hgm homegrownmen 411

Replies

A

Anon06/15/26, 22:25No.2872029

Transplanted a dozen hostas from the in laws yesterday. Everything else is still just growing but I’m getting some tiny peppers.

1

A

Anon06/15/26, 22:39No.2872031

Took this picture the other day, she showed up in my lawn and ate my guinea fowls corn bran, she wouldn't get any closer because my dog was sleeping next to me.

3

A

Anon06/16/26, 04:11No.2872080

For the season I'm at:>87 quarts of green beans >35 pints of salsa >14 chics (id normally be around 400 at this point in the season but the grandbaby is a lot of work so we're just focusing on stabilizing the flock- will probably get around 50 hatchings) >snapdragon seeds from last year are blooming. These are my favorite flowers of all time and ive never been able to keep them alive and I got some plants that kept going for over 2 years- they even bloomed in the fucking snow! >planted buttercrunch lettuce 2 years ago, they seeded out and came back this year, seeded again. Need to collect seeds. >stuck onion that was growing in the pantry in a pot. Forgot about it. Died off in winter. Started growing in spring and I was like "wtf is this?!" Kept watering it. Came back this year, flowered and seeded. Need to collect seed. >garlic always does well. We use a lot of garlic. Store bought is "just as good!" since its just dried and not processed but its awesome to just go out in the yard and dig it up when you need fresh. Probably my favorite part of growing shit. Pic is garlic just starting to seed. We have so much that just spreads from root that we dont actually "plant" any (that pic is from my lawn) but im thinking of taking the seeds and nurturing it across about a half acre. Fuck it. I love garlic and have property so why not...

2

A

Anon06/16/26, 04:51No.2872084

I don't like the new mower I got a month ago, I can't return it because I used it and it's been a little over a month. Oh well, thank you for reading my blog

1

A

Anon06/16/26, 19:31No.2872143

>raspberry already producing the first fruits of the season >one of the banana pepper plants i bought already produced a long thin pepper >tons of flowers on the squash alreadycan't wait for more stuff to get blooming and growingThe biggest problem i have right now is what i believe is sawfly larvae eating the rosebush leaves. This is the third year they've been eating away at the plant.Is there a better spray i should be using to try and get rid of them? I was using neem oil but that seems to only work for a little bit and then they eat the shit out of the plant even if i spray some more.

1

A

Anon06/16/26, 22:39No.2872163

I put my radishes in my raised bed using seed tape. The north side are doing great, but the south aren't looking as healthy (same for the cucumbers on the left but its less extreme). I thought it might be a nutrient deficiency and mixed a few coffee grounds into the soil on the weaker ones but it hasn't done anything. Any idea of what's going on and what I could do?

1

A

Anon06/18/26, 19:13No.2872368

Spider mites and fungus gnats killed my sick strawberry plant.Some other mysterious insect is causing leaf burn and sticky sap on my indoor avocados. Google says leafhopper, but I've only ever seen a few leafminers, which are dead now. For now I'm going systemic with imidacloprid, since I won't be getting any avocados for 2 years.

1

A

Anon06/20/26, 13:55No.2872467

why are the leaves drying up and falling off my pepper plants. i dont see any bugs.. do they need more fertilizer? i put rabbit poop and compost on them and thats it this year

1

A

Anon06/21/26, 08:55No.2872519

Went to allotment for first time in probably a month, it's now a nature reserve. Bee's a loving it though. You can see the amount of wild flowers we have which it nice. Trimmed paths and watered what was still surviving. Early potatoes need pulling up, broad beans have survived, so have the peas next to them. They seem to be using the flowers as ad-hoc supports to grow up. They're salvageable.Noob question: When trimming weeds/unwanted plants, would you recommend putting them all in a compost pile? Or would you burn some and compost others i.e. Compost grass & burn brambles?Ta in advance.

2

A

Anon06/21/26, 10:40No.2872522

Bees are going crazy on my poppies. Seems like there’s some opiates in the pollen or something.

1

A

Anon06/21/26, 10:44No.2872523

Bees also love my lovage, especially the various non-domesticated ones. Too bad that it’s making too much shade now at 2 meters and is in the way for harvesting my black currant. Left some smaller flower stalks though. Really need to hang up some more wood with various holes and stuff to attract some more of those bees.

0

A

Anon06/21/26, 19:59No.2872547

got a bunch of free municipal compost. it is like a paste/clay consistency and goes rock hard when it dries. what can i do with this stuff? I planted 3 tomato plants in the ground and sort of mixed some of the compost into the soil by hand. Is there a way to make this stuff more workable and not so clumpy? is there a way of aging/curing it?

