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Some more morning glories, I've started dozens this year. Some lupine I harvested from my local wetlands last year, cosmos and my ghetto AF okra starts. I've never grown okra before but I decided that it would be my major vegetable crop besides tomatoes and ground cherries because my living situation doesn't have room for corn this year.
 

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Wewladdington said:
Some more morning glories, I've started dozens this year. Some lupine I harvested from my local wetlands last year, cosmos and my ghetto AF okra starts. I've never grown okra before but I decided that it would be my major vegetable crop besides tomatoes and ground cherries because my living situation doesn't have room for corn this year.
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LOVE okra. They grow like maniacs, gotta harvest harvest harvest. I'm definitely gonna grow some next season.
 
XYZpdq said:
so I'm in a ground floor apartment
a few years ago there was a bonsai I had that one day I picked up to groom and bugs started streaming out of it, so I put it outside one of my windows
fast forward to now, and I realized I should probably move it, and it turns out it sprouted roots out the drainage hole and is now about four feet tall
any tips and/or tricks for digging it out and putting it into a new pot?
I don't know much about plants but I know it's not a good idea to just rip it up or something, but I plan on moving near the end of the year so I suspect it's a good idea to start figuring this shit out
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Cut the roots coming through the drain holes for easier removal. When you remove it from the current pot turn it on it's side and just hit the pot all around to try to loosen it. This next step can be done by oneself but you might ask for a helper. Hit the bottom of the pot while gently pulling on the plant. It should release. Before moving it to the new container score (cut the outside part) of the roots in a few spots from top to bottom. This will spur new root growth into the new medium. Massage the root ball to loosen it. Also helps root growth. When you place it in the new container, the previous depth of the plant should be even to about one inch deeper in the new pot. Don't use dirt from your yard. Use commercial potting soil or make your own. Loosely pack it. Rocks in the bottom of the container help with drainage and keeping the potting soil in the pot where it belongs. Take care of it as it adjusts making sure that it keeps moist roots but don't over water either.

I'm glad to find that there is a gardening thread here. I put my front yard garden in yesterday and put my back garden in today. My front yard was just wasted empty space growing grass for me to have to cut and I'm just too much of a pragmatist for that. It got converted from lawn to garden a good while ago. I put in veggie seedlings in the front and ornamental corn seeds in the back. For the front I have a couple eggplants that I will fry and make casseroles with, a dozen cucumbers that will be made into specialty craft type pickles to be consumed and sold, a dozen and a half tomatoes that my eldest son will eat before I can do anything else with them, a dozen banana peppers to send to Jersh In exchange for special forum privilege's and sexual favors, four habaneros for sauce to consume and sell. a dozen bell peppers because I use a lot. and last but not least two dozen jalapenos. Those will be used for cooking and be turned into jelly and jam for personal use and for sale. I normally also grow squash and zucchini but I grew so much last year that I still have enough in the freezer to last into next. I don't grow things like peas, beans, and sweet corn anymore. They are better home grown but they are so cheap in the store that the milk isn't worth the squeeze. As for the ornamental corn, I grow it as a hobby and I sell enough seed online to break even. Once everything is well established I will post pics. Right now all you would see is dirt and a few pixels of green here and there. What I do have is a pic of a garden invader. We were taking turns watering the plants this evening and one of my kids said "Daddy there's a animal." I asked him what it was to which he responded he didn't know but the ground was moving. I knew what it was and sure enough there was a mole rooting around under one of my tomato plants. I wasn't about to dig my plant up to get to the mole so I shot him through the dirt with the little pistol I keep on me and carefully extracted him. That kind of hurt a little because ammunition is like gold now days.


On the note of pests, one of my cucumber seedlings disappeared overnight. I suspect a rabbit. If it happens again I'll build a trap. If that doesn't work I'll use my grandpa's method and sit out there all night with a rifle until the fucker shows up.

Edited to remove a picture because I don't need some random internet asshole reporting my gun stolen because I was stupid and uploaded a pic that included a serial number.
 
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Cup Noodle said:
Cut the roots coming through the drain holes for easier removal.
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just straightup chop them?
that was my big concern, if I needed to dig up a full root ball of whatever the fuck they'd gotten up to or if I could just chop and replant it
obviously it already had a much greater lease on life than ever expected so if it buys it in the process I won't be too upset, but that's different than I expected
 
XYZpdq said:
just straightup chop them?
that was my big concern, if I needed to dig up a full root ball of whatever the fuck they'd gotten up to or if I could just chop and replant it
obviously it already had a much greater lease on life than ever expected so if it buys it in the process I won't be too upset, but that's different than I expected
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Cut them straight off and score the bound up roots after you remove it from the old pot. If it is growing roots out the drain hole it is healthy and happy and trying to further prosper. Transplanting is hard on a plant, but if you give it a happy new home it will thrive. Cutting the roots basically makes it think it's in trouble so that it works hard to grow more roots. If you have a good medium for the new roots to grow into and you don't let it go dry, it will do just fine.
 
