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Is this the gardening thread? I'm getting more in to it in my limited, urban capacity i live on the first floor of a building and my back windows look out on the bottom of an air shaft that is like a roof over the basement level. Its ugly and i've been working on making it a "secret roof garden but at the bottom of a hole" and i'm finally all set up now. View from the hole:  Just finished building and weatherproofing a second planter box to grow veggies this summer which will compliment the planter box i built last year for flowers. Tung oil is amazing poo poo, wood looks brand new still after a year in the weather. Lugging 24 cubic feet of soil out the window to fill these boxes is not fun tho! Got the two planters arranged to sort of fence off our window view from the dreary roof and make the most of the morning sun's location which shines directly on out little corner for about 2-3 hours in the summer months coming up.  Cut back all my overgrown daffys that were past prime now that the tulips just started popping open. Mixed bulbs were a great start to the year. The planters are right outside my kids window and she is loving the blooms and activity. Dunno what i'll do yet for summer but i got a few weeks before the garden center is going to get all the summer veggies and flowers in so i can think it over. Probably a lot of easy bright vincas for the flower bed, herbs of course, and i'll maybe try some tomatos and hot peppers and lettuces and see how they do. Anyway if this is the general gardening hobby thread im happy to have found it and if not, thanks for looking at my bullshit
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Just read the op. Sorry to have posted in the anti-gardening, succulent supremacy thread. I will post about my houseplants here later. Mea culpa. Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Apr 17, 2023 04:35
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Jhet posted:People like flowers and veggies here too and there’s plenty of overlap in posters. Love those tulips in such a strange space for them. I bet it gets an unusual amount of sun and heat and rain too. Best thing you can do before buying starts is figure out how many hours of light you get there and then be okay if stuff doesn’t work out. Cool thanks! Its full sun from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm in the summer when the sun can get high enough to peak over the buildings. It is warmer than outside the hole since its a roof and not the ground i suppose and its protected from a lot of weather Yeah the garden is mainly for experimenting, giving my kid an appreciation for flowers and plants the way my mom and grandpa did for me, and i'm very ready to fail - its a SECRET garden after all so no one will know what mistakes i make! Oh and i saw someone planting eastern redbuds on the last page. Theres some gorgeous ones in the park here i took a photo today 
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Apr 17, 2023 04:54
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Neeksy posted:From the looks of it you have "leggy" plants rather than "overgrown" per se, usually it's a result of the plant trying to get to a better light source or maximizing area to capture what it can. Well they might have been leggy but they were pretty spectacular a few weeks ago  Thanks for the tip on strawberries. That sounds perfect for my daughter to be in charge of planting and eating.
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Apr 17, 2023 06:43
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Posting my houseplant success story: I got one of these common house shrubs delivered on xmas eve when it was below zero and the idiots let it get too cold and shocked the leaves really badly the gorgeous plant looked like this within hours of signing for it.  But over the last 4 months ive nursed it back to having fresh growth and am watching my second healthy leaf unroll  Close call! Any advice for when to trim the half dead leaves? I figure if they still are green and rigid the plant is probably still using them but idk Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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Apr 17, 2023 21:39
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 I found this sad thing in the garbage room of my building. Looks like a bulb sticking out of the pot. What is it and does it have a shot at a second act?
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Apr 18, 2023 20:58
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They stems droop and then spring back up immediately with watering. Like leave the room and come back its different looking. Spooky
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Apr 18, 2023 23:50
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 Hell yeah tulips ftw
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Apr 20, 2023 23:33
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Thats wining
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Apr 22, 2023 01:07
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Found this cool creeping purple petunia for my garden boxes. Hopefully it grows like a skirt outside the boxes instead of choking my other plants in the box - thats the goal at least. Untelated question: im drying my daffy and tulip bulbs now...do i trim the long roots off before storing or leave them? Real hurthling! fucked around with this message at 01:55 on May 2, 2023 |
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May 2, 2023 01:50
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May 8, 2023 00:29
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Blumat has ones that fit on a 2L bottle and supposedly work well
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May 8, 2023 16:30
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Goosing the gooseberries
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May 14, 2023 16:09
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Dew Worm, look at this writeup on fuchsias and see if your balcony might work. They're gloriously beautiful, they bloom all summer, and bees and butterflies love them. https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/fuchsia/growing-fuchsia-flower.htm I just got some and they are lovely
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May 14, 2023 21:00
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My mother bought two potted fuchsia from the cubscouts and they arrived and were too big for her so now i have them in an air conditioner cage i dont use. See how it goes.
