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johnsoninca: Switch to boxers or go commando.
And push it right
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Fark plants. Just fark them.
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So I started growing my own hops. Had 12 bines in the yard, four varieties.
Then I realized I liked gardening more than I liked brewing, so I switched. I've been an avid gardener for a little under 10 years now.
I work from home, so I have time during the day to do stuff. I basically have a small suburban farm at this point. I couldn't even begin to guess the poundage (I don't keep track). I scaled back this year and am STILL growing about two dozen different crops. In heavy years, I've had a few hundred plants in the yard, spread out between an array of raised beds, two open garden areas, and a ton of plants. If you have irrigation set up right, the hardest part is EATING it all.
Last year, I put in eight fruit trees.
I've finally grown beyond what I can handle, though. I just don't have the stamina required for my spring prep, which involves hauling in loads of fresh compost to supplement what we compost at home.
Plus my household is small. Our harvests are WAY too much, even after canning the hell out of tons of it. We are still eating butternut squash and onions from last year, and I've got more jars of pickles and jellies than I can eat in a lifetime.
I do make a mean as hall salsa, though, and every last bit comes from the garden except the vinegar. My secret: cantaloupe, fresh corn, and Jamaican yellow mushroom peppers, which are about as hot as habs but have a flavor more like Scotch Bonnets.
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skyotter: This Fandom tab was pitched as "Anything you'd expect to see at Comic-Con."
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falkone32: skyotter: This Fandom tab was pitched as "Anything you'd expect to see at Comic-Con."
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That's a really awful swamp thing.
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Night Train to Wakanda: falkone32: skyotter: This Fandom tab was pitched as "Anything you'd expect to see at Comic-Con."
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That's a really awful swamp thing.
He didn't even cut away the base for the feet
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Pack up your shiat and move to the city. Grind resources and pay people to grow food for you. When ww3 comes take the loss and die with honor. Let people who have prepped and learned to grow food survive.
Problem solved.
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The only things I bother growing from seed outside are perennial wildflowers, otherwise known as "weeds with flowers." And grass, of course.
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Shaggy_C: Growing vegetables or flowers from seed outside is a fool's errand unless you're in the deep south. Start inside and then transplant, and save yourself the heartbreak of frost, squirrels, or over-watering/drought.
The only things I bother growing from seed outside are perennial wildflowers, otherwise known as "weeds with flowers." And grass, of course.
But not so deep that you're in Florida. Gardening here with all the pests, heat, and sandy soil is infuriating. The only success I ever had was green onions and rosemary. My tomatoes fell victim to horn worm, my watermelons got some sort of moldy blight, forget about doing anything that even needs remotely cool weather, leafy greens get annihilated by the sun, just ugh.
Hydroponics is better. I have a little setup where I grow some nice lettuce in the corner of my kitchen.
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... well, okay, the seed packets won't give directions for dealing with pests that eat the seeds directly, but at some point in the process of creating and preparing a gardening bed that cannot possibly have not come up. That's "you should put up a fence that deer cannot get through" levels of obvious advice.
// I'm amazed this person managed to survive long enough to write this article, I'd have thought they'd have killed themselves and every member of their immediate family in a gigantic explosion when they tried to follow the directions on popping a bag of popcorn in the microwave a long time ago.
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And if you haven't then lifehacker is just the website for you!
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skyotter: This Fandom tab was pitched as "Anything you'd expect to see at Comic-Con."
Passionate hobbies are fine. Also, when has Fark ever held the line on anything? It is powered by amnesia and editorial nihilism.
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shoegaze99: . Our harvests are WAY too much, even after canning the hell out of tons of it. We are still eating butternut squash and onions from last year, and I've got more jars of pickles and jellies than I can eat in a lifetime.
I am pretty sure a foodbank would be happy to take your excess produce.
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skyotter: This Fandom tab was pitched as "Anything you'd expect to see at Comic-Con."
Was the Discussion tab pitched as "90 percent sports"?
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Barricaded Gunman: skyotter: This Fandom tab was pitched as "Anything you'd expect to see at Comic-Con."
Was the Discussion tab pitched as "90 percent sports"?
I'll take a few tomatoes if they can spare them,
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