Is Something Happening with Seeds and Gardening

originally posted by: GENERAL EYES
I'm in the process of getting together an planter for my window to grow Daisies.

I've never attempted to grow flowers before.

Please wish me luck!

I'm new to indoor gardening.

Generally speaking, most types of daisies need to be grown outdoors, you can start seeds inside. You’re better off trying herbs indoors, Good Luck !

I’m going to do an experiment with some cool weather veggies this fall and winter. I’ve got both Burbee seeds and some non-GMO seeds ( Swiss chard, different lettuce varies, radishes and green beans ) I’ll report back on the results. 🥬

a reply to: MountainLaurel

Thank you for the advice!

I just looked up care and maintenence of Daisies indoors and I wouldn't be able to care for their needs.

I've tried herbs but I'm better with succulents and cactus.

I'm kind of an idiot and sometimes because of my life I forget to tend to them.

Speaking of which, I need to go water my bonzai.

Thanks for the insights and suggestions!

*hugs*

Last growing season (2021) was strange here in the Mid-Atlantic because of the Mother's Day freeze we experienced but I salvaged about a dozen plants and replanted the rest. We had a bumper crop of tomatoes and quite a lot of hot peppers.
This season it was dry to start but because of mid-summer rains the garden took off. The green beans and peas finished super early but tomatoes are going crazy now. I am in the process of planting a second harvest of zucchini and could probably do other plants as well.
Anyway we do live in strange times but I encourage EVERYONE to learn to plant and preserve as much food as possible.

a reply to: MountainLaurel

I’m going to do an experiment with some cool weather veggies this fall and winter.

I like that Idea! I have a few plants in fiber pots that I'm going to try and reveg in the greenhouse after the first harvest in October and try for a second harvest after Christmas.

I feel the need to sing the praises of fiber pots. I allows the roots to breathe, and it's almost impossible to over water like in Clay or plastic containers. In a side by side comparison the fiber pots show faster, healthier, and more vigorous growth when compared to heavy clay.

a reply to: JAGStormYou are 100% on the money. This year was the worst I've experienced in my life time and I'm 57 years old. Everything flowered out beautifully, but almost no fruit from any of my plants. It's by far the strangest thing I've encountered in my time of gardening. The wife and I regularly attend our local market to by honey and jellies and we've noticed their way down in the amount of veggies and fruits they are bringing to the market this year. When I've talked with some of the local growers about it, they say they've never had anything like this happen before and are shocked at what is happening. Most of these people use what is gained at the market as a supplemental income, but this year will make next to nothing because most everything they have grown has to be used for personal storage. I'm not sure as to what is causing this, but something is afoot.

Hmmm..... Mother Nature is always ahead of the game..... what is she adapting to? Is it just the climate or something else? Looking at this from a medicinal point of view. Mother Nature also holds the cures.
Rainbows
Jane

a reply to: JAGStorm

We have had terrible luck. The roma tomato plants are leggy and the tomatoes are so small and most of them are nowhere close to ripening. The bell peppers are also very small and many are malformed. The jalapenos look just like tiny cherry peppers. Little round things. Most of them don't even have seeds and very little heat to them. The brussel sprouts are only just starting to put out tiny nubs. They won't mature until it's too late. Only one hot pepper plant is doing well.

It has been incredibly hot and humid, but we've had precious little rain in our area. The rest of Alberta is getting huge thunderstorms and tornados, but we're in a drought.

We had a cold spring that lingered too long. We had to keep the plants in the garage at night so much to keep the frost off them. I think it all just stunted everything.

a reply to: JAGStorm


Not much of a gardener myself but i did notice that 95% of the sunflower seeds i planted never came to anything this year and the few that did grow are well behind what they should be and we have had good weather this year .

I had some issues getting my peas, carrots, and beans to sprout this year. My cantelope and potatos were fantastic though. After I reseeding, most of the veggies were fine. My biggest issue was with my spinach. It never really grew despite reseeding three times. a reply to: JAGStorm

Back to those seeds. I don't know if this is yet another thing being targeted at our food supply or what. I buy these same flower seeds every single year from the same vendor..

I believe this is the problem.

Heirloom seeds and saving your own would aleviate many problems.

The biggest benefit is vegetables acclimated to your specific location.

I'm not a gardener so take or leave it.

Gardening year round indoor and outdoor for the past 20 years, this year was no different. No restrictions on seeds/shortages whatsoever. No 5G isn't hurting your plants or most likely anything else for that matter, and no, there doesn't always have to be a government conspiracy behind every little thing you find different/inconvenient. Some of you people really need some serious mental evaluation/time away from your computer screen. Lmao.

a reply to: Overd0sed

there doesn't always have to be a government conspiracy behind every little thing you find different/inconvenient.

The older I get the more I'm siding with the "crazies"
Look at all the CT have said has come to fruition or been admitted.

Maybe some people are too trusting and just take everything at face value. Well to that I say ignorance must be bliss.

Seems to have just been a poor growing season around here.

We lost our bean crop; they came up great, but with the health issues we let the deer get to them. That's on us. Using natural repellent (hot sauce mixtures mainly) requires that one get out there right after every rain/watering to reapply. We weren't able to keep up.

Tomatoes made, but the crop was a little disappointing. Not as big as usual, and many of the little tomatoes just dropped off before they could come close to maturing.

