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kid sinister posted:Some herbs are super invasive and will take over your entire plot. Plants in the mint family are notorious for this around here. If you must plant these, keep them in a pot!
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Help! I have some bell pepper seedlings growing in little coffee filter pots. One of the pots seems to have some white mold growing on the top of the soil, not touching the bell pepper but I am scared for my baby anyway. I took a bleach-dampened Q-tip and swabbed the mold away, but I don't know if that will solve the problem or if it will kill my seedling or what. Should I isolate the mold-contaminated one in another room or is that overkill? He is only one of the bell pepper dodecuplets, but I want them all to survive!
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May 14, 2009 22:53
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krushgroove posted:Bleach? That might be a bit OTT, you could just change out all the dirt, and quarantine that plant just in case it has spores or whatever on it if you're that worried about it. My houseplants get white nasty crusty crap on the top of the soil, I think it comes from the minerals in the tap water. e:^^^ thanks for allaying my fears, this is my first garden. God help me when I have my first kid 
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May 15, 2009 01:49
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HeatherChandler posted:Here, have a mutant tomato blossom: 
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Jun 11, 2009 06:32
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Spigs posted:So I made my first attempt at planting Serrano chilies last weekend. Tried seeds in one of those prefab seedling greenhouses with a light overhead. All the other herbs I planted, couple types of basil and catnip, spouted right away no problem, however nothing from any of the chili seeds. Am I just being impatient and they take a little longer to sprout or should I try again/do something different? Fungus gnats suck, they are all over my peppers outside. Do I really have to shell out $30 for nematodes? I'm starting to think I'll just let the plants die off (the little seedlings haven't grown at all because of them) and try again next year, remembering to keep them inside and not overwater them before I put them outside. The gnats don't seem to be affecting the tomatoes, beans, or cucumbers, just the peppers. edit: and yeah that is totally a black raspberry, blackberries aren't dome shaped like that (my rule is if you can make a finger puppet with it it is a raspberry  ).
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Jul 10, 2009 04:41
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I had a terrible nightmare last night that there were caterpillars eating all of my tomatoes and I couldn't kill them fast enough. Then I woke up and picked my first green beans and had them with some pasta! Hurray for gardens!
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Jul 18, 2009 03:21
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Eugenics posted:I'm growing cherry tomatoes and they've been coming out very strange. They've got this split running right up the side from top to bottom, and it's on practically every ripe tomato. I have no idea what's going on, here's a picture of what's happening. It's nearly almost always overwatering that causes those types of bursts, but I just wanted to give you an alternate explanation in case you've been pruning near the stalks with tomatoes on them - that can do it as well as under and then overwatering.
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Jul 20, 2009 05:25
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toenut posted:My celery is still barely coming out of the ground after two months, so you are way ahead of mine. I've never done celery before, so I don't know what to expect. I have blossom rot on like half of my tomatoes  Oh well, I can't eat enough beans to get rid of all of them and the cucumbers, cantaloupes and peppers are starting to come in. Hurray! I must have planted like ten cantaloupe seedlings in a little 4x4 square... it is the most delicious kind of overflowing but I will know next year that even though they look little they get really big
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Jul 30, 2009 05:50
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Any idea why my cantaloupes are dropping off of the vine when they're still so little? They are half the size of regular cantaloupes, still very tasty, but little. Also, I am almost sick of eating so many beans.
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Aug 20, 2009 23:20
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kid sinister posted:How small are we talking? It's possible that they weren't fertilized and the plant aborted them. Cantaloupes also need LOTS of water to reach the size you see in the grocery store. big like they're supposed to be! You're probably right about the water. We hit a heat wave in San Diego and I probably should have kept a better eye on the moisture levels. I was afraid of overwatering though. coyo7e - I will have to try these!
