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.
Birch-o-matic@clew @PhoenixSerenity @rspfau Completely agree. I’ve lived in Indiana and Virginia — in the summer, you needed to douse yourself in industrial grade bug deterrent.
In the PNW, sitting outside: “Oh, it got dark. Wait, no bugs are biting me?”
disorderlyf@MrBirch @clew @PhoenixSerenity @rspfau I'll second that as someone raised bouncing back and forth between Virginia and West Virginia. Actually a bit worried global warming will bring that affect north enough to hit PNW, but I'm enjoying being this close to deer but also not being relentlessly attacked by mosquitoes and gnats while it lasts