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Still, regardless of that, if you grew up in the nineties, jackass style stunts aren't really retarded in and of themselves. They're the culture of the time.
Fellow Gardener Kiwis, do you plant near the foundation of your house?
Boomers in my life screech you're not supposed to, and surround their houses with rock mulch like it's some sort of moat, claiming you attract mice or too much moisture otherwise.
However they are getting old now and expect the fam to clean the rocks preferably yearly and I'm frankly not inclined! it's a pain in the ass!
BTW I dont mean pressure wash the rocks. That would be too much fun.
It means shoveling all the rocks to separate them from any organic matter, then replace the weed fabric and pull all the weeds.
Why did they do this to themselves and want to inflict it on us?
I don't know shit about construction/hardscaping but I don't want to waste a single second of my summers doing the above.
I wouldn't. You're not going to open up a sinkhole and wake up in a cave one day. But it's not exactly good. It's not just worry about your foundation but depending what the plant is it might fuck up your brickwork or guttering or roofing and so on. If it's a few daisies then it's not going to do anything but if it's a tree or some sort of climbing vine then just don't.
Nope! Nothing with any sort of tap root will get near my home. They shift dirt when they grow, and they leave voids for moisture when you pull em. Boxelder trees cause so much damage this way.
I love me the easy care of Clematis, but I have one on my lamp post out front, call me a retard autismo but I didn't want another. I got a Mandivea.
We shall see how the peppers come out. I'm amped. @Marvin the tobacco brings me warmth and feels. I'll buy you a stogie of your calling if you send me one of them! I'm far from a big smoker ( last cigar I had was new years and I'm not a snob) but I'd love to enjoy some "local". As I mentioned my drying ruined it.
I'm in SE PA and most of PA amish places we make "chew" tobacco. Ours just isn't the best. Either way garden dude to garden dude, not glazing the pickle man (btw I make killer pickles no homo) please just keep updates! It really makes me happy.
BTW I dont mean pressure wash the rocks. That would be too much fun.
It means shoveling all the rocks to separate them from any organic matter, then replace the weed fabric and pull all the weeds.
I used to seethe every spring when on some random day, some dump truck would dump a giant mountain of mulch in the driveway and then without any warning, we'd spend all day replacing last year's mulch. FUCK that bullshit.
Once I caught it early in the morning and just snuck out of the house and spent all day somewhere else because FUCK YOU DAD.
Whatever. Boomers gonna boom.
Also, in the ongoing saga of my reaper pepper plant. I overwintered this, then at the outset of spring, accidentally absolutely obliterated its root structure removing the other (dead) plants in the same pot (should have just left them there).
However, it came roaring back to life and is now huge, dark green, and has lush foliage. My next concern was I didn't know whether or not it was self-pollinating and would produce more peppers (it has only produced three in entirety but that was enough for a half gallon of sauce). But today it had grown a tiny flower, so apparently it is.
So I have this, a ghost plant, two basil plants that are thriving, and four Hungarian wax pepper plants I'm growing instead of banana peppers this year. And yes, they're right in front of the house where the boomer rock moat otherwise would be.
TIL about horseweed. I've got a bunch growing in the old chicken coop. Sorry I don't have any *good* tips, but there are weed whacker attachments that are essentially just wire brushes that work exceptionally well at digging up shallow roots.
The grapevines have gotten mildew! I don't normally spray for fungi, but it's gotten to the point where I'll either have sprayed grapes or rotten grapes.
A touch of mycobutanil and they'll do fine.
Some of them have caught 2,4D clouds from someone spraying nearby. grapevines are 20x more susceptible to 2,4D than the plants they're meant to kill, meaning that a dose as small as a few micro-grams causes this sort of damage to the leaves:
grape vines have no way to break down 2,4D, so for them it's like if agent orange was also a microplastic. You have to just kinda hope they shed it in their leaves, or move it to their stalk wood naturally, because there's no other way to stop it from destroying the tissue. You don't want to trim the leaves in this case, as even though they're messed up, they're still providing energy to the plant, and they're not a burden. If you see damage like in that picture, the herbicide has already done it's work, and has moved to other places. sadly that's just a fact of life here. I'll report it to the local government agency for pesticide use and move on.
other than that, everything has been going extremely well this summer.
This is by far my favorite thread on the site. I love reading about everyone's gardening, and seeing how you guys make decisions, what you like or don't like, and of course the payoff!