2

A

Anon06/22/26, 12:34No.2872592

Just moved one beehive of stingless bees inside the bee box yesterday, I told you guys I would take pictures of the process but I couldn't, I tore some of the honey pots by mistake so I had to improvise and I could not take pictures while doing it.

1

A

Anon06/22/26, 12:48No.2872594

Box looks like this on the inside, first level is the entrance/exit and where the nest stays, second level is the "overnest", some space for the nest to grow upwards, queen puts the eggs in a small circle that goes up like a tower, then the level where they put the honey is from the third layer upwards.

3

A

Anon06/22/26, 13:07No.2872595

Lots of birds eating bananas today.

0

A

Anon06/22/26, 18:07No.2872620

My red lilies have bloomed, they seem to bloom first every year.

0

A

Anon06/22/26, 21:53No.2872639

I was really busy lately, didn't check the thread in two weeksFound this absolute unit when diggingWhich cultivar do you have? A lot of older cultivars are very tart If you let them hang a few days after they turn dark blue they get sweeter, they might also drop though, although newer cultivars have much lower tendency to drop If you want sweet I recommend Boreal Blizzard especiallyDo you have at least two different cultivars? They need cross pollination for good crop

0

A

Anon06/22/26, 21:57No.2872640

Clover everywhereLooking objects far away or close up trains your eye's muscles responsible for changing focal length much like gym does your other muscles After a while of this "training" the range of focal length your eyes have increases Most people spend all day looking only at screens close up hence short slightness

0

A

Anon06/22/26, 22:00No.2872641

If you have lupine I strongly advise removing seed pods after flowers expire unless you want to have hundreds of them next year (not an exaggeration btw)

0

A

Anon06/22/26, 22:03No.2872643

We had a miserable week, very wet with temperatures going as low as 3 C at night, my peppers and watermelons are just barely hanging on

1

A

Anon06/22/26, 22:27No.2872651

This was supposed to be watermelon bed but they took so much damage from cold tomatoes and cape gooseberries I have grown here 3 years ago took over I haven't planted even a single one of them, they keep seeding themselves here because I always let a few of them grow between watermelons

0

A

Anon06/22/26, 22:30No.2872653

Ripe currants, very tasty I'll be making wine with them and gooseberries tomorrow, I could post some pictures and describe the process like last year if anyone is interested how it's done

1

A

Anon06/23/26, 01:01No.2872660

Maybe too many squash for this planter. Totally mogging the 2 cucumber plants on the left. Starting to get male flowers already. Probably a week or two before any female flowers develop.

0

A

Anon06/23/26, 01:06No.2872662

The garlic that survived the winter is doing well. I planted some closer to the edge of the planter and much of that stuff didn't make it so I filled the gaps with onions. Tomatoes are big enough to start string trellising. I planted mostly Amish Paste variety since I've been doing a lot of canning in recent years. Got about a dozen peppers growing already.

0

A

Anon06/23/26, 03:06No.2872677

i need a new hose. i fucking hate my cheap garden hose. i've just had enough. sell me on your hose

4

A

Anon06/23/26, 21:47No.2872739

I really want to buy a new fucking mower, the one I have now bogs down all the time in my yard full of tttf and prg.

2

A

Anon06/24/26, 01:23No.2872756

I just bought 425 feet of hoses- (3) 100s, (2) 50s and (1) 25. Just to water the new junipers i planted to "box in" the end of my shotgun range (that was the closest yard spigot). Im not dragging hoses around during the summer to keep these things alive so I bought the cheapest ones I could find. The ridiculous part is that it would have been about the same cost for pvc pipe for a permanent run but if im going to rent a trencher im going to do a lot more than that and dont feel like it right now. I actually have this cool stainless sink from a park or something im going to put down there and run electric at the same time so I dont have to deal with batteries for the throwers and I have one of those under cabinet "instahot" hot water heaters for kitchens im going to add.So there will be a stainless sink bolted to a pine tree in the middle of the forest with hot&cold running water.

0

A

Anon06/24/26, 05:01No.2872770

Behold

0

A

Anon06/24/26, 20:27No.2872824

So I have narrowed it down to three mowers to cut my luscious thick lawn: Scag sfc 21 7cv Stihl rm 756 yc (this is the least strong and I'm liking it less and less but still considering it) Ferris fw15 (this is overkill but it would never bog down and force me to take half passes) Honestly I should probably just get the Scag as it's the cheapest and around where I live it would be most easy to get parts as they are made in state. I'm just sick of taking half passes with my mower and wasting all that time when I could take full passes and be done in half the time.

