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PSA: poison ivy can fuck off. Praise to the tecnu gods.
Your houseplants and gardens - Yellow leaf means underwatered AND overwatered?! What a country!
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Okay, in getting into succulents more and uh ...how do y'all contain them the urge to just take a leaf to propagate?
Every time I look at plants now it's all I can think of...
Every time I look at plants now it's all I can think of...
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Guys I got a calathea white fusion and they are SO PRETTY in person.
Pic not mine, but it looks just like this one:
For real, though, look for fallen leaves when you're at plant store. If it fell off naturally, it's free game. Don't pick them or hurt the plant, but if it's been knocked off naturally it's a gift from the faeries. It would be rude to reject it.
Pic not mine, but it looks just like this one:
Shit, I'll give you some. Doxx yourself.
For real, though, look for fallen leaves when you're at plant store. If it fell off naturally, it's free game. Don't pick them or hurt the plant, but if it's been knocked off naturally it's a gift from the faeries. It would be rude to reject it.
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I'm not posting pictures because why the fuck would I give any of you freaks an idea of where my home is but...
Right now I'm transplanting stems of my roses in to new sections of the Garden and have been planting wildflowers to help the bee bros next summer. Got a nice plum tree getting ready for harvest. Should have enough plums to make enough preserve for a few years and will probably turn the rest in to wine to sell locally. I have a few apple varieties growing and almost ready for harvest with half already sold to a local brewery to make cider.
Right now I'm transplanting stems of my roses in to new sections of the Garden and have been planting wildflowers to help the bee bros next summer. Got a nice plum tree getting ready for harvest. Should have enough plums to make enough preserve for a few years and will probably turn the rest in to wine to sell locally. I have a few apple varieties growing and almost ready for harvest with half already sold to a local brewery to make cider.
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Do this with kanna plants. Then you'll have a farm of them, can make a tea out of them that gives you a bit of a euphoric rush.
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Alright I've done a major garden renovation, you guys are going to love it! It was such a beautiful day during filming the [redacted] were singing and my [redacted] is really taking off.
Lichenbarksgarden.mp4
I sometimes do regret not being able to share things online
2004 was a simpler time.
Lichenbarksgarden.mp4
I sometimes do regret not being able to share things online
2004 was a simpler time.
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Null fixed attachments. Now make us a Microsoft Paint depiction of your garden you big nerd.Alright I've done a major garden renovation, you guys are going to love it! It was such a beautiful day during filming the [redacted] were singing and my [redacted] is really taking off.
Lichenbarksgarden.mp4
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Some time ago, posters here mentioned trying to put some pothos in with other cuttings to encourage growth. Wellll, I did so with tradescantia, but I didn’t take a “before” picture, because I lack foresight. Both cuttings were about the same size to begin with. The tradescantia took off, but curiously, the pothos hasn’t done anything? It’s rooted and alive, but not vining at all?
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This is the orchid that I nursed back from the brink, this is it's second stalk of flowers, another small one has just bloomed too. I wish I knew how I'd done this, cos usually I'm lucky to get even one decent flowering, let alone 3 back to back.
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I can try! Busy day today, I just snapped a few pictures on the fly, but I could try to actually shake the dirt off the bottom tomorrow.
First pic is oriented like in the previous post. Second pic is with the planter rotated.
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Oh! This should be ok. Give it some more time. It's probably concentrating on growing roots right now. I had one that did the same thing. It seemed like it wasn't vining at all for a while, but then when it started up again it was right back to its previous pace.
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I have a bunch of sprouts in a sealed container to grow them on a paper towel. They're all sprouting their adult leaves now, and I need to put them in soil...
but how do I stop worrying? Like I'm a chronic over-waterer, and all of my seeds have died so far......
Except these guys.
but how do I stop worrying? Like I'm a chronic over-waterer, and all of my seeds have died so far......
Except these guys.
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Why don't you put three little soil containers, and in the first one water like you normally do (like God cleansing the Earth with the great flood), then in the second one measure how much you put in the first and just add half of that volume to the second cup, and then in the third cup only add 1/4 of the water you put in the first. This should guarantee something makes it out alive. Also make sure you got some little rocks in the bottom and drain holes in case you
Or, you know, put that
Most things are pretty good with letting the soil dry out to 90% (shy of bone dry) and watering again.
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Remember my plastic-takeout-container thing from earlier itt? That. Try that, at least with some of the sprouts.
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It looks very, nice keep it up!
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my little ping.....
Do I need to worry about getting it any bugs to eat?
It's too small right now to really get anything sticking to it, but I worry...
Do I need to worry about getting it any bugs to eat?
It's too small right now to really get anything sticking to it, but I worry...
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I like to think of myself as an organic gardener, and I aim to build a garden with materials that I have readily available to me, and not to rely on the crutch of commercial fertilizers, pesticides, or trucked in soil. Quite a few years ago I picked up gardening again, and wanted to see how well I could grow things. My first gardening year was a real challenge with ridiculous amounts of weeding / watering. I didn't want to do any rototilling either, because I didn't have anywhere to put something like that. In my quest to rid myself of hours of time picking weeds I came across the benefits of mulching. At this same time I heard people talk about beneficial soil fungus, and how that might be a reason forest ecosystems are so productive, which then led me on a quest to try and bring the "forest" into my garden. I wanted to bring the fungus from the woods, and transplant that right into my garden, and they were saying I SHOULDN'T till my soil. Which was great because it's a lot of work.
