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chokrihizem · 2 months
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Starting seeds indoors is a crucial step for any aspiring gardener looking to get a head start on the growing season. While it may seem like an extra effort, the benefits far outweigh the initial investment of time and resources. This comprehensive guide aims to walk you through the entire process of starting seeds indoors, from understanding the importance to reaping the rewards of a successful indoor seed-starting venture. By the end of this guide, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to successfully start your seeds indoors, setting the stage for a bountiful and thriving garden. Let's embark on this green journey together!
How to Start Seeds Indoors
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shadowcreature · 4 months
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i made this infographic for a school project but please feel free to use it!! not necessary but if you would like to credit me my name is Tatum St. James :3
(note: everyone will tell you something different about weeds that have gone to seed. a good general rule is if you're doubtful about anything, just don't put it in!)
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familiar-anonymous · 1 year
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AU where Gaon does blogs on gardening as a hobby and his husband, Yohan, sometimes appears on screen with his own helpful tips.
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mindawaken · 1 year
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Grow your own food 🌱
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balkanradfem · 2 years
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If you’re new in planting a garden, and you want to grow as big volume of food as possible, in as little space as possible, the plants that will give you the biggest harvests are: Tomatoes, Summer squash, Peppers, Green beans. Potatoes, onions and garlic are also good because they can be planted around tomatoes and other stuff too, but the biggest producers are tomatoes, squash, peppers and green beans! These plants, after they’re established, can go on to give out almost unlimited amount of food, for as long as the weather allows them to continue producing.
I believe I managed to store enough food for the winter solely thanks to tomatoes, peppers, and squash. Not only zuchinni can also make a winter squash in an emergency, but it can be dried and added to preserves, and frozen and made into zuchinni bread! Tomatoes are the easiest food to preserve because they’re so acidic, they can even help you preserve other food, by having it submerged in tomato sauce and closed into jars!
Green beans, other than being a great and plentiful summer crop, can be dried and canned and frozen, they also keep producing for as long as the plants are alive.
Other crops like, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, onion greens, potatoes, lettuce, dry beans, peas, carrots, leeks, celery, they’re awesome to have, but when they give you produce, they’re likely to do it once, or twice, and that is the maximum you can get out of that space where you plant them. They’re a life saver during the time summer crops wont grow! But the big producers will continue giving you harvests over and over again, as long as they stay healthy and undamaged by weather.
Greens like kale, swiss chard, chives, spinach, can also give you multiple harvests, and they’re great to grow in the colder months, but you still get nowhere near the volume of food that you can get from the summer crops. And there’s also big summer producers like cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, eggplants, that can give you loads of produce, but these also take a LOT of space.
Tomatoes, squash, peppers and green beans are, I think, the absolute essential garden crops to grow. Also potatoes if you have the extra space to plant them.
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ohmytomatoe · 6 months
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ends-2-beginnings · 6 months
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Leaf mould is fantastic for your soil and free to make! Follow these simple steps to get started: Collect fallen leaves, place them in a black bin bag, moisten them, make holes in the bag, and then store out of sight for a couple of years.
link in our bio.
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androdconstruction · 9 months
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.
~ Alfred Austin
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rjalker · 2 years
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once again making a variation of this post:
If you are going to plant milkweed to help monarch butterflies, you are not allowed to get mad at other insects who come to the plant and eat the caterpillars. They are also starved for the habitat that milkweed provides, and they are not evil or bad or cruel for continuing their natural role in the ecosystem as predators of small caterpillars.
Planting milkweed helps monarch butterflies. It also helps more species than I can count or even list off the top of my head. Milkweed does not exist for the sole benefit of monarch butterflies.
If you want the monarch caterpillars to not get eaten, then you can buy a butterfly cage or build one and bring any caterpillars you find on the main plant into the cage with some potted milkweed, and keep them in there until they emerge as adults.
Nature is going to keep doing its thing whether people have decided monarchs are the most important species on that plant or not. The species that prey on monarch caterpillars are not being mean, or cruel. They do not know that monarchs are endangered, and neither do the monarchs. The predators of monarch caterpillars are playing the same role they've played for thousands of years - population control.
It's not their fault monarchs are endangered. Habitat loss and climate change are the reason monarchs are endangered.
You are not allowed to blame native species for doing their job on native plants in their native ecosystem.
If you look at a milkweed plant covered in half a dozen or more different species and your response is "Ugh! But I planted this just for the monarchs!" you need to learn and care more about habitat restoration instead of only caring about the pretty butterflies.
If your single milkweed plants has half a dozen different species living on it and this upsets you, then you really need to start thinking about the word ecosystem and start realizing, "oh, if this single plant is enough to attract all these species, then they must be desperate for habitat".
