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Posted this in last thread but can someone tell me what is going on with my san Marzanos and why all new growth is looking like this

>>2826058
Aphids may have been sucking sap from those leaves when they unfurled. Honestly I wouldn't worry about it

>>2826052
It's a little late to be starting peppers unless your growing season is really really long

>>2826075
Zone 9b, our winter is like a mild summer

>>2826079
Godspeed. My peppers always germinate about week later than my tomatoes when sown at the same time

>>2826071
>Aphids
They also do tomatoes? Fugg…
They absolutely went nuts on my indoor chilies (but somehow the plants are still doing ok-ish) I’ll repot them the weekend, hoping that’ll help. And then I’ll top the soil with a layer of coarse sand and glue traps.
Can I put aphid infested soil on my compost? It’s quite a few meters away from the next chili plant.

guys I found these red bugs all crowded together on single fig with a couple larger brown leaf bugs. they scattered before I took the pic but they were like gathered in a circle having some sort of interspecies meeting with the leaf bugs. what were they doing?? I picked the fig and ate it so they couldn't get it.

>>2826112
>what were they doing??
Nothing. It's best that you forget what you saw here today.

>>2826113
what are they doing to my figs???

>>2826114
The less you know, the better off you will be.

Sungold Cherries, what size grow bags should I get for them?

I have a mara des bois strawberry which normally produces smallish berries. The "new" plants are rather small but their leaves are huge and so are the berries (at least three times as large). What causes this? They are grown in containers.

>>2826126
I forgot to mention that I DIVIDED that plants and the news ones have the large foliage and leaves

>>2826126
It's probably a combination of
>new crowns more productive than old crowns
>don't have to fight for nutrients because they aren't as crowded
My spring was extremely wet and cold, I had to throw away 80%+ of my MdB crop due to botrytis. Hoping for a second flush soon

>>2826119
5 gallon minimum, the bigger the better

>>2826129
Thanks. It's been warm and dry here. They're also throwing runners like crazy which are already blooming despite the fact that they haven't even rooted yet.

>>2826119
I'm doing mine in a 10 gallon, and even then I can see how 15 would be better if I had the space

Everything's gotten so damn big, I think I ought to take the buckets off the boxes I keep them on so I can spread them out more for circulation.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAphids :(

>>2826107
It's a stress response to something which shows up in the new growth. The source can be elsewhere though. Check the whole plant for insects. Aphids make themselves known. Have any other environmental stressors come about or a drastic change in watering?

>>2826186
A is for aphids that eat up the whole crop!

I planted a single parsley seed and now have 1 parsley seedling. Am I retarded? I can't tell if I was supposed to just sprinkle the seeds all over some dirt or if one parsley seed will become a big parsley plant with many stems to harvest from

>>2826193
bro parsley is a root veggie like a carrot
tastes like a dirty carrot

The pokeweed crop I didn't plant is growing nicely.

It looks like herbicide drift hit all 8 of the tomato plants in the front yard. New leaves tightly curled on one side of the bed, less so on the ohter side. Older leaves curling a bit and getting holes. Growth has ramped right back. Not sure if I should just pull them and plant something else. Some sunflowers in an adjacent bed also got hit, on the same side of the bed as well.

>>2826187
> Aphids make themselves known.
Did I ESL my post or are you ESLing it? It’s 100% aphids. My glue traps are black and there’s hundreds of them flying around. I. Was just wondering
a) do aphids also fuck over tomatoes? So far I’ve only experienced that they’re just mildly interested in them.
b) can I put the soil that they’re in in the compost, or will they thrive in the compost and then invade my garden?

>watch plant growth time lapse video on youtube
>light is on them 24/7 as they constantly grow
I thought you couldn't do this. Is this how you're supposed to do it? Don't they need periods of darkness?

>>2826282
It literally happens in nature, ever heard about polar day?
People don't usually do it because most plants don't like it and it's inefficient, plants will eventually enter rest period light or not and at this point you are just wasting light

>>2826282
To my understanding, it depends on what kind of plant you're growing.

plum tree is very sticky and the top new leaves are wrinkly and curlng in
will my fruit be fine or do I need to quarantine this shit?

>>2826326
Probably aphids

I harvest and cure the vegetables

>>2826290
This is not true. They do need darkness, they evolved on a planet with day and night after all.
>Polar day
You mean the region on earth with barely any plants?

>>2826290
Cellular respiration happens at night.

>One of the first cultivated plants
>Short growth cycle
>Likes cool spring weather
>Edible raw and cooked
>Easy to grow
>Easy to store
>Doesn't waste energy on growing strong stems, will use superior man made structures instead
>Doesn't need good soil, cultivates bacteria to make good soil for it
>Grows well with other plants
>Excellent for crop rotation
>Returns nutrients to the soil
>Tastes super sweet and has a good amount of protein
What an absolute gigachad of a plant

>>2826374
I love raw peas, the smell of cooked ones make me want to vomit.

>>2826277
Hundreds of flyers would be a result of either a massive infestation or intense breeding pressure that would be difficult to generate outdoors. Are you sure they are aphids?

>>2826290
>It literally happens in nature, ever heard about polar day?
Polar day doesn't last for 90 days straight like you see in these videos

Winged beans update: All but 3-4 outside are dead, 3 inside remain.

The 2 of the remaining 3 planted on the ground are fine; the 3rd is totally nutrient fucked, I think the soil in that area is just a deadzone of pure clay.
The other 2 just needed a squirt of fertilizer, though one is much shorter than the other which is growing good. I don't know how the short one will do down the line, but the tall one just needs to get a water drip set on it & it'll explode with leaves.
The other one outside is in a bucket, it was the one I was keeping in the bathroom, its still alive, but riddled with mold, I might try using an anti-fungal thing on it, I dono.

The 3 inside are very stunted, they sprouted after like a month of just sitting around. One sprout actually spread out a bit, but I never really got to planting it, its gonna die very soon, the other 2nd is still super small, ditto to it's death.
The 3rd is a 6 stem sprout, its alright enough, I gave it a little pot to live in, I like it. I don't know if I'll plant it outside or maybe try putting it in a large pot, or what.

In the end, I'm not really concerned about the situation, as the yard needs a bunch of work. The soil is garbage for growing right now.
We thought we were gonna get a brick wall built during winter, but nobody here does brick work, so we never got to properly turn the soil into something usable.

>>2826374
Worth mentioning you will never ever get good sweet peas in the store. One of the few veggies I actually think is worth it flavor wise over storebought.

I planted a purple cherry tomato variety and a black widow decided it's hers. It's the only plant that hasn't been eaten by pests and killed, the downside is there's a 2 inch long black widow that comes sprinting at me any time I touch her web, and her web is all over my tomatoes.

Do I just give up and let her have it? She's kinda cute.

Potato bucket faggot here.
My spuds grew balls.

Striped cucumber bettles are having sex orgies inside my squash flowers

Just pulled out the peas and planted beans. They are the magical fruit. White half runners.

>>2826456
thats where you get potato seeds from, they will look alot like a tomatio

>>2826496
>potato seeds
Not to be confused with seed potatoes

>>2826456
DON'T worry, they are very healthy, and great to EAT, always be happy to see THEM!

>>2826456
>just were talking with family about these
>you randomly drop them here
fuck the simulation

>>2826509
Kek. Very very poisonous.
>>2826496
>>2826506
I have had it happen once before… been doing my perpetual potato buckets for a few years.
I’ll probably sacrifice the yield on that one and let it seed and try to sprout some. It sounds like a fun experiment.
>>2826510
Kek. It is the matrix neo.

