#growing eggplant

[cygnetbrown]

Planting the Main Garden

Small apples are on the trees, irises are in full bloom, trees have for the most part leafed out, and most importantly, we have just had blackberry winter. What is blackberry winter? Well, here in the Ozarks, when the blackberries are in bloom, we get our last patch of cold weather and after that, it’s time to plant the main garden plants like tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and pole beans. Here…

[transgendz]

Emergency Commissions

One of my checks was a couple of days late last week, and the more lucrative of my 2 proper jobs has given me only one day of work this week (seems to be system issue?? I'm waiting for a reply from my higher up, there seems to be a queue of sorts) I have no idea when I'm going to get my check this week, either. Although it's supposed to come in on Tuesdays, I have heard from coworkers it is likely to be delayed again. On top of all of this, I have had wifi issues for a week, and I work from home.

I was already going to have to do some commissions to make rent this month before the reduced work hours and wifi issues. I have to pay rent on Saturday, and I do not get a grace period. I cannot emphasize how screwed me, and both of my disabled roommates are if my check doesn't come in on time, which is apparently not likely to happen.

I am setting this goal for $600 which is how much I am going to need for rent if my check does not go through in time. I will update this post accordingly, and turn off rbs if I get my check before rent is due, but tbh if i thought that was happening I wouldn't be making this post.

Anyone who help with this can contact me at my art blog @theartistrans for art like you see above. There may be a bit of a wait because I have 2 jobs and this, but I will mail you the piece if you pay the shipping also.

Dm me for proof or more details. More details are also in my tags.

$C V PP Kofi

[softangelstims]

Growing Baby Eggplant Timelapse!

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[depressedhatakekakashi]

I’ve seen a lot of characters who fit into the ‘grumpy/closed off’ role associated with hating sweets by fandom

And i don’t get it cuz we have one canon character who hates sweets (Kakashi) but he’s also one of the biggest dorks

Nothing states Sasuke hates sweets

Or that Gaara hates sweets

In fact, i think we should headcanon them as loving sweets because they deserve some lil treats. Gaara going out for the first time with his siblings and getting a sweet little treat in Suna that he has never had before, and finding he loves it because it tastes good but also this is one of his first genuinely good memories

[greenpvnk]

Well shit whaddaya know, 8,5 days after I planted the seeds I see growth and phase 2 is initiated. Placing the eggy bois by the window. Germination station worked!

[lobotomizedlady]

hearing people use tiktok censorship versions of words irl gives me a rage response so strong i go through what I can only describe as a werewolf transformation

[gingerteaonthetardis]

just planted some butternut squash seeds!!! nature is healing (nature is me)

[thestudentfarmer]

It's a little sooner than usual for an update, but I was up early in the garden and wanted to share what was done.

Today i did a bit of transplanting~

Nasturtium

I plan on using for pestos, salads and to give the chickens some goodies throughout the season. (Since I know we likely won't eat all of it)

Eggplants.

Now I know for sure if they all grow and produce I will have way too many eggplants. I intend to share with the neighbours or trade with a few nearby gardeners and coworkers.

I was going to transplant some more starts but I feel like I should wait a few more days for the broccoli and cabbage.

Not transplants, but some updates on growing stuff.

The radish and carrots. It's not super evident but there's some carrot sprouts here, not too many radish. I'll likely seed out another line of both radish and carrot seed before too long.

The armenian cucumbers have started sprouting, super excited on this as I wasn't certain the cucumber had ripened all the way when I harvested it. 🥳🌻🌱 tomorrow I'll likely go out to buy supplies to make a secondary trellis like we have for the pumpkin to save some space and start early trelissing for them.

Update for the beans, the Bush variety is called "velour". I did direct seed a few to fill in where the some transplants died for various reasons.

A lil screen shot with info about them.

No growth yet for the turmeric nor the ginger.

Transplanted 3 moringa tree transplants to some bigger pots. I'm a bit late in when I wanted them planted but with some luck they'll be sturdy enough come the winter.

