Ms. Que BanhTell me what is impeding you, on growing food/herbs & flower plants; the challenges you're facing/have faced in your current living gardening spaces. I can try to better help you, on growing some plants, wherever you live - when I know your living conditions better. Every living space has different challenges & all can be dealt with. If there's strong will, there's always a way 👩🌾 Even if you live in a tiny basement suite with very little light coming in.
It helps if you know the wildlife that frequently visit your outdoor living spaces too. I'm huge on #coexistence planting because doing that will reduce your weeding & pest control work - nature #biodiversity will take care of many of those issues for you!
rsp@PhoenixSerenity Grasshoppers, stinkbugs, and blister beetles descend in large numbers and damage tomatoes and peppers before they become ripe.
@rspfau I have none of those & never had any of those issues in my 40+ years of growing food, including well over 50 different tomato varieties.
clewtbf the Salish Sea and environs is MUCH less pest friendly than the Midwest is. I have relatives from KC to the Atlantic who are just bewildered that I don’t have to deal with… so many different things.
@clew @rspfau Another thing to mention is too much #monocropping invites more unnecessary pests. It is really good to research your crops prior to planting & do beneficial companion planting.
When you do too much monocropping - especially with very pest vulnerable & disease prone plants,like tomatoes or eggplants - you're gonna be inviting more garden pests. You can plant basil & put spent alfalfa feed at base of tomato plants, with light sprinkling of raw cinnamon powder to deter pests from trying to attack your tomatoes. I rub some cinnamon powder on base main stem of my tomato plants to deter pests from climbing up to eat them.
@clew
Speaking of spent alfalfa feed pellets - that's another of my cheap frugal gardening supplies for topical fertilizer on heavy feeding plants! You can get a huge bag of alfalfa pellet feed seeds for livestock from local farm feed stores(currently $12 for huge bag). You break them down with water, add some ground up eggshells, add some coffee/tea grinds & mix it all up til it's pasty. Let it sit for a couple days, stir up & use when it starts smelling a bit farmy but not super ranky. Take a few handfuls & pile it up all around base of plants. You'll love the results, after 👩🌾✌️💗