I pried one up and tried it the other day. Melts in your mouth like butter… especially when you add butter.

>>2826515
>I’ll probably sacrifice the yield
does it effect yeald? i have
quite a few, should i pull them?

>>2826518
The plant will put energy into seeds instead of spuds you’ll get smaller potatoes.

what happens when a plant outgrows its pot? ie. when the root system covers the soil and starts sticking out of the drainage holes.

can i just leave it in the same pot or is it going to die unless i move it over to a larger one?

>>2826539
it'll die
depending on the plant, just shave the roots down & add soil back

>>2826540
its a rosemary plant. shave the roots down? how does one do that?

>>2826541
look up youtube tutorials, they show, not tell
rosemary is an easy one, you'll be able to do it

>>2826542
cheers, will do.

>>2826543
alright that doesnt seem overly difficult for a beginner. vid for anyone else that might be curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jStYPp62wNI

Thank you bumblebee for your pollination

>>2826468
why though?

>>2826053 (OP)
should I get some free compost from the compost facility that is nearby. Is there anything I should be weary of

>>2826632
It may or may not be full of microplastics

>>2826632
or macroplastics
isn't that shit from like parks, i had some bad experience with park grass compost

>>2826622
idk, but I killed a few dozen. Had to pick them with tweezers.

The pea on the right is very leggy for some reason, also the color is a little pale. Its neighbor is doing very well, though, and really loves climbing, shoots out a million tendrils.

The left most pea is turning yellow. Why is that? The soil is claylike, I think.

gove it to me straight. is my pear tree dead?

>>2826734
Scratch the bark, if it's not green under it then it's dead

>>2826689
wild how two plants sitting next to each other can look so different - one healthy, one sickly.

I need an easy answer to the stupid weeds in my small yard. These so called 'weed wackers', don't they just spread the stuff around even more and make things worse?

>>2826751
it's just a marketing name for a yard trimmer
gets you plenty of plastic in your soil too

>>2826752
Why don't they make them with steel wire?

>>2826753
Sparks can create a fire

>climbing bean suddenly got all fucked up
oh well

Can I have gravel laying all the way up to the stem of a hedge? Or do they need some clearance? I am still on my quest to a low maintenance garden.

My broccoflower seedlings are 3 inches tall, but their stems are like 1mm wide. Should I rebury them deeper?

I see there's some beekeeping stuff in the pastebin but does anyone have any beekeeping books/resources for keeping bees in northern climates? We're talking zone 2a cold here.

today the advance delta force launched a surgical strike against wisteria, deep in chinese-controlled territory. several stolons were amputated and the ground and treated with a syringe of undiluted glyphosate. another win on the asian front involved digging up japanese knotweed as far down the rhizome as possible, but [begin encrypted commsat] the nuclear arsenal is shoring up for a heavy offensive with glyphosate once it flowers, and another nuke a couple weeks later to liberate nagasaki from itself.

on the european front, the black swallow-wort is holding position along the periphery. the delta force removed it from the milkweed stand in a previous skirmish. the privets have been wiped out but the english ivy is gathering reinforcements for a winter offensive.

one native sunflower was a casualty of moving a picnic table but the american linden is in place and the hazelnuts have been growing strong. a contingent of wintergreen is in the ground, a cranberry bush will be dispatched to its final location, and the highbush blueberries will grow into a thicket, displacing the remaining japanese colonizers the burning bushes. the thornless raspberry needs medical support but the loch ness thornless blackberries are bearing fruit.

my yard is 1/3 of an acre and basically a minor agroforestry project.

All this time I thought I was growing a sun gold tomato plant, but these don't look like tomato leaves.
I must've gotten it mixed up with one of the pepper plants that I thought hadn't germinated, which means it was really the tomato seeds that didn't germinate. Well, now I know (I think)

>>2826861
... Or is it? I keep looking at pictures of baby tomato and pepper plants and mine don't look 100% like the tomato leaves I'm seeing but they do have some tiny hairs on them. Is this shape normal for sun golds?

fkin birds started eating my soursops
2.5 lb fruit and now idk what to do with it because a bird pecked it open

>>2826825
Enjoy your Parkinson’s.

Sorry for bad quality
>thought black walnut, bc one next to property. Wrong flowers
>thought tree of heaven. Wrong flowers
What is this? Northwest Indiana. They're over 6' tall and everywhere. Nuke it with herbicide? Don't want chemicals, but also don't want invasives

>>2826825
good work m8. Word of advice, even if you're painting glypho manually it's best to water it down, it's often 1:1000 concentration so it's easy to apply 10m^2 worth to a stump or something if you use it undiluted.
>>2826771
you can do it if the gravel is loose, hedge won't like it if you pack it down, but depending on the hedge you could still probably do it.

But I think what you actually want is permeable ground mesh, it's just a kind of cloth you lay around hedges for exactly this reason. water gets through, seeds dont.
>>2826734
Can't tell from the picture, but in winter it might just be dormant. scratch the bark and see if it's green. If it's suffered dieback (the ends have died) don't give up, if you cut it back it might re-sprout. It doesn't really need the top over winter, so leave it, cut it back right before spring.
If it's died back, either it's got no water, got fucked up by frost, is planted in the wrong soil or is suffering root rot. If you dig a hole too small, especially in clay soil, it just fills up with water and rots your plant. hole twice as big as the root mass.
>>2826689
It's a bushing pea, not a trellis bean. either way you don't fuck around with these, you plant three times as many seeds as you want and then thin them out.
>>2826632
often noxious weed seeds. toxic PH. if I get mystery mulch I never just spread it, I mix it with browns/straw and leave it in a pile uncovered. That way if anything sprouts, it happens in the heap not all over your garden

>>2826596
:3
>>2826539
Roots that have overgrown in a pot will stunt the plant, it's an easy fix, just shave the bottom Cm off the bottom of the root base, rough up the edges pulling off roots which started growing upwards.
There is no need to cut off the roots which protrude from the pot holes, those are actually the roots which did the right thing.
>>2826468
I always bag by flowers to prevent accidental cross-pollination
>>2826349
unerated post, fantastic work

>>2826868
One of my cherry tomatoes looks like a potato unlike the two red cherries so I wouldn't dismiss it

>>2826940
>Roots that have overgrown in a pot will stunt the plant, it's an easy fix, just shave the bottom Cm off the bottom of the root base, rough up the edges pulling off roots which started growing upwards.
We've did the bottom 1/3rd trick with our house plants and it works, can recommend.

>>2826938
>you can do it if the gravel is loose, hedge won't like it if you pack it down, but depending on the hedge you could still probably do it.
>
>But I think what you actually want is permeable ground mesh, it's just a kind of cloth you lay around hedges for exactly this reason. water gets through, seeds dont.
You mean lay the cloth on the surface? I was actually planning to use such a cloth underneath the pebbles.

>>2826946
I think a third is excessive, but whatever.
The issue is roots heading back up, you shave up the sides and that's fine
>>2826948
Nah G you pack down gravel on aggregate, plant your hedges through permeable cloth.

>>2826931
Elderberry, native

>>2826861
>>2826868
Potato leaf tomato or pepper

I have a lopsided apple tree, it was neglected for a few years and got heavily shaded on one side.

What I wondered is whether I could stimulate growth on the other side somehow. Or maybe use a drill to graft a shoot from the growing side onto the shaded side?

