/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.15670751]

So, /ck/, what food will you be growing this year?

[Anonymous No.15670846]

>>15670751
i live in apartment

[Anonymous No.15670864]

I'm not a girl so I shan't be gardening

[Anonymous No.15670876]

>>15670751
The only thing growing this year will be my disdain for the modern world.

[Anonymous No.15670879]

>>15670864
>implying most girls would have any interest in gardening

[Anonymous No.15670884]

>>15670751
>tfw you live in back to back houses

[Anonymous No.15670913]

>>15670864
Your loss.

[Anonymous No.15670941]

>>15670751
growing mainly fava beans and kale, favas should be ready for harvest in a couple weeks
other than that random odds and ends, garlic, onions carrots bunch of cabbage

[Anonymous No.15670951]

>>15670941
Comfy as fug. I'm going to try growing carrots this year.

[Anonymous No.15670965]

Planting pinto and lima beans today, and tomatoes on the 15th.

That'll be the start of the spring garden. Should have 40ish different veggies growing by end of the month.

[Anonymous No.15670970]

>>15670965
>and tomatoes on the 15th.
Same here. Hopefully we get some good harvests this year.

[Anonymous No.15670974]

>>15670941
>>15670951
picked some kale just now for lunch

[Anonymous No.15670980]

Mold on bread most likely. Fucking sucks being an apartment pleb, seriously considering pic related.

[Anonymous No.15671775]

>>15670864
The only produce gardeners that I know are manly men.

[Anonymous No.15671789]

>>15670751
I already sprouted some cabbage, as well as a butternut squash I got from the supermarket (seeds had a 100% germination rate!). Im also trying to sprout basil but for some reason my luck with herbs is limited.
I also have 7 varieties of peppers Im sprouting and all 3 of my tomato varieties have sprouted.
I plan on starting some dill, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, and cabbage tonight too.

Is it too early to try to start eggplant?

[Anonymous No.15671791]

What’s an ez crop to grow? Kinda want to get into gardening desu.

[Anonymous No.15671798]

I have the land but not the ambition. There also tons of critters where Im at. Im more of a farmers market guy

[Anonymous No.15671801]

>>15671791
Leafy greens and radishes are stupid easy.

[Anonymous No.15671811]

>>15671791
Tomatoes are easy, get some good seeds online and they'll be much better than the stuff you find in most stores. Otherwise, you could just use seeds from any raw organic food you buy

[Anonymous No.15671822]

>>15671811
>>15671801
Thank you Kings.

[Anonymous No.15672031]

>>15670864
That's like saying
>I'm not a girl, so I shan't be cooking
Gardening is a manly hobby. You are the provider of your family, of your community, of your tribe. You breed the mother earth and make her give you yummies that you share your produce with people you care about to make them healthy and strong, to help them survive.

[Anonymous No.15672082]

Chad AeroGarden vs Virgin Dirtfarming Peasant

[Anonymous No.15672087]

>>15672082

[Anonymous No.15672096]

>>15672082
*cuts your electricity*

[Anonymous No.15672120]

>>15672096
>he doesn't use solar
Become self-sufficient, or you won't see 30s.

[Anonymous No.15672191]

>>15670980
>>15670846
You can still grow stuff indoors. I do... Got some full spectrum LED lights.

[Anonymous No.15672686]

Bell peppers, jalapeños, sweet potatoes, onions, cherry tomatoes, sugar snap peas, maybe some acorn squash.

[Anonymous No.15672766]

>>15670751
look at all this compost I bought today bros, gonna have a variety of starter veg by the summer hopefully

[Anonymous No.15672790]

>>15670751
My sage plant is somehow still alive, despite having like a foot of snow dumped on it 2 weeks ago, so I guess that’ll get even bigger this year. I mainly grow herbs because it’s the most cost effective. Lots of peppers too, and I might do some leafy greens this time.
I have to grow stuff in pots because I live in an apartment. What else grows well in pots?

