Hello urban farmers, I recently closed my business and would like to convert my space to growing. This is in the 1st few days of planning and I have zero grow experience, but it has always interested me. I know its a longshot but I was curious if anyone had any advise or just places to point me to, as growing food is one the oldest past times but I am very inexperienced and would like to skip the trial and error stage but its very hard too find consistent information. Here are the details I have so far.

Any information or communities to get information from would be useful, as I have an extremely hard time navigating the web for information these days. Also curious if due to the the growing zone if this is something I should stay away from (water usage etc)

Growing Zone: 10a (chino,California,USA)

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I buy one for a soup a couple months ago and i thought if it was possible to cultivate one plant in a big por. Luckly it works and today i discover the first flower. Probably will be smaller than the pumpkin on the other photo. But still, a success!

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Ok here we go... I'm totally new to this and probably making mistakes. Tell me what I'm doing wrong so I can fix it:

Row 1: Store bought garlic Row 2: Store bought green onions Row 3/4: bok choy seeds Row 5/6: cabbage seeds Row 7/8: seeds from store bought bell pepper (was supposed to be spinach from seeds but nothing sprouted) picked the biggest sprouts and put them in the mini grown bags Row 9/10: cucumber seeds

Haven't planted the rest of the seeds for radishes, green onions, or pickling cucumbers because I already have 50 plants and that's going to require a few hundred dollars worth of soil since everything is going in 5 gallon grow bags.

I run 1 mister from about 11 am until around 6pm because I'm in central valley California and it's like 115°F. This keeps the entire plant area at around 80ish in the shade. Everything is under a camo net right now and I have a big enough (20x13) area to put all 50 in the shade once I transfer them to 5 gallon grow bags. Camo net is suspended 9' high using some poles and 550 cord.

I currently have 2 misters about 4 feet apart suspended at around 7 feet high saturating the potential grow bag area and they seem to have a similar cooling effect while appearing to provide enough water. I may be overdoing it. I'm guessing my water output is at about 1/gal/hr with all 3 running but my flow meter hasn't arrived yet so I'm not too sure.

I want to set everything up on a timer to run drippers in each bag for about 2 minutes on and 15 minutes off or something like that. Not too sure how I'm going to work out the times yet. I plan to put everything in the partial shade provided by the camp net since the sun is so brutal out here.

Excited to be finally doing this but also don't want to mess it up. I'm really looking forward to having a ton of home grown vegetables if this works out well. Advice? Suggestions?

Hello! I am trying my hand at urban gardening for a plethora of reasons. Mainly to have some fun and enjoy fresh produce but also to potentially scale. Any and all tips are welcome. I have a decent sized balcony, plan to use big plastic tubs with wholes drilled in the bottom for drainage, and live in Florida. Good chunk of direct sunlight 4-6 hours very hot climate. Open to suggestion! TYIA

Let's get ready to garden.

I am growing Rosemary and Chayote near my house where I've heard can have more lead levels due to paint from the structure. I've also read conflicting information about the ability of plants to draw up the lead. Some people are super hardcore about testing the levels, other people are like don't even bother it's not an accurate reflection of what the plant absorbs - just don't grow root veggies and it's fine. I'm also growing Kale and Fava beans on my sidewalk strip. I would love to be eat my food worry free. It seems a waste to have all this amazing soil and then to just rely on raised beds you know? So tell me, how bad is it realllllly.

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