Gardening Thread

It's that season. What are you growing this year?

Weeds... and a few herbs like basil and chives so that's cool.

>>6551 Tomatoes, a few different variations.

A friend game me carrot and lettuce seeds which i will plant. Also have some leftover polish ghetto ganja seeds i want to spread. Other than that as in every year i will grow whatever i can.

>>6551 I don't like Gardening. Animals keep messing with it.

Planted some garlic last fall, waiting warmly for last frost so I can uncover it.

Are your plants already biohacked /Δ/?

>>6551 Amateur gardener but lots of peas. I want to biohack the seeds but since I'm too poor and uneducated to afford proper gene modding I've resorted to just exposing them to solar UV and selecting the better genes. So far no notable changes have occurred, but its only been 2 generations so far.

>>6567 based and mendel-pilled.

I'm growing a ton of peppers!! scorpion, hot lemon, jalapeños, habaneros, and some other kinds I forgot to label (whoops)

As I just have a balcony I don't have lot of place so some aromatic plants and mint for my tea. And as the sun don't hit a lot, some local undergrowth plants that I found in the nature and looks sexy. I also planted an acer japonicum, beautiful red wood and young green leaves.

Since my balcony is basically a fancy growhouse with its glass walls, Im growning mainly paprika, tomatos and cucumber, of course there are some green onions and redishes and other small tasty things.

snap peas, tomatoes, potatoes, corn, whatever grows really

I just ordered a 5 Liter Wild Flower Seed Mix to spray around the entire neighbourhood. The personal space will be occupied by 4 different strains of hop, growing up the side of the building, to be used for brewing beer next winter. Also some chili plants made it through winter at the kitchen window.

Gardening chad here, unfortunately I don't own a garden but I have this habanero pepper instead. One day I will own a garden...

>>6777 I also have this seedling of Calendula officinalis and two other unidentified species.

>>6551 A dozen potatoes, onions (big ones), peppermint, dill, strawberries, raspberries, apricots (I kinda hope global warming will do it's thing) and rosemary (got it from my boss, said it's dead, it was all brownish and dry, but it still smelled good, so I trimmed away the the dead parts, and hope for the best).

Hey lainons, I'm Searching for resources about growing setting up hydroponics and, as an advanced version, aeroponics (plants getting nutrients via vaporizer). Did anyone look into that?

>>6561 The garlic didn't make it, frens

i made spreadsheet black text is new this year, green is stuff that existed in the yard last year

I am still planting tomato seeds in June. It's some sort of mental disease where I learn about a new variety and then I have to plant it. The latest is Galapagos (solanum cheesmaniae) and they are just sprouting. Even if these have time to grow I have no room for them since the garden is already full of other tomatoes. >>6567 I planted a packet of Johnny's snow peas and got quite a bit of variation so there must be some opportunity for improvement. If you want to see real mutation instead of just gene mixing maybe see if you can get one of those radioactive samples they use for testing geiger counters. I don't think UV will do it.

>>6551 thanks for the reminder, gonna try growing some hot peppers using hydroponics. my last experiment with hydroponics got interrupted with me moving places so i hope this time i will get to see a fully grown pepper!

>>6887 wow this is cool anon. gosh. why do people still play Stardew Valley now that 3d agriculture has been invented?

>>6879 sorry for your loss. better luck next time

>>6887 My unidentified tomatos and green onions are jealous they're not yours :')

>>6887 god i wish i were this organized with my garden...

Spearmint is almost flowering, time to cull it. Its great for meat and the like, grilled chicken with spicy mint sauce is the best food ever. I also got smaller herbs recently, im curious how those turn out. Glad its sunny for once, i have lots of water plants, but without sun at all its hard, not to mention for the rest. Got lots of carrots, but no place to plant them for now sadly. Should share some pictures when i get to it.

How do I stop my family from nuking the garden with poison to get rids of snails and slugs?

>>6999 Depends on how clever/stupid they are. You could either tell them that biodiversity is important and that they're also poisoning other, also important animals including themselves. Or you could tell them about one of the conspiracy theories like Chemtrails and that they poison your food through chemicals. Instill fear in them. You could easily get rid of the snails by hiring a frog (make a small pond for it).

