- Ben Hur Horse Race ( @JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ) 88•1 year ago
Honestly, with my raised beds, between compost, seeds and fertilizer I probably lose money compared to buying tomatoes from the store. Home grown garden tomatoes are 10x better quality than grocery store tomatoes.
- fomo_erotic ( @fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml ) English36•1 year ago
Honestly, with my raised beds, between compost, seeds and fertilizer I probably lose money compared to buying tomatoes from the store. Home grown garden tomatoes are 10x better quality than grocery store tomatoes.
Bro I been growing edamame. Holy fucking shit. You’ll fucking cum.
- seitanic ( @seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ) 27•1 year ago
Soybeans. You’ve been growing soybeans.
- TheBurlapBandit ( @TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I think the person knows their own garden better than some rando lol
- snooggums ( @snooggums@kbin.social ) 10•1 year ago
Edamame is soybeans.
- jackie_jormp_jomp ( @jackie_jormp_jomp@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Soybeans is edamame.
- jackie_jormp_jomp ( @jackie_jormp_jomp@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
And Zendaya is Meechee.
- Ben Hur Horse Race ( @JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Ive been telling people egg is egg for a long time https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f7/c5/f6/f7c5f6fa35da9a45e43ec4e1424bfb81.jpg
- Ben Hur Horse Race ( @JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
yeah? our light is very poor in our back garden. the only thing that thrives, that I’ve found, is gerkins, so thats what we grow. tiny cucumbers, and we pickle them.
we tried regular peas and beans, and it was OK, but there was so little fruit at one time we became completely confused as to how anyone could have enough for a whole serving at any one time.
Whats your light situation like with the edamame? do you just boil/salt them and eat them like you would in a japanese restaurant?
- AnonStoleMyPants ( @AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz ) 3•1 year ago
I should do that next year. Grow a bunch of stuff for the first time hydroponically this year and it has been fun. Even though the pruning gods would murder me if they saw my tomatoes.
- worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) 12•1 year ago
And if ever there is a day you can’t buy tomatoes for whatever reason, you will have them.
- Ben Hur Horse Race ( @JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
we actually switched to gerkins. so, if theres ever a day where we can’t buy pickels, we’d have them, but not the pickling ingredients as we can’t grow our own vinegar
- dominotheory ( @dominotheory@midwest.social ) English4•1 year ago
You can! You just need a vinegar mother! I’ve not done it myself, but the way I understand it you can transfer the mother once the vinegar is to your liking, then on to the next one.
- Ben Hur Horse Race ( @JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
I had a look and its like a red liver looking thing? I’m not sure I’m prepared for this
- worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
When gardens are being raided due to mass starvation, people will go to your house and say, “Pickles, GROSS!” They will move on and your house will be spared.
- SkepticElliptic ( @SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
- Ben Hur Horse Race ( @JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
good thing I’m not growing cheeseburgers
- worfamerryman ( @worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
What I would give for a cheeseburger tree.
- lazylion_ca ( @lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ) 6•1 year ago
Not to mention the cost of watering.
- Ben Hur Horse Race ( @JudahBenHur@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
I live in Ireland, we don’t pay for water (or even waste water out like they do in Germany), but the rain has been non-stop this year with the gulf stream. I’ve also just intalled a water butt out of a 500l repurposed whiskey barrel (again, Ireland) so that also helps with not having to use the hose (they call it the hose pipe)
- SkepticElliptic ( @SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Collect the condensed water from the aircon.
- SkepticElliptic ( @SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Sure, but if you keep the same plot, over time that cost will average out.
- ABotelho ( @ABotelho@lemmy.ca ) 69•1 year ago
Gardening is a hobby. You don’t do it to get cheap fruits and veggies.
The results speak for themselves though, and you absolutely cannot beat a tomato right off the vine.
- RecklessDwark ( @RecklessDwark@lemmy.ca ) English5•1 year ago
You can beat a tomato off in many ways 😏
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
We had 1/2 acre and planted a bunch of things, ate for free. Water was from a well so not even a water bill. Best tasting veg ever. Potatoes though, those are hard labour.
- ABotelho ( @ABotelho@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
Can you grow all year round where you are? If I had half an acre where I live I think half of my growing area would have to be a greenhouse.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year ago
Where I live now we probably could, but land ia too expensive here. But land in Ontario was cheap and only for summer since winters were harsh
- HeroHiro ( @HeroHiro@discuss.online ) 1•1 year ago
tell this to everyone giving advice to people in poverty
- jimmydoreisalefty ( @jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org ) 1•1 year ago
The best we can do is learn and inform, while being empathetic and understanding.
