Gardening 2019

ime on the first floor adjacent to deer and squirrels is that they do not give a fuck but then again we have a fence so idk

i like the idea of handrail as trellis!

Plants on a fire escape sounds a terrible idea ... It's a fire escape!

The first batch of nasturtiums I planted - I'm not sure what variety but a sprawling, climbing one - now just look like Robert Smith's hair, except with caterpillars.

My garden let me show you it (if this works)

https://photos.google.com/u/2/photo/AF1QipPyXJsmMcjmhPKRC9wuoTYewEwihImC5UBRgGep

i bought a lime tree yesterday!

Eeyyy cool! I imagine that will be very pretty although I mostly got that from the Peter, Paul & Mary song.

Does this work?

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Helluva leek! Did you direct sow seed ?

wow, that leek is amazing.

Aha!

Okay here are more scenes from my garden this weekend.

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Broccoli takes up way too much space and you don't get much yield. Will buy in the store from now on.

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These red cabbages will hopefully mature before they freeze.

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The cucumbers are out of control!

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Got a whole pile of natural "baby" carrots not shown here.

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Several people have told me they "can't" grow basil??? Idgi I did nothing special and we have tons, two years in a row. Maybe it just really likes being near the tomatoes?

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A good place to have coffee.

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xp The leeks are from shoots but a lot of the other plants are from seed! I did a mix of both depending on what I could find in garden stores.

Forgot one -- the corn is from seed also and I wasn't sure it would pollinate properly since I only have 5 plants but it seems good.

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this is amazing. did you have to do anything to the soil before planting? I have had no luck at all the past couple of years. I can't maintain any sort of watering schedule and there is always one period of time where everything ends up wilting from the sun/lack of water.

Honestly leeks are like...prehistoric. They're like a dinosaur age relic of some forgotten ancestor. I think it's the regular geometric overlapping pattern but I don't know why I think that.

xp The garden existed before C moved there, so someone else had already had it manured and tilled. It was all ready for me to plant last year. In the fall/winter though, I didn't take care of it properly so I had a hell of a lot of weeding to do by spring, and once I got it cleaned out I noticed that the soil was a little less loamy and more clay-y than last year so I think I need to remediate again this winter. We don't currently have a compost heap/box but I want one for this reason (also to throw out less shit).

The manure is great for enrichment but it also brought LOADS of pasture weeds with it. I pull out chickweed and clover and grasses and purslane and pigweed CONSTANTLY.

The weather helps--I hand-water if I'm up there and it hasn't rained in 4-5 days but it's a good growing region in general.

My mother buries everything in the garden (likely have mentioned this before). She doesn't have a compost heap but just keeps a bowl by the sink and put everything in there to take out later, coffee grounds, eggs shells, crab shells, fishheads, etc. That garden is lush as F.

Ooooh I should try some coffee grounds & shrimp tails & vegetable trimmings. I already do egg shells. A little short on fish heads. Do you know if the animal products ever cause critters to dig up the garden? I worry about that (also something chewed on a carton of egg shells that were outside drying out).

She's in the suburbs of Virginia so she doesn't have much of an issue with critters but did put up some fencing for when they had dogs. I am not sure how deep she buries stuff too. She is out there every day for hours because it's the main thing she does now.

I haven't done any active gardening this year, but our muscadine is going to yield several gallons of fruit after several years of zilch due to mistimed pruning. (One year it was a tornado going through the neighborhood, a couple of seasons of neighbors on the shared fence fucking it up.)

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WOW! That's a laden bough! Nice night shot, too. How are they for eating?

I kind of want to plant some kind of fruit up at the house but I don't want to battle raspberry canes forever when they start taking over. Am torn. There's a large privacy hedge about 8-10' tall that doesn't flower or bear anything and I kind of want to root it out and replace with lilacs & berries but that's a big project.

They're delicious. Good and tart. I swear this is the year I'm going to make a muscadine-skin pie.

I hate bindweed.

I've been getting White Plume moths in the garden (and, occasionally, I find them on the bathroom ceiling). Googling to find if there's any particular plant associated with White Plumes, I discover it is ... bindweed.

It can stay. Well, some of it.

EWWW

That bug is very creepy. I was expecting something...moth-ier...with like normal wings.

yeah, i do not like that guy.

I want to see pics of whatever happens to the muscadine.

They're beautiful!

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Up to 13.5 lbs. of muscadines from the one vine and I don't think we're halfway done yet. That's not counting the fruit on the neighbors' side of the fence, which I think they're just letting rot.

what do those taste like bc they look good

I can't describe them...have you had Japanese muscat gummy candies? They taste like that but more tart.

i havent but i like gummy candies as a genre? so that sounds amazing

http://www.candywarehouse.com/assets/item/large/inset-127599.jpg

If you're in an Asian grocery, get some of these -- they're really good.