My veggies didn't grow. Gonna try again in the summer.
Official Coli Gardening Thread..Vegetables/Fruits/Herbs/Spices..Freshest Thread Ever
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DrBanneker
Space is the Place
You can start cold weather stuff like collards or broc as early as late March depending on the weather.
Black Cher
All Star
I want to have a homestead when I get a house. I want a lot of farm animals like goats and sheep but I don't want to use them for anything. Is that even possible lol? I guess it'd be like my own personal zoo...
Collards and broc sound good. My favorite veggies.
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
By far the best thread I've seen on this site....
Veggies, fruits, herbs & spices are all attrubited to living a healthy life. You want to be able to live longer by what you eat. You need to understand what veggies and fruites..etc are natural and what's chemically put together to pass as fruits and veggies. No person on this planet should eat starch base foods whether's that potatoes...well the red potatoes are fine, but the white, russet potatoes, SWEET potatoes, CARROTS (sometimes I fall victim when I juice...I haven't in awhile though). I remember my grandfather saying the shatike mushroom is starchy too. Too much starchy foods can lead to diabetes. You must take in akaline forms of veggies and fruits.
A good list Dates of course, cantaloupe, apples, burro bananas (not that GMO bananas lol), mango, bell peppers, cucumbers, letture (no iceberg), kale (grows all year around), avacado (not for me though), my grandmother used to grow dandelion greens, mushrooms (no shytake), plum tomatoes (cherry okay), pears, peaches and plums...etc. This is just off the top. All of these foods are alkaline. Helps cleanse your system and helps balance your blood and its purity. Anybody that studied biology remembers the PH scale, water tends to stay around 5-7 on ph scale. Anything above 7 is akaline and anything below 7 is acidic. Foods that are acidic especially in some veggies and fruits put your health at risk. You are more perceptible to diseases with acidic base foods.
Also, my grandmother used to grow basil, bayleaf, cumin (), sage, onion, garlic, thyme...etc Dill is great too.
KEEP YOUR FOOD ALKALINE...DON'T LET THEM TELL YOU ANY DIFFERENT
Do you not eat meat, poultry, fish?
Do you take any vitamins?
My understanding is the reason why we over eat in our society is because the processed foods have no nutritional value that will keep us feeling full. So I think a lot of people see these healthy options and wonder how not only their taste buds will be satiated, but hunger suppression will be dealt with.
Anyone care to speak on this??
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
Not sure if it's been mentioned but a weak solution of water and dawn dish soap is all you need to get rid of the vast majority of flies/insects from your plants. just spray throughout and you're good.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
not gonna lie brehs, this shyt makes me happy to see. Few things are as personally satisfying as the first time you harvest something you've grown and nurtured with your own hands, in your own soil (no matter how small of a plot) and then eating it and realizing how certain foods ACTUALLY TASTE, not how we've been programmed to THINK it tastes.
the regular tomatoes were terrible this year b/c of the rain etc but my peppers were truly something else. The texture was so crisp with a subtle sweetness. NOTHING like the shyt the stores want to charge you $2.50+/lb for. Not only that but the plants were absolute champs. I didn't even space them out enough but it didn't matter. They bunched up and it was almost like I had a pepper bush.
im going to be putting up a new fence sometime early next year. planning on experimenting with the upside down tomatoes in order to save space. will also be trying beans/sweet peas. anything that will grow attaching to the fence. we don't have huge yards in chicago so i don't want to take up too much green space with large beds etc. eventually im going to be flagrant as hell and plant the little strip of land between the street and my sidewalk, technically city property but it's not like they'll care
....full sun all day...might have to offer free shyt to the neighbors just so they dont complain 
the regular tomatoes were terrible this year b/c of the rain etc but my peppers were truly something else. The texture was so crisp with a subtle sweetness. NOTHING like the shyt the stores want to charge you $2.50+/lb for. Not only that but the plants were absolute champs. I didn't even space them out enough but it didn't matter. They bunched up and it was almost like I had a pepper bush.
im going to be putting up a new fence sometime early next year. planning on experimenting with the upside down tomatoes in order to save space. will also be trying beans/sweet peas. anything that will grow attaching to the fence. we don't have huge yards in chicago so i don't want to take up too much green space with large beds etc. eventually im going to be flagrant as hell and plant the little strip of land between the street and my sidewalk, technically city property but it's not like they'll care
....full sun all day...might have to offer free shyt to the neighbors just so they dont complain
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
not gonna lie brehs, this shyt makes me happy to see. Few things are as personally satisfying as the first time you harvest something you've grown and nurtured with your own hands, in your own soil (no matter how small of a plot) and then eating it and realizing how certain foods ACTUALLY TASTE, not how we've been programmed to THINK it tastes.