If you're mad that monarch caterpillars are being eaten on milkweed you planted, then here are your options:
Get a butterfly cage or build one. It should remain outdoors. Get several milkweed plants that are in pots that can fit inside the cage. Check the main milkweed plant for caterpillars whenever possible, and if you find them, transfer them into the butterfly cage onto the milkweed in there. Keep them in there until they form chysalises and emerge as adults. If you aren't home very often, you can look up youtube videos of how to gently remove the chrysalis and hang it up outside so the adults can fly away whenever they're ready to.
Plant more milkweed. Plant as many species of milkweed are native to your area that you can get your hands on. Spread milkweed seeds wherever it will be able to grow. Encourage your neighbors and friends to grow milkweed. Save the seeds and give the seeds away for free, and spread them in wild areas where other plants are allowed to grow (Try to avoid areas that get mowed down or tended to)
Figure out a way to cope with the fact that the natural cycle of life doesn't make exceptions for endangered species. It is not wrong or bad or evil or mean or cruel for monarch caterpillars to get eaten by their natural predators. Take pictures of the other species you find on the milkweed, research what they are. If you use iNaturalist, make observations for them. Learn to appreciate all the species native to your environment, not just the pretty butterflies.
Actually, planting more milkweed should be your #1 priority. The point of planting milkweed is to restore habitat. If the only habitat available is the single plant in your garden of otherwise non-native species, then yeah, you need to plant more milkweed.
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weird-dirt-creature · 9 months
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Ran across this absolutely batshit headline when opening a new tab. First of all do these people know how much foil costs? And second of all CITATIONS NEEDED??
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"an integral part"
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Wow you don't say?
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This is so stupid
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Anyway don't fucking do this. Cheers.
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necrobotany-bos · 2 years
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Green Witch Fact #1
Basil was, traditionally, a symbol of courting, particularly in Italy. Young bachelors would give Basil to their partners to declare their feelings, and when a young maiden hung or grew Basil on her windowsill, she was open to finding a partner. This makes it a great addition for love and attraction spells!
Basil is also a natural pest repellent that grows really well alongside tomatoes. In fact, many gardeners basically plant a wall of basil around their tomatoes because it repels bugs, and they just go great together overall.
I learned this from the Rodale Herb Book, which I found in my Dad's library. It's a really old, interesting book about the medicine, history, folklore and gardening of all sorts of herbs! I really recommend it to fellow plant enthusiasts and green witches! You can find copies of it online if you're interested!!
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chokrihizem · 3 months
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Give your sweet pea seeds a head start by germinating them indoors late January through March to transplant into the garden as soon as soil can be worked.
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By doing this, you will be sure that the seeds won’t rot before they sprout under the soil, resulting in a successful plant with beautiful flowers. It also guarantees that you won’t be wasting your time planting some seeds that might not even sprout at all!
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Want to read more: How to Grow Sweet Pea
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invoke-parlay · 1 year
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Although it seems early, it’s almost time to start prepping for the garden if you’re growing from seed!! These grow bags are much cheaper than buckets or pots, and if like me the only option you have is container gardening, I recommend these grow bags.
Happy gardening!!
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undeadhousewife · 2 years
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Gardening tip of the day -
When you have limited space, time and/or energy to invest in your garden it's important to think about growing high reward produce.
Think about not just the food you enjoy, but the most costly food you buy. As fun as it is to have a garden with things like zucchini, black beans or onions, they're typically fairly affordable and available year round.
But organic raspberries? Asian pears? French green beans? Heirloom tomatoes? You're going to pay a lot more for food like that.
So when planning what to plant take the time to assess what is worthy of the time and space to grow it yourself instead of just picking it from the store or market.
Not to say you can't grow the cheaper more affordable produce, and there is reward in growing any vegetable but when time and space is limited its important to think about high reward produce.
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sometiktoksarevalid · 9 months
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balkanradfem · 2 years
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What I learned about growing vegetables in the last 3.5 years of doing it:
Squash: it will grow even in poor soil, summer squash will grow even in the worst conditions, winter squash needs a little more care! If you plant them far apart they will grow huge. Winter squash struggles in heat, but will generally survive it and start growing again once it's not too hot.
Peppers: They have to be watered consistently and periodically after being planted outside. Even if you don't water anything else, you have to water peppers, or they will remain small. They will also cross-pollinate and if you plant hot peppers next to non-hot peppers and try to collect the seeds, next year you will have all hot peppers.