>>2826752
>gets you plenty of plastic in your soil too
just use biodegradable cable

>>2826922
there is no organic solution to chinese wisteria and japanese knotweed. do you understand how damaging those plants are? the former will rip the siding off your house and kill mature trees, and the latter grows through solid concrete.

>>2826938
>even if you're painting glypho manually it's best to water it down
hmm, i've gotten pretty mixed advice about this. some people say undiluted, others say diluted, some say triclopyr with diesel oil, etc.

i've killed or critically injured a number of burning bushes by cutting down to the stump, drilling holes into it, and pouring undiluted triclopyr in the holes. for that application, i should probably dilute it so it penetrates better.

the new technique on wisteria stolons that i started using yesterday is to pull it up until it's about to snap. then i saw about 1 foot away from the ground, shave the bark open with a hori knife, and apply undiluted glyphosate via syringe to the wound.

the only application i've found for foliar spraying is on jap knotweed 2x per year after it flowers. sadly it doesn't work on english ivy or black swallow-wort (which kills monarch butterflies btw).

>>2826053 (OP)
Tomatoes are doing well, Breed was Serrat F1. started indoors on 15 march. Planted in greenhouse on 15 may. I hope to harvest soon

Does anyone here grow heirloom roses?

>>2826959
Thanks for the reply.
So you're telling me that I have a free berry harvest every year?

>>2827055
don't forget the flowers that are good in tea, wine, kombucha, syrup, etc. elderberries are best jarred with a sweeter, beefier fruit. i planted one bush so far and need to measure out the second and just dig.

also, if anyone's interested in my various invasives and how i deal with them, i've built up quite a repertoire simply by bringing my phone into the yard with inaturalist seek and google "is x plant invastive in state." i'll put the best method i know even tho i still need, e.g., diesel oil.

>japanese knotweed: from neighbor. precisely dig and contractor trash bag with hori knife until midsummer, then 2x foliar spray after flowering before frost. dig up new spring shoots and repeat.
>chinese wisteria: from previous owner. cut stump low and sever at chest height, drill holes in stump, pour remedy + diesel oil in holes and on face. trace stolons back to roots in the ground and cut 1 ft away from ground. score with hori knife and apply undiluted roundup via syringe. THE OLD LOGS RESPROUT AFTER BEING CUT.
>english ivy: from previous owner. mow to reveal stolons and mass handfuls or cut n roll grids. also sheet mulch.
>multiflora rose: see wisteria.
>black swallow-wort: for now, pull. can't spray leaves.
>privets: cut stump.
>burning bush: cut stump.
>autumn clematis: pulling for now.
>weeping bell-flower: pulling for now.
>buckthorn: cup stump but no drilling, ideally sheet mulch after.
>mustard garlic: biennial, maybe pull next year.
>dame's rocket: same thing.
>rose of sharon: previous owner. manage stand and kill all else.
>blk walnut: native-ish but weedy, not afraid to cut them down.
>virginia creeper: same deal, will remove if i can get a lot of it.
>ground ivy: dunno.

and a bonus for "weeds" you want (new england):
>wild violet (S-tier)
>erigerons (S)
>milkweed (A)
>wild asters
>wild bergamots

this guy has an approachable perspective on how to identify and manage your property's flora:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhxlGEltPGI

>>2826931
use this website, you only get 3 a day but if you clear your browsing history you get more
https://www.picturethisai.com/identify

>>2827055
Just remember to cook them before you eat them. Raw elderberries are poisonous

>>2827065
he should just order some ultimate sambucus from infowars store, i know a couple vaxxies that swear it made they side effects stop
https://thealexjonesstore.com/products/ultimate-sambucus-gummies-with-elderberry-vitamin-c-zinc

>>2827019
Those look nice and trim.
Is that a giant parsley plant behind them on the left?

Dwarf tomatoes have started fruiting, the beans are kinda fucked but they are also growing pods, and cucs are doing well.
I was just thinking that cucumbers look like nothing's happening and then you randomly find a big cucumber growing the next day and I just saw this lil guy right after

What is going on with my mulberry?
Bark had a small crack probably from frost there, seems like it got infected by something?

Are any of these eggs I destroyed ladybug eggs?

Btw, I just figured out these are squash bugs, unfortunately I didn't kill them. I still remember the leaf, so I'll check it. I think I've seen some adults also. So far I've just been genociding cucumber beetles.

Also, anyone know what this thing is on a tomato?

>>2827155
These are all squash leaves/stems (and a piece of tape) if it helps.

The accidental sunflower that started growing in this pot took the transplant well (the second one died though) and has grown quite tall but still hasn't bloomed.

Kinda odd it's 3x taller than my other ones, but those ones are blooming already.

>>2827157
Clean spray bottle, fill it with water, put a small amount of vinegar in it and a couple drops of dish soap. Shake it, spray the bugs directly. Do this shit EVERY SINGLE MORNING before it gets worse. I let the little ones go unchecked last year because I didn't know they were squash bugs, they killed half of my garden a week later and I spent the rest of the season containing them. They spread so fast it's insane and I have a deep hatred of them now.

I took a picture of this bug to figure out what it was, it has a strange small abdomen. Turns out it was a pair of squash bug sexhavers.

>>2827085
Thank you, we are in a heat wave right now so the tomatoes are getting red fast, I already saw some orange tomatoes today.

That is a huge parsley plant indeed, I have multiple plants and I decided to let this one grow big to see what happens.

>>2826774
>brocco
What do I do about these? They were standing straight until recently despite having ridiculously thin stems.

>>2827211
Re-sow

>>2827210
>That is a huge parsley plant indeed, I have multiple plants and I decided to let this one grow big to see what happens.
How long did it take to reach that size? I have a little baby parsley plant and I dream of it looking like that

>>2827183
Asian stinkbug.

>>2827224
Looks similar, but it's actually a squash bug.
https://extension.umn.edu/fruit-and-vegetable-insects/squash-bugs

>>2827225
>squash bug
Don't mind if I do
*SPLAT*

>sunny day
>put seedling outside to get some real sunlight
>go inside and take a nap
>wake up and it's raining hard
>check on seedling
>the rain bent it all up and made it crooked
Fucking faggot cloud water dogshit fucking

Should I impregnate my squash flowers manually?

So how long do I let her stay? She's been around since I planted the tomatos, but at this point she's covered the entire plant in webs and I can't even water it from any angle without her coming running thinking it's food.

Otherwise though, the plant is doing amazing and is completely pest free thanks to her. I named her Lolth and I check on her daily, she's gotten big.

>>2827309
My main concern would be how to harvest from it. Maybe if you've got some pruners with really long arms you might be able to do it without getting your hands too close.

>>2827309
Never kill a spider man that’s bad juju.
Mine’s Ungoliant and lives under my planter box… she’s bigger than a silver dollar… I live in 5a… I don’t think spiders are supposed to get this big here.
I assume it commutes.

>>2827312
>How to harvest from it
Bruh I don't fucking know, but I gotta figure something out. So far it seems she sleeps during peak sun and won't come out when I prod her web to say hi, so I guess I can just try harvesting while she sleeps like some kind of dragon.

>>2827313
I'm pretty sure she's immune to anything weaker than +2 or non-magic damage, I was thinking maybe relocate her.

Lolth is also a black widow and after some research, she's on the huge side for black widows but nowhere close to the record so I guess I have to keep feeding her.

>>2827315
Oh yeah well that sucks. Worst we get are brown recluses and they stay pretty small. I think my guy is just a common wolf spider but huge.
I would get rid of something venomous.

