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Nice setup. What you got sprouting?
- 300 tomato plants, 30 varietals
- 350 peppers, 35 varietals
- 6 varietals of onions
- leeks
- celery
- celeriac
- thyme, basil + a bunch of other herbs
- metric fuckton of various flowers
- ...
Full 3 racks of goodness
~~What's in the bottom left? Lemongrass?~~
Onion. Nice.
unless you're selling it, you won't ever need to grow lemongrass more than once in your entire life.
last year I got enough to harvest and mill an entire 32oz mason jar of lemongrass and still had enough stalk to freeze. all from a 1ftsq plot.
tempting to start extracting oils from it though.
This is for sale, not just for home?
I don't sell any. What we don't eat gets canned
How big is your garden?!?
~2000m^2 / half an acre.
It was a meadow slowly overgrowing with random trees 5 years ago, so it took quite a bit of effort to get there
Holy wow. I’m curious about the tomatoes, do you can them for sauce? I used to freeze mine with decent results.
I started making sun dried tomatoes and store them in olive oil, however I also am planting more tomatoes than last year so any suggestions/tips you’d like to share :)
With tomatoes as primary ingredient we make:
- passata
- pizza sauces
- pasta sauces
- salsas / nacho dips
- sun dried
and they are added to a bunch of other things - e.g. some of the pickles
I would love to see your process, do you stream, at all?
full time job + garden + restoring the house I live in.. there aren't enough hours in the day
what are you most excited about this year
Habanada peppers - a non-spicy jalapeno. I will get to enjoy jalapeno taste even when cooking for family members who find mayo spicy ;-)
Also the 40+ fruit trees I've planted last week, but I'll have to wait 2-3 years for the first fruit from those.
We'll need another post to know more about those fruit trees as well
The property came with a dozen or so enormous (>6m / 20ft) apple and cherry trees planted about a century ago and all but 3 of them are barely alive, so this spring I've cleared some space and added:
- 4 peach trees, 2 varietals
- 4 apricot trees, 2 varietals
- 2 Japanese plum trees (technically not a plum)
- 8 cherry trees, 4 varietals
- 3 plum trees, 2 varietals
- 10 apple trees, 5 varietals
- 4 pear trees, 4 varietals
- 2 pear-shaped quince trees
- 2 Japanese quince bushes
- 6 currant bushes, 2 varietals
Assuming most of them survive I'll be set as far as fruit I can grow in my zone are concerned. Well, I could use 2-3 asian/american hybrid persimmons to have a full set, but they are very hard to find and expensive - I'd have to pay more for 2 than I've paid for the 40+ listed above..
Why are you using florescent lamps? Aren't LEDs much more efficient?
they needed the box to lift the pots
Those are LEDs
Okay second question, why do they look exactly like fluorescent bulbs?
Those are led tubes - the best shape for this purpose IMO.
You have no where to use the sun I guess? Looks nice
This looks awesome. No weed?
Let's just say local laws are unreasonably strict about that kind of thing. To the point it's not worth the risk given how widely available it is should I need some.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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