Gardening is based. Growing one's own food is the only way to be free. One day, maybe tomorrow but perhaps today, growing food or anything will be necessary. If every person in the world grew just one plant, the world would change.
Pictured is considered a weed in Denmark. It's the comfrey plant, one of the best plants to have in any garden, especially a permaculture garden. It has been called Knitbone, for it's healing properties. This plant's leaves feed other plants and activate compost.
If every one of Nature's miracle plants were cultivated and understood, the world would be a better place, and there would still be more undiscovered miracle plants.
There is an /offgrid/ board on infinity chan and /out/ has it's homegrown general here on Jow Forums
Angel Wood
Can't believe it's fucking halfway through April and finally it's not freezing out again.
Fuck this gay earth. I want to die.
Daniel Reyes
I have not pics as of yet. I plowed in a 50 x 50 garden this season for heirloom variety only strains. We had to replace our seeds in the crash kit. I am looking forward to WW3 finally breaking our degenerate society down.
Don't even try here. You need to get the right seeds from the folks who know and you probably can't even do an A/B extraction.
Blake Green
I can but i wont brag
Ryan Walker
Good. Bragging is bad for the soul.
Adam Campbell
Basic high school chem is now too tough for the millennial generation and lower?
Leo Walker
yours
Carter Brooks
try permaculture
Camden Peterson
Are they teaching that in HS these days? I learned how to like titrate, shoot a cube of magnesium into the celing, and balance equations for the AP test.
Aaron Morris
Sick bud broskie :)
Asher Harris
I dont think they are. Senior level is what i did in 6th and 7th grade in the early 90's. I teach my 14 yr old son at home. we make anything from meth to explosives.
Gardening is based, being a commie is literally a sign of retardation.
Nolan Stewart
Based, and I don't mean just in the various ideas of how to define pH.
Wyatt Harris
So is disrespecting ppl and their skills
Evan Powell
so you agree with a retard
Gavin Sanders
Its funny my dad said I should have bought a mule. I bought a 20 horse tractor that came with a modified old mule drawn plow and harrows. The mule would eat the grass i mow with the tractor and fertilize the garden i plow. It is fun to learn to do it the hard way and not use a modern tiller.
knitbone/comfrey makes a great fertiliser, soak loads of it in a covered bucket for 2-3 weeks. when its the colour of weak tea it is ready to use.
It really stinks though when fermenting so don't have it too close to your house.
Even you weedgrowers will find it a good flowering booster and best of all it is free.
Isaiah Mitchell
that isn't comfrey, it's Pentaglottis sempervirens, although a lot of people do call it comfrey where i'm from, but comfrey is a different, yet related plant. fucking absolutely horrible weed tbph.
Caleb King
none, afaik. it's only a few tropical plants.
Leo Nelson
If you have a wood stove or a pellets burner, collect the ash and come spring spread it on the snow covering your field. It will make the snow thaw a lot faster, decrease the time before you can start to plant and help raise the PH level in your soil.
Owen Jenkins
>help raise the PH level in your soil most people shouldn't need to do that tho...
Ethan Williams
true comfrey (Symphytum officinale, not the plant in OPs pic, for god's sake don't introduce it into your garden) makes a great 'green fertiliser', which is where you sow a bunch of seeds, let them germinate and grow a couple of leaves, then just dig the seedlings into the soil.
Thoights on Natural Farming? I am going to start simple no till gardening soon.
Julian Lewis
luckily that's not my plant! Thanks for the info. Would the pictured variety still have the fertilization qualities?
I bought true comfrey seeds and have successfully sprouted just one. The cold-period the seeds need to germinate is tricky.
Henry Lee
Is that the same as permaculture?
Like the three-sisters used by the native americans?
If so, then my thoughts are very high indeed. It's simply the most productive way to grow food.
Carson Carter
>Would the pictured variety still have the fertilization qualities not that i am aware, but it's possible. it's not worth it though. the seeds germinate very quickly at the surface of the soil, but if they are dug in they can lay dormant for years, as soon as you turn the soil over they will germinate within a day or two. plus, if they establish themselves, the taproot can be well over a foot long, and they self-seed like hell. i've never had a problem sowing comfrey seeds. they are available in abundance, just scatter them over an area, water in and wait a few days. in the spring is best, temperature wise, and it's the best time to do it because that's when you want to fertilise the soil for new crops. but for me, the best fertiliser is horse manure, hands down.
Henry Powell
Read Sepp Holzer the permaculture master
Brayden Gutierrez
Fuck off styx
Jose Lewis
i went to a whole seminar on permaculture, and it was very interesting, but i've never put any of it to use. i mainly grow ornamentals, not often crops.
Ryder Fisher
planted 4 fruit trees and an herb garden last year. this year looking to add 6 more fruit tree and chickens. have a compost system going. comfrey is also on the list. the goal is to get rich and start an orchard.
Bentley Morales
>plant heirloom cultivars and take seed >stagger your plantings in the early season >start slow-growing plants indoors >perennials are your friend >include berries and trees in your garden >use cover crops and nitrogen fixing plants in the off-season >use crop covers judiciously >forage for wild foods (gathering and freezing berries can go a long way) >learn to preserve your perishiables
Monitor your yard's wind currents. Plant mothers at the entrances where wind enters your yard. If you plant them at the wind exits, seeds will mostly scatter outside where you don't want them to.
I do this and have volunteers all over the yard every year as a result. Very little effort required and it's nice having edibles so abundant that they're a pest.
Jonathan Parker
Made a raised bed for my grand parents, so they don't have to bend their back that much for their gardening. I can only mention that everyone here should look into it, for it can be more efficent and less work intensive as working directly on the ground.
Sebastian Morgan
I want hemp legalized too, but more for its non-psychoactive properties such as fiber, oil, and the part where it grows very fast and is a tolerant crop.
microdosing > getting high
Luke Ortiz
great tip. also, grow potatoes in a sack or big bucket, not in the ground. much easier to harvest that way.
Thomas Baker
>Made a raised bed for my grand parents, Hugelkultur my man, especially great if you have a bunch of wood and other organic trash that you want to get rid off.
Growing Tobacco this year. Little Dutch and Shirey.
But I won't be harvesting the plants when the leaves turn yellow, curing them in my airing cupboard, then processing them into ropes to use and sell. Because then I'd have to pay tax to HMRC.
Adrian Miller
what are the effects of grow lights (led) on people? I'm going blind? are they healthy?
I'd like to see this as a raised bed. All bright lights are bad for your eyes. They aren't lasers though if that's what you were getting at. Good thing you can always turn them off.
Just planted 200 potatoes We grow just about everything and pump water from a spring via solar It’s good for your body your mind and soul to work hard and reap the rewards that nature offers. Plus my wife wears super short daisy dukes so it makes the whole thing that much more pleasurable
Grayson Evans
no-till gardening is just mulching (and it works)
Logan Richardson
Three weeks to go at least. What strain? I just popped my seeds yesterday, Trinity Goo and C99 My neighbor has comfrey, and an acquaintance gave me some plantain, saying it's antimicrobial. Not sure if it's true.
Easton Ortiz
idk but I have always preferred natural light
Tyler Taylor
Does that work with resin-y evergeens
Aaron Kelly
thank you
Asher Campbell
Wouldn't dream of it. Just a natural pesticide crop.