the regular tomatoes were terrible this year b/c of the rain etc but my peppers were truly something else. The texture was so crisp with a subtle sweetness. NOTHING like the shyt the stores want to charge you $2.50+/lb for. Not only that but the plants were absolute champs. I didn't even space them out enough but it didn't matter. They bunched up and it was almost like I had a pepper bush.
im going to be putting up a new fence sometime early next year. planning on experimenting with the upside down tomatoes in order to save space. will also be trying beans/sweet peas. anything that will grow attaching to the fence. we don't have huge yards in chicago so i don't want to take up too much green space with large beds etc. eventually im going to be flagrant as hell and plant the little strip of land between the street and my sidewalk, technically city property but it's not like they'll care
Do you have any substantial greenspace in front yard or no?
Had a neighbor once that grew all types of vegetables on his front yard, but to make it look less like a garden, he planted nice looking bushes and flowers in front, so from the street it looked landscaped, but behind it were vegetables growing.
Be careful of them dogs when you plant it.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
yeah i think if i did that it would have to be on a raised bed. 95% of my neighbors have tiny ass dogs and ppl are generally pretty good about leashing them and not letting them go crazy on other's lawns.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
Superstar
Nope. That's the tradeoff living in Chicago...standard Chicago lot is like 30 X 125. I think what I'm going to do is just plant herbs in front since they dont take up as much space. I'm going to resist the urge to plant too much in front for now b/c of time constraints. I also don't want the front have too much foliage in front as it may attract pests (we already have possums/raccewns/skunks in the area - we're not too far from a large park).
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
CreepyMcCreeperson
Veteran
Since I’ll be home indefinitely, I’m thinking of getting started on my gardening.
Last year I had Cherry, Roma, and Campari tomatoes, one pepper plant, and cucumbers, with a couple of herbs in porch planters.
I’m not doing peppers this year, because they were not worth the amount of time, or the yield. By the time they turned red, they were rotted. I did cucumbers from seed, and they did well, but I need a bigger trellis this year, since cucumbers want to grow like Jack And The Beanstock.
I bought the Roma and cherry plants, but I did the Campari from seedlings I made from a slice of Campari tomato. I’m assuming Home Depot and Lowe’s may mot have the plants out since things are pretty much shut down here. So I’m going to buy some various tomatoes, and start seedlings this weekend. I can get cucumber seeds at the store.
What else is easy to grow from seeds? And do I have to replace the dirt from last year with new dirt in the raised bed?
Last year I had Cherry, Roma, and Campari tomatoes, one pepper plant, and cucumbers, with a couple of herbs in porch planters.
I’m not doing peppers this year, because they were not worth the amount of time, or the yield. By the time they turned red, they were rotted. I did cucumbers from seed, and they did well, but I need a bigger trellis this year, since cucumbers want to grow like Jack And The Beanstock.
I bought the Roma and cherry plants, but I did the Campari from seedlings I made from a slice of Campari tomato. I’m assuming Home Depot and Lowe’s may mot have the plants out since things are pretty much shut down here. So I’m going to buy some various tomatoes, and start seedlings this weekend. I can get cucumber seeds at the store.
What else is easy to grow from seeds? And do I have to replace the dirt from last year with new dirt in the raised bed?
DrBanneker
Space is the Place
Okra is pretty easy and I have done carrots from seed as well though they were small as all hell. Peppers too but you ain't doing that.
Believe it or not, I know someone who grew corn from a kernel in their garden. shyt looked mad funny but all that room for one ear of corn
CreepyMcCreeperson
Veteran
Okra is pretty easy and I have done carrots from seed as well though they were small as all hell. Peppers too but you ain't doing that.
Believe it or not, I know someone who grew corn from a kernel in their garden. shyt looked mad funny but all that room for one ear of corn
The people down the street had some corn stalks. I was shocked at first, because they were so random, and this is not a rural environment, but they are gone, so needless to say, corn is not easy or worth the space.
I had a radical idea years ago to grow pumpkins, but then I came to my senses. Sometimes, just being in Home Depot gives you extremely aspirational ideas.