For those who can garden, great!
For those who can’t, might consider joining a community garden or help start one.
This is also not possible for everyone, but from my own experience, community garden communities do free lessons to help and teach new people.
Coming together around a common good, that is what we can do.
- Gamey ( @gamey@feddit.rocks ) 48•1 year ago
That’s definitely from someone who never tasted a home grown tomatoe or waters theirs a lot too often, you can buy tomatoes but they taste like literal shit in comparison! ;)
- Pyr_Pressure ( @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ) 13•1 year ago
Also you can leave them on the plant a lot longer than they last in the fridge.
So you save a lot more, since you aren’t buying tomatoes every week. You just pick them as you need them.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
I think the issue is they taste of nothing, and the flesh is all this mealy mush texture. People have a surprisingly low standard of what the accept as a tomato
- Gamey ( @gamey@feddit.rocks ) 2•1 year ago
Yea! Many evdn try to grow their own but water them too much and don’t taste the real difference because of that. I love tomatoes but the store bough ones really suck even in summer! (I get that they can’t taste all that ripe in winter)
- salient_one ( @salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ) English31•1 year ago
But store-bought tomatoes are nearly tasteless…
- HurlingDurling ( @HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ) English8•1 year ago
This. I made pasta sauce with 100% produce I grew on my garden and it was by far the best I had ever tasted. Made about 2 jars and preserved the second one and was still amazing a couple of months later.
- salient_one ( @salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ) English1•1 year ago
You can also make your own ketchup.
- WeThePilgrims ( @WeThePilgrims@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
Yup, plus passata and puree. No such things as a tomato glut.
- jimmydoreisalefty ( @jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org ) 23•1 year ago
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) English1•1 year ago
“What message?”
“Oh it says ‘fuck farmers’ but it’s only visible from the air.”
- jimmydoreisalefty ( @jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org ) 1•1 year ago
It is more about independence and taking part in growing what you eat.
Some are more inclined and others do not have a inkling for it.
Nothing about the farmers. In fact, I would propose that our farmers need more independence from greedy companies and gov’t interference.
The farmers and community should have a bigger say on the matter. Instead of having bigger and bigger farms that are becoming just like big greedy corporations.
No fault to the farmers and the like, this is due to the muscle of corps./gov’t/lobbiest making things worse then they should.
Joining together, as common folk, against greed and the wealthy class should be our focus.
- downpunxx ( @downpunxx@kbin.social ) 22•1 year ago
Growing tomatoes is awesome once you have the right stakes & cages, but when end rot hits ya, and ruins your entire crop, months of watching those little buds grow, it will break your fucking heart
- whatisallthis ( @whatisallthis@lemm.ee ) 12•1 year ago
God damn. That would be like buying a new pet like a kitten or something and then a year later finding out you can’t eat it.
- Dubious_Fart ( @Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml ) English17•1 year ago
1.33?
I can easily go through a tomato a day. The only thing limiting me is the cost. if I grew my own I would definitely go through at least 2 tomatoes a day.
- AmberPrince ( @AmberPrince@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
You sound like a weird tomato version of Gaston.
- Dubious_Fart ( @Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
Tomatoes are good man.
Sliced and put in a sandwich.
Sliced and served cold with salt and pepper.
chopped on a taco, or in a salad/wrap.
Make into soup.
cooked down into sauce.
but not fried. Fried green tomatoes are shit and taste awful.
- oo1 ( @oo1@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
I think they’re meming that 4 that was their total yield from all the plants they were able over the 2 months.
if you were to grow your own you’d probably be limited by something - space , light, and soil quality, and weather (maybe)
that’s probably why you say “if”
- Jimmycrackcrack ( @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year ago
It’d potentially eventually pay for itself and save you a $1.33 or much more over a lifetime, but actually when you factor in all the costs of the gardening supplies and water and just all the associated costs with setting yourself up to grow them it’s going to take a lot longer for you to save that $1.33. Hope you like tomatoes, you’ll need to eat plenty to make it worthwhile.
- potpie ( @potpie@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
My MO is much cheaper. I just throw produce waste into a corner of my back yard and see what starts growing. Right now I’ve got about 10 pumpkin plants taking off like crazy. A jalapeño plant too!