Just caught another 5 pairs of squash bug sexhavers (and around 10 incels). Billions of squash bugs must die.

>>2827313
Large spiders are absolutely repulsive. I only allow tiny spiders and jumping spiders to live.

>>2827055
The flours make for some really interesting and tasty pancakes. Just put the flowerpod into a pan, then pour the batter over it and cook as you'd a normal pancakes. The elderberry flavor will spread throughout the dough.
But do make sure you get some that aren't infested with aphids, the little fuckers.

>>2827369
>The flours
Excluse my ESL speak, flowers obviously. I must have mentally skipped to the batter or something.

>>2827340
Ok

>>2827369
You can also make syrup from the blossoms

>>2827373
True, makes for some nice drinks, though you can buy that in many stores, I've yet to see elderberry pancakes sold anywhere.

>>2826058
Need a better picture. A lot of things can lead to dark coloration. Could be from phosphorus deficiency, temperature damage, or pest damage.

>>2826689
More nitrogen asap

Does anyone have any idea what the circled in red plant could be? I forgot to write down what it is, all I know is that it's some sort of herb.

>>2827379
that looks like kolhrabi leaves to me or som
plant.id says vague brassica/mustard leaves

Are these black soldier fly larvae or something bad? Randomly found them in my compost bin (southern US, rainy).

>>2827400
Vid of the buggers in action. Probably got a few hundred in a few locations since my green/brown ratio is fucked currently. The Geobin hasn't been doing too well due to the constant rain (and the previously mentioned ratio issue), but the volume decreases quickly presumably due to these guys. Better than my worms doing jack shit due to the heat at least. If they are actually BSFL I might try to keep a small bin going since they seem to break things down real quick.

https://files.catbox.moe/pgvihz.mp4
What are these? Are they harmful?

>>2826991
I used to do Japanese knotweed treatment and we used an injection gun. You push the needle in as low on the stem as you can and pull the trigger and it puts neat glypho down the hollow stem. It was 99% effective at permanently killing the plant with one application. I don't know how widely available the guns are but if you've not got much you might be able to DIY something?

>>2827452
sweet thanks, i didn't know stem injection was that viable on knotweed. the problem originates in my neighbor's brush pile so the least obtrusive method is ideal. i'd like the canes to die back early in the fall and *not* reply to this post so its mothers die in their sleep tonight.

>>2826053 (OP)
Does this thread cover houseplants? I currently live in a tiny apartment so I can't garden (yet at least). How do you tell how much light your plants get and when you should water them? I have 4 succulents: A small pickle plant, trigona rubra, something related to a trigona rubra that I forget the name of, and a dancing bones cactus that I think might have suffered being in a pot with no drainage from when I bought it and is slowly recovering from root rot.. I have them put up at a south-western window that appears to get high light and medium light depending on the time of day. Should I buy grow lights on them or grow them somewhere else and put a different plant there? I have them in my office/bedroom/living room next to a typical sized window that's pretty tiny. I have drainage holes in all of them too, but I'm worried about either overwatering them and the fact I keep losing soil everytime I water them because it keeps falling through the drainage holes. I live in central eastern US coast so I get a mix of extremely hot days to cold snowy winters. Should I invest in growlight anything so my plants survive the winter? The pickle plant appears to already be growing toward the window at times.

>>2827499
Legginess is a pretty good indicator. Most of my succulents are very visibly way too long in the stem and "reach" for the window, but I live in Yurop so it is how it is.
As for watering, just google each plant, but most of these succulents do not want to be watered much nor have fertile soil.

>>2827499
>houseplants
>>>/an/5011007

>How do you tell how much light your plants get
Get photone or similar app for your phone and use it to measure DLI, it's not super accurate but it'll give you right ballpark

>when you should water them?
When they are dry, learn the weight of your pots when they are soaked and dry and you'll be able to measure when to water by weight
You can also use one of those analog moisture meters with a metal probe, they are also not accurate but once you see where is dry and wet on scale you can estimate amount of moisture

>Should I buy grow lights
You don't need grow lights, they don't have any magic to them, any LED bulb with high lumen value will do and will be much cheaper, shop lights are great, E27 with narrow angle and high lumen are also good

>I'm worried about either overwatering them and the fact I keep losing soil everytime I water them because it keeps falling through the drainage holes
Not, a problem it'll compact over time, you want to flush salts from time to time anyways

>pov: you invited the squirrel that eats your fruit for wings

>>2827508
>You don't need grow lights, they don't have any magic to them, any LED bulb with high lumen value will do and will be much cheaper, shop lights are great, E27 with narrow angle and high lumen are also good

iirc led grow lights have a mix of beneficial temperatures that you dont get with just a high lumen bulb off the rack.

What are good cheap non-plastic containers for tubers like potatoes?
I found these stone mounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ph_ORewpE0
Which would be easy to build and maintain, but one would still need to find and move all the stones.
Are there non-plastic alternatives?

I have one really premature cucumber
There's one pickling one that's also slowly getting to size but everything else is a few cms at best

>>2827556
Plants absorb red and blue, other colors aren't very useful. Some of the energy of a white LED is wasted since it has all colors. I don't know how much. The google ai source said 50%, but it was also linked to a grow light seller.

>>2827619
They use the whole light spectrum. That graph only accounts for chlorophyll

>>2827714
I think the green on the chart is total photosynthesis rate, the purple is just chlorophyll. They do use other wavelengths, but at reduced benefit it seems. You'd have to compare how much more expensive a grow light is compared to a brighter white led.

>>2827373
I like it when it turns pink when you add the citric acid.

Ants had made a sandy mess in my 1.25" gravel landscaping before I killed them. I was able to clean it up quite easily by using a shop vac with the narrow crevice tool. The rocks were too big to get sucked up.

With that discovered I also cleaned up another sunken sandy spot at the sidewalk between driveways. I raked back the rocks, sucked up about 5 gallons of sand, filled in the dip with clay, then put the rocks back. I piled snow in that spot which is where most of that sand came from. I'm trying not to put dirty snow there anymore.

My basil has exploded in such little time. Not very tall, but apparently the everleaf emerald towers basil naturally splits into multiple stems early on and just gets a bunch of leaves going first, spilling all over each other.
I can't wait to start cooking with it

>>2827540
lmoa
>>2827615
not enough rain or?

>>2827373
You can also make a kind of sparkling wine with them.
>>2827369
> Just put the flowerpod into a pan, then pour the batter over it and cook as you'd a normal pancakes
Huh? Wouldn’t that burn them? I just grab them by the stem, dunk them into the batter and then put this into the hot pan.
Not that I’ll do anything of that this year, mine had their decennial cutback this winter, got utterly infested with lice in spring and the kids got the idea to kill the lice by ripping off all infested branches, so about all of them. Lol.
In other news: it finally rained! A neat 30 l. Let’s see how long this can irrigate with my added 500 l of rain barrels to the 1000 l cistern.

>>2827994
>not enough rain or?
Hm no, like I said, this one's premature. But it's cucs so it took three days for two more to grow to full size.

>>2828022
>Huh? Wouldn’t that burn them?
Not really, at least not for me. Should be medium heat anyways.
>got utterly infested with lice in spring
Yeah that's the big issue here too. Half the time I want to forage some it's so many lice it seems not worth it.

Could I make money growing out Japanese maples?

