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It's Spring now. Let's plant our victory gardens and share our sweet tips This is spur of the moment so im sorry for the poo poo op, but once we fully melt here ive got some lawn repair to do.
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Just put potatoes in the ground, along with leafy greens, some fennel and rutabaga. Have cauliflower, broccoli, and some other poo poo indoors for the next few weeks. Gonna build another garden bed this weekend for onions and shallots, and some hail screens so hopefully I can get some stuff to harvest this year. I have a little green house thing, but no amount of weight can keep the wind from picking it up and launching it across my yard.
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Mar 21, 2017 03:12
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What's good poo poo to grow on your balcony besides herbs and tomatoes? Comedy option:  since it's state legal but that would be a race between the DEA or some unscrupulous types breaking into my place
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Mar 21, 2017 03:17
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:What's good poo poo to grow on your balcony besides herbs and tomatoes? Strawberries, get a couple of those coconut baskets, cut holes in the sides and you can grow like 5 or six plants per basket. I would totally get a potted fig or lime tree if I lived in the Bay Area.
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Mar 21, 2017 05:20
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We've got a greenhouse out back, I think we started some 'winter crops' already not sure what though. I gotta figure out what else to get started, maybe some tomatoes and spinach so dickhead squirrels can't eat it before it gets over an inch tall.
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Mar 24, 2017 08:52
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If you have a green house, why are the squirrels stealing from it? Just leaving the door flapping in the breeze out there?
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Mar 24, 2017 17:06
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:What's good poo poo to grow on your balcony besides herbs and tomatoes? Intentionally grow a male plant to troll people.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:14
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Melthir posted:Intentionally grow a male plant to troll people. I mean yeah it would be funny right up until the door to my place gets broken down one way or the other.
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Mar 24, 2017 18:38
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Hemp is perfectly legal to grow in most places.
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Mar 24, 2017 19:24
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LITERALLY SHAKING posted:If you have a green house, why are the squirrels stealing from it? Just leaving the door flapping in the breeze out there? Oops, should've specified: I tried to grow it last year at a different house in an outdoor raised bed with nothing protecting it, and that poo poo never lasted long enough to even be called baby spinach. I might build a chickenwire enclosure this year for whatever we end up growing outside of the greenhouse.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:43
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Ok, random question. If you are growing leafy greens/lettuce/whatever, don't they just die in the heat? Wouldn't a greenhouse kill them faster? Thinking about growing poo poo when I get my house.
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Mar 24, 2017 23:51
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My carnivorous plants continue to consume the bugs, and my pond has its resident frogs back.
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Mar 25, 2017 00:10
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A Good Thread
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Mar 27, 2017 21:53
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My sister-in-law gave me a succulent back in August that I've managed not to kill yet. That's about the extent of my growing capabilities.
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Mar 27, 2017 23:18
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I bought two strawberry plants at Lowes, they seem to be doing ok about 10 days in. Also planted some flower seeds (Morning Glory) and some kind of sweet bell pepper seeds. Five of the flowers have sprouted after a week, the peppers aren't yet, but according to the packet they're expected to be a bit slower. I'm thinking of rigging up a little LED light to give them a few extra hours after the sun goes down. Specifically for the strawberries; last year my strawberry plants never really grew, they just flowered like crazy and I got a whole bunch of like 1/10 scale strawberries.
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Mar 27, 2017 23:48
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Our crocuses might have been stunted after the snow 
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Mar 28, 2017 00:06
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You gotta pinch strawberries before they flower, and anyways they don't fruit well until their second year.
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Mar 28, 2017 00:26
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Anyone else keep bees? Cause that combined with gardening is pretty 
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Mar 28, 2017 00:33
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I have a lot of chickens, dunno if that counts.
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Mar 28, 2017 02:37
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Zeris posted:A Good Thread ty, usually it gets rolled into the dad thread and i think we got enough green thumbs here to keep it rollin
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Mar 28, 2017 02:39
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The Rat posted:I have a lot of chickens, dunno if that counts. I think keeping any kind of livestock while gardening is pretty dope.
