Anonymous 03/21/25 (Fri) 07:01:51 No. 141033
>>141030 Oh yeah, it’s planting season. Ought to get to it myself as well.
Anonymous 04/01/25 (Tue) 10:14:07 No. 141401
>>141396 on topic sager
deserves it
Anonymous 04/02/25 (Wed) 23:43:11 No. 141519
>>141517 nice
how long do you think it'll take for the water to drain?
Anonymous 04/02/25 (Wed) 23:45:00 No. 141521
>>141519 Probably days. I need to get more wood chip mulch to put in them as they soak up the water and keep the plastic from getting damaged from the sun. This would be really bad to have sitting water like this if it was further along the year, mosquitos and stuff would be breeding in it.
Anonymous 04/17/25 (Thu) 19:57:43 No. 145104
Normally don't mind windy days as long as it isn't dangerous, but I've got seeds in the ground and need to keep the soil from drying out, so now I need to go out and water every few hours.
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 00:01:09 No. 152456
>>152455 Potatoes after...
FOUR weeks. HOW DO THEY GROW THIS FAST?! This must be the benefit of the energy storage of the potato.
I'm starting to understand why these things prevent famine.
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 00:07:47 No. 152461
>>152460 it would be a nice thing to do but you need to own a house for that
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 00:37:54 No. 152464
>>152461 Not true, you just need to be a loser that lives with someone that owns a house!
But that's a concept misconception. You only need a big outside garden for growing lots of bulky, sun-hungry plants that need a lot of space and energy. If you have any free space, like the size of a small bed, you can grow a lot of things indoors. It's common for people to grow herbs indoors on top of tables, but you can do fruits and vegetables, too. Lots of species have varieties specially bred for container growing, even things you wouldn't expect like tomatoes or corn.
LED lights are VERY cheap and extremely efficient so people need to graduate from the old way of thinking. Due to the covid lockdowns a lot of people became interested in growing plants indoors and there's an entire industry around it these days. These are the growth lights I have for starting things indoors, but they can be a permanent fixture of a room to use for growing plants while also providing light for yourself:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095C2DLH5 There are people out there doing extensive reviews to rate the different kinds in regards to spectrum of light and energy efficiency over time. There's also tons of guides to assembling your own container soil, hydroponics, and anything else related to indoor gardening. It's pretty cool.
Anonymous 04/28/25 (Mon) 00:54:02 No. 152465
>>152464 >concept misconception common misconception* bleh
Anonymous 05/01/25 (Thu) 02:49:53 No. 152923
I was thinking of throwing a planter on my balcony to grow some veggies/herbs (fruits would be even better but I don't think they'd work in the limited space). I've done flower gardens before, but I'm not sure what all considerations need to be made with limited-space growing. Would be cool if I could grow
>>152456 in one. Seems like 1ft is enough for growing root vegetables and flowers based on site descriptions, though it seems shallow to me. Anyone do this before and have advice on what sizes work best or what some good starter crops are?
Anonymous 05/01/25 (Thu) 08:42:04 No. 152945
>>152923 Well, what kind of crops do you like? Many of them are easier than you think. If they weren't, nature wouldn't really exist at all.
You said balcony, so outside, what are the temperature and humidity like? Stuff like green beans, carrots and peas do better without intense heat, but can sort of tolerate it if they don't get exposed to the burning sunlight all day.
Anonymous 05/01/25 (Thu) 14:43:11 No. 152973
>>152945 I like carrots and taters, but I'll probably give most of it away to people who cook so I'm more focused on the growing than the eating.
It's very rainy now with comfortable temps, but will get hot and sometimes dry in another month or so. Highly seasonal weather. I can put them in partial cover where they'll be in the shade half the day or farther out where they'll get more sun.
Anonymous 05/05/25 (Mon) 23:18:40 No. 153790
I'm the OP from
>>>/spg/3490 My little buds are becoming big fat buds!
Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 02:02:11 No. 153797
>>152973 You'll need a huge container for potatoes, at least in an effective way. Carrots, sure, they're very compact, you just need to make sure to give them enough room to grow downward and keep the soil loose with the container-only things like perlite or coconut coir. Root vegetables work very well inside containers. I grew turnips in one a couple years ago.
>>153790 Looks good! I can't seem to use that finer mulch stuff you have there due to Spring localized flooding transporting it away. I don't know what the solution would be apart from giant containers.
As for me, today I had to "hill" the potatoes. You basically just bury them in dirt halfway and this is supposed to encourage them to grow more tubers. This is the 'before'....
Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 02:08:33 No. 153799
>>153798 How do you go about digging them out? My dad used a potato plow pulled by a riding mower to dig ours up, but we also had a big patch with a lot of space around.
Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 03:08:45 No. 153803
>>153799 This is the first time I've ever grown potatoes so I have no idea. Brute force, I guess? Maybe digging around them? I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Anonymous 05/06/25 (Tue) 07:40:41 No. 153813
I think you pull them up if it's healthy and the entire plant will come with you. The mound will make it harder for them to stay rooted
Anonymous 05/14/25 (Wed) 23:50:10 No. 154408
>>154305 This is something I need to read up on, but I'm not sure. In the US Idaho is well known for potatoes, but I don't know much about their soil. It might just be that since it's located further up North they're limited on what they can grow.
Cost to have 8 bags of mulch, mostly air, delivered locally: $40
Cost to have 5 bags of topsoil, weighing 200 pounds (90kg) delivered locally: $15.
I guess they care about space instead of weight.
I'm now starting a project to fix my soil since I've had parts where nothing grew (or rabbits got to it). The rows with peas, carrots, potato and onion are working, but the two rows in the middle are only growing weeds. I guess this is a good time to start since the heat of summer is approaching.
Coconut coir and vermiculite and used to help prevent soil compaction and aid in water retention, while the word castings are just good for soil fertility and it being organic material also helps with soil compaction. I HATE CLAY!
Not pictured: The 200 pounds of topsoil I mentioned above and 40 pounds of cow manure I also ordered.
Anonymous 05/15/25 (Thu) 07:04:36 No. 154420
>>154419 Oh, and I'm using coconut coir instead of peat moss. One of the ways humans are screwing over the environment is scraping peat moss from the environment to shove it into bags, wrecking ecosystems. Really not a good thing to support.
Anonymous 05/22/25 (Thu) 14:53:51 No. 154694
dumb magentard
Anonymous 05/22/25 (Thu) 22:25:56 No. 154726
My plants are getting eaten...
Anonymous 05/24/25 (Sat) 07:17:26 No. 154810
>>154726 Yeah, that happened to me. You really need some fencing or netting. Rabbits really like sprouts, so it might be them. Well, if you live in a more rural area it could be something larger like deer.
Guess who isn't watering the plants? THIS GUY!
Anonymous 06/10/25 (Tue) 17:20:13 No. 155697
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Anonymous 06/10/25 (Tue) 20:24:07 No. 155700
Now that the cold period in later May in my region called the "Ice Saints" have passed and "Cold Sophie"-chan has moved her cold butt out of the region, the gardening season has really started for me.
Only a third of the bean-seedlings managed to germinate during May, probably because of the sudden dip in temperature and lack of sunlight.
The second batch of Zundamons germinated quickly and almost complete. Their older siblings have already begun climbing the pole.
And since yesterday, the first marigolds are blooming.
>>141478 motivated me to try growing potatoes this year and their growth has exploded in the last couple of days. Have vastly underestimated how much soil I would need to keep burying them,
>>154666 illustrates how well they can grow.
Also ended up now growing ten tomato plants after my grandparents told me they had "a couple" in surplus.
For doing nothing in the vegetable department last year, I'm kinda overdoing it this time.
Anonymous 06/12/25 (Thu) 05:07:14 No. 155887
>>155700 >motivated me to try growing potatoes this year and their growth has exploded in the last couple of days. Nice! Yeah, I've never seen anything grow as fast as potatoes. I think I said it already, but it must be the energy reserves inside the potato slips. Peas grow comparatively fast as well and they're thick little orbs full of energy. I basically have a potato forest out there. I wish I could see what they were doing underground, but alas it must remain a mystery until harvest. Every single piece did sprout into something, too, even the ones without an eye I could identity. (I put the extra in a crowded pot to see). I've had mixed luck with beans as well, but they were certainly a lot easier than peas.
I thought about growing tomatoes again but decided to take a break from them. Both previous years the high end tore the support structures and they became closer to the ground vine plants nature intended and it was a major headache.
Anonymous 06/12/25 (Thu) 05:10:14 No. 155888
>>155887 > high end tore the support structures high wind*
Stupid brain. Also here's the forest of yellow onions. Had to put some new dirt down because some VERY heavy rain came around and removed the top layer. I was originally planning to harvest the middle row for "spring onions" but I think I'm going to keep them going and just have a LOT of yellow onions at some point.