New life hack

Some things are just super easy to grow, others take so much effort its too much for the average person. But hell yeah, grow ur own food if u are lucky enough to own a garden.

Yeah. When I lived in NW Florida (ugh), jalapenos grew like weeds in a small pot. Always had way too many.

Also a fun fact: in early spring you can often see green grass-like shoots growing before the grass starts and are quite tall. Those are wild alliums, the same family as garlic, onions and scallions.

We call it onion grass. I’m always yelling at my dog for eating them.

Are they bad for dogs? Or are you mad cause you wanted them?

I struggle so hard with peppers. Jalapeños growing like weeds sounds like a dream.

It might benefit you to know that pepper plants can be kept alive nearly indefinitely if you give them good enough conditions. So if you keep them in a pot, you can trim them and move them inside over cold months (bare stems is fine as long as they don’t dry out), and then in spring they are already super well established and big and start putting out peppers really early.

I never do well with new pepper plants, but second season they produce like crazy.

I live in Norway and one year I planted 10 chili plants. I treated those plants like royalty and in the end I got like maybe 2 chilis per plant lol

I will note that when I moved to MD the plant did well but grew like 1 pepper all year. Gave up after that. Heartburn also made it less viable to eat so many. :p

The growing season is so short here, you need to start them inside 2 months before planting them outside if you want them ready before the first frost in sept gets them.

Florida gardener too.

Jalapenos do great, okra grows in the summer! The summer! Mustard greens will too, and the Stokes. Purple sweet potatoes. In the cooler seasons, collards, lettuces, fennel, I’ve had surprising success with broccoli and cauliflower. Tomatoes I can grow whenever but birds eat them. Radishes fail me every time. No carrots or radishes have worked, ever… I just learned asparagus is perennial here, going to try that too.

My wife and I just moved from a townhouse to an actual house with a backyard so we can garden again. We’re around the Sarasota Area and the yard is really soft and sandy. Pretty sure something’s digging under there which is why it’s so soft… But they were there first so what’re ya gonna do. Any suggestions for planting this summer? Definitely gonna try Okra

Same luck with tomatoes. Everything surey them long before the were ripe.

Isnt that just chives.

Is garlic easy? Uk climate

Oh i have no idea, i have never grown garlic so far.

Often you can get hardier breeds and i would expect it to be possible in the UK as longs as its not freezing.

This looks like a decent guide. Basically lots of sun, not too much water, lil bit of fertilizer and you are sure to get something.

https://getbusygardening.com/growing-garlic/

Yeah pretty easy, have a go. Maybe a bit too mild to be ideal but if we’re talking home production that doesn’t matter much. There’s a big farm on the Isle of Wight so we can’t be too far off.

Wild garlic might be a better option if you’re able to forage for it.

I do walk about a lot so I’ll keep an eye out. Thanks.

It’s relatively easy, because most pests won’t eat it and they are pretty frost resistant. There are winter and summer varieties, so don’t mix them up.