Thread 2820926

Weed control, mulching, no-till edition. I'm about to mulch my entire corn plot with wood chips to prevent any more weeds for the rest of the year. I really want to go no-till in the coming years, especially for corn if that is viable while controlling weeds effectively. Was very interested in this video on Mennonites who do no-till: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pICYSujSkGU&t=1148s
Tell me bros, is no-till viable with organic methods at scale? I grow around 1-2 acres of corn each year. I happen to have the wood chips to mulch this field from a family member who does wood work, they are from hardwoods.

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out of 14 winged beans, only 5 have survived after being planted
something kept ripping them out of the ground, i blame squirrels
i assume God will let only the best survive though, so i'm not worried about it

>>2820928
based

I fucking love mulch

>>2820926 (OP)
>1-2 acres of wood chips
I hope you have some heavy equipment. I spread about 60 cubic yards by hand in my little plot last year, damn near took my knees out

OP you dun goofed. Tyrone's videos are gone and last thread isn't linked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkkLnGeo5qc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqS-VrwWnns

previous >>2816887

why are sweet potato slips so hard to find? no local stores have them

how do i genocide rats? i want no survivors.
i have about half a dozen traps set out but they won't go for them.
i've shot one with a .22 so far but the rest have evaded me.

I finished setting up the string trellis support last night. The base plates for the gazebo posts bolt onto 2 tabs allowing for side to side movement. It was moving far more than I wanted last night so I shimmed the gap to limit movement. I'll get the posts welded to the base plate eventually to make them rigid.

Also tomato and pepper planting day. The tomatoes were a lot taller than the peppers, so I planted them deep, now the peppers are taller.

>>2821036
This guy’s got more money than sense.

Is this the place to ask about Tree Propagation? I'm a noob but I want to propagate a tree from my childhood home

>>2821067
What kind of tree?

>>2821069
A mayday. I've already gathered some young 8-10 inch long branches, taken all but the top leaves off, and put them in water. Basically asking if I'm doing it right, how long until they start rooting and if I need hormones or soil to make them work

>>2821036
>>2821056
How I do my bean trellises, 1x1s are yellow pine off my mill with nylon string. Very cheap and can be changed, once they reach the top I will add another few feet with a string connecting the tops of the teepees

I'm in need of advice, the council threatened me to take my allotment away because I was using 1/4 of it to grow cut flowers.

Apparently the whole thing should be used to grow edibles.

I'm looking for recommendations for flowers that I can use for display but are still technically edible now to bait them.

So far I have, nasturtiums, cornflowers, violas, dahlias, sunflowers, saffron crocus and Jerusalem artichokes.

Any good options that I've missed? the more obnoxious the better, like the crocus.

Here's my first corn plot of the year, I'm about to plant another of Hickory King white dent corn about the same size and then later a plot of Glass Gem corn. Not the most even or dense stand ever but I was testing out a new planting method and the conditions weren't great, I planted first 3 rows then it monsooned and I had to get the rest in over the next couple days while it was still mud, trying my best to avoid compaction

Trying to grow cantaloupe, honeydew, and watermelons on welded wire fencing as a trellis

Some scarlet kale and potatoes that need to be weeded

Here's the whole garden at this point, there's a big triangle of Able Lincoln, Chadwick Cherry, and Yellow Pear tomatos in the center, a row of straight eight cucumbers, pinto beans, and coming soon in more squash and pole bean rows. Maybe another okra row. Also need to re-sow some more radishes, parsnips, and other root veggies, I planted those early in the season and have been eating them

>>2821072
Oi m8 'ave you got a loicense for those flowers?

>>2821070
I've only propagated in soil but I know willows will release rooting hormone if you put them in the same water. If that doesn't work you could air layer or graft

I just planted some blackberry bushes in my backyard. Any tips?

>>2821123
What kind?

>>2821036
>let me just make my yard even more sterile than a monoculture lawn

>>2821188
Water is expensive, $5 per cubic meter, about half that is sewer charges which are tied to water usage regardless of what you use it for. I could never bring myself to water the lawn enough for it to not look like shit as it can go a month straight without raining.

>>2821190
With what you spent on rocks and landscape fabric, you could have sheet mulched it and planted natives suited to your climate

>>2821070
>>2821079
Pothos will do the same thing

procrastinated on self-polinating and now I only have 1 pear

>>2821188
My plant app says Rubus fruticosus L.

can't wait for fava beans in store
they're so good boiled in salted water
i can eat half a kilo of them every day during summer

>>2821192
So I can just leave it in the water and it will work? Perfect!

>>2821242
With the skin on or without?
Just salted water and nothing else?

>>2821242
I was so hyped about them. The plant was so nice... then I tasted it... it's bad.
Can't believe people call this good.
It's like old peas but 10 times worse.

>>2821249
With, yeah, heavily salted water for like half an hour. You just peel them as you eat. I eat them as snacks, but you can cook a lot of stuff with them. So good.
>>2821254
Maybe you're just a bad at growing
lol

>>2821255
>With, yeah, heavily salted water for like half an hour. You just peel them as you eat. I eat them as snacks, but you can cook a lot of stuff with them. So good.
Guess I will try that. I usually just boil them for 1-2 hours with the skin on. Then eat them with the skin for extra chewiness.

>>2821259
I need to finally do some salads and charred beans with them

>>2821273
Trees, bushes are the sensible thing to plant if you are doing it long term. Quite easy to manage compared to small crops. With the obvious downside you get your pay off after 5years instead of 1 season.

>>2821275
Yea i'm not gonna bother with crops. Maybe hay one day if i come across some affordable gear. Was thinking trees and bushes exactly cause the land is around my house and that would pretty up the place. Also i could probably mix that up with turkeys.

I'm so jealous of you non desert fuckers

>>2821283
>Just had frost last week
>Next one might come early June
>Still can't plant tomatoes and other non hardy veggies
If you want to swap I'll take arid conditions over this frozen hell hole in a heartbeat

>>2821286
I’m behind as well anon. Got maybe 30percent in right now?
The wife got me a sliderule that you line up your last and first frost dates and it gives you a planting window.
If you’ve got shit started you should be fine.
June-Oct should still be plenty of time. 5a/on the bubble of 4b here.

>>2821292
Forgot pic.

How screwed is the soil? Every shovelful looks blocky like this. If I do the 8inch mulch method will it improve the soil underneath while it decomposes? Can worms dig eat through it and loosen it up?

>>2821286
>>2821292
Grow things desert people could never grow.
Grow things that require chill hours.
Like cherries and such.

A month after planting all my carrots are finally up, I was starting to worry. No more late April planting, mid-May at the earliest.

A good 5 days of hot sunny weather coming up. Nothing under 10C at night in the 2 week forecast. I'm glad I could finally plant my tomatoes yesterday, they were all getting too damn big for pots and I had to plant them deep. 23 Early Girl tomatoes spread across 3 spots, and one Sweet Million cherry.

>>2821336
How many gallons are those grow bags? I’m gonna try them this year

>>2821337
7 gallons, its been a pretty good size for tomatoes. This is my 7th year using these ones. I use drip irrigation with them, watering with a hose water runs out the side of the bags rather than pooling and seeping in. When the plants get big I have to water them ever day, sometimes even a second shorter watering. I've got a hose timer so I can do it on a schedule or press a button for a timed watering.

Kind of off-topic but I need to ask for it. Is having a whole year harvest without spending a dime achievable? if so, why do people in the past has to deal with boring ass food, droughts and hunger?

>>2821339
I use to grow em in the 5 gallon bucket containers and was gonna try the fabrics this time. I thought it’d be a one to one swap from plastic to fabric but the ads said to use big ones, as much as 10 or even 15 and that just seemed like too much dirt.

>>2820739
>Fava beans
Fuck off with that AI-slop!
I’ll admit, it drew the beans quite well, but it’s missing a crucial detail. The lice! There’s not fava beans without lice.

>>2820926 (OP)
My long beans are blooming
Okras dying
Sweet potatoes thriving
Peppers suffering
Sadly all the mangoes have been harvested
This be the largest one

>>2821347
not that anon, but my fava beans didn't have them either.

