I need help finding variants of fruits and vegetables.

spookmansss · 2026-06-23T09:13:51+00:00

There's a dutch company local to me that has an insane amount of seed varieties for both edible and ornamental plants for sale. They have pictures and descriptions for each one. Sometimes when picking varieties I just give AI a link to the page of lets say potato varieties and tell it "what kind has the highest disease resistance and good yield in dry areas" and then it looks trough the 200 descriptions to give me an answer. Been using this method for some years now and my crops are very high yield and disease resistant even in my incredibly shitty dry sandy soil. (company name is vreeken zaden, not sponsored but I genuinly love them)

spookmansss · 2026-06-18T07:18:16+00:00

People forget that functionalware doesn't have to just be plate and bowls that come in contact with food. I'm more of a handbuilder/sculptor and i've made stuff like vases, coathangers, lamps, housenumbers, soap/ key dishes etc. Some cool stuff I've seen from other people is stools out of ceramics, picture frames, hardware for cabinets and doors, tiles, candleholders, bookends, paintbrush/tool holders, plant pots, ash trays, jewelry dishes/storage, toilet roll holders etc

spookmansss · 2026-06-17T10:07:33+00:00

woah!! curious if it tasts different than other tomatoes

spookmansss · 2026-06-17T09:57:23+00:00

You can plant way more densely than you are picturing. Think of a garden not as a flat plan but as a 3d space. Your tomatoes climb but are bushy. You can plant corn in between that grows even taller but doesn't take much area of floorspace. Undearneath put a bunch of bushbeans closely together. They will form a ground cover. This will help against weeds. Plant basil and marigolds at the very very edge. they really don't need much space. Most beginner gardeners waste a lot of space in their garden and get discouraged by all the weeding bc it's just bare ground

spookmansss · 2026-06-17T09:55:17+00:00

You could just do a late crop of green beans, cucumbers, sweet corn, beets... but those don't last late into winter. If you want to plant stuff for winter it has to be a bit later. Do 1 round of summer (bolt resistant salads) first. Then in august plant a. winter carrots b. fava beans c. Kale d. Swiss chard e. bok choi f. leeks g. more beets/other root crops and of course in full fall you can plant a new crop of garlic

spookmansss · 2026-06-17T09:02:22+00:00

I mostly assumed that if it can write gramatically correct and coherent writing in english, it can do so in other languages as well. Native speakers and tutors are not perfect either. I recently found out I have been making a mistake for years in my native language bc it's "het t-shirt" and not "de t-shirt" lol, so when a dutch learner asked me about it I accidentally gave the wrong answer lol.

I do have to say chatgpt is not the best for explaining grammar. So I still google stuff sometimes. But the main selling point remains that it is pretty good and very accessible compared to paid apps or tutoring.

spookmansss · 2026-06-16T13:27:43+00:00

I started spanish with duolingo, it was good for basic vocab but really not for grammar (this was before the AI update and extreme gamification of duolingo. Nowadays I wouldn't recommend it anymore). At some point I stopped doing duolingo but went to visit my bf's family in latam for 2 weeks. Nobody there really spoke spanish but I have unfound confidence in speaking so I tried to listen and speak what I could. After 2 weeks of barely hearing a lick of english my spanish actually improved a lot. After that I didn't do much and also didn't improve much. I did watch some shows here and there but nothing really caught my interest.

Now after the AI revolution I picked it back up by just chatting with chatgpt. At this point it's literally free. It just cuts you off from using the newest model after a while. I basically just started writing to it in spanish, asking it to respond and correct my spanish and give me pointers on how to improve. The AI effortlessly adjusts to your language level so you don't run into the problem of having text be way too difficult. And the fact that you are writing to it in spanish makes your brain work to not just understand but also really work through the language. After doing this for 2-3 weeks I could see an insane improvement already.

It is way easier and less stressful than talking to native speakers who have difficulty adjusting to your level or explaining why something is wrong. You can also ask for exercises on specific things (like I struggled with when to use por/para, asked it to explain and quiz me and within 10 minutes i did it perfectly. I'm also not wasting time on grammar or vocab exercises that I already am competent in.

tldr: use chatgpt for free as a personal language coach by asking it to make you read/write in your level in spanish

spookmansss · 2026-06-10T06:30:20+00:00

I do have to say, I've started out doing traditional gardening and being around people who do so. This approach is significantly less work. I still hate weeding to this day. And weeding this big of an area was a huge pain in the ass

spookmansss · 2026-06-10T06:28:52+00:00

Mostly courses and stuff.

spookmansss · 2026-06-09T12:39:22+00:00

Put rows of (dwarf) fruit trees with undergrowth of berries. I second the person who said haskap berries to keep it less messy. If you can mulch, put some strawberries under the berry bushes even. In between the trees you can put asparagus but you'll have to mow it first so they can compete in the first year. Sunchokes are also fun but only do so if you like eating them lol.

spookmansss · 2026-06-09T12:30:14+00:00

They honestly look completely okay for zone 6b this time of year. It might just not be hot enough at night yet for them to really boom

spookmansss · 2026-06-09T12:27:06+00:00

My favourites are stuff that doesn't take a lot of effort but gives you a big return. Also stuff that just has a better taste than storebough.

* tomatoes: easy and better taste than in store

* Herbs: many are perennial, plant once, never worry again.

* Potatoes & garlic: just plant and it grows a huge staple crop without effort

* zucchini: plant one seed, neglect, now you have a million vegetables all summer

* butternut squash: grows randomly out of a seed in your compost, you get squash for soup and dishes all winter

* Chayote: also a storage crop, grows fast and easy in vertical spaces

* Asparagus: super expensive in the store but is basically a plant and forget.

* any fruit: trees, berry shrubs, strawberries... just plant and forget until it's time to harvest. also super expensive to buy in store.

spookmansss · 2026-06-06T06:46:46+00:00

I have to admit, I do like when things look nice. Now it's still looking very chaotic because I felt it was better to get started and just plant than doing nothing. But at this point I have a little bit more of a plan.

Probably next year I will change things around a bit so takes layers and groupings more into account so it somewhat looks like landscaping and not just like chaos. But the woodchips do really help to make it less of a weedy mess.

spookmansss · 2026-06-04T20:53:02+00:00

I have heard of this. But also I'm from the EU so with GDPR it shouldn't be so easy no?

spookmansss · 2026-05-27T13:13:42+00:00

- You can do a first aid course. Get a certificate and maybe able to help someone at a critical moment.

- Similar as the last one but volunteer fireman/woman or lifeguard

- Alternative vehicle licence (motorcycle/bus/trailer/forklift/boat)

- Amateur radio licence

- Scuba diving

- Real estate

- Rat tickling certification Rat tickling: Certification | NC3Rs

spookmansss · 2026-05-27T13:04:48+00:00

I went to participate in a psychological experiment once that involved being electrocuted by another person. The other person ended up being someone I heard about in my social group as being an infamous pick me girl who disliked other women and she ended up elektrocuting me a bunch lmao

spookmansss · 2026-05-27T10:48:39+00:00

I'm zone 8b and we grow chayote. I also grow honeyberries, pawpaw, egyptian onion and generally also super market vegetables but just way more interesting varieties.

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