Cup Noodle said:
Cut them straight off and score the bound up roots after you remove it from the old pot. If it is growing roots out the drain hole it is healthy and happy and trying to further prosper. Transplanting is hard on a plant, but if you give it a happy new home it will thrive. Cutting the roots basically makes it think it's in trouble so that it works hard to grow more roots. If you have a good medium for the new roots to grow into and you don't let it go dry, it will do just fine.
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cool. rainy season is almost here so it should work well to do that over the next month or so
 
Found the cucumber plant eater. My nine year old took care of him for me.

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Peter Rabbit visited Farmer McGregor's garden patch one too many times and found himself in the oven for supper.
 
Managed to plant all my flowers, herbs and peppers the day before it rained. Feels good, man.
 
Alright, gardeners and farmers, let's experiment!

Today I'll be taking this here cherry kumato
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deseeding it
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and planting said seeds.
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As it's a store bought tomato I do not know how big the possible plants will get or even if the seeds will germinate.


Good luck out there, little buddies!
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As a bonus, I offer a different experiment.
This flower pot
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in it are three lily of the valley rhizomes and a packet of this
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The backside of it promises to produce flowers all through out the summer. I've almost entirely definitely over crowded it but let's find out!
 
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I can hardly wait to plant a garden this year, but I've still got to wait until the end of next month. I've done it a few years now and have really got handle on what plants work best with my land and growing conditions. The only thing I really worry about is how dry it'll be, last year was brutal, the worst year I've ever seen.

I've tilled up about 30m2 so provided everything goes well I should have lots of home grown veg again this year. Maybe I can finally get a sorrel patch established, but that stuff just seems to not want to take so I started it inside really early.
 
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Finder said:
The only thing I really worry about is how dry it'll be, last year was brutal, the worst year I've ever seen.
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Where do you live, roughly? Central Europe had an unusually rainy 2020. A lot of people have been speculating it has something to do with the lack of airplanes, but according to climatologists it's an uneducated take. 🤷‍♀️
 
shameful existence said:
Where do you live, roughly? Central Europe had an unusually rainy 2020. A lot of people have been speculating it has something to do with the lack of airplanes, but according to climatologists it's an uneducated take. 🤷‍♀️
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Not in central europe, that's all I'll say. It was just unreal how dry it got, my yard was brown and dusty, the "grass" would crunch and snap beneath your feet. I was only able to save the garden because I have a really good drilled well, it would have been a write off otherwise. A lot of things were off last year though, I don't have much explanation for it.

So far this year is seeming more normal though, we're getting the right amount of rain at least so far, though it's been colder longer than normal.
 
My cool cactus collection continues to grow. Some of the williamsii seeds I'd sown on Monday have already sprouted:
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The peruvianus continues to be the jewel of the group:
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@Null buddy just caught the last stream. The plants, they thrive. Excellent.

A friendly tip (and you can tell me to fuck off entirely) for the peas: if you can, pop them out into the pots they're going to live in full time. We tend to 'direct sow' peas (just put the seeds straight in the ground, not start them jiffies/cells) because they don't handle transplanting well. They're finicky about their roots being disturbed.

If you move them now while they're young the roots should establish where they need to. Or don't! You will likely be absolutely fine - but if for any reason you're not, and your peas don't take, don't fret. Just sow them direct again - they come up really quickly if it's warm enough. Other Kiwi Gardeners tell me if I'm wrong on this, this might be some old family bullshit I've hung on to.
 
Salade Nicoise said:
@Null buddy just caught the last stream. The plants, they thrive. Excellent.

A friendly tip (and you can tell me to fuck off entirely) for the peas: if you can, pop them out into the pots they're going to live in full time. We tend to 'direct sow' peas (just put the seeds straight in the ground, not start them jiffies/cells) because they don't handle transplanting well. They're finicky about their roots being disturbed.

If you move them now while they're young the roots should establish where they need to. Or don't! You will likely be absolutely fine - but if for any reason you're not, and your peas don't take, don't fret. Just sow them direct again - they come up really quickly if it's warm enough. Other Kiwi Gardeners tell me if I'm wrong on this, this might be some old family bullshit I've hung on to.
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Is the cold an issue? It still gets pretty cold here.
 
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