Closeup coming through, really slow uploading for some reason.

They "look" like Stayman

Thanks. The don't taste like much.

Cut out sugar and they'll taste like candy

Lol

I don't eat a whole lot of sugar. I mean compared the Golden Delicious down the hill, they dont taste like much.

Maybe it was just that one I ate.

Yeah those are better for cider

Good, were big cider drinkers.

Thanks!

Just poking fun

I know, no worries 👍

I've found a few of these around the property. Not sure what they are. They were under oak trees. Any ideas?

This hurricane is gonna totally ruin my aquaponics

@John M -#7072 looks like spring mix lettuce

I can't remember exactly what it was. I wasn't expecting it to do well in 90° Florida weather. The other stuff is radishes, beets, and onions.

There's a strain of Arizona and Jericho lettuce that does well in high heat. Yours looks great.

Thanks man, I've gotten pretty lucky. It's been overcast about 3 days out of the week every week for about 2 months.

Aquaponics is stupid easy. I highly recommend it. Just feed the fish every 2-3 days

Fish? There are fish involved?

Aquaponics is aquaculture+hydroponics.

Fish poop fertilizes the plants.

Ah cool I had no idea

Look into it. Mine is big and semi-permanent, but you can make a little one with a 2 gallon fish bowl.

Will do. Sounds intriguing.

You should switch to no till organic anyway

When I buy some property, I want to do hugelkultur

You don't need a tree. You can just get a huge pile of green wood chips. A place by my house has a 20 ft pile for free. They're low quality for landscaping, but perfect for composting.

Nice!! Anyone here read "teaming with microbes"

If not then I highly recommend it

https://youtu.be/Jp-5wKaL_oE

This guy does good introductory level hydroponics videos, if anyone's interested

Go no till

What exactly do you mean by this?

You don't till the soil. Instead you focus on keeping the soil life healthy(from insects, to bacteria, to fungi, nematodes, etc)

Basically healthy soil life will make anything and everything your plants need, so instead of administering what you think your plants need, they instead have an entire nutrient buffet in the soil that they can draw from as they need it

It involves learning about the soil food web and understanding the different rolls of the microlife

Basically everything you do will be to support that life rather doing what you think your plants nees

Need

I do green fertilizer in my traditional garden. I've been thinking about all that, but I'm moving soon, so I'm not sure that it's worth it.

Start it up at your new place

And read "teaming with microbes" by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis

The whole system can be used indoors as well

Regardless always go soil over hydro, unless you're in space, even then that's debatable

I just like hydro and aquaponics for the technical aspects. It helps to soothe my Autism.

Haha gotcha

@Why Tea that's a clever set up to protect your cantaloupe

It worked great! Another round of 'em ripened too so I got to re-use that cage.

Have a small backyard garden. Had a bad year for the most part. But want to grow cotton, just a few for the heck of it and was done here by original settlers, so should grow. Ordered seeds twice online, but I think they were duds.Nothing even came up. Anyway, tips on time of year or anything. Never seen a cotton field and fascinated by it, especially being a Southerner.

Take that back. Did see cotton fields on way back from Virginia, but they were in flower stage so doesn't count!

How did you prepare the seeds (if at all) and what care did you provide right after planting?

🤔

@Why Tea No prep of seeds. Just planted as instructed and watered immediately after. Kept moist through the days. Nothing ever grew.

Well that sucks. I've certainly had bad luck sometimes with seeds that just did nothing.

Looks like a tiny plant that subverts and takes over your whole garden.

For some plants we always buy seedlings or young plants, just to avoid the hassle/risk, despite the extra cost.

The wife's dad, however, is some sort of wizard with seeds and grows almost everything he can from seed.

Yeah. I just like more natural way of going by seed. But certainly has it's setbacks.

@Deleted User Low light. Makes sense, likes to be in the shadows as it wonders.

@GoyMeetsWorld If I remember correctly, that's exactly how it got it's name

Of course!

Does anyone have any good informative videos or online articles that would help me start looking into an in-home mini garden? I am in college, and have a small patio deck that I can do a small box garden or multiple plants. Thanks!

Have you seen these garden wall things? You can make it with old pallets to save $$

That looks absolutely perfect and what I want to do. It's nearing the Winter though (Winter is coming lol), so would it be a good time to pick up the hobby now?

Or wait until the Spring?

What zone are you in?

I live in Harrisonburg, Virginia

Eastern Time Zone is that is what you're looking for

No hardiness zone. So you're in zone 6 which isn't good for winter planting without a greenhouse. You can look around for supplies now and start your seeds in late winter/early spring indoors.

That would be fantastic! Would you mind in I reached out to you again at the end of winter for some questions?

Not at all. Here's a pic of a pallet being used as a mini garden. Since pallets are free and everywhere it's a cheap easy way to do these gardens:

I really dig that! Awesome job!

That's not mine but I plan to do these mixed in with my garden to save space.

Very pretty

We love the pallet planters at my house. Be sure to use pallets that are not chemically treated. They have stamps on them with different designations.

^^^Yes. Whenever using wood to make a garden container make sure it's not chemically treated.

@Deleted User O wouldn't use pallets for gardening, fam. It's usually made from pressure treated lumber

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My bounty, from a 4x4 plot of soil

Does anyone have any suggestions for what to plant in a fall garden? I’m limited to an area that has practically full shade, so I’m restricted in what could successfully grow there.

If nothing is suitable for that spot, I could always purchase pots for my porch.

You could try some root vegetables like beets, carrots, or potatoes or some leafy greens. I know they don’t really need full sun but I’m sure they’d want at least a little bit still can’t hurt to try

Ok, I’ll see what I can do. 👍🏻 Thanks

My Japanese eggplants still going strong

Nice. Now bread it and fry to make is sufficiently not healthy 😃

Yes!

Great eggplant!

Thanks!

So this seems like the best place to ask but does anyone have tips for treating pink eye in cows?

antibiotics and eye patches, keep as much sun off of them as possible. That's what the eye patches are for. Back on the farm we'd have some cows get it so bad the vet would stitch the eye shut until it cleared up. But it's been about 10 years since I've messed with cattle so there could be some updated way to treat pinkeye. @varjack WA

You probably need to get the vet out there to check out the situation. They can also give you tips on how to control it, flies help spread it. But that's probably not a problem this time of year.