DunDunDunpachi
Banned
Really, though, do you grow your own food? My wife and I have gotten into the practice much more over the past 2 years. Sprouting seeds in jars, growing microgreens in trays, inoculating our own mushroom logs, foraging wild mushrooms and plants, and also digging a garden (pictured):
(nothing much is growing. The tomatoes in the brown planter on the right are still small and green. I have been harvesting greens from the back two rows (beet, mustard, turnip, lamb's quarters, and purslane. My fava beans and bush beans are coming in really nicely.)
(sprouting trays! These have been difficult to master. I've lost several harvests due to too much heat and sunlight. Currently trying to grow on coconut coir. Left-to-right: Arugula, mustard, mustard again, and beet)
(wild-foraged Golden Oyster -- Pleurotus citrinopileatus -- mushrooms. I've since found a few pounds more in my area. Very tasty sauted in butter)
Kind of blows my mind that not even countertop sprouting is a thing for most people, considering how it's a cheap and easy method to get fresh greens. I'm interested in hearing how people grow or make or forage their food, whether it's just to pinch some pennies or for culinary reasons.
What do you grow?
Can you show off some pics?
Any tricks you can offer to people (especially if you have clever ways to grow more in a limited space for apt. dwellers or those with small yards)?
(nothing much is growing. The tomatoes in the brown planter on the right are still small and green. I have been harvesting greens from the back two rows (beet, mustard, turnip, lamb's quarters, and purslane. My fava beans and bush beans are coming in really nicely.)
(sprouting trays! These have been difficult to master. I've lost several harvests due to too much heat and sunlight. Currently trying to grow on coconut coir. Left-to-right: Arugula, mustard, mustard again, and beet)
(wild-foraged Golden Oyster -- Pleurotus citrinopileatus -- mushrooms. I've since found a few pounds more in my area. Very tasty sauted in butter)
Kind of blows my mind that not even countertop sprouting is a thing for most people, considering how it's a cheap and easy method to get fresh greens. I'm interested in hearing how people grow or make or forage their food, whether it's just to pinch some pennies or for culinary reasons.
What do you grow?
Can you show off some pics?
Any tricks you can offer to people (especially if you have clever ways to grow more in a limited space for apt. dwellers or those with small yards)?
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