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NoReturn dijo:
Catnip is mosquito repellent.
It is a mint, though, so it needs to live in pots.
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On this, I heard of cat mint, and cat nip, are those the same thing? I've got a lot of the stuff growing around in the wild patches, and the odd outdoor cat can be found munching it on a cool summer day.
 
Sperg_rancher dijo:
On this, I heard of cat mint, and cat nip, are those the same thing? I've got a lot of the stuff growing around in the wild patches, and the odd outdoor cat can be found munching it on a cool summer day.
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Yep. Nepeta cataria = catnip and catmint.
The leaves are "cuter" than normal mint and the leaves are slightly fuzzy:
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The taste in tea is much more mild, but still nice for stomach aches or just in general. The blooms are pretty, and you can cut them off and put them in water. Won't have a strong smell, but it looks nice.
 
Has anyone ever had much success with ground cherries? I had incredible luck with them one year like six years ago and have never been able to produce good seedling since then. I think I might get lucky enough to get three or four plants this year, but they are pretty pathetic size wise right now and they would instantly die if I troed to move them outside.
 
Sperg_rancher dijo:
What's your guys' favorite perenial in your gardens? I've decided I'm doing no annuals this year, and instead focusing on more sustainable things.
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Absolutely no Annuals sounds tough! Are you even counting shit that reseeds super easy, like peas or most wildflowers?

As a poorfag/apartment kid, the only [edible] perennial I have actual experience with and like is Allium. My Chives and Egyptian Nodding Onions keep coming back each year and they live in containers. I love eating green onions and have enough for the whole summer/fall.

Definitely looking out for the day I start growing berries. Bigger fruits like apples sound too messy for the time being.
 


I have arisen after a dry winter and a short spring. Two of my orchids are in bloom, one with a clone growing, and another spike on the way.
The first orchid one the left gave me two spikes this year.

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Also the orchid I am most excited for, my Witchcraft. It's reserve bulb got slightly sunburnt when I neglected to move it into the shade while it was outside. I put it out a little later now to avoid further burning and it is responding well.

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I have been quite busy as I got a miniature schnauzer puppy a couple months ago. He has just turned four months old today.


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Sperg_rancher dijo:
What's your guys' favorite perenial in your gardens? I've decided I'm doing no annuals this year, and instead focusing on more sustainable things.

Personally, I really like the apple trees. Apples are great.
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It’s always the lupins every year. We inherited one from a late relative and this year in its new location it has 4 massive main spikes and I count 12+ newer spikes. At least 4 crowns. It’s a giant 25 gallon container with purple asters as well.

We harvested our brassicas recently and made out extremely well on cauliflower and broccoli. 2/4 broccoli bolted and were unrecoverable. All of our cauliflower was harvestable with a couple smaller heads but nothing to scoff at. Some cauliflower heads were about 8” in diameter. This is our first extremely successful year with brassicas. We started them in the greenhouse from store-bought starts in about mid March and planted them in a greenhouse to protect them from moisture and wind. The greenhouse has been well ventilated even when temps were in single digits (Celsius). Since we are doing crop rotation, the brassicas have been uprooted and the greens are being composted back into the soil for their nitrogen. Technically the greens can be used just as kale is but they grew shockingly massive leaves and I don’t have the storage for that much.

In their place, we have begun our tomato and pepper plants. I’ll let you know how that all goes considering the mice have made a comeback… after reading all the other responses I figure they are probably living in the shed so I’ll need to deal with that. Is using poison in the shed still a poor choice? (I’ve been writing this over a couple days. The mice are not in the shed.) Can other animals be poisoned by consuming poisoned mice? I don’t like using poison but they are going to be relentless this year and they’re smart enough to dodge live traps. We have kill traps out in the greenhouse and I’m conditioning them to ignore them for now so they just become “background noise” along their path before I bait them.



As usual we have a massive surplus of plants, mainly gourds. I’m looking forward to getting cucumbers in the ground and pickling this fall. The missus has gotten quite familiar with canning and jarring since we began our adventure and it shows with the delicious jams she’s been making from the rhubarb.

