Can you grow a Garden in a War Zone?

[california]

Anyone here into growing stuff? For the past 14 months I've been growing everything possible on my 20' x 3.5' balcony. I've gotten really into it but don't really know anyone else that does it or what I'm doing. And I always have questions and maybe someone else is secretly really into it too.

I'm growing (all in containers of course): A Meyer Dwarf Lemon Tree (was 2', now 4' and it has about 100 lemons coming!), 2 Blueberry bushes (I'm eating a hand full right off the bush every 5 days or so now, 1 Blackberry (it has issues, not growing at all), Rasberry bush (looks like a mini New Hampshire forest - I don't see any berries though), Red Seedless Grapes (it's growing like crazy! 2 big bunches growing), Early Girl Tomato (very prolific but dying out, just planted new seeds yesterday), 1 strawberry (got about 5 of the best tasting strawberries - and got the whole "fruit tastes sweeter just picked" thing) I've ever had, off the plant about a month ago, but now it's dormant), I also have 2 Concord grape plants growing, but they were just cuttings, and I'm not expecting anything off them this year. Garlic, Onions, a pumpkin (got rid of that before I ever saw the pumpkin)

Also I have 8 palm trees, 3 outside 5 in. Petunias, Hibiscus, bower vine, morning glory, mandellian - those are all cool because I now have humming birds buzzing around all day.

I also have LOL, ( just realized myself how into it I really am), sage, parsley, habineros, basil

Coleus, 2 ficus, Golden Pathos.... and about 12 more that I can't remember the names of at the moment.

I've also unfortunately had white flies and june bugs. The white flies beat me and the june bugs scared the crap out of me, I thought I had re-animated fingers crawling around in my stawberry plant. I just tossed that plant). I tried about 10 things to get rid of the white flies but finally threw out the morning glory and half killed the hibiscus with systemic stuff.

Anyway, I hope someone else is into swapping knowledge about this stuff and I don't get a bunch of canibis questions/jokes lol.

I'm kinda interested in how stuff grows where it's cold too. I guess in New England the extreme cold does weird things to the saps of the trees to give colors and maple syrup etc.

[ElKabong]

I know about growing fish and stuff in water.

I got my aquaculture degree. I can tell you that all the fish shit i clean up every week is great fertilizer.

Here is your cannibis reference:

....nevermind I forgot what I was gonna say

[Joe0x7F]

LOL Bong......

Cali, that's mega cool man, but I don't know about that stuff....sorry. I can drive a tractor and plow a field and plant a tree, but that's about it.

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[sidney]

haha leave that to me joe i may be young but i sure love driven those tractors!:)

[landser]

Thats awesome I didnt know you was a farmer.I dont know shit about growing anything but I do know june bugs taste real good with ranch dressing.

[california]

LOL, you guys are hillarious .

Funny thing about those june bugs... I had a 16" container, I forget what 16" is... maybe 8 gallons?... anyway... i noticed for months the dirt was kinda frothy, which I thought might be indicative of a Strawberry plants root system.. I had no clue... I'm new to this... anyways... the dirt was defiantly not hard packed like all my other plants. After a while of wondering about this... I started to dig up the dirt to look the the root system. When I exposed the dirt underneath I discovered a bunch of white "rocks". I thought that was strange since I didn't remember putting them there. I pinched the first rock with my fingers to pick it up and it squished in my fingers and straighten out and started moving around like crazy... I swear I screamed like a girl.... Then all rocks started moving about.... June bugs... or actually they are called grubs at this stage, are HUGE! The size of my finger! Anyway, there were about 50 of them in all and they look like this (these are just baby ones... not monstrous yet lol):

Does this make you hungry Landser?

[landser]

oh man you are to funny (I screamed like a girl) I hear ya those are some frickin ugly bugs.Every once in awhile one gets in the house in the summer and the wife and kids run around screaming.Than ofcourse I have to play big brave dad and kill it i just smack it with a broom from a safe distance.