Can i start a vegetable and herb garden thread?

[sussle]

i envy you guys. cukes are like tomatoes - so much more flavorful home-grown that they might as well be an entirely different vegetable. thai cuke salad is my recipe of choice:

Thai Cucumber Salad

This cool and refreshing Thai cucumber salad recipe tastes just like the restaurant version, and it only takes minutes to make!

www.dinneratthezoo.com

 

[rowjimmytour]

i envy you guys. cukes are like tomatoes - so much more flavorful home-grown that they might as well be an entirely different vegetable. thai cuke salad is my recipe of choice:

Thai Cucumber Salad

This cool and refreshing Thai cucumber salad recipe tastes just like the restaurant version, and it only takes minutes to make!

www.dinneratthezoo.com

Pretty simple salad and pretty good find a recipe you like or diy

Watermelon Cucumber Salad

This watermelon cucumber salad with feta cheese, fresh mint, and red onion is deliciously easy to make and sure to be a hit at any summer gathering.

www.allrecipes.com

 

[Chocki]

Do I have to do everything around here???

Finally got around to planting the first of my apple trees.

 

[Senor Sopa]

Im eating at least two per day and giving away the extras to neighbors. Lots of veggie sandwiches and salads. Ive been on a blue cheese kick so just a simple cuke salad with blue cheese dressing has been my go to. Maybe some leftover chicken or salmon on top to make it a meal.

Here is the bowl from this morning. Hard to keep up. View attachment 137398

These were volunteer potatoes growing in the spring snow pea bed. View attachment 137400

Very nice compost sifter!

 

[Mr Doof]

Chocki--> What kind of apple trees you got?

 

[Chocki]

Chocki--> What kind of apple trees you got?

2x Honeycrisp, 1x Fuji. I had envisioned planting more but I forgot how much digging holes kind of sucks.

I want them to do well so Im using some high quality amendments mixed with old soil from this summer’s pot plants.


With some added myco



Im debating pruning and trying to root the new growth from the base that or just pruning it all off and that janky lower branch that has too much space above it until the next, symmetrical branches

 

[crustBrother]

growing tobacco

fall is here in CO and starting to see the faintest hint of yellow now in the tobacco



looking forward to some high quality chew and also setting aside a lil bit for rolling and smoking

 

[SteveT]

Just curious.
Is growing your own tobacco to smoke still pose the same health issues as store bought tobacco?
I know the big tobacco companies add all kinds of sh!t to make it more addicting.
Maybe the same as smoking weed?
Where do you get tobacco seeds?
Is it legal?

 

[crustBrother]

Is growing your own tobacco to smoke still pose the same health issues as store bought tobacco?

i don't know.

i almost *never* smoke it. lungs can't handle it. i chew it.

but i will say this. switching from store bought chew to the stuff i grew was hard. even though i was getting plenty nicotine from the home grown stuff, there was something else my body/brain was craving. eventually that craving went away and i found that with my home grown stuff i could sort of take it or leave it on any given day. very different from the hard core "gotta-have-it-all-the-time level of addiction" that i had with the store bought stuff. but i also missed that hard bump that i was getting from the store bought stuff and eventually went back to the store bought stuff. looking forward to getting back off that and back onto my homegrown stuff after this harvest.

so, yeah, i think big tobacco companies are in fact doing something to the stuff they are selling to juice it up, and, yeah, i suspect my homegrown stuff is not as bad for me as the store bought stuff

but i don't really know

Where do you get tobacco seeds?
Is it legal?

Victory Seed Company

Offering a wide variety of modern and heirloom/open-pollinated vegetable, herb, and flower seeds.

victoryseeds.com

legal to grow for personal consumption here in CO - no idea about other states

 

[Mr Doof]

Im debating pruning and trying to root the new growth from the base that or just pruning it all off and that janky lower branch that has too much space above it until the next, symmetrical branches

If the growth at the base is from the rootstock (pretty much all fruit trees are grafted onto rootstock), and you are successful at pruning and rooting it, will be interesting to see what sort of fruit you get. Generally fruit from rootstock is of lower quality, but who knows until it is done. Pruning suckers from the base always is good as you want the energy going to the grafted part since that is why you bought it.

I like low branching on my mini-dwarf fruit trees, even if it looks a little janky, as it makes it easier to pick, especially for raccoons I have found out But totally get aesthetic choices of pruning it.

 

[rowjimmytour]

i don't know.

i almost *never* smoke it. lungs can't handle it. i chew it.

but i will say this. switching from store bought chew to the stuff i grew was hard. even though i was getting plenty nicotine from the home grown stuff, there was something else my body/brain was craving. eventually that craving went away and i found that with my home grown stuff i could sort of take it or leave it on any given day. very different from the hard core "gotta-have-it-all-the-time level of addiction" that i had with the store bought stuff. but i also missed that hard bump that i was getting from the store bought stuff and eventually went back to the store bought stuff. looking forward to getting back off that and back onto my homegrown stuff after this harvest.

so, yeah, i think big tobacco companies are in fact doing something to the stuff they are selling to juice it up, and, yeah, i suspect my homegrown stuff is not as bad for me as the store bought stuff

but i don't really know

Victory Seed Company

Offering a wide variety of modern and heirloom/open-pollinated vegetable, herb, and flower seeds.

victoryseeds.com

legal to grow for personal consumption here in CO - no idea about other states

What store brand do you use? During hs used to chew copenhagen which I remember skoal as well would add fibers to cut gums to get into blood stream faster.

 

[Joshua2415]

Guavas are almost ready...

 

[Autoprax]

I'm growing lettuce.

IT's my first success.

But mice are eating it.

I saw a little dude down there when I was checking out my work,

What should I do?

I also planted a red potato yesterday.

Neglect farming is REAL!

 

[Northern_Shores]

I'm growing lettuce.

IT's my first success.

But mice are eating it.

I saw a little dude down there when I was checking out my work,

What should I do?

I also planted a red potato yesterday.

Neglect farming is REAL!

Let him or her have some too

 

[Autoprax]

Let him or her have some too

I am.

It was really cool looking mouse.

 

[crustBrother]

garden is dead and covered by snow above ground, but i dug up a carrot and ate it today and it tasted great!

i wonder how long those suckers will stay fresh and edible underground?

 

[Mr Doof]

Leave at least one carrot overwinter in the soil. See if it comes back in spring. Can be your own experiment.

 

[Aruka]

There are carrot varieties which are meant to grow over winter. I grew some last year. Planted in aug/sep and harvested in the spring. They were fantastic. We dont get snow here often though so not sure how they would handle that.

 

[sussle]

Does anyone have any experience with using urine as a compost accelerator? Asking for a friend.

 

[Driftcoast]

Would have to dilute it a lot