Gardening Thread

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Oh dear god. Haunted, posting pictures of his nuts again.

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I only show them off in my garden and on dm1. 

My black walnut tree is doing awesome. Only issue is the squirrels stealing most of them. Bastards. My wife won't let me shoot them and put them in the crock pot with root vegetables. These are the the best tasting squirrels ever too probably. Fat as shit off walnuts, wild grapes, and acorns from bur and white oaks. I run a squirrel resort here.

First true cold front this morning for us. I might plant some collards soon and see how they do.

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I've been doing an herb garden for my kitchen, and trying out various southwestern veggies that grow in the dry hot we get here. Usually have basil, flat parsley, cilantro, rosemary and mint going year round.

Roma tomatos seem to handle the 90+ degree weather a lot better, and hot peppers and green onions and such are made for it.

For the winter months (more 80-90 degree temps, but occasional clouds) I planted spinach and garlic over the weekend in long skinny windowsill container pots that I use to do rows of stuff aboveground. I might try some Romaine lettuce if it actually cools down a bit.

I got one outdo herb plant to completion this year without the bugs destroying it, and it's curing now. Whole house is a bit stinky, and I have a nice wooden arbor frame out back with screen stapled all over it to keep the fucking moths out when I start up again in spring. No more dealing with the tobacco budworm that literally chews its way through your nugs.

As of this year you can legally buy clones here, so I'm going to see how they do once January rolls around.

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Rosemary is invincible. Pretty much all those herbs will grow in whatever climate. Parsley I typically keep separate due to the monarch butterflies that lay eggs on it or whatever. I always end up with caterpillars eating the living shit out of my parsley every year.

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Loaded with grapes this year. Dorian kicked their ass 2 years ago, but they're back. Pulled out a couple bunches for the picture. No joke, I could fill up maybe 5 5 gallon buckets with the amount that's on my property. I'll probably just get a 1/3 of them. Most of them are 30ft in the air.

There's 13 different kinds of muscadine in NC counting scuppernogs. One time I think I narrowed it down to 2 different types being that 1) they're not bitter 2) they're bland with a tiny sweetness 3) they get big 4) they turn almost black and 5) they're ready in late August/early September. I forget the two types, definitely one of the better muscadines. Actually I think just remembered the one I thought it was: supreme muscadine.