>>2821341
>Is having a whole year harvest without spending a dime achievable?
Yes... assuming you steal water and seeds. Lol.
If you mean over time and live near a river, I guess? Not like you can't grow a compost heap and harvest seeds and spuds for further planting.
>if so, why do people in the past has to deal with boring ass food, droughts and hunger?
The VAAAAAAST majority of modern production techniques and hyper resilient (and tasty desu) varieties came about during the Green Revolution, and even these have been long superseded.
So essentially less resistant varieties, old techniques, limited fertilizers, limited choice (gotta remember that barely anyone ate stuff that wasn't native to their place up until like the 19th and 20th century), limited workpool. Subsistence farming was a thing for most of humanity's timeline for most of people.

>>2821368 me
(And that's without going into the largely serf-base economies of a lot of the world that didn't really allow peasants a lot of maneuvering space.)
Additionally, in case you had livestock (which definitely wasn't the rule), your chickens would be 40% the size, your working animals would be weaker, and your cows would produce as little as 10% the amount of milk we get now from them.

fellow city dwellers, how do you cope with the hard water leaving spots on your leaves?

>>2821071
>>2821073
>>2821074
I just wanted to say I love the signs

>>2821378
>spraying leaves with water
Oh no...

>think its way too late to start plants from seeds
>for shits and giggles i put some tomato and jalapeno pepper seeds in my hydroponic grower inside
>they've already sprouted in less than a week

what the fuck
I didn't expect them to grow this fast. It'll probably be hard to get them in the ground, but at least they started. I have a feeling this year is going to be hot as hell and the growing season will be longer so hopefully i can get something out of them.

Other than that, I got most of my plants in my raised beds. Lots of new tomatoes and peppers i've never grown before, and hoping to get some more this weekend. I also got my berries transplanted into new containers, and the last thing i need to do is to put my green beans in the dirt.

I'm hoping to get some decorative plants outside as well; anyone have recommendations that are low maintenance that look nice? I'd like to get something perennial so i don't have to buy new ones every year.

>>2821378
as much as you can, try to avoid getting a lot of water on the leaves. Water at the base of the plant

Gay mango

>>2821153
Not much, mine aren't very fragrant for some reason

>>2821347
>Not housing a cleanup crew
Keep some fallen leaves in your garden, that's where ladybugs overwinter

>>2821361
I saw a pure black bee (including wings) on my beans today, really neat

Main garden finally finished
May has been super cold so everything is small and planted late this year

Watermelons also done, moved here some onions I had to rip out to make space for tomatoes

Built this last Sunday, my old blackberry trellis from random sticks I had laying around was falling apart

Flowering thyme

Lupine

Red clover (it's actually pink) in orchard

My mom wants to transplant the beets instead of thinning, she refuses to thin plants.

Tomato cages or nets?

Uhhh 6months worth of leaf mulch and shit

>>2821478
Cages all the way
Unless they're indeterminate

>>2821442
>Not much, mine aren't very fragrant for some reason
Try different time of day or temperature.
>>2821443
>>2821444
please, for the love of god, mulch, or white clover cover crop or something.

>>2821447
hmm, I should grow thyme. How hard is it?
Been wanting to grow caraway, but can't get the seeds to germinate to save my life.

new hobbyist here -- how does one get rid of those tiny little flies from indoor potted plants? they're a couple millimeters long, black, slender, with wings a touch longer than their bodies.

im growing basil, rosemary, and some lemon balm, and those little flies are just everywhere. i live in the city, so not many ladybugs around from what i can tell. dont want to use pesticide if i can avoid it.

>>2821535
>If they are gnats then get a bunch of nematodes to water with and the yellow gnat glue strips. And try to keep the soil relatively dry before that.

>>2821535
I have the same thing on tomatoes, gonna try the little gue strips and nematodes if I can find em in the store, or else those anti mosquito pellets you put in water

seeing a lot of these fuckers appearing around my plants

>>2821535
>>2821541
>>2821554
Skip the glue strips. Put a piece of mosquito dunk on the top of the soil and in the water tray. Water it less often and mostly from the bottom, but you'll want to wet both mosquito dunks occasionally. A top dressing with good drainage on the top of the soil can help too. I recommend crushed lump charcoal. Pour boiling water down all of your drains. That's a really important step because it will kill the eggs and larvae living in your drains. Good luck, anons.

>skips the strips
>all the already flying fuckers lay down more eggs in your soil

Man, I have some nitrogen deficient soil.

>>2821566
>diluted compost tea is in the 0.05-0.2 npk ranges
Well now it makes sense why they recommend putting in half a bottle per watering
I need to get some proper fertilizer

>>2821567
Compost tea is more about helping the microbiome in the soil

>>2821568
They definitely bullshit on the packages about it being fertilizer. Eh that's what I get for being organic, I got some proper one for cheap just now.

>>2821569
Made sure this wasn't just American product issue and yeah ours also have like under 0.2 NPK lmao, the good ol synthetic is 5+

>>2821555
These motherfuckers are currently in the process of raping my mint and I've seen them congregating around my carrots as well. I'm going to get my hands on some isopropyl alcohol

My tomatoes were yellowing before planting, nice to see they are quickly turning to a darker green. I had added blood meal to all the pots a few days before planting and its probably kicking in now.

Despite a 50% germination rate, I had enough bush bean plants for 2 full rows. I seeded another two rows. So the garden is completely planted aside from the space set aside for additional bean planting.

>>2821563
>>2821541
cheers anons. much appreciated.

>>2821595
Are the old yellowed leaves turning green or new ones?

Since I'm the anon complaining about the worm tea, I'll also ask how often should I water with a synthetic fertilizer if I want to give the matos and cucs a kick after that nitrogen deficiency yellowing?

>>2821602
Yes the old ones are regaining their color.

>>2821616
I'm gonna keep an eye out for mine.

>>2821626
Blood meal gives a quick nitrogen boost, 12-0-0. I add some around my peppers during the summer when the leaves start getting lighter. It probably works faster if pre-mixed with water but I usually spread a teaspoon around the base of each plant then water.

>>2821633
Urea too if you want a "vegetarian" alternative.

>>2820926 (OP)
Can I feed my worms my cum tissues? I roll them up in my coffee filters (make coffee in my room) seeing I don't really have anywhere to dispose of them decretely and hide smell. Then I keep those coffee packages in in a seperate box til I'm ready to feed the worms

>>2821656
That's how you get Tremors (1990)

hi /out/, I'm trying to grow something in my backyard for the first time. I have pumpkins seedlings, 2 feet apart, in a partially sunny area. The layer of mulch and garden soil is on top of some cardboard too.
Is there anything you guys would recommend I do? I'd really like to grow my own pumpkins by October.

>>2821688
forgot pic

>>2821029
Grow your own!!!
Go to the store and buy organic sweet potatoes (not sprayed with a sprout retardant).
Place sweet potato (in an empty clear plastic spinach/salad mix box. Position the potato like you would lie on a bed. Add potting mix, leave a small amount of the sweet potato uncovered. Water just enough to moisten, but not drown. Lightly close lid to retain moisture and place in indirect light (direct sun will cause the temperature inside the box to go too high). When it starts to sprout (and it will), open the lid and continue to water until the sprouts are big enough to plant out.
That's it!!!

These cucumber seeds in my paper towel are growing roots in the wrong direction, curving upward toward where the leaves will come out. When I put them in soil, should I just lay them sideways?

>>2821694
root down, it'll self right

>>2821563
Get an inexpensive bug zapper light and leave it on at night next to your plants--it will keep the pest population under control.

People always talk about separating greywater to reuse it, but greywater itself may be laden with chemicals and microplastics. Water used for dishes and oneself may have harmful substances from soaps or shampoos, etc., while water used for laundry may have likewise harmful chemicals as well as microplastics. These will accumulate on the soil, and will also be absorbed by the plants you will later eat. Thus greywater doesn't actually sound like a good idea.
What do you guys think?

