Grow your own...

[cheebacheeba]

Ach, feral.
I'd never touch anything that had ever come into contact with any piss...let alone cats piss...yech!

I might put in some catnit/catmint for my cats though...had some catmint that got kind've butchered.

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

Ach, feral.
I'd never touch anything that had ever come into contact with any piss...let alone cats piss...yech!

We wash + boil it before using any. I haven't grabbed any fresh stuff since we started finding cats there - that's just unsanitary.

[Elvis_Christ]

I'm pretty down with trying growing a garden sometime soon when I'm at a place with the room etc.

I need to get a bunch of stuff like a spade too.

But I'd like to take more of a step in the direction being self sufficant and learn a lot about it because I feel its a important life skill.

[cheebacheeba]

Grow some weed man

and radishes. Radishes are easy. Good for you.

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally Posted by cheebacheeba

Grow some weed man

I've had a go at that once or twice both times were failures. The cops took a plant we had growing at one of my old pads and another one planted in the boonies got sprayed :mad:

Definitely something I'd like to experiment with and get perfected.

[cheebacheeba]

For Elvis:

You need to go indoors with that...the chances of it being seen and/or reported/ripped off are just too great - most people I know that grow outdoors only ever do it with garbagey ditchweed of no particular variety and do multiple "plantations" to increase their odds of survival.
But still, too many variables in my opinion.

Indoors the process is quicker, the produce is better, you can grow year round, and some truly spectacular engineered strains are available from various seedbanks - and actually worth growing in this method.

The light/ballast is the main outlay.
Needs: Some pots, perlite (or your preferred medium, if you're not fussy even a nice potting mix and some osmocote will work) Some fishtank ph testers, something like a large wardrobe or gutted fridge, about 4 pc fans or two venting fans to keep things cool.
Optional: You can buy nutrients, and things that might alter bud density but these aren't essentiall if you're just growing personally and don't really give a shit if the plants go to 100% of their "potential"
A basic irrigation system worth about $50 would be another "could do", it lessens the need to manually flush/clear out your grow medium and tray.

Ventillation for the health of the plants, and smell filtration (look into carbon filtration, apparently it's very good) will be your primary area of concern and expense. Most of the other things can be purchased cheaply or found free.

The stuff you grow your self, is all out MUCH better produce, and doesn't support the asshole criminal community that usually push their sub-standard gear at ever rising prices to ever dropping ages.

Essentially you could probably get a decent (and by decent I mean bare minimum to get by WELL) setup going on for the light/ballast + about $250 all up.

I'll be finishing mine with my tax return, ha.

I totally wanna do the passionfruit vine and the ox-heart/beefsteak tomatoes in there ASAP as well.

The passionfruit 'cos who doesn't love that shit?, and they smell nice...might make a good "companion" plant as they call them.

The tomatoes...well, I'd like to have a hamburger or tomato sandwich and just use a single slice, ha, that would be awesome.

[milktoaste]

ugh, my hard drive crashed right after you first posted this. So, what was I thinking about 4 days ago again-oh ya, indoor gardening.

There is a large percentage of indoor growers who are solly marijauna growers, however, the same benifits 'pot' get from these setups can also work for berries, flowers, tomatos and pot. I think anyone who is serious about producing better fruits from their garden should read into the large amounts of products available today for growing weed. Especially any berry or slightly acidic plant, as these are similar in nutrient requirements. Currently I'm trying to completely transfer over to organic soils and teas-lower yeilds, better quality.

Hey Cheebacheeba, maybe we can swap tomato growing secrets someday?

[missmacabre]

Tomatoes do really well with the climate here. I've done regular and cherry tomatoes in the garden. We used to do green and yellow beans but the rabbits that live under our shed got into them too much. About 2 years ago I sectioned off a corner of the garden for herbs. We had chives, lemon balm, mint, chamomile, oregano, parsley, dill and a little bit of lavendar that is now gone because I got an aweful rash whenever I gardened near it.

The lemon balm, mint and chamomile were my favourites because I could brew a nice decaf tea and know exactly what went in to it. Would love to grow and play around with bergamont, and actual tea leaves. Don't thinks it's warm enough our side to do this though, so I am going to look into hydroponics and if it's possible to grow tea indoors.

Also next year I am going to plant louffas. Like the bath time louffa. They are not a sponge but actually a plant, kinda like a squash.

[cheebacheeba]

Cherry tomatoes are great for salads and stirfries, eh?
I oike to use 'em pretty fresh, mainly uncooked so they have that awesome crunch going on...they pack a great concentrated flavour too.

You guys ought to try import some KUMATO seeds...I spoke about this a while ago, they're some crossbred tomato like thing that has a purple/brown colour, but the nicest flavour of all the tomatoes I've tried.

Hey Cheebacheeba, maybe we can swap tomato growing secrets someday?

Ha, when I start I'll let you know man.

[milktoaste]

Originally Posted by missmacabre

Tomatoes do really well with the climate here. I've done regular and cherry tomatoes in the garden. We used to do green and yellow beans but the rabbits that live under our shed got into them too much. About 2 years ago I sectioned off a corner of the garden for herbs. We had chives, lemon balm, mint, chamomile, oregano, parsley, dill and a little bit of lavendar that is now gone because I got an aweful rash whenever I gardened near it.

The lemon balm, mint and chamomile were my favourites because I could brew a nice decaf tea and know exactly what went in to it. Would love to grow and play around with bergamont, and actual tea leaves. Don't thinks it's warm enough our side to do this though, so I am going to look into hydroponics and if it's possible to grow tea indoors.

Also next year I am going to plant louffas. Like the bath time louffa. They are not a sponge but actually a plant, kinda like a squash.

I can gaurentee you'll grow a better tea indoors, it just gives you such better control over all the random factors, nutrients, bugs, temp., humidity. A DIY indoor growroom can be built fairly cheeply using CFL's from your local hardware store. Just promise me you won't get caught up in the crap you can read online, know the plant and everything else is common sense.

@Cheebacheeba: He who hesitates is lost.