>>6999 >>7000 Have a somewhat similar problem, but not with familiy. Some people just cant be reasoned with, its sad if this is family and they want to poison their own food. Well try convincing them where all that poison will go. It strikes me just how uncarring people are towards other living things. The weather has been real terrible, sure there were some sunny days in between but otherwise there has been so much rain, i dont think even the water plants enjoy it now anymore.

>>6999 >using poison to get rid of snails and slugs Imagine fearing a mollusk.

>>7003 It's mostly that snails and slugs can kill your plants by eating enough of their leaves, although that's hardly a certainty. The use of predators instead of poisons that another lainon recommended is probably a better idea.

>>7004 I also heard you can use a bucket filled with beer - snails follow the smell and fall into the bucket.

>>7006 beer, you're so good to us ಥ‿ಥ

>>6929 >>6904 >>6897 you can thank the ADHD <3 to be honest the planning is way more impressive than the garden itself which looks like vegetation hoarding

I'm putting this bad boy into my "garden". This plant is tiny, has nice and yellow flowers and has thicc leaves. I like it because it is beautiful and likes dry places.

what food, besides mushrooms, can I grow in an apartment?

>>7267 You can grow Fragraria vesca (wild strawberry). It has little but twice as tasty fruits. Chili peppers, mint, onions (the smell tho).

Recent additions to my "garden": From left to right: Nicotiana alata (jasmine tobacco) seedlings, Euphorbia milii var. splendens, Sedum sp. which I stole from a freely standing pot.

>>7003 >giant octopus in the distance

>>7267 That really depends on space/light/money whatever. You can grow nearly anything if you can afford to put in the effort. >>7349 Sweet, good luck with those. Sadly i took no pictures of any of m plants this year for various reasons, but it was terrible weather most of the year so there wasnt much to show for anyhow.

I can't even keep my potted plants alive. My calamansi tree is a third of what it was earlier in the year and i have an orchid i havent been able to get to bloom for a year and i was away a while and found several leaves dead fml ....I suspect it may be using tap water which may be too hard so my water softener is adding too much salt so when i have it available I try to use distilled water. I also use a liquid fertilizer.

>>7360 >I can't even keep my potted plants alive. What plants, where the pot stands (sunlight, etc.), what did you put into the pot? You have to put the magical stones at the bottom of every pot so it drains excess water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_clay_aggregate

>>7360 >>7361 Orchids really like when you spray water on their roots. Also you can make the perfect soil for them: 60% bark chips, 10% charcoal, 10% expanded clay aggregate, 10% Sphagnum moss, 10% pieces of expanded polystyrene. When transplanting a plant remember to remove all dead roots and soil, flowing water is helpful with the last part.

>>7361 >>7362 The orchid (not sure exact variety) is on an eastern windowsill where it gets morning sunlight but was originally further in just near the window sitting on a small table. The calamansi (also called a calamondin) is on a western windowsill where the sun is filtered by trees outside and the window frame partially blocks the harsher light because it's only place I can keep it. I cant put it outside because pesky raccoons. I was planning on getting more plants to live up the house if i get better at taking care of my plants. I don't think I have the clay aggregate at the bottom of the calamnsi though. The orchid was in bloom when I first got it and I'm not sure I can make out anything in it aside from bark without having to pull everything out. The fertilizer i use in both plants contains ferric nitrate, manganese oxide, zinc oxide, HEDTA and EDTA. I try to not to overuse it but occasionally I may accidentally use too much.

