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If you search "Keyhole Gardening" on StartPage or any other search engine that isn't AI-corrupted, you'll get a bumper crop of information.
The Wikipedia page is very detailed.
Also adding some book recommendations on Permaculture from the fine folks at Lithub.
Advice nobody ever asks for but every time I tell someone they find it extremely useful:
If you want to get rid of ants in your house mix a cup of icing sugar and a cup of potato starch 50/50 (dry, no water) and spread it near the holes where the ants get into your house. They wonât be able to separate the sugar and starch and will feed their larvae with the mixture. The starch will kill the larvae. So you wonât see results right away but if you keep it up youâll get rid of them over a few weeks. I make a batch every summer to combat ants in my kitchen.
Because the mixture is non-toxic to humans and other mammals itâs perfect if you have children or pets. God knows my dogs eat anything on the floor and this way my only worry is they might get cavities if they get into my pest control powder.
Thanks OP do you have one for rats
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Making a master list for all the great Hopepunk Solarpunk posts ive seen
giving this to my future self
What is Solarpunk? (reddit masterpost)
Rules of Guerrilla Gardening (youtube)
Easy way to do Guerrila Gardening (no seed bombs needed) (youtube)
Hope is not mindless optimism
Solar punks are against a shitty future
Deeeefinitely donât look at the native plants and plant them alongside sidewalks to make the world greener and prettier
How to really make a difference
It is the cohabitation that makes all things beautiful.
Buy Nothing group; becoming a community
Fixing clothes- how to do it
Know your local communities
What if we stop an apocalypse?
Individual action into collective action
Wallgardens- More accessible and less space needed
Gardening for a climate resistance
Social Ecology
Actual solarpunk vs misconception
How to help with little energy/effort
An actual ecovillage!!
Attracting native birds
Amazing Ecovillage (tiktok vid)
Reconstructed Railway Bridge (tiktok vid)
What is Solarpunk? (youtube(
How can we make Solarpunk a reality? (youtube)
A cool guerrilla gardening group (youtube)
How radical gardeners took back centeral city (yourube)
Adapting your garden to survive climate change.
So there's a drought in Belgium at the moment, and like everywhere else, the grassy parts in our garden have mostly dried up and gone yellow. The most notable exceptions are the one corner of the garden behind the elder tree, which we chucked a bunch of wildflower seeds on in the spring and then left alone - it is pretty impenetrable now - and,
The vegetable patch.
(Disclaimer: I am not a gardening expert, I have no qualifications in that area, and I've only had gardens since 2018, so take the following with a pinch of salt.) Anyway, here's what has worked in my garden this year:
Cover the ground completely. You do this by planting things close together and using hay or grass clippings or leaf litter - anything really - to fill the extra space while the plants are still young. You know those distance recommendations on the back of the seed packet for how far apart to plant? Unless you're planting salads or cabbages (which can go to seed), halve it. The closer your plants are to each other, the more ground they'll cover, and the bigger your yield will be. By the time you're harvesting, you want to be unable to see the ground without moving something out of the way. This keeps the ground out of the sun, slowing down evaporation and preventing your soil from drying into a hard baked crust that's incapable of absorbing water. In short, it prevents the desertification of your garden. This method is best paired with...
Companion planting. Basically you want to put plants that are different next to each other. Most people do this by meticulously planning where each plant is going to go. I, however, am an agent of chaos, and have solved this issue by putting my plants wherever. I currently have a very prolific yellow courgette plant right next to some tomatoes, with a few green beans hiding underneath along with the lemon balm that was already there. I've got raspberries next to butternut squash next to some flowering vine thing next to potatoes. And I've got poppies absolutely everywhere, poking up between the courgette leaves. They keep each other cool. It's been weeks since it last rained properly and the only plant that's suffering is my green courgette, and that's because it caught a powdery mildew and I had to cut off about half the leaves. I could have prevented that if I'd kept a better eye on my plants.
