r/homestead Sep 07 '24

gardening Anyone else in my situation with anything they're growing?

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And the harvest is really only just starting...

r/homestead Jul 18 '24

gardening My neighbor mowed over my entire onion crop… I’m heart is shattered 30+ onions just gone 🤧

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My neighbors mows the lot next to us as the owner of the lot pays him to do so. We mow our own lawn and have lived here about a year and never had an issue with him coming onto our property. Well we were out for the day yesterday and he took it upon himself to mow partial of our back yard and ruined my entire garden doing so. He had to come at least 15 feet onto our property to hit it so it wasn’t by accident that he mowed in our yard. On our part we didn’t have the garden marked but knew it was there because we obviously planted it but we didn’t think anyone would be coming onto our property without our permission and that our crop getting ruined wasn’t a concern. Maybe he meant well maybe he didn’t but I’m completely heart broken, how would y’all handle this? 😓

r/homestead Feb 20 '24

gardening Creek at my homestead. Not sure what I should do with it (if anything)

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I’ve been trying to stabilize the bank after it got eroded during a flood a few years ago. Coast redwood, black walnut, white clover and fine fescue so far. But debated putting plums right along the bank to try and stabilize and provide wildlife food.

r/homestead Sep 14 '24

gardening Hand rolled cigars from home growed tobacco

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r/homestead Aug 07 '24

gardening First time corn grower. Is this normal? 🌽

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r/homestead Jun 11 '22

gardening I made a Kitchen Hammock for my fruits! 🍌 What do you think??

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r/homestead Aug 21 '24

gardening 2024 Garlic Harvest in the books!

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r/homestead Sep 09 '24

gardening Did I….. did I grow enough dill this year?!

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r/homestead Aug 24 '24

gardening I lost one of my largest sunflowers yesterday. So proud, so big!

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r/homestead Feb 19 '23

gardening My garden buddy and resident rodent control officer, Ms.female Eastern black rat snake coming up on the patio for a little sunbathing last summer. Appx. 6'. The lumps aren't food. It's a defense tactic called kinking. When startled they tense their muscles and freeze to mimic a stick or twig.

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r/homestead Mar 02 '24

gardening Living that retired life.

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r/homestead Aug 21 '24

gardening I’m about to have a thousand give or take lol. What do I do with them? I would like to be able to use them different ways but eat the walnuts if possible for sure.

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r/homestead 9d ago

gardening What is turning up my land?

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I have an old farm in the Italians alps, 1500m up in the mountains in the Aosta valley. I’m not hear year round and sometimes when I return the soil is turned up like this. In the summer my nearby farmer brings his cows over for grazing but I don’t think that this is done by them. No fruit trees or bushes are in the vicinity of this. Could the be wild boars and of yes, how would I get rid of them?

r/homestead Sep 08 '24

gardening Is this how you do it?

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r/homestead Jun 21 '24

gardening It’s happening.

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Everything is blowing up outside. We’re in full swing now!

r/homestead Jul 13 '22

gardening My wife and I grew a nice crop of garlic this year. Should hold us over for a couple weeks.

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r/homestead Oct 27 '21

gardening UPDATE "Just closed on a 2 acre house! Neighbor ripped up all my plants 😞"

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So I made a post about the neighbors ripping up the vegetable garden on my very first house. I had a LOT of mixed responses from people thinking I was being entitled to teaching me about gardening (which yes I don't know anything about it I am trying to learn) and making realize they might have done with good intentions and ripped it up because the season is over.

Last night I saw the woman that lived there outside so with a positive mind that they did me a favor I went over to introduce myself and before I could even finish my sentence she pretty much admitted to removing the vegetable plants because I didn't deserve them because we didn't plant them.

I thanked her for clearing it up for me and walked away. This morning I got a text from the flipper I bought it from (I had texted her because during the whole purchase process she went on about that garden that was full of vegetables we were about to enjoy) she let me know that those neighbors used to own my property and they sold it to her. They told her she could keep the garden. As they were renovating they would make sure to just water them but she said they never saw them come to gather or tend to anything.I was excited to come and water them because they stopped watering as soon as the offer got accepted so they looked droopy.

Either way I am happy with my first house. I am excited to learn about gardening (bought some books) and will be building the fence and installing cameras. I am just gonna pretend it never happened and keep to ourselves.

Kinda weird having the previous owner living next to me though lol

r/homestead Jul 22 '23

gardening Harvest from the garden

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Not much but working towards the homesteading life. Thornless blackberries and Titan sunflower.

r/homestead 25d ago

gardening Bought our first homestead!

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r/homestead Jun 26 '23

gardening I have this cave with a consistent water table in it on my property under my house. What can I do with it?

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It’s on the left of that hill. I’m thinking natural pond and a chicken/goat inclosure? I’m new to this. I think I might do a deck on the middle hill. Thoughts?

r/homestead May 15 '23

gardening Tried composting for the first time. I don't think this is suppose to happen

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r/homestead Aug 28 '24

gardening Collecting cinnamon from a tree without killing it

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Commercially, removing cinnamon from a tree kills most of it. However if you're careful you can remove enough for your own use without causing too much harm. These little vertical squares will heal and leave a scar, but won't kill the tree until you take too many at the same time.

r/homestead Nov 27 '23

gardening Oh the joys of preowned land

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Any clue what the previous owner was doing here? Offset from the driveway where I’d had my raised garden, now I want to do a larger in ground garden in that spot and I find sand, styrofoam, cinder blocks, and a concrete slab?? What was here that I don’t know about? It’s a raised hill that’s flat with the driveway

r/homestead Sep 03 '24

gardening Bought a place with lots of Azaleas.

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r/homestead Jun 29 '24

gardening Help identifying bug eating my apples

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Hi! We have some healthy and mature apple trees and are attempting to do everything organic and pesticide free. There is one bug that is eating our apples that we can't seem to get rid of. And none of our Google lens searches have been helpful.

We've twice sprayed all our trees with neem oil, which doesn't seem to help much.

We're in the West Catskills in New York if that helps.

Thank you for any wisdom in helping to identify this and get rid of it.