Commie farming thread begin!
im a farmer, these lazy bastards claim they made a garden to feed their commune. Lets take it apart.
First off, they laid down brown gardening paper and just put potting soil ontop, the ground is still living turf and since it's a park its likely compacted.
This means that roots will have a very hard time penetrating the turf layer, and they will likely have a garden full of weeds within a week as the weeds push through their paper and soil.
Don't be lazy, either kill the turf with paper and plant in it or do a proper lasagna garden with multiple soil layers
This is what they should have done, but again they are lazy socialists that only know how to grown meme plants in their parents backyard vegi garden
paper is highlighted, also u can see the potting mix they used in an inch thick layer. Also their "sophisticated watering system... one watering can, no hoses as far as i can see.
they planted marigolds, how sweet, but you cant live off those. lets see what else they planted
lmao, a couple scrawny romain lettuce plants and potted herbs and vegis from a gardening store. They didn't grown any of this from seed, meaning if these plants die they are fucked and cant plant more. Also garden store plants are GMO so they can't seed save either.
Also the calore-calorie ratio is horrible here! let me explain. they spend around 100-200 calories to plant all that lettuce, they get 5 calories back per plant. so thats a return of -95 calories. This garden is making them hungrier and giving them almost nothing.
consider butternut squash from seed, after all is said and done you can plant 5-6 plants for 100-200 calories and get 63 cal per lb from each squash with the plant, with each plant producing 5-25 lbs of squash.
so an average return of 630 cal for 100-200 cal spent.
tldr they are using meme plants that spend more calories than they produce, and this garden is completely unsustainable and unable to last longer than a season, and cannot feed even one person.