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So I bought a bunch of banana pepper plants from Walmart because they were $2. Anyone want to rate my peppers?
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- Feb 25, 2021
Oh, man, discount end-of-season live plants are one of my weaknesses.
I nearly bought some Ketchup 'n' Fries grafted plants for the same reason, but reined myself in and stuck to leggy kohlrabi starts instead (to replace the edamame plants that decided to seppuku). Can't grow anything brightly colored because of the SQUIRREL BASTARDS.
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- Feb 10, 2021
Do plants you rescue from a dumpster count? Me and my Uncle were walking home from the store and saw a ton of plants sitting on top of everything in a dumpster on a relatively clean cardboard pallet. We took em back but the landscapers ended up killing our squash we rescued and only one mojito mint plant survived and now idk what to do with it. Especially seeing as neither me or my Uncle really drink liquor if at all.
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Mojito mint is fantastic made into a plain tea. I personally like it hot and unsweetened, but its also very good chilled with a touch of sugar.
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Looks like I found what I'm gonna do with it thanks a ton man.
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Don't be intimidated by the name. You won't get arrested if you use it the same way you'd use any other fresh mint varietal; just try a little and think about what the taste would go with. Chopped up finely in salad, especially a salad with cucumber. Tabbouleh! Or in a pitcher of infused water with some lemon or lime.
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I planted a hot wheels car in my front yard but I have yet to see a full-grown fully-equipped formula 1 race car. I water and feed it every day for 3 years. I even sing to it sometimes.
What am I doing wrong?
What am I doing wrong?
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Maybe you should try from cuttings instead. Get liquid rooting hormone from the garden store and break the side mirror off of a car at the dealership, same way you'd take a piece of succulent from Home Depot.
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If you want a pretty hummingbird attracting flower look into hummingbird mint also known as agasteache. I planted a bunch right by my kitchen window and every morning like clock work there will be at least one hummingbird having a drink. Its a pretty easy to grow compact flower that is perennial in zones 5+ and will readily reseed itself.
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To attract hummingbirds in England I would need divine intervention not a flower.
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No lie, I used to work in a upper casual restaurant, and there was this old lady that always had to take leaves or whatever off our plants for her own garden at home (or asylum).
Old people are the absolute worst in restaurants. I almost wanna greet them with Good afternoon, I'll be taking care of you, what seems to be pissing you off today? Would you like to complain about the water, or help with calculating 2% of your total?
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I ordered a plant from a nursery earlier in the summer and later found it had a seedling stowaway!
This little guy became barely visible to the naked eye in mid July and started growing quite rapidly in August. I've ascertained that it's some type of sundew. Anyone want to take a crack at guessing what type? The nursery I ordered from offers a wide array of sundews.
It stays in a terrarium under a bright grow light, but goes outside when it's bright and humid. It's in a 3 in pot with a mixture of sphagnum peat, sand, and perlite (also apparently algae). I have the pot sitting in a tray of distilled water and it seems happy.
Maybe I'll provide some more pictures as it matures. Anyway, hope you guys had a good growing season! Fall is right around the corner already!
This little guy became barely visible to the naked eye in mid July and started growing quite rapidly in August. I've ascertained that it's some type of sundew. Anyone want to take a crack at guessing what type? The nursery I ordered from offers a wide array of sundews.
It stays in a terrarium under a bright grow light, but goes outside when it's bright and humid. It's in a 3 in pot with a mixture of sphagnum peat, sand, and perlite (also apparently algae). I have the pot sitting in a tray of distilled water and it seems happy.
Maybe I'll provide some more pictures as it matures. Anyway, hope you guys had a good growing season! Fall is right around the corner already!
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It'll be easier to tell when it's older, but maybe a Drosera venusta?
It's less red than a Drosera latifolia, though the leaves are similar.
And it's similar-looking to a Drosera aliciae but those ones have wider leaves.
Sauce: https://www.carnivorousplants.org/grow/guides/SubtropicalDrosera
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there is no such conflict
boomers don't acknowledge our existence, you have to admit someone exists to have conflict
anyway plants. it's the time of year for me to deal with my large abundance of crabapples. The cidery that used to take them and give me cider in return closed because the owner is a cokehead. I am not enthused about doing it myself, at least not this year. My chickens don't like them. what do.
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A friend of mine used to work at a carnivorous plant growing place, said that at a point in every year, which I forget the name of, they would have to go through the little plants and remove random extra sundews that had randomly popped up in other plant's pots. I forget the name but they had a name for them specifically. Bit like the aiptasia of the carnivorous world. I think he said they grew kinda like strawberries, they'd send runners that would go through the bottom of the pots and up in through another's drainage holes. They'd normally stick them all in a big pot and create mats of sundews. He sent me a few because they were basically worthless to him simply because they popped up so regularly and consistently.
I don't know exactly why you mean. But it's pretty easy and interesting. You can pick up an apple crusher pretty easily, even if you can't find one a regular old fruit juicer will work. Or you can make your own. It's literally just a bucket with some slabs of wood and a car jack or similar. Obviously corporate industrial shit is complicated, but don't forget that even a caveman could make cider and so can you. People around here leave apples in buckets outside their house with a little sign saying 'free' if they have nothing to do with them, just make sure that you say they're crabapples not normal ones and also that the bucket has a hole in the bottom otherwise you make an absolutely fucking vile black sludge in the bottom from the rain logged apples rotting. I honestly have never seen anyone take any of them and I would be willing to bet that the majority of them are eaten by the wildlife instead of people but even that is better than landfilling them.
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I ended up going with Athena. I'm very happy with the rate of growth. cheers!
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it's not worth the labor and the space to make caveman cider
no one wants crabapples here, there are so many abandoned fruit trees there's more nice fruit available than gets eaten by people, nobody is interested in picking up random crabapples
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I appreciate the response and especially the source. I've heard that sundews grow like weeds, so it'll be fun to have a sundew explosion in the future. I'll post some more pictures as it gets older and we'll see how it turns out!
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Sundews spread through tiny self pollinating seeds if they are able to flower, and they can also spawn off little plantlets. They're fun.
I have obtained a tiny Cherokee Purple tomato plant and a couple marigolds to pair with it. I have little hope it will survive on my blazing hot property but we shall see.
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How are my fellow gardeners coping with Fall creeping in?
Instead of griping and groaning about my peppers slowing down and the inevitable frost coming sooner rather than later, I took the weekend to go apple picking at a local orchard.
It was a great day for it, and I got enough apples to cook and eat until the late ripening varieties are good to pick.
Instead of griping and groaning about my peppers slowing down and the inevitable frost coming sooner rather than later, I took the weekend to go apple picking at a local orchard.
It was a great day for it, and I got enough apples to cook and eat until the late ripening varieties are good to pick.
