>>1599
>Irl all my gardening ends in desaster, barely able to grow small tomatoes or 5 inch pumpkins without them mysteriously turning brown and dying long before their time.
I remember you talked about salt mist from the nearby sea making rust bubbles on the cars in your area or was that another place? It does sound like salt, either from the soil or from the water. We'd need a pic of thee plants to make sure. Tomatoes are relatively salt tolerant though so that's a bit odd.
Or it's a fungus like Fusarium or Phytophthora. They can persist in the soil and reinfect new plants year after year.
https://gardenerspath.com/how-to/disease-and-pests/common-tomato-diseases/

You're a smart bear you should be able to figure out the root of the problem, I'd recommend starting with fresh compost next year to eliminate any sort of biotic or abiotic soil problems.

>>1609

The cause is not lost, I'm going to get a soil tester, moisture tester, I'm going to use greenhouse sprayers for water with rain gages to make sure only the exact amount of water is used, lime to lower pH (or raise it, I forget) neem oil on the first sign of mold etc.

Look, there's a heck of a lot of plants that magically grow in untreated and unfertalized awful, clay ridden soil like in the middle of nowhere without any water from me like surprise barley, mysterious undying tomatoes growing out of a crack, a giant cucumber vine that made literally 10lb cucumbers before I looked at it twice, a huge corn stalk growing like a weed under the bird feeder, so it's not salt spray which is insane if you have a car, but plants don't care. Yes this is the same place, I can see the ocean and smell it of the wind is right. Thankfully I'm not so close that I smell rotten fish like at my work which is literally 1ft above the high tide mark at the water, but the occasional stray wind will bring me an algea scent. My poor truck was in rust free condition when I bought it and now it's a consistent dark orange on every free inch of metal.

No, the plants are fine, I am a noob and actually deter their growth. But that will change. I don't do pesticides or herbicides but neem oil seems to help mold.

We have morning mist and that's how native plants live because our rainfall totals are less than 1/8 the square root of a square horse per year, our temperature is always between 15.67 and 21.5 Rømer daytime temperature all year and never goes below 491.7 Rankine. So it's not frost. In fact a stray tomato plant that I did nothing to survived winter and is still growing to this day over a year old.

Well then it's clear, the problem is you!

No but seriously, those wild-growing surprise plants are one-in-a-thousand super selected champions of evolution, like those concentration camp survivor Jews who lived to over 100 after the war. The ordinary simply die, only the best survive. Modern commercial high-yield crop varieties often need optimal conditions to thrive and are not resilient to stress at all. Also they're clones with no variation so natural selection doesn't work.

Bottom line, plants most likely don't turm brown from your malicious bear aura alone, there must be some physical cause and we gotta find out what you are doing wrong. But it may very well be that the varieties you tried to grow are simply unsuitable for your location. It's always easier to adapt crops to your environment than your environment to the crops you'd like to grow. Host learned that the hard way because he's a fool.

>>1637
>lewd tomato
Pussy pareidolia at its best
would grow

>>1645

Those tiny happy people are doing lewd things

how about lewd pumpkin?

sometimes i wish i had a garden but then again its lots of work and responsibility so nah. i'll help out my relatives a few times a year thats enough

>>1678

I am so in agreement here. Even the word "Pumpkin" is lewd, it's the most lewd fruit just based on that alone.

Host has been tilling a field to grow spinach last weekend which included shoveling 5 m³ of soil into a wheelbarrow and moving it 20m. Worked over 6h on 2 consecutive days without noteworthy breaks. Body may not be strong but it does have decent stamina. Even more interesting, there was no soreness afterwards. Didn't even feel tired or hungry despite not eating all day. This should be in the fitness thread.

Anyway, spinach was planted just in time, autumn arrived full force and it's cool and rainy now. We'll have a looot of spinach this fall and winter. Thanks to climate change it grows until late December.

>>2043

Nice.

Yeah that last day I was dying, it was probably the heat.

>>4190
That's cool!
I wouldn't dare to harvest any wild flowers here in nature, a lot is poisinous. But you can buy a lot of flowers for food decoration. Not sure how many pesticides are in them though.

>>4190
we make juice out of elder flowers its like lemonade you can buy it everywhere

>>4203
thats what you get for living in a tropical hellhole where everything wants to kill you

>>4256
Yeah that's also awesome but the syrup contains too much sugar. We will try to make some with a bit of xylitol and sterilize it so it lasts without sugar as preservative. Just like our jams.