said:
Might be the boringest thing to grow but rewarding to dig up and eat.
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Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew! Or a ricer. Makes a superior form of the mashed/whipped potato dish.
 
I've got (plants):
5 tomatoes
8 peppers
2 rhubarb
X onions (no clue, so many)
18 bean plants (9 pole, 9 runner)
X turnips
X radishes
6 cucumbers (pickle variety)
2 cucamelons
3 blueberries
2 raspberries
So many fucking flowers. I love flowers.
We've just sown an assload of lettuce too.
Very hopeful for a big harvest in late September.

A small handful of tomatoes began suffering from blossom end rot but we caught it early enough that the losses were only about 5 tomatoes across 3 plants. Late July is a hard time to sow because the weather is unpredictable, usually too hot to start anything but we've got a great rainy period over the next few days so I'm very hopeful for the lawn blends we planted.

I love gardening and farming and I hope one day to have enough space to have at least a hobby farm. It keeps me busy and it keeps me fucking sane. This is our second year growing a large volume of plants successfully and I'm happy to help give advice to anyone just starting out.

Next year we plan to bring in a few gallons of river soil. I've been told that the soil out of the dry river and creek beds provides immense fertilization to the plants, and I've heard stories of giant tomatoes growing from said soil that I hope to grow myself. I think we're also planning to up the volume we're producing so we can give more away/sell more to people in the community.

For my entire life gardening and farming held no bearing on me and now I can't imagine a life where I don't know how to grow my own food and care for my own garden.
 
I've been showing some friends how to garden and now that they've reaped the rewards, they understand and are already looking forward to growing more stuff on their own
You really do learn more teaching others so it's improved my own gardening intuition although I still can't get bush beans to stay bushy half the time, niggas keep poling
 
Aight, I've got a doozy for those who have green thumbs.
Last year, I got a new place which has some apple trees that keep falling over from storms. They're 8 feet tall or so and only one of four of them has the root system to regularly withstand large storms.
The other ones are supported by bungee cables which have a small amount of give.

The trees seem to keep tipping in storms. Not all the way over, but a solid 25-35 degrees. They aren't particularly top-heavy, but they still don't want to grab to the soil it seems.
I have hard clay soil, but I mulch the trees with hay, and cardboard.
I'm starting to wonder if the previous owners didn't remove the landscaping fabric before burying the buggers... I tried digging a bit around the root ball to see what's there, and nothing. out of the ordinary..

Any tips would be massively appreciated!
 
Sperg_rancher said:
The trees seem to keep tipping in storms. Not all the way over, but a solid 25-35 degrees. They aren't particularly top-heavy, but they still don't want to grab to the soil it seems.
I have hard clay soil, but I mulch the trees with hay, and cardboard.
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If they have unusually small/weak root balls you might just have to give each weaker tree a good stake or two and wait for them to get healthy root depth, maybe a tall stake if you're concerned they'll snap in the middle.
 
ExsanguinateHorizon said:
If they have unusually small/weak root balls you might just have to give each weaker tree a good stake or two and wait for them to get healthy root depth, maybe a tall stake if you're concerned they'll snap in the middle.
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I'll get some pics of what's going on later. They're staked with bungee cords atm. it allows them to move a little bit without going too much.
 
The smallest leaf on my fig tree is like the size of Shaq's hand! I'm so thrilled!!!!?
 
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