- frippa ( @frippa@lemmy.ml ) 13•1 year ago
Growing weed saves a lot of money tbh
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) English10•1 year ago
Too many people think growing shit also takes a lot of effort. Nah, literally just plant shit, weed once, then wait. You literally don’t even have to water in most areas lol.
People think gardening or farming takes a lot of effort. It does if you want a pretty little area that’s more eye pleasing. But if you just want food? Put seeds in. Wait. Food lol. Might not be the greatest harvest but any seed you’d buy at a store is hearty as fuck now.
Edit: Holy shit, yes guys. People on the internet live in the desert and even Antarctica too. My comment wasn’t meant for you contrarian buttwipes lol. It was meant for anyone who doesn’t live in a hellhole and has access to a little land lol. And even in those hellholes and places with shitty soil, it’s just because you’re trying to grow shit not meant for there lol.
- ☆Luma☆ ( @Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
Hydroponics and the accessibility to it makes things even easier. On demand veggie snacks, right in my room? Yes please.
- AnonStoleMyPants ( @AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
Fuck yes. Though I grow outside.
On the other hand, I’ve been expanding and fiddling my system all summer long for god know how many hours. That reminds me that my nute res is almost empty…
- Misconduct ( @Misconduct@startrek.website ) 1•1 year ago
This comment is brought to you by someone living in a temperate area, with land that they have access to, that also doesn’t scorch everything that tries to grow.
A lot of people think growing shit takes a lot of effort because it does for them.
That being said, hydroponics is a very nice option that works for me.
- kungfusion ( @kungfusion@kbin.social ) 9•1 year ago
any tips for a beginner gardener? my tomatoes are always tiny, and how do i keep bugs from eating my leaves??
- Swallowtail ( @Swallowtail@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
Try cherry and grape tomatoes. I’ve grown cherry tomatoes for the past two years along with starting grape tomatoes this year and I’ve had much more success with them than larger varieties. I think they tend to be more disease resistant, more vigorous, more productive, and fruit matures more quickly.
Also try growing them in bags or raised beds where it’s kept away from the ground where pests can get at them easier. Another thing you can do is cover the soil around them with straw mulch in order to reduce soil splash onto the plant when it’s being watered–this can transmit diseases to the plant. Pick off all the bottom half foot of leaves or so on the plant when it’s big enough too to reduce soil splash hitting leaves.
- DragonAce ( @DragonAce@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
I stopped growing grape tomatoes. They’re easy to grow but they’re an indeterminate variety, and since they grow so fast they require a lot of pruning. I found a determinate variety of cherry tomato that grows so sturdy that it could potentially stand on its own without any trellis or cage until it starts fruiting, not willing to test it though.
- Swallowtail ( @Swallowtail@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
I built a trellis using T posts, electrical conduit, and PVC pipe and it has worked extremely well.
https://ladyleeshome.com/how-to-build-tomato-trellis-2/
It’s basically this. Takes some work and some money but it was well worth it to me. I will have this for years and it performs much better than cages.
And yes, indeterminate tomatoes require pruning but it’s well worth the trade-off to me to have tomatoes ripening all the time instead of all at once.
- TheEmpireStrikesDak ( @DakRalter@thelemmy.club ) 2•1 year ago
You could look into: companion planting (some plants help or hinder others. Eg, basil and tomato are good friends); no-dig gardening (alongside having a good soil microbiome); green manure; sacrificial crops to lure pests away from your main crops; aspect and soil type.
Higher potassium and phosphates increase flower and fruit growth. Higher nitrogen increases leafy growth.
Don’t grow the same type of plant in the same patch every year.
- ThePuy ( @AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl ) 8•1 year ago
It’s not about the money!!
- Alien Nathan Edward ( @reverendsteveii@lemm.ee ) 8•1 year ago
the system depends on you only being able to do one thing effectively, and needing to pay other people to do all the things you need but can’t do. When you do that, you have to go through several layers of government and corporate bureaucrats who all squeeze you for a little bit extra just because they’ve positioned themselves between you and what you need to live. To be self-sufficient is to cut all of these middlemen out from between you and the necessities of life. Gardening is a revolutionary act, it’s propaganda of the deed writ small.
- anolemmi ( @anolemmi@lemmi.social ) 7•1 year ago
Do they think they have to sit and watch them grow?..