I've never really been into gardening, but the new house had a raised bed all put together, so I figured we'd put something in it. I figured $20 in seeds, see what comes up, right?
We wound up with $200 in various starter plants. The raised bed is full and there is a row of blue, black, and raspberries growing along the back. The blueberries seem to be doing okay, but the raspberries seem to be struggling. The leaves are kinda looking yellow and wilting. Which apparently means either they're not getting enough water, or.... they're getting too much water.
A paper I found says they need 1 inch of water per week. That's a two-dimensional measurement, how does that even make sense?
At least the raised bed is looking good.... I just gotta get $200 worth of lettuce and spinach out of it to break even.
Thank you. I guess I didn’t have the words for what I wanted to do, but yeah, propagate is it
From this and a video I watched (now that I know what to search for) it seems like I may need to let it grow a bit before cutting anything off, since if I make a cutting with 3 leaf nodes... that’s half the existing plant.
But I guess once I do make the cutting, if I can get one to grow roots then I can maybe transfer it back to the main pot.
I've never really been into gardening, but the new house had a raised bed all put together, so I figured we'd put something in it. I figured $20 in seeds, see what comes up, right?
We wound up with $200 in various starter plants. The raised bed is full and there is a row of blue, black, and raspberries growing along the back. The blueberries seem to be doing okay, but the raspberries seem to be struggling. The leaves are kinda looking yellow and wilting. Which apparently means either they're not getting enough water, or.... they're getting too much water.
A paper I found says they need 1 inch of water per week. That's a two-dimensional measurement, how does that even make sense?
At least the raised bed is looking good.... I just gotta get $200 worth of lettuce and spinach out of it to break even.
Put a cup in the garden bed when the plants are watered, and measure how deep the water is in the bottom of the cup when watering is over. From there, maths!
I've never really been into gardening, but the new house had a raised bed all put together, so I figured we'd put something in it. I figured $20 in seeds, see what comes up, right?
We wound up with $200 in various starter plants. The raised bed is full and there is a row of blue, black, and raspberries growing along the back. The blueberries seem to be doing okay, but the raspberries seem to be struggling. The leaves are kinda looking yellow and wilting. Which apparently means either they're not getting enough water, or.... they're getting too much water.
A paper I found says they need 1 inch of water per week. That's a two-dimensional measurement, how does that even make sense?
At least the raised bed is looking good.... I just gotta get $200 worth of lettuce and spinach out of it to break even.
This is my favorite thing about taking care of plants. Everything is always either too much water or too little water and good luck figuring out which! Haha
- Potting up my chilli (padron) seedlings
- Transplanting my carrot seedlings, which I could only get to germinate in the greenhouse
- Planting out my purple sprouting broccoli seedlings
I'm hoping that the carrots will be ok, the standard advice is never to transplant them, but nothing sown directly in the ground germinated. I have a few more things on the go in the propagator, including more beetroot (to supplement those already planted out), two kinds of kale, aubergines, and more chillies (cayenne).
Squashes are doing ok in the greenhouse, and tomatoes are getting to the size that they'll be worth potting up to their final big pots reasonably soon. If we get a couple of warm weeks I think most things will start putting on some proper growth.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
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Planted out my nephew's sunflowers today. They're looking a bit scrawny, probably from being in pots and indoors too long. Hopefully they'll perk up, and that they won't get killed by cold.
Also went to my allotment to check on the things in my greenhouse, expecting them to be dying because I haven't been up there for over a week and it's been hot. But instead they just got BIG. It seems to stay humid in there and I guess they like it. Need to plant them out soon as well.
Workers working on our house crushed my bee’s friend and nasturtium seedlings (both of which were doing SO well) as well as the cinquefoil, wallflower orchid and the sweet pea Anya grew for me as a gift.
At least two nasturtiums are beyond saving, the bee’s friend doesn’t look good. The cinquefoil and orchid will survive but with only half their leaves.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited April 19
Aw man, that sucks! I would be really cheesed off.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
edited April 19
The local youth farm had their summer plant sale today. We spent too much, but we always do.
