Gardening

I am so happy about the first harvest from my small rooftop garden. It really tastes better than store-bought. Now I am waiting for the tomatoes and peppers to ripen.

(See also: My awesome gardening coveralls, which I made myself to be as Loud as possible. Also, one of my dogs)

I've recently bought a house and there's a LOT of work to be done in the back garden to get things ready for my purposes. Little by little I'm clearing away dead stuff and overgrown bushes... and oh god so much of it has thorns. but I'll persevere.

(But if anyone has a brand or type of garden glove they like for dealing with thorny plants, I'm all ears.)

I'm also curious what you all would do with all of the garden waste this generates? I have a bin I can put garden waste in, but before I start binning the clippings and such, I want to be sure they can't be used. I have started a compost pile that desperately needs more browns, but with regards to the greens it's getting quite full!

Hi. Why don’t I see any posts coming from this instance, but when I use my lemmy.world account, I see them?

Cute little fella, just hangin out, lookin awfully suspicious at me, lol

I'm UK based for what it's worth

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1224578

Man I'm a sucker for big beefsteaks 😅

[Image description: a hand holding a large orange tomato with splashes of green on its shoulders, in front of green tomato foliage]

One of my favorite hydro veggies to grow!

They made a nice potato salad with some home grown spring onions and chives!

Hummingbirds love this plant

These are huge this year.

Winter density (green) and Forellenschluss (red speckled). Both are romaine.

I use a hook trellis for my tomatoes, cucumbers and vine vegetables.

Should I give it to my veggie seedlings? Should I apply it more than once to veggies? Should I also use all purpose granular fertilizers ?

What would be like a general schedule?

Hello fellow gardeners,

Here is my attempt for a small vegetable patch.

Clay soil in a region in France where the soil is rich and a lot of cultures do well.

I wanted it to be circular, draw a sketch and, obviously failed it.

So here is my patch at the moment :

• I hoed a 60m square in january, the patch was a previously a middow
• I scythe to get grass for cover
• No-Till, Ruth Stout method (except I use grass instead of hay.)
• No-Water (except the first week I transplant or sow.)
• Potatoes were put on top of the ground, I added a handful of compost and covered it with grass.
• Zuchinis are beautiful.
• I tried the milpa association (corn, squash, beans) Beans climb on corns and squashs cover the ground.
• I also have some flowers to attract bugs and ladybird.
• Eggplants are a bit late to show.
• Strawberries and beets did very well.
• Pak Choy cabbages are amazing.

And I repeat but no watering (60 litres for the whole garden)

For a first attempt I really am happy with how it goes. Scything is a noble exercice to acquire harmony between the tool, the mind and the body.

[Image description: close up of a yellow sunflower with petals not quite fully open. The undeveloped seeds in the center of the sunflower are yellow on the edges and green in the center.]

Currently growing 3 different cucumbers(lemon,marketmore,Persian), jalapeños,Thai chilis,bell pepper, banana pepper, tomatoes, some butter crunch lettuce that hasn’t bolted yet surprisingly,broccoli. All on the same stand and getting great harvests! I keep ph around 6.5 and EC around 2.5. Im debating going full hydro for everything except trees/bush/root veggies since it’s been so rewarding.

Currently growing 3 different cucumbers(lemon,marketmore,Persian), jalapeños,Thai chilis,bell pepper, banana pepper, tomatoes, some butter crunch lettuce that hasn’t bolted yet surprisingly,broccoli. All on the same stand and getting great harvests! I keep ph around 6.5 and EC around 2.5. Im debating going full hydro for everything except trees/bush/root veggies since it’s been so rewarding.

Last year I started with BeefSteak tomatoes which were a little too unwieldy on my small balcony garden. This year I switched to a smaller Roma type tomatoes.