Ask HN: Do you garden or try to grow fruits/vegetables?
I'm interested cause I'm in the agtech space and just trying to find folks who like to grow shit.
I'm interested cause I'm in the agtech space and just trying to find folks who like to grow shit.
Down the road is my folks farm which I help caretake. They lease the land to the local dairy farmer for his herd to keep the grass mown. Out there we have roughly 30 pecan trees , 2 mangoes, 2 macadamia nuts, 1 starfruit, coffee, mulberries, figs, custard apples, pineapples, dragon fruit,paw paw and bananas in the orchard. Our veggie garden has asparagus, capsicum, chillis, lettuces, garlic,squash, rhubarb and a heap of other herbs and such as seasons permit. Scattered around the house garden we have pomegranate, lemons and heaps of rosemary and mint amongst the tropical plants and English flowers.
We fertalize with cow shit and occasionally surface pellets of equal npk. I also use a house&garden a&b nitrogen mix for some particularly finicky plants or for things that need a quick hit.
I'd love to work in agribusiness but ATM I'm just a labourer. I am helping a friend with tech for a mushroom farm to try get into it a bit.
Sorry for the poor formating / gramar this was written from a phone.
We have no "soil" just a courtyard and planter boxes on our front balcony but I grow a range of edibles in containers
Many herbs - rosemary, thyme, basil, oregano, parsley etc, Strawberries, Lemon grass, Chillies, Many citrus including quite a few native Australians, Pomegranites, Banana, Blueberries, Potatoes and sweet potato, Eggplant and few others.
Because it is hot and dry I have to over water, this leaches out nutrients so I have to feed quite regularly, slow release pellets and fish emulsion with a bit of worm juice.
Additionally for the citrus have to add iron chelates because the leaves get yellow from deficiency otherwise.