growing & farming thread

[Hell Mike]

and then everything boka vm kaos

 

[Ellestin]

small house and garden or at least a gardening spot at my late grandma's house, should my parents keep it for a while, is definitely on whenever I move back to the Auvergne.

No plans yet as what to grow but I guess salad, scallion, carrots and tomatoes, onions will join the party, raspberries maybe and definitely a selection of aromatic herbs.

 

[NAD]

Anybody ever get horn worms on their mater plants? Fuck those things!

 

[MFJ]

you motherfuckers dont know SHIT about horn worms. i used to have to work in 120 degree F greenhouses that were actual jungles of tomato plants. naturally you are ducking and wading your way trough hundreds of plants all day. i won't even mention the huge yellow garden spiders, but usually like 10 times every week I would come face to face with those motherfucking horn worms. Had them go in my eyes/ears, up my nose, and at one point I got freaked out when one landed on my neck and I splattered it all over my fucking head/neck/shoulders. this is what i am talking about:

also usually this type:

 

[einride]

lmao

those are pretty bad ass

was out digging tons of dirt today, maybe one of these days we'll see some actual planting action

 

[NAD]

My first encounter with a horn worm, I didn't WTF it was but it was a big fucker that had just decimated two tomato plants in less than 24 hours. It seemed slow, so I plucked off the branch it was residing upon, at which point the fuckin' thing reared its head 'round toward me, clicked menacingly several times, and then I chucked it into a faraway land. It did look delicious, but I haven't eaten one yet.

 

[dorian gray]

I chucked it into a faraway land.

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

We're having to look after the garden while my fiance's brother is in Europe for a couple of weeks.

James waters in style!

 

[neal]

as a child my mother actually encouraged me to find and kill/torture/burn/throw/etc those green horny worms because they are garden eating bastards and she hated them with malicious intent

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Speaking of garden pests...does this adorable, tiny little frog pose any danger to a garden? If anything I think he'd help by eating insects. There's no way I was gonna throw him out

 

[MFJ]

nah, they won't bother you. love those little toads!

i've recently got myself into some fungiculture. currently doing a shiitake/oyster mushroom grow. i'll post some pictures as soon as there's something cool to look at. thinking about starting a business/"farm" and growing mushrooms for a living. any of you european guys been foraging before?

 

[MFJ]

i've grown these at the farm where i work, but doing it at home is a whole different story. i have properly invested in humidifiers/heat mats/moisture chambers/etc though. fucking pink oysters are the BEST

 

[neal]

in the past i had roommates that grew mushrooms but they werent shiitake ifyaknowwhatimean

 

[MFJ]

erik- do any swedes grow corn on a commercial scale?

 

[einride]

yeah, unfortunately

not up here though, i don't think. it's probably too cold to grow corn effectively. down in the south, yeah. but fairly little compared to wheat, rye, etc etc etc

 

[einride]

btw some kind of fuckin worms have been eating nearly all of my daikon radishes >:[

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Our okra plants are turning into MONSTERS and producing so much okra, oh my. Okra

 

[Tide In Mind Out]

Okra's still dominating the lil garden; the plants are about 5 feet tall now. Caught an okra flower in bloom the other day.

 

[einride]

:hotjump: ~ ERIK'S CHILE PEPPER BLOG ~ :hotjump:
zero-budget gardening​

so for this year's chile crop, today i'm building a "greenhouse" or whatever for indoor use and artificial lighting (because when you live in sweden, natural light [to the extent that it even exists] just ain't enough)

i bought this shit old cupboard/whatever you guys'd call it, $18

took it apart, sanded it off, i just started painting it white (i'm fucking sanding and painting in my living room with hardwood floors, a grand total of zero shits have been given. hail satan.) right now i'm waitin for this shit to dry.

when i'm done with paintin' i will put in these two 18W fluorescent tubes in the ceiling and use this programmable digital timer to give my li'l chiles the 14 hours of light a day they so crave. $6 or so for both new tubes. the fixtures i found in a dank-ass dilapidated little house on our summer cottage property, they are 1987 vintage and have probably been chilling in there with the vole shit and mold since then but they were unused in packaging and they work fine)

stay tuned for the exciting follow-up post

 

[NAD]

That's pretty awesome. I especially liked the part about Satan damning all things regarding proper care of hardwood flooring.

I still dream of having a real garden, for the last several years our tiny backyard consists of only a few sizable pots for a few maters, one cayenne pepper plant, and random herbs. Usually my wife does all that stuff anyhow so even if we had several acres, a sizable bankroll to sustain ourselves and ensure a wonderful organic plot, I'd likely still be indoors drinking bad beer as she busts her tits off chasing down hornworms, teenagers, and other vermin.

Armchair planting ftw.