>>6562 maybe I think. cool bananas though

This year I tried growing in the garden for the first time. Some old people gave me tomato seedlings to start with, and I got hundreds of toms from them. Along with using comfrey plants, which you soak in water for weeks until they smell like death, to use as liquid feed. Maybe they would have grown larger with a more consistent feeding routine, Since a lot would ripen pretty small. The broccoli and brussels were growing well until they got owned by cabbage white butterflies and their babies, so instead of allowing them to win, I decided we all lose, and ripped them all out. Need to set up netting next year. broad/runner beans, were just for the aesthetic and a bit of shade. They don't taste very nice imo but the bees liked them. potatoes, I stupidly grew in the small raised bed rather than the large patch of dirt. they grew fine but the limited space of the bed was wasted on potatoes. Also some different types of chilis. we don't have the best climate for them here, or the best indoor position. but a few grew. they're only turning red now, and the even later ones are still green sadly. I left them in the seed trays for too long and I think their growth got stunted. lastly, radish, the red ones. they were pretty bland but grew into fatties. the only things I actually wanted to grow was garlic(wild) & onion. but it suddenly became too late and there wasn't really space left. I heard you need to grow legumes or leave the soil after a certain number of growths, though with limited space I wouldn't mind just replacing the depleted bed soil with another bag to continue growing what I wanted. anyways, gardening is epic and I finally understand being excited for the spring/summer

(I realized >>6781 asked same question, so, bump I guess. ) Any lainon owns an hydroponic garden of any kind? I'm researching on it and i'm looking for guides and documents/sources on the subject. Really like the setup in pic related. Think I'll go with something like that. How's your garden doing? What did you learn during the process?

I grow veggies Here are my tips and inspiration.... https://www.abc.net.au/gardening/vegie-guide/ https://greatfon.com/v/my_urban_edible_garden/

Just growing some flowers again this year. Tulips, Daffodils, and Peonies. Leaving the vegetable and herb growing to my grandparents. Gonna make an admixture of pee and water when they start popping out of the ground. If you aren't sick or on meds, pee is one of the best fertilizers you can use.

You all better start composting

>>7669 >pee is one of the best fertilizers you can use. Just lainchan things, but whatever works. >>7671 Shit has been coming at us for a while now, its not really news. Everyone should have been composting a long time ago, lucky for me i got tons of compost, but too little space to use it. Even tough its almost winter and im late on, i will try to grow little herbs and see if i can grow herbs protected by pet bottles. Also gonna post a pic of this years poor achivements once i clean up the pics.

>>7669 Pee is salty though. Plants don't like salt. I wonder if there's an easy way to separate the salt from the ammonia.

>>7674 >I wonder if there's an easy way to separate the salt from the ammonia. There is - distillation. But you don't really want to treat your plants with it - it is highly toxic. It is better to dilute stale urine with water. The process that turns toxic ammonia into fertilizer is called nitrification - bacteria oxidize ammonia into nitrites and nitrates which form harmless salts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrification And you want the salts to be there too, plants also need them, just don't use undiluted urine.

>>7674 Just FIY, there actually have been studies on that, where the salt was add DIRECTLY to the urine, so higher level of salt than what you would excrete. The plants loved it. It seems even better if the salt your using is "diet" salt, AKA not just NaCl, but also KCl. However, pee MUST be diluted before being applied to plants, otherwise there's a good chance you will burn the plant's roots. Dilution depend on the plant, but using 1L of urine for 20L of water seems like a safe dilution for most plants.

Hey lainons, I really want to start growing some food, partly for fun and partly to save money, but I have really limited space (both indoors and out). What are some reasonably small, edible plants that I could grow indoors or out? Plants that need a lot of sun are a no-go due to my local climate, but I'm open to any other suggestions.

>>7681 Theres a few to chose from, mint for starters, i think mustard plants are pretty good too. Dendilions and wide plantain are great options too and not hard to find. Theres tons more of smaller ones to find depending on where you live, i cant really tell of the top of my head many, but dont underestimate small herbs, when grown properly they can get very large. You could try strawberries and the like too, they dont need much at all.

>>7681 If you have actual ground outside, hostas are edible and easy to grow. They're normally considered an ornamental so good for stealthy vegetable gardens. Thyme makes a cute little plant and can grow in a pot. Not exactly a meal but with just a little space you're not going to be escaping the grocery store.

>>7819 Thanks for the tip, i think i might have seen these but i never knew what it was, when i see some again i will certainly plant a good bunch.

I have a 3 feet wide 20 feet long patch of dirt, im in usda zone 9a what do you guys think I should grow

>>6562 Thats one funky munky.

