This is all about spreading awareness and info on starting your own garden, in order to secure your own personal food stock, so you can be less reliant on (((them)))
>But I am new to gardening. I don't have a yard or space. My soil is shit. How do you even do this?
One of the easiest ways to get started is by looking up Mel Bartholomew's method of Square Foot Gardening. It's nearly fool-proof and a good way to start even if you only have a tiny amount of space.
>So I just buy Miracle-Gro from the store and add that to my dirt?
Sure, if you want to support the food Jew. What you need to do is start composting, researching what makes soil healthy, adding worms to your garden, beneficial fungi and bacteria in soil, and how to keep growing soil. Yes, good soil is grown.
>But it's expensive
Your first year you might have to invest in some cheap top soil and store-made compost to get started, but every year after that you should be composting and adding that to the soil and seed saving for next season. Within 2 years your garden operates for free and in my experience I give away food for free.
>What else?
Look up permaculture practice and theory
Because the quest for self-sufficiency is the true redpill.
Chase Myers
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Austin Sanders
Infographics
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Easton Foster
Thanks god, i've been looking for this thread the whole day
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Angel Gomez
How easy is aeroponics to pull off?
James Thomas
I've only worked with traditional methods of gardening. Keep this thread bumped because previous threads had a few hydroponics/aeroponics/auqaponics people posting advice.
James Bailey
I have never tried it personally because it seems the most difficult, but also very interesting. Hydroponics is easy and I am just getting into aquaculture with tilapia.
Gavin Brooks
Fuck yeah! Started my different lettuce and greens, some roots crops, and herbs!!
Can put in your zip, and get plants well suited for your hardiness zone. (heirloom seeds too).
Angel Turner
I tried asking yesterday, but I found the thread near the end. It seems that the difficulty comes from setting up the system.
Owen Martin
Companion planting (highly recommended)
Christian Harris
i need gardening advice guys
i just bought a house in connecticut. it has a pretty small back yard, all grass, trees surrounding in neighboring yards that make it kind of shady but i want to grow stuff in the spring, only food. what grows well in these conditions/climate? how do i do it, what are good books/guides?
If your yard stays shady, you'll be able to have all types of lettuce, greens, many root veggies, beans, and peas grow easily, even in hot summer months. You might have trouble growing sun loving plants like peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers.
1. Look up info on your last frost date average, your garden hardiness zone, and look up some gardening advice for your geographical area.
2. A lot of greens and root veggies can withstand light frosts and snow. You can probably start seedlings now or very soon. Alternatively, if you want to go easy your first year, buy already started plants from a local greenhouse. These may not be ready yet.
3. Gardening books that helped me get started were Square Foot Gardening, Carrots Love Tomatoes, and a book about gardening in my particular state (found in the book section of a hardware store chain)
Remember to always work compost in your soil, add worms to the soil, and treat your soil like its a living thing... because healthy soil IS living, and the foundation for a good garden.
Ryan Murphy
The best advice is to go outside and do it. You need sun, soil, and water; but the conditions don't have to be perfect.
Note the sun path and see what gets obstructed.
To start you can build a simple planter box at 4x4 fill it with miracle grow (yellow bag, says:"grows plants twice as big") and get some peppers and tomatoes.
Like OP says you also want to start composting because that'll provide excellent soil for next year.
Also, the fruits you dispose may come alive again in the soil.
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David Hernandez
I advise anyone wanting to start a garden to look up HUGELKULTURE
Brayden Bell
I unironically love this thread. Anyone who tries gardening soon finds a passion for it and watching it grow is literally heaven on earth.
John Foster
Bump.
Hudson Ross
You know what's even better than watching it grow? Eating stuff you grew yourself. It actually tastes a lot better than supermarket food.
Gavin Peterson
thanks fellas
Hudson Sullivan
It really is!
Not to mention the aspects of health and self-sufficiency.
Gabriel Lee
Do this mean I need to destroy most of my garden?
Carson Reed
Just don't eat it
Josiah Kelly
These threads need to get posted more often. Self-sufficiency is the ultimate redpill.
Mason Cook
Are plants unapproved by the state allowed? If not, why not?
Lucas Powell
I used to hate ploughing up the soil every spring as a kid, but as you get older you start to understand that working on your garden and your home is kind of therapeutic, not to mention healthy. Nothing beats eating food that you planted with your own hands after a day of hard work.
Thomas Sanders
i love these threads, so comfy
Asher Sanchez
The only plants I know of not legally allowed to be grown in my state are plants like marijuana and other federally illegal plants that can be used as drugs.
Henry Flores
>I used to hate ploughing up the soil every spring as a kid Because you didn't have a tractor. Makes doing chores into a fun time.
BTW, why has no one posted black powder instructions? Being able to manufacture your own explosives and pyrotechnics is an important skillset. Though simple infographic pages can't really teach the art. I can, as a chemist and amateur pyrotechnician, give out some great places to start.
Jaxson Cooper
Gardens are illegal in New Zealand.
Blake White
There's others though. Lost in the fed statutes, and the feds are infamous for using these unknown rules to screw over the citizenry.
Cannabis is a very useful plant itself, not even counting the psychoactive uses. CBD has almost no psychoactive effects, but is among the best anti-inflammatory medicines known to man. Makes ibuprofen and aspirin look like shit. My family still uses it for that reason. It's highly soluble in vaseline and thus is easily made into a salve.
