MelsGarden, My 2023 Garden 🧵
A short thread looking back over the year. This is something I loved doing on the other site, so I'm trying it out here.
Not necessarily my best photos - more like a representative sample of things that stand out in my memory. Happy moments, celebrations, and gardening topics that are important to me personally.
Alt-text has commentary on each - the context & why I chose that particular photo, as well as goals for next year.
It was a busy year & I'm looking forward to 2024! Happy #gardening everyone! 💚
A large black kitchen colander holding produce I harvested from my vegetable garden. It includes a handful of green beans, two zucchini, three cucumbers, and a dozen striped cherry tomatoes. This photo is important because it represents the average amount of food I generally harvest from my garden each day. As someone who is struggling financially, I can't emphasize enough how much this is a lifeline for me. Food has gotten so expensive that without my garden, I wouldn't be able to have fresh produce. Vegetable gardening is not just a hobby. It is a very real necessity for me.
Close up of an anole lizard peering at the camera. Its expression just makes me smile - inquisitive, comical, keenly intelligent. I would desperately love to know what it was thinking. The lizard is clinging to a weathered gray fence post a few inches off the ground. There are green leaves with a tiny yellow flower across the bottom of the photo. I chose this photo because my garden is home to so many anole lizards it's almost ridiculous. They're everywhere. Literally everywhere. But it's one of the things I'm most proud of because building a backyard habitat has always been a priority for me. When the wildlife shows up, you know you're doing something right. Plus, they're just flipping adorable lol.
A small yellow sunflower framed against a bright blue sky. Strong sunlight casts shadows across the petals as a tiny bee crawls over the dark center. A volunteer flower that grew itself from scattered birdseed. I let the sunflowers go absolutely wild this year and they rewarded me with giant tree-sized monstrosities covered in hundreds of flowers for most of the year. They created cheerful bright spots all over the garden and were absolute magnets for bees & butterflies. I will never again complain about messy birdfeeders. Have at it my feathered friends. It was worth it lol.
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