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So I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around what I should be doing with blighted plant material, rotting/ infected fruits and veggies.

Part of me really wants to cut it all out and like burn it, so that the fungus and disease is destroyed and then really only compost stuff that’s “healthy”.

One farmer I worked for never put vegetable compost back into his fields. It was used to fertilize another field where commercial corn was grown. The vegetable fields only had synthetic or manure on them. But doing some gardening now… it’s not like I have another field. I’ve gotten in the habit of throwing stuff on the lawn, where the grass doesn’t care or the mower just chips it up. Kinda gross but at least it’s not going into my compost. I plow the normal compost back into the garden in the spring.

Should I be worrying about this so much? What other solutions am I not thinking of?

Do you guys keep compost separated by plant type, kind of like compost crop rotation?

You are dead motherfuckers!

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Oh and at @sector7 non composted area. No surprises. Might stop that altogether now.

https://www.nosoilsolutions.com/6-different-types-hydroponic-systems/

I'm thinking of kratky or DWC.
Has anyone tried those?

Your time is...extended.
Not the toil
not the burn
not the hunger
nor the yearn.

You may rest forever... now.
But your life's energy
Paid forward
It burns on man.

Decades of customers yards full
Spring here again this year
Buds bursting forth
YOUR HEART STILL BEATS ON MAN.
Oxygen, shelter, shade, beauty, food.

Babies will have babies that will sit in cool shade and clean air
They will grow and learn and love in, and what, you have left.
Others will pick up what you started and carry on.
You deserve heaven for this and I thank you.

We moved to our own place last October 30th.
Our lot is about 900 mts2 and I have been working the land in my spare time. Good thing is that working from home is a big benefit because I am able to just take a little walk through our yard and see how everything is going.

So far we have planted:

- cherry tomatoes
- tomatoes
- squash
- zucchini
- potatoes
- onions
- avocado
- arracache
- melon
- water melon
- orange lemon
- cas guava
- mango
- tangerine
- orange
- spinach
- blackberry
- coriander
- lettuce
- chamomile
- chive
- banana
- sweet corn
- sweet pepper
- hot pepper
- carrots
- papaya
- celery
- Italian parsley
- mint
- thyme
- aloe vera

We are still missing the coffee trees and other plants, but all in due time. Hopefully in a couple of months/years we will see everything fructify in the Lord's name.

[Oops! 2022/2023]

Executive Summary

Overall a dismal result but what's new? No standout successes except for the 1 of 3 cucumbers which grew to a supermarket size.

Grapes (poor crop)

https://i.ibb.co/cgSN4bx/AR-8.jpg

Passion Fruit (biggest crop ever but a mould got them - file photo)

https://i.ibb.co/5FrY5QJ/Gab.jpg

Button Squash/Zucchini (lovely flowers no fruit)

https://i.ibb.co/k6Vb4SB/AR-6.jpg

Cucumber (only success story by size not quantity (2-3))

https://i.ibb.co/jy7HBHn/AR-5.jpg

Purple King Climbing Beans (very average result which is unusual)

https://i.ibb.co/HXSGkKx/AR-1.jpg

Tomatoes (small) (these little babes are self-seeded and good value)

https://i.ibb.co/3mfGS05/AR-2.jpg

Potatoes (disaster because they weren't in the sun. Lots of leaf but no tubers)

https://i.ibb.co/wBySnN7/AR-7.jpg

Miscellaneous

Handful of shallots/spring onions. Missus did well with her "girl plants" (Herbs/erbs - basil etc).

Conclusion

Next season: concentrating on growing potatoes in pots (and in the sun!); cucumbers in pots.

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This is probably some "no shit!" information for some of y'all but I'll post it anyway.

I have been gardening for years and usually have pretty good success just because I live in a very warm area that makes it easy to grow stuff, but sometimes it's hit or miss. One of the problems is that if you look online for advice, it's rather vague and may or may not apply to your USDA zone or type of soil or whatever.... "Plant in April" may be appropriate for someone in Idaho but crop-ruining for someone in Louisiana, see. There's a lot of conflicting data out there so it's hard to know what to do sometimes.

I decided to finally direct my autist researching towards figuring out everything about the plants I like to grow, exactly what they need in terms of temperatures, soil pH, watering, etc, and when to plant them according to the old ways. My great uncle used to have a hell of a garden and he swore by the old farmer's almanac and planted with the moons. I'm gathering this data and writing it down in a notebook so that I have it if shit hits the fan.

It's been a really interesting project and I highly recommend it if you're a seat-of-your-pants gardener like me.

Here are some links that may help you:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/lcd - look up the historical data in your area. I just pulled up the entire year of 2020 as a 12-page PDF and got average temps throughout the year. Don't just guess - KNOW what happens each month. The wikipedia page on your city or a city close-by will sometimes have this data too.

https://www.almanac.com/gardening/growing-guides - The Old Farmer's Almanac guide to various plants. Each page will tell you temps they like, soil pH, etc

https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar - type in your zip code and find out your first and last frost date and get average planting dates for various plants. I like to just use this to compare to my own dates I figured out with the NOAA data and it's lined up for the most part.

http://farmanddairy.lyleprintingandp.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/USDA-hardiness-zone.png?3b68ce - a map of USDA zones

310 small to minuscule potatoes.

All in all a disaster. But it was an experiment and I've got seed potatoes for the next crop. I've found potatoes don't like the shade or heavy wet soil. Her Hitler has ceded some of her sunny veggie patch to me and I'm now going to grow spuds in pots with very friable soil and in the sun.

The variety that seemed to do best is "Salad Rose".

Salad Rose:

https://i.ibb.co/VLcDxZJ/potatoes-1.jpg

The rest:

https://i.ibb.co/Y8V8YPq/Potatoes-2.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/M75Tmvn/Potatoes-3.jpg

If Mr Putin is intent on declaring WW3 I ask him to hold off until I get better at growing spuds.