As many of you probably already know, I know almost nothing about plants. But I’ve recently started a decidedly humble garden plot—it’s a little bigger than a few window boxes—in my back yard. I planted various things back there at the early part of the spring, kind of at random, and these included strawberries, watermelon, spinach, as well as some other things from salads I ate.
The cool thing is that many of these seeds appear to have sprouted. The not cool thing is that I have no idea what’s growing back there. I have no idea what’s a weed, and what’s something I want to keep. I’be been able to identify the strawberries, as they were the first think I planted and were in little self-contained planting pots. (And because they had little berries on them until the robins discovered them last week.)
But the rest ... I have no clue.
So here’s the question: If I post some photos of the various plants, can you help me figure out what they are, and whether or not I should weed them out of the garden?
typical squash/melon/cucumber sprout:(notice the very wide, thick “cotyledons”—> <initial leaves> followed by the more serrated secondary leaves)
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typical spinach-sprout: (notice the very thin cotyledons followed by the secondary leaves that look like spinach)
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(That reminds me, have you seen that purposefully suggestive Quiznos commercial with the talking oven that commands “Put it IN me, Steve!” to the guy holding the Toasty Torpedo sub?”)
As many of you probably already know, I know almost nothing about plants. But I’ve recently started a decidedly humble garden plot—it’s a little bigger than a few window boxes—in my back yard. I planted various things back there at the early part of the spring, kind of at random, and these included strawberries, watermelon, spinach, as well as some other things from salads I ate.
The cool thing is that many of these seeds appear to have sprouted. The not cool thing is that I have no idea what’s growing back there. I have no idea what’s a weed, and what’s something I want to keep. I’be been able to identify the strawberries, as they were the first think I planted and were in little self-contained planting pots. (And because they had little berries on them until the robins discovered them last week.)
But the rest ... I have no clue.
So here’s the question: If I post some photos of the various plants, can you help me figure out what they are, and whether or not I should weed them out of the garden?
Did you like just throw seed on the ground? or did you plan it out at all? I always make a drawing before hand, and plant seeds in raised rows (depending up on what I am planting) then label the row, or area.
Did you like just throw seed on the ground? or did you plan it out at all? I always make a drawing before hand, and plant seeds in raised rows (depending up on what I am planting) then label the row, or area.
I planted the strawberries in a specific area where I thought there’d be lots of light and where water would kind of run down onto them from the hill. But the rest I basically just threw in the dirt and poured some water on. I didn’t even really “plant” them in any specific way. It’s entirely possible none of it took, and it’s all weeds.
I’ll post images tomorrow. It’s too dark to get them tonight.
Can you explain that just a wee bit better? I am trying to imagine what you could possibly plant from a salad you ate that would actually grow and whether you planted it before or after you ate it.
Can you explain that just a wee bit better? I am trying to imagine what you could possibly plant from a salad you ate that would actually grow and whether you planted it before or after you ate it.
I was wondering this as well.
My guess is he means some kind of salad greens seed mix that had names he recognized?
Either that or he planted oily lettuce from a cheeseburger.
Probably that one, now that i think about it. Maybe one of those Taco Bell salads? Or something from the Beacon?
I did something like that. I had some cherry pits left over after eating the cherries and I planted them in the back yard just to see what would happen. They actually sprouted and I transferred them to the front yard when they got to be a foot high. That was many years ago and now the trees are at least 15-20ft tall, but I haven’t seen ONE damn cherry grow on either of them yet.
Can you explain that just a wee bit better? I am trying to imagine what you could possibly plant from a salad you ate that would actually grow and whether you planted it before or after you ate it.
Just various seeds in not-cooked plants I ate. Tomato seeds, pomegranate seeds, various chili pepper seeds (bell peppers, too), those big pits from avocados and peaches, and some other stuff I’m sure I’m forgetting. They all kind of ended up going out there, because I figured that if they didn’t grow, at least they’d rot and enrich the soil or maybe feed a bird or something. I doubt highly most of them actually took root or anything.
I’m sure this is akin to madness for most gardeners. But this isn’t madness ... this is SPARTA(nburg)!
Can you explain that just a wee bit better? I am trying to imagine what you could possibly plant from a salad you ate that would actually grow and whether you planted it before or after you ate it.
Just various seeds in not-cooked plants I ate. Tomato seeds, pomegranate seeds, various chili pepper seeds (bell peppers, too), those big pits from avocados and peaches, and some other stuff I’m sure I’m forgetting. They all kind of ended up going out there, because I figured that if they didn’t grow, at least they’d rot and enrich the soil or maybe feed a bird or something. I doubt highly most of them actually took root or anything.
I’m sure this is akin to madness for most gardeners. But this isn’t madness ... this is SPARTA(nburg)!
I have grown avocado from a pit before, but never gotten any fruit off of it.
I’m sure this is akin to madness for most gardeners. But this isn’t madness ... this is SPARTA(nburg)!
Steve you get points for making a beginning. Yes, seeds from tomato and pepper will germinate possibly. The peach and avocado can too. The avocado will freeze next winter. The peach could bear fruit in seven to ten years, maybe sooner since you’re in the land of peaches, sort of.
If it all comes up in that small plot you may have to do some selective ruthless thinning.
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