The Gardening Splinter Thread

[Thry]

The impending winter shall lay siege to all you ever loved and your lavenders shall wilt.

nah, good luck blow them kisses and talk to them sweetly.

[Drydic]

The impending winter shall lay siege to all you ever loved and your lavenders shall wilt.

nah, good luck blow them kisses and talk to them sweetly.

Pretty sure Torco's heading into spring and summer dude

[Torco]

well some gooogling says to plant them by the last frosts... since santiago gets really few of those, and we have this nice med climate where there's like two months of cold and then its moderately cool, warm , hot, warm, moderately cool again, I figured this was the time.

Winter is coming isn't the case here: its more like winter is com... alreadyover!

[Drydic]

Winter is coming isn't the case here: its more like winter is com... alreadyover!

That's what she said.

[Thry]

Pretty sure Torco's heading into spring and summer dude

As much as I am into autumn and winter, maybe? And it's barely July xD

[Torco]

Winter is coming isn't the case here: its more like winter is com... alreadyover!

That's what she said.

*tips hat*

its for the best, being naked under winter for too long might cause hypothermia

[Drydic]

Pretty sure Torco's heading into spring and summer dude

As much as I am into autumn and winter, maybe? And it's barely July xD

Idk what Santiago's season timings are, but if he's planting stuff he's surely at least on the way out of the cold.

[Izambri]

I'll plant lavender in my garden too.

[Torco]

Pretty sure Torco's heading into spring and summer dude

As much as I am into autumn and winter, maybe? And it's barely July xD

Idk what Santiago's season timings are, but if he's planting stuff he's surely at least on the way out of the cold.

Not really, there's like three more weeks of winter and then it starts getting warmer.

I'll plant lavender in my garden too.

I recommend doing so in rocky or sandy ground, not in clay or some other kind of ill-drained substrate... Lavander is p tough but rootrot does kill them really easily.

[Izambri]

I'll plant lavender in my garden too.

I recommend doing so in rocky or sandy ground, not in clay or some other kind of ill-drained substrate... Lavander is p tough but rootrot does kill them really easily.

Oído, cocina.

[ol bofosh]

Lavenders very good, and one of the few plants that my goats won't eat!

[Torco]

I'll plant lavender in my garden too.

I recommend doing so in rocky or sandy ground, not in clay or some other kind of ill-drained substrate... Lavander is p tough but rootrot does kill them really easily.

Oído, cocina.

tuve que gugulear eso. que linda locución

[ol bofosh]

Oído, cocina.

tuve que gugulear eso. que linda locución

¿Pero qué es?

[Izambri]

I'll plant lavender in my garden too.

I recommend doing so in rocky or sandy ground, not in clay or some other kind of ill-drained substrate... Lavander is p tough but rootrot does kill them really easily.

Oído, cocina.

tuve que gugulear eso. que linda locución

;D

[Torco]

it roughly means "instruction acknowledged" if my research is correct, coming from cooks letting the waiters know that the kitchen had heard some guys order, like

- que va a querer, señor?
- un pan con queso
- eh, cocina! un pan con queso!
- oido cocina, cinco!
- en cinco minutos está su pan con queso. algo para beber?

I found it nice.

[Thry]

¡señor, sí, senyor!

[Radius Solis]

...Do I still get to brag about my garden?

My intended lineup this year is rather more ambitious than last year's. If I get everything done that I want to, I will be growing:
- tomatoes
- anaheim peppers
- jalapenos
- bell peppers
- black turtle beans
- corn
- garlic (already up and growing)
- potatoes
- carrots
- leeks
- lettuce
- arugula
- snow peas

*ahem*. Let's see how I did!

