hms_anon | 5.11.18

help me plan my ideal garden/back yard

for the garden: im thinking raised beds with various tomatoes, chilis of different kinds, onions, corn, squash (idk wht kind.. and what about melons?), idk what else. im not sure about fruit trees. definitely a lemon, maybe orange

for nonfood plants: lots of roses, some cacti, a big tree for shade

also for design or w/e idk if i want a firepit or a fountain or sth.. i remember seeing a manmade creek at a house once, just a tiny thing and tbh i love that idea a lot idk how it worked tho

any ideas?

one thing to know about gourds (squash/cucumbers/melons) is they suck the nitrogen all out of the soil so you can't plant them in the same place year after year. you have to plan to move them and rotate with nitrogen fixing plants like legumes and clover.

i'd look into permaculture if you want to do the stream thing. the biggest thing is going to be keeping the pool from being stagnant and developing algae so you probably need a pump to circulate the water.

i knew nitrogen was serious but i dont know what plants do that. i should get some books on this mb

i've only learned through trial and error like this year not a single goddamned cucumber where they thrived the previous year and then i learned about nitrogen fixing plants. knowing a little about companion planting and crop rotation is good. also what can handle shade/part shade/full sun.

also some squash cross pollinate so you might end up with some weird shit

rly? hat sounds rly interessting lol

behold the story of squish

https://elodieunderglass.tumblr.com/post/174277942458/gothvegas-thunderandthugnificence

also zucchini is extremely prolific and i'm definitely doing it next year

nayrt omfg this rly should have been posted in october bc its more horrifying than any creepy pasta I've read lmao

“But,” my grandfather said, “you have to take two zucchini for every tomato.”

lmao

he inner 8 rows, however, created this hybrid monstrosity that we called Squish. It was pretty– a nice swirly yellow and green combination that made it clear the squash and zucchini had interbred.

Squish became a living nightmare for us. Something about the hybridization caused them to forget how to stop growing, or at least how to grow at a normal rate because those suckers were longer than my dad’s forearm, and bigger around than my (albeit child-sized) thighs.

omg i love them

“Oh,” she said, intuiting what I meant. “Eating the blossoms. Love stuffed blossoms. Pumpkin, squash, zucchini. It keeps the crop down, and you get lots of mileage out of them. You keep a mixed crop that way, too. Plus, people don’t always welcome gifts of zucchini, but they find gifts of blossoms exciting.”

good, i love squash flowers

oh i'd also look into lawn replacements. i scattered a mix of dwarf clover and flowers and i've had all kinds of little pollinator friends helping me out. as a result my aphid problem was negligible this year and lots of tiny bird friends got some food.

oooh googling this brought up so many prettypictures, i love that a lot! i h8 grass so much and im allergic to it so its perfect lol

so do you ust have clovers and flowers instead of grass?

i bought a native pollinator mix from prolawn and got some seed packets from the xerces society

https://xerces.org/

i hate grass like a lot and my landlord is a hippie so it worked

oh if you're trying for milkweed keep in mind it takes about 3 years to get established so don't get too discouraged

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