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Fitzy Fitz posted:How do y'all deal with squirrels? They've never been an issue for me before, but this year they're digging up everything. Repellents seem to have mixed reviews. I don't think I can throw chicken wire over everything. I wish I could just shoot the things, but there are houses behind ours, so... From the gardening is awesome and hot thread in old gbs: Luvcow posted:squirrel trap that my neighbor uses: The Groper posted:Definitive proof that squirrels are vermin that can be induced to kill themselves, much like ants and fruit flies.
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Anybody else feel the warm days on the East Coast US could end soon with a dip down? It says in the almanac lookup thing the 50% frost possibility was March 29 for my area, just past. I'm just not fulling buying it yet for warm weather herbs and vegetables.
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Where on the East Coast..? Looking at the 10-day forecast, the lowest I'm seeing in GA 8a is 40.
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Apr 3, 2017 13:48
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Got 4 of my tomato plants into their buckets:
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Apr 3, 2017 15:07
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Neon Noodle posted:Got 4 of my tomato plants into their buckets: why are there pipes? are they submarine tomatoes?
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Apr 3, 2017 23:06
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awesmoe posted:why are there pipes? are they submarine tomatoes? Fill-tubes for a watering system--note that there are double buckets, the bottom one holds water.
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Apr 3, 2017 23:08
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How does that watering thing work
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Apr 3, 2017 23:23
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Pham Nuwen posted:Fill-tubes for a watering system--note that there are double buckets, the bottom one holds water. Thats pretty dope
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Apr 3, 2017 23:53
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PokeJoe posted:How does that watering thing work I can't vouch for this site, but they seem to cover SIPs well. http://albopepper.com/sips.php
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Apr 4, 2017 01:06
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vonnegutt posted:What zone are you in? If it's zone 6 (USA) or more north, the middle of May is exactly when you're supposed to plant tomatoes. They tend to like warmer weather and while you can start them earlier, they don't really do much til the soil is consistently 50 deg F or so 24/7. If you're worried, buy transplants - I always do for tomatoes. You should have plenty of time for summer vegetables. kedo posted:As a fellow balcony grower I'd suggest keeping track of the number of hours of sun your balcony gets. I've tried tomatoes several times, but my south-facing balcony only gets a maximum of 4-5 hours of direct sunlight per day due to the way my building is shaped and thus my tomatoes have done poorly every year. I'd get maybe one or two tomatoes per plant, and the plants themselves were extremely leggy, unstable and sickly looking.
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PokeJoe posted:How does that watering thing work Planzzzzzzzz:  
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Apr 4, 2017 02:32
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 So my pepper plants, jalapeņos and habaneros, germinated both via paper towels and just plastic cups have actually nearly all grown. I had planted so many expecting more than half of them to die. Either it's remarkably simple or perhaps I, too, have the fabled green thumb. Still, there's no way they'll live for long in those cups so:  I'm going to take it all outside probably in May, or until my partner gets sick and tired of me keeping them in the guest bedroom. A detail on the wicker basket:  There's at least 20 liters of dirt in the basket, definitely more. I actually ran out of dirt so I used dirt from previous years. I do not know if that was a wise idea or not, but I was neither going to not finish transplanting those 6 plants, nor was I going to walk back up the 7 floors it requires to get to my flat with another 10 liters of dirt. I like how it looks and apparently lining it with newspaper helps it drain pretty well. We will see. This is the rest of plants plus our rosemary, lavender, thyme, and grass for the cat who decided to get into the photo. They all have ceramic balls in the bottom, I've heard that helps.  I've left about 6 plants outside. It's really not warm enough outside, but I don't think it's so cold they'll die. I'm actually kind of curious to see how they'll manage. I didn't really have much room in the apartment, or the right to litter them about around there. I still have about 24 plants left, of which 10 seem viable. I'm going to try to give them away. The above photo contains the plants in the rest of the pots and planters I have in the apartment. As I'm sure you notice not many of them are all that professional let alone good, but I'm doing what I can with what I have. Also my partner has placed a moratorium on pots since she still wants to be able to use and have access to our sunny balcony.
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My question is how often do these things need to be watered? The seed packets don't specify.
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if you stick a digit in the dirt a knuckle or two deep and it's dry - add some water. Letting the plants dry out a bit isn't bad, it promotes a deep root system and helps fight off damaging diseases that like damp environments. It looks like your plants are pretty happy so far, so just keep up what you're doing. Also plants will grow a surprisingly large amount in cups like that.
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Apr 4, 2017 16:11
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I just got a couple of blueberry bushes in what look like 2 gal pots. they're already flowering, should i strip those off or just let them go? they're about 2.5 feet tall and have decent leaf coverage for being box store bushes
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Im officially a veg grower.   I've got two little blueberry bushes in and a bit of rhubarb. Onion sets, cauliflower, beetroot, carrot and leek seeds have been ordered and I'm picking up potatoes tomorrow. Half of that plot will be veg and half a nursery bed. I've dug out more of it after taking that picture because the shame of having the grassed over plot next to someone who has constructed impressive poo poo all over his double plot is driving me on.