>>2821283
These videos should be very helpful to all gardeners and farmers, but especially to those in arid zones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2xDZlpInik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhEaKdmHeCk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdIG--b58

Something I've noticed is that water tanks in rainwater harvesting systems are often left bare, and not only do they take space but they are also ugly.
Would there be anything wrong with covering them with some plants or vines on a trellis or vertical gardening setup? Just wondering.

I had a horrible nightmare this night
I went to my veggie garden and all my fava beans were destroyed to the ground, only fragments of main stems remined
When I woke up I went there for real and they are all still fine, hopefully it's not a prophetic dream

>>2821633
>>2821645
dont coffe grounds also work for this?

>>2821694
speaking of cucumber seeds, how does one harvest those efficiently?

>>2821731
Not in short term, coffee grounds need to decompose before their nutrients become available to plants, if you want a quick nitrogen boost you need to supply it in bioavailable form like urea

Any hacks on growing larger carrots?

I live in zone 12b so they're not going to be very sweet, but I know they can be bigger.

>>2821755
Very loose soil

>>2821688
>>2821690
Cucurbits get really big and spread. One plant will cover all that space and then some

>>2821768
I've read this. I'm hedging my bets here and assuming not all of these will survive. Thank you for the (you), I'll be keeping a close eye on how they grow.

>>2821769
Considering the size of one plant you'll probably gonna need to fan them out in different directions if you don't want to immediately get mildewy

>>2821770
What the fuck is going on here anon?
Nice vines!

>>2821772
That's a camera tripod. People who grow giant pumpkins don't want them to directly touch the soil, I imagine that's just sand on paper

>>2821413
looks zesty

its been 4 weeks and the courgette seeds havent sprouted
I'm suing

>>2821774
Right I understand what the things are. What is the purpose.
>keeping them off the ground
This I can see. I’m not new to pumpkins. Got six up so far.

>>2821772
>>2821788
He wants his giant pumpkin to grow on that sand over tarp, it cushions and insulates the pumpkin to ensure it won't rot or crack, later he might also place tarp over it so it doesn't get any rain which can also cause it to crack
This technique is mostly used for giant veggies people grow for giant veggie competitions

>>2821696
Those bug dessicators work pretty well

>>2821656
Yep. Just make sure there's enough carbon so they don't get protein poisoning

>>2821633
>>2821645
>>2821731
You can make compost tea out of basically anything and the nutrients in the tea will be available immediately

>>2821772
Lol that's not mine, it's just from a vid of a guy making a giant pumpkin

>>2821794
Ahhh THAT explains the tripod.
Kek.
I’m super behind but the pumpkins should do well as always.

>>2821792
what do you make it out of?

>>2821755
My carrots were a lot bigger last year when I ensured they weren't crowded. I used pelleted seed last year for adequate spacing. I think top soil depth is limiting my carrot size. I've got about 8" of top soil, the carrots grow to the bottom of that and embed their tips in the rock hard clay making them a bastard to pull individually. I should plant a few out front in my raised beds to see how well they do with 18" of top soil.

>>2821797
NTA but Bocking 14 Russian Comfrey is commonly used for that

>>2821688
>>2821690
The pumpkin cult claims another...

I am a killer. A murder. The most vile of the vile.

>>2821837
I fucking love pumpkins and Halloween, glad to hear I'm not the only one.
>>2821790
I've got one of them in my shed, I'll have to try leaving it out over the pumpkin plants tonight.
>>2821770
Thank you. If that's your pic it looks awesome.

Best of luck to all your gardening endeavors this year. I keep expanding my gardening space and it is more work but it is always so satisfying. I am most excited this year about all the sweet potatoes I have planted and tons of watermelon.

Can I raise ducks in a semi-residential area, say in a 1-2000m2 lot? Or would it be too close to other neighbors/myself and a nuisance?
What about roosters?

If I want to keep ornamental/pet birds, chickens, and quail, can i keep them in the same building, a large aviary, to save on space?
An aviary for the birds, a chicken coop on stills inside the aviary for the chickens, and cages under or beside the chicken coop for the quail.
This way all of them are safe in the same enclosure without taking further space.

>>2821595
Actually, how long did it take to get these leaves greener? I wanna know what timeframe I should be expecting for mine.

>>2820926 (OP)
Any Australians here (Vic). Is there anything I can plant from scratch at this time? Or am I too late for winter crops

>>2821856
Ive never raised quail like that but I have raised ducks and chickens together. I would imagine that you will have to build seperate, intentionally cut off, enviroments for the chickens and the quail. The reason for this is that chickens are both aggressive/territorial, and within their own flocks they have an established hierarchy based mainly on size. The larger birds bully the smaller birds, and if there is ever a defiect in resources (you arent feeding them enough, you forget to feed them one day) then the lower status birds will fight each other, and the higher class ones will bully the lower ones to maintain their ranking.

Within chicken x chicken relationships, this is usually done by biting each other's heads. The red comb on a chicken is it's little status symbol. Bigger the comb, the higher the ranking. The lowest birds usually have their combs entirely bitten off. So what happens when birds with no combs are introduced? instant deranking. What happens when smaller birds are introduced? instant deranking. Your quail will forever be at the bottom of yourchicken society. At least with ducks, ducks can sometimes grow bigger than the chickens, and ducks have a tendency to work together in limited ways to block chickens from bullying one duck. But quail... ooof it would be like living in a multiracial dystopia.

Your chickens will feel compelled to steal their food, and occasionally assault them for absolutely no reason other than that they can. Theres a large possibility that the chickens will also raid the quail nests for eggs, as they wont recognize those eggs as being their own and offlimits. This will result in unhappy, unproductive, and potentially unhealthy quail. You can put them all under the same aviary but it's best to keep them completely isolated from one another.

>>2821859
Around 5 days I think. The nutrients need to percolate down to the roots, get absorbed, then increase chlorophyll production.

>>2821874
I see. Thank you for the detailed response, anon.

Came across from free canola seed while out on a bike ride.

>>2821841
which plant?

Rate em

>>2821958
Cucamelon.
It was already kind of shocked from being transplanted outside and I had to leave on a trip for 5 days during which we had an unexpectedly cold night, my guess is that one was the straw that broke the camels back. When I came back it was dead.
I have a spare one I've not transplanted yet and have kept inside until now, so it's not like it's the end of the world, but it still feels bad.
I've neglected my boy and now he is dead because of it.
On a positive note, the other plants seem to have handled the cold night better ranging from not seemingly being affected to just a little delay in growth.

>>2821960
I know grass is always greener on the other side, but I'm always jealous of people who can grow these.

>>2821797
I use manure tea, but you can use anything. Pull up weeds or grass clippings and toss them in a bucket with an aeration stone for a few days or a week. You can also use finished compost, unfinished compost, coffee grounds, kitchen scraps, rich soil, ect. Anon's suggestion of using comfrey is great.

>>2821797
>>2821993
I should also say that there will always be some nutrients left in the solids so toss those on your compost pile or work them into some soil when you're done making tea.

is the onion tower a meme?
even if i plant the seedlings in a bottle tower

When i moved to a new house i brought a rose bush from my old home. After transplanting it and keeping it watered and giving it rose plant food, it took off and grew like crazy

but there's these fucking bugs that eat the shit out of it. I think they're sawflies if I remember right when i looked them up.

this year i started blasting the plant with neem oil. I can't really tell how much its helping/if the larvae are already growing into adults

How the hell do i stop these little fuckers?

It seems like unlike previous years my tomato plants haven't had any transplant shock at all, and are all noticeably larger than when I planted them less than a week ago. Though I had up potted them a week before planting, and dropped them in their final home with little disturbance.

>>2822047
One of mine is still pretty small but it is a different variety so eh

>>2822082
I did have a cherry tomato that I planted in a greenhouse several weeks ago that got sun scorched as it was beside the greenhouse door that I left open. It was very slow to recover and wasn't getting bigger. I had spares which I hardened with the other tomatoes, so I yanked that one out and planted a new one which immediately started growing like the others.

