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spoiled because I'm in a fairly ag centric rural place, but all the locally-ish packed corn and bean seeds sold, basically, by the pound at the nonfranchised hardware store had great germination rates and grew some healthy plants. all the seeds packs from the co-op also did fine. getting more exotic and nondomesticated stuff going from ebay seeds has been substantially less successful
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Love a gardening thread, I'm a qualified horticulturalist an can tell you from experience that even relatively small amounts of piss will kill a houseplant
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I will once again shout out the Maine Potato Lady if you’re interested in potatoes, garlics, or onions looks like a good bit has sold out for the season, including the garlics and onions, but still several potato varieties available potatoes are easy and rewarding to grow!!
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Feb 24, 2021 00:40
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Sweet, this answers the question I was going to ask. I picked up a couple of packs of seeds from home depot earlier this year and they were very hit or miss. Territorial Seeds Seed Savers Floret Flowers I've had excellent, excellent germination rates from all of these places.
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Feb 24, 2021 07:08
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has anyone had luck getting baccharis pilularis (coyote brush) cuttings to root? I'm going to try brute force and shear numbers the next time I go to the beach, but it doesn't hurt to ask
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seed savers is good.
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Feb 24, 2021 08:17
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I was happy with my Fedco Seeds order this year. https://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/ Best to order early December. Bookmark them for next year. They'll be cheaper per seed than major retailers if you buy in quantities larger than .2/.4 grams (single packets). The price point breaks in your favor much greater around 1g orders. So find a few friends who garden or figure out which seed varieties have a longer seed shelf life. Here's a Rose De Berne tomato plant from a Fedco seed. Looks healthy and happy. No issues with any seeds so far. http://imgur.com/gallery/nQAhGDw dan_the_blessed has issued a correction as of 20:33 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Feb 24, 2021 20:30
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one of the asian pear seeds I gave up on came up well after I repurposed the pot for a tomato seedling. this is quite the coincidence as yesterday I broke down and bought a sad looking bareroot asian pear tree. I'm going looking for a lemon verbena at the nursery tomorrow. wish me luck
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Sweet, this answers the question I was going to ask. I picked up a couple of packs of seeds from home depot earlier this year and they were very hit or miss. Johnny's Selected Seeds (employee owned, massive selection, lots of varieties developed in house) Seed Savers Exchange Baker Creek (they really ham it up on the NON GMO marketing but they're good) Southern Exposure Seeds from Italy (although their pepper and tomato selection are severely limited rn because of an import ban thanks to a virus) Zeno-25 has issued a correction as of 03:20 on Mar 6, 2021 |
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Mar 6, 2021 03:18
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 If all you're practicing is how to kill, you're not looking for change, you're looking for an excuse to murder
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a squirrel has been digging up my beds and destroying seedlings this spring. for a while, i was able to keep him out of the important planters with bird netting, but then last week he decided to chew through the net and dig down for whatever the hell he thought was gonna be down there there was nothing, he's an idiot squirrel with squirrel brains, but if you're not gonna respect the net, whatever social contract exists between man and squirrel is void. i found an old rat trap and put a couple of walnuts in it. squirrels like nuts, right?  well, the squirrel easily moved the trap aside and ate the nuts. didn't even trigger it. so i googled "how to trap squirrel" and apparently peanut butter works better. just dab a glob of it onto the trigger plate so he can't shake it out of the cage.  and he couldn't. but he could reach in through side of the cage trying to claw the blob out, which triggered the trap. oh well, let's try again. i can outsmart a squirrel i'm pretty sure. i reset the trap and left a nice trail of peanut butter smears from the entrance to the pressure plate.  and it worked! the score is squirrel 2, me 1, but i win on the technicality of having trapped my opponent inside a cage from which he cannot escape without my assistance. he got a short car ride to the woods to begin his new life in the off-world colonies! but it turns out the problem wasn't over. a new squirrel immediately settled in and started digging up the planters. i know it's a different one because the holes it digs are smaller and shallower. that's right, i can recognize a squirrel's hole signature. i'm not gonna let it develop its art here, so up goes the trap again, with the peanut butter trail and a big trove of gooey treasure on the trigger plate  oh, snap. not a bright fellow, this one. he was mad as hell, kept barking curses at me all the way to the woods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPYKwKynddQ now we'll see what tomorrow brings. from what i've read online, squirrels are like water, if you remove one, another will flow in. maybe i can do a tayne speedrun but with squirrels instead of woodchucks. i've got lots of peanut butter.
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the wife feeds the squirrels. they still dig random stuff up, but I'm pretty sure they dig up way, way, way less stuff as a result. and, you know, they're cute and fun to watch
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The Voice of Labor posted:the wife feeds the squirrels. they still dig random stuff up, but I'm pretty sure they dig up way, way, way less stuff as a result. and, you know, they're cute and fun to watch i've thought about that, but i don't want to inadvertently attract even more of them to the yard. we'll see. today was day three, squirrel three. my peanut butter jar can handle this rate of attrition for some time, but can the squirrels?