We have some early cherry tomatoes, chocolate cherry tomatoes, Manitoba heirloom tomatoes and another variety I can't remember. We have sun flowers, snap dragons and California giant zinnias. Got a few varieties of pumpkin, cucumbers and zucchini as well. My wife is getting ready to head out to start cleaning out a couple of the raised beds from last year and get everything planted while I get everything mowed down and weed wacked.
Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
edited April 19
My best friend can't STFU about how much he loves the pickled chiltepin peppers his girlfriend makes, so now I'm buying chiltepin pepper seeds and having them brought to me despite my very real knowledge that the worst place to grow Southwestern chiles has got to be the fucking tropics
Oh wellllllllllll, hopefully I can convince them to grow anyway
In other news I did a mealybug check on my three pothos and we are MEALYBUG FREE! No eggs or bugs found! I'm going to keep checking but this is VERY exciting for me since I started treating them back in January.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited April 19
5 of the 6 sunflowers I planted the other day look good but one looks sad and droopy. Annoyingly it's one of the ones that's easiest to see from the living room. I think I'll try feeding it but I'm worried it's a gonna. It had some aphids on it when I planted them.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
edited April 19
If your sunflowers are anything like the one my sister planted in third grade, they'll live through anything and will come back for years and years and years even when you try to get rid of them. They're tough buggers.
5 of the 6 sunflowers I planted the other day look good but one looks sad and droopy. Annoyingly it's one of the ones that's easiest to see from the living room. I think I'll try feeding it but I'm worried it's a gonna. It had some aphids on it when I planted them.
Any way you could order a couple thousand ladybugs?
That's pretty much all I know about aphids: They kill plants, and are eaten by ladybugs.
smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited April 19
The aphids are gone now. I have about a trillion of them on my cherry tree though. I was watching a ladybird crawling around amongst them all earlier and just yelling at it because it wasn't eating any.
The aphids are gone now. I have about a trillion of them on my cherry tree though. I was watching a ladybird crawling around amongst them all earlier and just yelling at it because it wasn't eating any.
One bug can only eat so many aphids.
You need an army of adorable little red murder tanks cleansing your gardens.
The aphids are gone now. I have about a trillion of them on my cherry tree though. I was watching a ladybird crawling around amongst them all earlier and just yelling at it because it wasn't eating any.
One bug can only eat so many aphids.
You need an army of adorable little red murder tanks cleansing your gardens.
Plus their larva form looks awesome.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
edited April 19
I'm upset because some animal ate all my tulips I planted out front
This bamboo was planted around a pond (now disappeared) as part of a patio feature by my dad, several years after I had left home but before my parents divorced. It’s about 10 feet tall:
Good thing my mom has a healthy patch of dock leaves right next to all the stinging nettles! The irises were planted a few years ago by my SIL.
Just visible is an apple tree (that produces really firm, sweet apples) that you used to be able to run around...
At the back here is a pear tree that was about 5 feet tall when I was a teen:
(From furthest from the camera forward) Tomatoes (tigerella), a few chilli plants, some germinating leeks, squashes, and a couple more chillies.
I have finally got some perpetual spinach (leaf beet) to germinate. Still struggling with my black kale, but I have a couple of decent looking seedlings of another kind of kale (peacock white).
This weekend I think my non-greenhouse tomatoes (Ailsa Craig) will go into one of the climbing vegetable planters I got out of Lidl the other day. The other one is for runner beans supplied by a relative who grows them in Kent (unknown provenance - they're open pollinated). We'll see how well they do up here given that they aren't going to get the same temperature or daylight.
I dedicated a flower bed to pollinator food and let it go wild. A few years ago.
It grew wild all right.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
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@Janson I love that garden. Seeing a neglected space with so much potential gives me a buzzy feeling. Mature fruit trees? Nettles for the butterflies? And a hidden pond?? *swoon*
5 of the 6 sunflowers I planted the other day look good but one looks sad and droopy. Annoyingly it's one of the ones that's easiest to see from the living room. I think I'll try feeding it but I'm worried it's a gonna. It had some aphids on it when I planted them.
