I'm about to make my 1st attempt at growing passion fruit, does anyone know it's it's possible to grow them indoors?

Hey guys. I’ve recently started growing wheatgrass indoors from seed from juicing purposes. What are the steps I need to take to maintain the grass and then let it grow so I can harvest it.

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I am about to start keeping chickens for the first time. I plan to start with 8 pre-sexed hens, 4 Easter Eggers and 4 Barred Rock. I should get the chicks mid September, and im kinda nervous about raising them to maturity! I've read about the heat lamps and reducing it 5* per week, but ive never done it so cant help but be a little nervous.

A green house/potting shed, about 8x16, will become their coop, and a 16x8 chicken tractor will be their run. The Run will typically be attached to the Coop by means of a trapdoor and ramp system.
I plan to locate the tractor/run in various places around the yard. It will weigh about 120 pounds and have wheels on one side and handles on the other. I've also considered building a more modest run, and potentially having 2 smaller chicken tractors that the birds can be transported to when the time is right. Thoughts on this approach? We only have 1.3 acres, and the birds cannot be full free-range because of our municipal ordinances (plus we have one super busy road that boarders our property and id hate to see them get hit by a car!)

The majority of their diet the first year will be commercial feed. Can anyone recommend a well balanced choice in terms of value and nutrients? As the perennial garden gets more established they will have fresh comfrey, clover, pointed gourd, and beach plums. If anyone has other perennials to suggest, I have just started planning this type of garden.

How do yall deal with broody mommas? I work a full time job, so at 6am when i go to get the eggs, i gotta get them all! Cant really wait til 9 or 10 to get the extra egg(s), when a broody mother leaves her post to go eat.

I know theres unlimited resources online about raising chickens, but a lot of it is for farmers or bigger more traditional styles of raising chickens. We will have a small flock with no males, so looking for guidance and conversation about my specific situation.

Thanks for your time!!

Not sure which sub is the best sub to ask this since -I don't even- :?

Basically, what animal has the best (lowest) edible mass per feed mass ratio as described here

Finding values for chickens, piggles and cows is easy - but I can't find values for sheep, goats, fish, etc

EDIT: Although not appetizing at face value, I'm also curious for these numbers for insects and such

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What do I need to know about fruit trees?

How useful are these for a source of food?

What kind of maintenance am I looking at?

What are some good kinds/species? Your favorite?

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The plants on the green vase were repotted a week ago from a “seed starting greenhouse kit”. There were no dried leaves before repotting. I kept the plastic lid on most of the time. Seeds were planted on Dec 14. Soil used for repotting was 0.08 - 0.12 - 0.08.

The plants on the other vase were never repotted and were planted at Dec 8. The dried leaves started appearing about 4 days ago. These were never covered. They are on the original "starter mix" that came with the vase.

They have growing lights on them for 10-16h per day (I don’t have a timer. I turn it on and off manually). Vases have good drainage. House temperature is never below 18°C. I never water the leaves, only the soil, when it’s dry.

I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong? Any help is appreciated.

Thank you!

Hey gardeners of reddit! I need some advice with a raspberry plant that I planted earlier in the spring (probably first or second week of April). I bought it potted with three short canes with leaves on them and I believe it is a Nova raspberry plant. It’s already begun fruiting and ripening a handful of raspberries on its three canes which are all about 11 inches long. So my question is, is it still summer bearing since it’s fruiting on what appear to be new canes ? And how do I go about pruning it at the end of the season for next year? Im sorry if these are stupid questions but I have decided to try my hand at berry growing after having successful fig trees for many years. Thank you in advance for your help.

I raise meat chickens, keep bees, raise coturnix quail, raise pigs and grow shiitake mushrooms. It's a part time venture for me that has become a passion (obsession) and I always like to hear other interesting things to grow. For me finding outlets to sell product has been the biggest challenge. I did one farmer's market a month this year and I have a friend that owns a very busy farmstand who carries my products for me. In addition to that I post on craigslist to find people interested in buying half or whole hogs and pasture raised chickens. How are you all moving your products after harvest? www.sunnypatchfarm.com

tore down a shed, and reusing the wood to make a greenhouse. in maine, zone 5b for context, season extension is imperative. seasons are short, and top soil is shallow. maine agriculture is all around pretty low productivity compared to other places, so anything can make a major improvement.

i am using a simple 12x10 modular design, to build out from, and make it easy to move around. making 2 of these, for a total of 240 square feet of growing space. one is going to go on the back porch where ill be growing microgreens and seedlings, and the other will cover half the garden adjacent to the porch where strawberries and spring onions will be overwintering.

they will then be tarped together possibly with a barrier between them so they are separated heat areas. ill also be using black painted barrels with water as a heat sink, and "hot beds" or compacted composting horse manure during the deep winter months in the paths between the raised beds in my garden to keep the lower greenhouse warmer.

the heat will rise to the higher section on the porch, and passive heat from the sliding porch door will also help heat the higher section, hopefully letting me grow microgreens all winter long, and start seedlings in january.

hoping to talk the landlord into financing an actual 3 season room, then i can move that section of the green house down to cover the other half of the garden, and afford then to build another section, so all and all will have 24x24 roughly for next season, or a total of 576 square feet covered space, which is all the space i plan to cultivate here.

i estimate if i can get this to a year round system, at least the section on the porch producing microgreens year round and starting seedlings early, i can net 3k a year worth of produce, or half of my families food consumption. i think for maine, in such a small space, thats significant. if this model works ill be seeking financing to develop a larger operation somewhere, or purchase this property, and expanding out to 2k square foot garden, the rest would likely need to be covered in hoop houses though to keep code enforcement off my back.

modular design will let me experiment with layout as well to orient the house in different ways to the sun given the layout of my small backyard and house. i don't know if 24x24 square would be better, or an L shape 36'x12' on the long end, and 24x12 on the short end. i want to orient it around the porch so i have a warm entry and passive heat loss from the house will help heat the greenhouse and vice versa.

ANyway. im super excited to be able to grow food into winter. even if its not advanced enough to get me through the deep freeze months late january through the begining of march, it will be fun to learn, and ill get a head start on spring, and not a small amount of greens to harvest into january.

wish me luck. pictures will come when i can borrow a friends camera.

im making seed pods by hand, cutting tp rolls, rolling card and wrapping them in elastic bands, and also molding recycled paper in muffin tins. its fun but very tedious, time and space consuming.

i spent an hour making 200 of these. i need like 2000 cells for the scale i grow on, which if was these hommade pods, i don't even have space for. i have a hard time justifying $3-$5 for the plastic trays for sale online. there has to be something cheaper.

So I have a small suburban farm (literally). I have 1.5 acres of blueberries that I need harvested. It is way too small to machine harvest (even the rental of a machine is more than I want to pay). I want to know what a fair rate is - I don't want to pay more to harvest my crop than I can get for it. I don't want to go to a home depot and just pick some guys up because harvesting is a skill and I'd like to grab some folks that know what they are doing - and again I'd like to pay a fair rate. If a fair rate doesn't make sense - I'll just let my friends and family pick everything they want and then leave it until I get more cleared and possibly justify machinery.

Any thoughts? Is there a better sub to put this in? I know this is more around homesteading - but that's actually what I am trying to do... I just need more help this time of year. I can handle the apples, plums, kiwiberries, bees, etc - but the blueberries are just more time than I have.

EDIT: Historically this farm was a U-Pick. However, the couple running it were retired and had nothing better to do than babysit people walking the property. I have a job for now until I get this farm to a sustainable point (and it isn't going to be there for years at best... fruit trees take time to grow).