Some things are just super easy to grow, others take so much effort its too much for the average person. But hell yeah, grow ur own food if u are lucky enough to own a garden.
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Yeah. When I lived in NW Florida (ugh), jalapenos grew like weeds in a small pot. Always had way too many.
Also a fun fact: in early spring you can often see green grass-like shoots growing before the grass starts and are quite tall. Those are wild alliums, the same family as garlic, onions and scallions.
We call it onion grass. I’m always yelling at my dog for eating them.
Are they bad for dogs? Or are you mad cause you wanted them?
Technically it's poisonous to dogs, yeah. It's a mild poison, but like chocolate (and grapes and raisins), they shouldn't have it.
Leeks are part of the Allium family (which also includes onion, chives, and garlic) and are poisonous to dogs and cats. Garlic is considered to be about 5-times as potent as onion and leeks. Certain breeds and species are more sensitive, including cats and Japanese breeds of dogs (e.g., Akita, Shiba Inu).
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I struggle so hard with peppers. Jalapeños growing like weeds sounds like a dream.
It might benefit you to know that pepper plants can be kept alive nearly indefinitely if you give them good enough conditions. So if you keep them in a pot, you can trim them and move them inside over cold months (bare stems is fine as long as they don’t dry out), and then in spring they are already super well established and big and start putting out peppers really early.
I never do well with new pepper plants, but second season they produce like crazy.
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Sheep... They're woolly... It's wool!
Fucking eggs come out of their arses!
Fuckin' 'ell!
Nice 🥒
"It comes out of the fuckin' ground. I couldn't believe it!"
You cannot lose!
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frantically types on keyboard with the cord stuffed into the dirt
Just got root access.
Neighbor tried to plant potatoes. She got about six pounds worth of top and no tuber.
We spent weeks debugging and still don't know what went wrong.
Potatoes you have to keep mounding up with dirt to force the plant to grow more roots (tubers) instead of the leafy tops.
TIL. Thanks.
Potato tubers are not actually roots. They are modified stems. So the surest way to force more potatoes is to “hill” them. In the commercial fields this is done with a huge tractor raking soil from in between planting rows and piling it up on the plants. You essentially bury the plants stem as it grows taller. Then the buds on the stem will push out stolons (horizontal underground stems.) these will terminate in tubers, aka: potatoes!
Source: did potato disease research for my PhD.
Additional edit: loose/sandy soil is critical. Too dense of soil and your tubers can’t expand well.
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six pounds worth of top
Where is this neighbor located? Asking for a friend 👀
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The Bri'ish pay for wa'er! What's a fuckall?
The trick with garlic is to just bury it everywhere in your garden where there's space, no need for a vegetable garden. The leaves take minimal space and digging them back up only requires making a small hole, plus they apparently keep some pests away.
It's happy in a pot on the windowsill, doesn't much care about soil quality, can be harvested just for the greens.
I plant it everywhere though.
You can just take the bottom bulb from green onions, and just stick it into some dirt. Even when they're old and the green parts are slimy. I never bother watering, and they do just fine.
You can even stick them in a glass of water to get them to freshen up a little, but without dirt for nutrients, they will thin out and die eventually.
Stop playing God!
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Tomatoes are easy to grow! They just take a fuck ton of water.
I hear they're much tastier than what you buy in the store.
This is accurate; grocery store tomatoes are bred for durability rather than taste. The canned tomatoes down the soup aisle are honestly better than the fresh ones in the produce section. A large pot in a sunny corner of your back porch can do a lot better than your local supermarket.
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It depends on the cultivar, but usually yes!
You can feed your dog tomatoes, and you don't even have to bother with seeding!
Or fertilizer!
You don't need a dog for this, you can do it yourself.
Tomatoes and garlic, what else could you possibly need tbh
Cries in having no sunlight in the apartment. Mine didn't survive the dark apartment life, so can't confirm.
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Pretty sure zoomers just troll boomers who genuinely think the new generation is stupid
As a millennial...zoomer humor is soooo much better than boomer humor.
You don't like boomer humor knee slapper jokes like
"My wife is a bitch, please take her"
And
"Oh look it's a homosexual"
?
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Picking up gardening at any age is a good thing not only as a way to stay active and keep your pantry better stocked but you also get a good sense of accomplishment
New life hack: this is what some of the very first human civilizations did to spend their time
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