All my tomatoes got a bit of sun scorch last year. It was the first year I grew from seed and I didn't harden them. I had never hardened plants before, but then I read that nursery plants come pre-hardened.

>>2821030
Get a cat.

>>2822114
there's one out there already, it's retarded. it only eats birds not mice or rats.
i think i'll try the bucket trap. the standard snap traps don't work very well since they can only catch one at a time.

I was thinking, if you were in a deserty environment like that one anon, would it be reasonable to try to pull up a few feet of your native soil and truck in something more fertile?

Due to my renting situation, fencing isn't really an option, but I have a bunch of patio-style planters with kale and collards and tomatoes and the rabbits are eating everything up, even the (poisonous) lily shoots.

What are my options? Does the "liquid fence" kind of product really work? Coyote piss? I assume all this stuff has to be reapplied every time it rains.

In addition to tomatoes and peppers I started petunias indoors. Man they are slow, started Feb 10th and they were ready just in time to plant. I planted a packet of double petunias which look really nice. None of the main garden centers sell them, and only a niche garden supply store here had the seed.

This evening I went around nuking weeds in the gravel with a propane torch I got recently. Fun, but you have to pay attention if there are twigs or leaves as they'll ignite instantly and start launching embers. I'm in a never ending war against chickweed.

>>2822227
if you are ok with killing them you can snare them.

>>2822131
Cats are a lottery, i'd one of three cats will do the jobs for rats
>>2821030
>half a dozen traps set out but they won't go for them.
They're some clever son of a bitches, the moment they see a rat falling for it they learn that they have to avoid it.

>>2820926 (OP)
don't listen to these fucking gay niggers, they will get you killed with mis-identification.

what did he mean by that

i replanted a plum tree in my garden last fall. while checking on it this weekend i noticed a bunch of ants and gnats(?) on the underside of the leaves. is this something to be worried about?

>>2822396
Not 100% sure but it looks like plum aphids. The ants feed on the aphids' honeydew

https://pnwhandbooks.org/insect/tree-fruit/plum-prune/plum-prune-aphid

>>2822400
oh, yeah could be plum aphids.
>can cause stunting and malformation of the shoot tips. On older trees, fruit set is reduced
dang.

thanks for the info anon.

Anyone use mycorrhizae fungi on their potted plants? I was going to buy Dynomyco but they're israeli..

>>2822427
I use it in potted plants all the time. It works great and helps keep them from drying out as quickly. Just get any inoculant with glomus spp and nitrogen fixing bacteria. The number of species of glomus doesn't matter very much, but if there's a completely different genus of fungi mixed in then it will work better.

>>2822193
Many people do, but you can improve the soil over time instead. If the soil is clayey then you can amend the soil with crushed lump charcoal until it's loamy, and if it's sandy then you can amend it with calcium bentonite clay. Sodium bentonite will exchange the sodium for calcium over time which can make your soil sodic and cause more problems. You can try to improve it all at once or you can amend it each year until you get the proper soil structure. Then it's just a matter of applying compost and fertilizer, and growing a wide variety of plants to restore the soil fertility. Mycorrhizae and nitrogen fixing bacteria will help a lot too so apply some to all the new plants you put out there and any that are already growing. Tomatoes like sandy soils so if you start with sandy soil then try growing a bunch of those. Alfalfa and radishes are great at biodrilling clayey soil and alfalfa will help to fix nitrogen and improve the soil organ carbon in the deeper soil layers.

>>2822432
Noted. Do you use any specific brand?

One of my beet sprouts spawned with 3 leaves instead of 2. Which god do I need to sacrifice a goat to to avert disaster?

>>2822451
Assert your dominance by removing the extra leaf and eating it in front of all the seedlings

>>2822451
thats an Übeet, it will be stronger than all the others
just be careful it doesn't grow uneeded of you, else it will take over

Everyone say it with me

Fuck slugs

>>2822499
The straw mulch I use provides a safe space for slugs. I balance that out with slug pellets to keep them off my beans and peppers.

>>2822500
One slug got into a closed planter box overnight and ate all of my pepper seedlings, most of the cucumber, half the melon, and a few green beans.
I'm going to fire up my casting furnace so I can cast the little fucker into molten salt hell.

One of my peas is growing big tendrils despite being shorter than its neighbor. Does that mean it has worse conditions? I guess I should set up a trellis soon also?

>>2821968
my brother if only you knew the horrors my mothers subjects plants to, you'd feel yourself a saint.
It's genuinely horrifying to witness. And no amount of pleading from my part will sway her mind.
It's like watching somebody skin a dog alive.

How do strawberries do with root nematodes?

the virgin planted a row to grow

>>2822572
>>2822573
vs the chad, drop and get no attention

>>2822540
I raise spare seedlings in case I need them and then give the excess to friends and family.
Few of them ever survive more than a month, maybe a tomato I gave them here and there.

>>2821309
You need to do a hand test for clay content, or lookup your local soil data. Anything below ~40% has hope, some gypsum would be worthwhile, as an amendment to go on before the mulch.

>>2821309
>>2822583
>shitty gardener blames the soil yet again
god I hate this mindset

>>2822584
Right?! Fucking turn that over and break it up throw some chicken shit in there and walk away.
Why do people gotta overthink shit?

>>2821309
i think it looks more like actual soil than our sand with 1% of organic matter, it has too much clay
try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca20JkKFAcE
to check, if it is a small garden, you can try to extract extra clay from it
but i can be wrong

>>2822584
>>2822588
Clearly your soil doesn't consist entirely of heavy clay and rocks. The soil in >>2822542 looks like heaven compared to mine

Do the fungi eat the potato or nah

>>2822594
The fungi will consume you and everything you love. It's been nice knowing you

>>2822593
I do alright.

>>2822588
depends on what the issue is really.
most of the time it's user error.
>>2822593
I have quite a clay heavy soil. Pic related, this is form handling it suboptimally, if done worse you can make a literal brick.
>The soil in >>2822542 looks like heaven compared to mine
That's because I don't handle my soil like a retard. (and I have another idiot who always blames my soil as being poor quality, which is again, skill issue on their part)

>>2822609
Also
>no rocks
lamo

>>2822558
Root nematodes will kill them. You can kill the nematodes if you make a bunch of oyster mushroom spawn, mix the spawn into the soil, and then you can plant directly into the spot. Cover the area with straw to keep it moist.

>>2822439
Nope, I just use the cheapest one available. Usually the cheapest ones are just as good as the mid price ones, and the most expensive ones are either much better or exactly the same as the cheapest ones. You can also try to catch wild mycorrhizae, but I've never had any luck with that.

>>2822609
>retard can't understand that other people might have it worse than he does
Also you should take care of your ground elder problem

These greened up nicely with the synthetic fertilizer after that initial slump

Should I grow common purslane as a crop?

>>2822632
Haven't had much success myself besides a small indoor terrarium I converted from a reptile tank.

>>2822594
They're growing on the soil, not the plant, so you're fine: it's just a sign that you've got a microbially healthy/active soil.
Even if they were harmful, the mushroom is only the fruiting body of the fungus, so pulling them out wouldn't really stop them.

>>2822638
Thanks, but wasn’t afraid the mushroom would somehow grow limbs and dig up the potatos. I meant to ask does the fungus that produces this mushroom affect the potatos growing in the soil. But friendly farmer neighbour told me it’s a Peziza and these only seem to eat wood.

I raised the soil with 4 inches of mulched basswood twigs last fall and now I got so many mushrooms I never seen before

>>2822643
As a general rule fungi are only interested in dead/decaying matter, so your potatoes should be fine.

>>2822632
it's great chicken feed

>>2822632
I grew a named variety of it one year. It's rather fiddly because it's such a small plant but it has a pleasant eating texture and a decent slightly sour taste. If I had to do it again, I'd do it as a container crop. I won't do it again because it was a tiny harvest before it flowered and went to seed. Overall, tasty pain in the ass

>>2822620
>noooooo I...It's not a skill issue, it's.... you don't know, you just don't know, I have it so much harder than anybody else, I refuse to fix my mistakes
good luck with that mindset, you will need it.
as for me, I'm tired of people who refuse to do what the plants need, or what the soil needs, and instead insist on doing what they want.
This "omg the soil is bad" is just code word for "omg why isn't this soil retard proof, I keep doing wrong things and get bad results, I should be able to do anything I want and still get results, why is skill part of the outcome, it shouldn't be!"

