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Paradoxish posted:I can't say for sure, but I will say that if these guys are harmful then I've never noticed. My beds end up absolutely crawling with them on some mornings, to the point that there are probably hundreds in a single 8x4 raised bed. I'm guessing it's the result of the completely raw wood chips that I use in my paths. looked them up and quote:The flesh is thin and the taste mild. It can be eaten but is poisonous when consumed with alcohol – hence another common name, tippler's bane. cool
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Shifty Nipples posted:Are unripe habaneros edible/palatable or will it all be for nothing if they don't hurry the hell up and ripen? yeah they're still good. also if they've progressed far enough they might ripen off the bush, but i like em as they are
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yeah in 8b there's big ornamental rosemary bushes that survive regular (but relatively infrequent and noncontinuous) hard freezes. but those things are massive and woody and established edit: lol i looked at the hardiness zone ranges vs. the recorded minimum winter temps here, we're more like 9a or 9b for the last decade. wonder what's going on with our climate? eke out fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Oct 7, 2022 |
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Oct 7, 2022 01:32
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Paradoxish posted:I completely understand the desire to be as no-kill as possible, but horn worms are a major tomato pest and they'll utterly devastate your plants. You pretty much need to either kill them or accept that you're gardening for the moths and not yourself. A big infestation will leave exactly zero usable plants. lol I learned this lesson last year planting (native! great for pollinators!) purple passionfruit. which was great for the native caterpillars that devoured my vines entirely before they got established
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Spikes32 posted:Any suggestions for grow lights for starting seeds, or should I just grab whatever is cheap on amazon? If it's any help, when I went through this same thing a couple months ago I settled on Barrina lights -- their six pack of 2ft 144 watt LEDs was the cheapest I could find at the time that also had decent reviews by real people. I'm pretty happy with them after two months of 18 hours/day usage, zip tied them to a set of shelves and put them on a timer and they've done a great job getting all my seeds going and indooring some of my outdoor plants during cold snaps.
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i'm doing a couple eggplant cousins, 'striped toga eggplant' and 'pea eggplants' this year, because they looked cool (and because i'm afraid florida heat/bugs/etc would ruin me if i tried big ones)
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Shifty Pony posted:Rats with a PR team. not technically cilantro but a heat-loving replacement called 'vietnamese cilantro' by my local nursery is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persicaria_odorata spreads a lot laterally without growing tall, tastes reasonably close, and i think will not flower unless you're in a tropical clime eke out fucked around with this message at 16:05 on May 26, 2023 |
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May 26, 2023 15:35
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Alucard posted:This is especially amusing since cilantro is sometimes labeled as Chinese parsley, so you've got Vietnamese Chinese parsley lol herb names are such a mess! i bought a "cuban oregano" (which is cool cause it tastes like oregano but has big broad semi-succulent leaves)only to look it up and see it's also called mexican mint, indian borage, and spanish thyme eke out fucked around with this message at 23:03 on May 26, 2023 |
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May 26, 2023 23:00
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Real hurthling! posted:https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005755YSQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title i've used this stuff for all my tomatoes this year and i really like it, it's durable in weather and easy to reposition/reuse
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i was watching a video from some seed farm where they were starting basil seeds directly on top of the soil, seems like they like to be at most barely covered by soil
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Jun 18, 2023 01:29
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Organic Lube User posted:Also, if your tomatoes are just starting to turn red, go ahead and pull em. this is one thing i hadn't realized until watching a video from my local ag extension office, where 100% of the phds and master gardeners were like "letting tomatoes get to full color on the vine is insane and just asking for heartbreak, pick them as soon as color change begins if you are in any way worried about pests or disease"
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yeah in the past when i've done cherokee purples and other big heirlooms, they seem drat near impossible to finish on the vine without splitting some, but they still end up tasting pretty good
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yeah i am afraid that is Technically Not A Scam but in practicality a scam
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yeah my habaneros smelled really strongly when split in half and dehydrated at ~110 degrees or whatever, but they didn't put much capsaicin into the air or bother me like frying them would. but i know habs are nothing compared to some of the super hots people do
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in zone 8b gulf coast we had the worst freeze in decades this winter (fully below freezing for multiple straight days and below 20 for a good portion of that) and the one citrus that did great, shrugged it off without issue, and is bearing a ton of fruit right now is my red lime (kumquat x rangpur) also red limes are cool they're like if a lime was also a sweet orange. highly recommend