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Aug 21, 2009 01:39
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Jesus Rocket posted:I believe my uncle might grow veggies and fruits. I know he gardens a lot, but I think he is mainly into succulents. I'll be sure to ask him. Right now my garden area is maybe about 10ftx10ft with only a tangerine tree (that shades most of it). I was already thinking that container gardening might be best for me and I'm glad to hear tomatoes and peppers are easy to grow since they were high on my list. - green beans oh god so many beans - cucumbers - tomatoes - hot peppers - bell peppers (didn't turn out great) - cantaloupes (didn't turn out great) We're trying peas, strawberries, and jalapenos this year, along with cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, and two more cucumber plants. Hope it all turns out okay! They were selling blueberry bushes too but I'm not sure how well blueberry does in this zone, anybody know? Also planted some chives, leeks, and rosemary for the chef. I've never done too well with herbs apart from mint but I guess we'll see! And we put in two guacamole trees (avocado and lime) in our front yard along with a bunch of succulents and lavender. Time to sit on my butt and wait for a couple of years before they're established and producing fruit
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Mar 25, 2010 02:32
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Richard Noggin posted:Please don't buy plants from Home Depot. Find a local nursery and support them. The quality will be better, and they won't have Dale from plumbing covering the garden center. If I was a serious gardener, I'm sure I'd need to look for a better store, but I actually prefer not having to choose between seventeen varieties of cherry tomatoes. For a beginner, it's daunting.
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Mar 25, 2010 15:38
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Marchegiana posted:I probably should mention that it's been my experience that the staff at the mom-and-pop nursery are usually just as clueless as the staff at Home Depot is. I was going to just buy some seeds and get out when I saw a "Yes on Prop 8 sticker" on the register, so gently caress you nursery. At least Home Depot has a decent HRC rating.
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Mar 25, 2010 19:30
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madlilnerd posted:No, it literally just went from looking like a pea-shoot to looking like a piece of 3 day old salad in the space of a day. And then I think it disappeared. There is a chance that the soil was contaminated with either some kind of herbicide or tiny slugs though. 
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Apr 3, 2010 19:55
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HClChicken posted:Everything I've read says that when you do your seed growing purchase potting soil so you can prevent weeds, insects and parasites that are outside. 
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Apr 3, 2010 22:15
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WTF, we've got strawberries! It's been like two weeks since I've planted these, the buggers are growing up fast.
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Apr 9, 2010 20:58
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Hm, didn't think about that. I'll make a box out of chicken wire ASAP (will those holes be small enough? I could use fabric mesh..). Thanks for the advice!
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Apr 9, 2010 23:39
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Alright guys you have successfully terrified me that orcs are going to come and eat my strawberries in the dead of night, thanks a lot.
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Apr 10, 2010 01:04
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Anubis posted:Most varieties say that, for a plant that is going to be around for several years, you need to pluck off the flowers in the first year to ensure proper root growth. If you don't just be aware they may not make it through the winter.
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Apr 12, 2010 16:44
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PokeJoe posted:I started mixing my own potting soil this year after watching way too much gardening YouTube over the winter and I gotta say I've been pretty pleased with the price savings for what is essentially the labor of stirring stuff up
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Mar 21, 2023 05:12
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My husband got some poison oak secondhand from clothes and ended up in the hospital and had to get injections to clear up the swelling and rashes. Don't gently caress around with that poo poo!
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Apr 10, 2023 21:48
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Upgrade posted:I bought and planted three boxwoods to go along side one that came with the house. When we took them out of the pots the soil was really really heavy clay. I ended up removing the outer layer of clay to expose the roots - was this a bad thing? Very conflicting answers online. It’s been about a day and the leaves are a little droopy.
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Apr 16, 2023 00:23
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Yeah, I was gonna say, I've tried killing those and they come back every year.
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May 7, 2023 05:49
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Why do you need a vast monoculture lawn? If you're not hosting soccer tournaments on the reg, sow some native wildflowers and mow the meadow down after letting it go to seed. Or God, plant an orchard. Give the birds and bugs somewhere to live. What I could do with that amount of space... I don't know why dandelions get a bad rap. They are edible, great for pollinators, have adorable floofs, and they don't even have burrs or spiky bits like most weeds we pull, or grow so tall you can't walk over them. I'm rooting for the dandelions to win 
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May 13, 2023 14:08
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Jhet posted:Not just mixed in. Entire areas of the yard were replaced in rectangular areas with large stones. I have no idea why. They even put a raised bed in the middle of one of the rectangles that are full of 1-3" stones. I want to put in a greenhouse in a spot, so one smaller section is going to get dug out and replaced with soil, but idk why it's there in the first place.
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May 14, 2023 02:56
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That carrot has a fine booty.
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Jun 23, 2023 06:43
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Just plant it back up, heck just leave it there and it'll root back down if you water it probably. Garlic is nigh unkillable.
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