Things are getting heated in the soil community

>>2822711
I propose trial by combat. Only way those anons can sort this out.

>too cold this week
>going to be too hot next week
My poor tomatoes...

>>2822711
Turn that compost more so it doesn’t catch fire.

>>2822632
Sure. You can intercrop it with salt sensitive plants to obtain a higher yield in soils with high salinity.

>>2822720
I'm right there with you. I just barely started hardening mine off

I had some guys out to dig a well and they flattened my raspberries with a skid steer. I know they're hard to kill, but can they come back from that or should I buy more in the fall?

Something is eating all of the leaves from my potato plants and my sunflowers, yet leaving everything else alone, and I haven't seen a single thing on any of them that might actually be doing it.

I went double leader last year but might go with a single leader on most of my tomatoes this year. Two of the other places I planted tomatoes the spacing is tighter than the grow bags. All my tomatoes are getting suckers at every leaf branch. They all have flower struts, with flowers open on about half the plants.

>>2822753
if flattening them was all it took they'd be gone in no time, your massive taproots are fine

Neighbor called about my rooster. For context she’s an evil vindictive bitch who decimated my lilacs and is currently getting evicted. She called the city on my rooster out of spite I assume. Any anons been in a similar situation? What do about a neighbor that destroys your property, threatens your livestock, and in true boomer fashion calls the cops on a rooster at 8AM.

Any advice for this? These are soursop fruits growing from a tree in my backyard.
The white shit is some type of fungus that is slowly rotting the fruits. I thought they might be an insect infestation so I cracked one open, but no the fungus doesn't seem to go through the fruit's shell.
I can't find shit online, should I just spray it with neem?

>>2821030
Your local SPCA may have a barn cats program where they will give you a working cat, certified feral mouseslayer that feeds itself and buries its poop, that will live outside your house and eat rabbits, rodents, and birds for free. I dont even net my berries anymore, Butcher Vik just climbs into the bush and waits for birds to come to him.

>>2822792
*don’t even worry about quantity, the cat does it for fun. Essentially a yard jannie.

>>2821030
Shawn Woods on Mousetrap Mondays. Watch all his movies on rats. I made some rat house snap traps like his, used black sunflower seeds from Lowes and baked bacon and killed nine rats in April and two in May. Get them on sunflower seeds and they'll want to go in your traps. Tie bacon to the yellow paddles so they have to trigger the trap to take it (I wrap a wire onto the paddle so it's easier to do this). Don't set the traps until they've created enough scent trails in the houses and are comfortable. I fed my rats for three full days before I set my traps and they couldn't stop fiending for those seeds, it was nuts. Three of them lost the last bit of their tail and they kept coming after the seeds. I would hear squeaks of excitement and joy when they found new seeds and squeaks of terror and dread when they found a their fellow dead. These were Norway rats that had been largely left alone for years and had seen unset snap traps around the property the whole time. I think that had a lot to do with it. You need to modify the wooden snap traps so the rats can't escape if it isn't a critical hit to the skull. Drive 1" long nails from the bottom of the wood board through the top so they stick out where the kill bar sits at the edge of the board. I also put some around the yellow paddle, too (always get the paddle kind). Thank me later.

Why are these beet seeds candy coated?

Fertilizer and that heat made my plants go positively crazy

>>2822916
Probably encrusted seeds, it's just some synthetic fertilizer to supposedly help it get going.

>Get a notification my sweet potato slips shipped this afternoon
Nice
>Get home late
>"A package came in for you"
>It's the slips
oh no, I'm not ready. I still need to get all these rocks out of the dirt that still isn't in my grow bags.
>Open it up and check revitalization instructions
>"Soak upright in water for 4~6 hours"
>Set that up
>"After rehydrating immediately stake plants in the ground"
>"Ideally 2 hours before dusk"
>The sun is setting
My plants are going to die.

>>2821029
I ordered my slips back in March. Last year the varieties I wanted were already accounted/taken by the end of spring when I started looking but the guy I got them from last year does not seem to be selling them this year.

>>2822954
They'll be fine, plants are much hardier than people think. Lots of plants get cared to death

Since this year is low on slugs I just put last minute pumpkin, nasturtium and sunflower seeds in the ground. If even one of each makes it I'll be so happy.

>>2822902
>>2822792
ty anons, looks like mouse genocide is back on the menu boys.

>>2822792
tyfys Butcher Vik

>"rainbow chard"
>"this MULTICOLORED variety is very colorful, with a RAINBOW of colors! Multi-colored stems in several colors! Haha!"
>>it's just different varieties of chard in one seed packet that grow into individual plants of a single homogeneous color each, not various stem colors growing from a single plant
Fuck that

What's the most nutrient dense food I can grow indoors? I don't have space for calories but what's got the most nutirition indoors in a pot

>>2823143
Micro greens, sprouts, or any leafy green veggie but kale and chard >>2823105
are not easy to do in containers because they’ll get huge.
Blueberries and raspberries are amazing for health benefits and fiber but again not conducive to containers but you could look into some dwarf varieties (dwarfs never stay dwarfs).
Best of luck anon! You go get them healthy greens and get yourself together!
Eat food that’s good for you.
Drink water.
Move around.
I was over 200lbs when I entered 8th grade.
When I graduated from college I weighed 303lbs.
I got involved in growing and that lead to hiking and going /out/ i started to eat better and suddenly I was a hundred pounds less.
I got down to 187 and have been between 205-215 for a decade now. I grow as much of my own food as possible.
Aside from the occasional local pizza place, I don’t eat fast food. I don’t eat in my car at all, and I never eat anything from a gas station.
What’s convenient is never healthy.
If you buy something and your great grandmother wouldn’t know what the ingredients are… probably best to avoid eating it as the long term health effects are unknown and likely to be detrimental.
Anyway thanks for reading my blog.
TLDR- grow micro greens in containers for dense nutrition.
Source- I used to be an adventurer like you then I took an arrow to the knee.

If I sprout something indoors and it doesn't grow at all from a seedling in weeks due to insufficient light but is still healthy and alive, can I plant it outside as normal, or should I start over? I know it would grow if I put it outside in the sun, but I don't know if nearly a month of stunting means its biological clock is still going and it'll just die or bolt before it gets where it needs to be

>>2823163
Plants are resilient pop that shit in the ground. I did the same thing and if they’re alive they should bounce back. Probably stunted but it’s early yet.

>>2823105
But don’t you want to partake in pride month with your garden?
In other news:
My beans got double-blacked. Lice and this lad (of whose size I am in awe).

>>2823143
Depends a lot on how much light you have.
If you have bright south facing window you could try sweet potato vines in a large 30+ liter pot, you can get up to 5~6 kg of sweet potatoes out of that.

>>2823163
Harden them off and then stick them in the ground

>>2823170
That's some kind of solitary bee. Probably a mason bee.

I've got some escarole and wild fennel seeds from Italy. I'm in the UK. I was thinking of sowing them in fibre seed tray until they're a bit big. Then transplant the escarole into the garden bed with a coldframe on top (picrel), both to try and keep the slugs off and keep them warm. The wild fennel will go in large terracotta pots.
Sound good?

>>2823159
>Micro greens and sprouts [...] get huge
Am I a retard or are you supposed to harvest the micro greens and sprouts before they significantly grow to begin with? Feels like they should not get huge or you missed the harvesting window.

Tied twine to the fence and added the first tomato clip to each plant. I also did it for the tomatoes growing in the greenhouse. I ran out of twine before I could get to the tomatoes out front, but they get a lot more sun and are beefy but shorter so they don't need to be tied up yet.

>>2823203
I think there was a formatting error. It makes more sense this way:

>>What's the most nutrient dense food I can grow indoors? I don't have space
>Micro greens, sprouts, or any leafy green veggie
> ,
>but kale and chard are not easy to do in containers because they'll get huge

>>2823229
That makes a lot more sense, thanks anon.