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May 17, 2023 00:15
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Sir do not touch the o'keefe paintings. Sir!
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May 17, 2023 21:26
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 My garden is growing. Plants ftw.
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May 22, 2023 21:21
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Tell him that once you put the tree safe coat on in black he can prime it and paint it any color he wants
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May 24, 2023 20:52
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 That weird tuber/bulb thing i asked about a month ago is happy again now that its not stuck in a sad cup sized pot.
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May 29, 2023 22:37
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And a very warm cyclaman to you to
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May 29, 2023 23:19
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If a tomato vine grows higher than its support pole will it know to stop growing or do i need to do something before it doubles over like a dumb idiot?
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Jun 6, 2023 22:07
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Tyvm! I asked the
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Jun 6, 2023 23:30
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just snip the main stem off at a fork?
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Jun 7, 2023 00:09
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No shade tho
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Jun 7, 2023 02:59
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Do raised beds on top and you wont need to dig down
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Jun 27, 2023 00:37
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Dang
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Jun 27, 2023 02:31
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 Chinese ivy is pretty cool how it adores being in the dark directly in front of the a/c for the 6 years ive had it Outlived like 4 other ivies it was planted with in that gross temporary basket/plastic bag combo thing its in. Badass.
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Jul 9, 2023 20:44
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Got a blumat gravity loop to play with Heres the tank and looped feeder line with a purge valve. The loop puts a lot more pressure on the water than a single line it seems like. Barely need any elevation and its shooting out of the purge when open  Heres the drip heads. I might buy a few more for better coverage and add them along the return line.  Its not too ugly from the window! Hope it works. Fun project!
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Jul 9, 2023 22:48
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Whys it on a chair? Teabagging a less fortunate trees corpse
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Jul 31, 2023 16:59
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My 3-4 months of direct sunlight on my outdoor space have ended again for the year sadly and my spring plantings are only hanging on still to be nice to me What are some cool late summer/fall species for zone 7 that dont mind getting strictly indirect light?
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Aug 27, 2023 17:55
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Is caladium a good choice too?
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Aug 27, 2023 19:50
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 Got some ornamental cabbages for the roof garden this fall now that the sun doesnt make it passed the buildings anymore til spring. Osaka white and osaka red.
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Sep 25, 2023 19:54
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Thanks! they are the top result cheap pine ones from amazon but i heavily reinforced them with brackets and triple coated them with tung oil to make them last. Im still working out my rotation for the year cause direct light is scarce and seasonal at the bottom of a 14 story airshaft. Hopefully the cabbages do well in their dank new home.
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Sep 26, 2023 00:32
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I have a little aerogarden kit and its like the basil zone where the basil roots take over the whole water container and kill everything else and eventually itself ftw. Good slow motion 4x simulator irl.
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Nov 18, 2023 00:55
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My friend has this weird plant that they said you can cut a leaf off and it will grow into a new plant. I took one leaf from her and planted it like this 3 weeks ago. It hasnt done anything yet but also it doesnt look like its dying or anything so idk whats up. Am i doing good? Also my african violet is poppin off which makes me feel less weird for keeping a jar of old egg shells and water under the sink to water it with. 
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Dec 3, 2023 17:40
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kid sinister posted:I'm about 80% sure that is a snake plant. Those things are bulletproof. It only looks like one cause its one leaf. This plant is like a network of viny shoots once grown up
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Dec 3, 2023 22:58
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They probably make like fun bug based treats for plant pet owners right?
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Dec 10, 2023 17:48
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 That leaf cutting my friend gave me 3 months ago has finally made the shoot i was told it would make
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Jan 28, 2024 04:42
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skylined! posted:Epiphyllum pumilum or oxypetalum? I think its red when it blooms he said
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Woke up this morning to some of my freshly sprouting bulbs out in the roof planter all dug up and strewn about. They are on a roof in a box covered in 6 inches of dirt so im thinking it was either a cat, a rat, a racoon, or a bird, or like the heavy rain last night liquifying the dirt and making the bulbs float?  Also someone is giving me a chinese evergreen and said it can just sit in windowless room all day np is that correct? I got a chinese ivy thats been cool with no light and an a/c blowing on it for years already. Are these plants actually from china or is chinese like a weird plant nursery term for 'perfect for office lighting conditions'
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