Gardening and Plant Thread

[Spaced Outside Cargo]

I transplanted some water hyacinths to my pond to hopefully choke out the alligator weed and they did an okay job at curbing it but when summer came around they started reproducing like crazy and i had to rake like 90 percent of them out.
Super invasive but because they dont root in the soil cleaning them up was much more pleasant than pulling alligator weed.
I’m hoping for a two-pronged attack where the hyacinths slow them down while the nutria rats attack their numbers because it doesnt look like my neighbors will want to go halfsies on dredging the pond until the problem gets 100x worse.

Some pineapple plants in a garden center not far from where I live.
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Apparently, you can cut off the top of a pineapple and just plant it in a pot, and it'll grow roots.
I suspect there's more to it than that.

They sell “pink pineapples” in grocery stores but for this reason exactly they cut the tops off. Incredibly difficult to grow from seed.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

They sell “pink pineapples” in grocery stores but for this reason exactly they cut the tops off. Incredibly difficult to grow from seed.

Growing a pineapple from seed isn't that much harder than from a crown and pineapples have plenty of seeds in the eyes, enough that if you live in the right climate you're going to get a handful of plants. The reason why they remove the tops from those sorts of things is because they're patented and growing from a crown gives a clone whereas growing from seed will not be perfectly true to type.

 

[Bassomatic]

I'm not really picky on looks but what would you get that climbs well, doesn't mind wet feet, lots of sun? At my pops he has a deck with a staircase there's a perfect spot to grow something to the landing (maybe 8 feet up) trellise is already there and some side parts to grow wider.

South East PA area.

They won't see it much because they never go down the steps but would like it.

Edit: Found Ghost peppers at Lowes, planted em up. Pray for me.

 

[Gruntgar The Indentured]

He has just turned four months old today.

When the chewing on everything starts skip the "bitter apple" chew deterring sprays and just get the hottest pepper you can find locally, cut it in half and rub it anywhere he starts chewing. It took maybe $1 worth of fresh habaneros to stop my Scottish Terrier from eating the house and it stopped the chewing FAST.

 

[Just_A_guy]

When the chewing on everything starts skip the "bitter apple" chew deterring sprays and just get the hottest pepper you can find locally, cut it in half and rub it anywhere he starts chewing. It took maybe $1 worth of fresh habaneros to stop my Scottish Terrier from eating the house and it stopped the chewing FAST.
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He so far hasn't chewed on anything other than the chews I leave out for him and is teething well. I know when they get into puberty they become little shits though.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

I'm not really picky on looks but what would you get that climbs well, doesn't mind wet feet, lots of sun? At my pops he has a deck with a staircase there's a perfect spot to grow something to the landing (maybe 8 feet up) trellise is already there and some side parts to grow wider.

South East PA area.

They won't see it much because they never go down the steps but would like it.

I was going to say a clematis, they do great in NEO, but:

Edit: Found Ghost peppers at Lowes, planted em up. Pray for me.

These also do great. Too great, honestly...I still have bags of ghost peppers frozen from the last time I grew them in like 2022.

 

[Drip Torch]

So today I came up with a term for my style of gardening. Chaos gardening! Which is throwing out seeds or plants of various types and letting them grew together, and letting them support each other and sort themselves. I am a fucking garden genius and master gardener.

Wait.............

Shit, its already a thing and the new "garden trend".

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

So today I came up with a term for my style of gardening. Chaos gardening! Which is throwing out seeds or plants of various types and letting them grew together, and letting them support each other and sort themselves. I am a fucking garden genius and master gardener.

A fellow disciple of chaos gardening, you love to see it.

I have this planter box on the deck I call "The Pile", it's this half-assed compost pile where I dump all the clippings and other compostable products of my life on top of the ruins of a failed poppy dream. I cover it with a clear plastic tarp and let nature take its course.

With this weather it's been discharging water from the bottom which means it's really cooking.

 

[Drip Torch]

A fellow disciple of chaos gardening, you love to see it.

I have this planter box on the deck I call "The Pile", it's this half-assed compost pile where I dump all the clippings and other compostable products of my life on top of the ruins of a failed poppy dream. I cover it with a clear plastic tarp and let nature take its course.

With this weather it's been discharging water from the bottom which means it's really cooking.

Right?! My plant autism causes me to collect native plant seeds and also collect seeds involuntarily. I have a particular area I shake my pants and cruising vest over after working in the woods, shaking all the seeds, sticks and wildlife that decides to use me as a dispersal vector. Naturally (hey oh!) Ive collected a wide range of native wildflowers and grass from my area.
I just let it grow, remove or thin when area's get too thick or a invasive plant shows up. Then plant my vegetable seedlings among the flowers and grasses where space developes over time.

I get more flowers, fruit, much more production, healthier plants, less pests, healthier soil. ALOT more pollinators and beneficial pest predators. The soil stays cooler, less weeds. Its amazing and yet counterintuitive, following traditional garden culture. But Nature says fuck it and does its own thing. Let it! Its much easier to use nature to do the work for you than work against it.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Right?! My plant autism causes me to collect native plant seeds and also collect seeds involuntarily.

There's a 30 foot maple in my dad's backyard that grew from a seed I picked up at a park in 2001.

I have a particular area I shake my pants and cruising vest over after working in the woods, shaking all the seeds, sticks and wildlife that decides to use me as a dispersal vector. Naturally (hey oh!) Ive collected a wide range of native wildflowers and grass from my area.

Great idea!

I just let it grow, remove or thin when area's get too thick or a invasive plant shows up. Then plant my vegetable seedlings among the flowers and grasses where space developes over time.

