• Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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      1 day ago

      It’s mostly all about Spring Flowers, right now! I’ve got a campout., then after that I’ll start planting in earnest. The new one this year is growing fenugreek, the leaves are called methi, and they grow pretty easily. I try to grow as much as I can, but it’s really hard to grow all one needs. Mostly I add variety thru gardening and foraging. What is ripening around you?

      • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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        24 hours ago

        Never grown fenugreek or heard of anyone using the leaves. Do you eat them?

        Three important tricks for growing all of your own food:

        • Live in the non-seasonal equatorial zone and/or invest heavily in food-preservation infrastructure that doesn’t require constant connection to the electric grid.
        • Learn to eat what grows well in your area.
        • Focus on high-calorie staples and plant smaller amounts of everything else.

        In the last few days, I’ve harvested mostly mandarins, but also bananas, papayas, cacao, araçá, capsicums, tomatoes, rangpur (mandarin limes), and… badea and naranjilla… and probably other things that I forget, but it’s a bit of a lull in the jackfruit right now, and the birds get almost all of the jaboticabas, and I’m still struggling to keep up with eating a recent plantain harvest. Oh, and there’s noni. Always noni. No shortage of noni. The neighbours hate noni.

        • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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          23 hours ago

          They are a mild green leafy vegetable sort of thing. Not as tasty as the seeds, or the sprouts.

          The way you are talking, I’m thinking I should call my kungfu brother who disappeared off to Costa Rica. Cheers!