>>2827019
I think i need to prune some of my tomatoes.
Is it to cut off all the leaves under the first group of tomatoes?

in the past I've always let them grow kind of wild but i want to really prune them up this year to get a larger yield

>planting tomatoes for the first time
>been watching them all and wife is excited as it looks like we're gonna have a good amount
>the second any begin turning red they get eaten
>marigolds are planted around, we did so as deterrent
>tossed in coffee grounds (read this could help)
>got some repel-all and sprinkled about
>added chicken wire (thought this was silly as the yard is already fenced in but wife wanted to try)
>still getting tomatoes taken
>looks to be squirrel(s)
>actually got out and one was within the fence
>messed with it by getting ot where it was in the fence and it was panicked trying to get out but couldn't figure it out
>finally leaps out, gets on top of fence
>chase squirrel around the fence
>its squawking as it runs around
>it finally jumps out on a tree to escape
>maybe scaring it will prevent it later I dunno it was fun though
how does /out/ keep out the riff raff, wife wants to add netting next

>>2828035
.22

how does one store fresh seed pods? can i just stick them in a jar and put them away for next season or should i leave them out in the sun to dry or some such?

>>2828031
Mine are also growing like crazy. Guess I really need to rein them in. They’re also now touching the roof of my greenhouse.
Speaking of which:
My fucking melon isn’t doing anything besides taking over the whole house and starting to get some infection.
Really curious how that Biquinho chili is going to work out I got shilled in these threads in winter.

This is supposed to be a climbing thai soldier yardlong bean. Am I supposed to prune this or something? It just constantly makes side shoots. Which one is the climbing stem?

>>2827379
it looks like collard greens to me

I put some beer on to ferment last sunday, an experimental oat + brown sugar + bread yeast shitbrew. It was chugging along well on monday and I had it under a blanket to keep it warm, the yeast was generating some good heat also! No warmer than touch. After a really cold night, maybe 4*c I checked on it today and the bubbling has stopped, the barrel is cold to the touch.
Did the yeast die? Can it kick off again when it warms up?
I'm really hoping to have some beer soon.

cool

>>2828035
.177 pellet gun in the window facing the garden. Whack em and stack em.

What other than lettuce is good for windowsil containers? Apartment living sucks

>>2828177
It should be fairly obvious if the fermentation resumes. The yeast should still be alive, just dormant. Bakers refrigerate dough all the time.

>>2828233
basil. rosemary

>>2828178
another smaller variety for supper
i think i need to pull them earlier though, both were pretty dry

>>2828269
If they are a bit dry consider cooking them in a stir fry. Shouldn't matter as much there.

Getting the first red ones of the year!

sort of a slow thread so ill post a few pics.

my 'ic from this year. smaller than last year, but more uniform.

>>2828318

>>2828318
>>2828319
Give me the low-down on garlic. It's something I use in virtually every meal every day, and sometimes the local store's garlic just sucks. What kind of set-up and what kind of time/space investment do I need to have continuous high-quality garlic yields?

>>2828325
>every meal every day
You eating garlic for breakfast anon? Somewhat based.

This isn't a squash vine borer, is it?

>>2828325
This is my bed and garlic from this spring before it was grown. Same as in
>>2828318
>>2828319

Basically, I tell everyone that garlic is the single easiest and best cost saving thing to grow if you actually use it. It takes little fertilizer, almost no attention at all, and will grow through even the most insane bullshit. I grow between 75-200 heads a year, and at $1 erach organic from the store, that's all cash saved. I dont even really water them, aside from when I plant them and a bit in the spring/summer before pulling.

Meanwhile, potatoes are such heavy feeders, they are NEVER cost effective to grow. Plus since garlic keeps year round, its just a really safe thing to grow.

Total Japanese Beetle Death

>>2828394
Oh, it was a swift feather-legged fly. Now I'm sad I killed it. Google image was telling me it was squash vine borer, and I didn't check closer.
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/trichopoda-pennipes-parasitoid-of-squash-bug/

>>2828269
I've heard they're ready to pick whr. the ends stop being pointy. but the ones I've pulled this year are already ripe by then

the cucumber as it were

>>2828445
KYOOK BROS?

>>2828177
Yeast has a temperature range in which it can thrive, too cold and it goes dormant, too hot and it dies. The more the temperature fluxuates the more off flavours the yeast produce so try to keep it between 15-20°c. You can get brew bands that just go around the bottom of the fermenter which will help keep it warm, insulation like blankets will help.

Theres a homebrew general on /diy/ BTW.

>>2828493
If you shove it up your ass you can give yourself autobrewers syndrome.

>just ate cucumber
>found another one randomly hidden in the bush
i love cucumber season

I'm seeing way more bees pollinating this year, that's nice.

>>2828325
My setup is simple, I grow everything in rows. All my beds are 32 inches wide. Second year growing garlic. I did 4 rows in a 32 inch bed. Ammend/compost bed and plant in fall, I planted in mid October then mulch over, I use shredded oak leaves because that’s what I have. Harvest when the bottom 3 leaves start to brown and die back for me thats late June. Cure for 2-4 weeks in a shaded area with airflow. (Get a better cure setup than me.) When growing hardneck garlic prune the scapes and eat them. I’ll set aside 15-20 of the biggest bulbs here to breakdown and replant in October. At roughly 8 cloves a bulb and setting aside 15-20 to replant it comes out to 2 or so cloves of garlic a day for a year.(120-130 garlic bulbs) Scale up or down for your needs. Since im not filling an entire bed with garlic im going to do overwintered onions with my garlic when I plant again in fall.

>>2828031
Sorry for the late answer, I'm to OP from the post you tagged. I always start taking off the lower leaves when the flowers are finished with blooming and the smaller tomatoes start getting bigger on to lowest truss of tomatoes. After that I take off some leaves every week or 2 and work my way to the top once the other trusses with tomatoes get bigger. I also take away all the leaves that touch the ground to prevent disease.

I also take away the suckers every week when I see them, I tie op the tomatoes with cord at the same time. The tops I take off when they touch the top of my greenhouse or end of july (what comes first.)

I shouldnt have named her, or at least stopped greeting her by name every morning.

>>2828676
love is love.

>>2828574
Awesome! I usually just do the basic removing the bottom ones but yeah, every year I usually just let them go wild, suckers and all but i wanted to see if i can get a better yield this year so I started pruning off the bottoms a little bit more. Some have already grown a little wild. I got some of these plants locally and I really want to know what the hell they fed these things.

tobacco. have 3 this year, all doing super well. leaving them in the ground until frost kills them this time, hoping they flower. i rec growing this if you can, it can grow 6 feet tall and looks pretty cool.

last year planting squash around it worked well, we'll see if the squash grows out over the beds to avoid its shade like last time.

Why did she do it?

Found some dryads saddle yesterday. Thought it was wood chicken from a distance, was disappointed but after some research found its edible.

Was pretty tasty seasoned and fried up with some bacon.

Tried to plant some bare root trees this year and they haven't leafed out a month later.
Gonna mulch the area and hope I can get them to play nice afterward, and then keep three in my room in plastic bags full of potting soil to see if I get anything else, and then try to tissue culture them after I read through Plants from Test Tubes.
Fuck paying these guys again for shitty plants

>>2828909
I should add: not a single fucking one of this rootstock were pinky-width. Fuckin' raintree nursery

>>2828043
https://extension.usu.edu/yardandgarden/research/collecting-and-storing-seeds-from-your-garden
Search your local extension documents for other region-related tips

>>2828910
Glad I didn't my Mirabelles from them

>>2828678
Ah nice, I prefer to grow my plants from seed So I know what has happened to them and what fertiliser was used. Here is another picture taken a week later. I'm harvesting some every day now.