[Anonymous No.15672803]

>>15670751
Tomatoes of various kinds mainly cherry, beefsteak and these mini banana tomatoes and come in heirloom sets.
Cucumber
Strawberries
Blackberries
Raspberries
Mulberries
Various herbs
Beans
Peas

[Anonymous No.15672842]

>>15670751
My oregano, chili pepper and thyme died. I just started, bought the plants, put them on pots and watered them twice a week until water drained from below. I didn't look up anything about them

[Anonymous No.15672852]

>>15672766
>buying compost

[Anonymous No.15672982]

>>15672852
wasn't too expensive desu

[Anonymous No.15673063]

>>15670876
Self-sufficiencyfags usually grow both simultaneously

[Anonymous No.15673216]

>>15672842
sounds like you drowned your plants

[Anonymous No.15673433]

>>15672082
Get this numale ap*rtment dweller shit outta here

[Anonymous No.15673612]

>>15670970
What varieties are you growing?
I've been growing Celebrity tomatoes now for 5ish years, and love them. I'll end up getting 200 pounds of tomatoes per plant per year so long as the weather cooperates.

[Anonymous No.15673747]

>>15672082
Imagine spending hundreds of dollars on this crap when a clay pot on your window sill will work just as fine. Cultivated veggies grow like fucking weeds you have to be actually challenged to fail with them

[Anonymous No.15673818]

>>15670846
I have about 12 chili plants in my apartment.
Just pot them and leave them in a sunny window

[Anonymous No.15673916]

dad and I are gonna try growing corn this year, along with the usual tomatoes, sugar snaps, and various herbs and greens

[Anonymous No.15673927]

>>15673916
oh and jalapenos and other peppers of course, how could i forget

[Anonymous No.15673941]

>>15670751
Mold using decomposing potatoes to rot through the hardwood floor.

[Anonymous No.15673967]

>>15673747
Whatif you live somewhere where it's cold as balls and the sun barely shows for a third of the year?

[Anonymous No.15674429]

>>15672031
>yummies
I rest my case.

[Anonymous No.15674532]

>>15674429
kek

[Anonymous No.15674540]

>>15671789
Well yeah, squash grows like a weed. The only issue is you need chunky native bees around to get proper pollination.

[Anonymous No.15674684]

>>15670751
We grow microgreens constantly. Sunflowers is the current crop since we got a 2kg bag for $7. I’m probably going to start in the yard next weekend.
Asparagus, broccoli, zucchini, sunflowers, peas, garlic, lovage, strawberry, sages, thymes, mints, leek, kale, komatsuna, arugula, potatoes, nasturtium, sorrel, raspberry, salmonberry, fennel.... I think that’s it. There’s a bunch of herbs in the greenhouse too but I leave that up to her. Dill, basil, and flat-leaf for sure. About half of that is seeds from last year too. I’m going to have to do more work this year because of her schedule. That’s fine. I need the exercise.

[Anonymous No.15674696]

>>15674540
I grew a ton of squash last year. I had so many god damn watermellon and a good amount of cantaloupe too. It seems like I had plenty of pollinators. I'd sometimes see up to 6 bees in one flower. A lot of different types of bees, honey bees, bumble bees of different varieties, little green bees, all kinds of fuckers I had never seen before. All of them were cute, I petted them all because I'm a psycho.

I'm really trying for winter squash this year. I had bad luck with my buttercup squash but it was for obvious reasons.

[Anonymous No.15674703]

>>15674684
How do you deliberately grow sorrel? That shit is a weed, I would let it get big in my garden and just throw it to my ducks. Its tasty but too much of it can give you kidney stone.

[Anonymous No.15674754]

>>15674696
>buttercup squash
Butternut squash? That stuff is surprisingly difficult to get right. Maybe it’s the super rainy climate I live in. You’ve got to baby all of your squash here or else it rots before ripeness.
That’s awesome you’ve got lots of bees. I want to put up the bee house this year but my wife loves birds so there’s always flocks of them around. I don’t want the bee house to become another bird feeder.

[Anonymous No.15674782]

>>15674703
I’ve got a bloodvein sorrel in a pot on my deck. It’s a hardy perennial so all you have to do is keep it watered and prune it every now and then. I use it to make pesto and saute it like spinach. It’s got the dual purpose of looking cool and being edible. I don’t eat it that often. I’ll get kidney stones from whisky before sorrel.

