For many indoor gardeners, everything starts with cuttings (aka clones). If you can’t get rooted plants, you will never have a functioning garden. So how do we get stem cuttings that will root quickly and thoroughly? And how does a plant stem generate roots in the first place?
Here’s all the info you need about cloning plants in your grow room.
http://www.rosebudmag.com/hydroponic-tips-ideas/what-causes-cloning-sweet-cells-that-create-cash-crops
Posted in Hydroponics
Tagged aka, canâ, cash, cash crops, Causes, cells, clones, Cloning, crops, everything, garden, indoor gardeners, plants, roots, stem cuttings, Sweet
what kind of nutrients do i need to grow hydroponic tomatoes and other vegetables. ive seen some that are really expensive but i dont want to pay that much just for tomatoes, i know those nutrients are also used to grow more “expensive” crops, i guess that is why they are so much.
i am making a setup with pvc pipes and will have a reservoir with water and whatever nutrients i need to add
thank you
Posted in Hydroponics
Tagged crops, dont, hydroponic tomatoes, kind, nutrients, system, vegetables
I had a dream a few months ago, (In-body) that I was walking along a road with hills on either side, and to my right was a little farm sitting atop a hill! I went inside the small house next to it, (which was occupied by the owner of the farm) and a kind-looking old man was playing cards with his buff trucker brothers. He got out of his seat and showed me his crops. They were flowers that grew to the size of cornstalks! They were of every color, and if you stuck your hand inside, you would find an edible seed that looked like a small eggplant but was the color of the flower it came from. The man had a small stable in the back where he kept sheep. He never sheared them, but their coats were neat and trim. He used the sheep for harvesting the seeds. They would go in a straight line, side by side, and go through the field, rolling the seeds as they went. After a while, the seeds were in a neat pile. Then I woke up. What does this all mean? I have a green thumb and like to grow corn. ->
I also like sheep.
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged click, coats, color, corn, cornstalks, crops, dream, dream click, edible seed, eggplant, farm, flower, flowers, green thumb, In-body, little farm, man, neat pile, old man, playing cards, right, road, seeds, sheep, side, stable, straight line, trucker
What crops would they have grown and what foods and drinks would have been common? What herbs would they have?
Posted in Herb Gardening
Tagged crops, drinks, greeks and romans, herbs, Mediterraneans, Romans
I live in southern California, and I’m working on amending my soil with home grown compost (I won’t use the stuff that comes in bags), but I still have some areas that are the poor sandy soils of this region. I’m going to eventually turn this into a vegetable plot, and I already have native plants. What kinds of vegetables, herbs, or even cover crops might grow well here to start out with?
Thanks for any help.
Posted in Herb Gardening
Tagged compost, crops, herbs, home, kinds of vegetables, native plants, plot, poor sandy soils, region, sandy soil, soil, southern california, stuff, vegetable, vegetable plot
resistance to pesticides and pests, better and more consistant crops.
Take for example this hypothetical situation:
A plant is plagued by a fungus that lives in the soil. It affects the roots and eventually kills the plant. now say there are fields and fields of such plant, and one of them just happens to have developed a rare genetic mutation (mutations in DNA happen naturally in quite large amounts but few have any effects) that just so happens to make it resistant to that fungus. It grows to be healthy while all the plants around it die. This plant then flowers and seeds and produces a whole load more plants, all of which are resistant to this fungus. Now just suppose this plant has fruits and a farmer spots these plants are flourishing and takes them back to his farm and replaces his mouldy plants with these improved ones. Everybody is happy because there are now healthier plants and more fruits.
But say a scientist spots a plant that suffers from a similar problem and uses some genetic tools to tweak the plant to solve its problem and gives it to a farmer who is happy because his plants no longer die. This ‘modification’ may or may not have happened naturally given enough time.
The public are however not happy.
Now why is this?
