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Yeah, I already cut the openings larger after taking that picture and added a few more pebbles to give more reservoir space in the crowded ones. It's a learning process lol Luckily with solo cups you just need to snip an edge of the existing hole and lean it away to cut a nice "V" opening without hurting the roots. It's not nearly as crowded inside the cup as the roots make it look, they're just getting fed every day below the bottom of the cup and reaching for the 'bottomless' nutrient supply below. I think the dirt in the cup is filled with primarily 'air' roots on most of these.
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Alterian posted:Consider also growing herbs. Fresh basil, chives, and parsley are really nice. I was going to suggest the same thing: if you're really limited in your space and just starting out, grow herbs and other things that are expensive to buy. Also, growing tomatoes in a bucket is tricky, because you can easily over-water them if you don't have your drainage right. But this puzzles me: TraderStav posted:I had a green onion infestation at my first home so have committed to never planting those in open soil ever again! If you found the green onions to be an infestation, I'm very sorry for you. I am just getting chives from the wild garlic and onion bulbs that I've been digging up in vacant lots and planting in my garden. They're spectacular and tide me over for when I don't have an abundance of green onions.
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rojay posted:I was going to suggest the same thing: if you're really limited in your space and just starting out, grow herbs and other things that are expensive to buy. Also, growing tomatoes in a bucket is tricky, because you can easily over-water them if you don't have your drainage right. Just that they showed up where I didn't want them. I was really young and a first time homeowner trying to tame a wild yard and I'd be weed whipping and get a blast full of onion spray when not paying attention. They'd shown up all over the yard. Was a bit of a mess and I wasn't down for taming it. Green onions are my favorite thing to put in my salads so I am definitely team onion here.
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Lawnie posted:Fun fact: Swiss chard IS beet shoots, just a different cultivar Well this sent me down a wikipedia rabbit hole! 
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Alterian posted:How many of you are thinking more long term about some of the larger things you plant outside? massive) Yeah. I'm getting into stone fruits and now I have to worry about chill hours. My options were already limited, but between getting bumped to 9b and our absurdly warm 2023-24 winter (~210 hours between 32F and 45F), I decided to lower my "max chill hours" threshold. Common guidance for my area is 350 hours or so, but I'm not touching anything over 300 and will probably favor sub-250. On the flip side, we often have a period of balmy weather in March followed by a snap freeze. Apricots are famously frustrating to grow here due to the combination of low chill and late freezes. So I can't go too low on the chill hours or the "volatility" part of climate change will bite me as well.
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My beans, peas, collards and spinach have sprouted in their trays. Now I just have to find room for them all. By building a second raised bed, of course!
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Step 1: seed too many trays so you can thin down to just the plants you need Step 2: expand your garden and plant all of the seedlings anyway Step 3: expand even more and plant even more 
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after a couple years of unfortunate neglect, i want to repot my old spider plant and see if it can recover can i re-bury the stems up to the first healthy leaves (and possibly trigger fresh roots to grow?) when i transplant or do they need access to air and i just need to find some way of winding them around the inside of the pot and pin them down on the surface?  or have i basically toasted this poor old man and should just start again? i've had him for maybe 7 or 9 years now and he used to be huge and beautiful, but untreated ADHD has a way of killing even the hardiest of plants i've bought some blumat auto-watering things now so I'm going to throw one in with the repot, just wondering about the stems or if it's time to say goodbye entirely boofhead fucked around with this message at 10:23 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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boofhead posted:after a couple years of unfortunate neglect, i want to repot my old spider plant and see if it can recover If you haven't repotted in a couple years that pot is bound to be like 99% tuber. You can repot cuttings in water or soil though, to answer your question. Spider plants are pretty forgiving. freeedr posted:Step 1: seed too many trays so you can thin down to just the plants you need Yeah I put three of each tomato and pepper I wanted to grow in a flat. If past behavior holds, I will transplant one of each into my raised beds, drop the second best in pots that I will subsequently neglect, and the third will be snapped up in 5 seconds when I put a curb alert up on Nextdoor.
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freeedr posted:Step 1: seed too many trays so you can thin down to just the plants you need This way lies monsters. Tasty, fresh, delicious monsters.
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Chad Sexington posted:If you haven't repotted in a couple years that pot is bound to be like 99% tuber. Thanks. It doesn't have spiderettes on it but I cut the stems off and put them in water, I'm hoping the aerial roots will turn into new roots but if they all die it's no great loss, I'll just start again
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boofhead posted:Thanks. It doesn't have spiderettes on it but I cut the stems off and put them in water, I'm hoping the aerial roots will turn into new roots but if they all die it's no great loss, I'll just start again If the pot is all tubers you can gently pry some apart and normally just plant 2-3” sections of them and they’ll put out new growth.
