What The F does your garden grow?

[border_humper]

Are you growing any cool shit this summer? I just at some sweet snap peas I grew. Also harvesting zucchini. Tomatoes and berries need a few more weeks. Also canna lillies. For some reason, canna lillies are required in every front yard here.

 

[Beers2Freedom]

We don't get enough sun in our rental yard. This year it's just basil, thai basil and cilantro(hardly growing). Our cilantro struggled last year also. I did catch a giant slug in there, so maybe that's why?

We tried potatoes last year. We got 6 little guys. So we didn't bother this year.

We had swiss chard also, but the birds ate it.

Planted carrots, but they didn't grow beyond a sprout.

Pretty pathetic attempt at gardening to be honest. It felt like a waste of water/money.

 

[border_humper]

We only ever have a couple things grow well. What’s important is getting excited for spring and getting outside.

 

[H!llb!lly]

Only thing I'm growing, I've given up on gardens because there's usually a few of these in the yard.

 

[border_humper]

Dig the lazer eyes.

 

[Hirudinea]

Look at them eyes, well, here it is.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fhy8o7ufi8

 

[ayn_rands_ghost]

I guess you make money selling the cow poo at the temple?

 

[Youngracer88]

Memes.



Wait, what kind of garden were we talking about?

 

[ChevChelios]

As an urban blow-in living in a rural area I often find it embarrassing when I see how locals are able to make their gardens flourish -- I'm like, what sorcery is this? But on the other hand...

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

Nothing new ..

Growing lots of squashes which i want to put on the road with a sign telling people caution squashes ahead and another sign to squash my squashes that or please no harm the squashes

Maybe it will make the news?

 

[border_humper]

I’ll eat a zucchini but most squash should be squashed.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

Some squash roasted and if they are young are good. But in general yeh i am not a fan so ppl can drive over em for me then i shall collect the seeds that survive and do it again the next year.

 

[Hirudinea]

I'm just the reverse, squash, yes, zucchini, fuck off.

 

[goytoy]

I'm doing an experiment growing a watermelon climbing up a sunflower

 

[border_humper]

I think it’s impossible to grow a watermelon worth eating in Canada. I hope you prove me wrong.

 

[H!llb!lly]

I've heard they can be grown in BC, I got a sister attempting this year, haven't heard how that's going. Long ago I did hear of chinamen growing square ones out there and selling them for a couple hundred a piece.

 

[antiflak]

Have eaten some from Saskatchewan, but they don't ripen until the last week of September or October, but they were pretty good

 

[DripDrop]

I grew one last year, tasted awesome, Got to about 12" length

 

[goytoy]

I grew some last year. Fresh watermelon in BC is some of the best fruit out there.

 

[border_humper]

@DripDrop Smart to put it on a tray.

 

[Beers2Freedom]

A few years back I bought an absolutely massive watermelon at the farmer's market. I was so excited.

Took it home, cut it open. It was split bad on the inside and it was all spongy. I ate some, got pesticide poisoning and was sick for days.

I was reminded of this. The shear size of the watermelon should been suspect. I brushed off my concerns because it was locally grown.

 

[Rusty Canuckleford]

The usual. Snap peas, lettuce, carrots, radishes. I bought a tall variety of snaps, but I didn’t realize how tall they would get and some of them have grown up to 8 feet. Crap. Hurry up and make some pea pods already. :/

 

[border_humper]

Mine are 8 feet. I got some crazy netting rigged up for them and the cukes. My radishes got obscene quick this year.

 

[saymyname]

i lack patience and time for growing the things. i have long since learned to cut my losses in this piece of shit shady assed yard of mine.

 

[Rusty Canuckleford]

Some vegetables can grow in partial shade, it depends how much you have.

 

[saymyname]

is more the time and patience than anything...i used to rent a plot at the community garden, but that always went sideways, so i stopped. all i really want are summer tomatoes and strawberries

 

[antiflak]

Romaine lettuces, endive, kale, collards greens, tomatoes, spinach, leafy stuff seems to like all the constant rain as of late. Waiting to see if the tomatoes will survive all the rain. Some spice or herbs, and potatoes in another plot with onions,

 

[border_humper]

collards are really bitter.

 

[ChevChelios]

I find as I get older that I really like bitter or "spicy" greens. This is especially suprising for me considering I was raised in a Scottish household and as a child ate hardly any vegetables at all (there's a reason why French fries are nicknamed "Glasgow salad")

 

[Hirudinea]

@ChevChelios

"Glasgow salad"? Never heard that one, you ever heard "Cape Breton Boxing Gloves"?

 

[border_humper]

@ChevChelios collard greens are bracing; let me know if you try them.

 

[ChevChelios]

@Hirudinea: "Cape Breton Boxing Gloves"

That's a new one to me. Quick rundown?

 

[ChevChelios]

@border_humper: I've tried collards in the past because I was given "The Joy of Cooking" as a gift back in the 90s and it featured one of the old American slave recipes for collards, ham hocks, black-eyed peas and rice, IIRC. It was pretty damn good

 

[DripDrop]

Spinach is crazy this year

 

[BeerAndOil]

I have tomatoes, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, squash, peas, green beans, lettuce, and lots of carrots.

I also tried cucumbers again, but they did not survive the transplanting stage.

It’s been a slow start here and everything is just starting to grow.

 

[border_humper]

Do you cover the brussels with anything? we did cabbage last year and had issues with some kind of moth. Apparently all brassicas you need to cover here or this moth attacks them. Do you do brussels from seed or starter plants?

 

[BeerAndOil]

The broccoli and Brussels are from seed. Started them inside in late March. This is my first time trying them. The lady at the garden store said to cover them with row cover to keep the bugs off, but I haven’t done that. Will see if it’s a problem are not.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

Anyone else let their kids do the garden. I have patches of stuff instead of rows. That is why i will have lots of squashes. I have a patch of carrots, patch of peas, patch of beats, patch of peas and beans mixed together and something else that looks like cucumbers but not sure, patch of zuchinni,tomato patch, onion patch which is fine but different, bean patches. I swear they have seen me make rows and mark stuff in the past but they had a different idea this year. I am slowly transplating this or that or thinning patches as well as moving stuff where it belongs. Wife gave em all 20 dollars a piece for seeding the garden. She wanted it to be their garden this year and well it sure is.

 

[BeerAndOil]

I don’t have kids, but when I do they will be in the garden. Some of my favourite memories are playing in the garden with my parents and grandparents.

 

[saymyname]

all my grandparents would beat my ass for my gardening skillz/lack thereof...you know...because i was taught better but dngaf....but ya...i have taken many, MANY children out to fuck around in the dirt between my own and the girl guides.whether or not i have the patience or time to do the thing, i still think its worth alot for the amount of youth i have dragged through the dirt..i'm sure it stuck with at least one or two, and thats the best thing ever if one can get them to feel a spark about anything, esp growing the things.

 

[d01tg0d0wn]

@saymyname my kids are pretty proud of their garden. They want me to stop messing with it so i have. I told them to try rows next year and they will its just the seeds were slippery and spilled lots they said.

there is always next year they arent wrong lool

 

[saymyname]

@d01tg0d0wn the experience is worth nothing money can buy. its beautiful. growing shit is extra.