I think hoppers are eating my bok choy. I wonder if they're the ones that decapitated two of my bean sprouts also.

>>2823240
>>2823229
Yes. I was high and I’m retarded.

something ate the fucking leaves off my carrot tops

>>2823325
that was me teehee

Lupine

Potato

Haskap berry (Boreal Beast)

Blueberry and cranberry

Strawberry
Egyptian walking onions and lavender in background

Goumi berry

Really late start for this season, tomatoes, cucumbers, beans and pepper are much smaller than last year
At least fava beans, peas, garlic and onions are doing well

>>2823170
is....is that a fava bean?!! HELP I'm LOSING MY MIND!

>>2823332
how do you deal with the soil for blueberries? They need a slightly higher acidic ph right?

>>2823335
loook at the siiiize of those beans!

>>2823362
>how do you deal with the soil for blueberries?
I shoveled a lot of soil out and and poured several bags of acidified peat moss mixed with native soil in 2:1 ratio to get pH low when they were planted.
And I apply acidifying fertilizer for blueberries two times every year to keep pH low, you can save some money if you fertilize and acidify separately but I only have those 3 bushes so not really worth the effort for me.

>>2823363
Tallest are reaching 140 cm, I have never had them this big, last year I don't think they went beyond 120 cm at any point.
I'm not sure if it's because of manure I mixed in in spring or fertilizer added when they were third of this size or cold weather we had this year or drip irrigation I installed, maybe a combination of all of those.

>>2823362
NTA but I make my own acid mix. 2 parts peat moss, 2 parts pine fines, 1 part compost or native soil with plenty of fertilizer

Kino

My garlic has been growing so fast it seems to have burned through the nitrogen resulting in yellowing leaves. The soil may have been low in nitrogen to begin with as it was the soil under the sod I removed. I fertilized so hopefully the yellowing goes away in a few days. Once the garlic is done in late July I'll plant a bean crop in there, then leave the roots in the ground.

TOTAL GRASSHOPPER DEATH

>>2823406
ran over one with my bike the other day but it wasnt in my house

Should I plant yarrow in the unmanaged area outside my garden so it outcompetes the native weeds?

how does one harvest cucumber seeds? stick a cucumber in a blender and hope the seeds separate from the pulp without too much collateral damage?

Anyone know what these corner posts are called? Swear I've seen them sold somewhere, or did this guy just make them with a router. I do not own a router and making these from scratch looks like a huge ball ache.

>>2823514
Just scrape em out of the fruit with a spoon. You have to ferment the seeds for a few days to remove the jelly outer layer. Then you can dry and store them like normal.

>>2822786
The Neem hasn't done much but the good news is some of the less moldy ones have started ripening :D
They taste great, almost like sour strawberries but with a hint of alcohol. The pulp also smells like cum.

>>2823328
god i hate those
this spring i've spent probably 3x2 hours chopping these before they flower
they're spreading like crazy on my property, especially in the woods where i dont go that often
this year i've declared all-out war on them
they're not native to my cunt and i want them gone

>>2823527
I only know the stackable concrete ones which are called planter wall blocks.

>>2823541
>they're not native to my cunt and i want them gone
What my ex said after a broken condom on prom night?

Brutal wind all weekend gusting to 80 km/h. Fortunately most of the plants are surviving it. Of all the things to loose are about 5 small bush bean plants.

rate my blackcurrants. 2yo btw

>>2823362
ericaceous compost.

>>2823541
wtf is wrong with you. they're arguable the most aesthetic flower

>>2823541
No flower is illegal

Got careless pruning my tomato plants trimming the leader on two instead of the sucker. Should be a small setback, lost the just about to emerge flower cluster. I've got plenty of other plants so those 2 being a week or two behind isn't a big deal.

>>2823620
not bad for a 2yo. keep it up, kid.

>>2823669
heh

Are food forests a meme?
What's the best way to get one started?

>know that apricots, nectarines etc need another tree to polinate
>bought trees have "self polinating" written on them
>only way that could be possible if another different type was grafted on to the tree
>see no graft points for another variety
looks like I'm ready for a disappointing failure in 5 years when the tree is grown up and gives no fruit because OOOPS you needed another tree all along

All my carrot tops were eaten overnight. I will not recover from this.

Cherry tomaters are thrivin
Different cucumbers are agrowin
Climbing beans are climbin
It is good

Planted three trees last week to start my stool bed plans.
This week, before I could get to putting up the fence, the deer got to them.

What can I do to ensure propagation? These were bare-root, so is there anything I can do to get them to leaf out the remaining buds and keep things going? I thought of pruning the top down to the next obviously-alright bud.
Fucking deer.

Got my first pepper coming on.

>>2823614
kek
>>2823623
>>2823626
these should be, they out compete native flowers and vegetation
and because they fix nitrogen into the soil they will eventually make the soil too rich for the wild native flowers
anyway, they look very nice, but i still wage war on them

I started this corn in my greenhouse in the middle of march. Transplanted outside arround 3 weeks later. 80cm high. oaxacan green in north west europe

>>2823796
Second pic

>>2823541
>they're spreading like crazy on my property
Meanwhile I'm struggling just to keep them alive here, I have never seen one in the wild here, they are instantly outcompeted by locals

Five-flavor berry doing well, going to plant it in Autumn under a small trellis

>>2823796
Huge, my corn ius still tiny but I put seeds in the ground in May, I was planing to plant it earlier but establishing new plot took me longer than expected

>>2823812
There is a lot of commercial corn being grown in my area so I'm worried about crosspollination. So I'm trying to start early so I hope the pollination will take place before the commercial corn will start flowering.

We had a huge hailstorm one week ago, so there is some damage on the leaves but not to bad, it has not affected my garden to much.

>>2823754
My cherry tomato plant is 3x the size of the other tomatoes I planted for some reason. The weather has been shit for about a month though.

>>2823747
Something ate all of my marigolds to the ground. Pretty sure it was rabbits.

>>2823785
congrats anon enjoy
and good luck figuring out what to do with the excess peppers...

>>2823773
dahlias soon come
I just potted on my tubers that I brought in over winter

>>2823829
>good luck figuring out what to do with the excess peppers
Yeah the struggle is real.
After salsa and canning I usually just chop the extras up and freeze them.

are seed pods supposed to dry out or can you plant them fresh?

>>2824065
Let them dry. The seeds will mature more and have a higher chance of success.

>>2820926 (OP)
Hey friends, not sure of a more on-topic thread to ask: Any suggestions toward getting rid of indoor potted-plant pests? Spray with some incesticide and hope for the best? I grow nothing edible in doors.

>>2824103
I'm a fan of pyrethrin for things like spider mites or aphids

I accidentally a sunflower by tossing some "dead seeds" into a container of old soil.

This soil is apparently way better soil than anything in my yard, as the sunflower that grew in it is 3x the size of the ones I've actually been taking care of.

My question is this.

>If it's only in about 3-4 inches of soil and hasn't bloomed yet could I get away with removing them, filling the container with soil and putting them back in without killing them if I'm fast enough?

>>2824251
sunflowers are hardy as fuck, you shouldn't have an issue with that

Couple millimeter long black flies on bean leaves would be gnats, right? Not again...

>>2824254
Well I scooped my hands under it as best I could and don't think I missed any roots, it was shallower than I thought max 3 inches poor thing had nowhere else to spread its roots but it grew so fast.

Will see if it survived the transplant in a few day.

>>2824268
>>2824251
It's windy so this is the best picture I could get.

>>2824268
>>2824271
looks great

If you're a plant, and you don't know how to climb, what are you even doing with your life?

>>2820926 (OP)
Got my very first little gardening project.
Have 5 tomato plants on my balcony. I got some bamboo sticks for them to grow on. How does it actually work though, do I just ram in the stake and the plants will figure out how to grow along them, or do I have to tie them to it as they keep growing?