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Mar 28, 2017 02:41
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The Rat posted:I have a lot of chickens, dunno if that counts. gently caress yes this counts, show us your cocks
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Mar 28, 2017 02:43
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The Rat posted:I have a lot of chickens, dunno if that counts.  I love chickens, we keep going back and forth on buying some... Mostly because we can't decide if we are going to move or not.
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Mar 28, 2017 02:43
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bengy81 posted:
Yeah that's the hard part. The biggest cost is the startup cost of building a coop. Once you have that built securely (because gently caress raccoons), everything else is cheap. A 50lb bag of chicken feed is like $15. I haven't taken many pics of just my chickens lately. Usually they help me by posing for gun photos.
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Mar 28, 2017 02:45
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Zeris posted:You gotta pinch strawberries before they flower,  quote:and anyways they don't fruit well until their second year. I've heard that, but I kind of let last year's die because I'm terrible at plants.
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Mar 28, 2017 04:11
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Godholio posted:I'm thinking of rigging up a little LED light to give them a few extra hours after the sun goes down. Specifically for the strawberries; last year my strawberry plants never really grew, they just flowered like crazy and I got a whole bunch of like 1/10 scale strawberries. http://www.homedepot.com/b/Lighting-Ceiling-Fans-Light-Bulbs-Specialty-Light-Bulbs-Grow-Light-Bulbs/LED/N-5yc1vZc5sqZ1z0vxij
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Mar 28, 2017 05:05
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I can make my own for about $3.
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Mar 28, 2017 06:04
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Oh gently caress! Just found this thread. So my gf is deployed because I can't escape the military. I mentioned to her that I wanted to start a garden. Being a deployed E6, she went nuts and sent me a ton of poo poo. So, first off, she sent a greenhouse. Now I'm pretty sure the neighbors think I'm growing now Then came the first onslaught of seeds:    Then even more strawberries because strawberries loving own:  Apparently even more stuff is on the way, so at least by sheer number, some stuff will live long enough to harvest.
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Mar 29, 2017 02:25
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Godholio posted:
Nip flowers and the berries the first year before they grow. They'll preserve energy this way, and the next fruiting will be good. You can read it online anywhere, it's pretty easy to find.
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Mar 29, 2017 13:49
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Some fucker has been eating my Marigolds. When I read that they are supposed to deter snails and slugs from your other plants I wasn't expecting them to be ablative armor! Godammit
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Apr 2, 2017 04:32
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My dad always used to bury plastic cups up to the rim then fill them with cheap beer. They attracted the slugs and drowned them.
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Apr 2, 2017 04:50
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Just planted a gently caress ton of Brussels Sprouts, garlic and shallots today. My lettuce patch is coming along nicely as well. Started my peppers and tomatoes, I'm about two weeks behind on both, but gently caress you all I've been traveling for the last month for work almost. Plans for the next week include building another garden box for my onions, and building to raised planters for flowers.
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Apr 15, 2017 23:44
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 ZZ plant, geraniums, 6 or so mint varieties, fennel, irises, ivy, rose, snapdragon seedlings.
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Apr 16, 2017 00:19
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My oregano survived the winter, so that's one less thing to plant this year. So far, I've started two types of basil, chives, cucumbers, black krim and roma tomatoes, and zucchini. I also tossed a pack of mixed bee flower seeds into a planter, so we'll see how they turn out.
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Apr 16, 2017 01:29
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My girls are laying anywhere between 11-17 eggs per day now. (Between all of them, not each.) So many eggs.
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Apr 16, 2017 02:26
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How many are there?
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Apr 16, 2017 02:54
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Apr 16, 2017 14:55
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The Rat posted:My girls are laying anywhere between 11-17 eggs per day now. (Between all of them, not each.) I'd take a few off your hands but King Soopers is closer.
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Apr 16, 2017 15:02
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Godholio posted:How many are there? 25 or 26? I dunno, I lost count when I sold three of my four roosters. AND NOW I JUST HAD A CHICK HATCH, EEEE Second time I've had a chick hatch on Easter. The first time, I named it Jesus. So now. . . Jesus II?
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Name it Fabulous.
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