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.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.129203
>>129201>Most of the pea pods got flooded in the soilPea "seeds", that is. They never germinated and just rotted away in the ground.
No.131301
>>129201holy flip its zundamon
No.131304
>>131301Ah, 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
>>131304if you do bring meowers plz
No.131311
>>131304you 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
>>131311Oh, 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
>>131312i 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
>>110294You 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.132131
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-mothAnyway, that's all I wanted to post for now.
No.132132
>>132130>>132131that really is a cool bugger neat
No.132148
>>132130sounds like a shab getting biting
No.132595
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.132607
>>132601do the wabbits love them?
No.132610
>>132607The 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.
No.137036
so what sort of dumb fruitards are you going to plant this year
No.137037
>>137036Not sure yet, I've been kind of procrastinating about things. Do you have any suggestions?
Sadly most fruit is from trees or other things that take years or even decades to get established and of course they're HUGE so it's really not going to happen. Stuff like strawberries or blueberries are about the limit.
Oh, I do want to grow potatoes. I thought they were something you plant in summer since it's an autumn crop, but nope you do it in early spring and build up a hill of dirt as they expand.
No.137038
>>137037passionfruit vines seem like theyd get you fruit fairly quickly my older brother had some
i thought about saffron for when i get my garden but the climate in australia's all wrong. saffron wants frost during winter. also the bulbs are still pretty expensive it doesnt seem like you get much of a return on investment unless you do it at scale for a long time
No.137039
an apricot tree my parents planted some time ago is taller than me and produces like 200 apricots each season
some time ago means.... fuck, probably 10 years ago at this point
No.137040
>>137038Oh, I thought about saffron briefly when I noticed the price of it at the store. I've never actually eaten it, I was just curious about it. I assume there must be some complex process to it that makes it annoying, like vanilla. It must be expensive for areason.
One of the youtubers I watch about gardening is Australian and I'm quite envious of all the stuff he's got going on. I think I linked him in the thread somewhere. My area gets really hot in the summer but we still have weeks of freezing temperatures so anything tropical is out of the question. Oh, and lavender, which I really like, dies here because of the humidity.
>>137039Yeah, you can get dwarf trees (my family had them when I was a kid) but they're more susceptible to diseases and it explains how we lost all 3 of them during one summer. There's grafting, too, which is kind of horrifying as a concept but it's how most people grow apples.
No.137041
>>137040>I assume there must be some complex process to it that makes it annoying,think its literally just you cant automate picking the little threads out of the flower (yet...) and each thread weighs almost nothing
No.137043
reading about it on wikipedia
saffron farms will have tens of thousands of flowers in a football field sized plot of land
the harvest takes place over just a few days because of the short bloom
so you have to employ many laborers on short notice to pick out the threads and take them to a drying kiln because they cant sit for too long
i feel like this industry is poised to become disrupted by fleets of cheap autonomous drones with AI and manipulator arms... short that saffron....