>>2824264
Closest photo I could get if that helps
They were kinda stuck to the leaves, I had to brush them off
I haven't seen the fungus gnats on leaves before when I had them, that's why I'm unsure if that's them

>>2824277
Nah, gotta tie them. Beans and cucs climb along stakes though.

>>2824279
Gotcha. Too dark for that now, but I'll get on it tomorrow

>potted and took care of some maple saplings years ago
>planted them in the ground
>my little 2 inch trees now tower over my parents house
Feels good lads. Seeing my babies growth up and provide shade for me. Saw some birds and squirrels hiding in them already but still too thin a coverage for nests.

>>2824291
Speaking of picrel, COTW are supposedly common in my area, I should finally stop trying to rope my friends into mushroom foraging and drive out into my local forest alone to look for them.

>>2823796
Do you use some kind of fertilizer for the corn?

Has anyone experimented with letting various weeds rot in water and giving it to your plants? I'm weighing if I should try it

>>2824291
>grandpa grew two apple trees from seed in the 50s
>family bought the property back a couple years ago
>after a number of failed attempts, I finally got a cutting from one to take root and put out new growth
>mfw watching the little fella get very VERY bushy this spring
I don't care if it'll take years for it to bear a single fruit; I just want to clone these trees for my own garden.

>>2824305
doing this with comfrey is pretty common
but you have to leave it for a week or two, then dilute the resulting water

CHICKEN ANONS, I had a young bird who clearly had a problem with the posterior ligament on his right leg. I couldn't tell if it had slipped off the knee or detached from the bone. Was clearly in an incredible amount of pain, so I gave him the old cartel pain relief and planted a blackberry over him. In the future, if the ligament simply popped off the knee, can it be pressed back into place? I'd rather do that than have spend needless .22 ammo

>>2821286
Fellow interior alaskanon lmao, it's a special hell. Build a greenhouse. I agree that desert is a more navigable challenge for gardening than 2b-gang life.

>>2824278
smush a gnat between your fingers and smell it. fungus gnats have a strong smell i believe

When is the best time to cut off cuttings and root them?
Can I just do it now or do I need to wait for Autumn/Spring?

>>2824394
Depends on what you're trying to root. Some are okay to root with green/softwood, others prefer hard and dormant

>>2824395
Red currant and gooseberry specifically

First cucs
Definitely glad I decided to plant less and space everything out more this year, everything's way healthier

>>2824316
Gently stretch the leg down and then backwards back to reseat the tendon. Gently massage and bicycle the leg every few hours. You may have to reseat the tendon multiple times before it heals in place.

>>2824305
Just make sure that the weeds aren't allelopathic like puncture vine. I use my weeds as a mulch which provides more benefits than a compost tea, but if you've pulled some weeds that you're worried might have viable seeds then it's not a bad idea. Dump the leftover plant material on your compost, use it as a mulch, or bury it in your garden.

Someone give me a crash course on pruning tomato plants

put my jalapenos out for hardening and they were covered in gnats after an hour god i hate this fucking bug

>>2824432
Look for leaf axils, where a leaf stem comes from the main stem. In there you'll see small sucker stems. These will become stems if left alone, but too many, so you want to cut them off. To do so use a very sharp and clean knife (razor blades also work well). The more you cut, the stronger the currently existing stems and the more fruit they will have, but if you cut all, barely any new stems will develop, so decide for yourself if you want the plant to grow more or have more fruit.

>>2824311
I plan on doing a similar thing with a variety of wild apple that grows pretty much only near the village I grew up in when I have a garden.
The trees are communal and I have fond memories of collecting the fallen down apples with my siblings and parents. The fruit aren't very photogenic but super tasty. Very tart, juicy and with a rather intense aroma, which is unusual for such a old variety that's not really been optimized for commercial use.
You're living the dream anon.

>>2824437
I've been doing the little suckers, but I've heard you're supposed to prune leaves as well and maybe even the early flowers?

>>2824439
I've never heard of that, but it's possible. Essentially it's cost/use function, growing leaves, stems and fruit takes energy and the plant doesn't have infinite energy. By cutting suckers you save it the energy needed to grow those (plus they are often towards the center of the plant where they get little light anyways to make back that energy). If you are too late don't cut them at all, most of the energy is already wasted growing that part and you're cucking yourself out of them generating back some of it, plus larger stems are larger wounds which means more stress for the plant.
In the beginning you want the plant to use its energy for big foliage with large amounts of sun harvested, no internal stems that are permanently shaded. Then later you redirect all energy into fruits so you get the best harvest you can. Don't overthink it.

>>2824408
Thank you. I'll keep it in my notes for next time.

I got this citrus plant that got fucked over by pests and is recovering from that. Was wondering if I should just snip off the stems down to where the leaves are regrowing since it's kind of just turning brown from top to bottom.

>have parts of the leaves turn red, curl up like it's some sort of mutation
Any ideas what it could be?
Some kind of disease?

my indoor chilli plantation is growing some fruits

>grow brassicas
>massacred by birds and caterpillars
>maybe 10% of plants survive to harvest, with heavily stunted growth reducing yield even further
>grow cucurbits
>single digit percentage of seeds actually germinate
>ravaged by powdery mildew before they've finished producing/ripening
I do fine with every other course in the rotation, yet this one has yet to give me even one worthwhile harvest. Is there really nothing else I can grow here besides just corn? From what I've read that stuff's a bit of a nutrient hog.

>>2824534
I've never had problems germinating cucumbers but I always make seedlings even if it's against common practice. Climate's too erratic to hope they get enough heat to germinate by themselves in the ground.
Powdery mildewy always tended to be a case of overcrowding in my experience but there are also different varieties that are more resistant to it if you're still having problems.

>>2824304
Some random N based fertilizer I that was left over from previous season and compost applied in the fall

I fell for the mulch-meme.
Let’s see if it’s gonna help my tired greenhouse soils or if it’s just gonna turbocharge my weed production (not the dude, lmao kind).

>>2824542
what are you even mulching it with?

what's wrong with my pear tree?

>>2824547
“Lawn” (aka dandelion zone) cuttings. They aren’t producing seed right now, but there’s always some seeds pods I’m overlooking.

>>2824548
Looks like pretty typical root burn to me if that's not some disease.

>>2824542
>>2824549

newb here so i might be talking out of my butt, but i just read that mulching with lawn/weed cuttings requires the adding of nitrogen as the cuttings burn through it from the ground during the rotting process. just a fyi.

>>2820926 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3oVYvHrDj8
This guy claims that this method will grow 9 foot tall tomato plants
>Dig out 2 ft wide and 2 ft deep hole
>Bury plant where only a little bit of it is sticking out
>as it grows fill hole with compost
>as seen in the video the plants arent pruned at all since suckers are visible
>uses 9 ft custom made cage
>shakes plant for pollination
Any thoughts the yields seem decent I might try this with some suckers from my san Marzano plants

>>2824580
How is that even impressive at all?
My tomatoes last year grew to this height and all I did was plant them in my heavy soil, fertilize them once and water during droughts

I harvest the vegetables

>>2824649
>kohlrabi
my nigga

Anyone gonna make a new thread?

>>2824649
I see you yeeted the kohlrabi stems. I just canned a bunch of the greens and put the stems chopped up into some soup. Had to pressure cook it though because they're quite fibrous. Grilled the bulbs they were delicious.

>>2824653
>>2824697
No I save all the stems, theyre in the other basket. The turnip, beet and kohlrabi greens i all save

I gave my carrots their second and final weeding of the season, then straw mulched between the rows. They'll be able to out compete most of the weeds now.

>>2823785
Same here.
>>2823829
> good luck figuring out what to do with the excess peppers...
Yeah, if they’re all gonna make it, I’ll have the same problem.
Fun fact: all 4 in this picture have been sown and treated 100% the same and 3 of them are the same cultivar (piemento de padron).
In other news: I’ve got 3 wasp nests directly above my front door. I really like wasps and they’re rather cute and it’s fantastic to observe them, especially with kids, but I’m sorry, not directly above my door which I constantly have to use. I hope my shop vac with its tank filled with soap water will be short and painless for the few that just started the nests. Better now than a hundreds-of-em genocide later, when the nest is bigger.