- I planted all of the above, plus cucumbers and pumpkins, but the pumpkins are looking pretty iffy; vines are long, but no female flowers yet, let alone fruits.
- Tomatoes: once again the plant has grown eight feet tall and is loaded with fruit, mostly green still, but we've had a few ripen already and had two in tonight's dinner.
- Anaheims, jalapeños, and bell peppers: coming along, coming along. Plants haven't grown nearly as big as last year, but all three are heavily hung with fruit so I'm not complaining. Some of the anaheims are turning red already.
- Black turtle beans: seem to be a bit on the late side, but this is easily attributable to two major incidents of deer damage. Despite half of them getting stripped bare twice, most of them are blooming and getting plenty of pods, so all things considered they're actually doing quite well.
- Corn: just ate our first corn tonight. Deliciously sweet, but the cobs are all small because they didn't all pollinate at the same time like they're supposed to, so they're underfertilized.
- Garlic: harvested last month. No repeat of last year's smashing success, sad to say. Bulbs are all too small to fuss with; I've been buying grocery store garlic instead of eating my own, and will probably throw it out.
- Potatoes: all five plants mysteriously died a few weeks ago, far in advance of schedule. Despite this, I count them a success: digging around under them I found about a dozen potatoes, all of decent size and some exceeding what you get (for that variety) in the grocery store. We had the last few of them last night, baked. Yukon Gold variety; tasty and a texture bordering on creamy.
- Carrots: the tops are pretty huge (I didn't know carrots could get three feet tall), and the few I've pulled out already have had a variety of root sizes, a few of them quite large but mostly middling. One of them's got a root crown as wide as a parsnip and I look forward to seeing it come out.
- Leeks: Still coming, still coming. Not as big yet as I'd have thought, but I've never grown them before.
- Lettuce: deer got most of it, and slugs most of the rest. What little I did get to eat was good, but more latexy and bitter than I expected for buttercrisp.
- Arugula: no go. Seedlings sat there growing glacially slow for the first two months, then suddenly bolted when the weather warmed up. At no time were there any harvestable leaves.
- Snow peas: like the beans, these were twice ravaged by deer. Despite this they produced far more snow peas than we could actually eat, so I gave up and let a bunch of pods ripen into green peas. (Legumes seem to be pretty tough!) Getting about time to plant a fall crop...
- Cucumbers: HELP, WE ARE DROWNING IN CUCUMBERS. Number picked so far exceeds thirty; twenty two of these are in the fridge awaiting pickling.

[Torco]

I understand your pain... lettuce is incredibly vulnerable to being eaten by bugs... seeing as how even us apes can eat their leaves, that's not surprising. Still, my lettuce is all chewed up and eaten. Did you sprout the peppers?

[ol bofosh]

I'm gonna try a semi-wild veg patch experiment this year.

First I shall be spreading seeds on grass-weedy ground without digging. On top of the seeds I shall spread straw to keep the weeds back a bit and hide them from the birds. Only work need doing (although it's cold now, so there won't be much need) is to remove stronger weeds whilst the plants are trying to establish themselves.

First plants to plant: radishes, spinach and lettuces.

[Torco]

spinach and radish is gonna be much more successful, I think. I've had spinach grow without my intervention, and radishes are tougher than many a weed.

[ol bofosh]

Last year was the first year a lot of lettuces eaten by slugs or snails or something. Usually we just buy ones to plant instead of seeding them.

I've just finished planting them more or less together. I made a slight mistake and nicked my girlfriend's packet of rocket seeds instead of the lettuce. So there won't be lettuces amongst the spinach, but rocket.

It'll be interesting to see how my spinach compares with my girlfriend's who dug and planted in the traditional way.

Anyway, here's a link with info that inspired my experiment: http://libarynth.net/masanobu_fukuoka
It comes from Fukuoka's book "The One-Staw Revolution".

[Izambri]

I understand your pain... lettuce is incredibly vulnerable to being eaten by bugs...

Mint too... T_____T

[Torco]

Best solution I've found is to spray the plant with cigarrette water: soak smokes in a couple liters and spray it like holy waters. bugs will become addicted and go to work to afford to buy 'em instead of eating healthy vegetables.

[ol bofosh]

Radish and rocket had started to make an appearance. I'll take photos so you can see what my "semi-wild" veg patch looks like.

[chris_notts]

I understand your pain... lettuce is incredibly vulnerable to being eaten by bugs...

Mint too... T_____T

Mint?? Mint is practically indestructible... at least in the UK. People carefully keep it in pots because if it escapes it will spread by root and take over large areas without constant cutting back. I think it does like a wet soil though, so maybe in dry areas it's less of a weed?