I’m stretching a bit here into my home life, but this is something tangible that I can track. I’ve been told and recall from my childhood that I come from a line of farmers and sharecroppers. I just hadn’t thought to try here with my home and yard until last year.
I successfully got some sunflowers, basil herb plants, pumpkin plants, and corn stalks to sprout and grow for a while.
The sunflowers were concentrated in a single planter and spent much of the summer in a survival of the fittest zero-sum game after I failed to move some of the stronger sprouts to the open soil. I ended up getting a really pretty one decent sized but it did not produce edible seeds
The basil and corn stalks did not survive the dog days, and neither really progressed past the sprout stage as it was.
The pumpkin vines survived, ran a little, and even flowered in the fall but did not produce fruit before it turned cold. They were my last hope.
I’m planning to do some more research and get a lot more topsoil to offset the amount of clay below the grass in my backyard that I’m planning to till up so that there’s a fresh plot to plant once all this cold weather goes away in March/April. That’s also something I need to correct from last year; I waited until nearly the end of May to try and plant the stuff, so the plants’ peak growth period was in the heat of the July sun. Yeah, not so much.
I will photo-journal here so that anyone interested can enjoy watching plants grow with me. If no one does, I can always make that 100 M back. :)
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@10thOfficial just boiled them up for a few minutes and ate them all since the mature kernels made for pretty small corn on the cob. This year’s harvest was good for a meal… but it’s a start!
I enjoy watching plants grow!
Have you looked into which plants thrive in your local zone? I've gone down a deep rabbit hole of food forest youtube videos, and their best success usually comes from throwing down seeds of native crops that are already proven to thrive without any additional TLC.
You could also basically guarantee a YES by buying an indoor setup like Click & Grow, though I sense it's against the spirit of your goals.
@Charlie yes, I’m in southern Mississippi, close enough that I’m almost in the same zone as the gulf coast but barely beyond it in what is called the Pine Belt. I should be able to get some decent corn stalks, sunflowers, and pumpkin vines to grow this year since I’ll be planting far ahead of late May the way I did last year.
Just a quick update that I wasn’t sure I conveyed in my giant word salad of a description in my original post:
I will in good faith make an effort to cultivate and grow multiple types of vegetables, herbs, and flowers this year during the designated growing season for my region, so it is ultimately up to the elements as to whether or not the plants I will attempt to grow in 2025 will bear fruit or, in the case of the sunflowers, edible seeds.