>>7819 >Hostas My grandmother has those. I never knew they were edible. Thanks for the info lainon

>>6879 I grew mine inside this winter and it's looking good. Will move em outside when the last frost dissapears.

>>7535 I don't know why people don't like runner beans' flavor. I really dig them and they're a nice way to make up for a lack of horizontal space in the garden. Grew Scarlet Runner beans one year and I was the only one in the house who would eat them. Which was fine, I only managed to harvest like a few cups of dry beans anyway.

So with spring now coming round whos preparing. I already overnight have one really long ganja tree seedling, sadly the weather is not too cooperative and you can tell it needs its sunshine. I also got many assorted herbs i already had growing over winter on the balcony. Theres also an assorted seed mix i want to try see if any comes out. I got so many pots i dont even know if plants can handle this place. Not gonna fall asleep now like last year, so anyone whos hyped get your shovels out.

>>8228 It's going to be another month at least, but I'm looking forward to seeing how my strawberry bed wintered and whether or not my tarragon established itself. >>8226 Runners are absolutely great even just as a fresh snacking bean. I need more trellising this year. Thinking about vertical trellises for the beans and a layer of horizontal ones underneath for some cucumbers. I want to see just how compact I can make my setup before I think too much about expanding.

the recent storm obliterated my greenhouse, along with everyone elses apparently, so its been hard to find glass replacements.. finally i got some, and smashed one while cutting it, now the wind has smashed 3 more today... things aren't looking good

>>6889 So, did you try? did it work? idk maybe you want to share you experience with hydroponics culture

Some relative dropped Watermelon seeds in the backyard and I only noticed the watermelon a few days ago. The leaves are quite amazing at avoiding the soil from drying, since they cover a huge area and help herbs that don't like too much sunlight.

>>8382 Wow thats sweet, hope it works out of for you. Friend of mine gave me some old potatoes he was gonna throw away anyway. I planted them and theyre sprouting, but sadly i dont have the space to keep those so im give them to another friend who has an actual garden.

summer gets really warm with extremely strong sunshine this year i plan on having 2 or 3 cucumber bushes on the balcony and i also found a nice place at the park to guerilla plant some passion fruit. hope it goes well :>

>>8382 this is awesome lain, thanks for sharing

Different variations of bell peppers and tomatoes, as well as edible lavender. I live in a very sunny and hot climate.

Hey anons, my parents have reasonably large garden at their place but haven't been working on it for years. Could you share some learning resources for the absolute noob? I'm mainly interested in growing vegetables.

>>9023 "The x expert" series was really good for me. The vegetable expert: https://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Vegetable-Herb-Expert/dp/0903505754/ The fruit expert: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fruit-Expert-Dr-D-G-Hessayon/dp/0903505312/ Pretty much all of the "the x expert" books: https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?rh=p_27%3ADr+D+G+Hessayon

>>9040 I also found this while looking through that list of books, and it seems to be geared towards people who are new to gardening although I haven't read it so I can't personally recommend it. The garden expert: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garden-Expert-Dr-D-G-Hessayon/dp/0903505223/

Hello lainons I want to plant some tomatoes next year I was wondering what plants I could plant right now to increase the success of the tomatoes. I'm planning on planting some mortgage lifter tomatoes. I live in hardiness zone 9b in a subtropical climate. I'm new to gardening too so newbie plants are preferable.

>>7535 >They don't taste very nice imo but the bees liked them. Anything we can do for our allies the bees is worthwhile. There's honeybees in my neighborhood now, there weren't before. I found them feeding on some weeds outside my place. I was going to get some flowers they like and plant them but it appears someone else had plans for the yard and mowed everything.

>>9051 For tomatoes next year, you have plenty of time to make a compost pile this year - mix greens (plant stuff and coffee grounds) and browns (leaves and shredded paper) and keep turning the pile. You should have amazing soil additive for the garden next year. Also research "tomato pairings" as there is a whole subset of farming tricks mixing different plants to keep pests away. If "tomatoes" was code for something, just make sure the garden is covered. It gives off a signature that's visible from the air. Have fun.

