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Post by starbuckwhy on Jul 1, 2016 0:58:36 GMT -5
hi, i'm Starbuck. this is my first year gardening as a hobby. I have two small gardens and two tiny little gardens. I am starting a project to make my own breed of popcorn as a living family heirloom. I am also going to build a small x-ray machine to mutate seeds and I am thinking about making my own pesticides... because that is how i role (jk) here are some pictures of my gardens.          |
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Post by richardw on Jul 1, 2016 1:08:25 GMT -5
Very good use of small areas. What is the second to last photo?
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Post by khoomeizhi on Jul 1, 2016 3:12:12 GMT -5
looks like pokeweed berries
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Post by starbuckwhy on Jul 3, 2016 13:54:05 GMT -5
yes, it is pokeweed!  there is a big bush of them growing near the second garden. i am thinking of trying to make a pesticide out of the berries, since the toxic surfactant in them is under investigation as a potential organic pesticide. i haven't tried cooking them yet, as i am nervous and there is little young growth on the plants. but they make a great spider sanctuary, which has made it so that I've needed very little pest control so far. |
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Post by starbuckwhy on Jul 3, 2016 13:57:33 GMT -5
the small pot with corn seedling in it is an experiment to see if i can get some useful epigenetic changes by torturing the corn with overcrowding and then using it's pollen (i figure it won't be able to fruit in those conditions) to pass the traits on.
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Post by starbuckwhy on Jul 7, 2016 3:27:10 GMT -5
haha, the small pot with the tortured corn seedlings is tasling. and i found more aphids, this time in my other corn patch. there were lady bugs eating them so held off on the diatomaceous earth and just put out some borax with sugar in it to kill the ants instead. then of course i smashed as many as i could with my fingers. the borax and diatomaceous earth seems to be working ok on the other corn patch (cross my fingers). my potted tomatoes are doing well, and so are my ground cherries. the beans are wrapping themselves around the squash as fast as the squash plants can grow |
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Post by reed on Jul 7, 2016 4:24:36 GMT -5
I like your tortured corn. I'v thought of doing something similar just for pollen so I could detassel mother plants and cross them to lots of different fathers.
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