Gardening and Plant Thread

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

I was gifted an aquaponic grow kit with an LED a while back. They're actually good for sprouting stuff from seeds and you can plant them outside/in greenhouse once they're big enough. It can be a fun learning experience buying new seeds for the kit and imo therapeutic watching the plant critters sprout and grow. You may have fun with it. I'd say look for one with an adjustable timer for the light. And probably don't need to drop a lot of money on it.

"My name is Jeb... and I've done tons of hydroponics and aquaponics."

 

[Picklechu]

I'm aware this is a silly question but I wonder.. are those grow kits you see at store worth it? I kinda wanna try my hand at growing something and starting small

The tomato ones suck donkey dick. I've tried them several times over the past decade, most recently last year, and they're all shit. I'm doing way better this year with a pot of dirt I dug up from outside and a like $4 plant from Walmart.

 

[Bassomatic]

First jalpeno picked today!!!

Everything is exploding. I don't have a ton of land but 5 hours today lot more tomorrow.

 

[Opposite Time Nomad]

Oh awesome, thank you for help everyone! I suppose I'll look into things a bit more and inform on progress if I do get one!

 

[White Trash Motorsport]

Quite pleased with this little ugly cactus I picked up today, as it’s showing signs of growing monstrose. All the rest looked normal. I do love a freak, it’ll be interesting to see how it progresses, though things like monstrism, faciation etc make them grow slowly.

 

[Cup Noodle]

Biggest harvest so far. Six pounds in all.



I have something eating leaves on two of my tomato plants. It's too high for rabbits not enough damage for deer and looks selective like a bug of some sort. Me and one of the kids looked over the plants carefully and couldn't find anything that would cause the damage we saw. I don't particularly like pesticides, but I'm going to hit them with some Sevin Dust. I'm going to document turning cucumbers into sweet pickles over in Food if anyone is interested.

 

[Salade Nicoise]

Biggest harvest so far. Six pounds in all.
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I have something eating leaves on two of my tomato plants. It's too high for rabbits not enough damage for deer and looks selective like a bug of some sort. Me and one of the kids looked over the plants carefully and couldn't find anything that would cause the damage we saw. I don't particularly like pesticides, but I'm going to hit them with some Sevin Dust. I'm going to document turning cucumbers into sweet pickles over in Food if anyone is interested.

Gotta love how gangbusters the jalapenos go. That's a mighty harvest!

Re: tomatoes - a leaf miner maybe? Gonna shout out my stalwart "SN Plant Thread Recommendation" for Neem oil. Organic and not much it can't fix for ya.

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

So I have a pot of strawberry plants I bought from the store awhile ago. One of the berries bit the dust and now this one is too.

Is it too late to save this berry? The only other berries are from another plant in the pot, but they seem to be twins.

Should I try to remove one of them so that the other grows bigger? I don't think I'll be getting any more berries if these two turn out like the one above.

 

[shameful existence]

Remember the gooseberries I was bragging about a few pages back? So the bush is DEAD now. Went from perfectly fine to irredeemable in less than a week. Roots eaten by what I think is called a vole in English. There was a little hill on each side of it. This is what I get for treating them kindly.

 

[ForgedBlades]

I have something eating leaves on two of my tomato plants. It's too high for rabbits not enough damage for deer and looks selective like a bug of some sort. Me and one of the kids looked over the plants carefully and couldn't find anything that would cause the damage we saw. I don't particularly like pesticides, but I'm going to hit them with some Sevin Dust. I'm going to document turning cucumbers into sweet pickles over in Food if anyone is interested.

Could be tomato hornworm.

 

[Salade Nicoise]

So I have a pot of strawberry plants I bought from the store awhile ago. One of the berries bit the dust and now this one is too.
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Is it too late to save this berry? The only other berries are from another plant in the pot, but they seem to be twins.
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Should I try to remove one of them so that the other grows bigger? I don't think I'll be getting any more berries if these two turn out like the one above.

Strawberries are one of those funny plants that are actually best as perennials and fruit most in their second and third years. You should still get more fruit than that though on your first year - they do best with some cold roots over winter, so maybe you just got them in the ground a little too late?

