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File:[Yabure Kabure] Non Non Bi….jpg (452.28 KB,1920x1080)

 No.105227[View All]

Do you have any experience gardening?
I decided that I'm going to attempt gardening this year. My dad grew up on a farm and we had crops in the backyard when I was a kid. I still have the old tilling machine that's in good shape and some other rusty tools, but I don't have a hammer to mine silver from nearby rocks so I won't be able to upgrade the stuff.
I think it's too late for my geographic location to start growing early Spring stuff from seeds, so I need to buy some that are already a few weeks old from a local nursery, or maybe online? This stuff sounds kind of fun as long as your expectations are reasonable.
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 No.123842

File:rain.mp4 (32.8 MB,1900x1080)

Garden survived. Not much I can do when there's 4 inches (10cm) of rain in a few hours. I'm going to have to replace some mulch since it's floating around to the other side...
Some random neighbor woman started talking at 0:14 which kills the serenity of the audio god damn it. I'm not going back out there to film it again. Man, that angers me, it sounds so nice apart from that.

 No.123843

File:shielded.mp4 (20.86 MB,1900x1080)

Since big storms were predicted I made a shielded area for the young potted plants. They were previously all crowded together, but now they're spaced out again to get some sunlight.
Now THIS is pure audio bliss. This is the best part of any weather event if you ask me. Light rainfall after a storm with birds chirping to each other. The only thing better is to be in a forest and have some wind rustling leaves at the same time.
The transparent plastic container shows the amount of rainfall since I made sure to keep it empty beforehand.

 No.123844

File:water peas.mp4 (9.12 MB,1900x1080)

Lastly, these poor pea plants near a wall are quite submerged. I hope they're alright. It's going to take a few days for this area to dry out, so I'm worried. I don't know what to do in this kind of situation, this is just a low area where water collects when there's a lot of rain.
I guess in the future I could stack some dirt where the peas are and let gravity do the rest, but that's bad for the 99% of the time when there's little rain and I'd want water to move to the area. I guess if I was some sort of sustenance farmer I'd invest in a water pump.

 No.123845

>>123843
very very nice sounds but also very very bad situation
is the mulch and that still floating around? if there are clusters i would try kinda pushing them against something they could stick to (or maybe bunch them up) but i can't tell if there is any such spot at all

 No.123872

>>123844
AAAAAAAAAAAA! Man that's gotta suck when nature just decides to take a big wrecking ball to your plans. I guess at the very least this maybe fertilizes sorta the soil maybe? Or maybe not. Feels like a few days of being submerged would be devastating to a plant, but maybe they can survive somehow... Hopefully at least.

Also are peas not the plant you grow on a fence-like setup? Feel like I've seen them grown that way before, but maybe it's another type of bean.

 No.123963

Everything survived the flooding, even the peas here >>123844
But, it's a huge hassle to do stuff outside in all the mud and some things simply can't be done due to soil softness, like planting the stakes. I really need to get the stakes in the ground and netting placed so the peas and beans can attach to them.
The neat and orderly rows of mulch between the dirt rows have been wrecked by dirt transported by the water. The whole reason to have rows of mulch is to NOT have dirt there since weeds love to sprout from it. So now I uhh... well I guess once it dries out I'll try to rinse out the mulch in plastic containers or something? This sucks.
5 days ago: 4 inches of rain
2 days ago: 2 inches of rain (in 15 minutes)
Tonight: 2 inches of rain
Saturday: ??? inches of rain

I guess we're safe from drought. I didn't take any pictures because it's so messy and wet and ugly, but I guess I could do it soon.

>>123845
Yeah it's mulch that was visibly floating around. The dirt is the reason why the water is brown. The rows of dirt for plants are higher in elevation so there isn't much danger of the mulch flowing into it. It's aforementioned dirt moving to the rows of mulch that SUCKS.

>>123872
My success rate for these peas and beans were like 30% so I didn't put anything down until I knew stuff was actually going to survive. I had to do a lot of transplanting which stakes and netting would interfere with.

 No.124091

Sigh... so much rain. I just looked and the rainfall total from last 10 days excluding today is 7 inches, and today will add another 2 inches I bet.
This is going to be such a mess...

