Gardening and Plant Thread

[CEO of Gay]

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.

That's a good policy to have, at least with different varieties in the same species (which is most varieties you'll get that the grocery store). With different species, the risk of crossing can vary, with the hybrid being viable for at least the F1 generation, or not viable at all. In either case, the nature of the pods themselves is determined entirely by the genetics of the mother plant, so a bell grown next to a ghost pepper won't produce spicy bells, but if you keep seeds year over year, your next year's bells might be surprise nuclear weapons.

 

[one_time_user]

The oriental knotweed thought it had won when it completely overpowered all my attempts at wildflowers in the 1000 square feet at the back of my yard.

Think again interloper!

I raized it all, applied an unholy mixture of 3 banned chemicals, put plastic tiles over the whole mother fucking thing and put above ground planters on top along with a greenhouse.

While I am spiting nature, I built fully enclosed structures over the groupings of planters so fuck you squirrels.

It took months in uncooperative weather, almost killed me and quite literally has been built with my blood, sweat and tears but, I WIN. bitches. Never test a perimenopausal woman with ocd and rage issues who can holda grudge.

 

[MightyMorphin'Willbender]

semper fi to all my kiwisisters united in the eternal vine/bamboo/mint fight.
Pick up the vinegar and the hori hori and slay, queens.

Currently very bemused at finding vines sprouts popping out in weird corners, daring me to pull them find out how har they have travelled underground. How to pull roots smartly? I've done at least a couple "tugging it hard enough it sends me flying once it breaks" and I'd like to avoid more of that.

 

[Bassomatic]

Bamboo is a problem in my area but hasn't hit my land. Mint, I let go wild in some spots because oddly bugs/squirrels seem to hate it. Also I pull a ton for cocktails/ice tea.

I'm really upset my front Clematis is still sucking, one I got my neighbor is already beating our few years old one. I hate to kill a plant but it's getting flexed on. Peppers already flying healthy.

 

[Aborted Drink Combo]

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.

I'll for sure be saving some of the pepper seeds. All of my peppers go into a small garden shed sized greenhouse and it's full of bees and other bugs, so cross pollinating is going to happen. I don't bother saving tomato seeds, they're cheap, and I like to continue my quest of trying 3 or 4 different varieties every year.

 

[Mister Uno]

My tomato plant has grown crazy tall, around five and a half feet at least. I have a single tomato growing fine but it doesn't seem to be producing at all despite all the flowers blooming. Not sure what I am doing wrong. I know it's been a bit hot but you'd think I'd have a few more. I put a 50% shade net over my garden yesterday since it will soon go up to the mid 90s.

Dragonsbreath peppers are popping off like crazy. The plant itself has grown considerably and is much bigger than it's parent from last year, extremely excited. Also have jalapenos growing which I'm also excited for, since I failed to grow any last year.

Planted corn and so far so good, hoping that the cat hair I've been placing around helps ward off any rabbits or squirrels because one of them fucked up my corn last year. Also getting ready to plant a sweet potato I've had on a jar of water here in a little while.

 

[Colress]

Update: the morning glories have nearly entirely overtaken the trellis. I need to expand it upward, or find a way to stifle the vines. Watermelon has gotten out of control- I had it on the same shelf as a single little zucchini plant and the vines have begun to try and mix, and that is not a cross breed I am ready to take responsibility for. I'm no fucked up vine plant baby momma. It has been relocated to the floor NEXT to the shelf.

The heatwave has managed to kill my Zinnias, rip. I have restarted them in small pots and will take a more stringent watering schedule.

The powers that be have been teasing me with thunder and darkening skies... but when I looked out this evening, all I saw was the full moon. Fucks' sake.

 

[Drip Torch]

It is with much sadness I must announce, my hummingbird friend that nested in a neighbors pecan tree for three years, has failed to return. Now my garden is hummingbird flower heavy, but no resident birds.

 

[Marvin]

I took this picture a few days ago. My first tobacco plant to flower.

My rustica plants flowered pretty early but I think they technically are different from tobacco proper. (still a smokable plant with nicotine, which is why I'm growing them too)

Tomorrow's gonna be hot and I'm going to be in DC tomorrow. So I'm gonna water the shit out of them and bail early to get home to check on them.

But I'll be home for the really crazy heat coming up for the holiday weekend.

hoping that the cat hair I've been placing around helps ward off any rabbits or squirrels

Oh cat hair? That's interesting. I've got reams of the stuff.

