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[Sci-Fi]

Just stay away from anything that grows as a vine and not a plant. Things like pumpkins will overtake your garden, trust me I know. My surprise pumpkin patch many moons ago overtook half my mom's garden and threatened to destroy the whole thing until she hacked it back. You have to be very careful with things which grow like that. It was so much fun to grow my own pumpkins for Halloween. That's what I grew them for no joke, they weren't used for pie or anything else just jack-o-lanterns. LOL

 

[kamya]

Bonafide shitlord reporting in.
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Libby's is big here. We have a big festival and everything. =P. Vines aren't so bad. For pumpkins you can weave them up on trellises and the pumpkins just kind of hang there. If you let them on the ground they will just sprawl out forever. Same with tomatoes. You cut out the suckers and make it all one long vine on a trellis. They take up way less space.

And yeah sci-fi the soil issue is why raised beds are starting to be so popular. With those you can grow food on concrete if you want.

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This video kind of explains the tomato thing.

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Anyways... if it's anything involving being self sufficient and off grid I get addicted to learning about it.

 

[TheRealCallie]

I would love to grow my own food. That way, I know exactly what it is, and I'm able to maintain exactly what I need. I was actually thinking of doing tomatoes or potatoes. I've heard they're two of the easiest, aside from herbs.

LOL, toss a potato with eyes outside and it will grow into a potato plant. I've managed to accomplish this about 5 times now.

I burn my trash, and one of my barrels was fuller, so I was using a different one until I could get it emptied. It took longer than I anticipated to get it emptied and the following spring a tomato plant started growing out of it. I still have no idea how it happened. lol

Just stay away from anything that grows as a vine and not a plant. Things like pumpkins will overtake your garden, trust me I know. My surprise pumpkin patch many moons ago overtook half my mom's garden and threatened to destroy the whole thing until she hacked it back. You have to be very careful with things which grow like that. It was so much fun to grow my own pumpkins for Halloween. That's what I grew them for no joke, they weren't used for pie or anything else just jack-o-lanterns. LOL

Not necessarily. If it's something smaller and not heavy like cucumbers, you just have to put a little bit of chicken wire or fence up and send it up that when it starts to grow instead of leaving it on the ground. It's actually better for them, as they don't sit on the ground and have a chance to rot on the bottom. For larger vine plants, just make sure to not plant too many and keep them in their own section that's a little larger than the other sections and move the vines when they start going in the other areas.

 

[Sci-Fi]

I was speaking from not being a gardener, so excuse me for being an amateur but that is what will happen if you don't know like I didn't.

 

[TheRealCallie]

I was speaking from not being a gardener, so excuse me for being an amateur but that is what will happen if you don't know like I didn't.

I am aware of that, which is why I was giving tips for Nilla or other people who may want to grow vine plants. That way they won't run into those same problems.

Also, if you grow peppers or something of that nature, keep them away from other things because the hotness will transfer over to the other plants.

 

[VanillaCreme]

We actually do have a bit of chicken wire or some other type of fencing, and this roll of weird mesh stuff, so if I wanted to control vines for whatever reason, I suppose I could get Jeremy to put it up. There's a rose bush outside of our window that does pretty well. It needs to be trimmed up because it's taller than us, and it blooms hot pink roses, but other than that, it seems to be doing fine.