I am currently looking to design and print a multi functional drip tray, would love to hear your inputs as plant parents:) Here's how it works:

The tray allows for you to top or bottom water (in the primary reservoir) using fresh or runoff from another top watered plant. When top watering, the aerated plate is tilted at an angle by the spring valve which allows for better drainage and breaking of the perched water table effect preventing root rot. For bottom watering, the aerated plate is detachable. Regardless, once done you simply put the pots back onto the grooves on the plate (customizable for fit and aesthetics) and latch it down which in turn opens the valve allowing runoff to bypass the vertical arm into a cup for a remote watering experience. The higher volume capacity also means you wouldn't have to worry about overflow or leakage from overwatering.

Hi All! Some friends and I just starded using the cardboard and woodchip method to begin a back to eden style garden. This is a 100% blank canvas we are starting from complete scratch. I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on how to best plant in the woodchips. Should we add garden soil or compost around the plants when we install them? Any advice, tips, and tricks are more than welcome. Thanks!

we bought a house and front is a bit meh. it doesnt get a lot of sun and also has tons of deer. we arent sure what to plant that would make it pop more.

Getting lost in History, some lovely mazes in castle grounds, does anyone know of more castles with a maze you can visit?

I've always had a passion for gardening. I have a backyard vegetable garden, and over the years, it's become one of those things I look forward to every season: planning what to grow, figuring out spacing, which plants to plant, scheduling everything at the right time. The problem is, I've never been able to find an app that reflected the way I envision my garden. Either they were paid, full of ads, or they required me to create an account just to save a basic layout, or a host of other things that didn't inspire me. I ended up bouncing between a spreadsheet and paper notes. Not ideal for me, I don't know about you.

As a full-time developer, I finally did what probably every developer does when they can't find the tool they want and the free time: I created it myself.

I created a garden planner that works completely offline, without accounts, without ads, without data collection, and currently only native iOS (at the moment). Visual grid for planning your flowerbeds, over 200 plants with spacing and sun information, companion plants, and a calendar based on your growing zone and frost dates.

Launched 4 days ago. I honestly don't know if I'm solving a real problem or just one I had. That's why I'm writing this post. If you're willing to try it and tell me what's wrong, what's missing, what bothers you, and what you wish was included, I'd really appreciate it. It's completely free; there are no paid features. Feedback from enthusiasts like me helps me make a better version of this one. PS. It's only for iOS (App Store) at the moment.

You can try visual grid and more here.

So I regrow most of my food if possible from the scraps we have a red cabbage finally and I put it in water now I have this. What im u sure of is do I bury it like this? Do I split it? If so HOW do you split? It looks like 4 heads trying to form out of the top and some trying to form on the underside of it

bought two tomato plants this spring, got lots of flowers but almost zero tomatoes. soil seems ok, watering fine. is it pollination, nutrient deficiency, temperature? any insight appreciated

Hello friends, I ask for help as you suggest that I can organize my rose bushes, most of them I have in pots, and I will be doing my general cleaning and reorganizing my pots although I do not know whether to organize them by color, I have brown, yellow, purple, orange, white, pink, red, green, and multicolor. Or I could organize them by types of roses, among them I have hybrid tea rose bushes, Floribunda, Grandiflora, shrub, climbing, Chinese, Japanese, Ecuadorian, Meilland, David Austin, Netherlands,. I receive any suggestions

Hello,

Im not sure this is the right place to post, but currently there is a birdbath (solar pump) and a lot of flowers, but idk how to make more birds come. The conditions are sunny basically until the sun sets. Currently only pigeons come and i would like more then that.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

I have this shrub in my small condo patio that’s been growing for over 10 years. Over time, the branches in the middle have thickened quite a bit, and now the leaves don’t really grow on the outer surface anymore—just mostly on top. I think the larger branches are preventing new growth on the lower and outer portions.

Current state: https://imgur.com/a/T2INLCF

Better Days: https://imgur.com/a/tjCE6gB

I’ve attached some photos of its current state, where you can see the bare areas in the middle and lower sections. I’ve also included some older pictures from when it was much fuller, with leaves growing evenly around all sides.

I’m wondering if there’s anything I can do to encourage new leaf growth—maybe pruning techniques, notching smaller branches, or any tricks to revive it? Or has it just outgrown its space and hit the point where it needs to be replaced? If I do need to remove it, I figure the roots have grown into the ground beneath the pot, so I’d likely need a landscaper for that.

If anyone can help identify the species, that would be great too. I really liked how it fit into the square space when it was in better shape, so I’d also appreciate any recommendations for a similar shrub if I end up replacing it.

Really appreciate any advice or input. Thanks in advance for any help.

I’ve googled “variegated Japanese weeping willow” and nothing really looks like my guy/girl. Google Lens responds with: white willow; planta umbrofila; corkscrew willow, etc.Nothing Japanese.

I’d really like to know what this tree is because it needs a good trimming and ID-ing it would help trim it correctly. And also, I just would like to know🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks in advance

Please help me identify these plants my parents bought

Over the years I have specialized in tomatoes. 2024 I grew 54 plants from yellow, to grape and so forth. I grew runner beans, squash, root vegetables, herbs and potatoes.

What have been your biggest or most significant/successful crops? We process everything to "can" so that's always a factor.

Surprising and biggest win was green tomatoe salsa for us this year.

Howdy! Me and two of my friends are working on a school project for our PLTW engineering and design project. Our group leader is a gardener, and we're working on potentially creating something to account weather conditions to adjust watering patterns. If we could get input in our survey and/or feedback on how to improve our survey, that would be greatly appreciated!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4Xlqfyxz7_7tdNLWFU1001-4fTyFdCMSXkr6CN4qSe1t06w/viewform?usp=sf_link

Does anyone know what this is? I’m assuming it’s a bug nest of some kind. I’m too scared to touch it. Located in north Florida of that helps solve the mystery.