This year I've been doing this with the moss on my primary bonsai. It spreads slowly but surely but a lot of weeds show up too.

I get more flowers, fruit, much more production, healthier plants, less pests, healthier soil. ALOT more pollinators and beneficial pest predators. The soil stays cooler, less weeds. Its amazing and yet counterintuitive, following traditional garden culture. But Nature says fuck it and does its own thing. Let it! Its much easier to use nature to do the work for you than work against it.

I'm really excited about The Pile, it will probably be way too rich to grow anything in but I'm tempted to throw a bunch of old ass Burpee flowers in there to see what happens. The first generation after the disaster was cilantro and it still keeps popping up.

 

[Drip Torch]

been doing this with the moss on my primary bonsai.

I am so far gone in anything too do with trees, pursuing bonsai would be an overload to my system. I cant make everything I do about trees. I do have what could be one of the rarest and smallest growing cultivars of Japanese maple called "Squirt". Mature size at 20 years is a height of 2ft tall and and crown diameter of 2.5ft wide. I want to do something cool like a bonsai with it. Its close to that size already at 13 years old. It is the perfect miniature tree already.

old ass Burpee flowers

This is exactly how I got started, gathered up all my old seed packets and combined them after a move to a new house, had a large sandy patch where turf wouldnt grow and sowed half the pack in early spring and half in later summer. Just threw them out and may the odds be in their favor. The annuals immediatly sprout, while biennials and perennials sprout late summer and winter over (zone 8, adjust to your zone of course), blooming the next year.
At first there was fertility issues in the soil, obviously. Now, produces more than I can eat.
From the burpee packet, tickseeds and gloriosa daisies are dependable, every year. Burpee tends to have a high percentage of cornflower, which if left at that ratio will overrun everything else. I remove all cornflower before planting now.

 

[Colress]

please god i just want to grow morning glories they're so fucking pretty please god [trellis building intensifies]

i've picked up gardening recently when my dad decided to give it a go. somehow i ended up taking over the space and now i have a small greenhouse and we're planning to section off part of the yard for various eatin' things. oops.

but i will say this- it's definitely kept me off of social media (aside from here), and i think that is a net positive. genuinely never saw myself trying to grow just about anything but it feels really good getting out there around dawn to see the cucumber flowers open. they're really cute!

wish me luck fellow kiwis

 

[Gruntgar The Indentured]

In the left pot is the regular jalapeno and the Megatron. The tallest growth is all regular jalapeno. The Megatron is still only about 12" tall but does have a couple of peppers ready to pick. I have rooted some "Living Chives" leftovers in that pot. The cayennes on the right are getting hotter but are still small. Behind the cayenne is some leftover roots from "Living Basil" I bought in my local grocery store as well.

 

[Drip Torch]

please god i just want to grow morning glories they're so fucking pretty please god [trellis building intensifies]

i've picked up gardening recently when my dad decided to give it a go. somehow i ended up taking over the space and now i have a small greenhouse and we're planning to section off part of the yard for various eatin' things. oops.

but i will say this- it's definitely kept me off of social media (aside from here), and i think that is a net positive. genuinely never saw myself trying to grow just about anything but it feels really good getting out there around dawn to see the cucumber flowers open. they're really cute!

wish me luck fellow kiwis

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.

 

[Colress]

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.

This is my ideal as I love the things dearly and have dreamed of having lattices Covered with them.

 

[Marvin]

My tobacco is doing well. Today we're getting blasted by absurd heat and rain, so I think this is good stuff for my plants.



This is very Maryland weather. A sweaty hot armpit of a state.

Not political but the UFC fight on the White House lawn is retarded. Again, not politically but because DC is on the MD side of the river on reclaimed land. The water table is high as shit. It'll rain and then the sun will come out and everyone will be steamed like a crab in a bucket. If I walk down to the corner store right now I'll be covered in sweat when I get back.



My Rustica tobacco is starting to flower.

Also I made a cigar band with AI:


What do you guys think?

 

[femboy fart huffer]

What do you guys think?

I think a pickle cigar sounds fucking vile. But at least it's not menthol.

 

[Marvin]

I think a pickle cigar sounds fucking vile. But at least it's not menthol.

Lol it's the pickle man's cigars. When I was 19 I teased a retarded man while wearing a pickle suit.

 

[femboy fart huffer]

Lol it's the pickle man's cigars. When I was 19 I teased a retarded man while wearing a pickle suit.

I was going to say yea I know we met but actually I think that was someone else from the Brit news thread and I have hallucinations.

 

[Big Miss Steak]

My bog is overall doing well. We are in a drought currently so it has required some supplemental watering. The bog sits in a deep dish and is composed of like 90% peat moss and 10% perlite, so typically rainwater is enough to keep things wet. The bog plants are so sensitive to minerals and salts that they must be watered with distilled water.

The drosera capillaris (pink sundew) and drosera filiformis (Florida red) are doing quite well, and slowly spreading throughout the bog. The pink sundews are tiny, like the size of a dime.



The sarracenia leucophylla was doing quite well, and was catching so many bugs that I had to move the bog away from my roses; it was catching a bunch of pollinators. However, in the span of three days, it turned brown and curled up and died. I think something toxic got into its trap. Or perhaps the trap got so full that the whole plant began to rot.



I have since purchased two sarracenia. Another leucophylla and a sarracenia x Juthatip Soper (very pink/red, and a naturally occurring hybrid in nature). Absolutely tiny. I think I will put them into their own, smaller bogs once they grow a little. The plants I have are about 2 - 3 inches long each.