[Anonymous No.15674786]

>>15674754
I didn't get a ton of butternuts... It was a dry summer so maybe thats why I got at least 3, but a lot of them did rot. Do I have to cover them before a rain?

[Anonymous No.15674832]

>>15674786
The last time I grew squash it was half a dozen varieties of pumpkin but I think the theory is the same. It’s not keeping them from getting wet, it’s keeping them off the ground. We bought a bale of hay and spread it in between all the mounds. You’ve got to change it every now and then but it helps with drainage and keeps soil moisture and all that microbe activity from the skin of the squash. And you can chuck the old hay in your compost. It’s important to rotate your squash a bit to. Just move them around some so they don’t get bedsores. I’m not sure about covering them. They’re waxy so they won’t get saturated from rain. It’s drainage that’s important.

[Anonymous No.15674963]

>>15674754
buttercup and butternut are entirely different. buttercup is way fucking better.

[Anonymous No.15674996]

At a minimum, im trying for some tomatoes, sweet peppers, potatoes, and greens like kale or swiss chard. Im also going to give some more tobacco varieties a shot since my havana plants did well last year

[Anonymous No.15675037]

>>15674963
I’m modestly embarrassed. I’ve never heard of this buttercup squash before. And now that I’ve googled it I see it’s often conflated with kabocha. I’ll pick one up next time they’re at the market. In August I guess.

[Anonymous No.15675051]

>>15675037
a lot of the squash cultivars' names overlap in parts

[Anonymous No.15675091]

>>15675051
Yeah, that’s a fact. Part of my job is inventory management and I’ve taken to labeling a bunch of different squashes as Winter Squash. I don’t need twelve different entries for a bunch of products that are the same price and weight by case.

[Anonymous No.15675116]

>>15670884
we rent a random dude's land. he's got a bunch of acres and made some of it farmable: costs us 20 bucks every year for a 12x10ft plot

[Anonymous No.15675136]

Several varieties of peppers. Banana, jalapeno, one I can't remember that is big but thin so it might be perfect for hotdogs. I make chicago style with them and they're really fucking good after they've pickled. Either that or sandwiches. I gotta buy some new mason jar lids to sous vide pickle this stuff. They last months and months on the shelf. I also have some pickling cucumber seeds too. I've never made any "good pickles". The closest and only time I've done it by myself is binging with babish's version, which was a mistake. The pickles tasted like hot spices rather then a salty, tangy flavor I'm used too. I hate the ones that taste "watered down" too like I'm eating a pickle that was soaked in water and a little vinegar. The pickled jalapenos come out so much better so I'm gonna do the same kind of brine for that shit.

If anyone is curious, I got great results from this:
https://www.chefsteps.com/activities/make-crisp-flavor-packed-pickles-on-the-quick

But buy one of these fucking things:
https://www.amazon.com/HIC-Canning-Lifter-Tongs-Secure/dp/B002GJQP8Y

[Anonymous No.15675137]

I'm growing spuds this year. First time gardening so any advice would be appreciated.

[Anonymous No.15675164]

>>15670751
Any tips for growing herbs indoors ?
Live in apt that gets a lot of light, I want to start with mint

[Anonymous No.15675186]

>>15675137
god I would ruin my back and knees gardening just for some cottage core milkers

[Anonymous No.15675211]

>>15674963
First off: I agree, my buttercups were delicious and candy sweet.
Second, its funny because this year I sprouted some butternuts just for the hell of it and because I got one from the store. They are doing really well.

I will try buttercups again but I had such bad luck. But even if I only get another 3 it will be worth it. They were so delicious.

[Anonymous No.15675218]

>>15675137
Potatoes are really easy. Just stop fertilizing them once they flower, and don't dig them up until you know for a fact that the plant is totally dead.

[Anonymous No.15675291]

>>15670751
I'm already growing cherry tomatoes. Other than that, only basil, and sage.

