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Spent the labor day weekend on a birthday gift for the partner! We'd been getting into hobby gardening lately, well mostly she has and I've been helping. I've got a bit of landscaping experience from when I was conscripted in my child and teen years to help in my mom's garden, so it's been nice to put some of that experience to use for something worthwhile. My main goals were economy of parts needed, materials balanced between longevity and price, ability to dismantle/rebuild, and a minimum of equipment needed. I ended up going with the cheapest timbers I could reasonably find (8' cherry for $5 apiece) and some 1/2" rebar stakes. No fasteners or glues. I initially planned to use a hand saw for everything, but after hand sawing my first lap joint I instead borrowed a miter saw from a neighbor. The only other tools were a drill, a rubber mallet, and a couple of longevity awards from Salesforce, which have finally found a use in the garden (holding down fabric, and as a block for driving stakes with the mallet)      The finished product! All that's left is to fill in the dirt at the base.    Some close-ups of the joints, lest anyone accuse me of being skilled:    It'll sit in the current state until we're ready to harvest or euthanize the sugar pumpkins, then we'll start filling the bed with dirt and compost over the winter.
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I think with sufficient heat you can boil anything away
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I'm doing some prelim research into starting a citrus tree or two, and I'm wondering if anyone has any options or tips for frost control. My dad told me about the smudge pots they used when he was growing up in Cali, and it does seem like the cheapest/easiest option, but I doubt it'd even be legal to use where I'm at, to say nothing of the fire hazard lol. Other options seem pretty pricey (warm air mixing/blowing, fogging systems). Should I just not worry about the frost or treat it as a risk of the hobby?
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Nov 16, 2023 18:56
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I'm in the Seattle area, Zone 8. It frosts occasionally over the winters, rarely snows, and the lowest I've seen the temp get is in the 20s so far (maybe possibly into the teens with the windchill but I haven't paid attention to windchill since moving out of WI). Tarps and blankets, eh  Yeah I could def swing that if needed. Better than a burning pot of diesel/oil lolMotronic posted:Classic philly move is to put incandescent christmas lights on your fig tree.
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Nov 16, 2023 20:49
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Chernobyl Princess posted:Could you not put the citrus in a pot? We've got a potted lemon tree I started from seed in zone 6 and I just keep it indoors. We're not expecting lemons off of it though, because it's a random grocery store lemon seed I stuck in a bucket of dirt at the demand of my toddler, but it's actually growing pretty well this way. Jhet posted:https://phys.org/news/2023-11-hardiness-gardeners-nationwide-unveiled.html
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trilobite terror posted:GlyphGryph, why are you growing grass indoors? For grazing
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Mar 14, 2024 20:03
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Schmeichy posted:What a great gift! Looks nice, you should update when it's planted  Three rows of California softneck garlic in that front nub (gets the most sun), a row of danver carrots, and a row of yukon gold potatoes in the back! We'll be adding a second row of carrots in 3-4 weeks.
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Mar 17, 2024 18:51
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Turn lemons into lemonade and start farming asian ambrosia beetles instead
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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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Mar 22, 2024 17:42
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Chad Sexington posted:that looks more garlic than carrot to me unless it's much more zoomed in than it seems Bi-la kaifa posted:No that's just a really big carrot Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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Mar 22, 2024 20:20
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 Took another picture, this time hopefully with a better sense of scale. The second sprout behind it makes me think carrots, because the 4yo kinda put her carrot seeds between rows as well
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Mar 23, 2024 00:30
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effika posted:I really am not getting carrot vibes from those. We'll see when the first true leaves come up, yeah. Yeah that's what i was expecting! Okay so this morning the sprouts were noticeably bigger and i got paranoid that maybe it was some weed, so i gently tugged to see what would happen, if they were carrots they should give easily, but it was stuck hard. So i dug down a bit and found confirmed garlic ~6" down. At that point I'd already disturbed a bunch of soil so i figured I'd just remove it (sorry garlic). Welp lol 
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Mar 23, 2024 17:45
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If you take some out, chew it up, and spit it back in, it should help kickstart the cold weather composti ng
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Looking great! I like the rat statue
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