2

A

Anon06/25/26, 02:58No.2872854

when ammending native soil with compost, is it best to leave the soil sort of clumpy, work it until its fine or somewhere between the two? does it depend on the soil type?

1

A

Anon06/25/26, 17:30No.2872898

I walked a new trail today and found two pure or almost pure female red mulberries. The leaves and fruit were too high to grab to confirm but everything about their leaf shape is telling me pure, which would be exceptionally rare this far north

1

A

Anon06/25/26, 21:27No.2872919

Is poking the dirt of a potted plant with a bamboo skewer good for aireation or am I just fucking up the roots doing that?

2

A

Anon06/25/26, 23:53No.2872936

I guess all the maple seeds flying around were viable because I just pulled up like 50 sprouts

2

A

Anon06/26/26, 05:37No.2872958

what if I over ammend with compost? I dug about 40% compost into like the top 5 inches of soil.

1

A

Anon06/26/26, 17:17No.2872990

I cannot understand why some people go out of their way to grow "bird-magnet" plants. My experience with these animals so far has been waking up to half eaten produce and shittier trees every day, some of them which I use for making tea so having to sort out the clean leaves from the shitty ones when harvesting feels more and more like a humiliation ritual as the days go by.

4

A

Anon06/27/26, 02:45No.2873057

>110F >stock birdbath with fresh water nearly every day >twenty wrens just hang out on my porch all day goofing around, staying hydrated, and just shitting everywhere holy shit i need a hose it's on the walls i dont know how

0

A

Anon06/27/26, 14:10No.2873088

What are your lots thoughts on compostable bin bags? Do they work in your experience?

0

A

Anon06/27/26, 14:43No.2873090

I move toads out of the driveway every night if I go to the store so I dont run them over. This year ive seen l: the big female black hognose (theres a male here too), a scarlet snake (not a scarlet king, although I found one of those a couple years ago) a smooth green snake, a juvenile eastern king and a rat snake. I have a breeding colony of box turtles on property. Found a new one this year (i take pics and file them in a book and record when ive seen each one). I think the book is at l4 individuals.

1

A

Anon06/27/26, 23:08No.2873136

Ok now the second step, removal of fruit pulp After how many days you want to do it will depend on fruit, flavor you are aiming for and speed of fermentation which depends on temperature mostly, you can also do it sooner if you added pectic enzyme In my case for this gooseberry wine I'm doing it after four days because it's warm and I want lighter flavor that comes with shorter time of keeping fruits inFirst you want to clean your equipment, I use potassium metabisulfite dissolved in water to get rid of any unwanted microorganisms You'll need something to squeeze fruit in manually if you don't have a fruit press, big funnel with a filter will also help a lot but it's optional Rinse everything with water after potassium metabisulfite, you don't want it to kill yeast in your wine

1

A

Anon06/28/26, 04:28No.2873163

glow in the dark plants just dropped

3

A

Anon06/29/26, 17:03No.2873303

Moved three more meliponines from the baits to boxes, they have more room now so they can lay more eggs and stockpile more honey.

0

A

Anon06/29/26, 17:07No.2873306

This is the weakest one, the beehive was really small, I am supplementing them with honey outside of the beehive.

0

A

Anon06/30/26, 01:20No.2873340

>people posting crops ready to consume >best i can do right now is alfalfa and thats a battle evolve faster damn you

0

A

Anon06/30/26, 12:55No.2873362

Cordia verbenacea, really hard to get, more common near the coast, anti-inflammatory and analgesic.

0

A

Anon07/01/26, 07:26No.2873460

This pic is a little old (2 weeks ago?) But I can't wait for my baby tomato plants to produce. They are getting ready soon and I have many other seedlings. Im a bit late in the season but better late than never!

0

A

Anon07/02/26, 01:27No.2873506

I hate mugwort so much

1

A

Anon07/02/26, 04:25No.2873518

I let my weed situation get out of control out of laziness I think I'm going back to using landscaping fabric next year, I never had to weed so much when I was still using it

1

A

Anon07/02/26, 06:25No.2873527

Well my lawn is doing great so far, although parts of my backyard now have fungus that seems to be spreading from creeping charlie that I don't know how to address. My asiatic lilies are all doing well too, as are my native late season flowering plants. I need to decide if I'm going to wipe out or keep the ground elderflower I have, I kind of hate it but fireflies love to live in it.

