How is it the middle of July already?!?

The director of our town’s library gave me gift cards for doing some educational talks - gift cards to another nursery… The gesture was very kind, and I’m glad to expand our plantings, but wow did I have some mixed feelings that I didn’t expect.

And my wife ordered some teeny tiny succulents as favors for our baby shower next week, so now I’m wondering what the rules are for proplifting from plants one is giving as gifts. Please discuss, as well as telling us what’s growing on with you all <3

  • Elise@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    The succulents when you give them: 1000012704

    Oh and I am considering to attach a potted plant to my bike. Is that even possible? It will have to be shake resistent.

    • LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPM
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      4 months ago

      bee laugh tears emoji I was just going to bide my time and hope there were some left at the end but then I and another person remarked how cute they are and that there probably won’t be any left over.

      Plants on bikes isn’t something I’ve messed around with but it seems doable if you’re using smaller plants or high sided containers

  • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world
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    4 months ago

    Proplifting from party favors that you have yet to give away is perfectly fine, as long as each attachment arrangement still looks full.

  • xylem@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Any idea what’s happening to my tomatoes? Pretty much every one I’ve picked so far has looked like this on the bottom

    • LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.orgOPM
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      4 months ago

      It looks like blossom end rot to me, which is usually associated with uneven/extreme differences in water availability and with low available calcium. We get it with our peppers more often than our tomatoes, but something that’s helped is:

      • Dissolving egg shells in apple cider vinegar
      • Straining out the now-rubbery shell bits
      • Adding the vinegar to a sprayer with water in a 10:1 (water to acv) solution and foliar spraying
      • Adding the shell bits to the soil just under the mulch

      Treating the shells with the ACV releases some of the carbon that’s bonded, making the resultant form of calcium much more plant available. Foliar spraying can help be a sort of direct injection of the calcium solution through the stoma, while the remaining shells will be a slower trickle of the necessary calcium at the root zone.

      • trev likes godzilla@beehaw.org
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        4 months ago

        Welp, guess that saves me from posting an image of a pepper with blossom end rot! I was wondering what was getting to my anaheims.

        egg shells

        So what you’re saying is, I have to have breakfast for dinner tonight, one of my favorite things? Well darn, anything for my garden I suppose. Honey, we’re making breakfast sandwiches! ;)

      • xylem@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Thank you! I’ll give this a try. It makes sense, I haven’t done any fertilizing since making this bed in the spring (compost/topsoil blend from a local supplier), and haven’t been the most consistent on watering…