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paint huffing shaman
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planted 3 rows of 3 feet and 1 six foot row of garlic 2 inches apart, some beets ,carrot and radishes.i put some potted carrets but they still only have 2 leves.i dont know why they are not getiing more leaves.
on another note,i want to have some fly traps and sundews,i was reading up on ancient plants and the scale trees cought my attention,but they are extinct so i found another plant i think its called ginko that has no living relatives,i want to have on of those ,i wish i could go back in time and collect plants from history to have a mini pre history forest.
also does any one know where to get seeds for plants like stinging nettle and other related plants that arent over priced or just some dumb ass collecting the seeds of a plant he misidentifys?
on another note,i want to have some fly traps and sundews,i was reading up on ancient plants and the scale trees cought my attention,but they are extinct so i found another plant i think its called ginko that has no living relatives,i want to have on of those ,i wish i could go back in time and collect plants from history to have a mini pre history forest.
also does any one know where to get seeds for plants like stinging nettle and other related plants that arent over priced or just some dumb ass collecting the seeds of a plant he misidentifys?
hey man i would be intrested in some fly trap seeds
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I'm sorry bb. I feel you. I just had to ditch all of my chilli (hot pepper) seedlings. About 30 plants, 5 different varieties. Was gonna keep 2 of each and give the rest away to friends or my local garden/seed swap. They all just fucking diedWindow 'maters did a whole lot of nothing, then died.
Bullshit too cold, too hot, too cold weather we've had.Enough light on your toms? Enough food for them? Did they flower at all?
Picklechu
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Yes, yes, and like one tiny one that just shriveled up. I've never had any luck with these kits, so I assume that was the biggest issue; all of their plants seem to suck.
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I did well on potatoes and carrots this year. I ended up with ~ 60 pounds of potatoes, but they have common scab so I'm going to have to lower the soil PH, and maybe switch from red to russet because they have a tougher skin. It's my own fault for putting wood ash in the compost. I got around 50 really nice carrots and maybe another dozen small or mutant ones. I had a few rows of rutabaga, but they turned out like shit and I don't even like rutabaga that much, I just tried it out because I'm in a good climate for them. I think next year I'll just do carrot and potato.
I've been cultivating this woodland strawberry I found on someone's lawn growing as a weed, it's been putting out runners the last few years and now I get maybe a gallon of little strawberries a year. It took over a little 3x3 spot, and I moved some plants over to another bed so they can take that over. I put some gooseberry plants in the year too, but it'll be a few years before I get anything, they're just little twigs right now.
I've got a savory bush going out in a pot too, hopefully I can get something out of that over the next few years.
I've been cultivating this woodland strawberry I found on someone's lawn growing as a weed, it's been putting out runners the last few years and now I get maybe a gallon of little strawberries a year. It took over a little 3x3 spot, and I moved some plants over to another bed so they can take that over. I put some gooseberry plants in the year too, but it'll be a few years before I get anything, they're just little twigs right now.
I've got a savory bush going out in a pot too, hopefully I can get something out of that over the next few years.
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@Salade Nicoise , is there a native predator of june bugs to which you can make your garden hospitable? Here, I had great success in adding host plants and shelter for digger wasps, which knock down june bugs and Japanese beetles at the grub stage. Did you ever replace your birdseye chili? They're such pretty plants. If you have a chance to grow fish peppers, you might like them too. They cross very easily with other peppers, so if you save seeds, their traits will likely turn up on other plants and you can try to stabilize those traits in a lineage. Fun!
Shall we wake up this thread for the northern hemisphere's springtime garden? Here, mirabile dictu, last autumn's "merveille de quatre saisons" bibb lettuce is still producing in-ground. I banked the lettuce bed with fallen leaves, and now I can dig salad greens out of the snow. This is great, because a tree fell on my cold frames during an ice storm and did in the rest of the winter greens.
I'm just now starting my first indoor seedlings, with double-flowering aparajita, corkscrew flower, and green skinned bitter melons going under the grow lights. It takes trial and error to figure out which plants need the early start, versus which just sort of stall when moved into the garden and sit there until the soil warms up.
In a couple weeks, I'll be starting pepper plants under the lights, followed by a fun assortment of tomatoes. Then I'll keep churning out batches of kitchen herbs and annual flowers until mid-June.
And @Bluebird , I'm so curious - how did selling your pitcher plants go?
Shall we wake up this thread for the northern hemisphere's springtime garden? Here, mirabile dictu, last autumn's "merveille de quatre saisons" bibb lettuce is still producing in-ground. I banked the lettuce bed with fallen leaves, and now I can dig salad greens out of the snow. This is great, because a tree fell on my cold frames during an ice storm and did in the rest of the winter greens.
I'm just now starting my first indoor seedlings, with double-flowering aparajita, corkscrew flower, and green skinned bitter melons going under the grow lights. It takes trial and error to figure out which plants need the early start, versus which just sort of stall when moved into the garden and sit there until the soil warms up.
In a couple weeks, I'll be starting pepper plants under the lights, followed by a fun assortment of tomatoes. Then I'll keep churning out batches of kitchen herbs and annual flowers until mid-June.
And @Bluebird , I'm so curious - how did selling your pitcher plants go?
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I'm all for waking this thread up. Lol just as we're winding down here. That's an awesome selection you've got going - so much more adventurous than my basic ass veggie patch. Next year I want to grow some more of the asian veggies we eat more, okra, pea eggplant, kang kong/ong choy.
We're heading in to autumn but everything is still super hot and rainy and humid as shit. Just those fucking ideal growing conditions [/sarcasm]. Bugs galore (fucking cabbage loopers I swear to god) and had a problem with rust.