>>7535 Thanks I'll start composting then! Yeah I've looked at some tomato pairings already. Garlic in particular is enticing because I use a lot of that so might as well grow it too. Are there any good wikis for gardening? It would be nice to have an online reference for plant pairings.

>>9052 Yep, this year I covered a patch of grass in wildflowers for them, and left some arugula(also gross) to go seed and they were all over those flowers for months. My sunflowers are finally flowering and the bees were on those today. Something I noticed though was while they were still growing there were young wasps all over them instead. Some online posts said they like to chew the leaves for their nests.

Hey guys, I have a question, are Squash plants supposed to become flimsy and fall over?

>>8359 why dont you use plastic? ive never seen a glasshouse use real glass and most people where i live use like, the flexible plastic stuff like see through taurpaulin or whatever

>>9188 squash plants are ground vines so yes they should lay flat and crawl along the ground, as far ten feet or more depending on the plant. if it looks yellow and die-y then thats a good indicator its on the way out. squash plants when they die turn pretty lifeless.

Tomatoes didn't do too well this year. That soykafty fortnight where the UK turned into Corsica fuarrrked them hard since I was out working and couldn't water them constantly. But on the plus side, I can probably grow some small melons next year.

Ah, I finally found a thread on a topic I've learned a little about. I have dozens of exotic fruit trees growing in my yard. This month I have been eating my own wax apples, jujubes, and plain old pears and apples. My cherimoya, white sapote, sapodilla and pomegranates are fruiting too. My eggfruit canistel, and pitangatuba are also currently blossoming. I love growing fruit that you can't even buy at the store. Although it would be a redundant to repeat what I've already said on another thread on a nearly dead chan: https://dreamch.net/nos/res/1112.html#q1112

This may not fit this thread, but look at this project me and my homies did.

>>9285 We made that last week. Corn seems to be holding up well. The bottle is kept inside the chemistry lab (seems to be the only place where gorillas will not destroy it). The dirt we used came with a cockroach, a tiny centipede and some worms. The cockroach died. RIP

I'm growing grass on the streets

>>6879 I started growing garlic a month ago, sorry to hear about how yours went :( >>6887 This is just beautiful!!

>>9286 poor cockroach :( your project is cool though

>>9285 >>9286 Way to go. I did try similar stuff, its real nice but i just dont have the space to expand on this. Its interesting how little it takes to grow some stuff, these sorts of systems could work well for growing in winter on small space. Keep on trucking and see how far you can take this. RIP roach btw. Sadly my gardening didnt go far this year, i got some salads but not enough to eat, maybe next year ill have more luck.

please forgive my 2022 blogpost. peppers, melons - slugs flatted them over and over.. (settled for store bought pepper plants which grew really well but its not the same) some melons miraculously survived and had super late germinations. too late sadly. tomatoes again, gigas, cherries & regular sized - grew too many & i dont even like them but everyone else does red and white onions - left in the plugtrays too long and they got super cramped and it was hard to separate them. had to plant groups of 3-5ish together and they didn't grow very big. the solo ones grew as big as store bought. carrots - used a store bought tape strip and they were enormous, the spacing for hand planted seeds looks precise.. broccoli - got too warm and bolted but the sprouts beside them didn't? i dont see how they could but apparently they can ( all of those i fully protected with netting rather than risk another caterpillar disaster >>7535) spinach - grew really well, but much more than i could use and ended up starting to bolt beet spinach? - grew fine but didn't like it lettuce - grew really well too, used lots of it, but still it met its end. snap peas - also successful, wish i grew a larger area of them all sorts of herbs - i planted all over the place, most grew well and finally went to seed. my bird enjoyed them kale, cabbage, cauli, pumpkin, beetroot - planted a bit late, wasn't super invested but if they fail ill have a clearer vision of the limit of the grow season potatoes - grew in massive container pots but they were tiny and numerous instead of big, a few strays started growing in random places around the garden and they were pretty big few different flowers - they wilted very quickly and an old lady taught me deadheading. now months later they're still flowering. which then taught me to seed save. so ive got 100s of flower seeds for next year too now. strawberries - never produced any runners, i "stole" some blueberries from the forest and they grew. much more fruit would be nice. sunflowers - planted at the start of spring and left them a little late to plant out because the wind was scary. the ones in the windiest location have stems at least 3x thicker than the others so I guess they adapt well. >>9147 and they really attracted wasps next year Id like to move fully to organic non-hybrids. no more sterile storeboughts. for now, garlic season is upon us

