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Would anyone be interested in an online gardening club?
It’s spring time, and I am belatedly thinking about growing some plants. I tend to quite enjoy growing edible plants, but I might try a few flowers this year. Would be anyone else be interested in a regular gardening chat group where we can share our experiences and challenges in growing plants? Indoor, outdoor, all welcome!
I envisage something similar to the weekly minecraft threads, but less square potatoes or pixelated flowers, and something more tangible (not to knock the minecraft threads, I love them, and they are my inspiration for this!)
We've had a fair number of gardening posts in the past, so I could see this getting traction.
Recently moved into a rental, so we're focusing on pots and aquaponics this year.
We had ditched our big aquarium when the last of the fish died, but retained a small tank with the plants and snails if we decide to ramp up again in the future. We ended up adding some shrimps and an assasin snail to help balance the ecosystem a bit more, and we've started floating kitchen scraps to regrow them...green onions work amazing, lettuce does OK but is hard to manage in the small tank, and the avocado pit is starting to aprout.
Starting to prep some beans, peppers, and cherry tomatoes.
If my herbs survive my east facing balcony and black thumb, maybe I’ll post about them…….
My previous gardening attempts have been limited to growing cat grass and catnip. The grass was fine; the catnip grew like, maybe two inches from the soil and stayed like that for basically 3 months where I couldn’t tell if it was struggling or still growing…
I've recently been filling my house with propagated pothos clippings while trying to learn more about its biology. I'd love to hear about other Tildeans' experiences with propagating plants (especially easy plants like pothos). I have a few parent plants living atop a fish tank, and clippings from those have now ended up in 40+ glass bottles around the house.
If you’re talking about houseplants, two that I find easy to propagate and hard to kill are Plectranthus verticillatus (swedish ivy) and Tradescantia zebrina (silver inch plant). Both are trailers and grow quickly from cuttings. Most begonias can be propagated in the same way. Super easy. But several species can be propagated from leaf cuttings laid flat on soil and secured with pins. I find this fun to do and watch as you’ll get multiple plantlets popping up from the leaf. This works well with most rhizomatous begonias like begonias in the rex group (Begonia rex-cultorum). There’s also the wonderful world of succulents, many of them easily propagated too.
Yes, houseplants. I don't think I've heard of swedish ivy before, but I've been on the lookout for silver inch. I'll have to get some soil if I get either of these. My pothos plants are all purely grown in water with a drop of nutrients once in a while. I've had pretty good success with jade plants in the past. Begonias sound interesting!
I'm an absolute beginner. In the past, I managed to kill a peace lily, despite trying to keep it healthy. For several months now, I have been trying to maintain a couple of orchids at least long enough to see a second blooming.
I'm in. Preparations for this year's garden are underway. The capiscums and celeriacs are growing well in the indoors sprouting area. In a week or two I'll plant the tomatoes and cucumbers. Wife broadacst kale and other greens in the greenhouses this weekend, for spring microgreens.
Apart from that, I think I'll only plant beets and parsnips outside this year. Usually we're a bit more ambitious, but we have lots of (non-gardening) stuff planned for this summer, so that will do. We have like 15 types of edible perennials too.
I'd be into that! Though, I'm possibly going to step back from taking on as many gardening projects as I tried the last couple years, because I kept finding myself with too much going on and neglecting certain things.
I haven't even though about starting veggie seeds yet, so that may get axed in favour of growing a few herbs, and then continuing to clean up current garden beds before thinking about more. Mayyyybe do a little hardscaping related to home maintenance.
I'd be interested. Despite having a lot of space outdoors to grow veggies, they keep getting eaten by the wildlife (squirrels, rabbits, and maybe deer?), so I've not had a lot of success.
This year, I was going to try to grow spinach and some other non-pollinated plants indoors hydroponically. I haven't made much progress yet, but since it's indoors, I'm not constrained by things like seasons and weather.
I’m interested!