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Lol the jew is angry again... ...

Got bit by the gardening bug about 5 or 6 years ago. I have a bunch of raised beds and various veggies and herbs. Right now raspberries and strawberries are going nuts, blackberries are on the way. I always grow things like peas, summer & winter squash, carrots, beets, tomatoes, basil, various lettuces. I like mint as well, and I planted a shiso plant one year about three years ago and ever since then, I have shiso all over the god damn place every year. I have staple perennial herbs like rosemary, sage, thyme, oregano, etc. (My rosemary is basically a tree. I was thinking to make essential oil with it or something, I have so fucking much of it.) Trying red peppers again this year but I've tried twice before with very little luck. This year hasn't been so great - I bought some soil for dressing the beds and it ended up being pretty low quality, so most things are suffering. Although this is the first year that I didn't dress the beds with homemade compost as well...

EDIT: I also have a few trees in pots that I'm keeping mobile for the time being. Japanese maple (momiji), oak tree, and butternut tree. One day I'll put them in the ground.

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:You might want to try to germinate some in a folded paper towel. Wet it completely then press the excess water out. Put the seeds in between the folded paper and put it in a sealed ziplock bag.

Worked perfectly. Even if I used a small plastic container instead of a ziplock bag! In 14 days the seeds grew a tiny little root each (about 10mm). I put them in garden mould today. Hope it wasn't too early....

chopov wrote:

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:You might want to try to germinate some in a folded paper towel. Wet it completely then press the excess water out. Put the seeds in between the folded paper and put it in a sealed ziplock bag.

Worked perfectly. Even if I used a small plastic container instead of a ziplock bag! In 14 days the seeds grew a tiny little root each (about 10mm). I put them in garden mould today. Hope it wasn't too early....

Sweet. If they have sprouted, it isn't too early.

My garden is doing...ok. The plants are doing well for the most part, but it just doesn't seem like they're the size they should be. I'm going to pick up a soil test tomorrow and see where I stand. I might need to add lime or nitrogen or something. I threw a few Tums tablets on the tomato and pepper plants for added calcium.

I also covered the entire garden with straw to help keep the moisture in and the weeds at bay.

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Does anyone create their own compost? We've started saving grass clipping and some food items. Hopefully we'll have quite a bit ready for next year...

xeros, you can buy some compost in the interim and you should. Spread some shit around there, it'll pay off...


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after
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photos taken less than a month apart.

one of my corn plants snapped in the wind but it's side shoots are vital.

corn
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hot pepper plants in the foreground. I actually took these photos a week or two ago. The peppers are getting some size now...
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tomatoes and beets (on the right)

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Yeah, I bought some bags of manure based soil and mixed with our local soil when I tilled everything up. Is that what you're talking about?

They say making your own compost is the best thing you can do for you're garden...

Your stuff looks good.

As for the corn, they say "knee high by the 4th of July", and that's about how tall mine is. Really looking forward to that harvest...

xer0s wrote:Yeah, I bought some bags of manure based soil and mixed with our local soil when I tilled everything up. Is that what you're talking about?

They say making your own compost is the best thing you can do for you're garden...

Yep. It's usually labeled as compost here but that is it.

Here is some good information on making your own compost tea.

http://thehotpepper.com/topic/32001-beg ... mpost-tea/

edit: add some organic fertilizer at some point. for corn i think you want to fertilize at the beginning of July...

A fish fertilizer or bat guano or something like that will do wonders for your garden. Cow, rabbit or sheep shit is great too. If there are farmers around you they'll probably give you some for free (they have lots).

xer0s wrote:Does anyone create their own compost? We've started saving grass clipping and some food items. Hopefully we'll have quite a bit ready for next year...

Be careful with too much grass clipping. It tends to get moldy. Try to stack the compost in layers. Organic waste then a layer of compost then again waste and so on. A big pile of grass cut won't do very well at all. There are also compost accelerators available (some kind of powder) that helps the waste to compost quicker...

Huff, your pics don't show up for me. :/

Mark Watney grew potatoes with his own shit. On Mars

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My peas are already done, not too many this year. Just ate my first tomatoes and ground cherries.

Good news! I'm going to have a bigger space to grow in next year down the block. Pretty excited about that.

My pepper plants are getting some size and they have started to flower.

Concerning composting:
I used to have a lot more hens and would scrape the top-most layer of cedar shavings + chicken shit off once a month and add it to my compost. Compost mainly consisted of cedar shavings for the most part and bags of coffee grounds from starbucks (you can get it for free, just call early morning and ask if you can pick up their grounds later in the day).
Coffee grounds are an excellent additive and earthworms love the stuff. It's a great source of nitrogen to the pile.
I also tended to hit up the local produce stores around here and they were cool enough to let me rummage through the dumpster they toss fruits/veggies that are just starting to turn. Sometimes they're still even good enough to give the hens a treat. I'd take the produce back and stick it in a blender to pour into the compost (speeds up decomposition w/ more surface area).
Worms do most of the work and the absolute best thing for your compost is worm shit. Your plants are going to love it.

If you don't have a high volume of material to build a pile with (you need to get them fairly large to get the center hot enough to kill harmful bacteria and accelerate decomposition), then I would highly recommend getting a worm bin with some red worms. Toss your kitchen scraps in there and they'll disappear incredibly fast and leave you with worm shit to add directly to your garden soil.

To kickstart my compost pile when I first made it, I mixed up a batch of molasses w/ cans of shitty beer to give the bacteria a boost. It doesn't hurt to occasionally piss into the pile too.

bigger pots = bigger plants. these three are my most massive. ground cherry on the right


my naglah doesn't look like a naglah...



strange phenos on this reaper



brazilian starfish



these pods would melt your face



so would these

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I think it's comment, picture. It gives context before you see the pic...

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wow jerry. i am disappoint.

just for you i'll edit the post to satisfy your OCD.

I'll try to get some pics when I get home. Everything is doing pretty good except for my tomatoes. And my corn just won't get very big...

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wow jerry. i am disappoint.

just for you i'll edit the post to satisfy your OCD.

You assuming I actually gave a crock is what's disappointing here.
I was just stirring shit.

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oh shi

Nice peppers. This is my third attempt at just growing fucking bell peppers and I finally actually have some results. Not sure what I was doing wrong before but I rarely even got flowers, let alone actual fruit. I've always planted them near my tomatoes which do so well that they climb my trellis and onto the ceiling of my garage. The heat and soil is obviously adequate (at least for tomatoes...) so I dunno why the peppers were always so unhappy.

do you let them dry out between watering? my first year i was watering my peppers too much which stunted their growth.

I may have been over-watering but generally, after the plant is established, I only water stuff once a week until it starts fruiting. Wanna stress it out a bit and force it to dig a deep root-base.

whatever it was, sounds like things are going well now...

harvested corn, carrots, tomatoes and a beet in the last few days.