>>2828931
And a pic of my maize, I posted another picture of this maize in the previous tread.

my beans are all fucked up
never had a hand for them

Old damask rose from a nearby public rose garden. The moronic landscapers that maintain it are cutting them back way too aggressively though. As a result they're tiny, spindly and have barely any new growth. They even pruned the once-bloomers for no apparent reason (gotta keep it tidy and orderly! Never mind the fact they weren't anywhere near overgrown to begin with). The ramblers are likewise completely ''clipped'' thereby utterly defeating the purpose of having ramblers. This idiotic pruning mania has already killed some of the roses judging by the bare soil behind some of the desolate name tags.

My first sun flower of the year

My plants are ready for transplanting, but every single day for the foreseeable future will apparently be cloudy and rainy, so I might as well keep them inside under a grow light.

What the fuck?

I do a genocide patrol every morning for cucumber beetles and squash bugs. Past week, I've seen 0-1 cucumber beetle per patrol, so I thought I took care of them. Today, there was more than a dozen again. A lot more spotted ones than before, though still a decent amount of striped.

>>2829150
>cloudy and rainy
That's literally the best time to transplant

does anyone know what is causing my tomatoes to rot. i have lots getting like picrel. i have gave them tomatoe fertilizer and that didnt fix it.

>>2828931
woah, maybe i should prune a little more agressively.

For you (and anyone else) do you prefer using the solid stakes to grow tomatoes up? This year i tried using the string method and they seem to be doing pretty well but i'm curious if others prefer it one way or the other.

>>2829071
My sunflowers are tall af but my first bloom was about half as big as every sunflower I have ever seen

>>2829153
Over fertilizing can sometimes be the cause of tomatoes going bad like this

>>2829156
I mean it depends a lot on the variety you have

>>2829151
It takes about 10 days for eggs to hatch for squash bugs. One bug can lay 20 eggs. Once you have them it’s gonna be real hard to get rid of them. Make sure any leaves are far away from your crops too

>>2829161
I check under leaves and I have destroyed dozens of egg patches. The squash patch is overgrown and it's hard to even reach all the leaves though. Well, I'm getting a decent amount of fruit for now.

>>2829159

>>2829187
I mean is that this year? They still have a ton of growing to do

Should I be concerned with what looks like genital warts growing on this tomato?

>>2829197
Yes but I’ve never had a bloom last longer than a day without the tree rats getting them. That’s why I planted about 100 and started a squirrel massacre this spring.

>>2829155
Those plants do bot need to be pruned

>>2829198
Something small is eating them

>>2829198
Do you have a lot of stink bugs anon? Those don’t quite look like their bites but it’s definitely something small that drills into it with a snout of some kind

>>2826963
maybe low stress train the side but I like the grafting idea, you could try an apple strain that does better in shade?

Planted 62 corn plants in late May but they are still struggling in this mild Pacific Northwest summer. Just hit 90 over the weekend so going they will have a growth surge in the coming weeks.

>>2829288
Pumpkins are doing a little better, yes they are close together but I will take down the green fence soon to allow their vines to grow out a bit.

>>2829155
I use solid stakes in the because I already have them. String is fine, i have used in the past.

With solid stakes it is important that they are tall and strong enough to hold up the plant, if the stakes fails mid season your plant can snap and die.

>>2829283
The shade issue I've resolved, it was an overgrown hedge and oak tree.
It's an old variety not sure what, and I like the fruit. It's fruited quite happily this year just very lopsided, I figure if I can reestablish branches on the new side somehow it should look a lot better.
The drill grafing I thought might have a chance of working, although I'm also thinking that a bark cut can stimulate new buds, so I'm weighing up what might work best.
Just wondering if there are any other ways to generate new branches like a hormone paste?

I just love them biquinhos. best indoor pepper ever

Is this grafted or just a gnarly stem? It's a bare root rose.

>>2828931
This is inspiring

>>2829198
looks like fruitfly saliva marks, but they dont go after unripe stuff so idk what it is.
wtf is this guy? never seed before. ..

Rip

>>2829486
just looks like new wood growing from old

>>2829187
you get dwarf varieties, and mutant seeds

>>2828528
I've picked a few already but they all seem really dry on the inside
what gives?

a-maize-ing

wild blackberries coming in

>>2829559
just in time for the end of summer raspberries

>>2829461
Lookin good. My indoor ones are near dead, I ignored the aphid menace for too long but the one in my greenhouse looks almost as good as yours. Really curious how they’re gonna taste, it’s my first year with them, because someone recommended them in this general.
>>2829207
About everyone and their mother is saying different but there’s a few, rather vocal anti-pruners and they do have some compelling arguments. I accidentally kinda no-prune this year but now I’ve got a thicket of tomatoes in my greenhouse. Not optimal either. And it’s seems like the plants mostly invest in growing instead of fruiting. But maybe outdoors, when they don’t grow as fast?

>>2827452
>>2827473
i was actually able to find a stem injector for like $80. i sprayed my own property but once it flowers i'm in like a thief in the night

>>2829071
based, i'm hoping for native sunflower blooms. might have to wait till next yr i just planted them a few weeks ago

>>2829559
sweet i've been eating a few cultivated blacks. tryna keep wisteria at bay mostly tho

>>2829591
I couldn't wait and bought a jar of pickled ones from Brazil, delicious. Just not sure when to harvest mine because of the yellow fruits. Also my red biquinhos turned out to be yellow ones I think.

>>2829559
i think you should buy a plant, because wild ones are worse in size and taste, and can be infected with some shit if wild animals piss on them

>>2829625
Rinse your produce not your chicken.

>>2829559
Oh yeah, it's blackberry season. I should head up to the river and pick a couple buckets worth.

>>2829559
>>2829625
I recommend Columbia Giant. Not only are they large, they have a really intense berry flavor too

Fugg.
I cut down my watermelon in my greenhouse because it’s got some fungal infection on a lot of its branches, plus, it’s a total sausage fest anyways and the few females I saw all got early abortions so I figured I’d rather get rid of it, before it infects something else.
But apparently, on flower got the preggers and hid in my marigold-chili thicket…
What can I do with an unripe watermelon?

>>2829625
There are so many along the borders of the property here that it doesn't really matter. I usually give them a vinegar rinse and cook them anyway.
These are also native and not invasive. The wild black raspberries that grow alongside them earlier in the season do taste better though.

Quick rundown on growing Chanterelle mushrooms?

My pepper plants leaves and flowers are falling off where they connect to the stems. They either fall off on their own or break off if I gently touch them and it is only a few leaves and flowers at a time that seem susceptible. There are no insect issues and the leaves are healthy (perky with no deformaties or signs of nutrient stress). I used coffee grounds as fertilizer twice as the only added nutrients other than the initial potting soil but this issue was happening before then. I figured it was due to underwatering as I was giving them heavy watering after letting them dry down for multiple days but I've changed the watering cycle to be less water more often. The issue still hasn't changed. The stem is starting to get bare from the lack of leaves and all the flowers fall off when they start fruiting so no fruit yet either. Do you have any ideas as to what is causing this?

