Tomato chose life

[Bandit420]

Survived snow and ice and drought to come back for another year. It's tubmate did not choose life

 

[Zen_seeker]

Survived snow and ice and drought to come back for another year. It's tubmate did not choose life

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Nice. I’m hoping the spearmint we planted beside the front steps comes back. Supposed too but it looks mostly dead so far. To be fair it was under 4’ of snow until last week.

Our veggies have to be started inside and wait until May 24th before being put outside.

I did save one Cayenne pepper plant that was a mini tree. It’s coming back now. Not bushy yet but it’s trying. Only had a small 4 hour gap of direct sunlight. I’ll put it in a 20g pot tis year and see if we can keep it going.

 

[Bandit420]

Nice. I’m hoping the spearmint we planted beside the front steps comes back. Supposed too but it looks mostly dead so far. To be fair it was under 4’ of snow until last week.

Our veggies have to be started inside and wait until May 24th before being put outside.

I did save one Cayenne pepper plant that was a mini tree. It’s coming back now. Not bushy yet but it’s trying. Only had a small 4 hour gap of direct sunlight. I’ll put it in a 20g pot tis year and see if we can keep it going.

Our mint lived quite well and chile pequin is native so it always comes back.
I'm considering flipping the seasons and vegetable gardening year 'round. Winter seems to no longer really apply here

 

[Zen_seeker]

Our mint lived quite well and chile pequin is native so it always comes back.
I'm considering flipping the seasons and vegetable gardening year 'round. Winter seems to no longer really apply here

Ours looks like it was stomped on and then the dog pissed on it.

 

[Bandit420]

Looks like I have a couple watermelon plants that chose life too. Maybe a pepper form 2 years ago as well?




Peppermint did have some protection by way of a beach towel put on top of it before the snow and ice fell on it and it did lose some, longest trails turned black and died back, but you'd never know that today




We finally got rain over the weekend, a good old fashioned haymaker, so today I'll take a slow walk around and look for more signs because around here, the rare rain makes magic happen

 

[Zen_seeker]

Looks like I have a couple watermelon plants that chose life too. Maybe a pepper form 2 years ago as well?

Peppers seem to be quite resilient. I’m bumping the indoor one to a 20g pot and will see how it does on the stoop this year. That room can get as low as 12* on some winter nights and it was only watered two or three times as they stop up-taking.

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Peppermint did have some protection by way of a beach towel put on top of it before the snow and ice fell on it and it did lose some, longest trails turned black and died back, but you'd never know that today

Don’t recall seeing peppermint before. Leaf shape looks different, or is that melons because that’s what it looks like to me?

My spearmint looks toast. Black. I didn’t know to cover them and didn’t think to ask.

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We finally got rain over the weekend, a good old fashioned haymaker, so today I'll take a slow walk around and look for more signs because around here, the rare rain makes magic happen

You had me go look again because I noticed that the stems that crawled the earth were still red and healthy looking.
Might be hope after all.

 

[stonemason]

Peppers seem to be quite resilient. I’m bumping the indoor one to a 20g pot and will see how it does on the stoop this year. That room can get as low as 12* on some winter nights and it was only watered two or three times as they stop up-taking.


Don’t recall seeing peppermint before. Leaf shape looks different, or is that melons because that’s what it looks like to me?

My spearmint looks toast. Black. I didn’t know to cover them and didn’t think to ask. View attachment 127952


You had me go look again because I noticed that the stems that crawled the earth were still red and healthy looking. View attachment 127953
Might be hope after all.

The spearmint takes a little while to get going in the spring. Dont give up hope just yet.

 

[Zen_seeker]

The spearmint takes a little while to get going in the spring. Dont give up hope just yet.

Thanks. Good to know. I figured it had to come back as my uncles was on the far side of the house and he never looked after it that I saw.

But then I wondered if there were different strains.

Okay to pull off the brown stuff or leave it until new growth has established itself?

 

[TomH]

We usually trim the brown stuff after the last frost.

Knowing which frost will be the last one is the trick!

 

[Zen_seeker]

We usually trim the brown stuff after the last frost.

Knowing which frost will be the last one is the trick!

Here it’s usually the May 24th weekend. We cleaned up the lower yard last week so I’ll leave this area alone until the end of May.

 

[Bandit420]

The jungle is starting to get jungly. Lizards and frogs mating here every day and night




Last year for one agave in my colony sending up it's bloom but many more pups on the way.
Spanish Bayonet can cleave the flesh from bone so don't fuck with Buddha and some sunflower are emerging




Lots of sunflower are emerging since I'm letting wildflowers take over my front yard instead of grass

 

[Bandit420]

You know you're a ganja farmer when it's growing wild in your backyard.
I'm learning a ton from these feral plants that's gonna help my next indoor grow and since I let the male live, there's gonna be some seeds from this too.
I'll let more drop to come up next year too basically breeding and acclimating a strain to be native and grow wild here without human intervention.

 

[Zen_seeker]

The jungle is starting to get jungly. Lizards and frogs mating here every day and night

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Last year for one agave in my colony sending up it's bloom but many more pups on the way.
Spanish Bayonet can cleave the flesh from bone so don't fuck with Buddha and some sunflower are emerging

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Lots of sunflower are emerging since I'm letting wildflowers take over my front yard instead of grass

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I’ve got two lawns I’m letting go wild at least part of the year for bees and birds. Rabbits like it too with the hawks around. We’ve done it two or three times but my wife doesn’t like the messy look.