this year is looking good for my garden! we've been planting in the same spot for three years now, and we've worked up some really great soil structure and fertility, and have gotten to the point where we only have to topdress with compost to keep our fertility where we want it. all the covercropping has paid off!
for the spring, i'm planting:
peas
lettuce
fava beans
chard
kale
potatoes (la ratte, which is an extremely dank fingerling varity)
many lettuces
and fennel
what are y'alls garden plans>? how are you planning on distracting yourself from the fascist hellscape we inhabit? i figure between tsinava and myself there's enough gardening knowlege that we can offer some good advice if you have questions
- water that shit
a daylily in my parent's garden
Where I live right now there isn't really space to garden, which makes me a little sad, although in the past I haven't been diligent enough to do it when I could. Growing up my parents had (and still have) a beautiful garden, display beds in the front yard and fresh food in the back. We lived next door to subsidized housing, which provided a garden plot that no one would ever use because poverty is a full time job. So we would grow in their lot as well and share the food, because the joy of gardening is its own reward and the food is just a bonus. My great grandfather passed away in his late 80s, still spry and fit, while working in his garden. How peaceful. Some of the most satisfying work I've done was landscaping with an older more experienced gardener, even when it was working on the terrible yards of rich people.
Let's talk about gardening.
tpaine posted:is "my parent's garden" going to be the thread equivalent of "my dad's dealership"
"my pary's garden" I like to call it
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dipshit420 posted:what's that tree that smells horrible and is grown everywhere for no reason. it likes to eject berries all over the ground where they just ferment and rot and is basically the plant equivalent of a goon, unwashed and disgusting.
i love washing trees
soicowboy posted:im going to start a garden this year but i dont really know what im doing and all these gardeners recommend that i start small and incrementally progress to a full sized garden. but i want full garden now
If you're the lazy type of gardener, like me, and have access to space on ground level, I would suggest looking for herbs, and food bearing plants that are prolific, resilient and local to your area.
So say if you lived where I live (Austin, Texas) I would tell you to find the nicest spot in your yard and plant a fig tree, a pomegranate tree, a thornless blackberry bush, and maybe like 3 or 4 different varieties of rosemary/mint/sage/thyme around it. Then maybe mulch the area with leaves or compost or whatever you have.
By the next year it will be pretty well established and the blackberries will probably start producing about a year after that. In 5 years, something like that could bear a lot of fruit and usable herbs.
That's just an example though. However, pretty much all of those plants that I mentioned (excluding pomegranates) do pretty well in the U.S. in general. It's just a matter of finding the variety for your area.
I would also look into self-sowing crops, like onions, garlic, sweet potatoes, potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, basically things you only need to plant once. There's also plenty of crops that just stick around for years and keep growing food for your if you keep cutting and leave the root alone, like kale, malabar spinach, or kholrabi, even tomatoes will do this if they have a nice enough climate.
I recently just ordered some moringa oleifera seeds. I'm pretty stoked about growing those. Moringa is supposed to be very hardy and generous. It's foliage and roots are high in protein. It also grows from cuttings with ease.
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:post pics OP
post the steampunk wedding pics
tsinava posted:I would also look into self-sowing crops, like onions, garlic, sweet potatoes, potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, basically things you only need to plant once. There's also plenty of crops that just stick around for years and keep growing food for your if you keep cutting and leave the root alone, like kale, malabar spinach, or kholrabi, even tomatoes will do this if they have a nice enough climate.
I recently just ordered some moringa oleifera seeds. I'm pretty stoked about growing those. Moringa is supposed to be very hardy and generous. It's foliage and roots are high in protein. It also grows from cuttings with ease.
be careful with jerusalem artichokes, they are fuckign rapacious when they spread and are tough to control. i once lost an entire garden bed permanently to those things. i mean i had an inexhaustible supply of j. artichokes which was cool and all but i wanted to plant other stuff.
i grew moringa when i was in the peace corps, it is good, but takes awhile to get started from cuttings. real tasty though. where are you getting starts in the US?
dipshit420 posted:what's that tree that smells horrible and is grown everywhere for no reason. it likes to eject berries all over the ground where they just ferment and rot and is basically the plant equivalent of a goon, unwashed and disgusting.
fucking, bradford pear. they smell like old cum. god i hate them
dank_xiaopeng posted:dipshit420 posted:what's that tree that smells horrible and is grown everywhere for no reason. it likes to eject berries all over the ground where they just ferment and rot and is basically the plant equivalent of a goon, unwashed and disgusting.
fucking, bradford pear. they smell like old cum. god i hate them
yes thank you those things are a scurge. if they drop their fruit near pavement it gets into shoes and tracked inside if near a building entrance, then every reeks all the time.
they grow fast and have pretty flowers. cities planted thousands of them in the 80s and 90s during beautification projects. it takes years for them to set fruit even though they flower a lot early on, so it was way too late when everyonerealized that the fruit stank. thye also have really weak wood so if they get hit by a strong snow tons of branches break and cause lots of damage to cars. i read somewhere that auto insurance companies were trying to lobby cities to get rid of bradford pears to cut down on claims, lol
dank_xiaopeng posted:when i was in the peace corps,
Are you the 'buy wells for guatemala(somewhere in Latin America)' guy from old lf?
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EmanuelaBrolandi posted:Sorry about how hard we shit on you for that thread buddy
iirc there was plenty of trolling, but funnily enough that thread brought in, i shit you not, $15,000 in donations and directly funded the construction of a rural water system. so not only did old lf buy new pants for a goon in need, it also directly participated in the NGOization of the provision of basic services in the global south
godspeed goons
Red_Canadian posted:because anything that alters material conditions can hardly be called an unproductive use of my time.
The next day Red Canadian was pre-emptively arrested by his canadian fbi whatever its called monitor for expressing his willingness to perform an incalcuable number of crimes on moted hate site the rhizzone