BrahmaBelarusian

BrahmaBelarusian, 12 days ago to gardening

Oh well, the tracking email I was waiting on to see when I'd get the seed potatoes I ordered last month has yet to arrive, but as I saw the potatoes in question were delivered today, I consider the missing email a moot point. Tomorrow I'll begin to thusly dig up one set of potatoes & plant another, saving some of the newly harvested potatoes to chit & replant. #Potatoes @gardening

BrahmaBelarusian, 1 month ago to gardening

Trying to furtherly refine how much of each garlic variety I should plant, by checking the harvest times & storage times, to chart "how many varieties will be good to eat, in each month from May to February?" (the softneck need window thusly being March, April & May) this way I can adjust with planting more of the fewer types. This is especially needed for January & February, as those are amongst the worst months for my neuropathy so the easy peal hardnecks will be needed.

#Gardening #DisabilityAccessibility
@gardening

bananamangodog, 1 month ago to disabled

Can anyone point me in the direction of #disabled persons pursuing self-sufficient lifestyles? The #disability could be mental, physical, or other and the self-sufficiency could be from a #Permaculture, #Prepping or #Sustainability perspective.

Looking for social media accounts, books, blogs, youtube or people doing this kind of thing outside of modern socials that would be happy to have a conversation about it.

@permacultre @mecfs @actuallyautistic

BrahmaBelarusian, 1 month ago to food

@gardening I keep redoing my numbers on potatoes, especially in trying to figure out possible yields & usage - minimal goal of a yield at present being about 800 lbs & ideal being about 2,000lbs. Yields I see so far in estimates varying in weight planted to harvested going from 1/24 to 1/5 so.. I've a feeling it's going to take a few years to get this decent. #Food

BrahmaBelarusian, 2 months ago to gardening

@gardening Continuing with my garlic research & calculations, overall planning on planting 2-3 rows of 20 feet this year, and staggering the harvest times, to help ease harvesting& give fresh as much of the year as possible. #gardening #Food

BrahmaBelarusian, 2 months ago to gardening

@gardening As it got to about 81°F outside today, I put in about a dozen "spring garlic" cloves which had sprouted, around my existing fall planted garlic... Which looks to have grown well & thusly I'll do a spring mulching for within the next week or 2. As the temperature is supposed to drop to about 20°F on Wednesday night, it should get the cold it needs to form a full bulb.

BrahmaBelarusian, 2 months ago to gardening

Looking around for new things to plant & I came across the Potato Onion. As I'm still struggling with pt/ot to help at least slow the functional loss from my advancing neuropathy, their biggest plus is that they don't require seeds, nor the winnowing thereof, to reproduce year after year. Instead similar to garlic, it's a matter of pulling them up & dividing them every year, to replamt some & store/eat the rest. Odds are I'm going to though work on making a new variety or 2 of them before I just grow them exclusively though, as even though historically there were many varieties available, now I'm just seeing 2. @gardening
https://www.cultivariable.com/instructions/root-crops/how-to-grow-potato-onion/

jblue, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to gardening

When rat tail radish cross-pollinates with watermelon radish, this is what it happens.

So much for seed saving. :blobcatnotlike:

#gardening #vegetablegardening #plants #plantas @gardening @plants

Correction: they cross-pollinated with the wasabi radish! 🥵

BrahmaBelarusian, 9 months ago to random

Sometimes I think I spend as much time daily shredding cardboard as I do eating, if not sleeping... All for my compost piles, which are often where I plant potatoes. #compostodon #ContainerGardening

MariaTheMartian, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Which one do you like the most?