Water with a watering can, not a hose. Not only does this prevent wastage and allow you to put water directly at the roots of the plants, it also means you avoid watering your leaves. Water droplets on leaves can heat up very quickly in the sun and actually damage the plant. Tomatoes are especially vulnerable to this. This is also why it's best to water early in the morning or late in the evening. (ps- a jug is fine if you don't have a watering can. If you have set up an irrigation system for your plants, you are over qualified to read this post.)
Plant a wide variety of things. When I started gardening, we got lots of tomatoes bc we kept having droughts and early summers. This year has been the same. Last year however, we got so much rain that half of Belgium flooded and every single tomato plant I had rotted before it even managed to fruit. Luckily last year I also decided to plant green beans for the first time, and we got a pretty good yield. This year I planted plenty of both, and though we're having fewer green beans, we already have enough tomato sauce to last us half the winter. It pays to have a variety of plants with different needs, because the weather and seasons are now so unpredictable that we should be prepared for anything.
Plant at different times. By which I mean, start some tomatoes on your windowsill in February, then some more 2 weeks later, etc. That way they're not all ripe at the same time and you can harvest them all summer, instead of having way too many that are ripe at once.
Plant too much. There are precautions you can take against aphids, slugs, and other bugs, but if you're lazy eco-conscious like me, plant about 30% more than you need. Nature demands a sacrifice in return for her bounty, and a third of your harvest is a fair tax imo. If you want to protect your favourite veggies, try to either lift them up off the ground (if they're vine types or small enough to be potted), or plant sacrificial plants around them. Nasturtiums attract aphids, for instance, and when our kale went to seed we left it there until it broke in the wind, because it was attracting all sorts of bugs that consequently left the other cabbages alone.
Plant flowers as well as vegetables. I didn't see the point of this until my mother-in-law gave me a bunch of flowers to plant in between my veggies, and suddenly I was getting much higher yields. The reason for this is pretty obvious, in hindsight : for your fruiting veggies to, well, fruit, they need to flower and be pollenated first. Bigger, more brightly coloured flowers = more pollenators in your garden. Plant pollenator-friendly flowers, not just edibles. Bonus point: they're really nice to look at.
This is all I've got for now. If you happen to be more experienced / knowledgeable about this than me and feel the need to correct me, please feel free. I do not guarantee that I will follow your advice, but someone else might.
âWe are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been transported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasnât always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, urban farmers grew Mediterranean fruits and vegetables as far north as England and the Netherlands, using only renewable energy.
These crops were grown surrounded by massive âfruit walls,â which stored the heat from the sun and released it at night, creating a microclimate that could increase the temperature by more than 10°C (18°F). Later, greenhouses built against the fruit walls further improved yields from solar energy alone.
It was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the greenhouse turned into a fully glazed and artificially heated building where heat is lost almost instantaneously â the complete opposite of the technology it evolved from.â
The preschool is buying heirloom sunflower seed in bulk. Weâre going to make a âSunflower Houseâ.
How to grow a sunflower house
@bacheloretteofscience THIS WORKS so well!
If you want to get super fancy, do a second ring on the outside of 4â tall sunflowers then a third outer ring of the 1â tall teddy bear sunflowers. Â If there are any gaps you can interplant with cosmos, amaranth and nasturtiums or (if there are huge gaps) gourds.
My mom used to do this for me in the backyard as a kid- it really works and I always loved it! Spent so many summer days having tea parties with teddy bears in my sunflower house.
Okay. Gardening 101; or âAuntie Sys I have a yard thatâs currently a yard and donât know SHIT or FUCK about how to make it not be a boring-ass yard.â
Step 1; go to your local landfill and get all of the newspaper you can. Cardboard will also work. If your neighborhood puts them out for recycling, go around and grab them all like a little newspaper goblin.
Step 2; acquire mulch. If you WANT, you can go pay for it at a garden store, but weâre all cheap lazy bitches here so screw that. Most landfills will collect yard waste and branches and chip them into woodchips, which you can get for PENNIES or FREE. Go load up on that good shit.
I like straw too, which I can get for barter because I am related to half the people around here and a solid 65% of my extended family are farmers. I give Uncle Daryl three quarts of elderberry jelly or a couple pounds of morels in spring and he loads me up with straw bales.
