we planted ~8 strawberry plants. And when they first started fruiting, the squirrels got the first two. So I put mesh covers over them. But then the bees weren't pollenating them anymore so we just had strawberry flowers, no fruits. So I took the mesh off, and the rabbits/deer ate all the flowers... and the rest of the plants.
My garden would give me a huge yeild if I could shoot off some of the deer. Damn pests, almost tame and keep to gardens eating my berries, plants and content of bird feeder.
But this being a residential area hunting here is "frowned upon" understandably.
You’ll want to install a well built brush guard and bumper before attempting this. Also deer fencing is a thing that most people in rural areas resort to for their gardens.
This is great news for my four year old son who has just discovered the joy of peeing standing up. And has already done his part in the garden several times :)
No no, even if you manage to grow nothing but dust in year one, a depressed tomato in year two, three measly leaves of parsley in year three - each bit you managed to grow yourself not only tastes better but also unlocks better veggies in the next year! This is a learning curve that is absolutely worth it, please don't give up.
But wasn't skipping avocado toast the secret sauce for owning a home with garden? Where do I even start cultivating squirrel food, if I have no home and garden?
I planted a raspberry bush a few years ago on a strip of unused leftover nothing land in the neighborhood. Neighborhood kids loved the bush and ate the berries. Birds loved it and ate the berries. Some old hag hated it ("looks untidy!!!") and sneakily had the bush removed (it's not her land either) although she knew damn well who had planted it and that kids and birds loved it.
Nature isn’t clean or tidy you shouldn’t be bringing that mess into the community. Only pavement and paid fruits are to be available for play and snacking.
Strawberries are a bad example. Those guys want to live as long as your soil is good. I get around 5 bowls per year and growing so maybe like 50-100 strawbs and yes, half of them go to squirrels.
I think food gardening depends a lot on luck. With the right combination of plant+spot+local (micro)climate+how often you water your plants, you can almost accidentally end up with a huge amount of whatever you're growing.
And then you invest all the money you saved on food into one (1) trendy stock, cryptocoin etc. and make cents out of dollars.
Never had any luck growing carrots because our soil is such heavy clay. But I chucked a few potato skins near my budgies' graves when the compost bin was full and even after digging the plants up the first year, they just keep growing back and as long as I water them, they provide a decent harvest without any effort.
If I bought proper seed potatoes to grow, they probably wouldn't.
It's absolutely luck if you don't know what you're doing, which is most people. Also, changing the local microclimate is possible to a degree, but depending on how much you need to change it, it's too expensive. Depending on where you live and what crops you're trying to grow, even water might be an issue that pushes it into "infeasible".
I don't shit on millennials for their income or spending habits. There's so much more ammo if you go after their humor. Rage face comics, Steve carrel, Zoolander. I've battled diseases funnier than what millennials laugh at.
Ageism is fair game when it's in response to ageism. You questioned someone's gender out of nowhere in a thread about gta piracy. This isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is.
But I removed it. I realized I was wrong, I deleted it for you. I'm not looking in to any sort of "gotcha", I just noticed your problematic behavior regarding ageism. I responded in kind to you adjusting my behavior, why can't you see that your own ageism here is wrong?
Ageism is fair game when it’s in response to ageism.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
In the future please do better, or else we'd all be ableist.
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 45 pts · 39d
If your garden costs hundreds of dollars to set up, you're definitely doing it wrong lol
Gardening can be nearly free with the right know-how.
Admittedly my strawberry plant only made 2 strawberries so that part was nearly accurate lol
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 39d
we planted ~8 strawberry plants. And when they first started fruiting, the squirrels got the first two. So I put mesh covers over them. But then the bees weren't pollenating them anymore so we just had strawberry flowers, no fruits. So I took the mesh off, and the rabbits/deer ate all the flowers... and the rest of the plants.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 39d
My garden would give me a huge yeild if I could shoot off some of the deer. Damn pests, almost tame and keep to gardens eating my berries, plants and content of bird feeder. But this being a residential area hunting here is "frowned upon" understandably.
kossa@feddit.org · 8 pts · 39d
Need to hunt down the neighbours first, then nobody can frown upon hunting deer anymore.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 39d
I learned that many states allow you to keep/claim roadkill if you have a tag.
Just saying, if you happen to runover a few deer, its not quite hunting, but your plants are safe and the freezer is full of venison. Win/win.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 39d
You’ll want to install a well built brush guard and bumper before attempting this. Also deer fencing is a thing that most people in rural areas resort to for their gardens.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 39d
Urine can help drive them off, we used to deal with them always eating mom’s flowers.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 39d
This is great news for my four year old son who has just discovered the joy of peeing standing up. And has already done his part in the garden several times :)
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
Crossbows can stop deer without all that racket and gunpowder smoke.