Any way you could order a couple thousand ladybugs?
That's pretty much all I know about aphids: They kill plants, and are eaten by ladybugs.
They're a bit dearer over here. I just bought 200 larvae for £35 to try and clear the aphids off the trees outside and stop the honey dew from dripping onto the cars
Thanks for the idea!
That's pretty pricey for the bugs. Hope you have good luck with them.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited April 19
We used to go hiking around Capulin Volcano, and if you went at the right time of year all the junipers and cedars would just be coated solid with swarming ladybugs.
It was really pretty, and also a bit unnerving.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
edited April 19
I wonder if buying big bulk lots of native ladybugs also helps with controlling the population of invasive species of ladybug...
Today I killed my lawn.
We're going to a clover/wildflower mix a local seed shop puts out. It should be pretty.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
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Visited my grandparents today and came home with some plants from their garden. Woo, free plants!
Yucca gloriosa 'Variegata' (Spanish Dagger). They have one about 1.5m tall which leans like the tower of Pisa, which after 20 years started flowering a few years ago and now regularly produces babies, so I nabbed one. The leaves on this are lethal so I'm not sure where I'll put it to avoid killing a toddler.
Saxifraga x urbium 'London Pride'. It spreads and you can just dig out chunks so that's what I did. The original piece planted in my gran's garden came from a parent plant in her own gran's garden. So I'm going to plant one of these in my brother's garden and tell my nephew how it came from his great-great-great-grandmother.
There is some hope that Konami might be trying to rehabiliate its image. They released Konami Pixel Puzzle Collection and acknowledged that they'd probable never make the money back from I. I mean... Maybe?
I mean, yeah. There were some teases at a new Metal Gear game recently. But even with all the negative lipservice surrounding their shift, financially they're actually doing better focusing on virtually nothing but their parlor games, Evo Pro Soccer, and mobile market. At best I see them putting the defibrillator on their heavy hitters every once in a while to keep "core gamers" at bay for reputation's sake and little else.
HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
edited April 15
Dangit Konami you had one job. If they're taking the effort to make international versions available to people maybe they'll also make the effort to fix the audio problem.
Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
edited April 15
Well that's a shame. But I wonder if it's something they will fix. I did hear they are going to patch in the Japanese versions of the games a bit later on.
(it's weird though, usually companies opt for using the last version of their software in these re-releases, not the first :P In other words, why Ganondorf has green blood and all the Gerudo symbols aren't moons and stars in like every OoT re-release)
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We wound up with $200 in various starter plants. The raised bed is full and there is a row of blue, black, and raspberries growing along the back. The blueberries seem to be doing okay, but the raspberries seem to be struggling. The leaves are kinda looking yellow and wilting. Which apparently means either they're not getting enough water, or.... they're getting too much water.
A paper I found says they need 1 inch of water per week. That's a two-dimensional measurement, how does that even make sense?
At least the raised bed is looking good.... I just gotta get $200 worth of lettuce and spinach out of it to break even.
Also any idea what is at the bottom? Two feet tall, sprung up verrrry quickly the other week.
Thank you. I guess I didn’t have the words for what I wanted to do, but yeah, propagate is it
From this and a video I watched (now that I know what to search for) it seems like I may need to let it grow a bit before cutting anything off, since if I make a cutting with 3 leaf nodes... that’s half the existing plant.
But I guess once I do make the cutting, if I can get one to grow roots then I can maybe transfer it back to the main pot.
Thanks again.
Put a cup in the garden bed when the plants are watered, and measure how deep the water is in the bottom of the cup when watering is over. From there, maths!
This is my favorite thing about taking care of plants. Everything is always either too much water or too little water and good luck figuring out which! Haha
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- Potting up my chilli (padron) seedlings
- Transplanting my carrot seedlings, which I could only get to germinate in the greenhouse
- Planting out my purple sprouting broccoli seedlings
I'm hoping that the carrots will be ok, the standard advice is never to transplant them, but nothing sown directly in the ground germinated. I have a few more things on the go in the propagator, including more beetroot (to supplement those already planted out), two kinds of kale, aubergines, and more chillies (cayenne).