Step 3; figure what parts of grass you want to be not-grass, and cover that shit in newspaper, good and thick. 5-10 layers. It helps to wet the newspaper to keep it from blowing away as you work.
Now, cover that newspaper with a good thick layer of mulch.
Congrats, youâre removing the grass. Itâll starve to death under the mulch and newspaper and rot into compost. You now have garden beds and have not dug one single bit of sod.
If you canât wait for six months to plant, pull the mulch aside, cut a hole in the newspaper, and dig out a plug of sod the size of the planting hole. Throw some compost in there and plant. Tuck mulch back around plant. Water well.
There ya go. Garden beds. In a year, when you pull back the mulch the newspaper will be almost rotted away, and the soil underneath soft and loamy.
I like to edge garden beds like this with rocks, which I can ALSO get for free because I live in the part of Iowa dotted with limestone quarries. Just, pick that shit up along the road and
Iâm collecting flat ones for a FREE crazy paving path too.
I love you for this.
No prob.
Protip; the best way to do a large area without killing your knees or back is to load up a bucket of water with newspaper, sit down on the grass, and sorta scoot your ass along as you drag the bucket with you, newspapering as you go.
Then dump buckets of mulch on that and spread it out with your feet. Just sorta kick it where you want it to be.
Source; my 61 year old mom with bad knees.
AAAAAAAYY my mom did the much-to-get-rid-of-lawn thing over the course of a winter- sheâd read the paper in the morning then go spread it out on the lawn and toss muclh on it. By spring it was ready to cut holes ans dump irism day lillies and peonies into.
and all this BEFORE she got her hip replaced.
10/10, recycling, enviornmental stewardship, loos baller AND YOU DONâT HAVE TO MOW.
Hottest summer in maybe a century. At least the tomatoes - and the cucumbers hidden behind them - are loving it.
8 vegetables that you can regrow again and again.
Scallions
You can regrow scallions by leaving an inch attached to the roots and place them in a small glass with a little water in a well-lit room.
Garlic
When garlic begins to sprout, you can put them in a glass with a little water and grow garlic sprouts. The sprouts have a mild flavor than garlic and can be added to salads, pasta and other dishes.
Bok Choy
Bok choy can be regrown by placing the root end in water in a well-lit area. In 1-2 weeks , you can transplant it to a pot with soil and grow a full new head.
Carrots
Put carrot tops in a dish with a little water. Set the dish in a well-lit room or a window sill. Â Youâll have carrot tops to use in salads.Â
Basil
Put clippings from basil with 3 to 4-inch stems in a glass of water and place it in direct sunlight. When the roots are about 2 inches long, plant them in pots to and in time it will grow a full basil plant.
Celery
Cut off the base of the celery and place it in a saucer or shallow bowl of warm water in the sun. Leaves will begin to thicken and grow in the middle of the base, then transfer the celery to soil.Â
Romaine Lettuce
Put romaine lettuce stumps in a ½ inch of water. Re-water to keep water level at ½ inch. After a few days, roots and new leaves will appear and you can transplant it into soil.
Cilantro
The stems of cilantro will grown when placed in a glass of water. Once the roots are long enough, plant them in a pot in a well-lit room. You will have a full plant in a few months.
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It's April, and my garden still hasn't thawed...
this book is worth more than a dozen restaurants that grow their own microgreens on the roof
ACCESSIBLE GARDENING FOR PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
I know this isnât a gardening blog, but I feel like this would come in handy for those of you who want to grow your own food! - Mod Aya
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For any of my disabled green witches out there. A resource.
Gardening can be so therapeutic, everyone should be able to at least try it out!
What is wrong with mint and mint relatives? Thank you.
Theyâre lovely, but they MUST be kept in a pot, or a raised bed, or on a good-quality leash with a chest harness, because mint and its cousins spread like⌠IDEK, like a rash. Like dandelions. Theyâre tough, hardy and highly motivated. Even a tiny root fragment will suddenly turn into a Mint Tree if you donât tear it up. I swear Iâve seen new plants popping up from BURIED SCRAPS OF LEAF. Once theyâre in the ground they establish a beachhead and spawn secretly, possibly through osmosis. I cannot advise you to stick a mint plant in the ground unless you are a bold and unconventional disciplinarian.
