Some things are just super easy to grow, others take so much effort its too much for the average person. But hell yeah, grow ur own food if u are lucky enough to own a garden.
Is garlic easy? Uk climate
Yeah pretty easy, have a go. Maybe a bit too mild to be ideal but if we’re talking home production that doesn’t matter much. There’s a big farm on the Isle of Wight so we can’t be too far off.
Oh i have no idea, i have never grown garlic so far.
Often you can get hardier breeds and i would expect it to be possible in the UK as longs as its not freezing.
This looks like a decent guide. Basically lots of sun, not too much water, lil bit of fertilizer and you are sure to get something.
Thank you
It’s relatively easy, because most pests won’t eat it and they are pretty frost resistant. There are winter and summer varieties, so don’t mix them up.
Wild garlic might be a better option if you’re able to forage for it.
I do walk about a lot so I’ll keep an eye out. Thanks.
I live near a garlic town and it gets fuckin hot there
Gilroy?
Lettuce and tomatoes are surprisingly good value. I’d put them top tier.
Not sure what else is really good. Beans are easy but you never get enough.
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Just got root access.
Nice one. Time to traverse the tree.
Spanning Tree?
I hear networking one of those is difficult.
Don’t paint it in red and black or it will become much more difficult.
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Fantastic garden
There are more. Just search “dacha garden” and you will find.
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Yeah, I hear the graphics are amazing!
I keep having this glitch where I’m stuck in the opening scene with the jojo cubicle. I’m supposed to get a letter telling me I’ve inherited a farm but that hasn’t happened yet, anyone else got this bug?
You can skip it if you will go to granny’s dacha anyway.
You can just take the bottom bulb from green onions, and just stick it into some dirt. Even when they’re old and the green parts are slimy. I never bother watering, and they do just fine.
You can even stick them in a glass of water to get them to freshen up a little, but without dirt for nutrients, they will thin out and die eventually.
Stop playing God!
Tomatoes works too, paprika take the seeds out dry them a week plant them (inside first), etc.
Do this with a regular onion, especially if you’ve already got one in the pantry trying to sprout. As it grows you’ll get onion greens that work just like scallions in any recipe. Let it go to seed, now you have infinite onions, but depending on your local climate and luck, leave your original onion bulb to winter, and shoot again, and it has probably split into new bulbs, so you’ll probably get 2 new onions from the plant, plus onion greens, plus seeds. Eat one bulb, and leave the other bulb to grow more onion greens.
I’ve never bothered using the seeds, I just keep a bulb or two in the pot. Been 5 years. I still buy onions if I want something like onion jam or French onion soup, where I need like 1kg of onions. But Ive never had to buy scallions, and I’ve got onion flavour all year long through onion greens (you can dehydrate them, and freeze them really easily too, to store them when you have more than you can use)
I also highly recommend throwing peas into a large tray of soil. Litteraly just grab a bunch of aluminium foil disposable oven pans if you need to, stab some holes in them with a knife, an inch or two of soil, some dried whole peas or fresh garden peas, a sprinkle of more soil or just a wet sheet of kitchen roll/paper towel on top.
You probably won’t get peas, but you’ll have tons of pea tendrils for salads. On my balcony it’s the only “salad green” I’ve had any luck growing. I have a pretty black thumb. I can’t even manage to sprout chia seeds without them moulding, and I’ve never been able to grow mint despite broad casting mint seeds directly into my garden, urging the gardening gods to spite me with weedy mint but no dice.
When I buy peas, 4/5ths go in the fridge to eat, the other 5th gets planted, and I’ll get ~10 dishes from the tendrils vs 1 dish from the peas. Nutritionally the peas have more protein, but lentils are cheap, salad is expensive, so this works for my budget.
Neighbor tried to plant potatoes. She got about six pounds worth of top and no tuber.
We spent weeks debugging and still don’t know what went wrong.
Potatoes you have to keep mounding up with dirt to force the plant to grow more roots (tubers) instead of the leafy tops.