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spring is upon us goons. what you plantin'? my seed roquette plant's almost a year old. kinda want to throw it a party. mizuna's not exactly my thing but its flowers smell like honeysuckle and the stalks are tall enough that I don't have bend down a ton to smell them. any other hardy greens you all into?
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i'm in austin where the real estate market is nuts and my landlord is making hints about selling and i'm so mad. i was going to make habanero jelly this year. the cold snap over valentine's killed a 5 year old serrano but my roses survived. i'm just bringing my friends to the local plant store and helping them out. one guy has a ditch in the back yard that gets lots of standing water and mosquitoes so i want to put in a couple bald cypress
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Mar 28, 2021 06:57
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i say swears online posted:i'm in austin where the real estate market is nuts and my landlord is making hints about selling and i'm so mad. i was going to make habanero jelly this year. the cold snap over valentine's killed a 5 year old serrano but my roses survived. I suggest some BTi for that ditch. It's commonly available up here in BC, so I'm sure it's got to be legal in Texas.
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Mar 28, 2021 07:05
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i say swears online posted:oh my god ?? edit: Oh ok, I get yah now! B33rChiller has issued a correction as of 15:01 on Mar 28, 2021 |
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Mar 28, 2021 07:44
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Mar 28, 2021 09:17
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Jealous of everyone that can overwinter their peppers outdoors
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Mar 28, 2021 14:33
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There's a spectre haunting my jade garden
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I picked a few wild grapes in portland years ago. last year I put the seeds in the ground, having found them while cleaning out the junk drawer. yesterday I repotted a couple of oaks and elms and, looking at the leaves of one of the treeish kinda things that got repotted, I do believe I have a year old wild portland grape in pretty good health. either that or it's a blackberry. I hope it's the kind of grape that buckfast is made with. I put a photo up later
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Anyone have any good recipes for their home growns they'd care to share/link? Been hunting for some tomato sauces, soups, and ketchups.
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asian pear from seed from a grocery store asian pear tomatoes are a bloomin   mystery grape(?) 
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wild grapes are the worst the leaves can be used in some wraps I guess
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Dustcat posted:i've thought about that, but i don't want to inadvertently attract even more of them to the yard. we'll see. today was day three, squirrel three. my peanut butter jar can handle this rate of attrition for some time, but can the squirrels? They're territorial and younger ones are always hustling, that's why new ones show up the day after you get rid of the old guard. I only trap rodents to get them out of a structure and then I make repairs to keep them out. I don't know if feeding them helps or hurts, I feed in winter and it looks like it only adds one or two to the territory my yard is in. Letting my dogs roam at will is all I do to protect the gardens. They supposedly hate garlic, peppermint, chiles, and vinegar so those might be worth a try.
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squirrels definitely have personalities and different habits as well. I've had years where there is a squirrel that loves tearing apart tulip flowers or digging in potted plants, but normally I don't have an issue with them.
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Myron Baloney posted:They're territorial and younger ones are always hustling, that's why new ones show up the day after you get rid of the old guard. I only trap rodents to get them out of a structure and then I make repairs to keep them out. I don't know if feeding them helps or hurts, I feed in winter and it looks like it only adds one or two to the territory my yard is in. Letting my dogs roam at will is all I do to protect the gardens. They supposedly hate garlic, peppermint, chiles, and vinegar so those might be worth a try. yeah, i ended up only relocating three, and then the newbies seemed to respect bird netting enough to not do any more major damage, and now everything's big enough that the squirrels don't dig it up anymore. i have a bird feeder out and a few squirrels root around under it for dropped sunflower seeds, which is fine. we'll see what happens when the crops start ripening...
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Progress on our tomato plants. Enjoy.
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May 16, 2021 04:12
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Going to go out and till the fields.
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lol it's going to be above 80 for almost a week straight in the middle of loving may rip all my lettuce
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the roquette likes it. the climate apocalypse means only spicy lettuce will thrive
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 Lemon balm x2 Peppermint x2 Garlic chives x2 Sadly nothing else sprouted and so I doubled up on what did, cheap Amazon seeds 
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Soil looks good today. Measured the pH levels. Soon my harvest will grow.
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If I were to buy a tractor why should it be a Massey Ferguson 2600 ?
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Same as power tools. Buy Massey Ferguson because their color is the best.
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Got a 2606h coming for a test drive and if I like it we’re going BACK IN DEBT BABY
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I like how you have to subscribe to their mailing list to even get a brochure. they know they've got the stuff you want, want it so bad you'll pay just to see pictures of it
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Rationale posted:If I were to buy a tractor why should it be a Massey Ferguson 2600 ? Probably because of the 2600 in the name. ARP 2600, ATARI 2600, legendary. This tractor's bound to be the same, right?
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