That's it for now :)

🌱🌻Happy Homesteading 🌻🌱

10 1 2023

[wildrungarden]

10/24/23 ~ Harvest meal 🥘

Eggplant, Sweet Potato & Radish I picked at school 😋 Anyone interested in harvest meals? I love to cook and that’s one reason I got into sustainable agriculture. I may start incorporating food I make with my harvest in 2024 on here? 😅

Like or respond if interested plz 🥹🥲🩵

[botaniqueer]

Welcome to Tomatoville

Also, one of them made a gigantic really weird flower that’s probably just fasciated. No pollen came from it so it’s probably sterile, so no mutant fruit from this one probably. :P

[mossiestpiglet]

[image id: various produce, mostly tomatoes, spread over a grainy countertop. The produce is mostly grouped by variety. Only the lemon cucumbers are in a bowl. End image id]

Haven’t posted any harvest photos yet this year because I don’t usually arrange them very nicely, but I put a bit more effort into this one from a few days ago. My favorite tomato of all time is the freaky yellow pear that looks like four grown together.

Varieties pictured (top to bottom, left to right)

Tomatoes- Black Beauty, Yellow Pear, Black Cherry, Pork Chop, German Johnson, Sungold

Beans- unknown variety of long bean

Eggplant- Millionaire, Japanese (by the bowl)

Cucumber- Armenian, Lemon (bowl)

Summer Squash- Zephyr, Zucchini

[balkanradfem]

So, this is something that can happen to your little seedling:

See how the leaves are just stuck inside of the seed? That actually happens pretty often, especially if you plant a lof of seedlings!

This is not the intended way for seedlings to grow; they're supposed to wrangle their leaves out of the seed while still in soil, so they could use the hold of the soil as a way to pull out of the seed. Once they push the seed outside, together with the leaves, there are 2 problems: there's nothing they can do to pull out of the seed because nothing is holding the seed, and, the seed has now dried up, stiffened, and the leaves got stuck to it.

So if you just leave your stuck seedling like this, thinking 'oh it will get out eventually', it's more likely that the seedling will die. However, you can help this! You can use your hands to free the seedling, but carefully.

Keep in mind that the leaves are still curled inside, if you try to yank them out, they are more likely to break than to actually slip out. Here's a way that works for me 90% of the time.

Spray the seedling generously with water.

Leave it like that for 2 minutes, so the seed becomes a little softer, and the leaves absorb the water enough to become unstuck from the seed.

Gently pull on the seed. Sometimes the whole plant will want to follow, in which case you hold the stem with your other hand.

With a bit of luck, you're done! The leaves are now free and the plant is likely to grow!

Sometimes the seed will be at the very tips of leaves, and even if you yank it off and break the tips, the plant can still survive. I've broken 50% of the leaves in the past and the plant still survived, sometimes even just a bit of leaf is enough to absorb light, to grow another leaf.

However, sometimes the seedlings will have 90% of the leaves still inside, and that requires some very careful and gentle coordination to pull out of. Sometimes it helps to pull it out at an angle, sometimes loosening the seed with water will help, sometimes I even squish the seed a little, break the leaves a little, but they survive. 10% of these are just impossible to save, if you break the leaves so badly that 90% of them are broken off, then the plant has no chance.

I feel like this problem could also be mitigated by planting a little deeper than I do, but I like shallow planting so that's not going to happen (I want the plants to get out of the soil quickly so I don't bury them deep).

Good luck saving your little seedlings! I had to pull out about 12 seeds in the last 3 days, and I only ruined one plant.

[sometimesanalice]

Today’s garden harvest!

I don’t have as many tomatoes growing as I’d like, we had a gross heatwave and it killed a bunch of the blooms. But I sense at least a couple tomato sandwiches in my future! 🥪 🍅

And let’s not talk about the cucumbers, they’ve claimed the zucchini curse as their own and have run with it. (Aka the easiest thing to grow but some how mine would rather die than accept the love and water and fertilizer I give them, but it’s fine I’m fine)

[aimless-passerby]

Eggplant crops were dropped for a second time 🤦 First time the cause were cats, today it is clumzy me.

[raven]

my tummy has really been in shambles recenttly i think im not eating enough what i need is a fat bowl of pasta with fresh vegetables and also some awesome curry. wont happen tonight due to work but maybe tomorrow i can have one of those things....

[chokrihizem]

Planting Eggplant and Basil in a Terra-Cotta Container: Tips for Success

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