Squashes are doing ok in the greenhouse, and tomatoes are getting to the size that they'll be worth potting up to their final big pots reasonably soon. If we get a couple of warm weeks I think most things will start putting on some proper growth.
Also went to my allotment to check on the things in my greenhouse, expecting them to be dying because I haven't been up there for over a week and it's been hot. But instead they just got BIG. It seems to stay humid in there and I guess they like it. Need to plant them out soon as well.
At least two nasturtiums are beyond saving, the bee’s friend doesn’t look good. The cinquefoil and orchid will survive but with only half their leaves.
We have some early cherry tomatoes, chocolate cherry tomatoes, Manitoba heirloom tomatoes and another variety I can't remember. We have sun flowers, snap dragons and California giant zinnias. Got a few varieties of pumpkin, cucumbers and zucchini as well. My wife is getting ready to head out to start cleaning out a couple of the raised beds from last year and get everything planted while I get everything mowed down and weed wacked.
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Oh wellllllllllll, hopefully I can convince them to grow anyway
In other news I did a mealybug check on my three pothos and we are MEALYBUG FREE! No eggs or bugs found! I'm going to keep checking but this is VERY exciting for me since I started treating them back in January.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Any way you could order a couple thousand ladybugs?
That's pretty much all I know about aphids: They kill plants, and are eaten by ladybugs.
Turns out, ladybugs are pretty cheap too.
I'm always up for seeing gross things on the internet.
One bug can only eat so many aphids.
You need an army of adorable little red murder tanks cleansing your gardens.
Plus their larva form looks awesome.
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Apparently it’s only been 4 weeks since it was last mown...
This bamboo was planted around a pond (now disappeared) as part of a patio feature by my dad, several years after I had left home but before my parents divorced. It’s about 10 feet tall:
Good thing my mom has a healthy patch of dock leaves right next to all the stinging nettles! The irises were planted a few years ago by my SIL.
Just visible is an apple tree (that produces really firm, sweet apples) that you used to be able to run around...
At the back here is a pear tree that was about 5 feet tall when I was a teen:
The cat/dog/bees love the garden!
(From furthest from the camera forward) Tomatoes (tigerella), a few chilli plants, some germinating leeks, squashes, and a couple more chillies.
I have finally got some perpetual spinach (leaf beet) to germinate. Still struggling with my black kale, but I have a couple of decent looking seedlings of another kind of kale (peacock white).
This weekend I think my non-greenhouse tomatoes (Ailsa Craig) will go into one of the climbing vegetable planters I got out of Lidl the other day. The other one is for runner beans supplied by a relative who grows them in Kent (unknown provenance - they're open pollinated). We'll see how well they do up here given that they aren't going to get the same temperature or daylight.
It reminds me of trespassing through abandoned nurseries in S FL when I was a kid.
It grew wild all right.
That's pretty pricey for the bugs. Hope you have good luck with them.
It was really pretty, and also a bit unnerving.
We're going to a clover/wildflower mix a local seed shop puts out. It should be pretty.
Yucca gloriosa 'Variegata' (Spanish Dagger). They have one about 1.5m tall which leans like the tower of Pisa, which after 20 years started flowering a few years ago and now regularly produces babies, so I nabbed one. The leaves on this are lethal so I'm not sure where I'll put it to avoid killing a toddler.
Saxifraga x urbium 'London Pride'. It spreads and you can just dig out chunks so that's what I did. The original piece planted in my gran's garden came from a parent plant in her own gran's garden. So I'm going to plant one of these in my brother's garden and tell my nephew how it came from his great-great-great-grandmother.
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(it's weird though, usually companies opt for using the last version of their software in these re-releases, not the first :P In other words, why Ganondorf has green blood and all the Gerudo symbols aren't moons and stars in like every OoT re-release)