>>9302 >organic non-hybrids what does this mean? i cant imagine youre getting non altered plants in 2022 unless youre growing like rue or something most of the plants you grow dont exist in the wild, are you moving entirely to wild cultivars or something

>>9309 People say not to bother saving F1 hybrid seeds you find in garden shops as they wont germinate or produce the same, and the ability to let some plants go to seed and save for next time sounds fun to try out.

>>9294 It thrived for a little bit, but the lid opened and the humidity went away. The succulents died and the corn dried. We will try to restore it.

>>9302 Really nice blogpost anon. I've only got a couple of things growing. Your post is inspirational. >for now, garlic season is upon us There is nothing like fresh garlic. Eat it like you're a lifelong french bachelor from the 1950s.

This is my year yeald of habaneros. Hoping to plant replant them next year. Also the spicy sauce is so good.

>>9464 Νice habaneros lain. It's weird how there are a few that are half-green half-red, never seen that. How come you treat them as annual, though? Mine blossom throughout spring and summer, and I get a good supply each month, and they make it past winter. What zone are you in?

got a microgreens kit for Xmas with a few different seed packets, so i'm trying out growing broccoli microgreens. plus i'm saving up for a pressure cooker to help with growing mushrooms.

I have a patch of land, 1000m2 1h away from home. I can visit it once per week max, but less the better. What can I plant there to get maximal sugar calories and nutrients? It's poland so temperate climate zone. Thinking of pear trees as these are tasty unlike apples which are overrated AF. I'd love to have Date palms as these are best fruits in the world but rich jews would have to make GMO palms that survive the winters here. Are sugar beets time consuming? Would sugarcane survive here? I want meat and sugar, no veggies.

my carnation (10 months) has grown to almost 100cm without any flowers, is it normal? any tips?

>>6551 papaya, mango, avocado, lemons, pineapples, cocounuts

God willing looking to do 25 different types of plants this year, the most ive ever done by far. All in pots with just soil and distilled water.

>>6567 You will notice a big difference if you create your own hybrid. Possible easiest way is using heterosis effect. Picture related are CMS hybrids.

>>10014 You're growing piña colada? lol I never managed to germinate coconut, how do you do that?Someone suggested salt.

I sowed a lot of misc seeds around this year that I have not grown before and am wondering if anyone can ID this plant for me please.

>>10508 Out of the plants that I have identified this year I have growing >cannabis >poppy >peas >lemon balm >cilantro >parsley >lettuce >dandelion >morning glory >dill There are also a few small sprouts of plants that have not yet been identified either but are too young as of yet to get a good ID on. Hope yall are having a blessed start of summer gardening.

>>10508 after doing some research im pretty sure this is a catnip plant :)

