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The Wilds and You: Gardening Topic!
Hi there! Names chi! Im almost certainly NOT a gardener, but with this thread, hopefully we all might get a little more in touch with our WILD side. Hah, get it?
No?
Mkay, moving on.
Essentially, this is just sort of a superthread for gardening related stuff! Im gonna post gardening related photos over the course of my summer, and hopefully others will join in if they’re getting up to something wild!
See you on the flipside!
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I love gardening, but this year with our third child, my wife and I decided not to plant anything.
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I am wildly impressed by your garden plot and your ability to motivate yourself outside of the house. HOW???
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well, my family definitely assist, but i play guitar and sing at farmers markets every saturday from 8am to about noon, so i find plant and spice merchants all over there. Helps me keep reminding myself to pick stuff up when they’re available.
Other than that, my dad was an avid gardener, and my mom loves flowers to an unreasonable degree, so i eventually took to it, and once i did its been so fun to pick stuff and watch it grow and then cook it that ive just never gone back
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Not much of a gardener, but I work as a camp counselor over the summer and we have a garden there. Apparently, the camp has been working on a new fence.
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I’ll take an updated pic of my wee plants tomorrow once it’s light out. These forget-me-nots do not want to go down without a fight.
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Actually, good point: should this be in creationary, rather than elsewither? @Catherine dont suppose you mind moving this topic?
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thanks!
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Okay, so a bit longer than I’d intended, but plants!
The petunias (the middle one) didn’t fair so well when I went out of town for a couple days, but the pansies and forget-me-not are fighting the good fight. I cut the grass planter out (to the left of the pansies) because the lack of dirt from being attacked/monched upon finally took its toll.
Seeds of supposing take two! Two tiny sprouts, haven’t changed much in size, but they’re there!
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ooo. looks like you’re already taking off running. Impressive!
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It’s getting past this stage that’s the trick.
Also, helps that I don’t have to wait for the Big Thaw
to start. Oh, and I haven’t forgot about sending that new set of Beans of Remembering up to the AG office, since the first two sets seemed not to like the cold very much. (And I’ll probably start the final set here as a safeguard so at least one will hopefully grow) And I’ll send a copy of the actual directions rather than what came in the box.
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mhmh. months of continued work, over and over tends to get some people really bored. Gardening requires a real solid amount of concentration and dedication to the craft, for sure.
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I’ve just started to water my cacti again, now that things have mostly thawed, but I’m expecting another cold snap, so I’m cautious about planting my Seeds of Supposing (that’s what the empty pot is for. I might kill them if I plant them now).
Audrey doesn’t seem to appreciate being watered so I’ve let her be. Maybe she eats spiders or something? The cats seem to be scared of her so she keeps my other plants safe.
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Got an herb kit for christmas and they’re my pride and joy!! They just got new pots a couple weeks ago and they are thriving. Also featured is my lil succulent who I will be taking cuttings from and repotting when I get back from visiting my family in Chicago!
Not pictured: the orchid I managed to kill in only like two months
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Some orchids are surprisingly resilient. I had one once that looked like it died several times, I think one time it came back with like 20+ flowers on it (if I recall correctly I called them my hurricane flowers because they came up right around/after a hurricane).
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Yeah I think it was a combination of bad placement on my part (too cold, then too much sun) and no drainage in the pot it came in but all the leaves fell out and the stalk where they came out of was all black and moldy which did not look too promising…
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eesh, almost sounds like you drowned it, too. how much water did you give it?
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Those blue pots are so pretty! I need to get matching pots for my plants now…
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Pots are plastic and were like $3!! They are cheap and cute and get the job done! And @Cj_Heighton I don’t think I watered the orchid enough actually? But honestly have no idea
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Huh. I just half assumed that you drowned it due to the rot being present. Usually that happens due to condensation or mildew, unless maybe its humid where you are… weird.
Im gonna be running to a gardening center soon, come sunday, and im currently bidding on two batches of chives. Wish me luck!
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I’m thinking of heading to the garden section of a store on my walk today, need more places to put plants.
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Pics will have to wait until tomorrow at some point, but got new pots, put the pansies and forget-me-not in the one I had enough dirt to fill (and shoved another set of seeds of supposing in the middle for the heck of it).
Cleaned out the panda of the grass remains, rinsed out the eggs that had the transplanted flowers in them, and put sage, rosemary, and a paper fish filled with catnip seeds that came as a freebie at some point.
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I won the chives :0!
Gonna go buy em tomorrow at 10:30 am!
I FAILED TO BUY THEM CAUSE I WOKE UP TOO LATE ;3;
gonna go again on tuesday.
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Got a new peppermint! Pics when I get home.
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Update: My next door neighbors are getting bees (which I am disproportionately excited about), so my family and I planted two bags of mixed “Bee Feed” wildflower mix in part of our yard adjacent to theirs. It was a fun little gardening project to do with my two older children (5 and 3 years old).
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BEES
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I came home after two shifts yesterday to find a little potted violet plant.
and a bunny tin of cookies, but that’s not exactly relevant to the topic at hand-
I’ve always wanted violets but the climate is too dry
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Where did you get your mint?
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I have a main plant and I took cuttings from that.
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Oh wow, that’s really cool that it can just sprout roots like that! Of course, I’m also amazed by really random things that maybe I shouldn’t be. I’ve been wanting to get my hands on some peppermint for a while now, though I haven’t really looked into it too much.
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I got more dirt and seeds for my other two pots.
And it’s moisture control dirt, which will hopefully make up for what is likely one of my primary gardening issues.
Adding: the seeds I got are cleome, moss rose, and 4 o’clock, but I’m having second thoughts on that last one now that I’m reading about them being toxic…
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I just got news that we’re buying new soil for the garden! I can finally grow something besides Swiss Chard! Maybe I’ll even attempt pumpkins this year. Last year I tried to grow things but the dirt is awful so most plants grew up scraggly and never grew vegetables. Only the radish and Swiss chard did well.
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Sel, id recommend tossing your soil at least twice a week in the days leading up to planting, uprooting all weeds or roots you find. I myself do it upwards of 4 times a week. Also, buy worms for your soil. It helps really make the soil more fertile and usable.
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Some sage advice for those looking to do veggie planting. This is a system thats been used since the early 1500s, i believe.
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Does anyone have any tips for making a cutting of my succulent? It has bunch of aerial roots and is clearly ready to leave the nest, but I’ve never done it before and don’t want to kill it on accident
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to start. 