>9b
Got my peppers and tomato plants germinating now for a fall harvest. Summers get so hot here that even "heat tolerant, heat loving" plants just don't work. 95-100 degree days, the pollen in a tomato flower becomes inert and the whole bud falls off the plant. After Spring, it's not until September that they can thrive. The upside is that there's practically no "frost date" either.
I'm really excited to start growing stuff, even though I don't have much space to work with. The way things are going for me lately, I just need to be able to wake up, walk outside, and see a few pots with green things poking out of them, a little more each day. Even if I fuck them up like I do everything else, in the meantime it'll be a comfort.

>>2824718
Plant a cactus, they're supposed to be zero effort, grow a lot, and you can still eat them.

>>2824724
I don't want to eat a cactus, I want to eat food

>>2824727
nopales and aqua fresca bro

Sort of related. I've been watching a lot of Crime Pays Botany Doesn't on youtube recently. Pretty good channel. Got me more interested in plants in general.

My weeded carrots. Only a few gaps in the rows. I planted them way too damn early and they took a month to come up.

Mini bell peppers looking better after fertilizing them a bit over a week ago. I'm wanting the tomatoes to get taller so I can trim off more of the lower leaves. The one jalapeno I planted is a bit slow. First I topped it, then the wind broke several of the remaining leaves but it is starting to get new lower growth and should bush out nicely.

Hello people, First time posting here but it's the first time I have this kind of problem since I started gardening this year. Pic related is my problem on 2 tomato plants, only 2 of the 12 I have. The leaves are progressively getting fuller of black spots on the back, then it spreads to the front of the leaves. It's progressing slowly (2 weeks since I noticed the problem) and despite me cuttings all the branches with ill leaves, the newer ones after a few days start getting spotted. I tried copper, calcium and magnesium, tried with Neem oil but nothing seems to stop it Just these 2 plants, variety "Montecarlo" (i live in Italy) out of 4 of this variety have this problem, the other 8 are fine and very tall but these 4 are all shirt and 2 are I'll. Any suggestion is appreciated, ty

>>2824985
To add some info, both of the plants have like 5 fruits each maturing that are fine. With the copper I also gave some sulfur

>>2824985
That looks more like fertilizer burn to me than a disease desu.
>copper sulfur calcium magnesium
Hmmm

>>2824996
Didn't think about that, could explain why it doesn't spread to other plants, but I didn't give them too much fertilizer, only some pelleted manure and it was like a month ago

My out-of-season radishes that I made a bunch of mistakes with turned out kind of shit, but part of the pleasure of gardening is doing it wrong and seeing why it was wrong, then knowing for the future not to do it like that again.

Tomatoes and beans are starting to bud and flower

>>2825083
You can let them flower and then eat the seed pods. Are you going to grow another batch for the fall?

>>2824985
if it is root rot i think your choices are moving the plant or over-watering in an attempt to flush out the excess fertilizer.

>>2824985
did it rain lately?

>>2824999
>of the plants have like 5 fruits each maturing that are fine
That would make even more sense for fertilizer burn since ya know, the fruits are using it.
Maybe your soil is just naturally mineral-filled, get a test if you can. I know some people had like 4000% recommended minerals in their soil.

>>2825132
>You can let them flower and then eat the seed pods.
I wanted to do that, but they were just kind of a placeholder for other stuff that I'll now be using the containers for
>Are you going to grow another batch for the fall?
I'll probably grow some on the side just to get my money's worth, but by then I'll be more interested in growing these purple haze carrots

>>2825083
I still can't grow good radishes
they're supposed to be total noob crops

>>2825199
No, it's 2 weeks without rain here, I'm watering them each other day but I think I also gave some of them too much water because some tomatoes have a black tip
>>2825202
Oh really? Maybe I could do a test.
The other plants are all doing well but the "cuore di bue" started showing signs of the black tip like a week ago, so I read on the internet that you can add some calcium or reduce the water intake. I have a very compact soil so it makes sense that it doesn't drain water well and it stays pretty humid

My yellow cherry tomato plant has slight lighter-green spotting all over. What is that? The red cherries are perfectly fine.

>>2825205
Those look delicious. I love carrots.

>>2825268
I'll trade you, I live in a subtropical zone and we've had 6" or 15cm of rain in the past week. It's been raining for the past 2 months like this and everything is dying from root rot. Potatoes are rotting on the plant. Tomato plants that were doing fantastic are now nearly wilted over entirely.

please send sunshine

Which part of this yard long bean is the vine that I'm supposed to attach to a string for climbing? 1, 2 or 3?

If I were to use chicken wire or similar metal mesh as a trellis for climbing plants (specifically beans and squash outdoors, and maybe tomatoes indoors), would there be any risk of it getting too hot and harming the plants during the summer?
This would be in coastal England (east midlands specifically), for growing beans and squash outdoors, and possibly tomatoes indoors.

My romeo cherry is having a rough time. I water him regularly and give him some fertilizer a couple weeks ago.

My other seedlings are left alone outside, but the little baby basil just gets fucked every time I try to give it some sunshine. It's got one tiny set of true leaves and they're each bitten jaggedly in half. Will it still grow indoors with a grow light or should I just start over and cut my loss of ~2 weeks?

>>2825478
Use something thicker, like chain link, so the wind doesn't shred your plants

>>2825633
I had actually considered that and intended to commission some made with thicker wire than usual (it would also be better for bearing heavier plants like squash), but isn't extra thickness going to make the (presumed) temperature issue worse by absorbing/retaining more heat?
This is entirely guesswork, but I'd been assuming the ideal compromise would be a wire diameter of about 4mm.

>>2825635
Couldn't you just get one of those rubber coated wires for this?

I'm going to have to pay more attention to my string trellised tomatoes in the front yard. The extra sun they get there compared to the backyard is making the stems thicker than the plants I grow in the backyad. Today a tomato popped its support clip and flopped over. All the other plants needed their clips adjusted.

My climbing bean has outgrown the balcony ceiling

>>2822793
Kek

Man the second we got some proper summer sun and temperatures, everything's gone crazy. 20cm growth on cucumbers in 2 days.

I hate earwigs. They won't stop eating everything I plant, but at least some sunflowers made it.

Wtf is wrong with my tomato plants all new growth looks like this

>>2825888
This has been happening before the recent heat wave in my area and it's affecting all my tomato plants

>>2825851
You can buy insecticidal sprays for plants.

>>2825910
nta but aren't most of them like gigacancer

>>2825911
Plant basil

>>2825939
Earwig hater here, I planted two established basil plants, they stripped every single leaf the same night, only the stems were left.

I've tried cinnamon, seems to deter them slightly.

>>2825911
Safer's soap has been around for forever so I think its at least alright.

>>2825999
Neat trips. Also, we’re on page 9.
Guess now’s the time for a new thread. I’ll make one if I’m at my computer in a few hours!

>green beans from seed sprouted like crazy and have grown super quick in the smaller wooden box planter i had them in
>tomatoes are growing tall, will need to start pruning asap, already missed some flowers on them and i see small green tomatoes already
>peppers are growing but are still a little short
>cucs and squash exploded in growth and are some of the biggest plants i've ever had. way underestimated how much they'd fan out in my raised beds
>berry bushes are doing well; the blueberry and raspberry that overwintered in the shed and had weak leaves sprung back and are doing well; blackberry did not come back this year, but transplanted it anyways with a new variety i bought this year

Very happy with the assortment this year. I need to make some smaller protection fencing for the green beans; last year something came through and ate the whole thing like it was a salad. It was all ogre in basically one day.
Something already pulled some strawberries out so I need to do something quick.

>tomato sprouted within a few days and is growing fine
>both peppers still haven't sprouted in 11 days
I'm getting worried. Usually seeds germinate quickly for me, and I know peppers are said to take a while, but I don't want to be left weeks behind if they don't germinate and I have to start over

New thread!
>>2826053
>>2826053


>>2826000
took quite some few hours, but here it is:
>>2826053