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caleod · 27 days
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2-3-24
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summerwages · 5 days
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overnight success..
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oldfarmhouse · 1 month
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🍃sustainable living
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“Mother Nature's Heart” ~ Photography by Brian Knott
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sunshine-gumdrop · 3 months
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Here's Johnny!!
My customization attempt of John Seed! Also, here are the rest of the seedlings and the judge deputy.
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balkanradfem · 3 months
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So, I decided I could start onion seeds early. I've never started onions from seeds, and my seeds are just the ones I've collected from an onion in my garden (if they grow for 2 years, they make a flower, and then the seeds are inside).
First I had to find some good containers, and this is where I got side tracked. I've been collecting plastic cups and food containers for years now, and I've just been putting them in the basement, not realizing how much I've got. So I grabbed all of the storage boxes and decided to see what I have. This is the sight that greeted me:
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I became a little concerned, in anyone else's home this many containers would be considered garbage, but when I think more about it, it's a good thing for me to have them. I never bought any of these, I've gotten them from roommates, been given some as a gift, from people trying to get rid of them, some I've just found in the forests and creeks, some I've found in the trash and saved. While they're all with me, they're not in a landfill, and I'm dreaming of one day having a big garden that can feed lots of people, and at that point, it would be so great to never be out of little seedling pots.
I spent some decent time sorting these out in categories and stacking them to make them more manageable, these are the categories:
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At this point I went to research how growing onion from seed works; I found out a lot! Firstly, they need to be planted very shallow, half of an inch. They should be started 8-10 weeks before planting outside, that also works out great, I can plant them out in March. They will germinate in one week, and sometimes their tops are stuck in the soil, and will stop them from growing; in that case it's best to cut the top off, than to pull it out. The plant is so fragile, you're likely to pull it all out. Cutting the top off will not hurt them, but make them grow more straight. I also found out that onions decide to bulb once they calculate that there's more than 10 hours of sun in the day, how cool! That's also why its important to start them early, and give them a good start before the days become long enough for them to go into bulb mode.
So last year when planting, I've been mixing some forest soil, old soil and sand into my planting mix, because that made the soil very light and airy, and I thought it would be good for the little plants. I've however noticed, that the plants were not doing great in that soil, even though they did succeed, it took them longer than usual. I've decided to just go with pure forest soil this time, no mixes or additions, that way it will have the max nutrients and I think it's what my plants are looking for.
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These are the containers I've chosen; I've also put them in these big transparent cake containers, because when I close them up like that, water cannot evaporate out, and they're kept in high humidity, which will help the germination. After they start growing, I'll put them in normal trays.
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I've decided to experiment a bit so for the left one, I put exactly one single seed in each space, but in the second one, I've peppered a lot of seeds, just to see what happens. I can always thin them out if a lot of them grow. Once on top of the soil, I've sprayed them with water gently, and then peppered some more soil on top so they're safely surrounded with soil.
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And now we wait! Hopefully I'll have some onions next year :)
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semprvivum · 4 months
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Spider plant seedlings 🌱
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lake-lady · 10 months
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Embracing my plant goth vibes (growing sunflowers and pumpkins and having long dark hair) 🖤🌻🥕🍄
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ryanscabinlife · 9 months
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I didn’t spend a lot of time in the garden today due to a bear showing up last night. We’ve always been aware that there are plenty of bears in the area and we’ve spotted a couple on the road before but not right on our window. I was literally carrying a digging fork the whole time I was out like it’s gonna save me. I managed to do some weeding, and slug hunting and I up potted the hollyhocks today. Hopefully, most of them survive. Can’t wait to see their blooms next spring.
3-Jul-2023
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141 tomatoes in the ground, planted last evening. I was planning to buy and plant them a couple of weeks from now, but someone brought us 3 trays of tomatoes a few days ago and they were big enough, I didn't want to keep them in trays much longer.
The first row are, as always, my tiny colorful heirlooms, but turns out the trays were enough to fill the other 3 rows.
Took longer than expected to plant them, but I'm glad it's a gardening task I can check off my spring to do list.
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aloehoarder · 7 months
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Open pollinated Aloe hybrid I grew from seed, repotted today
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hyssopandbee · 1 year
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Native blue lupine, also for habitat restoration projects.
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growthmadesimple · 23 days
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Since I didn't get around to playing in the dirt yesterday, I made sure to get another small bunch of seeds started first thing this morning. Also "repotted" the first few because they had gotten really tall, really fast and I wanted to keep them in these pots a little longer before upgrading. So we'll see how that goes, hopefully I didn't just shock them to their demise.
The six with sprouts are mystery strain ganja seeds that I've been hoarding. They took about a week to break the soil and then were about 4-5 inches tall before the readjustment. I'm excited to watch the few lean back towards the light throughout the day.
The others are a mixed bag of some of my favorite flowers that I collected seeds from last year. Four of the ten are Moss Rose (top favorite garden flower and happen to be from the plant in my icon). The rest, I could've done more than one pot but I'm both experimenting and trying to control myself a little. We have Cosmic African Daisy, Violet, Snap Dragon, Black Mamba Petunia, Bleeding Heart and some Scottish Moss. I'm really excited to see how the Bleeding Heart does from a seed, I've only ever bought starts and/or gotten some from someone else's established plant. I went with a generous amount of seeds in each pot for a better germination rate and a couple of them do well on the thicker side as well so I'm hopeful that I'll be showing off some little green babies within the next week or so!
My soul is happy for the day.
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oldfarmhouse · 1 month
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🍃𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔
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solarpunks · 1 year
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Autonomous Self-Burying Seed Carriers for Aerial Seeding
Aerial seeding can quickly cover large and physically inaccessible areas to improve soil quality and scavenge residual nitrogen in agriculture, and for post fire reforestation and wildland restoration. However, it suffers from low germination rates, due to the direct exposure of unburied seeds to harsh sunlight, wind and granivorous birds, as well as undesirable air humidity and temperature. 
Here, inspired by Erodium seeds we design and fabricate self-drilling seed carriers, turning wood veneer into highly stiff (about 4.9 GPa when dry, and about 1.3 GPa when wet) and hygromorphic bending or coiling actuators with an extremely large bending curvature (1,854 m−1), 45 times larger than the values in the literature
Read more here or here from Nature
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therudegarden · 2 months
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Part of my collection. All seed grown
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