I have a few orange, lemon, persian lime, pomegranate and mango trees that are still very young plants, so they don't count.

I'm just very discouraged by all that happened during this growing season. I lost some green been plants, peas, and two types of chilli pepper plants to my mom's cats.

My coriander bolted, my parsley was anaemic, my dill suddenly died. The hot weather must have had something to do with it, but overall I'm tired.

Can't wait to harvest my tomatoes and be done with it all until next spring.

PS: I did managed to grow some very delicious baby bok choy and some mustard as well.

[Anonymous No.15675419]

How do I get started with gardening? I've got a patch at home that i'm going to clear up. I go through so many tomatoes during the week, so that's what i'm gonna start with. I have literally no idea what to do.

[Anonymous No.15675470]

>>15670751
About to start some 'toes indoors. We're doing 'cchini, 'quash, and 'pers.

[Anonymous No.15675481]

>>15671791
We planted cucumbers and melons in untilled grass, and didn't fertilize at all. Got some decent-sized melons, and absolutely monster cucumbers.

[Anonymous No.15675493]

>>15675164
Don't overwater. Make sure you sterilize your soil before planting, or it's gnat city for you.

[Anonymous No.15675551]

>>15670751
I'm growing three heirloom tomatoes:
Brandywine reds
Cherokee purple hearts
Beefsteaks

And one variety of carrots:
Manapukuji

I'm growing the tomatoes in SIPs and the carrots in the ground. I may grow squash and some other varieties of carrots but I'm mainly in it for tomatoes.

[Anonymous No.15675609]

>>15675137
Grow carrots, too. Rareseeds has some good heirloom varieties. A tip for carrots is to push them down a bit before harvesting to break any roots that might otherwise keep them in the ground

[Anonymous No.15675960]

>>15675218
>>15675609
Thanks frens

[Anonymous No.15676538]

>>15675419
Get soil and compost. The bag will say garden soil on it and get the one with a picture of a tomato or carrot on it. Water it everyday make sure the soil is moist, but don't turn your dirt into a swimming pool. Watch it grow, it's pretty incredible.

[Anonymous No.15677084]

>>15670846
>He doesn't grow potatoes in buckets on his balcony.

[Anonymous No.15677166]

>>15672087
>actual tank is 60 feet long
Is this scalable or something that’s way too big

[Anonymous No.15677177]

>>15677084
i dont have a balcony

[Anonymous No.15677185]

>>15675419
Check the gardening general on /out/ it has tons of great resources

[Anonymous No.15677545]

>>15675137
booba

[Anonymous No.15677552]

>>15677177
>He doesn't grow potatoes in buckets on his window sill.

[Anonymous No.15677577]

>>15670913
Is that legendary wrestling star "Stone Cold" Steve Austin?

[Anonymous No.15677593]

>>15675116
Not much free space where i live, there are allotments near by but they are pricey af

[Anonymous No.15677598]

>>15670751
I'm growing bell peppers, these eggplants that look like eggs, Desert King watermelons, and this tomato cultivar called Dark Galaxy. Also over the winter I grew kale.

[Anonymous No.15677646]

>>15670864
Every female who I've ever seen take in interest in gardening just plants flowers in her yard, usually bought from a store like lowe's. That's if they even get to the step of putting the plant in the ground. At best she'll see a tomato plant for sale and buy it. Just having a plant and not letting it die is easy, actually getting a good harvest out of it is tricky. It requires work and know-how to get results. Females are incapable of maintaining a genuine non-surface level interest in anything, so this is incompatible with them.
>>15672082
I ain't growing my plant in the pod

[Anonymous No.15677707]

I want to grow every kind of herb that I can on my balcony this year, especially fresh laurel. Im gonna get a slew of clay pots and some hippy organic potting soil and grow them all from seed. I may do some tomatoes and chiles as well but I dont think I really have the realestate to grow a worthwhile amount of cultivated produce. It may be worth it just to grow some quality products that make me excited to use when I harvest though. Im trying to have enough herbs I literally never have to buy them from the market because a small package of thyme I use for one recipe a week before it goes bad is like $3

[Anonymous No.15678632]

This will be my fourth year operating a small acre farm and farmer's market stand. My seventh year working at this small acre permaculture farm. It's going to be a supremely good year for growing mark my words boys.

