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What are you going to grow?

I just bought some, idk what to call them, raised bed corners, I guess? So instead of drilling and screwing or nailing bits of wood together, I can just slot planks into the metal braces, which is good since I really suck at carpentry. They're made of steel, but have a lead warning so I think the powder coating has lead in it. Hopefully I can strip that off and refinish them so I don't put lead in the soil. Otherwise I guess I could just grow ornamentals in the beds I make with them, but that seems like a waste.

Sometimes I think I like daydreaming about gardening more than gardening itself. But gardening is still fun, even though I fail often at growing food.

Oh I've seen something like those! They look handy. I think the ones I saw were wood.

See my reply to anon above! I'm also looking at water plants for my pond and I want to see if I can grow some giant sunflowers, but mostly natives.

I definitely have frustrations. I have been through three maidenhair ferns in my indoor garden. They're so pretty and I want them to live.

What food do you grow? Is there anything new you want to try?

AYRT--I wish I could find premade wood ones; the only options I've seen online or the last time I went to a plant nursery (before the pandemic, sigh) were metal like the ones I bought, or plastic. If I was at all handy I think they'd be easy to make from wood corner molding.

Oh man, a frog pond is pretty much my ultimate dream; I was one of those kids that would walk along river and pond banks and try to catch frogs as they leapt for the water, and I never really grew out of it. There aren't really frogs anywhere close by my house; I'd have to go hiking in the nearest canyon nature preserve to see (or more likely, just hear) them. If I could dig/build a pond and attract some I would love to. Maybe that will be my next garden project after raised beds. If you are someplace warm, be careful of water hyacinth and water lettuce, they will take over. And cattails are pretty, but I think they will take over everywhere except maybe the tropics.

Giant sunflowers sound fun; I haven't grown them since I was a kid when my mom did most of the work, heh. They attract birds so maybe you could plant some around a birdbath, or near your pond when you get one.

What's native where you are? I bought some seeds for plants native to my state (California), although from north of where I am, and am hoping I can start them in late fall, which is (hopefully, sometimes there's drought) the start of our rainy season. Many natives here in southern Cali start growing when it rains and go to seed or go dormant by summer.

I have lots of fruit trees--apple, peach, apricot, pomegranate, persimmon, pear, cherry, orange, lemon, and avocado, plus other fruit like dragonfruit cactus and blueberries and grapes and blackberry bramble.

But most of the trees are still young and don't produce much, and we have fruit rats that will eat unripe stuff. I am too horrified by snap or glue traps to use them, it's illegal to dump rats caught in live traps away from the yard, and there are too many animals who eat rats around here (hawks, cats, owls) for me to be comfortable using poison. One of my neighbors found a dead red tailed hawk down the street recently. :-( So I mostly get enough fruit for the occasional snack and the rats and possums get the rest. Maybe I should adopt a rat terrier.

I have some small saplings/seedling trees of more tropical stuff like wax apple and jackfruit and sapodilla, and a cocoa tree that is only a stick with a few leaves; I don't know if they'd ever thrive outside in the ground; it doesn't really freeze here, but it's not the tropics. And as for my raised beds, I just want to grow veggies; I am hoping I can start winter stuff like carrots and lettuce and leeks and peas in the fall, and then do summer stuff like tomatoes and peppers next year. I've grown them and squash and stuff before, but the soil here has a ton of clay, so I think they'd do better in raised beds with purchased dirt. When I put manure and compost and leaf mold and stuff in the clay, the clay eats it in less than a year.

I have had better luck keeping maidenhair ferns alive outside in the shade than inside my house; it's hard to keep them damp like they like inside. The one in the ground does okay, it is not super fond of clay but it's in a relatively well draining spot. The other is in deep shade in a big pot that has a pink jasmine vine and some lilies in it and it's up against a fence; it seems to like the combo of damp shade and well drained soil, but it is so hidden by other plants I don't really get to admire it. At least it's happy. Have you tried keeping a potted one in a saucer with pebbles or marbles and water in the bottom so it stays humid? That setup worked best, but I always eventually killed them inside, they're not easy.

Stripping the coating off might be more dangerous than leaving it - what would you do with it? You can't dump it in the trash and handling it and breathing it is dangerous (pretty sure HazMat would have to deal with it).

Better to maybe investigate it a little, see what the lead warning is for, and see if there's a way to put a sealant over it or something. If you line them with a heavy-duty plastic (with holes for drainage), you won't have to worry about any lead getting into your soil/plants that you put into them.

Good luck!

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