But I'm not complaining. Kept my family and friends in tomatoes, beans, cukes, chillies, eggplants and more greens and herbs than anyone could ever use. I'm watching my ginger plants like a crazy lady, knowing full well I shouldn't lift them for at least another month. Once the rains properly clear come end of March I'll put in my cold crops. Can't wait to give garlic another go.
What are your hot tips for winter annuals frand?
Also I ended up ditching the june bug bed. On closer inspection the soil was in really bad shape, and more importantly it was an old wooden bed that was falling apart. Cut my losses and built a new one. Spent soil went to the chook dirt bath (boy did they have fun with those grubs).
ETA: OH and yes, the Thai chilli bush has been replaced - it's fruit is ripening as we speak and it's looking glorious. She'll be bigger and bushier next year no doubt, but I'm proud of her already.
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Im waiting til spring.
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Anyone else starting enough vegetable seeds to feed a survivalist community, only to be confronted with the reality of a small garden when it's time to plant them? Every single year.
Depicted: some broccoli, cauliflower, radish, chili pepper, butternut squash and cucumber.
Lettuce and tomatoes are already too overgrown to be photogenic.
Depicted: some broccoli, cauliflower, radish, chili pepper, butternut squash and cucumber.
Lettuce and tomatoes are already too overgrown to be photogenic.
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I've got the garden all tidied up finally and started planting some veggies today. I've planted beans, peas, radishes and edemame in the raised beds with some marigold seeds and sweet pea seeds. I've already got some marigolds that I got from the hardware store planted around the yard. I scattered flower seeds before the rain and already forgot what they were, but they're starting to come up along with some hollyhocks. I like to focus on bee and butterfly attracting flowers the most, our neighbors have a ton of milkweed and so we'll see monarch butterflies visiting doing the right season. I've got two milkweed plants that are still pretty small, I'm hoping that by the fall they'll be big enough to host a good amount of monarch larve.
Other than that I have lots of blueberry bushes that will be ripening soon, my raspberries and blackberries are looking much better with our recent rain as do the grapes.
I also have some sunflower sprouts that I started in the greenhouse and there's a few I might try to plant today.
Other than that I have lots of blueberry bushes that will be ripening soon, my raspberries and blackberries are looking much better with our recent rain as do the grapes.
I also have some sunflower sprouts that I started in the greenhouse and there's a few I might try to plant today.
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How do you find the jiffy pellets for starting tomatoes? They seem so wonderfully convenient I might give them a go next season, but worry about root space.
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I used to only use them to start tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, but now I start pretty much everything this way, incl. root vegetables (which I then transfer early straight to garden beds and cover with a frost blanket). With tomatoes, I do both - some go from the pellets to the garden, some I still put in small plant pots. But I always start seeds too early, so a lot of my plants are overgrown in mid-April. They also sell them in different sizes, so when in doubt, you can get the bigger ones. The roots can and do grow through and if you let them soak in water for a bit before transferring the plants, the damage done to them is quite low. Visually, I can't see any signs of the plants suffering in jiffy.
To me, the biggest advantage is how clean the whole process is - I don't have a walk-in greenhouse and I start everything indoors; this really helps me reduce the mess. They're also a bit less prone to getting moldy and don't need to be sterilized. Three years back, I bought a bunch of the hard plastic jiffy greenhouses and it's almost effortless. It helps that I have a good local source of organic seeds with a high germination capacity, so I'm not even wasting many pellets.
Photo: Siberian tomato plants in the sunset
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Look at those bbs!!!I used to only use them to start tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers, but now I start pretty much everything this way, incl. root vegetables (which I then transfer early straight to garden beds and cover with a frost blanket). With tomatoes, I do both - some go from the pellets to the garden, some I still put in small plant pots. But I always start seeds too early, so a lot of my plants are overgrown in mid-April. They also sell them in different sizes, so when in doubt, you can get the bigger ones. The roots can and do grow through and if you let them soak in water for a bit before transferring the plants, the damage done to them is quite low. Visually, I can't see any signs of the plants suffering in jiffy.
To me, the biggest advantage is how clean the whole process is - I don't have a walk-in greenhouse and I start everything indoors; this really helps me reduce the mess. They're also a bit less prone to getting moldy and don't need to be sterilized. Three years back, I bought a bunch of the hard plastic jiffy greenhouses and it's almost effortless. It helps that I have a good local source of organic seeds with a high germination capacity, so I'm not even wasting many pellets.
Photo: Siberian tomato plants in the sunset
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And I'm now well and truly sold on the jiffys! Thank you!
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Probably created some sort of brewery by leaving a bunch of fruits on the ground before covering the undertree area with leaves last autumn. Finally saw some bumblebees this spring and they were all hiding there. Or possibly hibernation?
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Citrus leaf miner all through my cunting lemon tree 
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Any tips for growing strawberries in pots? I mainly just want enough to actually make something from them, and for them to not die.
Either way, I’m getting some tonight and I’ll give updates. Daddy wants some sweet fresh berry goodness.
Either way, I’m getting some tonight and I’ll give updates. Daddy wants some sweet fresh berry goodness.
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Strawberries are hard to get too wrong and the general tips you find online work fine. I'm getting some of the hanging ones for pots this year, and as long as they have space for airflow and decent soil, they take care of themselves. The only maintenance is getting rid of the runners and old leaves. My biggest regret with my garden strawberries has been not planting them on a landscape fabric (to prevent weed). It's ugly as hell and an admission to laziness, but would have saved me a lot of work. Not an issue for a few plants in a bucket though. You may not get many berries the first year.
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Just use a good potting mix. Strawberries are difficult to fuck up. You starting them bare root or using transplants?
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Transplants. I did hear they’re pretty easy, so I have hope.