1

A

Anon07/03/26, 12:51No.2873622

I was initially sceptical about this so called rigid stem "Maliniak" tomato but it's holding strong even in 60 km/h gusts Even stronger winds are coming so I'll stake it just in case but it's pretty impressive how rigid those stems are

0

A

Anon07/03/26, 12:52No.2873623

First blueberry of this season

0

A

Anon07/03/26, 12:55No.2873624

After 2 years my kumquat finally decided to flower, I'm quite excited I have never grown citrus before, let's see if I can get fruits on first try

0

A

Anon07/03/26, 19:02No.2873646

Finally it's fucking RAINING

0

A

Anon07/03/26, 20:14No.2873650

How do I save my basil? Soil is hydrophobic Leaves turning yellow despite fertilizing and watering (liquid fert) Only lightly mulched so that was defenitely my mistake. Zone 8b north texas

2

A

Anon07/04/26, 15:34No.2873733

Huston we have budding, I repeat, fruit is going to happen this year

0

A

Anon07/04/26, 19:32No.2873747

My second year growing a handful tomatoes on my balcony. last year I didn't prune them, just tied them to some poles, so they could grow tall. But heard somewhere, that people recommend to trim the side branches, so they grow tall instead of wide. Can anyone give me some advice on that? I got the plants of some friends who didn't need them and they told me that two of the ones I have are supposed to grow wide like brushes and the other ones should be pruned.

4

A

Anon07/04/26, 20:21No.2873752

Some type of wild strawberry, it has thorns, it is not barren strawberry because I have seen some weird fruits, it is spreading really fast like bermuda grass.

0

A

Anon07/04/26, 20:26No.2873753

Fruit looks like this

2

A

Anon07/04/26, 20:28No.2873754

Searched online, found nothing, guess I will see if it is poisonous or not

0

A

Anon07/05/26, 11:01No.2873817

Banana trees coming out fine on sandy loam

2

A

Anon07/05/26, 11:02No.2873818

Smaller banana trees already sprouting near them.

1

A

Anon07/05/26, 11:16No.2873824

Thick fog here today.

0

A

Anon07/05/26, 11:21No.2873825

Almost like a horror movie.

1

A

Anon07/05/26, 17:46No.2873869

Kohlrabi in the dark at the back. The mini cantaloupe is not an aggressive grower.

1

A

Anon07/05/26, 17:56No.2873874

Easy man's carrots. Note the left side is how they should be, everything else had their true leaves clear cut by earwigs then I remembered to go out at night and slaughter them all with a pointy rock.

0

A

Anon07/05/26, 18:00No.2873876

Pumpkins have enjoyed the heatwave, 3 under the mulberry bombarded by berries and bird shit. They're looking much clear now after several rains.

0

A

Anon07/05/26, 18:34No.2873881

This years pathetic comfrey harvest, about 1.5gl sludge. Need 1gl rotten/drained to 4gl leaf compost to make comfrey compost.

1

A

Anon07/05/26, 18:36No.2873882

This is it.

1

A

Anon07/06/26, 14:05No.2873941

Beehive inside the bait.

0

A

Anon07/06/26, 14:06No.2873942

You can see the bees walking inside on this picture.

0

A

Anon07/06/26, 14:07No.2873943

Their new home after I was done moving them.

0

A

Anon07/06/26, 14:26No.2873944

I have moved them one hour ago they are already rebuilding the entrance and sealing their new home.

0

A

Anon07/06/26, 17:45No.2873955

can you sell me some green tomatoes for cheap?

0

A

Anon07/07/26, 01:41No.2873988

Elderberry coming on strong.

2

A

Anon07/07/26, 20:03No.2874028

Re beans/peas picking/drying:From what's I've read there's a lot of encouragement to keep picking, because this causes the plant to produce more pods. But if I left the pods on the plant with intent to mature for drying, would this not result in a lower yield overall?I seek your knowledge anons, what do you prefer to do when seeking dried beans/peas? Should I have separate plants for drying/plants for picking?

0

A

Anon07/08/26, 00:19No.2874041

0

A

Anon07/08/26, 00:20No.2874042

0

A

Anon07/08/26, 16:51No.2874088

Is this herbicide damage on my tomatoes. They're heirloom san marzano redorta but I've been getting tiny leaves and shitty new growth ever since transplant. The same this happened last year but I transplanted way later this year. The compost I've been using is coast of maine lobster and crab. How do I fix this?

1

A

Anon07/11/26, 15:24No.2874303

Bees started swarming on the side of my house where I left the tip of other baits on the floor. I ran out of bee boxes tho.

2

A

Anon07/11/26, 15:26No.2874304

I hammered a fence post on the ground and tied a two liter coca cola bottle bait with a wire, best I can do now.

2

A

Anon07/12/26, 07:38No.2874371

I'll have to give some of those away, too many for me to process

0

A

Anon07/12/26, 09:23No.2874385

Getting peachy over here.

