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Its also important to know that tomatoes are one of the few plants that have roots as big as the plant itself. So, unfortunately, that little tomato plant has already reached the bottom of that pot. Not a bad thing right now, while it's still growing. But eventually, it will become root bound, and that can lead to root rot. If you can, trans plant it into the ground. If not, and you're able to afford the bigger pots, I would suggest putting it in one.

Tomatoes love heat and light and water. Give them too much, however, and they might start flowering early. No big deal, snap them off and tell your plant to grow bigger. Its better to have wetter soil than dry.

Also, tomatoes grow roots along their entire main stem, so it's important to keep any stem not protected by leaves, under dirt to prevent sunburns. So your gonna want to cover that plant up the the bottom leaves.

There's also things called suckered. They're a new branch that grows between the main plant and the already grown branches. Pluck those off to help your plant focus on getting big.

I dont know a lot. And most of what I do know had been trial and error. There's a ton of great resources online that will give you a ton more advice. Good luck op, and keep those progress posts coming!

I have inherited a pair of small tomato plants in pots. Mansplain how to keep them alive to me.

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Please do not let your mint make contact with your soil. Keep it in a pot with NO drilled drainage holes (put rocks on the bottom to prevent root rot) and put earth worms in the dirt so they get air to their roots.

Sorry I’m late I was obsessing over herb spirals

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Tentatively adding Campanula americana, the American bellflower, to "seed bombing appropriate" plants list, since it seems to grow VERY readily from seed. (I have so many of them help)

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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it’s gardening season! please don’t plant lettuces/greens directly into the ground in an urban area or close to a building without getting a soil test. the risk of lead poisoning is very high. if you can’t afford a soil test and you must plant into the ground, try to grow something where you will only be eating the fruit and not the leaves & stems (i.e. tomatoes, cucumbers, etc) bc there’s less of a chance that heavy metals will migrate to the fruit tissues. better yet, build a raised bed or plant in pots!

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patience

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Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

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spring spring spring spring spring spring spring

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vermicomposting and growing my own mushrooms have made me finally realise that the thing i’ve always thought of as one whole “rainy northern forest” smell is like, 1/3 that freshly shed worm castings smell, 1/3 that living mushroom smell, 1/3 everything else. in mushroom growing forums/tutorials you often get told “you’ll know it’s healthy mycelium when you smell it, it smells like the most intensely alive mushroomy smell you’ve ever smelled” and people go “how the hell am i meant to know what ‘alive mushroom’ smells like, that’s such a weird description” but then they get some growing well, and sniff it, and they go ‘oh!’ because we have all smelled it before, just never so intensely and in isolation. it’s so immediately reminiscent of a freshly rinsed summer forest, and you realise that you’ve actually been casually aware of how full of mycelium the world is this whole time, even before you read anything about it, just unable to isolate and put a label on that information. anyway, i guess that’s why “forest scented” beard balms never smell even a tiny bit like forest, even if they make a really good effort at all the pine needle and sap smells. Lacks Mushroom

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I grow our own vegetables. Many hybrid and heirloom varieties are bred for flavor rather than for commercial appeal and travel. There are entire species on the allotment that you can’t easily buy in stores because of this - like salsify, a root vegetable that tastes of fish and shellfish. Our neighbours happily take it to make vegan latkes of alarming similarity to fishcakes. You cannot sell it in stores because - despite looking like a white parsnip - it turns brown when you pick it if you scrape/bruise/cut the white root in any way, or damage the delicate little hairs, for some reason, it BLEEDS RED and is very upsetting to look at.

There are whole classes of foods like this. Foods that just don’t ship well or look good on supermarket shelves. Forbidden fruits. Vegetables that bleed and taste like meat. Sorry about this

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Stop idolizing the grind and start idolizing Hügelkultur

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I don't think it really hits for most people how much topsoil is an incredibly depleted resource that is virtually nonrenewable under current land management practices.

Topsoil you buy at a garden center most likely is not real topsoil, but rather simply compost mixed with sand. Many people have never touched topsoil. In vast swathes of inhabited land, topsoil simply does not exist anymore.

On the lawn care subreddit, people will occasionally be alarmed that their soil feels "mushy" and "soft" after the addition of lots of organic matter, or post something greatly alarmed about the area of "soft" soil in their yard.

These people would shit their pants in awe if they felt the soil in a forest. Their frame of reference for "soil" is so completely, sadly spoiled by compacted, concrete-like lawn dirt. This is a big reason I'm "anti-lawn." Lawns consistently have some of the worst, most devastated soil imaginable.

Topsoil is a LIVING community of microbes, plant roots, decaying organic matter, and perhaps most importantly of all, fungal mycelium. You cannot buy it. You cannot synthesize it. No amount of fertilizer will turn compacted lawn dirt into topsoil. It takes a hundred years to build one inch of topsoil.

In the USA, prairie soil was plowed up to make fields, and we all learned about the Dust Bowl in school, but we don't talk enough about the fact that plowing up the prairies engulfed half the country in devastating dirt storms that turned the sky black and had people choking and coughing up dirt all the time and sweeping deep drifts of dirt out of their houses. Like that happened. Damn.

What we did was something utterly devastating, the near total destruction of hundreds and hundreds of years' worth of an irreplaceable natural resource. And it's happened all over the country. We will never comprehend how much we lost when we lost the topsoil.

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haley heyderickx, oom sha la la / katherine riegel, what i would like to grow in my garden 

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