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You betcha, I’m a plant girl. I’ve been a florist, then commercial plant maintenance, now at an organic only garden that rocks. Got my herbs in this planter I found for free
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I am learning... for my daughter it is one of the favorite activities we do together.
For now we only have small cacti and other seedlings. But she dreams of having flowers with flowers and I dream of growing plants that we can use to feed ourselves.
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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @alt 31 Mar
My other half takes the lead on our garden. She has a small herb garden in our kitchen, and has some seedlings for vegetables that will soon be planted outside. This year she has also started taking an interest in growing flowers to try and help our local insect populations.
I help out, and I like growing gourmet mushrooms. Last year I grew three varieties of oyster mushrooms in our second bedroom. This year I want to try growing shiitake and lions mane as well.
We have several indoor plants too. A big Amaryllis which has been going strong since Christmas, and I have a small bonsai that I tend to. Several cacti and succulents too.
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would love to see that bonsai 👀
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55 sats \ 0 replies \ @alt 31 Mar
I will take a picture of it when I get home
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @alt 1 Apr
here's a picture of my bonsai as promised:
it hasn't grown much over winter, but it will certainly need pruning within the next few weeks.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 21h
cool, looking green and happy!
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I have a yard where lots of plants grow, but I put fairly little effort into maintaining them.
Most of my gardening effort goes into a few planters on our porch. I'm going to focus on salad greens this year.
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46 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 31 Mar
Gardening is one of the things I do to keep myself sane! I also have a few house plants as well. My mom just had to go buy 6 or 7 milkweed plants cause the Monarch’s are back in HTX and they had been crushing her plants!
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Yes, both outside and inside. Probably the most meaningful one is a spider plant that my grandfather planted in a sea shell in 1970. My mother had it on her windowsill until the late 1990s. She gave it to my wife and I and we have been caring for it since. It has survived vacations, cat attacks, falls from the ledge, and looks better than ever after 55 years. I'll post a photo when I return from my travels.
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Awesome! I assume not in the shell anymore??
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No, the shell has survived all these years!
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wow so cool
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No, but I need to, thanks for the reminder
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 31 Mar
A lot! Including different seasonal vegetables too.
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I have all the plants I need to watch in my office (also wife said no more in the house) I have a Thai monsterra, split leaf philodendron, a couple hoyas. My office gets good light so they are pretty happy. I’m known as the “plant guy” when they give office tours
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Yes we grow most of our vegetables and fruit. Went for many years not buying any vegetables but these days a little less strict on it.
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Sadly we are renting at the moment but recently went to a 2 day permaculture course, hands on and theory based, honestly can’t wait to get some land and start growing.
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Hello @cryotosensei, Yes, we currently have two honeycrisp apple trees, two pear trees and one cherry tree. Our neighbor has a crabapple and cherry trees. We also have bees to make sure they get pollinated well. We had two plum trees that died from being victims of rabbits girdling them. We raise various vegetables and herbs in two self-wicking boxes and others in several (up to twelve) hydroponics boxes. We raise some potatoes in bags, too. We also raise several varieties of tomatoes, thyme, sage, rosemary, egg plants and chives and onions. We surround them in marigolds. We also have patches of red raspberries and black raspberries (the birds brought these) that we let grow without too much effort put into them (they are delicious). We also have about six hazelnut bushes, but the damn squirrels get to them before we can, all the time. They love eating the immature nuts. The soil where we live is too sandy for good root crops We do grow the milkweeds along with a lot of other wild-type flowers for the bees and butterflies.
This year we plan to go to a plant sale that has non-pesticide plants available to get all heirloom varieties of the plants. This seems to work well here. Our growing season is a bit short for a lot of things.
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I planted a walnut tree a few years ago (everyone here says that an optimistic person plants a walnut tree...it takes a long time for it to start bearing fruit). In addition, in the year my children were born, I planted 1 tree each for them (a cherry and a peach)...now I have to think about the next type of tree...any ideas?
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I do and diferent kinds ( aromatic plants, cactus, lemon tree, orchidea, ficus, flower plant and so one... )
The tricky parts are: -the summer especially for parsil, cilantro, -orchidea is to get flower back, -some flower plants that need a lot of water,
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Yes, trees, bushes, flowers, and a vegetable garden. Of late we've been trying to get our stone fruit trees going. Looking like we will have more fruit this year (2nd year with the tree).
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Yeah! We have a bunch of houseplants but I'm working outside to growing: Thai chiles Bananas Mangos Grapefruit Papaya
It's a work in progress but we have like a mini finca in the works 😅
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Do you have a small patio where you can grow some smaller plants? In taiwan, some peopled balcanied were overflowing with plants even in the city!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 31 Mar
After sprouting broccoli seeds successfully, I'm hoping to try some larger gardening experiments. The only problem is I don't have a place to garden...
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