 No.124135

File:sigh2.jpg (1.99 MB,2364x1734)

Sigh again.
Everything except the peas and carrots and maybe a couple bean plants is just drowned out; the planted seeds have rotted from soaking in water for a week. There was supposed to be a bunch of stuff sprouting by now to block weeds, but instead it's the weeds that are sprouting and it's not good to pull stuff out when it's so wet (could drag other plant roots with it). This is severely discouraging. I don't know how people deal with this stuff. If I could go 5 days without rain then I could attempt to fix this, but I don't know when that will happen.
I can't really complain since other areas are under severe warning for tornadoes today and I'm only "high/moderate". But I'll be getting 1-3 more inches of rain tonight. Hooray.

 No.124136

I wonder how much industrial farming builds stuff like drainage canals and stuff. If that's even possible

 No.124137

on topic sager deserved it

 No.124138

File:strawberry container.jpg (942.53 KB,2760x2454)

At least the container stuff is doing well since I'm able to move it around. The strawberries are the most striking since they're far ahead of the others. Growing strawberries in containers is apparently something well known that anyone can do as long as they have access to sunlight. They're very compact plants.

 No.124139

File:marigold.jpg (818.76 KB,2028x1620)

Marigold sprouts. These things have such cool star-like leaf designs. They're known for being very good at keeping bad bugs away and the roots are somehow good at combating nematodes. I had planned to transfer these into the garden, but... bleh.
Well, I'm sure I'll manage to transplant some of them at least.

 No.124140

File:cham.jpg (928.92 KB,2222x1453)

Chamomile is another plant with attractive leaves. I planted some of these in the garden directly but they're all dead for sure, or maybe they'll sprout when there's dirt again instead of mud soup.
Well, that's it for this update. I have other pots with sprouts in them but they're tiny and unremarkable.

 No.124311

File:[SubsPlease] Yoru no Kurag….jpg (347.43 KB,1920x1080)

The latest Jellyfish episode had some microgreens in them which was quite weird to see. I think the daughter called them pea sprouts. A "microgreen" isn't a specific plant, but rather anything that's harvested when it's a few weeks old. It's mostly leafy greens, but really anything could work.
It's extremely low maintenance since plants that young still get a lot of their nutrition and energy from the seed itself so the light requirement isn't very high. There's been some research and they're quite nutritious and simple to grow so they've been quite a fad among yuppies for a few years. Baby spinach and bean sprouts are both microgreens technically.
This container here is actually way too deep. It could be 1/3rd as deep since sprouts don't have large roots.

 No.124741

File:onion height.jpg (1.09 MB,2340x3930)

The onion flowers finally opened up. They remind me of sunflowers. I've never seen a flower bloom take a month to open, but looking how the little bulbs are already formed so I guess it makes sense. I'm going to tear this area up once the onions are done.
I'm a bit protective/paranoid so I "censored" the view of the neighbors and such. These onions are about 4 feet tall, which according to google is 120cm.

Man, my garden is still such a mess because I've only had a couple days of dryness to fix anything after the localized flooding lasted for a couple weeks.

 No.124742

File:blurry onion.jpg (566.93 KB,2550x2034)

>>124741
Unfortunately this pic showing the "skin" of the bulb is a bit blurry, but you can still see it. It's interesting how the skin of the flower bulb resembles the actual onion bulb we eat. Each little thing here should be capable of growing into an onion once it's pollinated.

 No.124743

File:onion opened.jpg (677.94 KB,2622x2274)

>>124742
Better pic, but still a little blurry. I can't go get a better pic now, though.

 No.124744

File:arrggh.jpg (1.45 MB,3582x2616)

And here's something that angers me. Why? Because I've had terrible luck with the peas this year so I just found a corner and dumped some peas I bought last year. I didn't even water them after the initial day. So of course they're THRIVING in a freaking corner where I left them to die while the ones I coddled have almost all died off.
ARGH

 No.124745

File:carrots.jpg (2.38 MB,4032x2262)

Here is the row of carrots. The leaves are quite pretty. The arrows point to some pea plants that should be tall and green right now but are instead barely holding on. They're supposed to be taller than the carrots so the sunlight easily gets to everything, but instead...

 No.124746

File:DEAR GOD WHY.jpg (1.44 MB,3655x1950)

And here is my gardening day being ruined AGAIN
Not just heavy rain, but HAIL. Yes, lovely hail with a diameter that's 0.5-1 inch (10-20mm). Again I can't complain because some people are getting tornadoes. The sun is already out again as if nothing happened, but everything is soaked and I'm sure there's some damaged plants from the hail.
So concludes today's adventure in gardening. Hooray.

