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I had a nighttime trip to a big box retailer, and found this spindly little black aeonium... It's so cute!
Your houseplants and gardens - Yellow leaf means underwatered AND overwatered?! What a country!
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This reminded me of the time a few months ago I took a trip to the local big box, and as I wandered past the plant section I overheard two women talking. I only picked up one word "monstera" and I chuckled. I felt hip knowing about that plant trend thanks to this thread.
I like the color, it's going to look great with some tlc.
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They're beautiful when they're bigger! I already have three, and, well...you can't go wrong with more!
But I have a question for the monstera-owners: how do I go from solely water to soil? I got a propagation for Christmas, and it's doing great! But, I'd like to transition it to soil, now that it has a lot of roots and three leaves (it really wanted more leaves, instead of more roots).
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Not my garden, but saw loads of this sort of thing, small trees growing up big trees, splitting then rejoining. How does that happen? Have people done this or does it happen naturally?
Loads of carpets of bluebells also:
Might as well post Wordsworth's daffodils too, though its not recent.
Scenes like this make me wonder about interfering with nature, No one cultivates these, it just happens. How do I get my little patch of earth healthy enough to be like this?
Loads of carpets of bluebells also:
Might as well post Wordsworth's daffodils too, though its not recent.
Scenes like this make me wonder about interfering with nature, No one cultivates these, it just happens. How do I get my little patch of earth healthy enough to be like this?
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That's probably a parasitic tree/ vine, and it does happen naturally. I don't know the scientific explanation for how the plant melds back into itself, though. Very cool looking!
It takes patience, trial and error and some research into your local ecosystem. Most places have local gardening clubs that will share that information online or in-person classes. In the US, your county should have an extension program that will provide guidance.
If you're European I don't know what official resources are available to you, but I do know that gardeners are a friendly bunch who are happy to share their knowledge and you should be able to find someone who'll help.
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It isn't spontaneous generation: if there aren't any daffodils in your yard, you have to put them there!Might as well post Wordsworth's daffodils too, though its not recent.
Scenes like this make me wonder about interfering with nature, No one cultivates these, it just happens. How do I get my little patch of earth healthy enough to be like this?
The keywords you want from your retailer are "naturalizing"--and 'bulk" or "landscaper" for the quantities. Find a catalog that sells daffodil bulbs by the 100 or 250-bulb sack, and plant another swath of them every year. Daffodils appreciate fertilizer, but they're fine with benign neglect,
If there's part of your yard that you have to/like to mow, you can plant bulbs there that flower in early spring. I planted blue squills (puschkinia) all over my yard and it's nice to see them come up in little blue speckles. I couldn't get violets to re-seed in the yard, but the squills (and the lily of the valley) are doing well.
I'm not a great gardener so I like the certainty of bulb flowers: you pay your money and you dig a bunch of little holes. https://www.vanengelen.com/ is the seller I've been using recently (in the US).
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You aren't interfering with nature, you are already part of nature.
Let me show you something. You see this?
Looks like normal scrubland, right? You see this and you think "Wow, what a shit desert. Yeah, wouldn't want to terraform that. Seems like a lot of messing with nature and a lot of hassle." but the thing is, that scrubland is itself unnatural. What you see in the image above is the result of taking all the megafauna out of the situation. Those shit-scrubs are there because there are no bison munching on the young ones anymore, so now nothing can grow and the scrub has choked out everything else.
Humans have already intervened. Be a good gardener instead.
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So true! Really appreciate your perspective, only watched the last video but will watch the others, really inspiring. I guess the natural state of where I am would be ancient oak forest, not much I can do about that really. All we can do is try to manage what's there now responsibly and sustainably. I'm planting a good variety for pollinators and learning more every year, so its a start.
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My sunflower seedlings are popping up. I tilled all my gardens and got them ready for planting, and already that faggot chipmunk is trying to dig up shit.
