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@scenesbycolleen PLZ you're spamming my notifications, i doubt you even like all that shit
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@scenesbycolleen i picked a tiny zucchini cuz something annihilated the stems of my zuccini plant and i thought it'd shrivel up and die when the plant does
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@Zealist sorry, I will refrain from spamming likes on you in the future
but I am an avid gardener and also have some chickens and quite enjoy those kinds of threads
did not mean to upset you fren :blobheartcat:
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@ForbiddenDreamer @scenesbycolleen i'm not afraid to block people
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@scenesbycolleen @Zealist Don't worry, I'm gonna spam his shit for you.
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@Zealist My zucchini are doing pretty well this year so far but I'm worried about the stupid vine borers :pepereeeee:
I got a decent amount of them last year despite planting them in a less-than-great place, even got one giant one! :blobcatdance:
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@scenesbycolleen i dunno what got them, but the stems of my zucchini plants are all split open and going rotted i've gottne like three zucchinis off htem, i got other zucchini plants that are still oyung and small cucumber plants that i grew a bit later inside hte house, hoping i can get something out of them before frost *shrug*
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@scenesbycolleen but i got like 6 pumpkins approaching the size of a basketball so i guess i'll have more of that than i could eat. i wanna go bigger with my garden next year.
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@scenesbycolleen i dunno what it is, i guess i ought to take a picture of it some time, but i have been going outside less to look at things, my cherry and grape tomatoes i check more often cuz they're literlaly covered in ripening tomatoes. first time i got a handful instead of ones and twos this morning actualyl was about five total
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@Zealist :blobthinkingeyes: *is* it the vine borers? I learned that you can cut into the stems and pull them out (and feed them to the chickens! :pepereeeee:), and then cover the stems back up, but not all will survive that, and I still missed a bunch last year. The pumpkins were more affected than the zucchini for me, but the pumpkins were easier to cut into and then bury the stem (a bit tougher with the zucchini).
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@scenesbycolleen i started 3 small casperita pumpkin vines indoors and have htem out back in one of those raised beds, once they start growing out and beocming vines, i plan to throw them over hte sides, cuz i got cabbage and spinach seed in that bed wwaiting for the right moment to sprout, i've bene using slow release NPK spikes to fertilize stuff cuz i dunno shit about anything
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@Zealist Aw that's awesome! I canned a bunch of pumpkin (and acorn and butternut squash, but a LOT of pumpkin) last year and I *still* have cans even though I've been trying to use them lol
This year, I even started some *BLUE* pumpkins :blobaww: but it's still early in the growing season here so I have no idea what I'll get
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@scenesbycolleen my grape tomato plant is really ambitious it's got a cluster of tomatoes that is like over 2 dozen tomatoes just hanging there growing and tons of other clusters of 5-10
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@Zealist aw yay! :blobaww:
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@scenesbycolleen my understanding is those plants hate hot weather so understand that it's time to get seed going, and take off to do just that, but in fall and spring they seem to do better, BUT i dunno i just read that so take that ofr what it is.
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@Zealist awesome!
ughhhh my cabbage and spinach bolted - I was able to get some greens out of it anyway but I had maybe a week of "spring" between winter and summer this year so I don't think the plants liked that very much.
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@scenesbycolleen @Zealist last year my tomatoes got big, leggy, and retarded before i could plant them outside
this year they stayed tiny and took forever to get going
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@skylar @scenesbycolleen my tomatoes are dominating the bed, tho they might be giving the peas and beets enough diffused sunlight to stay alive despite how hot it is.
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@Zealist oh that's definitely the problem, but with such short summers here the suggestion is to start them ASAP, so I did, and then it went from "too cold to plant" to "80 degrees HAHAHAHA"
lol, it happens :blobcatdance:
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@skylar @scenesbycolleen also got two canteloup vines that are sorta blending into the pumpkin past htat air con.
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@skylar @scenesbycolleen honestly i'm sorta convinced the thing i'm gonna have too many of is pumpkins, but that vine is an heirloom so i plan to save seeds and hand them out to friends and family who wouldn['tmind growing a pumpkin, cuz i'm only planting a couple of those next year, i don't need so many pumpkins, i never evne ate pumpkin, but i've vowed to eat anything i grow, and so far i've found that after my life hating tomatoes, that they're ok, and uh, that's about it i guess, LOL
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@Zealist @scenesbycolleen my tomatoes got taller than me last year, i made about 60 pints of tomato juice from them and i'm just reaching the end of it as green tomatoes are starting to form this year
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@skylar @scenesbycolleen my next big project is storage tote potatoes i'll take some picture some time in the future, the potatoes are ALMOST ready to go, i'll put everything itno some soil in a storage tote after my sweet potato slips are ready to be pulled off.
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@scenesbycolleen @skylar most of my issues is just never being able to get what i need because right away when i need it.
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@skylar @Zealist lol it's always something
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@scenesbycolleen @CatLord i've ordered a dozen buff orpingtons from a farm that's a few cities over cuz that's only place i could find them, i'm getting chicks next month to raise, next year i will buy a orpington rooster and start breeding htem.
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@CatLord @Zealist :hmrichard:
Ok they're not all in the picture but here's some chimkens :blobheartcat:
chimkenz
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@scenesbycolleen @Zealist show chicken
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@scenesbycolleen @skylar i have a bad habbit of giving up on seeds in trays, that didn't sprout, so i dump them in that long wooden bed there, and they come up, ig to onions and carrots in there cuz i gave up, and those two potted cucumber plants there are also ones i didn't think were going to come up lol
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@Zealist @skylar oooh very nice :blobheartcat:
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@scenesbycolleen @skylar i've acutally given a lot ofwaht i've picked the 1s and 2s to my mother cuz i didn't know what to do with it at the time, not enough of anything to can or jar, and i didn't feel like eating it right away, sidesit was just zucchini and tomatoes, i've had plenty of those
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@scenesbycolleen @skylar next year in addition to pumpkins i want butternut squash spaghetti squash, more of everything else i've planted already, i think someone is gonna ultiamtely check my ambitions by how much i'm going to bea llowed to till upbut who knwos, someone told me, always be planting ot preparing to plant whenit's growing season cuz you don't want everything to come ripe at once nessicarily
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@Zealist @skylar tomato paste + pumpkin (not puree) surprisingly makes a very nice pasta sauce that *seems* like tomato but is fruitier and doesn't have the texture that a lot of people dislike about tomatoes
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@scenesbycolleen @CatLord i've heard that opringtons are really docile and can practically be treated like pets. which is why i wante dhtem
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@scenesbycolleen @Zealist :blob_eyes: do 2 of them have saddles on?
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@CatLord @Zealist so the Brahma (the black-feathered ones) ladies are bigger and like to pick on the Orpington ladies so yes, they get saddles to protect the feathers (though one has blucote or however that's spelled because it was pecked on the shoulder feathers as well :cryingcat:)
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@Zealist @skylar be allowed to grow? HOA or something?
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@scenesbycolleen @skylar not my property grandpa isn't gonna let me till up infinity of his yard
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@Zealist @CatLord They're pretty nice. I'm glad these two roosters are fairly nice to each other. The brahmas are also nice, but they do pick on the orps a bit.
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