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Jhet posted:If the pot is all tubers you can gently pry some apart and normally just plant 2-3” sections of them and they’ll put out new growth. oh nice, thank you. i threw them in a pot, let's see how they do
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My son is jealous of the cats and wants his own grazing plants. What are some good choices? He wants "grass like the cats and lemonhearts" but I don't particularly want him eating grass or any more lemonhearts than he already does (yellow woodsorrel is one of his favorite foragables for reasons I don't fully understand). Maybe some mint? Other suggestions are appreciated. Only food I've ever grown indoors is mushrooms, which he hates. My mom has generously donated an indoor greenhouse shelf thing I plan on wiring up with grow lights for whatever he wants to grow, but I don't have a clue what to put in it really. Edit: Ooh, maybe strawberries? If we grow them indoors, does that mean we'd have fresh fruit all year round? GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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yes if you get ever bearing ones. many are junebearing
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I’ve never grown strawberries year round, but I have gotten three big harvests in one year. I wouldn’t mind seeing how long a plant would last if the days never got short
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same actually I've only ever grown junebearing
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Maybe a few trays of different microgreens? They only take like a week and look kinda like fancy grass to graze on.
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My kid LOVES to graze in the veggie garden. I think the top hits that would also work on limited space indoors would be either continual sowings of baby greens, or mint (many kinds to pick from).
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GlyphGryph posted:My son is jealous of the cats and wants his own grazing plants. What are some good choices? Before I had kids I would have been baffled by this Enter stage left: my son, the lemon-eater
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Sorrel is tasty but full of oxalic acid which can cause problems in large enough quantities. Haven't looked into it though because I only eat it occasionally.
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You can grow small greens (mustards, spinach, beets) many of which you can just eat straight raw without issue. Those are probably better to graze. Mixed lettuce packs might be good indoors for it too. Radish makes great microgreens too.
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Lemon balm (melissa officinalis) looks like a mint (which it is) and therefore like catnip, which is also a mint. It has a pleasant green-and-lemon flavor, and I bet your son would enjoy it. Being a mint, it's very very tough.
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Some great ideas, thanks everyone!
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I love to eat grass : and smoke it too!
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Hell yeah. Just give me a patch of mint or greens to graze on, and I'd be happy too.
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A trick I picked up from my parents: plant your mint directly under the hose tap. It gets all the water it wants, and when you mow the lawn (A) it smells lovely and (B) you keep the mint within bounds.
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mint is a terrorism plant imo. don't plant it anywhere outside a container
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The cats absolutely love the grass btw. I didnt expect it to grow so long so fast, but one of them especially loves laying in it in the sun and idly chewing whatever stalk his nearest his mouth. Its been a real hit, if you have cats I recommend it. He is finally leaving the other plants alone, as well! I accidentally posted that to the wrong thread on my first attempt, so I suppose its only fair I ask in return if any of you know if antimagic cones are blocked by obstructions.
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PokeJoe posted:mint is a terrorism plant imo. don't plant it anywhere outside a container
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PokeJoe posted:mint is a terrorism plant imo. don't plant it anywhere outside a container And keep that container well away from any earth because mint can and will send a root out in search of freedom. Had one make it two feet along a crack in the concrete until it found the lawn next to the walkway. I only noticed because the mint suddenly really perked up and then some small mint leaves popped up next to the walkway. Found it right after the landlord let us know they weren't renewing our lease because they wanted to move in while they renovated their fancy house so I didn't feel bad.
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PokeJoe posted:mint is a terrorism plant imo. don't plant it anywhere outside a container
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As long as it's not burrowing into foundations like bamboo (it doesn't do that, right?), I like it popping up into the yard a bit. Just gets mowed down and smells nice. this place is a rental though
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I have it in a raised bed made of bricks. It is contained, but it even worked its way between the bricks to grow out of the sides. It is far from any other beds and surrounded by thick turf for containment. I love having it though, and my daughters like a mint leaf in their tea occasionally, and if you really want to take the pains for the sake of doing it you can extract your own peppermint oil and make candy.
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Mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) has fibrous roots rather than rhizomatous roots so it won't spread as aggressively as mentha species. Downy wood mint (Blephilia ciliata) is another mint that is not as aggressive. Both of these are edible and native to the US. I highly recommend finding a mint that is local to your area to help your local pollinators! I'm currently shopping around for price quotes on planting trees. I've gotten anywhere from $450 to over $2200 for a single bur oak.  There are differences in sizes, but even the same size tree can have hundreds of dollars in price difference. I'm leaning toward spending a little more and going with the ISA arborist who has been taking down invasive trees in my yard.
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Do you want free red oak saplings? The squirrels forget where they buried the acorns so I have a steady supply every year!
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Got a sprout after only a few days! It's in the carrot row so I'm pretty sure it's a carrot. It could also be an errant garlic planted by the kid. Guess we'll find out!
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Got a sprout after only a few days! It's in the carrot row so I'm pretty sure it's a carrot. It could also be an errant garlic planted by the kid. Guess we'll find out! that looks more garlic than carrot to me unless it's much more zoomed in than it seems
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No that's just a really big carrot
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