Anyone have tips for live catching chipmunks and not squirrels? I cant shoot the fucker in town and I would prefer not sealing him in alive with concrete or putting snaptraps around my building. I will kill him tho if its planting time and I haven't caught him
Anyone have tips for live catching chipmunks and not squirrels? I cant shoot the fucker in town and I would prefer not sealing him in alive with concrete or putting snaptraps around my building. I will kill him tho if its planting time and I haven't caught him
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Put up a nest box big enough for birds of prey near where the chipmunks gather. Also encourage snakes to come around by putting places for them to bask and hide like rockpiles.
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it's a nice idea but im in the middle of a city surrounded by main thoroughfares. Rabbit city here
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My sunflower seedlings are popping up. I tilled all my gardens and got them ready for planting, and already that faggot chipmunk is trying to dig up shit.
Get the biggest, scariest realistic fake owl you can find, not a small or cartoony one.
I don't think the ones with glowing eyes or moving heads work that much better than the plain plastic ones. However ones like this, that are 4ft wide with wings that move on the slightest breeze, really scare away animals. They still become less effective by the day. However, there was a goose infestation in part of my town, and they installed HUNDREDS of decoy SWANS, and it got rid of the geese as they all decided to not nest there the following year.
Also chili powder.
One of my jobs used to be to pour chili powder on top of certain plants that the ground hogs would otherwise eat. It was a weird job, but.... I never saw a groundhog eat those plants.
If you are okay with also scaring off birds and things, you can get a fake owl. They typically don't work forever as the local animals figure it out, but moving it around daily can help, and it works okay if you just need shit to not eat your seeds for a few days.
Get the biggest, scariest realistic fake owl you can find, not a small or cartoony one.
I don't think the ones with glowing eyes or moving heads work that much better than the plain plastic ones. However ones like this, that are 4ft wide with wings that move on the slightest breeze, really scare away animals. They still become less effective by the day. However, there was a goose infestation in part of my town, and they installed HUNDREDS of decoy SWANS, and it got rid of the geese as they all decided to not nest there the following year.
Also chili powder.
One of my jobs used to be to pour chili powder on top of certain plants that the ground hogs would otherwise eat. It was a weird job, but.... I never saw a groundhog eat those plants.
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If you want bulbs, you’ll need to plant them - one great way to do it is buy a load of them and then use a big drill to drill holes in the soil. Saves your wrists from all the digging. Bore hole, drop bulb, pop a bit of soil in.
Oak woodland is one of my favourite things. So peaceful and so English.
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https://www.havahart.com/x-small-2-door-trap I have one of these and it's chipmunk sized. And works. It's fiddly to set and the doors may need extra weight to close fast and to lock shut when they do. I stuck some magnets on mine.
I've always suspected that it's the sunflower smell that inspires the digging and biting off the tops (little bastards) so if you want to try a cheap method first, zip up some garlic with some water in a blender and drench the seedlings and the soil around them with it. Make two batches and let the second one ferment in the sun for a few weeks, so it's really foul. And drench again with that later.
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Im gonna go this route, I want the shithead GONE
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When I was younger I didn't understand why the farmer hated Peter Rabbit so much, but after one bumper season with an increased rabbit population.....
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This planting season I'm trying to grow a couple herbs in indoor pots. I'm not much of a gardener so I'm hoping for the best.
The display had signs up that only had Spanish on them and I was offended there was no English, as if English speakers in America don't want to grow vegetables. If this country wasn't a joke then English would be our official language and so on and so forth. /Rant
I would also like to say that Mexican food is easy and cheap to make at home.
The display had signs up that only had Spanish on them and I was offended there was no English, as if English speakers in America don't want to grow vegetables. If this country wasn't a joke then English would be our official language and so on and so forth. /Rant
I would also like to say that Mexican food is easy and cheap to make at home.
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big ass cherry tomato bush for the wife. i'm not a fan of raw tomato but she eats those things like grapes
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Self-watering pots for herbs are excellent if you can get the roots to take hold and stay there.