Tomatoes: They're the biggest monster plants and they will grow so vigorously and stubbornly I actually have no clue how to stunt or stop these once they're on the open fields. You're supposed to prune them but they get out of hand so fast. If they survive the 'seedling' stage god himself can't kill them. But blight could so if the lower leaves are looking sick and yellow, cut them off.
Beans: Another thing that will grow in poor soil, the most important thing I learned is that the bush variety will produce earlier, and it's a way safer bet to plant them, because if there's a drought, or slug infestation, or whatever the hell happens, bush variety will give you the produce earlier, and you're very likely to get a harvest. Pole beans, or the climbing variety, is capable of growing so much bigger producing much more beans, but does it slower and is at more risk to be attacked or sun-damaged! So plant both, always.
Carrots: I am still not great at carrots! There are many tricks to germinating them, and I always try to sow them early in the spring, then again in the summer, and it will sometims have better results if you put a big plank over the soil after planting them, to keep them from drying out. They really need soft and well-fertilized soil. Also if you plant them in the fall, harvest before the late spring comes because they will start going to seed.
Onions and garlic: Honestly there's no effort in growing these, bulb stuff grows as long as its underground, it's more of a challenge to stop them from growing really. Even if you cut up the tops they'll regrow like some kind of zombies. Beware of onion fly tho that stuff is evil.
Sunflowers: Do Not Let the seeds fall around your garden, they Will take over your Entire Garden and you will be helpless as these monster plants devour your garden space while You feel too Guilty to tear the pretty flowers away from your space. Do Not be Deceived. That's exactly what they Want you To Think. Will stunt your beans if planted close so be careful. Zero effort in growing, will grow in any dirt.
Cabbage and Kale: They need so much fertilizing, or they will just stay sad and small, you have to give them compost, mulch, and water them with some sort of fertilizer tea (you can make that by mixing nettle with water and letting it sit in the sun for 10 days) or you will not get the gorgeous full plant that you want. Also they are frost hardy but if there's not much sun they won't grow very fast in the cold.
Leek: they do not tolerate being grown inside as seedlings, but if you direct sow them every seed will come out I Swear. Can be grown in a bunch in one place then transplanted around later. Onion fly can also mess them up but I have no idea what to do about that.
Parsley and Celery: seems to do better direct-sown than transplanted, needs a lot of seeds to be thrown in order to germinate. I've never tried the root variety but leaf varieties grow very easy.
Potatoes: They're extremely easy to grow, as long as you put the potato underground you've done it, now if you want them to do amazing, you need to plant them in spring while the soil has a lot of water content in it, and you want to keep adding soil/mulch on top of them as they grow, in oder for them to grow more potatoes. I absolutely love growing them in mulch instead of soil! If you dig a hole, put a potato in it, then cover it in hay, or dry leaves, not only it will grow, but you won't have to dig out the potatoes, you can just feel them thru the mulch! 10/10 Love growing in mulch. They still spread their roots into the soil, but the potatoes itself have a good time growing in mulch because it creates no resistance to potatoes getting bigger underneath. Also they like having decent amount of water, if planted in hot times.
Green beans: You need to put 5-6 seeds in one place in order for them to do well, they like having more of their own kind around to create shade and stability, they get easily damaged by the sun so they appreciate being around each other and protecting each other. Bush varieties do best in my climate, but I'm longing for the evasive pole green bean plants, I want to see them tall one day.
Cucumbers: I've only grown this once and all I have to report is that it was very stubborn, grew in poor soil and with no care, kept creating cucumbers long after I've expected it to call it quits, sometimes they grow bitter and it takes a Ritual to make them edible, good for canning tho.
Peas: This is one thing I suck at so don't do what I did – don't take out seeds from hybrid varieties of peas and expect them to grow next year, they will germinate at abysmal rates. I finally bought some heirloom seeds so we will see if my luck changes.
Chives: Absolutely immortal, zombie plant, grows always except when frozen, grows like grass, loves being cut, unlimited onion seasoning exists and its chives, not as sweet as green onions sadly, but I appreciate it's properties of being an endless supply, a woman needs that sometimes.
Spinach and Swiss Chard: Idk if it's just me but I Never know when these are randomly going to go to seed and it drives me Insane. Cannot be relied upon because they all just loooove going to seed whenever sun hits them in a Way. Plant in fall to have some to eat in the spring for 2 weeks until they decide they're ditching you because sunlight now exists.
Basil: Oh, oh, don't get me started, I thought, originally, this plant needs lots of sunlight to succeed and it made Sense! I mean why Not! But then for several years they did badly..? And then, then I find out, basil grows better in Shade! I find this via youtube video randomly! Really?!?! I have planted the forsaken herb in the shade and I'm Watching its Every Move. It's doing fine for now we'll see tho. =_=
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