I spent the next few years bringing ridiculous amounts of leaves and later some grass clippings into my garden. This material didn't last very long, and started to literally break down and disappear, which was mildly annoying, because it forced me to go get more. On closer examination my soil had started to become nice and loose, instead of hard and sun baked, and it seemed like the leaves were turning into dirt (duh!). Weeds were reduced by 85% at least, and picking whatever weeds grew up was much easier. When I looked under the cover of leaf litter I would find all sorts of things living in it, worms, millipedes, ants, all kind of creepy crawlers, but also I noticed there were white strands of fungus. My plants were also more healthy and grew bigger than the year previous. I continued with this direction for the next three years (before I had to move
) and each following year things got better and better, until I was at the point that my plants were growing so large that I was running out of space between my row hills to even move through my garden, which was around 700 sq ft. The tomatoes my final year there were so big and numerous I was struggling to give them away. Compared to my first year when I barely had a couple.
TL;DR. In my quest for bringing forest fungus into my garden, I think I may have accidentally started to rebuild my entire soil food web naturally by accident. This led to increased garden productivity.
This lecture series which I came across a few weeks ago clued me into what might have really been happening. This woman Dr. Elaine Ingham goes into greater detail on this soil food web subject. It starts off a little dry, but if you give it a chance I think there is some good information in it, I know there were some concepts I'd never heard of before, and perhaps it may change the way you think about what is really happening in your dirt.
I spent the next few years bringing ridiculous amounts of leaves and later some grass clippings into my garden. This material didn't last very long, and started to literally break down and disappear, which was mildly annoying, because it forced me to go get more. On closer examination my soil had started to become nice and loose, instead of hard and sun baked, and it seemed like the leaves were turning into dirt (duh!). Weeds were reduced by 85% at least, and picking whatever weeds grew up was much easier. When I looked under the cover of leaf litter I would find all sorts of things living in it, worms, millipedes, ants, all kind of creepy crawlers, but also I noticed there were white strands of fungus. My plants were also more healthy and grew bigger than the year previous. I continued with this direction for the next three years (before I had to move
) and each following year things got better and better, until I was at the point that my plants were growing so large that I was running out of space between my row hills to even move through my garden, which was around 700 sq ft. The tomatoes my final year there were so big and numerous I was struggling to give them away. Compared to my first year when I barely had a couple.TL;DR. In my quest for bringing forest fungus into my garden, I think I may have accidentally started to rebuild my entire soil food web naturally by accident. This led to increased garden productivity.
This lecture series which I came across a few weeks ago clued me into what might have really been happening. This woman Dr. Elaine Ingham goes into greater detail on this soil food web subject. It starts off a little dry, but if you give it a chance I think there is some good information in it, I know there were some concepts I'd never heard of before, and perhaps it may change the way you think about what is really happening in your dirt.
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It's so cute!
And you do not. Pings can actually survive without bugs, but they choose violence because it's funny. When it's older/bigger let it live near where fungus gnats and fruit flies hang out.
How deep innawoods did you go?
About how much stuff did you bring back each time?
Did you just yeet it on top of what was there already and leave it?
I gotta try this.
Time to drop this book again for anyone who might have not seen it yet:
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures - Merlin Sheldrake
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I went about 200 feet back into the woods, the homeowner had a clearing, but was surrounded by 60-80 ft tall deciduous trees, so they had been blowing the leaves into the forest border every fall to clean up their lawn area for years. I would say it was a fairly old forest as all the trees were huge. They were more than happy for me to go in and rake up the borders. It was spring, and the leaves were already breaking down from the previous fall. It wasn't all leaves it was sticks too, and a lot of the sticks had broken down and were full of fungus which I took along with the leaves, even some nice dirt went into the bags. Everything went into thick contractor sized garbage bags. The first time I probably brought back maybe ten bags. I know from the 4 years it was over 100 bags, 50 of those were the size that would line a standard barrel. and then the rest were half that size. I made multiple trips, sometimes with a small 15ft trailer, and other times with just big boxes, recycling bins, or garbage bins. The boxes and bins were the best when working by yourself, because you don't need to hold them open during filling, and usually have a lid to prevent leaves from escaping during transit. I didn't want to see any exposed soil in the garden. I would try to keep everything covered with 3 inches of leaves. Over time it felt like the leaves would break down faster, and before I knew it I had to go back for a few more bags to patch areas of bare soil. You can really cram a lot of leaves in a 700 sqft garden.
My garden was designed with long rows and I hilled up the earth about 12-16 inches tall, and in the valleys I put all the leaves/sticks, and then when the plants were bigger, I moved the leaves right up to the bottoms of the plants. It really looked ridiculous, and some people thought I was nuts, but as you walk down the rows every day the leaves break up and aren't so fluffy. When all the leaves were added, you couldn't see the rows anymore, just the tips of them. I also had chicken wire to keep the leaves in, because sometimes they blew around, when freshly added. When the leaves got wet, they were more likely to stay in place, so after watering I would do a little rearranging if they were on a small seedling.
In the fall I went back and offered to clean their yard, and took all the freshly fallen leaves as a winter cover. I think this helped reduce the amount of spring weeds I had to deal with the following year. Everything was just yeeted on top of the older leaves in areas that were starting to lose coverage, I didn't try to mix things, or go out of my way to shred them. The only leaves I hear you need avoid is walnut, because they have something in them that can prevent certain plants from growing.
I started a new garden this year, so it will be interesting to see if I can reproduce my results at this new place. I dont have as much room, but I started a separate compost pile of just leaves and some grass clipping from my lawn in another area to try and jump start things. After writing all this out I realize I need to go get some fungus, and rotting leaves from a forest. Because the leaves I used were just some Fall leaves that I stored in my garage over the winter, and didn't have any visible fungus (although I figure there is some.) The woman in those lectures suggests when people go on a trip, that they try to visit these old forests and dig down a little and bring a small sample back to their gardens to bring new life to their gardens/compost piles. I'll have to check out that book.
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