In the garden this year:
Garlic
Leeks
Onions
Collards
Broccoli
Cabbage
Kale*
Swiss chard*
Butterhead lettuce*
Nasturtiums *
mint *
Dill *
Cilantro *
Chives *
(* these all go into a salad mix bag)
Basil
Tomatoes
Peppers
Eggplants
Potatoes
Long beans
Green beans
Celery
Celeriac root
Cucumbers (and pickling cukes)
Carrots
Beets
Parsnips
Summer squash (zucchini, scallopini, delicata)
Winter squash (butternut/cup, spagett, crown prince)

Ground and tree fruits:
Strawberries
Mulberries
Cherries
Apricots
Plums
Pears
Apples
Grapes

Medicinal herbs:
ashwagandha
chamomile
lavender
Calendula

And this year I'm also growing 5-10 varieties of flowers to sell at the market too. No idea if it's viable but I love flowers and used to be a florist so it will be a fun venture. If I can sell $300 of flowers at least I can break even on the seed money.

Does anyone else have good market projections for what to grow. Am I missing any very popular items? Note: some things I have tried to grow and they just do not do well in our soils sadly (like peaches, watermelons and cauliflowers)

[Anonymous No.15678657]

>>15673967
Either grow stuff that doesn't require much sunlight or put up your own grow lights for a fraction of what you would spend on that thing

[Anonymous No.15678673]

>>15678632
That's pretty awesome. If you have any more pics of your farmers market spreads let's see them.

Also a recipe for your pickled string beans would be sexy.

[Anonymous No.15678706]

>>15672766
>Anders Breivik starter pack

[Anonymous No.15678729]

>>15678632
This is amazing, I’m super jealous

[Anonymous No.15678761]

>>15678673
I have so many! This year I have 40 farmer's markets booked from April - October.

I use the same recipe for pickled beans as I do pickled garlic scapes. The beans usually all sell fresh so I don't make many pickles from them, but the each garlic makes a scape that needs to be picked to make sure the bulb grows to size, so in june we have a 3000 scape harvest and pickle the fuck out of them.

Pickle recipe
1 part white vinegar
1 part water
1 cup honey (for 8L of brine)
each jar is filled with:
sprig of fresh dill (or seeds if you don't have fresh)
1/2 tsp mustard seed
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 oregano (this is what makes the brine special)
1 dried chili pepper or chili flakes
1/2 thyme
If doing green beans, add a clove of garlic
If doing garlic scapes, obviously omit the garlic

Put them in a pressure cooker and let it come up to steam, turn down to medium and cook for 5-6 minutes and then take off the heat.

[Anonymous No.15678778]

>>15678673
Here's a before and after of the pickled garlic scapes. They are very good.

[Anonymous No.15678852]

>>15678761
Awesome thanks very much for the recipe. I pickle a ton of stuff every year and I'll definitely be giving your recipe a try. Thanks again.

[Anonymous No.15678863]

>>15678778
Also those jars are beautiful. It really makes for a great presentation on the table as well.

[Anonymous No.15678882]

I want to grow more watermelons this year. Picrel is from last summer. I started them way too late so most didn't ripen as it got too cold. The few that did were very good though.

[Anonymous No.15678892]

>>15678632
Really awesome. Looks so rustic and comfy

[Anonymous No.15678920]

>>15678863
Thank you! They have been a really good way to process the waste from garlic farming. Most farmers literally throw the scapes onto the ground. I'm currently making some honey fermented garlic jars with our unused garlic from last season. Hoping to make 24 jars and sell them for 18-20 a jar. They should be ready for sale by the July/August markets.

[Anonymous No.15678948]

>>15678920
I've always shied away from pickling garlic because of the associated danger. Does fermentation remove the risk?

[Anonymous No.15679361]

>>15678706
I'm not a terrorist anon I just want to grow tasty veggies

[Anonymous No.15679555]

>>15678920
This all looks so cute... Did you cover your cabbage to keep them safe? last year I got a ton of cabbage worms, and the cabbage never got very big.

