The Vault Dweller
always looking for water.
I've always had a romanticized view of being self-sufficient. Part of it is that it amazes me people in the past lived entirely alone and far from civilization on their own. The other part is probably all the post-apocalyptic stuff making it seem "fantastic". Also games having "herbalism" to make potions and stuff only makes it more appealing.
Of course I could never work hard enough to run a small farm for myself and professional agriculture requires as much education as most careers believe it or not. Mine is mainly for fun.
Last year I had my first ever garden. Carrots, onions, basil, mint, corn, and tomatoes. The onions and mint died. The corn didn't bear fruit. The carrots barely got bigger than my pinky finger. The tomatoes had decent output "a few pounds a plant" and the basil grew crazy and gave me multiple pounds a plant with lots of plants.
However I had been lazy. I barely weeded and didn't use any fertilizer to keep costs low.
This year now that I knew I could do it I tried harder and with other crops.
I planted them all at the right times in the right conditions and used small amounts of potting soil/top soil. I weeded weekly and monitored my plants to know when/if to water.
It's late summer now and most of them are putting out their earliest fruits. This week I will post pictures of the grown plants and a few that I could harvest.
Corn. Didn't grow so well, but at least put out a few small cobs.
Pumpkins. The plants grew large and fast both across the ground and climbing onto the deck.
Here's a ripe one.
This has a few weeks to grow and ripen.
This was a newly began pumpkin. Note the rotting flower and the actual pumpkin starting beneath it.
This vine climbed a small tree nearby and the pumpkin just had to grow out in to the air. I'm gonna need to tie something to the tree for it to rest on when it gets bigger or it will tear itself off the vine once it gets heavy.
Broccoli (which has produced no flowers which are the edible part), onions (that are barely large enough to create a small bulb), and an aloe vera plant which for some reason isn't growing.
Lettuce. It should be much larger, but I neglected to water for a week and it all turned brown. It's alive, but should be bigger.
I harvested the earliest pumpkins to appear which are just ready and the earliest corn.
Yes I am going to make pumpkin mix from the pumpkins and make bread and pie from it. I'll put up pictures when I make it.
Anyone else try gardening? For food or flowers?
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
Of course I could never work hard enough to run a small farm for myself and professional agriculture requires as much education as most careers believe it or not. Mine is mainly for fun.
Last year I had my first ever garden. Carrots, onions, basil, mint, corn, and tomatoes. The onions and mint died. The corn didn't bear fruit. The carrots barely got bigger than my pinky finger. The tomatoes had decent output "a few pounds a plant" and the basil grew crazy and gave me multiple pounds a plant with lots of plants.
However I had been lazy. I barely weeded and didn't use any fertilizer to keep costs low.
This year now that I knew I could do it I tried harder and with other crops.
I planted them all at the right times in the right conditions and used small amounts of potting soil/top soil. I weeded weekly and monitored my plants to know when/if to water.
It's late summer now and most of them are putting out their earliest fruits. This week I will post pictures of the grown plants and a few that I could harvest.
Corn. Didn't grow so well, but at least put out a few small cobs.
Pumpkins. The plants grew large and fast both across the ground and climbing onto the deck.
Here's a ripe one.
This has a few weeks to grow and ripen.
This was a newly began pumpkin. Note the rotting flower and the actual pumpkin starting beneath it.
This vine climbed a small tree nearby and the pumpkin just had to grow out in to the air. I'm gonna need to tie something to the tree for it to rest on when it gets bigger or it will tear itself off the vine once it gets heavy.
Broccoli (which has produced no flowers which are the edible part), onions (that are barely large enough to create a small bulb), and an aloe vera plant which for some reason isn't growing.
Lettuce. It should be much larger, but I neglected to water for a week and it all turned brown. It's alive, but should be bigger.
I harvested the earliest pumpkins to appear which are just ready and the earliest corn.
Yes I am going to make pumpkin mix from the pumpkins and make bread and pie from it. I'll put up pictures when I make it.
Anyone else try gardening? For food or flowers?
Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
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