TIL. Thanks.
Potato tubers are not actually roots. They are modified stems. So the surest way to force more potatoes is to “hill” them. In the commercial fields this is done with a huge tractor raking soil from in between planting rows and piling it up on the plants. You essentially bury the plants stem as it grows taller. Then the buds on the stem will push out stolons (horizontal underground stems.) these will terminate in tubers, aka: potatoes!
Source: did potato disease research for my PhD.
Additional edit: loose/sandy soil is critical. Too dense of soil and your tubers can’t expand well.
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Does this apply to any other root vegetables? Beets?
Warning: I am not a beet expert. But I believe beets are actual roots. Just like carrots. And I think you only get one beer per plant? Burying the stem would just make it harder for new leaves to come up.
Potatoes are pretty unique in this sense. Even sweet potatoes are not the same.
Don’t plant them too close to each other. It doesn’t work.
six pounds worth of top
Where is this neighbor located? Asking for a friend 👀
Top? No tuber?
All stems and leaves and flowers and shit. But no potatoes growing in the roots of the plants.
Thanks. Is that unusual? I always assumed potatoes were an easy grow.
That is unusual, because yeah, potatoes are easy to grow
The leafy top is called a haulm and on commercial farms the harvester has a header that removes the haulm before the main part of the harvester scoops up the potatoes. Anyone who’s played Farming Simulator is familiar with these machines, such as the Ropa Panther 2.
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The trick with garlic is to just bury it everywhere in your garden where there’s space, no need for a vegetable garden. The leaves take minimal space and digging them back up only requires making a small hole, plus they apparently keep some pests away.
It’s happy in a pot on the windowsill, doesn’t much care about soil quality, can be harvested just for the greens.
I plant it everywhere though.
Tomatoes are easy to grow! They just take a fuck ton of water.
I hear they’re much tastier than what you buy in the store.
This is accurate; grocery store tomatoes are bred for durability rather than taste. The canned tomatoes down the soup aisle are honestly better than the fresh ones in the produce section. A large pot in a sunny corner of your back porch can do a lot better than your local supermarket.
depends on who grows them, we finally started getting domestic tomatoes in stores again here in sweden and they actually smell and taste like tomatoes should.
They don’t need to use the ones that are bred for durability if the shipping takes like an hour by truck…
Here in America? If you want higher quality farm-grown produce find a farmer’s market, the supermarket is going to make the most spreadsheet friendly decision every single time.
If they are not organic they put fertilizers on them which is basically salt that makes the cells swell with water but not nutrition nor taste.
that applies to pretty much every vegetable out there.
Supposed to be even more, particularly because you can pick at peak ripeness. Store ones they pick far beyond ripe so they transport and handle better.
yes, and the same goes for pretty much every other vegetable (and fruit, for that matter) out there.
You can harvest potatoes at peak ripeness. They don’t bruise like tomatoes.
You can feed your dog tomatoes, and you don’t even have to bother with seeding!
Or fertilizer!
You don’t need a dog for this, you can do it yourself.
Cries in having no sunlight in the apartment. Mine didn’t survive the dark apartment life, so can’t confirm.
Same, friend. :(
My aloe vera plant is doing ok tho
Tomatoes and garlic, what else could you possibly need tbh
Basil, onion.
Potatoes too.
Guy next door grows potatoes in a dozen old bathtubs. He is really old and hasn’t bought any supermarket-potatoes in centuries.
Spinach, peas
Basil is also easy, lots of water, lots of sunshine
Eggs.
Btw on average, how many eggs grow on an eggplant?
Depends on how many chickens can fit on the eggplant. I think 1 is the max.
Picking up gardening at any age is a good thing not only as a way to stay active and keep your pantry better stocked but you also get a good sense of accomplishment
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Pretty sure it’s this youtuber called Pro Home Cook. He and his brother used to do home recipes with limited pantry size and tools. But he got too big and started doing fermentation, sprouting, brewing and gardening.
I need to germinate the marijuana seeds that I have