And today I woke up to a dozen little flowers on that very plant. I think I can expect some fruiting from this plant on its second year. And a half-dozen on the ghost. And the basil plants are daily producing. And the Hungarian wax peppers have actual full grown peppers already.
My usual early basil season product is just caprese salad. Then later, pesto, when the basil takes a shrub-like shape.
May your morning glories prosper and produce lots and lots and lots of babies. Then you will never be without morning glories, EVER!!!! They will be everywhere, until the end of time.
Update: They are going APESHIT. APESHIT I TELL YOU
I would post pictures but I also share them to my personal instagram, but please know that they have reached the top of the trellis and I am attempting to train them back down.
a bird stopped and used my tomato plant as the toilet, should I try and scrub the bird droppings off, slice the heavily soiled leaves off or just leave it be?
a bird stopped and used my tomato plant as the toilet, should I try and scrub the bird droppings off, slice the heavily soiled leaves off or just leave it be?
Here is a tip that is either vastly retarded or will improve your life.
Need to store some gardening stuff outside where it's handy to get to without having to open a shed or the garage, but you don't want it getting precipitated on? Like hand weed-diggers, because you spot more weeds when you don't have a tool, or a pair of gloves for the same reason, or a backup set of secateurs?
Newspaper tube, from the thrift store or an old person's estate sale. If you have a second-hand building materials thrift store near you, they'll have tons. The plastic ones are ubiquitous but the really old metal ones look cooler. The L-bracket on the bottom lets you attach it to a stake (shown) but you can rotate it and attach it to the fence or the house, etc.
If you put spare gardening gloves in there, fold the cuffs over so you don't get spiders in them.
Oops, I posted this in the Growing your own food thread because I was too retarded to find this thread.
This will be my 3rd year growing my own garden. I live relatively far north, so I started my seeds in the middle of March and they won't be going outside until around the last week of May. I've been growing 3 or 4 different heirloom tomato types every year, documenting their growth, yield, when they ripen, etc. This will also be my first year growing peppers, nothing super hot, but a few different types, ranging from the humble bell pepper up to to serrano and a type called bishop's crown, both rated up to 25000ish SHU.
Save your seeds to plant year over year. A caution, however. While peppers and tomato flowers are self-pollinating, needing only a mild wind or other source of plant vibration, insects like bees like to visit the flowers too, so varietal crossing can happen.
Best of luck and enjoy the tasty flavors this summer brings.
I'm not sure if I'll ever get around to making a veggie garden, but I've given it some thought. I'm gonna keep it simple with a 4x8 raised bed and possibly add more beds as time goes on and I get more experience.
The plants I was thinking of putting in are:
-Tomatoes
-Green peppers
-Onions
-Garlic
-Spinach
I don't know if these plants have any "synergies" with one another, but I use them the most in the kitchen so I figured having more of them that's fresh grown couldn't hurt. There'd also be some flowers to keep the pests at bay like basils near the tomatoes, nasturitums at the edges of the bed, maybe a line of marigold at the front or back. I'm just spitballing here, and I'd like to refine the layout a bit before actually committing.
Replying late, so you probably already planted -- how did it go?
That said, onions and garlic have shallow root systems and their bulbs develop near the surface. Their scent is supposedly repellant to the kinds of aphids that will bother tomatoes and peppers. Tomatoes can planted deeply and will develop a deep root system, so tomatoes and onions/peppers will not compete for root space if planted nearby to one another.
I picked 3 of the supposedly "mild" Megatron jalapenos last weekend and casually sliced them and added to my chicken fajitas last Saturday and they are not mild at all. In fact they are as hot as the cayennes in the other pot right next to it. I know its just cross pollination but I would like two more of these old wooden cable reels to put planters on next year and try some random cross pollinated varieties. A neighbor down the alley has two behind their fence in the alley I need to ask about. I want to see a Scotch Bonnet/jalapeno cross or a Anaheim/cayenne end result.
While peppers and tomato flowers are self-pollinating, needing only a mild wind or other source of plant vibration, insects like bees like to visit the flowers too, so varietal crossing can happen.
I generally like to plant peppers of different varieties near each other because you often end up with fortuitous crossing. My exception is for superhots which I usually keep separate because I specifically don't want crossing with those. I neither want to be shocked by a "mild" pepper suddenly turning out to be demonic, nor have a disappointing superhot.
