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A dollar saved is a dollar earned (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Too many people think growing shit also takes a lot of effort. Nah, literally just plant shit, weed once, then wait. You literally don't even have to water in most areas lol.

People think gardening or farming takes a lot of effort. It does if you want a pretty little area that's more eye pleasing. But if you just want food? Put seeds in. Wait. Food lol. Might not be the greatest harvest but any seed you'd buy at a store is hearty as fuck now.

Edit: Holy shit, yes guys. People on the internet live in the desert and even Antarctica too. My comment wasn't meant for you contrarian buttwipes lol. It was meant for anyone who doesn't live in a hellhole and has access to a little land lol. And even in those hellholes and places with shitty soil, it's just because you're trying to grow shit not meant for there lol.

[–] Sludgehammer 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what your neck of the woods is like but here in "High altitude misery land, were subsoil is the only soil in your yard and it'll freeze in June because fuck you" it's a struggle to get anything out of the garden.

This year, something went wrong with the peppers and tomatoes I started indoors (I suspect the potting soil) and they never grew over 1.5 inches tall, even after they were hardened off and planted outdoors in proper soil. As such, I bought a pepper and a tomato from a retail store. The pepper is still only about a foot tall, but the tomato was actually bushing out fairly well, about 4' tall... and then something ate it down to maybe 3'-2.5'-ish. The squash I started indoors did much better and survived hardening off well. After I put them into the garden the earwigs actually waited a whole week to eat them down to stumps. And I absolutely need to water... it takes about two days for the plants to start wilting.

My garden makes me appreciate the supermarket every year.

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[–] Clbull 7 points 1 year ago

I tried home grown runner beans. They're lovely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

glad to see my fellow humans have a voice here that think that making the earth make me food is freaking incredible.

[–] toxicbubble 6 points 1 year ago

i grew indoor potatoes, got 3 small ones in 3 months. juiciest potatoes i ever had!

[–] Ddhuud 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Beats taking care of a flower, all the work and you're not even supposed to eat it?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just got out of a water conference. The big takeaway was for me was that where sewer spills happened, tomatoes grow later.

[–] Sludgehammer 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not too surprising. Tomatoes are usually eaten uncooked, so the seeds are almost always viable when they hit the sewer system. Add to that tomatoes are tropical, so when a seed hits the soil it's gonna start growing.

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