Hey, I know you're already all into self-hosting, now let me introduce the next big independence-thing: gardening! It's just like self-hosting, but for food!
This is what my balcony looks like now. Those green balls are tomatoes, supposed to turn red at some point. 😃 🍅 🥒 🍅
It's too hot where I live for most of what I've tried to grow to survive, but I do get oranges, limes, and jalapenos 😚
@crcollins wow, I'd love to grow limes! Too cold for that here probably (I'm in Stockholm).
The tree was my birthday present this year and I've been so excited watching them grow.
Man, I wish my Swedish was good enough to attempt this, but I already had to translate 2 words of your post:
Micro-dwarf tomatoes?
You'd be amazed how productive they are for such little plants, if not.
Oh, those look gorgeous.
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@eliasr
Sure thing!
I've been running my own produce platform for several years now. The big investment in terms of time is building the base layer (soil).
It's running mostly open source seeds but, as I'm not much into maintaining genetic code, I pay a local developer to maintain the plantware.
I simply prep the soil OS and compile the plantware from seeds.
I have to admit that I do run some proprietary seeds as well. But those are mostly end of life abandonware. Still runs fine, though.
@eliasr You're kidding me! You can grow your own foods!?😲 Amazing what comes up whit this days 🤓 How do I grow bacon? 😆