Fucking squirrels.

Edit: also fucking spotted lanternflies:

 

[Mister Uno]

Oh cat hair? That's interesting. I've got reams of the stuff.

Just something I've been experimenting with that I THINK is working, as I was able to grow my Snow Peas without something munching on them unlike last year (they still died, I think my zone is too hot for it during the late spring). Theory is that the smell from the cat hair would make them think twice. Meanwhile my container plants that doesn't have any get invaded by squirrels occasionally. My Aunt has suggested Irish Spring soap shavings,

 

[NoReturn]

Field report: Co-planting continues to produce far better results in outside-planters than monocultures.

 

[Gruntgar The Indentured]

Does anyone know how to kill this shit off forever? I have waded through Roundup and Brush Killer clouds in shorts trying to kill it off for years, yes I am fucked. Two months after the visible growth dies it is back just as strong. It overran the old central air unit 3 years ago and cost me $18k. At this point I am ready to just spread a couple hundred pounds of water softener pellets and be done with the weeds for good. I will probably find a way to ruin the foundation in the process per my luck.

 

[Schpoots]

The first picture looks like Peppervine to me.

The reason these kind of plants come back is because they have huge rhizomes that serve as energy reserves. Thats why they can come back after the leafy top is destroyed. The best way to deal with it is small weekly repeated chemical applications instead of a yearly nuke. You basically have to wage attrition warfare. Instead of exausting yourself just focus on quick poison application runs.

Snip a limb to expose the inside, iimidetely apply brush poison to the cut, walk away. The plant will literally suck the poison in. This is best done near ground level if you can get near the center mass. Even if it looks dead, keep snipping and painting every week.

 

[Gruntgar The Indentured]

The first picture looks like Peppervine to me.

The reason these kind of plants come back is because they have huge rhizomes that serve as energy reserves. Thats why they can come back after the leafy top is destroyed. The best way to deal with it is small weekly repeated chemical applications instead of a yearly nuke. You basically have to wage attrition warfare. Instead of exausting yourself just focus on quick poison application runs.

Snip a limb to expose the inside, iimidetely apply brush poison to the cut, walk away. The plant will literally suck the poison in. This is best done near ground level if you can get near the center mass. Even if it looks dead, keep snipping and painting every week.

If it weren't for 40 years of 4 legged friends interred there (F the city ordinances) I would till in enough poison to make the place a superfund site until 1000 years after I am dead.

 

[waffle]

Whatever you wanna call that shit I have a bunch I can't get rid of. I'm about to break down and start putting direct kill herbicide on it because it is totally overtaking my garden and I can't remotely control it and I think the big Rhizome is on the other side of the fence and I can't get to it.

 

[Sperg_rancher]

Does anyone know how to kill this shit off forever? I have waded through Roundup and Brush Killer clouds in shorts trying to kill it off for years, yes I am fucked. Two months after the visible growth dies it is back just as strong. It overran the old central air unit 3 years ago and cost me $18k. At this point I am ready to just spread a couple hundred pounds of water softener pellets and be done with the weeds for good. I will probably find a way to ruin the foundation in the process per my luck.
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Do you have a fire pit? Boil water, and dump it right at the base. I have NEVER failed to kill a plant using boiling water, It'll even cook a rhizome wherever it touches.
If you need more, buy the cheapest paintbrush you can, get Quinclorac, mix it to 5% conc. Slice the stalk vertically, and brush it on. you have to brush it within 5 minutes of making the cut. Wear proper PPE. Don't cut the stalk off when brushing, The plant usually won't take in the herbicide if you do this, and will simply 'cut its losses'.

 

[AnOminous]

The basil plants need to be encouraged to branch and get more bushy. So I've trimmed a few at the appropriate locations. Now you can't just throw away basil. So caprese salad it is.

Mine didn't look like this, but it looked almost as retarded. One of them I used a giant orange tomato.

Also the reaper plant I overwintered appears to have at least three green buds of incoming peppers.

 

[I was a Teenage “JA”-man]

regarding big bush/tree weeds I usually just pour vinegar to poison the whole thing, remove the plant flood the thing with water to dilute any still in the soil than mix in new to plant something different

 

[Aunt Carol]

I think the big Rhizome is on the other side of the fence and I can't get to it.

This is THE WORST. You look over at what the neighbor is ignoring and start to hear the little Henry Kissinger on your shoulder.

I have a fantasy of digging a slit trench on my side and planting paving stones placed vertically, or something like that.