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you people flaunting your sun privilege should be shamed, I demand reparations!
came here for a marijuana garden picture, was surprisingly disappointed.
I just bought a potted collard after seeing an 8' tall one absolutely flush with greensDid ya'll know brassica's are in the mustard family? My girlfriend the botanist learned me that one.
If anyone likes collard greens or kale I highly recommend getting a few Purple Tree Collards. They will grow for years, produce lots of tasty greens year round, are very pest resistant and you can easily clone them to expand or share your bounty. I have a pretty big garden and it's one of my favorite new plants of the past couple years. I made about 30 clones this spring to pass around to friends and family. I usually cook them in the instant pot with butter, red pepper flake, brown sugar, vinegar, salt and occasionally bacon or ham, etc.
Another great one I ran last year is Fioretta 60 sprouting cauliflower. I'm not a big fan of cauliflower normally. I mean I'll eat it, it's fine but it never exactly blows me away if you can believe it. This variety however is super sweet and delicious. I usually roast them on my traeger and it's one of my favorites. Start in spring indoors and plant out once danger of frost has passed.
Last up is the purple sprouting broccoli. These are an overwintering plant so you start the seeds in Jul/Aug, plant in the fall and then they grow all winter and produce tasty broccoli sprouts in march/april depending on the variety. I think they are far superior in taste to a regular broccoli. These also go into the traeger or oven depending on the weather. I like to do an early and a later variety of sprouting broccoli so I have a solid two months of harvesting. When you harvest the tops in the spring they sprout more floretes so you can keep cutting on them like 4-5x. In my climate these make a lot of sense because I can take a bed where I grew something that finishes in the fall and throw a bunch of little starts in and then I hardly have to do anything once the rain starts. Spring time comes and they are the first food to come out of my garden.
Nice, yeah they produce a lot for how much space they take up, kind of like kale but rather than bolting in the late summer they just kind of keep chugging along.I just bought a potted collard after seeing an 8' tall one absolutely flush with greens
at the nursery. I am thinking about adding a couple more as thy don't take up too
much space and I like to eat a lot of greens.
I really wish I had more space to garden.
I miss having fruiting trees...
Nice, yeah they produce a lot for how much space they take up, kind of like kale but rather than bolting in the late summer they just kind of keep chugging along.
I planted a small orchard three years ago and got my first little apple harvest last fall. The peaches and pears still have yet to produce anything of note. I plugged in six different plum varieties and a few more apples(honeycrisp!)/pears/cherries this winter. I love plums so I'm really hoping at least one of the types does well eventually. I have 16 trees now and a bit more room for later additions. I want to get to the point when the trees are big enough that I can remove the fence and let the deer come in. Let them gorge on the fallen apples for a few weeks and then drop the fattest one for the freezer. That's the fantasy anyways. I've never killed a deer and I don't even own a gun.
you're living the dreamNice, yeah they produce a lot for how much space they take up, kind of like kale but rather than bolting in the late summer they just kind of keep chugging along.
I planted a small orchard three years ago and got my first little apple harvest last fall. The peaches and pears still have yet to produce anything of note. I plugged in six different plum varieties and a few more apples(honeycrisp!)/pears/cherries this winter. I love plums so I'm really hoping at least one of the types does well eventually. I have 16 trees now and a bit more room for later additions. I want to get to the point when the trees are big enough that I can remove the fence and let the deer come in. Let them gorge on the fallen apples for a few weeks and then drop the fattest one for the freezer. That's the fantasy anyways. I've never killed a deer and I don't even own a gun.
re: mushrooms - not yet, get a few growing naturally, but unfortunately not the kind I wantDid you ever try growing mushrooms?
Didn't you move in the last year or so? What kinda land you got where you are now?
PS
Harvested a bunch of horseradish this winter. Makes the reconstituted wasabi powder taste about as good a freeze-dried Folgers as compared to a cup of freshly made Pee'ts Mocha Sanani arabica beans. The problem is that a little horseradish goes a long way and I have a about a pound of the stuff.
we have a big problem with deer, squirrels etc where i live...on an island with no predators, my neighborhood is like one big buffet for them. have tried all kinds of crazy pest repellent recipes over the years but found that spraying fish emulsion works better than anything and is great for the plants as well. just don't be downwind when you spray it.That sucks..
I had something completely eat all my cucumbers , I'm not sure if its rabbits or ground squirrels
I've heard tell rifles are epic at repelling deer.we have a big problem with deer, squirrels etc where i live...on an island with no predators, my neighborhood is like one big buffet for them. have tried all kinds of crazy pest repellent recipes over the years but found that spraying fish emulsion works better than anything and is great for the plants as well. just don't be downwind when you spray it.
yeah, but the neighbors get a little fussy about that technique - especially the ones with kids. have thought about buying a wrist rocket from Harbor Freight Tools and a bag of ball bearings....you're not going to rid yourself of the pests so the trick is to make your garden less appetizing and/or more challenging than your neighbors, so they go elsewhere. and they do.I've heard tell rifles are epic at repelling deer.