>>10529 now im trying to get an ID on this plant

i was going to post my yearly blogpost but i can't write well and i ramble too much, so hopefully this will be more succinct BAD STUFF this summer sucked. there was almost no sun. i made a garden tracker app for my phone/personal blog and then changed the server it was hosted on so the IP changed and i cbb editing the app anymore so i didnt use it much. it tracked most planting dates at least like half of the carrots ended up flowering for some reason. most of the fancy flower seeds got choked out by the wildflowers i planted with them. sunflowers 50% germination from saved seeds. then 50% of all sunflowers (bought more) got destroyed by snails. butternut squashes all grew so well, but the fruits either died small or rotted, now i have a raised bed full of leaves and vines. expensive potted dahlias i bought were beautiful, but within a week the rain and wind obliterated them and they never recovered. cabbages were faaar too crowded. i planted them expecting small round balls. but they were like 3x larger and their outer leaves open out. where i planted 6 should have been 1. peas also too crowded. they grew much larger than i expected. my blueberry bushes and potatos were destroyed by a weed wacker. elephant garlic looked really good, but after picking and letting cure for a week or two, it was the most disgusting chemically tasting blech. really horrible. no idea why. the other garlics were fine. the burning taste lasted for an hour at least. not touching those again. the flavor is supposed to be mild too... GOOD i finally successfully air layered my acer tree! i cant believe it actually rooted theres no guarantee it will survive, since theyre usually grafted onto stronger rootstocks, but i was so happy about that. Its in a large pot now. melons grew too. last year i almost grew one but it fell off the vine when it was tiny. this year i grew one yellow melon and 2 watermelons. this was from 6 plants. i live in a cold climate so this was cool too. unsure if they cross pollinate or not so it's probably not worth saving seeds? maybe as an experiment, if they did cross. idk. pumpkins grew. last year the frost killed them juuust before they were ready. so its cool to have one I can at least carve for h'ween. the bottom didnt fully heal on one and it rotted i thnk. the other probably has a dead slug in it too.. still just happy it grew. i dug a big circular flowerbed and just made a nice pattern with cheap petunias, osteospermums and others which filled out really well once things grew. All the old ladies loved it and kept comlpimenting it when they walked by. the leeks and onions grew really well too. i was even too cautious with spacing the leeks apart. they got used well in soups. cherry tree made its first fruit. the flowers have always died or been blown off. but I got 3 cherries from it this year. i made some elderflower cordial which was even better than store bought. looked around the countryside for an elder and a neighbor had one right there and let me use it. id never even noticed before. This year I was too eager in planting things too early, they either became leggy and died, or were too large before it was warm enough and i had to carry them in and out every day in giant pots. The lack of sun made it boring. watching the garden look flooded every day. never getting to water things myself. took the fun out of it a bit. sorry i rambled too much again

Currently I have feijoas, pomegranates, oranges apples, and persimmons fruiting! I might go to a nursery and buy some tropical fruit trees this winter when they usually are on clearance. I grow my trees in large pots so I can keep them on the cement without worrying the roots will emerge and Crack the foundation of my home. I do not get nearly as many fruit as if they were in the ground, but with water and fertilizer I get a few to try from each tree every year.

>>6551 Well nothing fancy here but I just wanted to show you the olives we've collected today from the family trees

>>11185 That's cool! Did you prepare them?

>>11440 They are olive oil now. The presser gave us 10 liters of oil for the olives we collected.

>>11446 N O I C E N O I C E N O I C E

My potatoes as of a few weeks ago. First time gardening

>>11613 Good choice lain! Potatoes are very hardy.

Gardening game going strong this year. Wishing yall the best of it!

The backyard had a bunch of strawberries which apparently I was the only one in the family who didn't know about. So I gathered and planted as much of them as I could all into a bunch of old pots that was lying around doing nothing.

>>10636 Sunflower? >>11613 >>11614 I've heard you can also generate power from them. >>11616 That looks great.

>>11617 >generate power you can burn many things and thats the best way you're gonna get electricity out of a potato. There's the silly demo where you can draw a little current out. An interesting trick, but hardly useful.

How do I deal with slugs? Every fuarrrking day I check my crops and half of them have always been gored by mollusks.

>>11649 In my experience mulch helps a lot. If you keep chickens (or ducks, geese), I've heard of people letting them roam in the vegetable garden to eat the slugs (but not for too long, or they will destroy the crops too)

>>11649 >>11650 btw, they sell those poison granules for dealing with snails and slugs. In my experience they are pretty useless (you'll find dead slugs, but some will still get through, and they dissolve in rain (so when snails are going out...)). In any case, you probably don't want poison near your food.

eggplants; low maintenance even if you get tired of eating them after a while

Been getting chipmunks, bunnies, squirrels, raccoons, and birds like crazy this year. Think a lot are living under my deck. Been throwing spicy pepper powder all over the ground to try and deter them but it only works for like 24-48 hours before I have to put down more. Cant really build anything to keep them out sadly, my garden is just a bunch of puts in a row along the sunniest side of my house, so far no real damage done though, thank God.