[Anonymous No.15679590]

>>15679555
yeah, I use fleecy white grow cover to cover the cabbage for most of the season. It is really helpful for giving them a head start to keep them warm and to keep the cabbage moths away. The early varieties (like tiara 65 days) were less likely to be wormy because the fleece sometimes gets blown off and later season gets busy.

[Anonymous No.15679626]

>>15679555
https://www.almanac.com/pest/cabbage-worms

Your best bet is covering them. It's costly but if you can knock back the butterfly population it'll make it easier on you year on year.
Sticky traps also help.

[Anonymous No.15679631]

>>15678948
The garlic I'm making now is fermented in pure honey. The garlic releases a bit of water and the honey becomes more liquid but the garlic turns dark brown and it gets really sweet and dank. I have pickled garlic in vinegar before too, pressure cooked them for 6 minutes after bringing to a sealed boil/steam. Didn't die from it.

For the longest time my mom didn't want to pickle green beans because she was afraid of botulism but I had to explain the difference between pickling and canning. Canning is done with just water or the liquid from the fruit, like canned tomatoes. Pickling is using an acid or salt to make a brine too acidic/hostile for bad bacteria to grow in. She was confusing canning the beans for pickling them. Canning is only okay for high acid foods (like tomatoes) or food where extra sugar is added to make it less hospitable for bacteria (like fruit preserves).

[Anonymous No.15679641]

>>15679631
Ok chud

[Anonymous No.15679660]

How do you guys deal with gnats? I fucking hate gnats

[Anonymous No.15679664]

>>15678632
Im starting a small acre(10) permaculturally farm over the next to years. Ill be plants lots of trees and bushes next year but this years Im turning some old pasture into beds. Very exciting.

[Anonymous No.15679777]

>>15679664
It's a cozy yet work filled life. The winter's off are also nice especially if you are good with money/business.

[Anonymous No.15679866]

>>15679777
>also nice especially if you are good with money/business.


Im going to work a part time job instead.

[Anonymous No.15679909]

oranges
persimmons
passionfruit
doris plums
grapes (chardonay)
limes
olives
cherries
melons
pumpkin

I think I might have one of the shit varieties of cherry though. It was on the property when I moved in.

[Anonymous No.15679910]

>>15679866
Bunny :3

[Anonymous No.15679919]

>>15672096
*busts out the hand crank*

[Anonymous No.15679926]

>>15672766
careful m8 that stuff can make yuo sicker than a dog

[Anonymous No.15679930]

>>15670751
I wanna start growing stuff this year even though I live in a shitbox apartment. I do have a balcony, though, so that's a start.

[Anonymous No.15679942]

>>15674696
>little green bees

[Anonymous No.15679948]

>>15674996
>growing your own potatoes
The only garden activity with negative returns. You might as well grow your own rice.

[Anonymous No.15680048]

>>15670974
Those are collards, anon.

[Anonymous No.15680055]

>>15670751
Turnips, onions, tomatoes, a bunch of herbs and flowers, swiss chard

[Anonymous No.15680182]

There are certain things I refuse to grow:

>potatoes
>onions
>garlic
>regular carrots
>beets
>green onions
>regular white cabbage
>regular purple cabbage
>broccoli
>spinach

They are too cheap to buy, some of them attract too many problems (brassicas in general), it's a waste of space.

[Anonymous No.15680880]

>>15679926
Really? hows that? what kind of precautions should I take

[Anonymous No.15680886]

>>15680880
wear a dust mask at all times when handling it

[Anonymous No.15680898]

>>15680880
You'll be fine

[Anonymous No.15681154]

Orange Habanero plant made it through winter still producing. Will start red habs, jalapeños and birds eye chillies indoors soon. Only way I can get non dried chillies here is to grow them myself.

[Anonymous No.15681504]

>>15670751
Carrots
Parsnips
Onions
Beetroots
Kale
Cabbage
Swedes
Pumpkins
Lettuce
Strawberrys
Gooseberries
Rhubarb
Apples
Tomatoes
Chillies
Aubergines
Cucumbers

[Anonymous No.15681518]

>no one itt planting peas
I see how it is

[Anonymous No.15681522]

Anyone grow spices?

