Cp day 6 Garden addition
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by moomoohead
Todays subject on getting to know your community is Gardening. Why Gardening??? Well because I am planting mine right now and I mentioned gardening in this game in the past and had to google the plants people were planting in other parts of the world. I never ate a parsnip or rhubarb till I moved to Ireland and now grow them in my garden in America for instance.
So, I built a small garden in my yard, or more appropriately I supervised my sons building a small garden in my yard. I had to put a fence around it because there are a lot of rabbits in my yard and my dog who is a lot puppy would tear it apart. You can see a picture below.
I am an Engineer in RL and it makes me very detailed sometimes. My family rolls their eyes at this BUT I made a whole plan on what I was going to grow. You can my plan below. I am squeezing about 50 different types of plants in the garden
I Grew most of the same things in Ireland when I lived there but had to do it in a poly tunnel. Even grew corn in the tunnel. See picture below.
So, get to know your community question today. If you plant a garden what plants do you grow in it in your part of the world?[
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Where I grew up, we called those poly tunnels "Hoop Houses". My parents had several on their produce farm. Was about 35 acres of vegetables that we grew. Started most plants in peat pots in those hoop houses, then transplanted outdoors. We would sell at several farmers markets and directly to local grocery stores. I spend a lot of time as a kid and during college summers gardening. I moved away after college and am a software developer now, but my younger brother stayed and works with them and will likely take over when they retire.
Two years ago they build a huge real green house for growing flowers and direct sales - 10,000 square feet (929 square meters for non USA people).
I'm mostly vegetarian although I do eat dairy and chicken.
My favorite veggies to roast are rutabaga, parsnips, turnips and beets. I love tomatoes with mayo on bread.
We grow all of the above along with cukes, squash and zucchini. Also a lot of herbs like thyme, parsley, oregano, rosemary, etc. And no garden is complete without lots of garlic. The scapes are so delicious in most all savory dishes.
Do you have a Red Meat allergy? I have a super weird tick induced allergy to mammal. I can only have Dairy, chicken and fish
No allergy, I just don't like the taste of red meat..
I will have to pass this topic. The only thing Id plant is illegal hehe
Cool, if I ever live in a house, I will have this kind of garden!
Respect!
Oh, it's very painful question 🙂 We have 400 sq.m near the house and about 1000 sq.m 3 km away from here. Apples, pear, apricot, cherry, mullberry, walnut trees. Tulips, dahlias, few roses gladioluses (sword lilies), etc. The most square is occupied by potatoes, of course. 🙂 It's national hardworking hobby to plant potatoes. You have to grow potatoes for all family for all year needs. 😃 Besides we have tomatoes (about 120 this year), cucumbers, onions, garlic, beetroots, corn, peas, squashes, pumpkins and maybe something else. Surely, some spicies - dill, parsley, basil etc.
Spring and summer aren't easy season here 🙂 I like winter more.
Oops, I forgot strawberry and raspberry.
I think the memories of the Irish potato famine frightened the whole world into growing a years worth of potato's. I love all of the things you grpw.
A really cool garden. I love how you have everything that organised!
Here, well, I have a little place where I grow beans., tomatoes, potatoes, lettuces, cabbages, cucumbers and many more. However, this year has been impossible going there due to covid, so, only a couple of flowers and my lemon-tree this year 😃
everything is nice but here we get a plastic fence about 2 to 3 meters in height. So my rank plants such as beans and cucumbers I place right in front of the plastic fencing. its not as rigid as metal fencing but if you use cable ties to pull it tight towards existing wires it can be used even as normal fencing around your house. i experimented with hugel kulter and made a 2 x 10 feet trench that was about 1 meter deep and filled with the winters grass and leaves tomatoes did grow but I think if my ranking setup was a bit better i could have had better results. using string wires just damage a tomato and it was not as good a yield as when i just threw in potting soil in my raised beds. think will perhaps if peas dont grow redo everything this winter depending on whether i have spare money. as i have identified some errors that affect yield. also did not spray them each week with fish extract and kelp extract. that can also boost plants considerably.
I grew up on a working ranch. My family still raises 1600 cows for market a year so I guess I grow cows.
Few years ago, somewhere in Budapest on the balcony on 8th floor:
https://kepkuldes.com/image/9wkoUc
that was the full "harvest" 🙂
I'm in a high rise in LA, so I don't have a garden. But when I lived in rural northern California, I grew a lot of the stuff you have. The berries were the most fun to grow-- raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries. Especially the blueberries and strawberries, where you can get cultivars that are more flavorful for home use that groceries can't carry because they don't have shelf-life. I also grew onions, chives, and peppers, sweet and hot varieties. A small herb garden, of course. One year I tried to grow potatoes. They did fine until one week when it rained for three days straight. This brought on potato blight, the same plague that drove so many Irish from Ireland from 1845-1852. All the healthy plants withered and died in days. Two things I grew that I don't see in your garden were mint and artichokes. Artichokes are especially fun to grow, but take a lot of space.
Interesting article, although i dont have a garden of my own, it was informative to read some of the comments and when learn some new names of certain veggies. I've seen people having banana, papaya, pineapple, cashew and even mango plantations l. If i had a choice i would grow some tomato, carrot and leaves like basil at home.
I have Potatoes and Tomato's, my uncle is growing Collards, Tomato's, and Peaches.
Collards are so good for yu. I like them better than spinach or kale.
Man, I wish we had just feelgood articles like this in my country. We hear nothing from our government and if we do, it is dry as sh*t rubbish. Wonderful article, Voted, endorsed and shared
Tried to share it on my party feed, but it was removed. Seems like the powers in Belgium don't like gardening.
We have zero maintenance garden 😆 mostly tropical fruit trees like banana trees, passion fruit vine, and rambutan.