 No.124747

File:hail.jpg (228.86 KB,1800x1494)

I have to admit that hail, in isolation, is pretty cool. I hope there isn't major plant damage since hail is known for tearing them apart...

 No.124749

File:ee746b4b7404721741c3c15973….jpg (2.33 MB,2000x2000)

>>124744
me watering your pea plants

 No.129046

Sigh... It's so hot out, lately. I keep getting bitten by SHABs when I go out to do garden work. Hmm.... I need to start wearing a SHABkeeper suit when going outside and also start putting a SHAB net around my bed at night. But that would also keep out Kuon. Bleh...

 No.129201

File:peapod.jpg (3.11 MB,3024x4032)

After a few days of heat index being around 110F (43c) it really makes me wish for some flooding again. My body is definitely adjusting to the heat, but it's still not enjoyable.
Here's the last shot of a living pea pod. (The heat is killing them). Most of the pea pods got flooded in the soil and rotted out so I only had a total of like 20 pea pods which isn't even enough to cook anything with. I don't understand how peas are so cheap.
These peas didn't taste very good. Apparently you have to pick them a lot sooner than I did.

 No.129202

File:groundcherry.jpg (3.44 MB,4032x3024)

These are "ground cherries". I haven't eaten any yet. Things that produce edible fruit after a couple months are quite amazing. The foliage reminds me of tomato plants.
Hmm, I thought I had more pics to upload but tthey're all blurry and uninteresting. I'll bump the thread in a day or two when I have better pics to upload. So many of them came out as a blurry mess.

 No.129203

>>129201
>Most of the pea pods got flooded in the soil
Pea "seeds", that is. They never germinated and just rotted away in the ground.

 No.131301

>>129201
holy flip its zundamon

 No.131304

>>131301
Ah, yeah I was going to bump this thread again, but somehow this old smartphone thing started having issues interfacing with the computer. I have new pics, but I can't upload them. It was having issues charging, too, but I was at least able to fix that. It was saying the USB thing is wet despite not being wet and I had to find a way to bypass that and blahblah I'll try to fix it later and upload pics again.

 No.131308

>>131304
if you do bring meowers plz

 No.131311

>>131304
you should figure out why wifi doesn't work. That's how most transfer is done. Otherwise pic yourself up a cheap digital camera

 No.131312

>>131311
Oh, not wifi, just using a direct USB connection. Didn't think about using wi-fi since it's less elegant than a direct connection.

 No.131313

>>131312
i tend to email myself stuff because I'm primitive. But there are probably filesharing options like mega... or probably something like google drive...

 No.131314

although, if one wanted to try they could try for an FTP or similar type of solution

 No.131340

>>110294
You just unlocked a fond memory I have of childhood. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my Great-Grandmother with a bucket of "snap beans" that we prepared for lunch together. She made homemade fried chicken and biscuits along with sweet corn and green beans. Along with a massive jug of sweet tea. Then she wrapped it all up picnic style and we walked over a mile into the fields where the men were working to have lunch together.

I want to go back.

 No.132128

File:dark.jpg (1.92 MB,3864x2856)

I still need to go out and take pictures during the scorching heat of the day, but here's a picture of the garden near the end of the day where you can barely see anything.
But why take a picture then? (and yes I realize stuff is overgrown.. once again wind came around and tore the strings down so stuff just plopped down sideways...
Anyway...

 No.132129

File:moon.jpg (3.31 MB,3024x3616)

MOONFLOWERS! The vine seeds I bought are finally producing flowers for real. As the name suggests, they only open at night. You can see a closed bud to the right.
I'll see if I can bring a flashlight out in a bit to take another picture when everything is fully opened.

 No.132130

File:hummingbird moth.mp4 (3.98 MB,1838x1010)

(beware the loud sound of my footstep at the beginning of the video, oops)
A flower that opens at night is an interesting evolutionary path for sure, but it works! Hummingbird moths are really cool and while it's hard to appreciate it in this clip, you can see how they get their name.

 No.132131

File:cooooooooool.jpg (501.51 KB,1675x1624)

Here's a picture, but it's not much better. But, you can see some of its orange coloration here.
Apparently these are called "hummingbird hawk-moths" https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/humming-bird-hawk-moth
Anyway, that's all I wanted to post for now.