1

A

Anon07/12/26, 13:48No.2874394

Honeynuts coming in

1

A

Anon07/12/26, 17:21No.2874405

They are in the process of moving in, if the queen likes the bait they stay, otherwise they find somewhere else to make a beehive.

1

A

Anon07/12/26, 22:02No.2874429

>bri'ish >Looking to buy a house, find a new build that looks nice and green >Building nature reserve around it >Bat boxes >Hedgehog routes for gardens because modern terraced gardens are ecological deadlines >House we're looking at has a crabapple treeCan you actually do anything with these? I know builders put them in because they make nice looking blossoms, but I've heard you can make okay jams and cider from them. Anyone with any experience? I just remember throwing them at friends as a kid rather than doing anything productive with them. I'm planning on growing lots of veg in the garden once we're actually in and I don't think the tree will get in the way.

3

A

Anon07/13/26, 02:34No.2874447

Bats have been numerous this year and not so many mosquito, they can fly any direction anytime they want. Tonight they've been flying very low, over my head I could reach them. They chase each other while screeching as if playing or pissed off someone ate their hunt.Too fast for photos and catbox load fails for videos.

0

A

Anon07/13/26, 03:07No.2874448

I have THREE (3) cottontails that hang around my raised beds and I found nests under two of my plants again. It's like they're asking to be a part of the food chain.

0

A

Anon07/13/26, 07:27No.2874455

>mfw I had a mental breakdown and threw away all my seed packets

2

A

Anon07/14/26, 05:21No.2874517

>raspberries and loganberries in half barrel barrel planters >oh fug, they're getting big >AI growfriend tells me to buy a trellis for $99+ on Amazon so I can get maximum yields >smugly make a trellis using old pieces of wood and rusty nails Feels good man

0

A

Anon07/14/26, 21:28No.2874592

Mint flowering. Planted a few varieties a decade ago and it grows like a weed now.

1

A

Anon07/14/26, 21:38No.2874593

I had this guy come up about three feet from last years garden because I hate mowing and am lazy so I just put a cage around it.

2

A

Anon07/15/26, 00:21No.2874606

>me when I find squash bugs

1

A

Anon07/15/26, 12:28No.2874665

Spent the morning pruning brambles at the allotment/nature reserve. Looks like they're going to throw a tonne out this year. Despite losing most of the plants to being smothered in my absence, I'm looking forward to these.

0

A

Anon07/15/26, 12:36No.2874666

Are hori-hori knives any good? The missus was asking for birthday recommendations for me. I just use a cheap trowel right now but I prefer a tool that does a few different things. Price isn't an issue.

2

A

Anon07/15/26, 21:00No.2874693

Welp just saw Vine Borer land on my squash looks like it's game over

1

A

Anon07/15/26, 21:03No.2874694

I have a dog he likes to run around outside and he will eat or chew on leaves of a tree or small sticks ,he runs around near the garden and sniffs but dosent eat any off the plants I grow,I was concerned about the garlic because it’s poisonous to dogs he has sniffed them a few times but I can tell he doesn’t like the smell,I want to grow winecap,blewit and some oyster mushrooms in the garden to,do any of you have dogs?do they tend to eat the mushrooms?.its rare for mushrooms to grow in the yard so I can’t tell if he will try to eat them,nor if there even safe for the dog to eat .

3

A

Anon07/16/26, 19:02No.2874773

>decide to get a soil moisture meter on a whim>check struggling container avocado>substrate is actually a fucking fucking sponge, still moist down there 3 weeks after watering>Tree shows marked improvement during the dry spellTurns out the guy who told me the substrate was "high drain" was a fucking quack and I've been drowning it.Any tips to amend high absorption soil for better drainage?

2

A

Anon07/18/26, 20:58No.2874971

My woodchipper just broke, I was cursing all evening thinking I would have to spend fortune on a new one but it's just one broken part and they sell replacement for just 7% of the entire thing's price with shipping, what a relief

0

A

Anon07/20/26, 08:21No.2875119

Hello, I am semi new here. I posted a pic about 2 weeks ago and I am pleased to join this community if its where home gardening is most discussed. I know how to make new threads but I am relatively new to /out/ and this threadI humbly request a new thread so the image level is reset and I can post my 3 images (an even combine them into 1 image to save image space)Without images, this is my setup:I have labeled 12 of my Plants in groups of 4. They are in Stage 2 of 3 before their final replanting in larger containers.α,β,γ,Δδ - Black Cherry Tomatos Εε,Ζζ,Ηη,Θ - Tomatilos Ιι,Κκ,λ,Μμ - Radishes

1