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Garden Thread 08'

you should put googly eyes on them. By looking into their eyes, you'll know where you stand with them.

Anyways, you've definatly become quite the gardener. My cats always kill anything I try and grow.
 
Oh hey! So happy to see a gardening thread up!

Since I live more on a giant lot with areas that are starting to look wild, there are many things growing. I like to grow plants that thrive without care and balance them out with eager "shedders" because when I leave the country I don't want things dying. I often chuck seeds randomly into the soil to see what comes up, so it's hard to keep track of what's growing!

I have things like water spinach, talinum, sweet potato, manioc, wild small eggplant, wild bitter melon, wild cucumber, amaranth, all sorts of herbs, tree vegetables, etc.

I'm starting to pot a lot of seedlings now from seeds that have fallen. It's rainy season, so they're starting to come up. So I have mahogany, java plum, chestnut, santol, mini-mangoes (as small as a small fist!), etc. I've also got little plants in paper cups like herbs, talinum, marigold, etc.

They're all for giving away.

Cause my leaf dumping has resulted in a lot of soil, it doesn't cost anything to cut plants or grow them from seed. Everyone should grow some food or spices! It's important to encourage them by giving them free shit
 
Dtergent said:
They're all for giving away.

Cause my leaf dumping has resulted in a lot of soil, it doesn't cost anything to cut plants or grow them from seed. Everyone should grow some food or spices! It's important to encourage them by giving them free shit
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that's nice of you. i plan on giving away a good chunk of my harvest, it'll prolly just rot if i don't.

anyhow heres and update...things are goin apeshit.


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melons, strawberries, cucumbers, zuchini, sunflower, corn, tiny tim and brandywine tomatoes, raddish, and romaine. also have some bellpeppers and eggplant but they're too small.

the pots are all more tomatoes, lettuce and some lemon basil. i also have some purple peppers not shown. i'm gonna have so many fuckin tomatoes...
 
nice jam :) what type of environment do you live in if you don't mind my asking?
 
Anyone in the know about smart solutions for itchy worms? The ones that become moths eventually? They're all over some leaves of ours. They fall on you and get itchy hair all over you. It's a bitch.

Our chickens don't eat them. I used to put them all in jars and cover them until they died then composted them. But I'd feel bad after awhile. I don't like to do that!

They must be telling me something about my garden but I can't figure that out yet.
 
haha itchy worm, i have no idea what that is. keep composting the little bastards...


mehm, i'm about 5 miles off the coast of southern california, so the weather is pretty nice all year long.
 
Dtergent said:
Anyone in the know about smart solutions for itchy worms? The ones that become moths eventually? They're all over some leaves of ours. They fall on you and get itchy hair all over you. It's a bitch.

Our chickens don't eat them. I used to put them all in jars and cover them until they died then composted them. But I'd feel bad after awhile. I don't like to do that!

They must be telling me something about my garden but I can't figure that out yet.
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i'm not sure if this will work on them or not, but you can make your own "pesticide". get a spray bottle, fill it with soapy water (dish soap), add a little bit of garlic (fresh and minced), and a bit of cheyenne pepper.
 
If I had the space to garden, I'd do greens (Kale, Chard, etc.) and Basil. These are the highest priced veggies at the grocer while offering a decent yield at home. I'd also hypothetically grow poppies. ;)
 
Let's see, I have some basil, a few sunflowers, parsley and red peppers.

And I've got some huge tomato plants right now growing proudly out of regular industrial buckets. I heard the leaves contain nicotine so I plan on smoking the leftovers from the plant to test this theory ;)
 
lookin good fausty :) I've planted directly into compostedish (is that a word?) horse manure and it worked fantastically.

and i think tomatoes the world over are in their bonkers phase. I don't love mine enough so i think they're only gaining about an inch per day :\ :D
 
I have several tomato plants including a West Virginia Hill Billy heirloom and a British Money Maker. I have a few Cucumbers as well as about 6 assorted hot peppers that are really starting to put out. Two of them are called Bolivian Rainbow peppers that are Capsicum Frutescens- (Tabasco type) and a couple of Chicken Heart peppers. I started the peppers indoors and transplanted them out only after they were already a couple of months old. I live at about 5000 feet so the growing season isn't that long even though I am only about 40' N of the equator.

There is going to be some serious salsa in my kitchen pretty soon!
 
I just started a small herb garden about 1-2 months ago (I'm not talking about weed ;)). I cook a lot of Italian food, and its either use dried herbs (no flavor) or drop a ton of cash for 'fresh' herbs from the store.

So I planted, in pots, the herbs I use most often in Italian food (sauce/lasagna/etc) - oregano, parsley, and, the most important in all Italian cooking: two different types of basil, sweet basil and Genovese basil. They are sprouting anywhere from an inch to a couple several inches, and I just can't wait until they are ready. Once I see how these go, I shall plant a LOT more.

From there, I'll probably plant other Italian essentials, the obvious first choice is tomatoes, then I suppose peppers, and if all goes well, I might go on with a full on garden. (Its totally unlike me to do something like this, but it gives me something to do, and the the food is free, convenient, and always tastes much, much better than the store bought variety.)
 
I ended up doing over my front yard this year and really neglected my veggies.

Still planed a couple roma tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, and garlic.

I was amazed at how easy the onions and garlic are to grow.....highly recommended.
 
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