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I think one of my chickens fell from a high place, she was walking weird and hyperventilating constantly. After 2 weeks she seems better, but she still walking funny and I can feel the femur sticking out from her pelvis. Can I expect her to get better overtime?

>>2832339
You need a vet

>>2832339
end her suffering

>>2832339
>will bones get better over time?
...No

I'm in zone 4a, first frost likely to happen in 2 to 3 months. Do I have a chance to grow anything in that time?

>>2832357
duckweed if you have a pond.

>>2832357
Bok choy

I am a retarded man trying to start an herb garden. I was given a handful of rectangular planters, roughly 30"x10"x8"

Are there any graphs like pic related that only have herbs, and more of them? I figure I'll put 3 types in each planter grouped by water/light requirements but other than that I don't know "oh, never plant this with that like you just did" type shit. Nearly all the how to garden sites coming up when I look are all AI white women reposting unrelated plant pictures with their original watermarks on domains based in bangladesh

>>2832364
>never plant this with that
That's just a meme. You can plant anything with anything.

>pepper plant developing a flower bud after about a month and a half from seed
People say to pinch off the first flowers, but is it really so bad to let it just grow?

>>2832370
i think those guides are for avoiding plant pairings that leech the same nutrients from the soil. so sure, you can plant anything next to anything, but your soil will suffer for it.

>>2832364
overthinking it massively. just plant shit and see how it goes.

>>2832444
Gonna try to roll your own anon?
I hate your beds just get rid of the wood and till that whole area up and make a proper garden.

Hole in the ground update. The same evening I got the grass put back, seeded the middle and covered in straw to keep the ground moist while the seed germinates.

Yesterday the string trellis for one of my tomatoes broke and the plant snapped when it fell. I think the string was rubbing against a rough fence board it was tied to. Getting lots of ripe cherry tomatoes in the green house.

>>2832484
no
and not my house

I've never grown Sungolds before, but my single plant went bonkers and I must have picked a couple hundred from it already.

Posting again, anyone have a rec for hose fertilizers? I have this one and it's getting pretty worn out. Was hoping there was a better option before I just buy a new one of these.

>>2832579
Swiss company Birchmeier makes some hose mixers for professional use if that helps you.

>>2832579
>>2832581
they have a dial so you can set the amount of fertiliser to water.

>>2832429
But all plants use the same nutrients

Wild roses are little bastards.

>>2832658
Guess I should add, the rose grew up through the stem of another plant.

>>2832577
Give me all the details you possibly can regarding your growing situation, please.
How you planted it, how you prune it, how many tomatoes you harvest per week, etc. Write me a whole big thing about it.

I'm doing two plants in a 5 and a 10 gallon container, and I have virtually no idea of what to expect. They're still young and small, but for my zone, October will probably be the start of my harvest if all goes well. I really want to be drowning in sun golds. I want to have a bunch to snack on, a bunch to make sauce with, and a bunch to give to my friends who I love. All the accounts I read about sun gold yields seem unrealistic and incredible, though. Just give it to me straight: what's a detailed account of your experience?

>>2832660
What

>>2832712
The brown is the hollow stem of another plant. The wild rose grew a foot up that stem before coming out the top. I hate wild roses for the weed they are.

I’m thinking about putting some mint in my yard any tips on growing mint?

>>2832824
You don't grow mint, mint grows you
>in my yard
Your yard is already dead

>>2832689
Honestly mine is low effort and not cared for as much as it should be. I put it in the ground with an eastern exposure maybe late May and I pruned the bottom parts when it was smaller. Zone 6. I mulched with straw and water daily at the root if it hasn't rained. It's gotten some liquid fertilizer maybe once every other week. If I were doing it again I would prune it harder and trellis it better, because right now it's strung up like something out of a slasher film.

>All the accounts I read about sun gold yields seem unrealistic and incredible
I believe it. I haven't really counted but I usually pick when it looks like it has a least a dozen getting ripe. I do have a Sweet 100 in the same patch that's similar size but they ripen slower and I'm getting smaller fruit. It does get slightly less sun though.

I'd guess for containers just be consistent with watering and fertilizing. The plant can get BIG so your 10 gallon might do better than your 5.

>>2832428
>but is it really so bad to ignore generations' worth of lived experience?
Try it and let me know how it turns out.

hello anons, longtime reader, first-time poster.

i planted some basil in a pot, and its grown to look very healthy and sturdy. the stems are even starting to form what i assume is protective bark. but a while back i read that basil isn't perennial, and i just have a hard time believing that this wonderful little guy is going to wilt within a few months. why form bark if you're not going to stick around, you know?

is there anything i can do to keep this beauty alive in the fall/winter?

>>2832864
It's a warm weather plant. It dies from exposure to cold below what it can tolerate, which is probably slight compared to your actual winter temperatures (like 50 degrees or something?). It will keep living if it stays somewhere warm like indoors. Some stuff can squeak by outside as long as the underground portion is insulated enough. Winter protection is more about protecting subtropical plants that are cutting it close from severe temperature swings, like from the wind. You *could* let it flower and save the seeds for next Spring, maybe take some cuttings and let them root and chill inside, but new basils from the grocery store are very economical and will have a huge head start from being started in a greenhouse.

They aren't exactly programmed to die when the clock strikes or something like that.

>>2832883
i see. thank you. prompted by your post, i did some further reading. 40 degrees seems to be basil's limit. they can keep indoors over winter but will probably require grow lights, and they do still die off after a while from what i've read -- 2-3 years being a typical life span.

also, my plant has flowered, but from what i just read it happening relatively early in the season is a sign of distress. i must've messed up somehow.

>>2832891
Stress flowering kinda depends on the species. Maybe the pot is too small and it's filled up the whole space already, or maybe the weather was just too hot this year. My holy basil did the same thing, it was trying to flower basically all year long. (My lovage straight up died back to the root a couple of weeks ago from the heat.) You just need to pinch the flowers off and it will keep growing like normal. It's mainly a problem because the plant will use its energy to develop the flowers/fruits/seeds instead of growing, although a lot of edibles are also rendered gross or inedible if they successfully bolt. Basil is pretty easygoing, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Is garden cloth a scam? People keep telling me they don't stop weeds.

>>2832015
How long does that hold me over before it becomes a weedy mess again?

>>2833052
In my experience it helps a lot but you still have to maintain since they always fine a way.

>>2833052
Use it if you want disintegrating plastic in your soil forever

Pineapples

>>2833119
50 or so planted around the house, allegedly helps control the pH in the soil.

Persian limes doing alright.

All of the mangoes are flowering and some already have fruits, next month is mango season.
Have around 20 mango trees planted around the house and over 30 planted somewhere else.

Another type of mango, you can see the flower stems have a different color than the other, fruits are also different, those others are round and bulky while these are slightly longer and have some different colors as well.
All different types taste different.

>>2833120
im incredibly envious

>>2833127
Someone I knows sells pineapples and when people ask them to cut and prepare they save the crown for me, I just put the crown on the water, wait until it creates roots and then plant it, two years later I have another pineapple.