[Anonymous No.15681533]

>>15675137
>Any first year growing potatoes advice?
They need well tilled soil with organic compost mixed in.
Maybe experiment with a small variety of different types to see which grows best and you like the taste of.

[Anonymous No.15681546]

>>15681533
I got a bucket of potatoes on a tiny patch without tilling. The compost is more important than the tillage.

[Anonymous No.15681547]

>>15681504
>Kale
Why? Every other brassica is way better.

[Anonymous No.15681556]

>>15678632
>Broccoli
Have you been successful with it before? I've a similar set up to yourself. But I found broccoli needed a timed watering schedule. It's very quick to bolt if it gets dry.
Irrigation tubes on a timer could work well

[Anonymous No.15681587]

>>15681547
It's hardy and quick growing. You can break leaves off it and it will keep growing into the winter.

[Anonymous No.15681618]

>>15681556
not a lot of luck with broccoli no. Nor cauliflower or brussels sprouts. But cabbage, collards and kale have all been great. I'm hoping to seed out two trays this season and sell most of them for $2 each or 6 for $10 at the first markets when everyone is all plant happy. If I have leftover ones I will plant them and cover them with row cover. I found they need a lot of ammendments/compost to do well and after cropping rip them out, the secondaries/tertiary things just aren't worth it. I'm just gonna stick more carrots or beets in the empty brassica rows before july 25th to get a fall crop.

And this year the whole large garden is going to be dripped taped and then mulched (16 100ft rows x 2 drip lines each row)

[Anonymous No.15681699]

>>15681618
Yeah, cauliflower is the same.
They need watering little but often.
First time I did cauliflowers I had some beautiful forming white heads forming.
I needed to go away for a couple of days that were hot and when I got back the white heads had already started the process of turning into yellow flowers.
If I was to do cauliflowers and broccolis again I would invest in a timed seep irrigation system.
I think you can get battery powered ones that you can hook up to a large barrel of water

[Anonymous No.15681744]

I need to figure out how to do it in my shoddy apartment. I wanna grow herbs and lavender first.

[Anonymous No.15681777]

>>15681699
I'm not too upset if I can't grow a few types of brassicas. Farmers like doing trades for stuff. And this year I'm trying to grow mostly rehydratable things because I have access to lots of dehydrators and a sun drying deck so the leftover veggies and fruits get sold as dried in the off seasons and shoulder markets.

[Anonymous No.15682104]

>>15670864
Here on /ck/, we are well aware of the fact that, despite popular misconceptions, women don't know how to cook. Knowing that, why would one assume women know how to garden?

[Anonymous No.15682256]

>>15681618
How difficult would it be to make a living off of this?

[Anonymous No.15682258]

Psilocybin mushrooms

[Anonymous No.15682326]

>>15682256
It's not too hard to make a profit. Depends how much you want to hustle and how much you enjoy gardening, plants, vegetables and marketing. I make a small income but live moderately enough to still have savings and money to put towards next season and bigger plans (40 more chickens).

[bruce No.15682348]

>>15673747
Depends on where you live and even how your house/apartment is positioned my dude.

[Anonymous No.15682669]

>>15678632
Absolutely based as fuck, I always make sure to get my eggs, meat, cheese and as many veggies as I can from the local farmers market, gotta support local lads and this shit is awesome to see

[Anonymous No.15682747]

Shallots

[Anonymous No.15682762]

Radishes, Lettuce, Dill, some sort of Irish plant, and blue chink flowers with a forgettable name.
Will be planting more later once the freeze is over now that I finally own some lands.
Stores didn't have the vermiculite I needed for potting, so I had to order through Amazon. Nurseries near me aren't open yet because they fear the couf so I went to the box stores for seeds.

[Anonymous No.15682823]

>>15677166
I read somewhere about doing something smaller with shrimp, but it seemed like the smaller you go the more closely you have to manage everything

[Anonymous No.15683566]

Amazing thread, thank you all for posting. Motivating my lazy ass.

