MrsRapidByte wrote:oooh fellow food gardeners

Yay indeed!

MrsRapidByte wrote:..the blue dander potatoes didn't amount to anything
Does it look like this? We grew this when I was little, really cool

MrsRapidByte wrote:blueberry bushes
American blueberries I presume? Nice, I've grown them as well, but the ones that grow in Sweden (Google says they're called Bilberries) are better IMO.
MrsRapidByte wrote:Hoping to have a strawberry tree full of fuzzy little strawberries for jam making next year:

hmm.. looks similar to Lychee indeed, went and found a picture:
MrsRapidByte wrote:Apple pie and apple sauce
You can also make fresh apple juice

My mom made like 50l of apple juice when she and her bf went to this cider factory with their apple harvest and got to make their own
MrsRapidByte wrote:The only fruit tree that failed this year was the plum tree
This year we got 3 rhubarb plants
Ugh! you can get a nasty larvae surprise when eating the plums anyway, ugh the memories. My grandma had a plum tree.
Rhubarb, it makes me cringe just thinking of how sour it is raw. But it's nice to have in pies

My family grew this a lot in the backyard when I was younger.
MrsRapidByte wrote:So jealous of the squirrel I always wanted to set up a squirrel obstacle course in the garden
Genius! is that an actual thing or was it just a concept? either way, awesome

love them squirrels as well.
MrsRapidByte wrote:Your passion vine does it flower? if so you need to use a paintbrush and pollinate it yourself since the bees cant do it for you on your windowsill

and secondly give it a feed boost to either flower and then again while flowering and hopefully you should get some fruit.
Done and done. It was it's first year, maybe better luck next year, and I will make sure to put it where it get's most sun exposure. The balcony above my windows block a lot of the sun sadly.. I'll figure something out, and do some more research. With some plants, I read that you're supposed to trim them at a specific range for better results, haven't really researched this plant that much yet though.
A lovely front garden, I like the gravel, makes the garden look really pro!
You really have a vegetarian paradise going on Mr. and Mrs. Rapid!

I wish you more luck in the future though

Interesting about the chickens also, nice little projects you've got going on. What about the cat though? (cat + chicken = ?)
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I must have these cucamelons you speak of, LD! Researched it some more, they look so delicious and cute! and you can just eat them like they come! Go go go!
coconut coir, you can buy that at IKEA here actually (a dry cube of it), I've had good experiences with it, it's easy to work with and you don't get as dirty as with soil. The problem I had was to make it as stable as soil.
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Hey, I like that layout and brick wall you have there, you've got a good thing going and you've got to start somewhere

And if you built it yourself, even more awesome.
And the potential for your back yard is huge, it'll be fun to see what you'll make of it (if you do)

I guess you want to keep the playing space for the kid(s) as well

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EDIT: this James Wong guy must've been interesting to listen to, checked out his website now.