This looks awesome. No weed?
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Let's just say local laws are unreasonably strict about that kind of thing. To the point it's not worth the risk given how widely available it is should I need some.
Nice setup. What you got sprouting?
- 300 tomato plants, 30 varietals
- 350 peppers, 35 varietals
- 6 varietals of onions
- leeks
- celery
- celeriac
- thyme, basil + a bunch of other herbs
- metric fuckton of various flowers
- ...
Full 3 racks of goodness
~~What's in the bottom left? Lemongrass?~~
Onion. Nice.
unless you're selling it, you won't ever need to grow lemongrass more than once in your entire life.
last year I got enough to harvest and mill an entire 32oz mason jar of lemongrass and still had enough stalk to freeze. all from a 1ftsq plot.
tempting to start extracting oils from it though.
That's impressive!
This is for sale, not just for home?
I don't sell any. What we don't eat gets canned
Holy wow. I’m curious about the tomatoes, do you can them for sauce? I used to freeze mine with decent results.
I started making sun dried tomatoes and store them in olive oil, however I also am planting more tomatoes than last year so any suggestions/tips you’d like to share :)
With tomatoes as primary ingredient we make:
- passata
- pizza sauces
- pasta sauces
- salsas / nacho dips
- sun dried
and they are added to a bunch of other things - e.g. some of the pickles
I would love to see your process, do you stream, at all?
full time job + garden + restoring the house I live in.. there aren't enough hours in the day
Thanks for your answer, and kudos to you and yours for such an immense and important project! I am working towards that goal myself and am in full absorption mode, nothing better than hearing what others are doing and learning all I can.
It's a process and every year you see an improvement over the previous one.
5 years ago I've had a meadow that was slowly overgrowing with trees and some old, mostly dead fruit trees that look like from a horror movie around the house.
With just me an my wife working on it we got to half an acre of a garden, a greenhouse, tiny vineyard (if you can call 20 plants that), 50-60 fruit trees and bushes. I intend to add beehives and a chicken coop before summer.
How big is your garden?!?
~2000m^2 / half an acre.
It was a meadow slowly overgrowing with random trees 5 years ago, so it took quite a bit of effort to get there
Must be an incredibly rewarding experience to get to that point and start seeing the fruits (literally) of your labor. Congrats!
what are you most excited about this year
~~Habanada~~ Nadapeno peppers - a non-spicy jalapeno. I will get to enjoy jalapeno taste even when cooking for family members who find mayo spicy ;-)
Also the 40+ fruit trees I've planted last week, but I'll have to wait 2-3 years for the first fruit from those.
We'll need another post to know more about those fruit trees as well
The property came with a dozen or so enormous (>6m / 20ft) apple and cherry trees planted about a century ago and all but 3 of them are barely alive, so this spring I've cleared some space and added:
- 4 peach trees, 2 varietals
- 4 apricot trees, 2 varietals
- 2 Japanese plum trees (technically not a plum)
- 8 cherry trees, 4 varietals
- 3 plum trees, 2 varietals
- 10 apple trees, 5 varietals
- 4 pear trees, 4 varietals
- 2 pear-shaped quince trees
- 2 Japanese quince bushes
- 6 currant bushes, 2 varietals
Assuming most of them survive I'll be set as far as fruit I can grow in my zone are concerned. Well, I could use 2-3 asian/american hybrid persimmons to have a full set, but they are very hard to find and expensive - I'd have to pay more for 2 than I've paid for the 40+ listed above..
Habanadas are non spicy habeneros. The non spicy jalapenos have another name I'm forgetting.
I grew habanadas last year and really didn't like the flavor, which was disappointing since people really love them.
Nadapenos. I have those too - brain fart mixed it up
Are those available in the regular grocery store?
That's going to be very location dependent - e.g. I can't reliably get regular habaneros even in large grocery stores where I live..
Lol I'm way behind you, though happy I at least got started during march this year. Not that it really matters since my plants are indoor, but I just restarted them all after getting tired of dealing with the infestations the previous plants had.
Not going to be buying random plants to add to my collection anymore.
Why are you using florescent lamps? Aren't LEDs much more efficient?
Those are LEDs
Okay second question, why do they look exactly like fluorescent bulbs?
Those are led tubes - the best shape for this purpose IMO.
they needed the box to lift the pots
I've been wanting to build something like that in my basement. Did you buy or build the stand? If the latter did you follow any plans that you could share?
I've built them myself. Material list is in my last year sprouting post https://lemmy.world/post/27013007
You have no where to use the sun I guess? Looks nice
The combined area of the 3 racks I use for sprouting is almost 8m^2 or 85ft^2 - I'd need a lot of south facing windows to have that much of unused windowsill area available
Edit: Also light directly above is better for sprouting
Makes sense, thanks! Wondering why I got downvoted lol