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[scriver]

Ripped a bunch of long bois out of the ground today

Spoiler: Look at my flax, my flax is amazing (click to show/hide)

Do you think that's enough for a shirt?

I've been following this gardening thread for a while, and I guess I will share my pictures of my bumblebee nest here.

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That's the cutest bumbleebee-bo!

Did you set it up like that with the holey branch in the ground or is it a natural happenstance?

[Loud Whispers]

Sounds like it's time for murder in the dark.

That or I leave a beer out for them

[Eric Blank]

My family's gardens are producing nothing but tomatoes this year. Weve all been too busy and tired to do any gardening.

The deer were eating almost everything anyway, jumping over the fence and whatnot to get at the good stuff. They even ate my jalapeño plant. If deer counted as a garden product, I'd say our gardens have been pretty successful.

I found a toad the other night by the shitter, though. Big fat one, very lumpy. Chickens being locked up most of the time the wildlifes coming back. Especially the coyote that's been killing the chickens. Won't fucking give up

[Dunamisdeos]

Are you allowed to...

[mafia voice] take care of...

...the coyote

[None]

Mintacle died. Spider mites are bad, mmkay. Overwatering it in a non-draining planter is bad too. Catnip is looking pretty sparse, but it keeps trying to flower.

I have acquired four teeny tiny clearance succulents, three roundy nubbly leaf boys and one stubby aloe wannabe. They're Phil, Lil, Bill, and Ted, individually, and collectively sharing one planter, I believe I have to call them the succu-bus.

[Rolan7]

My mother, moved up into the lovely mountains of our state (NC), has been struggling with groundhogs and deer.  We love deer, I dream of them often, and she is considering noise-machines to scare them off from nibbling her plants.

She has the most wonderful herb gardens, I should dig up some pictures in the morning.  She focuses on flavorful herbs and butterfly-attracting flowers rather than staple crops, but she is constantly talking about survival.  She is ready to transition her garden when everything falls apart.

And here I am cultivating a briar over my front door, placing it back against the edges when it slides off.  I love a vine <3

And I fondly remember the potato plant I cultivated.  A couple months of pollen, in my bathroom.  Up against the window.  The "fruit", the potato, was tiny and misshapen.  I would have eaten a bite - except that I feared its nightshade.  It was an experiment, it obviously lacked the nutrients to grow large and hearty.

I'm told that mom and dad's generation (and/or their parents) grew lovely gardens to supplement rations, back in a time when we did nationalism and it was... not good, but literally anti-fascist.

[martinuzz]

Best non-technological way to keep deer out of your herb garden is a hedge fence  made out of thorny brambles. It will take a few years to grow big enough to be menacing though.
I suppose the noise thingy will work as well, deer are pretty jittery.

[None]

Lost a few plants, gained a few plants more. The catnip came back squirrelly, two of the four new succulents died out. Got a few foliages, the poinsettia, lorge tentacle succulent on top (and its five pups!), the orange leafy boy on the middle shelf, two basilfriends that were unwanted flowering heads of a friend's basil plants, a single ivy plant that I propagated into five ivy plants, and little ol' Murph Jr, a pothos node I found detached from the plant patriarch in the house. Murph Jr has three leaves and I'm so proud of it.

Spoiler: happy happy family (click to show/hide)

Fungus gnats still pop up every so often, but I've defeated 80% of the problem, I reckon. Pots with drain holes help a bunch. The fam is much happier with them- I still have a few pots I really ought to drill some holes into.

Oh, and Murph Jr. sprouted a fungus at one point:

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This one I carved out. Happy to grow new friends, but I'd prefer they grow by guidance, not as surprise visitors.

[scriver]

Looks great!

Me myself have lots of stuff to show but I keep procastrinating and forghetting about it. i haven't even wrott up the results of my flax harvest! Some day now I will

[Dunamisdeos]

I need to start my garden back up.

I hope some of my bushes like blueberry and whatnot come back after the winter

[wierd]

It is too cold to do garden work at this time of year in my state.

In about another month, I will start the process of turning my soil over, and doing the needful.  It has had a whole winter to digest the absurd amount of organic matter I stuffed it full of last spring, and to suck up the fertilizer I tilled in.

It underperformed last summer, but I think this was because the soil had not produced the necessary microbial lifeforms for healthy soil yet.  It has had sufficient time to incubate now.  Once temperatures are proper, I will set out plants.

[None]

Murph Jr. sprouted another mushroom.

I'm somewhere between letting him keep the fungus as a roommate for the fun of it and worrying it'll spread spores and propagate to the other houseplants. Internet says it's harmless, fortunately. It's just... Uncanny that there's this fruiting body that sprouts up overnight in the shape and order of my houseplant ecology.

[EuchreJack]

It's probably the brother of the previous mushroom.

[dragdeler]

If the plant is healthy I'd just assume that the mycelium is either harmless or beneficial, and so long as you're not counting on eating your houseplants, and aren't disgusted by mushrooms, I think they're fine and will probably not bother you during summer.

Also I think you can relatively safely add some hydrogen peroxide to the water if you want to get rid of the funguys but not the plant, but doublecheck on that before doing anything brash.

[Dunamisdeos]

I wouldn't mind growing some mushrooms. Can you do it outside? I don't really have any inside space for that.