#growing vegetables

[generalstrikefarm]

@v8pontiacgirl grew a monstrous head of broccoli. It's a pretty tasty variety, too, but with a slur for a name, unfortunately. (We call it GPC instead, after a favorite character of ours who was renamed that after it was noted that her name was that slur.)

I'm looking forward to powering through that beast. That's a few meals worth.

[clusterbungle]

Wake up greenhouse residents, it's moving day!

Everything always looks so weedy and small after you move it =/

Now survive. Live damn you!

[thicklymajesticrelic]

My sibling chucked my propagating sweet potato while I was working, thinking it was going bad...

'It was growing things!' they said.

...yes.

...that's the point.

...I was propagating it.

...you propagate sweet potatoes by letting it grow slips and then carefully cut them off and put them in water until the slip develops a root system...

*sigh...*

Granted, they were by a slightly decomposing pie pumpkin that I was going to harvest seeds from- and I did manage to save my butternut squash seeds...

...but still, I had been working on that sweet potato for a MONTH trying to coax it into producing viable slips. They were just BARELY long enough to propagate and my sibling chucked it because 'if it has eyes then it's bad= not good for eating= rancid= goes into waste bin' was their thought process.

...they even chucked my shallots... everything that was on that particular table. About a month's worth of work... just gone...

They apologized and said that they didn't know- even though I told them, repeatedly, they have seen me tending to them, they called it my 'science project', but apparently the ADHD brain made them forget- and said that they were willing to buy me new plants but that's not the POINT. The point is, that today the slips were ready.

Today, I was hoping to propagate sweet potatoes from store bought after about five weeks of getting that damn thing to grow slips- making sure that it had enough clean water, making sure that the indoor temperature was right, protecting it from the cat- and now it is literally in the waste bin, and I'm sad. I put aside time after work today to propagate them, and was planning to continue caring for it to get enough slips to start a sweet potato patch eventually.

...I can start over with new plants, but I will not be getting the time back, and now that it is getting later into the season, while there is still time, I will be missing out on some serious growing time as I was hoping to get those slips into the ground by the beginning of April. Now I'll be lucky to get them if I get them into the ground before May...

UGH...

At least I saved the butternut squash seeds- I had taken the seeds I had saved into my room since my room is a little warmer than the table, apparently that was the only thing that saved them from the fate of the sweet potatoes, shallots, garlic, and pumpkin...

...and my seed potatoes... 'they had eyes growing on them and they were gross looking! I thought they were bad!'

*pained groan*

I think I'm going to go scream into the void for a bit...

I love my sibling, but I am going to need to grieve some before I get around to forgiving them and thought to share my grief.

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[solera-terra]

Some updates on my first time gardening you ask?

Not going to lie Ive gotten a few of my plants sick by mistake and struggling to heal them. That doesn’t bring me down much though because any victory no matter how small is still a victory to me.

Used my first grown tomato to make a caprese sandwich with home made pesto.

✨👌🏽

Now, I thought I was told this plant was a zucchini plant but the weird deformed thing that is growing looks cucumber-ish….i have to look that up. But regardless! I grew something from starts for the first time!

Here’s a question for you. What do you suggest I use my first harvested basil for? I already made pesto and I would have to get more from the store for that. I’m excited to use it though.

I’m having fun. This is a hobby I’ve always wanted.

[solera-terra]

Guess what

My first grown tomato is here!

I hope it’s edible.

Feel free to suggest how I should eat it. I want it to be a special way, I’m thinking a mozzarella tomato and pesto caprese sandwich or by itself as a dish. I would have to make my own pesto though, more work 😅

In surprised it’s so big when my mother’s green thumb goes as far as growing things just as big as her thumb.

Nature is also being very helpful in my garden. Plants are full of fireflies and other bugs that are supposedly eating and keeping pests that damage my plants away. I am so grateful to nature and the fairies for helping me out.

[not-mary-sue]

The heatwave is killing my poor carrots!