TG posted:as for the chives, i just dont know. not wilting, not growing. just sort of sitting there.
how far apart are they?
dimashq posted:What are some good things I can grow indoors as a gardening noob
idealy a wide variety of pretty and potent feminised varieties for every occasion
dimashq posted:What are some good things I can grow indoors as a gardening noob
some nice ornamentals off the top of my head that are pretty resistant to neglect:
- an umbrella plant will make a good large pot on the ground plant, will basically get as big as you let it. if you want it to get real tall you might need to stake/cage it and repot over time, but it's not really necessary. we have one that's been sitting in the same pot for a decade and hasn't received any fertilizer or soil care, it gives no fucks.
- spider plants are a "i don't know garden" classic, the variegated leaves look nice and the babies basically plant themselves, throw em in a pot and done. if you know literally anyone with plants you can probably get a baby to start for free. spider plants are cat drugs so kitties will probably mangle them if they can, i keep mine in hanging baskets tho.
- I'm not a huge succulent fan but aloes are pretty, grow pretty vigorously, and have easy to use medicinal properties. these also split off pretty easily and you might be able to get a starter for free. google "how to not overwater aloes" and you are set.
- i love hanging plants and one of my favourites is the purple heart, aka "wandering jew" lmfao. it's good to just chill hanging in a window, or it can make for really prolific ground cover. dark purple/red foliage, looks real nice imho. only maintenance stuff is that you will need to trim out older vines over time if you don't want it to get scraggly.
- if you want something smaller that actually flowers, african violets are pretty simple to keep happy.
shriekingviolet posted:- I'm not a huge succulent fan but aloes are pretty, grow pretty vigorously, and have easy to use medicinal properties. these also split off pretty easily and you might be able to get a starter for free. google "how to not overwater aloes" and you are set.
keep in mind that only the true aloe vera(and iirc like one other species) has medicinal properties, many of the other species are cool and cute to grow but probably won't work for putting on your wounds or whatever. succulents and cacti in general are neat and many species are ideal for indoor growing assuming you have plenty of light on your window sills.
cars posted:i know that's the gardener's version of "did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in" but if you're not used to growing stuff like onions, chives are bulbs so you might want to space them out a little more, bulb growth decreases based on how close the plants are together at a much higher rate than you might expect. and food is stored in the bulbs.
roughly 4 inches. i was looking at them today and i may have oversold their lack of growth. they have grown, but not much. i didnt grow them from seeds; the plants i got were maybe 5-6 inches tall. theyre maybe 8 at this point, after 2+ months of water and sunlight
i was learning about zucchini the other day and thought this was crazy: the zucchini plant, like all squash, is native to the americas. however, zucchini as it exists (harvested while not fully mature) originated in northern italy and was brought to america by italian immigrants in the early 20th century. also, i thought my zucchini were super great because they were so big, but i was apparently letting them grow too much and therefore they are not zucchini. they still make great zucchini bread, though
TG posted:i thought my zucchini were super great because they were so big, but i was apparently letting them grow too much and therefore they are not zucchini. they still make great zucchini bread, though
its everyone else who's picking their marrows too early
ialdabaoth posted:what did they turn into? zuccs?
zucca. thats the italian word for squash, and zucchini is a diminutive
that reminds me of a court story: during law school i watched the trial for a couple kids who were being tried for "racially motivated harassment". basically, they were a couple white college kids from the northeast who called some african exchange students "mooleys" in a bar. their attorney was ridiculously bad. his defense was basically "boys will be boys. its friday night in a college bar!" he then went on to explain that mooley is short for the italian word "mulignon" which means eggplant (its actually melanzana, so i can only imagine its new york/jersey bastardized italian, like gabagool). it is unclear why he thought that this was a good trial strategy. his clients were promptly found guilty after a short deliberation
TG posted:he then went on to explain that mooley is short for the italian word "mulignon" which means eggplant (its actually melanzana, so i can only imagine its new york/jersey bastardized italian, like gabagool).
your honor, i would like to submit into evidence this dvd box set of popular television series, the sopranos
TG posted:zucca. thats the italian word for squash, and zucchini is a diminutive
that reminds me of a court story: during law school i watched the trial for a couple kids who were being tried for "racially motivated harassment". basically, they were a couple white college kids from the northeast who called some african exchange students "mooleys" in a bar. their attorney was ridiculously bad. his defense was basically "boys will be boys. its friday night in a college bar!" he then went on to explain that mooley is short for the italian word "mulignon" which means eggplant (its actually melanzana, so i can only imagine its new york/jersey bastardized italian, like gabagool). it is unclear why he thought that this was a good trial strategy. his clients were promptly found guilty after a short deliberation
i'm sure he was actually just incompetent but in my head I'm choosing to believe it was a reverse-McCulloch
If anyone has any good ideas or tips to share both on the gardening side and fun things the kids might like in the garden I'd love to hear them!
and everyone loves sunflowers, sunflowers are the most fun plant
So far we've just been clearing the garden from everything that grew over a summer of neglect. I'd only ever seen dill in my grandma's little backyard herb and tomato garden, I never knew it could grow into big, woody bushes but apparently it does. Really enjoying this so far. We haven't had the chance to let any kids do anything in there since nothing is planted yet, but hopefully we can compete with kickball and the computer lab for their attention once it's all set up and safe!
so of course turns out this weekend the temperature is gonna crater to -5c and there's a heavy snowfall warning. peonies and dianthus are in the midst of coming back up, gonna get hard frosted then pummeled real hard. will have to tear up some old bedsheets or someth to make cover for them, though if the snow is too heavy that won't even help
cars posted:
i wish those reporters would stop taking pics of my house
Petrol posted:regular reminder that my terminally unfinished zizek megapost is titled "already eating from the fash can"
Still waiting on that NK trip report
cars posted:
everybody quoting me
surprise cameo by a friendly stray
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its already 90 so i think its going to be an early and hot summer here. we will likely spend $200+ on water for the garden alone each month but hopefully we will have lots of food in september. last year we had a really good crop of tomatoes (12 plants, dozens of tomatoes) get ruined by an early snowfall around october 1 or so so hopefully that doesnt happen again. we also moved into this house in early july, so we planted really late. rule of thumb for last frost is mothers day weekend here but since its so warm already, it may have been as much as two weeks ago. weve had stuff in the ground for five days and everything is looking great so far.
she tried some seedlings for flowers - begonias and peonies, i believe - but other than the sunflowers, nothing has come around. shes tabling that for next year, though, as we both think food should be priority this year for obvious reasons. i wanted to plant corn but she says that the soil isn't rich enough and we should do a shit ton of composting in the fall and try it next year
im thinking of planting a cherry tree and a peach tree, although they wont bear fruit for at least a couple years. also, spring temperatures are so all over the place here that apparently peaches are hard since they flower early and can get killed off by a late frost. but who doesn't want more trees around??