Like we're mid winter here at the moment and my weekend job is setting up a strawberry bed for a hopeful harvest all through summer. I'm building a proper cage/netting situation to hopefully keep it going for the next couple of years too (now that I've said that, watch me get called back to the US for work *face palm*).

 

[waffle]

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Remember the gooseberries I was bragging about a few pages back? So the bush is DEAD now. Went from perfectly fine to irredeemable in less than a week. Roots eaten by what I think is called a vole in English. There was a little hill on each side of it. This is what I get for treating them kindly.
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If it was an underground boy it was probably a mole, not a vole. F for the gooseberries, they are delicious. If you give them gummies that are sweetened with sugar alcohols they will eat them and get poisoned.

@Null the other thing about raised beds is that your soil temperature will get higher earlier in the season. That can be good or bad depending on what you're trying to do, and you can also exaggerate or mitigate it based on what materials you use. But for something like growing peppers in your frozen European hellscape it would probably be a net positive.

 

[Sped Xing]

Strawberries are one of those funny plants that are actually best as perennials and fruit most in their second and third years. You should still get more fruit than that though on your first year - they do best with some cold roots over winter, so maybe you just got them in the ground a little too late?

Like we're mid winter here at the moment and my weekend job is setting up a strawberry bed for a hopeful harvest all through summer. I'm building a proper cage/netting situation to hopefully keep it going for the next couple of years too (now that I've said that, watch me get called back to the US for work *face palm*).

I just read a Texas Extension PDF that said strawberries don't do well as perennials here, I think due to heat.

Does anyone have experience growing strawberries somewhere with an actual summer?

 

[shameful existence]

If it was an underground boy it was probably a mole, not a vole. F for the gooseberries, they are delicious. If you give them gummies that are sweetened with sugar alcohols they will eat them and get poisoned.

Would a mole eat roots? I'll inspect them when I pull it out, but it really seems like the only explanation - the death was fast and I use no chemicals or anything that could have poisoned the tree.
Nah, I'm one of the people who don't kill rodents in my garden. Rodents are happy and fellow gardeners are also happy because they have someone to laugh at.

 

[Sped Xing]

I'd be very sad if I walked out to my garden and found the corpse of Big Bird.

 

[waffle]

Would a mole eat roots? I'll inspect them when I pull it out, but it really seems like the only explanation - the death was fast and I use no chemicals or anything that could have poisoned the tree.
Nah, I'm one of the people who don't kill rodents in my garden. Rodents are happy and fellow gardeners are also happy because they have someone to laugh at. Also, don't want to indirectly poison big birds or cats.

They mostly eat worms and grubs, but they will tear up any roots they need to get to them. If it actually ate the roots it probably was a vole, there just aren't a lot of them in my area so I'm not used to seeing that kind of damage.

 

[Flaming_Barghast]

I have a big palm plant (2 years old that survived cats regularly trying to eat it) and a succulent that is really big and gorgeous(1 year old). I used to have a bunch of succulents over a year ago but I thought I could leave them outside in the winter if I covered them really well with sawdust/stuff to keep them warm. I was very wrong ;^;

 

[shameful existence]

I'd be very sad if I walked out to my garden and found the corpse of Big Bird.

They mostly eat worms and grubs, but they will tear up any roots they need to get to them. If it actually ate the roots it probably was a vole, there just aren't a lot of them in my area so I'm not used to seeing that kind of damage.

We have many. People poison them, the poison in their body poisons their natural predators and we end up with fewer predators and more voles.

 

[Flaming_Barghast]

I need houseplants.

Succulents! Super hard to kill, only need to water once every other week! Just make sure you look at if they need shade or full sun.

 

[Salade Nicoise]

I just read a Texas Extension PDF that said strawberries don't do well as perennials here, I think due to heat.

Does anyone have experience growing strawberries somewhere with an actual summer?

Strange. We grew them here as perennials as a kid (warm-ish part of Australia). And I could do them as perennials in California, but that's a dryer heat. I don't know mate, sorry!