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  • full time job + garden + restoring the house I live in.. there aren't enough hours in the day

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  • Let's just say local laws are unreasonably strict about that kind of thing. To the point it's not worth the risk given how widely available it is should I need some.

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  • It's a process and every year you see an improvement over the previous one.

    5 years ago I've had a meadow that was slowly overgrowing with trees and some old, mostly dead fruit trees that look like from a horror movie around the house.

    With just me an my wife working on it we got to half an acre of a garden, a greenhouse, tiny vineyard (if you can call 20 plants that), 50-60 fruit trees and bushes. I intend to add beehives and a chicken coop before summer.

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  • The property came with a dozen or so enormous (>6m / 20ft) apple and cherry trees planted about a century ago and all but 3 of them are barely alive, so this spring I've cleared some space and added:

    • 4 peach trees, 2 varietals
    • 4 apricot trees, 2 varietals
    • 2 Japanese plum trees (technically not a plum)
    • 8 cherry trees, 4 varietals
    • 3 plum trees, 2 varietals
    • 10 apple trees, 5 varietals
    • 4 pear trees, 4 varietals
    • 2 pear-shaped quince trees
    • 2 Japanese quince bushes
    • 6 currant bushes, 2 varietals

    Assuming most of them survive I'll be set as far as fruit I can grow in my zone are concerned. Well, I could use 2-3 asian/american hybrid persimmons to have a full set, but they are very hard to find and expensive - I'd have to pay more for 2 than I've paid for the 40+ listed above..

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  • ~2000m^2 / half an acre.

    It was a meadow slowly overgrowing with random trees 5 years ago, so it took quite a bit of effort to get there

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  • That's going to be very location dependent - e.g. I can't reliably get regular habaneros even in large grocery stores where I live..

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  • With tomatoes as primary ingredient we make:

    • passata
    • pizza sauces
    • pasta sauces
    • salsas / nacho dips
    • sun dried

    and they are added to a bunch of other things - e.g. some of the pickles

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  • Nadapenos. I have those too - brain fart mixed it up

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  • I don't sell any. What we don't eat gets canned

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  • The combined area of the 3 racks I use for sprouting is almost 8m2 or 85ft2 - I'd need a lot of south facing windows to have that much of unused windowsill area available

    Edit: Also light directly above is better for sprouting

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  • Those are led tubes - the best shape for this purpose IMO.

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  • Habanada Nadapeno peppers - a non-spicy jalapeno. I will get to enjoy jalapeno taste even when cooking for family members who find mayo spicy ;-)

    Also the 40+ fruit trees I've planted last week, but I'll have to wait 2-3 years for the first fruit from those.

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    • 300 tomato plants, 30 varietals
    • 350 peppers, 35 varietals
    • 6 varietals of onions
    • leeks
    • celery
    • celeriac
    • thyme, basil + a bunch of other herbs
    • metric fuckton of various flowers
    • ...

    Full 3 racks of goodness

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  • Those are LEDs

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  • There are low pressure ones that can be gravity fed from a container as long as there is enough height difference. For some even 1m / 3ft is enough.

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  • Fun fact: I do contract work for several tech companies and the one that pushes for ai use the least is an ai company.

  • I wish it made sense in my case:

    • I'm too far north for solar to provide anywhere close to enough power for 5 months of the year, even if I have it overbuilt to x4 of what I need in the summer
    • I'm in a low average wind speed area (less than 4 m/s) - making wind power about 3x more expensive than solar. Also local law effectively prevents me from settting it up (minimum distance from residential rule)
    • no net metering available, net billing rules suck
    • grid is at capacity, so getting new solar connected is problematic and even if you manage that it won't accept your output through most productive months of the year
    • my car is a relatively new hybrid (but not a plug-in one) - I'm not replacing it until I run it into the ground
    • tl;dr; my auto consumption will be low, grid won't accept extra power greatly extending the break even period

    At least I'm using biomass for heating - wood or sunflower shell pellets.

  • Gardening @lemmy.world

    Tomato season, part 2

  • Mushrooms @lemmy.world

    2.5 kg (5.5 lbs) Calvatia gigantea

  • Gardening @lemmy.world

    Tomato season is here

  • Gardening @lemmy.world

    Making a seedling rack with grow lights was a good idea