Garden thread

[Anonymous No.12294760]

What are we cooking /ck/?

Awaiting a bountiful harvest of Heirloom Tomatoes and Peppers and beans

Not shown: Glass corn, citrus trees, avocado, apple, peach, pears, apricots, various herbs, chickens and ducks.

Also, post gardens.

[Anonymous No.12294922]

so... that fence is to keep out what exactly?

[Anonymous No.12294965]

>>12294922
It's to keep the plants in, retard

[Anonymous No.12294969]

>>12294922
no moles, gofers, or groundhogs that's for sure.

[Anonymous No.12295031]

>>12294760
>That soil
What kind of desert do you live in?

Also I'm getting reeeal close to affording a house and can't wait to build a garden, until them I'm stuck with pots
I loaded up the "Gardening" folder on the Mega already
https://mega.nz/#F!VrgHmQTT!HEXDgmzBWRgSt-_M4hZhiA

[Anonymous No.12295041]

>>12294760
Are there any programs or websites that will optimize a garden layout for you? I know there's plenty of garden planner sites and apps that just let you draw shit out. But I can do that with paper and a pencil. I want a computer program that takes into account the space needed for the plants, their interactions, and then algorthmically organizes the garden and optimizes it. I mean, I can do it by hand but it'll take longer.

[Anonymous No.12295049]

>>12295041
How often do you need to map your own garden?

[Anonymous No.12295054]

>>12295049
I don't know but it would be nice to have an app that would do it for you and would be scalable to different sizes/shapes.

[Anonymous No.12295057]

>>12294965
plants dont move though

[Anonymous No.12295061]

>>12294760
I love having a garden and my yields are always great but I am jealous that I can't grow citrus here.

[Anonymous No.12295425]

bump for interest

[Anonymous No.12295562]

>>12294760
We're getting buttloads of strawberries right now. Eating a bunch everyday for breakfast and freezing the excess. May make some jam.

[Anonymous No.12295627]

>tfw you live in zone 6a and it's still too cold at night to plant the garden

[Anonymous No.12295641]

>>12295061
I bought a meyer lemon and a makrut/kaffir lime tree grafted to semi dwarf stock to grow indoors under grow lights.

[Anonymous No.12296726]

>>12294922
Chickens and ducks

[Anonymous No.12296738]

>>12295031
zone 9

[Anonymous No.12296746]

>>12295562
do you cover that frame with plastic sheeting for freezes? If so, where can someone buy good sheeting for projects like that?

[Anonymous No.12296747]

>>12294760
Got various brassica going. They're not quite ready yet.

[Anonymous No.12296757]

>>12296747
what's up with the plastic and bricks?

[Anonymous No.12296771]

>move in with gf few couple years ago
>put new garden in backyard. have luck with a few things
>kale didnt do too well
>break up and move out
>go back next summer while drunk and sneak in back yard
>the kale i planted is massive and no one is picking it
>new place is completely covered in shade

fuck bros

[Anonymous No.12296790]

>>12295041
Neither a program or website but I remember this book going into details for some of this. I'm sure it's on cs.rin.ru or something

[Anonymous No.12296815]

>>12294965
fuckin lol

>>12294760
Comfy garden bruh.

>>12294969
The OP pic didn't bury it 2 feet, but if you do that most critters give up on trying to get in. You can also drop rocks/pebbles around the fence instead of dirt as a further deterrent. Those guys don't live in every region anyway, wonder where OP lives considering all the citrus. Southwest US or Central America?

[Anonymous No.12296821]

>>12295041
Just know what space you're working with and find a companion plant guide.

[Anonymous No.12296825]

>>12296747
It's landscape fabric, not plastic, helps block weeds. The bricks are just ones we scavenged from building sites after they finished the brick laying. They just trash them anyway.

[Anonymous No.12296832]

>>12295627
Hey I here in a week or so nights will be up to the 50's. Middle of Iowa reporting.

[Anonymous No.12296959]

>>12296815
Based cowboyland, anon

[Anonymous No.12296980]

>>12294760
Are you hold at Guantanamo Bay?

[Anonymous No.12296988]

Im just growing like 14 kind of herbs. It's cheaper then buying and they are more resistant than most house plants.

[Anonymous No.12297507]

i have a 15ftx15ft patch of concrete. feelsbadman. got loads of pots though, 3 x blueberries, 1 x redcurrant, 1 x gooseberry, 5 x herbs - parsley, mint, coriander, rosemary, thyme -- a whisky barrel cut in half to make a pond which is growing dwarf waterlillies and 2 mating-pair pear trees in 140L pots. plus loads of snowbell and bluebell bulbs planted amongst everything to look nice in the winter/spring time.
used to have an orchard and small woodland when i was a kid, too poor without parents' money so all i have now is concrete and pots.

[Anonymous No.12297541]

>>12297507
>snowbell
*snowdrop

[Anonymous No.12298702]

Shooting for the earliest corn here. Day 38 on 63 day corn.

