brugroffil posted:

finally found time to get my garden in this weekend. Here's the ~12x12 plot with tomatoes, lots of squashes, carrots, spinach, and I think my wife planted a watermelon in there? This is at the edge of woods/big prairie so I honestly expect to lose a decent amount to rear end in a top hat animals.



Built some railing planters for the herbs though!

Dustcat posted:

i'm guessing that's in reference to this

https://twitter.com/JavelinaJim/status/1271221319074537473

which, uh, somebody buy these guys an account so they can get some gardening tips from the pros (for example, i see no statue of lenin at all)

twoday posted:

Does anyone know how plants work?



This bodhi tree cannot survive temperatures below 10 degrees celcius, otherwise the roots rot, so I kept in inside most of the year and recently took it out to the balcony. Almost immediately several of the leaves bleached themselves. I think maybe it wasn't used to the brightness and temperature changes of being outside and became unhappy. I put it under a little table and that seemed to help, though maybe it's just gotten used to being outside? It seems to have stopped, at least, but it still seems pretty unhappy, should I move it back inside?

twoday posted:

I wanted to make a bonsai, so the small pot is intentional but this thing keeps growing taller. I also have an acacia in a giant pot that I planted as a seed last year and it's already up to my sternum in height, but the trunk is so tall and skinny that it can't support the weight of the leaves and also sort of of fell over. It's very cloudy here most of the time so I think all the trees try to grow taller to reach the sun, not realizing that this is as good as it gets

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Marcus was the first to start gardening in the park, though he was quickly joined by friends and strangers. This isn’t the work of a casual amateur; Henderson has an Energy Resources Engineering degree from Stanford University, a Master’s degree in Sustainability in the Urban Environment, and years of experience working in sustainable agriculture. His Instagram shows him hard at work on various construction and gardening projects, and he’s done community development at organic farms around the world.
For Marcus, this was a perfect opportunity to put his experience to work for a cause.

“We’re dealing with a question of how Black people have been disenfranchised for so long, pulled out of the economic system,” he says. “One way of doing that is not giving people access to land.”

Going all the way back to emancipation, he points out, farming has been an important way for Black people to gain autonomy and self-sufficiency. But Black land ownership, particularly in the farming sector, has dropped precipitously over the last century; in the 1920s, America had nearly a million Black-owned farms. By the 1970s, it was down to less than 50,000.

The gardens in Cal Anderson park were crafted quickly, but with expertise. A layer of cardboard smothers grass, which isn’t a particularly healthy crop for the environment; and diverse seedlings donated by neighbors are placed into holes in the cardboard that allow them to take root underground. Now if only we could do the same to all the golf courses.
Nobody expects the little Cal Anderson plots to be a sustainable source of food for all of the protesters. But they’re a demonstration of how land can be put to better use — and of the importance of land ownership for Black Americans. That idea has motivated much of Marcus’ work; when he began his career, he was engaged with policy and planning. But he soon saw that if he wanted to make real change he’d have to get his hands dirty.

His planning background is evident when you watch him work. During our conversation, volunteers continuously interrupted to ask him questions: Someone just brought compost, where should it go? Marcus supplied instructions for containing it in tarps. A woman arrived and explained that she’s been out of work for weeks and wanted to volunteer in her neighborhood, where is she needed? He pointed her toward some watering cans. A bystander asked about creating green corridors throughout the city for pollinators; for the moment, that’s beyond the scope of this installation.

Qurnah posted:

Qurnah posted:

Qurnah posted:

we're using the three sisters method so there's some pumpkind and fava beans as well among the corn, in the back there's some brusselsprouts, kale and carrots

The Voice of Labor posted:

judging from my garden experimentation this year, poo poo needs to be in a mound. like, a 4 or 5 foot cone. corn and beans in the middle, squash towards the bottom way the gently caress away from the beans and the corn. otherwise the squash will take over. the idea is to have the squash leaves cover the soil to retain water and form a natural squashy fence around the corn and the beans, so, like, you need the squash plants to be big to be able to do their job which kinda precludes any kind of management except spacing and hill contour. also you want to use climbing beans, besides looking cool when they tendrilize the corn, it really does help support the stalks.

no, I'm not being critical because your garden is so much better than mine nor do I covet your lenin statue, that would be silly.

Paradoxish posted:

Modest garden expansion is finally almost done



Picture is poo poo because I have to replace the camera glass on my phone and I've been lazy.

Was supposed put up a real fence this year, but that's like 3/4 acre of brush that's in the process of being cleared behind it so it'll probably expand again.

We've been experimenting with intensive gardening bullshit. Last year we grew 16 tomato plants in a 4x4 planter more or less successfully. This year we cut it back to 9 in a 4x4 so we could prune less. Also going to attempt to get the zucchinis vertical so they can share one of the smaller planters with a ton of cukes.

Qurnah posted:

Qurnah posted:

here's my setup for the three sisters, fava beans around the stalks and pumpkins around the side of the mounds, any tips would be appreciated

i say swears online posted:

i want to steal some corn from a big farm a few miles from me. how can i tell if it's sweet, meal, or animal feed corn?

Atrocious Joe posted:

the yellow flowers are birdsfoot trefoil, which is commonly used for pastures but also invasive in wilderness areas. you don't have to get rid of it, but just be careful. I've worked in natural area restoration so I have like a Pavlovian negative reaction to seeing it.

the purple flowers are red clover, and the white flowers that look similar are white clover. I think the plants with white flowers and frilly leaves are yarrow. but yeah, thanks for leaving some spots for pollinators. Bees LOVE clover.

Qurnah posted:

and here's our statue of lenin, i had to hide it in the forest otherwise soros would stop sending me money

LibCrusher posted:

is it possible to successfully co-plant peanuts and bush beans? I have a large 40 gallon sack planter with spray irrigation that covers the whole surface. I put in peanuts in the middle and bush beans around the outside edge. will this work?

Myron Baloney posted:

Very often the printed materials from a local university extension, if you have one near or can find their website, are far more to the point and useful. They know what works in your area, it's their job.

Sylink posted:

Things are really taking off now, gonna eat them beans.