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[–] 17 points 4 months ago (14 children)

How large is your garden mate? Or alternatively how bad are you at giving produce away? My grandparents have quite a large garden and have never had issues with too much stuff

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (8 children)

    I wonder, do they can stuff as well? Thats the only way to fully utilize a large gardens produce I think. And yes, I did eat all those tomatoes.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    They sure do. Freeze a lot of it as well. Leeks, raspberries, drying spices, making cherry/apricot kompot, making marmelade.....

    The only thing they complained about this year has been too many cherries. I'd know I had to pick like ⅓ of them.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It's really quite a blessing to have people with such a wealth of knowledge about gardening in the family. It takes a lot of seasons to learn how to be so good at it.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    My dad has all sorts of fruit trees and vegetables, I'm over here now trying to keep a rosemary alive, its supposed to me super resilient but it keeps drying up so I water it but maybe the clay dirt is too much for it.

    Poor thing has been planted and removed like 5 times due to different house projects. Its like as soon as I plant it all of a sudden they want to use that space

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I’ve seen rosemary grow in the desert without needing much other than an automated lawn (drip) sprinkler, on a timer like 3(?) times a week?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    wild ones are likely evolved to grow in that environment over cultivated domestic variety, probably more robust.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    We cooked with it. It was maybe a bit more robust (so slightly thicker, harder) but it had all the same flavor. Maybe even better, fresher than what I was used to.

    My favorite was with potatoes and lamb.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Definitely! For example, a zucchini plant might give you a fruit per day for about 3 weeks, which is more than my family can eat. The options for us then are a) canning such as zucchini relish (highly recommend!) or b) grate it and freeze it for future baking (zucchini bread, egg bites, etc.)

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Depends on what you grow.

    I had a half acre, and something like tomatoes means you have to can them because you can't eat them all once they are ready, and a pear tree that would produce wheel barrows full for weeks so I had to start brewing Perry.

    But in the city with only a 10x10 plot it was pretty slow going except for cherry tomatoes...those grew like wildfire up and over the fence etc. So many we had to give them away.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    One tomato plant can be too many for a family of 4. You don’t need a large garden to have too many tomatoes (or zucchini)

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