>>2829752
tl;dr you can't

not long enough; did read: chanterelles and black trumpets only grow in symbiosis with birch and beech trees, and the association must happen fairly early in the tree's life when there's not enough competition for the mycelium to sufficiently colonize the root system. there are countless non-fruiting mycorhizzae coating the roots of every plant on earth

i've considered doing an experiment where i grow birch saplings exclusively in colonized chanterelle spawn, and planting the trees in more chanterelle spawn when i put them in the ground. i've heard there's a chance of success

i held off because i don't have room for a birch grove nor do i have a chanterelle agar culture. so i'd be waiting for several years for mushrooms when there's a significant chance that they'll never fruit

>>2829762
to be fair, I'm half doing it to help trees, half to have a safe mushroom to eat.
You telling me unless I use young birch it wont do shit?

Next question:
Growing Goji berries
Edible thyme
rosemary

Last year someone was asking about cultivating 4 leaf clovers?

Just wanted to say it’s definitely possible.

>>2829757
Coffee grounds isnt a fertilizer... It's needs to decompose first which takes months.

Please recommend me some MASCULINE plants for me to have in my room.

>>2829777
faba bean

pollinators (other than the occasional hover fly) aren't getting to my chili plants since i put them on a veranda on the top of my house where its hard to see, i've been trying to pollinate by hand but i think im failing since many flowers have fallen off, would putting regular flowers up there help in any way?

>>2829820
no, the flowers falling of is often not related to pollination, your plant just thinks it needs a little more growing in size and is not ready yet to build fruits.That or it has some serious health issues. But if your plants are strong and deep green and not too hot then it normally is just that they want to grow in size first.

>>2829752
>>2829762
okay
I just planted a bunch of pelets with them all over my garden and forest near by.
Near trees, different trees, young and old trees.
In a pine forest with a thick forest floor.

Expect nothing but I'm hoping at least one of them will take hold and give me nice mushrooms in a year or two.

Is that just how this random yellow zucchini I got looks or are those weird ass leaves trying to tell me something?
Green one behind it looks normal.
Also, since a few weeks, my diet is about 50% zucchini. Gonna try zucchini-lemon lasagna tomorrow.

>went out of my way to get fruit production-specific juneberry plants to have better variety than just raspberries only to have most of their leaves get fucking eaten and the rest full of weird spots
>two giant raspberry canes that were looking promising just fucking died during the week
It's so over

>>2829777
monstera

>>2829672
pickle?

>garden
>take pics
>lose all motivation to post said pics

>>2829901
Have one of mine instead

>>2829925
If you are in the US, kill that on sight. Fuck multiflora rose

>>2829931
It's a hybrid musk

Cherry tomato growers:
What's a normal amount of tomatoes to expect from a typical high-yield variety?

Researching it gives the impression that once they start producing, you'll be harvesting a dozen every day or two from each plant, but that doesn't seem realistic. What does normal harvesting frequency look like?

>>2829982
It goes in waves. You’ll get a bunch and then you’ll wait a week or two while more grow. Cherry tomatoes come in first for me. I grow tomatoes like weeds. Probably close to two dozen varieties? Plus the homegrown ones.

>>2826053 (OP)
This threads going a little too well for my liking

>>2829881
you essentially used very overpriced compost, sorry. if you want edible volunteer mushrooms, grow oyster mushrooms on a mix of hardwood fuel pellets and wheat bran, then crumble up the spent cakes around your garden as if it were finished compost. if you're in a pine forest, consider growing lion's mane, which natively grows on pine and is easy to grow. substitute feline pine cat litter for hardwood fuel pellets.

>>2829925
>>2829931
absolutely destroy that plant on sight. my infestation was relatively minor but it did a number on some trees. i had to prune the oak anyway so i chose to take the leaders affected by girdling scars.

>>2830017
*throws japanese knotweed over the fence*
>heh, nothin personnel, kid

>>2830052
>you essentially used very overpriced compost, sorry.
why so?
> if you want edible volunteer mushrooms, grow oyster mushrooms on a mix of hardwood fuel pellets and wheat bran
I want mushrooms that grow in symbiosis with trees, not the ones that decay dead wood.
I have a wooden house for fuck sake.

>>2830052
>absolutely destroy that plant on sight
Can't you read? It's not a r. multiflora and Im not in the US either

>>2830053
>I have a wooden house for fuck sake.
are you trolling? mushrooms spend 99% of their life as sinewy white mold. in the extremely unlikely chance that gourmet mushroom spores germinate on your siding, as opposed to the countless other mold spores everywhere, just scrub it off.

coming into mushroom cultivation with obviously zero knowledge and wanting to grow gourmet mycorhizzae is insane. at the very least you should set up a lab to early 20th century standards, make sure you can properly sterilize things, and try to grow some cubensis.

lurk here: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/postlist.php/Board/2

>>2830057
people have osyster mushrooms grow in their fucking air vents

>coming into mushroom cultivation with obviously zero knowledge and wanting to grow gourmet mycorhizzae is insane.
>at the very least you should set up a lab to early 20th century standards, make sure you can properly sterilize things
they grow in the forest, nobody fucking did lab tests to make them grow

>>2830057
>shoomery
>first threads are about duude weed lamo lets get high
god I hate you druggies.

>>2830058
>people have osyster mushrooms grow in their fucking air vents
are you perchance brown-skinned and living at or near the equator?

>>2830059
it's the place to get all the latest teks. doesn't matter if you like the "dude smrooms lmao" vibe. if you wanna cultivate mushrooms at home (great hobby, especially if you can get into the deeper science / biochemistry of it) you have to accept that all the best methods descend from hippies growing cubes in brown rice flour and vermiculite.

>>2829762
>only grow in symbiosis with birch and beech trees,
I don't have either of those yet I have chatarelles everywhere even in the middle of grass fields

>>2830064
Trust the druggie forum. And grow your things in a sterile lab

>>2830064
okay now transplant them and document success

>>2830065
i'm used to working in a BSL-1 environment so shroomery standards are laughable. what's truly incomprehensible is that anyone would take issue with using microbiology protocols to work with mushrooms. yes they grow in the wild (duh) but can you grow the specific mushroom you want? and not just some random mold? it's like taking issue with home brewers washing their equipment and hands before use.

>>2830074
>okay now transplant them and document success
I'm asking why I have chatarelles despite neither beech or burch? Is there some other host?

>>2830074
>oh my scoience!
ironic, considering they grow just fine in nature and it's the modernity, science that can't grow them in lab conditions.
Up next, tasteless and vitamin deficient blueberries brought to you by scoience!
DO NOT GO INTO THE FOREST AND GET REAL BLUEBERRIES! YOU CAVEMAN!

>a little bit off the top please

>>2830089

>>2830076
they almost certainly grow on other hosts, beech and birch are most common

>>2830080
bro just because foraging mushrooms is possible, it doesn't mean you can automatically grow any mushroom anywhere

>>2830017
>devolves into a bunch of not funguys arguing about fungi.
Around hornworms never relax.

>>2830089
>>2830090
I wish I had room to plant nuts

1 basil and 1 parsley plant

Can they share a single 12-inch wide, 5 gallon container or should they each get their own? I'm trying to save space but I don't want to end up screwing them over if they'll eventually need more room

>>2830179
yes, basil and parsley make good neighbours.

>>2826892
just cut off the pecked bit, peel it off and freeze it dude

>>2830204
broad beans?

>>2828035
>the second any begin turning red they get eaten
The second they begin turning red, they are done growing and can be safely removed.

How do I get these to climb?

Apparently people sell 'used' hedges, how much trouble is it to dig them out? Do they develop very long roots?