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Jhet posted:https://phys.org/news/2023-11-hardiness-gardeners-nationwide-unveiled.html oh poo poo i'm 9a now too. that makes a lot more sense tbf, below 20 was the first time in 7 years i've lived here, definitely not an average extreme minimum anymore
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Discussion Quorum posted:I'm delving into Dwarf Tomato Project stuff this year. I'm container bound, otherwise I would be checking out more of the Wild Boar options (although the DTP Fred's Tie Dye appears to be a dwarf of a Wild Boar variety). same here, i bought a bunch of varieties from victory seeds on a whim one night and now have a few dozen seedlings just starting to put on their first pair of true leaves
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how do you stop those things from being Mosquito City? is it just that it's hard for adults to get in and lay eggs
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Dr_0ctag0n posted:I got my super hots sowed Jan 15th, they've got about three sets of true leaves now in solo cups. This year I'm making a crappy webcam time lapse of them growing for the whole season. Unfortunately my cam doesn't have adjustable focus up close so the quality will be kinda blurry until I move them out to the patio and the camera is a few feet away. man some peppers are so slow -- half of mine started in december are in small pots with numerous leaves, meanwhile some hong gochus and aji dulces barely even have their second set of true leaves yet. probably should've started them at like 80 degree soil temp or something, but my heating mat struggled indoors when it was literally freezing outside
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yeah see if your city has compost pickup locations or somewhere where you can collect arborist's mulch if not, landscaping companies that will deliver soil/compost will be vastly cheaper than buying bags from a big box store
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therunningman posted:I will pass it on! yeah ours has free "compost" but since it's almost exclusively arborist clippings and leaves and not that old, it's not exactly the ideal homemade compost (still, a great filler and it'll all become good soil sooner or later)
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Feb 28, 2024 23:40
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yeah this is also why you see people placing grow lights like 3' above seedlings, super close. an actual outdoor full-sun day is a lot of light and even with grow lights things on the edges of the lights or too far away may end up getting less than you think, one of those inverse-square relationships where intensity falls off extremely rapidly
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NomNomNom posted:My tomato and pepper seedlings aren't progressing. Planted Feb 14, all germinated within 2-3 days but have completely stopped. some of those look like they're in rough shape if they've been like that for multiple weeks, but others that have their seed leaves open and green look just fine. i used the same size starting pots this year and observed a significant lag in visible growth, then all the sudden after a couple weeks of nothing they'd take off and start rapidly putting on true leaves. my assumption was that it's because 4 inch or whatever deep is a lot of space for root growth and it's spending a lot of resources on that for a while
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here in north florida irises are unkillable beasts if you stick them in full sun, even when they've got lovely marginal soil have to dig some up every year or two because they expand so quickly
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my cucumbers in 9a have a handful of blooms each, just starting to go up their trellises. giving some bush-types a try this year in grow bags with little a-frames, i've only grown the sprawling kinds in the past and down here they tend to go crazy in early summer then rapidly succumb to disease and mildew
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yeah just keeping the fruit and leaves off the ground is very helpful -- cukes are thin-skinned and their leaves love to get powdery mildew/rot/etc, so anything that stops their leaves from getting wet when you water and having soil splash on them helps a ton
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i similarly stuck some pruned peach branches in the ground and they fully flowered and now have leafed, but last time i checked had zero roots at all so i'm just kinda hoping they decide to root eventually
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this is a good reminder to start doing some preventative neem spraying before all my poo poo is covered in leaf-footed bugs in may (gently caress leaf-footed bugs)
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GlyphGryph posted:If I want to include some nitrogen fixing plants for companion planting, do I need to infect them myself, or or just trust it to happen on its own at some point? Does it matter if they are indoor/outdoor? from what i've gathered, most nitrogen fixers will find their bacterial friends sooner or later but inoculating them gives them a jump start. probably not hugely necessary for a few companion beans or whatever, but maybe a different story if you're laying down acres of cover crops and need to maximize nitrogen production
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mischief posted:Our tiller definitely gets loaned out more than anything. Chainsaws and pressure washers are up there but the tiller gets flogged pretty hard. i got a 16' sun joe tiller walmart had on sale and it really is handy, great for quickly turning under cover crops, great for busting up grass and making new beds, etc. probably terrible if you needed it for serious commercial use but really useful at home
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trap crops make sense to me but it feels like there is a lot of gardening myths about "companion plants" that'll repel pests that are very questionable
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