>>11671 Try interplanting companions to your plants, like chives/garlic/spices/etc? Personally, I like seeing how much life has come about because of the life I've made through gardening! I saw a blue bee the other day! Didn't even know they existed, but gardening all these plants has brought so much life that now it's a common occurance to see solitary bees of all sorts, bunnies, raccoons, butterflies, jays, and all sorts of other creatures. It's nice.

>>11680 Interesting idea. Still been sticking with putting red pepper powder in the pots and around the pots since thats all I have, it actually seems to work pretty well as long as its consistently applied. I also recognized that it is nice to help animals and insects to a degree as long as they dont get overly destructive. A few of my plants got dug up but its no big deal, garden is still going quite strong this year. May post pics at some point. :)

Well how did everyones outdoor grow go this year? Mine did better than ever before! Working on indoor gardening experiments for the first time over winter now. Just got an indoor datura sprout!

>>12163 slugged out... How do I genocide these things?

>>12288 Use cayenne pepper that helps with most pests. Sprinkle a powder on the soil or use it in a spray with water.

i cant do my yearly blogpost because moved house and had to tear everything up and plant grass seed ;_;

Trying to get my hands on some sungold toms

Looking to plow a patch in my backyard and compost it for next year. Anyone ever do this and make a small farm patch?

>>12324 thats a pretty good number what do you mean by plowing, how big a patch are we talking ? I mostly shovel cause my scale is such that a plow isn't practical.

>>12358 Meh, ive seen plenty of better digitz. As for plow town im thinkin sizeable portions of earth though im not planning to measure them. Eyeballing always does the trick for things like this. But fairly sizable portions of earth.

>>12299 Wtf, why? I know I would pay more for a producing garden than for a plot of grass with no guaranty as to the ground's quality. >>12359 "Sizeable portions of earth" doesn't mean much. For anything smaller than 100m², I would just use a spading fork and do it in multiple go if needed. If bigger, you can rent a small tractor for a day in most places. Maybe it isn't too late to just mulch the fuarrrk out of the place and avoid ploughing altogether though.

>>12360 Im not planning to rent a tractor. Just gonna do it by hand. Not THAT sizable lol.

What's good to start off now for this year? I got a greenhouse for Christmas and I want to put it to use.

>>6551 I'm not growing anything this year because I have no time or accessible land for it but bumping because this is a based thread. I forget what it's called but I want to get into pirate gardening where you just plant things in no-man's land off the highway or hidden away in a park or something and just let it grow then harvest later, for example if you live in an apartment and aren't able. I will be living in a dormitory for the foreseeable future but hope to get window-plants growing herbs if I can. I thought about trying to grow mushrooms in the basement here because it's a really old, dank building and almost none of the basement is ever used except to stow old junk and check the water heater. Guaranteed to get away with it if the conditions work. But I'm not sure what to grow - I don't actually like eating mushrooms. I want to, because of health benefits, aesthetic, etc, but the texture just grosses me out. The only time I've ever enjoyed was when I was in Missouri and ate fried chanterelles+potatoes. Maybe I should try to grow lion's main and grind it up into powder for brain health. What do you think, Lainons?

>>12370 this is a pointless question to ask without giving more details. Why not start with something easy like radishes and lettuce idk. >>12299 ;-; fwiw Ive been planting a bunch of things and my seedlings are all sprouting and happy. soon I will be rolling in root vegetables, herbs, and even a few pretty flowers. The world is under my control. if I can keep the rabbits away

>>12608 Use a lil powdered cayenne or a tiny bit of urine to keep em away.

I guess I'm still growing tomatoes, I got a determinate variant that was supposed to stop giving fruit months ago but instead it picked up the pace lately, it had a calcium deficiency on the first batch that I got under control and now it doesn't want to die.

>>6551 I don't have a garden but I have 3 medium sized fruit treees. One give peaches and the two others names whose I can't translate in English.

Been a great season this year!

do you guys think i can grow guava in a mediterranean climate ? there is no freezing at all where i live but it can gets under 15°C during the winter