Speaking of hedges, these were planted last November, should I assume the brown ones are dead and beyond hope?

luv me cucumber glut

>>2830377
>how much trouble is it to dig them out
If it’s a yew it sucks. That looks like holly with will be all knotty and bendy and also have a big ass taproot you’ll have to contend with. Best advice? Limb the hedge back to a stump. Dig around and under and sever any roots using an axe, saw, pick, whatever you have. And or dig around the rootball and wrap a chain on it and yank. You could also theoretically rig something up with a ratchet strap but either way that shit sucks.

>>2830389
Thanks, I think I'll pass.

>microscopic black fuckers making webs on the underside of cucumber leaves
That's spider mites, right? Do I just need to blast them with water or what?

>>2830378
Yikes you gotta water young plants bro

Handpicked around 28 cucumber beetles on my genocide patrol this morning. All striped, no spotted today. Also came across a dozen squash 'goid nymphs, had to squish them by hand even though it's gross because I didn't have my gloves on.

>'ate cuke'les
>'ate jap'les
>'ate squash 'goids
>'ate hoppers
>luv me ladies
>luv me bees
>simple as

This bee looks like its proboscis splits into 3, is that normal? It was going to town on this female flower, was there for more than 5 minutes.

Is there any real reason why you shouldn't grow in 20 gallon pots. I just thought it was a good idea to use 20 gallon pots instead of making a shitty raised bed which I don't have time or want to do.

School me I'm new to gardening.

>>2830493
Pots hold onto a lot of water. It's very easy for them to get rootrotted if it just happens to rain a little too much or you water too frequently. That's also not a lot of space for wide or deep roots so it's kinda niche. The ground is much more forgiving in almost every way. Any kind of edibles will also rapidly deplete the soil so it will just be a lot more work.

>>2830502
But what if you don't have good soil.

>>2830509
I dunno. I plant everything in heavy clay and pine straw and nothing seems to mind too much.

>>2830509
>what if you don't have good soil
no such thing

>>2830509
Make it? You do know what compost is right?
I grow in containers and the ground. There’s advantages and disadvantages to both.
Watering in containers and drainage like duder said.
In ground pests and weeds are more of a problem.
I use containers of just about every size. A five gallon bucket will do for most cases.

>>2830531
Forgot pic. Last January 2nd carrots in 18inches of snow. 5a here.

>>2830533
Jesus Christ im going to go drink coffee.

>>2830525
Oh look it's this retard again

how do i get rid of groundhogs? (or what kind of plants will repel the bastards)

last year the little fucker came by and turned my green beans into a all you can eat salad bar.
I didn't see it this year (Figured that it had migrated along or something since it had a baby) but i just caught it hauling ass and discovered it had decoratively trimmed my jalapeno peppers down to the stems.

i don't want to genocide the little fuck but I want my goddamn green beans

>>2830493
Shouldn't is a strong word but less insect/worm activity aka shittier soil, worse temperature retention making your planting temperature charts a bit inaccurate, what other anons said, the expense of the soil and other additions, the potential plastic/metal leeching.

I figured out these dumb things are really nice for watering if you take the tip off. Better than their intended purpose.

>>2830565
10/22 or pellet gun (Possibly also slingshot if neighbors would complain about noise)
>(or what kind of plants will repel the bastards)
Probably nothing. But possibly catnip to attract feral cats to eat them.

How do I stop corn earworms from eating my cobs? It's getting out of hand.

How does one actually prune and structure fruit trees?

>>2830859
Look up what age of wood your tree fruits on. Generally you want only a few main branches with a good amount of air space between them; just pick the ones going in the right direction and cut anything that's not. Usually, decapitate the main leader and aim for the branches to be around chest or head height for easy picking, in sort of a cup or inverted umbrella shape. You can always find pictures online to see what people do. Always shave off the top because growth up top often prevents growth lower down, and you want sideways growth for the most part.

The job and number of your branches depends on how the species fruits. The buds could be only on new wood, only after a couple of years, peak early and worsen over time, or take years to ramp up. This is not tree age, but the maturity of specific branches. Your main branches are just anchors for new twigs to grow and mature on. In theory there are a lot of ways to prune, but try to understand the mechanics of the particular species.

Some are really odd, like grapes fruit best on 1-year branches and you need to maintain 2 sets and alternate them to get fruit every year. Blueberries get stronger every year for like 7 years so you have to avoid cutting. Some only flower on the tips, others along the length of the branches, and others on dedicated spurs. Lemons fruit only on the tips and only on new branches, mulberries fruit on new branches but they grow from the joint created when they pop out. The main branches are basically just infrastructure for smaller new ones to grow on, and then you prune THOSE when they're no good.

You might not know how old your branches are, but there are probably cues so look up a guide and pay attention when they bring this up. If you take off all the mature buds, chances are you will get no fruit at all that year, but if you slack off removing aged out ones, you will also get no fruit. You're a lot less likely to screw up if you can remember this single fact about your tree.

>>2830873
What to do with water sprouts?
Let them grow and sort themselves out?
Thin out and leave only a couple that are best positioned?
Delete all of them?

>>2830881
Thin them down to just what you want to keep, which is none of them because they're growing the wrong way. If the tree is really damaged then you can't stop them growing so you have to leave some of them. Just make sure nothing is coming from the rootstock. You can propagate with them if you really want.

>>2830531
But to make compost you need supplies and stuff from animals like horses, cows and pigs.

Having animals isn't free or offgrid, it costs money to feed them unless you have grass a way to feed them for free

>sunlight from ~6am to ~4pm
>take pots inside
>grow light until ~11pm
Is there a catch to this? I feel like nature will fuck me somehow for cheating

>>2830493
Use 5 gallon buckets that are food safe on amazon. Growing in containers is equal to growing in the ground but both have their advantages and disadvantages. If you are somewhere where you can't grow in the soil because its too poor like sandy gravel or you live in an apartment. It's VERY definitely worth it to invest $100 to get 20 buckets to grow in. Just depends on what your scale is. You can grow peppers, tomatos, zucchini, anything really, potatoes

>don't have to worry about common diseases, weeds, bugs etc like in the ground
>uses less water because the moisture is concentrated heavily into one area
>portable, can be moved around very easily to adapt to changes
>concentrated use of fertilizer and easier control of PH

Yea they are just all around good to grow in.

>>2830909
>But to make compost you need supplies and stuff from animals like horses, cows and pigs
Nigger what? Nope you know what I’m not even going to argue. You’re so right anon. How could I ever think you could build soil using decaying plant matter or kitchen scraps. I’ll prostrate myself before the local community garden at first light.

>>2830899
>Thin them down to just what you want to keep, which is none of them because they're growing the wrong way.
>If the tree is really damaged then you can't stop them growing so you have to leave some of them. Just make sure nothing is coming from the rootstock. You can propagate with them if you really want.
I am talking about the shoots that come from branches and trunk when a tree is heavily pruned or damaged and it makes shoots at the cut site.
Not about the ones that come from the ground.

I know you guys are mostly about growing vegetables for consumption but I wanted to share these monarch butterfly eggs on my swamp milkweed.

>>2830935

>>2830935
>>2830936
Based pollinator!

is growing goji berries retarded?
Supposedly they are invasive as fuck and have retarded tier thorns.
On the other hand, berries that grow easy and just need to be dried for storage, supposedly has good nutritional benefits?
What's your thoughts on gojis?

>>2826402
Scoop out a small shovel from the clay
Fill with mushroom compost
Plant seedling

Works for my ultra clay soil