Interesting, saw someone selling rooted grape cuttings at the farmer's market at $30 each. (I have so many in pots in my backyard which I cannot give away, LOL). #gardening#grapes
@ai6yr@kc2ihx@bud_t when we lived in Metro Denver, my dentist was in Boulder right off of Pearl Street. The vibe there is really great most of the time but so expensive.
It was also really interesting watching this one group of "homeless" kids begging and being generally annoying. Occasionally I'd see them decamp and head to chauffeured black Escalades that would come pick them up. The best I could figure was they were trust fund kids pretending to be homeless for the experience.
That one morning I got more raspberries than I could eat. I had 8 raspberry bushes in a hedge along my driveway that kept me busy all summer long. Needless to say much of them went into jams and pies. #gardening#fruitsfriday#pdx#harvest#urbanfarming
@craftyguy
Excellent. I have been in a life and death battle with slugs and rabbits over my strawberries this year. It is really upsetting to go out each morning and see a perfect strawberry with a huge chunk taken out of it.
@ZoeOeoZ yeah I can relate. We are lucky that our strawberry patch is large enough that the slugs just get completely overwhelmed at some point. But still endlessly annoying to deal with them...
Amaranth, holy basil, rosemary, witch hazel, yaupon, chamomile, echinacea, runner beans, hazelnut, sunflower, and carefully contained mints.
This is my final end of days plant list for the Southern US. #Gardening#Herbalism#ClimateDiary
Don’t know why I bother buying or collecting seed from previous years. I should just put my home compost in pots and water it: I’d get a nice crop of tomatoes and squashes with a lot less effort… this is from potting on 2 weeks ago
@JimmyB Made this bed using my homemade compost a couple of weeks ago. You can just about see a straight row of beetroot where I used the bottom of a bag of shop compost. I'm rebranding it as a seedbed. Full of squash, tomatoes and perhaps PSB.
Which is good because almost none of my purpose sown seeds have germinated!
Ok, here's an update on the Verbena bonariensis situation from my post yesterday. Less than 12 hours later and the two plants have been almost totally skeletonized by something I cannot see. There is a healthy Verbena less than 6 inches to the left of the picture that is totally untouched. Any thoughts? #gardening #allotment #zone6b #NewEngland #insects #entomology @gardening
#Tomatoes into the ground, though we could still add to the second row. Will acquire more this week maybe.
Also K replaced the #thyme that didn't make it through the winter, and the #rosemary that didn't survive in an indoor pot past December. Those dark days are tough for it, but we use it very heavily anticipating it won't last.
I think I've only twice managed to get rosemary to last to be replanted in spring.
@canyakker a good point! The first time I succeeded in making it survive the winter it was by watering it much more often. Indoor winter house environment is like a very dry desert, so it's a tough slog for them.
It's pretty great having the plant handy for cooking uses too. :)
Has anyone had any experience of using anaerobic digester digestate (the solid stuff that comes out the end)? One of the community gardens I’m involved with has been offered a tonne bag full of it.
I think it can be used as a mulch but we’ve been warned not to add it too thickly. I’ve been gifted a small bag of the digestate today & it smelled a bit like ammonia.
Any tips? #Gardening@gardening #AnaerobicDigester
I built this "Little Free Art Gallery" for my wife a few years ago. She's turned into a prolific artist over the years and creates way more art than our house can handle, and she's run out of friends to gift them to. So now she can give her art away to the neighborhood.
This #Monday morning I’m bored and pondering seed things, such as bigleafed maple whirlybirds at the park, chive flowers, and garlic scapes from the garden, which I ate. Have also consumed the year’s first garlic cloves, a whole bulb already. #GetOutside#Gardening#GrowYourOwn
A gold and purple iris in my friend's garden. I never really paid attention to iris beards before and didn't realize they has such amazing color patterns.
(05/15/24)
A neighbor very kindly offered me the contents of his compost pile which I gladly accepted and used to finish off mulching around the tomato plants. I gave him a head of lettuce in return for two carts of compost. What a deal! 😀 #gardening #allotment #zone6b #NewEngland @gardening #compost
Sorted out the #gardening. Drip tape leaks fixed. A few weeds pulled. Ground cloths adjusted to cover a few bare patches. About 10 tomato plants from a neighbor put in. Mine need a few more days to grow inside under the lights.
Opened a corner of the tarp and turned that and put in 10 potato plants.
Some tomatillo and eggplant still germinating or sprouted under the lights.
Ate a few asparagus a while ago. Year 2 for them so I will leave them to get stronger.
I have about 1kg of mammoth sunflower seeds saved from last year. I want to plant a wall of them, but I have to figure out how to protect them from vermin until they reach 2ft and toughen up.
This sunflower is NOT messing around. Only 7 weeks ago, this was a seed in the ground. Today it's 5 feet 4 inches tall! (~164cm for my European friends)
@killyourfm it was only a couple feet tall but it was growing in the gutter. 😂 Bird must’ve dropped a seed up there and it took root in all the gunk and leaves.