Azzu@leminal.space · 6 pts · 39d
You didn't think of maybe using a mesh size that lets through bees, but not squirrels? :D
Dave@lemmy.nz · 13 pts · 39d
Anything can be nearly free with the right knowhow 🤔
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 7 pts · 39d
Just gotta know where to steal it from and how not to get caught!
rayyy@piefed.social · 5 pts · 39d
Key words, "know-how".
Johanno@feddit.org · 3 pts · 39d
Yeah just use someone else's garden. It's free and already filled with stuff
Doom@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 38d
That sounds like squirrel talk.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d
It really depends where you live. In the sticks, sure, but not in a city where you live in an apartment with a grand total of one (1) window
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 36d
I mean yeah I think most people understand that gardening requires access to some soil.
But I do most of my gardening in a local community garden so there are options in the city.
schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 39d
No no, even if you manage to grow nothing but dust in year one, a depressed tomato in year two, three measly leaves of parsley in year three - each bit you managed to grow yourself not only tastes better but also unlocks better veggies in the next year! This is a learning curve that is absolutely worth it, please don't give up.
kossa@feddit.org · 13 pts · 39d
But wasn't skipping avocado toast the secret sauce for owning a home with garden? Where do I even start cultivating squirrel food, if I have no home and garden?
freebee@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 39d
On your balcony or on your windowsill, no excuses.
kossa@feddit.org · 3 pts · 39d
Typical millenial flat
Probably still squirrel infested. Damn squirrels always stealing the avocado toast as well 😤
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 39d
how dare you personally attack me like this?
And it wasn't just strawberries.... I planted a raspberry bush too.
freebee@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 39d
I planted a raspberry bush a few years ago on a strip of unused leftover nothing land in the neighborhood. Neighborhood kids loved the bush and ate the berries. Birds loved it and ate the berries. Some old hag hated it ("looks untidy!!!") and sneakily had the bush removed (it's not her land either) although she knew damn well who had planted it and that kids and birds loved it.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 39d
Nature isn’t clean or tidy you shouldn’t be bringing that mess into the community. Only pavement and paid fruits are to be available for play and snacking.
-Your Neighborhood HOA
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 39d
Nearly all my squash are male.
Fuck climate change.
cevn@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 39d
Strawberries are a bad example. Those guys want to live as long as your soil is good. I get around 5 bowls per year and growing so maybe like 50-100 strawbs and yes, half of them go to squirrels.
bus_factor@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 39d
That makes them a great example. This person spent hundreds and couldn't even grow strawberries.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 39d
I think food gardening depends a lot on luck. With the right combination of plant+spot+local (micro)climate+how often you water your plants, you can almost accidentally end up with a huge amount of whatever you're growing.
And then you invest all the money you saved on food into one (1) trendy stock, cryptocoin etc. and make cents out of dollars.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 39d
Never had any luck growing carrots because our soil is such heavy clay. But I chucked a few potato skins near my budgies' graves when the compost bin was full and even after digging the plants up the first year, they just keep growing back and as long as I water them, they provide a decent harvest without any effort.
If I bought proper seed potatoes to grow, they probably wouldn't.
rayyy@piefed.social · 1 pts · 39d
^^ Those points aren't luck. ^^
Growing your own food is like printing money, BUT you need to know what you are doing.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 39d
It's absolutely luck if you don't know what you're doing, which is most people. Also, changing the local microclimate is possible to a degree, but depending on how much you need to change it, it's too expensive. Depending on where you live and what crops you're trying to grow, even water might be an issue that pushes it into "infeasible".
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 39d
They also brought the "tossed salad" back into the mainstream. That's pretty cool
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 39d
I don't shit on millennials for their income or spending habits. There's so much more ammo if you go after their humor. Rage face comics, Steve carrel, Zoolander. I've battled diseases funnier than what millennials laugh at.
Wireless_Dirk@ani.social · 0 pts · 1d
This is ageist. Discrimination based on age, marginalizing an entire group of people. And thats wrong.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Then the people I use these tactics on shouldn't start with their generation war bullshit in the first place. Come prepared or go home.
Wireless_Dirk@ani.social · 0 pts · 1d
Its ageist is what it is, its problematic.
Do better.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Ageism is fair game when it's in response to ageism. You questioned someone's gender out of nowhere in a thread about gta piracy. This isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is.
Wireless_Dirk@ani.social · 0 pts · 1d
But I removed it. I realized I was wrong, I deleted it for you. I'm not looking in to any sort of "gotcha", I just noticed your problematic behavior regarding ageism. I responded in kind to you adjusting my behavior, why can't you see that your own ageism here is wrong?
Two wrongs don't make a right.
In the future please do better, or else we'd all be ableist.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
You're kind of unhinged, eh?
Wireless_Dirk@ani.social · -1 pts · 1d
There's no reason to get upset. Trying to deflect and attack me over correcting you on your ableistic ageist remarks is faux pas.