[Anonymous No.15683586]

>3-5 varieties of tomatoes
>6-10 varieties of peppers
>trialling 4 varieties of eggplants
>cucumbers
>zucchinis
>celery
>radishes, beets, and some new root crops (turnips, carrots, and maybe rutabaga if I have the space)
>greens: arugula, romaine lettuce, mustard, sorrel, a few varieties of kale
>probably going to skip leeks this year and just plant more green onions
>garlic (slowly growing my supply by saving part of my harvest every year)
>going to try a couple snap peas
>black eyed peas
>turmeric (already planted indoors and will take outside when it's warm)
>some random herbs (mint, thyme, sage, rosemary, dill, etc.)

And that's outside. Indoors I'm going to grow more peppers in small containers for breeding projects.

[Anonymous No.15683604]

>>15680182
Gotta agree with a few of these, except green onions and spinach. You don't have to wait on spinach, you just sprout it and eat it. Same with green onion.

[Anonymous No.15683615]

>>15678948
If you're like me, I just do the pussy-ass safe way. Boil my vinegar/spice mix, pour it into a jar over whatever i'm pickling (might even parboil and blanch it if it's green beans or asparagus).
Then just pickle it in my fridge. Zero risk.

[Anonymous No.15683624]

>>15681518
That's a summer crop here, really. If I want beans, I'll plant those late may.

[Anonymous No.15683792]

>>15670751

Small apartment balcony

3 kinds of scorpion peppers (Butch T, Apocalypse, Satan Strain)
Bahamian Goat Peppers
Yellow Scotch Bonnet

Finna b getting spicy b

[Anonymous No.15683857]

>>15683615
I use both vinegar and fermentation pickling depending on what it is I'm doing.
Sauerkraut always fermented.
Beetroots always vinegar.
Etc..

[Anonymous No.15683860]

>>15683792
>pic related

[Anonymous No.15683940]

>>15683792
Should just grow birdseye, cayenne and maybe habanero. Meme chillies are useless.

[Anonymous No.15683948]

Tomatoes again as every year. Some beans and probably some new sort of spinach tendril plant or whatever. Oh and some zucchini.
I cut down on all the meme shit like chillies, egg-plants etc as they usually don't grow particularly well in central european climate and I don't have a good greenhouse yet.

>>15672087
Been thinking alot about this bad boy here though. One day I'll build it.

[Anonymous No.15683965]

>>15670751
None, I'll be using this year to build new boxes.

[Anonymous No.15683973]

A metric fuckload of cucumbers, 3 different types of peppers, tomatoes, green beans, carrots, green onions and of course my perennial herb garden supplemented by some annuals. I can't wait bros. It's THE best thing about living in the country.

[Anonymous No.15684946]

Cucumbers, arugula, and tomatoes. Will try my luck with carrots and potatoes again.

[Anonymous No.15686263]

>>15680048
noted, its all called the same in my language, kale, cabbage, collard are all 'couve'

[Anonymous No.15686636]

>>15678632
where do you get the seeds for this?

[Anonymous No.15687045]

>>15683940
Don't try and dissuade him from growing scotch bonnets, how else will he give himself vinegary spicy shits from eating jerk chicken every day?

[Anonymous No.15687150]

>>15686636
I saved a bunch of them from last year - parsnips, leek, garlic (obviously), zucchinis, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers as well as herbs like cilantro and dill. And I placed an order to Johnny's seeds about four weeks ago for the rest of them. Ordered more carrots and different beets, cabbages, kales, celeriac and celery and some flowers which I am hoping not to kill immediately.

[Anonymous No.15687285]

>>15675291
Dont feel too bad anon, bad seasons happen. Last year a woodchuck ate every single major plant I had, i ended up with a couple sage plants, some rosemary, and some dill. Next year will be better.

[Anonymous No.15687304]

>>15687285
I had a woodchuck eat my three boston lettuces the morning I was going to harvest them. I went out and he was sunning himself beside their remnant stocks, the smug little rascal.