We began a bulb/cut flower bed and I expect weaker blooms this year following strong blooms next year as roots are developing. We have several varieties of dahlias, and there are liatris and gladiolus growing around it. There’s a lily in there too.
 
Sperg_rancher dijo:
Everything, though if it just pops up, I'll water it.
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I just remembered: chicory. I planted some in a "naturalizing wildflower" mix a few years ago, and while the others didn't stick around, the chicory is robust. Unfortunate that it's also really, really tall and blooms late, and I'm trying to stay on the good side of Code Enforcement.

I completely ignore it and it grows great, meaty roots.
 
Aunt Carol dijo:
I just remembered: chicory. I planted some in a "naturalizing wildflower" mix a few years ago, and while the others didn't stick around, the chicory is robust. Unfortunate that it's also really, really tall and blooms late, and I'm trying to stay on the good side of Code Enforcement.

I completely ignore it and it grows great, meaty roots.
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Chicory flowers are also just super pretty, very underrated.
 
Sperg_rancher dijo:
What's your guys' favorite perenial in your gardens? I've decided I'm doing no annuals this year, and instead focusing on more sustainable things.
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Depending on where you live -
Solomons Seal; a rhizome that typically grows about a foot high, with Lily of the Valley-esque blooms in the spring that will fruit, though the berries are inedible for humans. Birds and little critters enjoy them.
Speaking of them; Lily of the Valley makes for a great cover under trees.
Hostas; popular for a reason, and do well in sun and shade, though if you have hungry deer in the area, you’re going to need repellent spray
Datura; also known as jimsonweed or trumpet flower (sometimes moonflower, but there is a vine also named the same). Grows best in sun, the blooms are massive, open in the evening, and are incredibly fragrant.
 
Where can I get native plants that only grow in certain areas? I don't want to poach, but I also can't get the thing I want from a ditch (which is where you can go to get native flowers sometimes, fyi). What do? Do I just walk up to strangers' doors and ask if I can dig something out of their backyard?
 
NoReturn dijo:
Where can I get native plants that only grow in certain areas? I don't want to poach, but I also can't get the thing I want from a ditch (which is where you can go to get native flowers sometimes, fyi). What do? Do I just walk up to strangers' doors and ask if I can dig something out of their backyard?
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Do you have plant dorks/plant dork groups in your area?

There are a few actual "native plant sale" events here, run by gardening/indigenous plant groups. Then there are a few independent people will advertise that on SM/craigslist and they just have a driveway full of camas bulbs and mahonia seedlings. (I think the native plant sale advertising puts that term in their minds.)

You might try posting requests with photos to local places; if someone doesn't mind you coming over with a spade, they might not know the name of the plant that they don't care about.
 
I guess I can finally accept I'm old as dirt now. As a kid my nightmares were the usual shit. Now instead of the falling off a cliff or suddenly realizing I'm naked in public my nightmares involve frantically trying to eliminate leaf miners, aphids and hornworms on my plants. I had to go look at the plants when I woke up this morning to make sure it was just a dream.
 
Aunt Carol dijo:
I just remembered: chicory. I planted some in a "naturalizing wildflower" mix a few years ago, and while the others didn't stick around, the chicory is robust. Unfortunate that it's also really, really tall and blooms late, and I'm trying to stay on the good side of Code Enforcement.

I completely ignore it and it grows great, meaty roots.
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Chicory is so good. Almost like hot chocolate when you mix in some honey and milk.
 
Piss-fertilizer guy here, back with another self-sufficient fertilizer.

I like to leave a mixed-nuts container near the sink that I put compost stuff in. A lot of times this includes gray water from washing out something with lots of food residue. I make lots of kefir, so I just put a little water in a jar, close the lid and shake it, and then basically have great liquid fertilizer. Its a shame to just throw this down the drain, so I put it in the compost container and then feed that water to the plants. Or if its like a bread bowl, I will just take the whole bowl outside and pour all the fertilizer around some plants.

Anyone else do this? I probably give my loquat tree the most kitchen sink juice and it is really thriving.
 
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