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged consistant, crops, pesticides, Pests, resistance, Whats
Nobody can grow pretty flowers here in the midwest unless you water your plants two to three time a day. I am sure any kind of crops out there are all dead. The summers keep getting hotter and hotter. They say the ozone is closing up and that global warming should not happen. I think it’s out of control, from what I’ve seen. I never saw a summer like this when I was a kid(and I’m not that old, now!) Have our efforts to save the planet backfired?
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged crops, day, dead, global warming, hotter, kind, midwest, nobody, ozone, plants, pretty flowers, rain, time, water
I am trying to manage a permaculture garden. The flat area with nice soil is doing a good job, however grass has invaded and is competing strongly with my crops. At this point my Carrots, Greens and Radishes have battled for niche space against grass and I’m keeping attentive to how this drama unfolds.
I’m assuming to deal with this area next year I should put down a layer of straw to dissuade grass seeds from coming up. I figure I’ll start my plants outside of the bed and then transfer them after they have grown taller than the straw.
However, as one of the permaculture principles is to learn from how nature wants to act, I wonder if anyone here can tell me what the wild grass doing so well in the garden can tell me. In other areas the only plants that are doing well are milkweed, legumes and squash (which from what I understand means that the soil needs Nitrogen). I’ll be cover cropping those areas with a slurry of red-clover seed to fix nitrogen this winter.
In the end my question is… does the grass growing well in the flat garden area indicate that the soil is healthy with good nutrient balance or does wild grass fill a niche which tells me of specific soil challenges?
Posted in Permaculture
Tagged area, carrots, crops, garden, good job, grass, greens, job, niche space, Permaculture, permaculture garden, point, Radishes, soil, Wild, wild grass
I am trying to manage a permaculture garden. The flat area with nice soil is doing a good job, however grass has invaded and is competing strongly with my crops. At this point my Carrots, Greens and Radishes have battled for niche space against grass and I’m keeping attentive to how this drama unfolds.
I’m assuming to deal with this area next year I should put down a layer of straw to dissuade grass seeds from coming up. I figure I’ll start my plants outside of the bed and then transfer them after they have grown taller than the straw.
However, as one of the permaculture principles is to learn from how nature wants to act, I wonder if anyone here can tell me what the wild grass doing so well in the garden can tell me. In other areas the only plants that are doing well are milkweed, legumes and squash (which from what I understand means that the soil needs Nitrogen). I’ll be cover cropping those areas with a slurry of red-clover seed to fix nitrogen this winter.
In the end my question is… does the grass growing well in the flat garden area indicate that the soil is healthy with good nutrient balance or does wild grass fill a niche which tells me of specific soil challenges?
Posted in Permaculture
Tagged area, carrots, crops, garden, good job, grass, greens, job, niche space, Permaculture, permaculture garden, point, Radishes, soil, Wild, wild grass
I am trying to manage a permaculture garden. The flat area with nice soil is doing a good job, however grass has invaded and is competing strongly with my crops. At this point my Carrots, Greens and Radishes have battled for niche space against grass and I’m keeping attentive to how this drama unfolds.
I’m assuming to deal with this area next year I should put down a layer of straw to dissuade grass seeds from coming up. I figure I’ll start my plants outside of the bed and then transfer them after they have grown taller than the straw.
However, as one of the permaculture principles is to learn from how nature wants to act, I wonder if anyone here can tell me what the wild grass doing so well in the garden can tell me. In other areas the only plants that are doing well are milkweed, legumes and squash (which from what I understand means that the soil needs Nitrogen). I’ll be cover cropping those areas with a slurry of red-clover seed to fix nitrogen this winter.
In the end my question is… does the grass growing well in the flat garden area indicate that the soil is healthy with good nutrient balance or does wild grass fill a niche which tells me of specific soil challenges?
Posted in Permaculture
Tagged area, carrots, crops, garden, good job, grass, greens, job, niche space, Permaculture, permaculture garden, point, Radishes, soil, Wild, wild grass
