Comment by UlyssesT@hexbear.net on What food vegetable(s) should I grow that's a good balance of low effort and would save a lot of money on grocery bills?

If there was a chart of this kind of thing or a solid non-SEO-spam resource, that would be helpful, too.

if you can fight off the slugs and snails.

How do you go about doing that, by the way? I tried growing lettuce once. Completely, absolutely RIDDLED with pests. There wasn’t any edible result

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i put rings of salt around my containers like I’m warding off demons

I go out every night with a salt shaker and a spade. They’re nocturnal and live near drains and gutters, and also on the underside of pots and such. It helps to be consistent, but I also have a very small plot to work with, so YMMV.

be me

grow radishes on a balcony

slugs somehow fucking know they’re up there???

I just don’t know how they know they’re there! How do they know it’s worth climbing, at the rate of a gott dang slug, up to the second story of this building?? There’s so much plant matter they could be eating downstairs! They’re fuckin’ obsessed I tell you hwut

I get that they can smell it but it just seems like an awful long way to go especially when there’s stuff they could eat downstairs that doesn’t require the equivalent of a hundred mile journey and crawling over concrete

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read braiding sweetgrass, lib

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What food vegetable(s) should I grow that's a good balance of low effort and would save a lot of money on grocery bills?

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