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Apr 7, 2017 14:38
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learnincurve posted:Im officially a veg grower. That's awesome! If you know what you're doing, then just ignore me. But, if this is your first time gardening, I have some unsolicited advice for you: It's better to do too little, and wish you had done more, than to do too much, and end up hating gardening forever. Next year, you can always make the plot a little bigger, or squeeze in one more plant, or try one more variety. If you overwhelm yourself now, the whole thing will get away from you, and it'll likely just turn into a weedy eyesore and a bad memory. Peristalsis fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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Apr 7, 2017 15:58
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I'm hoping to grow strawberries for the first time this year, but so far Walmart is the only place in town with any and all of theirs have brown leaves. Any idea what's wrong with them? I don't want to import some horrible leaf rot disease into my garden. learnincurve posted:Im officially a veg grower. LLSix fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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Apr 7, 2017 20:14
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The brown on the leaves might be frostbite. It's hard to tell from that picture but there don't appear to be any insect track marks or holes, and this time of year it wouldn't surprise me if they got nipped by some cold weather between the greenhouse and the store. The trucks that transport the plants aren't heated and condensation + a cold night in a truck could cause that kind of leaf damage. As long as it's only the older, lower leaves that are like that and any new growth is bright and healthy I'd rip the brown ones out before I bought the plant and take my chances.
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I've had strawberries for a few years and they continuously grow new leaves while shedding old ones. Those leaves look like they're on the way out, but the plant itself looks perfectly healthy. To be honest, as long as you keep them watered, strawberries are like weeds and are nearly impossible to kill. Then in the late summer they send out runners and make even more strawberry plants and eventually you're like me with six or eight active plants plus another five that I've given away. This year I'll probably have sixteen unless I prevent the runners from rooting. And this is in pots on a balcony.
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Peristalsis posted:That's awesome! It's my first time doing veg  I have a plan and it's a good plan so of course it's going to go tits up, but it's to do one row of one thing and to time them so I'm planting that one thing per week and then harvesting them at different times. I'm not going to attempt anything that will involve a cane this year. My grandad was one of those who would roll up with four sacks of onions and have a look of blissful satisfaction as he unloaded them from the car and presented them to my secretly horrified mother. She mentioned that she liked gooseberry pie once which led to 20 years of gooseberries that were more sour than grapefruit bless him. LLSix posted:
I just dug out and replaced the earth in 7 borders which were once grass and builders rubble  I'm at the stage where I don't want to stop digging till everything is dug. Saying that I just made a year's wages selling my house, so I decided that as I really don't like my job, I'm simply not going back there. I'm taking on the community garden attached to the allotments and am going to see where this all leads, if no opportunity arises in horticulture then I'm hilariously overqualified for the agency work I was doing before so I can always go back. But I'd rather be digging for a living than working in a hospital.
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learnincurve posted:I'm at the stage where I don't want to stop digging till everything is dug. IMO work smarter, not harder. If you don't NEED the entire plot of grass to grow veg this year then just sheet mulch it (cover with cardboard and straw/leaves/woodchips). Next year you'll have beautiful soil under there without any digging because the worms did it for you.
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Problem is I do and within two weeks, so I want to get it done asap or we get a timing house of cards. I got 138 plug plants in my little grow house and windowsills, with nearly 200 at various stages of germination and smol in my house for the community garden, and the amazing mental health charity which has it's home here. They use veg growing as a form of therapy for people with conditions like depression and alcoholism, and what does not go into the garden will be sold as nice big adult plants on the market to get them more equipment.
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I tried starting my seeds for the first time this year, and most of the paper towels in my ziploc baggies have either brown or reddish spots in them. Is that fungus? Do I need to start over? The discoloration has spread to some of the seeds in this bag and in the lower left corner what looks like a white smudge next to a seed is actually rootlet covered in fuzz. 
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Shifty Pony posted:Let me just say I applaud the effort but what an eyesore. literally a hog posted:From the gardening is awesome and hot thread in old gbs: Jesus christ. Content: Seedling heat mats are amazingly good. Almost too good. My wife decided to plant watermelon and squash in a couple pods alongside peppers and such. Within like 3 days of planting they were pushing the lid off of the tray. I asked her why she jammed direct sow seeds into an indoor seedling tray and she told me the seeds were from 2 years ago and just wanted to see if they'd still be good. Since we have such an abbreviated growing season, I may do a repeat of that with larger pots so I can get them huge before putting in the ground. Fog Tripper fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Apr 9, 2017 |
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I need advice on how to fix a drainage problem, although probably not the usual kind of drainage problem. Last year I decided to put a garden in an area of my yard that is covered with river rock instead of grass. After moving some rock, I discovered there was two feet of gravel underneath. So I dug out a patch of the gravel, but gave up after a bit and had a small garden. I noticed that the edges of the garden, where the dirt met gravel, were really dry -- the water was leaching into the gravel, I assume. So this year I would like to expand a bit, and do something to improve the water leaching. What could I use to edge it? Actual edging is not nearly deep enough. I was thinking I could just bury poly sheeting, but I don't know if that's a dumb idea or not. Landscape fabric is probably too porous to help. Removing all the gravel is probably the best but goddamn there is a shitload of gravel back there, I'd have to get it hauled away.