The joke is that after running around after the mint like a spaniel chasing a whack-a-mole for a year, Dr Glass then planted a plant that would do the same thing.
Great plants, hard to kill, keep them in a pot (ESPECIALLY where invasive)
I would really recommend against planting mint in raised beds, and also, if in a pot, DO NOT PUT THE POT ON SOIL. The pot needs to be on rock or concrete. Otherwise the roots will head straight for freedom through the drainage holes, and you will Never Be Free.
of course, on the other hand, if youâre at all inclined to pettiness expressed via herbology, mint makes a GREAT vehicle for plant-based vengeance.
i have absolutely thrown mint roots into the perfectly manicured lawns of people i hate.
An ever growing mint plant appearing in my lawn would seem like the opposite of a problem to me?
Theyâre invasive, which means if theyâre anywhere in your garden or manicured areas they could ruin the other plants, I think? But yeah Iâd love to have a damn mint plant in my yard sounds ideal.
Has anyone ever thought of just having a lawn of mint instead of grass? Like how you have moss lawns?
⌠I am not judging!! but I donât think the people in the notes who are like âoh a mint lawn would be lovely!â have met mint!
You know what would be a lovely herbal lawn? Chamomile. Because itâs a damn compact, densely-growing, hardy, winter-green perennial thatâs springy underfoot, smells nice when you walk on it, and has some basic manners. Lawn chamomile is plushy and soft and produces tiny pretty daisy-looking flowers. It naturally stays at pretty much the height you would want grass to be, and then you can cut it and it goes âfair enough.â
Mint is not any of those things. Mint is leggy, patchy, muddy and rampageous. It grows randomly and fitfully. It bullies other plants. It sends runners into the neighborâs houses and across the street and it barks at the postman. Your mint lawn would look like a poorly tended graveyard AND THEN IN THE WINTER IT WOULD DIE, DRAMATICALLY, and ROT THERE. It would outcompete native plants and eat your vegetable garden alive. It is so wet and stalky that it would be dreadful to trim, and when you trimmed it, it would scab over and sulk. It would refuse to grow where it was put (the lawn) and would instead show up in places you donât want it (the patio, the sidewalk, your intrusive thoughts.) IT IS AN INVASIVE PLANT, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOUR FAMILY
Itâs like asking why people donât make lawns out of cabbages, or hyenas, or the cold virus. BECAUSE THEN IT WOULDNâT BE A LAWN OR A GARDEN
"Don't plant mint in the ground" is like one of the Ten Gardening Commandments. Get a nice pot, or a common large plastic bucket with water release holes drilled into the sides, for your mint. That way you can enjoy it (and take it inside if the weather fails).
this book is worth more than a dozen restaurants that grow their own microgreens on the roof
ACCESSIBLE GARDENING FOR PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES
I know this isnât a gardening blog, but I feel like this would come in handy for those of you who want to grow your own food! - Mod Aya
Radishes "Easter Egg". Pretty, and they grew really nicely.
I love my little greenhouse, but. I can tell that I most likely will have to replace it. Or add another one. It doesn't hold temperature very well, only adding as little as half a degree to the outside temperature some mornings. That means I can't really start that early with my poor tomatoes - which are overcrowding my windows at the moment - after all. So, big part of having a greenhouse lost there. I've added a large barrel of water, in the hopes that it'll help raise the temperature, and there's always the option of plastic covers, but. Maybe this is as good as it gets with a âŹ100 greenhouse. Still, it's an exercise in gardening and improvisation, so. I'm conducting an experiment right now even. Since I have too many tomato plants I'm risking two by leaving them out now, in the hopes that the water will keep the temperature up enough that the plants won't freeze to death. (And if I just so happen to have marked out a perfect space for an additional greenhouse, well. There's no proof.)
