Gardening

The vines are 12 feet or longer now. The guards are just starting out now.

I'm curious to see how big I can get them.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.poundncashdown.com/post/79872

This is one of too many Benjaminas. They propagate far too easy for my lizard brain's good.

This tree needs a reduction in foliage and upward growing branches in the upper section. That should help balance out the growth between top and bottom, push some back budding to occur, and let the lower foliage get some proper light.

The Sunflower seed package said tall, but this is crazy.

I hope this isn’t too off-topic for this community. I also posted this in [email protected] so sorry to spam but I’m not sure which is the best place…

I have an old grass patch that I want to replace with Irish moss. Would love some advice on how!

Location: Seattle, USA.

Space: 15x12 foot section, partly under a laurel and a deciduous tree.

Soil: I’m not at all knowledgeable about soil, but heres what I know… It was originally just dirt with a on old lilac in it, then the lilac was replaced by grass, then 95% of the grass died during a construction project last year. Now it’s hard-packed soil and random tufts. It gets a small amount of leaves and other debris from the trees above it.

Sunlight: Direct sun for about half the day, then shaded by a house. Sunnier at one end than the other.

Questions:

1. What organic material (if any) should I use to condition the soil? How should I apply it?
2. I’ve read that 5-5-5 NPK fertilizer is good for Irish moss, but also that too much nitrogen is bad. Should I go lower nitrogen? How much fertilizer anyway?
3. How often should I water? How thoroughly?
4. I bought a small number of plugs to experiment in one corner before going all out. What’s the best way to fill in between them with seeds?

Not much but is honest work. The taste is absolutely delicious!

Those mushrooms have come and gone in my spider plant :) I really really really want to lick them.

So I got my hands on some flower bulbs which are typically meant to be planted in spring and I was wondering what I could do with them now. To be concrete, I have

• Dahlia
• Mirabilis jalapa
• Ixia

I'm in USDA zone 7b/8a and I could either place them on a south facing balcony or inside. I've also read that you can force flowers in a vase with some bulbs such as Hyacinths but I haven't read anything about that with the ones I have. Or should I just keep them in storage until next spring and plant them then?

The cucumbers are going crazy in Zone 6a Rhode Island.

Looking forward to fruiting

Hello, I'm having some trouble figuring out what's the issue for my plants, started with a northern highly blueberry shrub, every couple of days I get about four leaves turning brown just like in the image and they turn brown really quickly. (Takes about a day for half the leaf to go brown, down the midrib)

I've tried these in the past two months:

• keeping the plant leaves dry placed in a ventilated area just in case it was fungal.
• Reducing watering to only water when soil is try to avoid overwatering and underwatering.
• increasing amount of fertilizer slightly to ensure plant has sufficient nutrition
• Neem oil sprays to remove pests

Today, I found a similar leaf on my garden mint that's exhibiting the same brown patch on the tip of the leaf, worried it will start spreading.

Has anyone experienced something similar?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.poundncashdown.com/post/39385

The mother tree had a pretty large pruning done. So, I figured, why not propagate from it?

I had some left over seeds that I planted after the rest of the garden was in. I thought it was oregano, but clearly this isn't oregano. Can anybody tell what I have (besides a slug problem)?

My corn is coming in.

After having a fantastic squash harvest 2 years ago, last year kind of sucked, and we never figured out why. This year things started great, but then started going south, with plants yellowing and squash wilting. Well apparently there's these asshole moths who lay eggs on the stem, which then produce these little effers that bore into the stem itself and eat the plant from the inside. Cutting into the stems I was able to find and remove a bunch of them. Cutting the stems didn't feel great... I tried to cut along the grain, but had to pretty much cut a chunk out of every plant just so I could even see inside and prod enough to find the squiggly things.

Hoping the plants survive and thrive 🤞. Apparently next year I should get a syringe and inject them with something called BT. I had no idea raising squash required a medical degree 🩺

These are over 10 feet tall and even longer in length. The loofahs are in the back.

I design functional artwork planters and an internet friend told me that Orchid planters kind of suck. They suggested I design one in my own style to apply some engineering and art to compliment the flower.

This is what I came up with.

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I have about this much left again still to pick too :)

Manzanita reminds me of my grandfather, passed on years since. There was a lot of it on his property and as a kid it was the only place I ever saw it. I’m happy that my current climate allows me to grow a couple. They help me remember.

Up until very recently, I've never lived anywhere where I had the space to set up an outdoor garden. I've been fortunate to finally own a property where I can, and I'm really enjoying it. So far I've set up an 8 x 25 garden plot, planted 4 fruit trees, and have a thriving wildflower garden in front of the house. I have a lot to learn, but I'm certainly enjoying the process.

One of my recent projects has been to install gutters on my workshop; it's a 25x50ft building. That got me thinking; why not collect the water from the gutters? I live an area that gets near-constant rain in the fall, winter, and spring, but it turns into a desert here during the summer. We haven't had more than a light mist in about a month or more. I have a roughly 60x20ft section of property hidden behind the shop, and it would be a perfect place to set up some IBC totes to collect the water.

For those of you who collect rain water for your garden, how much do you find you need/use? Based on my water bill, it looks like my usage went up by about 75 gallons per month since I've started gardening. I figure round that to 100G just to be safe; for 4 months with little rainfall, that would mean I need about 400G stored. I tend to over-engineer everything I build, so lets double that to 800G.

I'd enjoy hearing from anyone who harvests rainwater for their garden. How much water storage do you have? Do you find it's too much, not enough, or exactly what you need?