 No.132132

>>132130
>>132131
that really is a cool bugger neat

 No.132133

File:ants.jpg (1.14 MB,3096x2436)

Ants found a lower flower. I don't know how tiny terrestrial things manage to find a flower so quickly, but I guess they either smell the nectar somehow or just rely on their numbers to eventually stumble upon it.
Seems kind of difficult to photograph theses with my tiny flashlight while holding a phone, but seeing ants is cool enough.

 No.132148

>>132130
sounds like a shab getting biting

 No.132595

File:marigold.jpg (1.93 MB,3420x2587)

I think this will be the last update for a while. I'm just harvesting stuff and I'll plant some new things for autumn in a few weeks. Probably.

I'm definitely not buying marigold seeds again, unless it's a different variety. Each flower turns into 40 or so seeds and you can see all the flowers here >>132128. (the seeds are long and thin, each little 'stalk' thing). These marigold plants have been producing flowers for a month now and show no sign of stopping, so presumably until the first freeze. I don't understand how people can grow things like tulips where they bloom for a week in spring and then spend the rest of the year as large grass.

 No.132596

File:golden beets.jpg (955.35 KB,2164x1501)

Golden beets. Nothing amazing to look at it, but after roasting them (technically air frying) they taste like sugary potatoes so I think I'll grow them again next year.
The greens attached to these and the carrots are edible, but I don't think I'm ready to eat big leaves. I hate salad...

 No.132597

File:hmm.jpg (932.53 KB,1659x1422)

I noticed this parsley that I just left to do whatever it wanted next to the tomatoes was looking kind of weird... and the leaves didn't taste right at all...

 No.132598

File:nice.jpg (1.2 MB,2026x2160)

...because it's celery! IT ACTUALLY GREW!
Celery seems like a very difficultp lant. Its germination rate is so low, it feels like 5-10%, and then 90% of the ones I planted died weeks after being transplanted, and I assumed it was 100%. Well, maybe it was the flooding that did that so maybe it's not actually that rough. Growing celery seems good for my needs because I rarely use it all up when I buy it at the store, so this way I could just grab one or or two stalks as needed and let the plants keep growing over the season.
Looking at this image closer up, it seems there's a little spider hanging out to the right on a leaf.

 No.132599

File:spider.mp4 (Spoiler Image,3.89 MB,1280x720)

Speaking of spiders, this one has been hanging out for about a week. Pretty big. It seems to be holding and eating something it caught and tied up. Camera focus seems to struggle a bit on this.
Using a spoiler since some people may not want to see a big spider while casually scrolling kissu.

 No.132600

File:carrot.jpg (1.7 MB,1814x2419)

Carrot. I drew the thing on the right to demonstrate how impressive carrots are. I had no idea they got so big when they made it to the flowering stage.

Carrots are really great in a garden. The leaves are pretty and carrots are very good at leaf coverage which means the soil doesn't dry out as fast. It's a solid line of wispy green leaves that easily sway in the breeze. Normally when you're growing carrots for food you pick them a month before now, but I've kept them in the ground so I could just pull them up when needed. I'm not sure if there's any repercussions for that in regards to flavor or texture, but I don't think there is. It might just be that if you want to be efficient then you need to pull them out and replace them with new crops.

 No.132601

File:carrot flower.jpg (1.99 MB,3252x2856)

Lastly, here is a close up of a carrot flower that I'm pretty sure is in the process of turning into seeds. I assume each of round things turns into a seed, so that would mean I'll have thousands of carrot seeds soon. And carrots thrive during cooler weather so the plan is to put them back in the ground soon, probably in a different row.
I noticed a bug in the middle so I took a picture. It seems like a great spot to sit back and relax as a bug, but now that I can zoom in I think it might be dead. Well, it seems like a good place to die, too.
That's it for now! Gardening is pretty fun when it's not a billion degrees outside.

 No.132607

>>132601
do the wabbits love them?

 No.132610

>>132607
The problem with rabbits is that they greatly prefer sprouts. So one rabbit could just go down the row and take bites out of them and kill 20 plants for one meal. Once plants are established they're not as damaging. I've seen a couple rabbits around, but not as much as last year. I don't think the garden has much they like this time.




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