Cutworms got the pepper plants. They just suddenly showed up; wee haven't had trouble with cutworms in decades until now.

Yellow squash started out amazing! Big plants, blooms everywhere, then squash everywhere. But they didn't grow. We got a couple messes is all. Cucumbers were the same way.

Okry did all right. The stalks were pretty short this year, but they did put on a good bit of okry.

Greens? Fuhgitaboutit.

I'm blaming the weather. It's been hot and dry since late spring and is just now starting to rain again. We get a big load of everything that's still going a day after every rain. This spring, the rains came early... by the time the temperature caught up, it was dry again. But that's just the way it goes... some years the rains hit right, some years they don't. Growing isn't a guaranteed thing. We'll try again next year.

Hopefully we can make up for it by taking several deer out of the equation this winter. They ate my food; they now become my food. Got an empty freezer just ready and willing to be stocked up.

I don't think it is Armageddon or there's some massive conspiracy. Just the vagrancies of weather. Farmers deal with it all the time.

TheRedneck

Something worth mentioning if your plants are fruiting look for the pollinators; bees, wasps, flies, beetles. Here in Va many insect species are missing, butterflies and moths included. I was afraid this thread would take off and judging from the number of negative comments we're looking at a food disaster by this winter. The only good things about a complete crash would be the stopping of spreading poisonous insecticides, herbicides and other chemicals that are degrading the environment. If the power goes out so do the EM waves from a million different sources. There is a silver lining to every storm cloud.

a reply to: JAGStorm

I am now retired & have time to put in a garden; laid 200+ ft of pipe and am now working on the fence. I got impatient & planted some stuff, put little cages made of scrap fencing & bird netting to keep deer off until I get the fence done, kinda glad I did because this will be a little test before I go bigger next year. My tomatoes have made 1 tomatoe & it was the size of a cherry tomatoe leaves also curl (probably due to intense heat). the new growth as well as the blooms keep dying back on my my butternut squash, my peppers are growing nice but have not produced anything, my blueberry is dead/dying. I have grown gardens in the past & done well. One of my neighbors had a very poor year last year & has not bothered with a garden this year. I am thinking one or more out of three possible reasons 1) intense heat, it's always hot here in N. California in the summer but we had a particularly brutal heat wave 2) Could be PH; I ordered a PH meter & will check that out when it arrives. 3) Lack of polinators; when the Eucalyptus tree in my yard blooms it buzzes with bees but next to nothing this year. I think for next year I'll plant some of the more sensitive plants in a more shaded area and/or get some shade cloth, also plant some zinnias bee balm & other flowers that attract polinators. Don't know what else to do; since you are pretty experienced figured I would bounce my experiences thus far off you...

I came across this disturbing piece on geoengeneering which states that UVC is affecting crops, please have a view and let me know, thanks
www.youtube.com...

originally posted by: julienl42
I came across this disturbing piece on geoengeneering which states that UVC is affecting crops, please have a view and let me know, thanks
www.youtube.com...

That was scary!! I have noticed all the things they mentioned in the video.

originally posted by: julienl42
I came across this disturbing piece on geoengeneering which states that UVC is affecting crops, please have a view and let me know, thanks
www.youtube.com...

I watched that video several weeks ago and again after your prompt. I think it's true we are getting heavy doses of UVC radiation and the question is this; Is this part of a natural cycle of the sun or is this the results of geoengineering and aerosol spraying? Are we facing people who want to destroy ALL life on Earth? It makes a lot of sense if this is God's creation and Satan seeks to destroy his works.

originally posted by: julienl42
I came across this disturbing piece on geoengeneering which states that UVC is affecting crops, please have a view and let me know, thanks
www.youtube.com...

Excellent video and something I haven’t heard.

If accurate we are looking at hard times ahead…

I myself have been seeing alot of this for the past couple years. Been thinking about it a lot lately. All the seed companies are compromised

originally posted by: JAGStorm
So I am a long time gardener. I've dabbled into almost all realms of gardening.
I have a natural green thumb and can grow just about anything...

I am so good at growing I was approached by people to see if I would grow pot before it was legal in so many places (I declined) I don't put this in here to brag but to just illustrate that I know how to grow, and am very experienced in it.

So why did I put this in the conspiracy section? This year has been the worst veggie/fruit growing year I've ever had. The weather was weird.
The plants were all off. My flowers are doing ok, but the veggies and fruit are terrible. Then.. I started hearing and reading things.
Stories eerily similar to mine, from people that don't live near. A woman said she has been gardening for 50 years and this is the worst year she has had.
A guy in a different area, similar story... Another lady mentioning bugs on her veggies that she has never had in decades... Very very similar stories. These aren't coming from first year new gardeners, these are people that have been doing the same thing, 20/30/40/50+ years.....


There are a couple things that could cause this, weather or the _____seeds_____....or chemtrails, or the water...
I'm wondering if it is the seeds. I have perfect rich soil, endless well water and it's been warm....
I've been in much worse weather years with no problem.

Back to those seeds. I don't know if this is yet another thing being targeted at our food supply or what. I buy these same flower seeds every single year from the same vendor.. This year, pure crap. Don't even look like the same plant, different height, size etc.
I know during covid everyone went hog wild in growing gardens and a lot of things wen't out of stock and backordered. I don't know if that cause this year for them to sell inferior seeds, or old seeds. Maybe there is something going on with the water that isn't being talked about and it's already down to the aquifer level?