Gardens!
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Not sure that there is many gardeners on MSB, but you never know!
But this year gardening where I am is crazy crazy. We are at 90 degree heat despite it being 2 weeks before alleged last frost, in a drought and already have red flag fire days. I think we are going to have an intensely hot summer.
I have some spring cool weather crops going, thankfully in the shade!
But his year 2 weeks before last frost and I am going right to warm season crops and wondering if It will get toooo warm for things like tomatoes!
I think I am going to hyper focus on the hot weather plants that normally are more suited to hotter areas.
And I want to focus on food crops as I am worried about food shortages or even just rising food costs.
So I am hyper focusing on
Peppers, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Summer Squash, Winter Squash, beans, etc.
And then of course herbs which many can double as medicines and at this rate, I am not sure they will not be a medicine shortage. I got tons and tons of oregano going much came back from last year - which is anti-viral, because at this rate one never knows.
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@kk I am jealous. Living in an apartment, I don't have a place to do any of that.
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@kk I only have a balcony but I make use! I have some 'maters growing from seed and from buried 'maters from the previous year, an old litter box where i grow chamimile, clover and black velvet nostroicantspellthisflower. Some rescued Xmas trees. Lavender, A lemon tree from my grandparents garden, fresno peppers, a few pot plants and soon a variety of jalapenos and other peppers.
Oh and herbs! Basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary.
My balcony gets a ton of sun, so yeah.
Sad i didnt realize until like last year that I had a gree thumb, growing up my mom made me do all the parts of her garden hobby she didnt wanto as chores. So i hated even the Idea of gardening for nearly 40 years.
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@macha You have a balcony? Y ou can de it! Super rewarding for my dopamine lack.
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@wretched I have a patio. Unfortunately, I also have some asshole neighbors that routinely steal/knock things over. We've put up a camera to try and stop it, but.. such is life. We're trying to move. We're hoping to find a whole house/half a house, something with some room for that sort of things.
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I have a lot of space, a plant obsession and autistic tendency to do things in this over the top way. Like I don't know how to get into things just a little bit. I can take it too far even with my plants. I might post some pictures if I can get them sized for msb or get unlazy enough to do so!
But I am Growing!
Herbs: Rosemary, Lavender, Parsley, Cilantro, Lovage, Oregano, Thyme, Calendula, Dill, Sage, Mint, Chervil, Winter Savory, Tarragon, Horehound, Lemon Balm, Basil, Chamomile, Cone Flowers (Echinnea) , Fennel, Sorrel, Rue
(I am growing several kinds of most, because I have no plant self-control!)
Nightshades
Tomatoes, Peppers, Tomiltilos, Huckleberries, Eggplant, Potatoes.
Brassicas
Cabbage, Collards, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussle sprouts, Kale
(we will see how they hold up in the heat - but most are in shade we will see!)
Legumes
Peas
Beans hopefully will start this weak - pole, bush, dry and snap
Root Veggies
Beets, Radishes, Carrots
(I haven started parsnips, rutabags, turnips yet and now wondering if it will be too hot!)
Greens
Spinach, Lettuce, Mustard, Chard, Argula
Cucurbitaceae
Cucumbers, Summer Squash, Winter Squash, Water melon, Melon
(I have bitter melon and luffa seeds - normally hot hot plants - but with the way the temps are going to think now might be the time to start!)
Other
Okra
Then I cam going to hopefully get corn going soon as it does pretty good in hot and dry, but I need to dig out space for it.
Berries
I just got strawberries going - but considering getting some berry bushes, but I need to dig out spaces for them!
Onions
Chives, Scallions, Garlic, Leeks, Onions
I got raised beds, containers and in ground gardens! Shade and sun places.
I have issues though and work myself too hard sometimes and go too far, like I am like I need to grow everything and fill up as much space as possible.
Then growing - marigolds, pansies, will do nastriums and sunflowers I do edible flowers,, pest repelling flowers or can be a bean trellis flowers!
I have irises because well they are all over here and I kept them!
At least I am ready for food shortages.
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One thing that is crazy to me about gardening is if I went by the gardening guides based on traditional gardening wisdom for this area, I would be out there trying to seed cool weather crops right now.
It is 90 degrees with no upcoming rain and temps between 70-90 highs all week. This is not normal
But one has to adjust
And I am putting peppers in the ground like I live In California or something now!
Climate change is changing the gardening rules!
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My expectation would be that rapid weather changes will harm crops that reliant on particular weather conditions whether that's hot or cold but if you have space and time, best way to find out is to just plant them and find out.
I just got strawberries going - but considering getting some berry bushes, but I need to dig out spaces for them!
I used to have blackcurrant, redcurrant and raspberry bushes. They were pretty nice since they required essentially 0 maintenance and all you needed to do was collect the ripe berries during the summer which you could then make into jam or juice.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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It has been unseasonably warm here rather than rapidly changing. However climate change does cause rapid weather changes and so we we will see what happens.
I was worried about my woody herbs that were coming back early - that if dropped back too cold, it would kill them. While they can survive the winter, I think it being spring and then winter again rapidly would confuse them. That didn't happen and they are doing well.
I am seriously considering raspberry bushes. Raspberries are my fav food.
And I never had currants, but am curious about them! But now I might look into them.
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This is my garden so far for this year:
https://imgur.com/gallery/C89ETo4
LOL. Also deleted my other post because I saw you were already doing my recommendations!!
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I want a garden so badly. I even HAVE a balcony that I could make use of. Unfortunately my upstairs neighbors are filthy assholes that like to dump shit over their balcony... right onto mine.
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Apparently my upstairs neighbors got some new plants! I found out when they overwatered them and sent a bucketful of water down onto me on the patio.
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I don't have a whole garden, but I do have a pair of jalapeño plants sitting on my back porch that are doing quite well. My yard is far too muddy and constantly getting drowned by rain to attempt a garden without installing some of those nifty raised boxes, and that costs money that I don't currently have.
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I REALLY want to garden but we have to figure out our outside space first. This house is old, so it's likely that there's some lead paint chips in the ground from the siding at some point (it's got vinyl siding now but that was clearly slapped over some old wood shingles) so planting in the ground is very iffy. We get SO MUCH SUN on the side of the yard that has some grass that I really want to build a raised planter, but it's also the only yard space my kids have to play in right now until we can find the money to tear down the huge old garage in the backyard that I hesitate to take up more space over there.
Also so many chipmunks and bunnies. We planted tulips the first year we were here and we have not seen ANY of them because as soon as they come up they get eaten! Even fox pee doesn't keep them away!
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@quinn Lead isn't really bioavailable to plants, so if you wash your vegetables well it's almost certainly fine. Chuck a lot of phosphorous-bearing fertilizers in that soil and and it'll bind the lead to stable, insoluble.
Probably those chipmunks dug up your tulip bulbs and ate them before they even came up. Happens to me with squirrels. Then I'd find a tulip blooming in a random spot in the woods nearby.
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@il-volpe Thank you for teaching me something new today! (the fertilizers and lead stuff)
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Thats just some of my pics, lots of it is from seed, some started in feburary and I am very proud of those some of those plants.
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