[Anonymous No.12298749]

>>12295041
Yo. I know of a project. idk if it's what you're looking for since it's more in line with companion planting, permaculture, etc. But hey, maybe it helps. We need to improve the companion planting data source. I've found a source of super interesting companion planting information but a lot of it is basically comments and 'oh maybe you could do this or that'.
https://github.com/Ecohackerfarm/powerplant/

[Anonymous No.12298766]

>>12295031
Make some SIPs and grow some tomatoes and peppers to go with those herbs.

[Anonymous No.12298775]

>>12298766
You don't have problems with algae in those white buckets? Any pumps or is it kratky? Nice healthy 'mater you got there anon

[Anonymous No.12298829]

>>12298775
Sometimes they get a bit of algae in the bottom water reservior between the two buckets, but not much. No pumps but not kratky. Similar though. The potting mix wicks through the net cup. Eventually roots go down into the resevior. I put some fert in the potting mix, but that's just to get them started. Dyna-gro Foliage-Pro in the water is what keeps them healthy till the end of season. Huge plants, big yields, very healthy. Been doing this for about 7 years. Got 12 buckets this season.

[Anonymous No.12299991]

>>12298829
Can you recommend somewhere I can read more about this method?

[Anonymous No.12300025]

jelly of the gardens bros, all I want is to be a humble farmer tending to my delicious vegetables and fruits to make meals at peak freshness

[Anonymous No.12300349]

>>12294760
If you want your plants to grow faster you need to put water and torches next to them

[Anonymous No.12300778]

>>12299991
If you search global bucket or SIP bucket you will get an idea of what they are. On the inside you can use all sorts of containers for your wick basket like a butter tub or solo cup. I like net cups with a bit of moss shoved in to keep too much potting mix from falling through. There are dozens of variations on the sip. The Alaska grow bucket is one I want to try in the future, but it's a bit more complicated.

[Anonymous No.12301028]

Already Harvested

>radishes
>spinach

Currently Harvesting But Still Growing

>lettuce
>kale
>snap peas

Growing But Not Harvest Ready

>tomatoes
>peppers
>beets
>zucchini

Once the lettuce and snap peas finish up I think we're just gonna do that whole 10' x 2' area with bush green beans.

[Anonymous No.12301148]

>>12301028
What are the sticks in the buckets for?

[Anonymous No.12301163]

>>12295057
>he doesn't know

[Anonymous No.12301170]

Garden's a husk of it's former self unfortunately. Used to help my grandfather maintain it but he had a stroke recently and can't work on it. I've got to learn more about planting before I start it back up again.

[Anonymous No.12301176]

>>12294760
What is this? Are you digging in concrete?

[Anonymous No.12301195]

I plan to grow food, but I dont think the central Florida climate will do well. Any tips?

[Anonymous No.12301453]

>>12301195
Why would central Florida be bad? Lots of people grow there. There are going to be region specific challenges, but that's going to happen anywhere.

[Anonymous No.12301481]

We are in Canada so things are coming in late as it’s been cool out. We add tomatoes and peppers when they get big enough to go outside.

[Anonymous No.12302209]

>>12301148

Fuckin cats.

[Anonymous No.12302235]

>>12294760
I could probably start planting seeds, but it's still too early to plant anything else. Usually wait until after memorial day. It snowed a few days ago.

probably just going to do an herb garden this year and a variety of hot peppers to make hot sauces.

[Anonymous No.12302250]

>>12294922
We had a gal that lived out on the prairie that wanted us to tear down her fence, we warned her that the deer will destroy all of her plants. She did it anyway and the deer destroyed all of her plants, now she wants another fence.

[Anonymous No.12302903]

>>12302209
that wouldn't keep cats out

[Anonymous No.12303160]

>>12294760
Got me a community plot.
Waiting for the hot season to begin then gonna do some tomatoes, bell peppers, and experiment with watermelon.

Got garlic and beets in right now tho

[Anonymous No.12303291]

>>12294760
I fucked up with my english peas this year (on the left) by planting them in a too nitrogen rich soil but my tomatoes (on the right) are doing well. I planted climbing beans at the base of the peas and since they're legumes they'll probably have the same issue. I've still got time, I think I'll replant the beans in a less rich soil but I'll be lucky to get even a few meals out of the peas this year when I usually end up freezing several gallons. Sad.

[Anonymous No.12304081]

>>12302903

It does. They like using pots as litter boxes but if they try to squat over it they get poked, so they go elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.12305390]

>>12295054
Its called a pencil, paper and straight-edge.

[Anonymous No.12305445]

First crop of strawberries after planting some last year on a whim. I put a couple sliced in my pancakes for breakfast and a few on the side. Also made a cheesecake with them last night. This weird vegan recipe that's mostly made up of raw cashews but it tastes amazing and just as good as the real deal. Also got cherry bushes and dwarf apple trees. Sandplum bush died a couple years ago and I'm still mourning over it. Sandplum jelly is a golden gift that one must never pass up an opportunity at.