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Trillian posted:I need advice on how to fix a drainage problem, although probably not the usual kind of drainage problem. Dunno, if your soil above it has enough loamy goodness it shouldn't be subject to leaching. I would rather have good drainage like that then bad swampy non-drainage. How deep is the soil?
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Fog Tripper posted:Dunno, if your soil above it has enough loamy goodness it shouldn't be subject to leaching. I would rather have good drainage like that then bad swampy non-drainage. How deep is the soil? There's no gravel in the garden area, just around it. I am afraid my hare-brained plastic plan could make for swampy non-drainage, but I really have no idea.
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LLSix posted:I tried starting my seeds for the first time this year, and most of the paper towels in my ziploc baggies have either brown or reddish spots in them. Is that fungus? Do I need to start over? I have grown things from moldy seeds like this before. Mold and germination often go hand in hand.
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Trillian posted:There's no gravel in the garden area, just around it. I am afraid my hare-brained plastic plan could make for swampy non-drainage, but I really have no idea. I think you're just gonna want to mix more water retaining soil stuff in to your bed. Compost, soaked wood chips, horse stall scrapings, stuff like that.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I have grown things from moldy seeds like this before. Mold and germination often go hand in hand. Thanks! I'll give it a try then.
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Just spoke with a local ranch who is going to dump a few small dumptruck loads of composted horsie manure at our place. Yay poop!
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Yaaaasss tomatoes    Already over a dozen of the black krim with the black cherry getting ready to catch up in a hurry. I probably need to prune them a bit but last time I did that I got poo poo yield and the shade will help keep the fruit from getting bleached so I'm gonna let them do their thing for now.
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I got the cheapest plastic containers at HD three seasons ago for gardening and they are now extremely brittle and feel useless. What's a second best, inexpensive option for containers that work the best? Also I have a feeling two things probably hosed up last year * Where I am in Maryland was straight sun in incredibly hot weather so it basically burnt up things like cilantro quickly. I'm going to get shade cloth to try to counter that * My drainage probably was done completely incorrectly I am not going to be able to plant until after we move in May but do those sound like easy rookie mistakes?
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Adult Sword Owner posted:I got the cheapest plastic containers at HD three seasons ago for gardening and they are now extremely brittle and feel useless. What's a second best, inexpensive option for containers that work the best? If you can keep it from getting filled with water and freezing terracotta is cheap and works. But if you leave it uncovered in the winter the soil gets soaked and freezes and then you have broken pots.
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Adult Sword Owner posted:* My drainage probably was done completely incorrectly Buy a big bag of gravel or lava rock or whatever and put a good inch to two inches at the bottom of all of your pots (more if you have big pots, like more than a gallon or two big). Put a large broken pottery shard (or wire mesh, if you are fancy) over the holes in the bottom of your pots so you don't lose rocks when you move 'em around. Presto! Easy drainage. As long as you aren't growing succulents or something, you can absolutely soak the soil and all the excess will drain out the bottom through the rocks. Let me know if you figure out cilantro in this climate, I certainly have no luck with it. :\ kedo fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Apr 13, 2017 |
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Motronic posted:If you can keep it from getting filled with water and freezing terracotta is cheap and works. But if you leave it uncovered in the winter the soil gets soaked and freezes and then you have broken pots. I live in an area with a pretty big buffer before freezing temperatures happen so the only excuse would me being lazy for weeks, but thanks, I'll see if I can't get some cheap ones somehow. Maybe a yard sale when someone's throwing some out. kedo posted:Buy a big bag of gravel or lava rock or whatever and put a good inch to two inches at the bottom of all of your pots (more if you have big pots, like more than a gallon or two big). Put a large broken pottery shard (or wire mesh, if you are fancy) over the holes in the bottom of your pots so you don't lose rocks when you move 'em around. Yeh, I didn't do that though, so next time for sure Honestly the most successful cilantro was last winter. I had a ton and brought a big bundle to my parents...on Christmas. I think keeping it out of direct sunlight will be the way to go even though IIRC it's bolting is temperature dependent
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Adult Sword Owner posted:I live in an area with a pretty big buffer before freezing temperatures happen so the only excuse would me being lazy for weeks Me too. Want to see my broken pot collection?
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Motronic posted:Me too. Want to see my broken pot collection? It's just another kind of rock mulch now.
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