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I have started accumulating apples for making cider in mid October. I'm aiming at 33% cookers and 67% eaters. This year is proving to be an amazing year for apples thanks to the particularly warm spring weather when the trees were flowering and weather that has been conducive to ripening since then.
Thanks to all those people who put surplus apples outside their house for anyone to take. Please do this if you can.
#apples #fruit #cider #gardening #weather #climatechange #neighbours #communities
These wood asters look purple up close but kind of pale blue or white from afar. They bloomed late this year.
me listening to an audiobook, amazed at the inventiveness of the author: "some people get all the imagination, don't they?!" 😅
meanwhile i'm like...wringing out my brain, going "gimme just a teensy bit of creativity...just a wee bit!"
i just have to accept that whatever i lack in imagination, i make up for it by being able to help the plants grow. just gonna lean into that one lol...i'll *imagine* the plants saying "thanks for the soil top-up, pal!", or "oh thanks for the water - i was parched!", or "thanks for moving me over to this shadier spot. i was dying in the sun over there!"
Picked the first capsicum from the garden.
Chopped it up, and sauteed some with some mushrooms, tomato, and spring onions, then added it to some baked beans on toast for breakfast.
The aroma when I cut it open was Fucking Amazing... it's so easy to forget how good food is meant to be until you grow your own.
Zuring, andijvie, snijbiet, coeur-de-boeuftomaat, oostindische kers, broccoli, sperziebonen, kerst-omaatjes, courgette en komkommers.
Dat wordt weer goed eten uit de moestuin!
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Sorrel, endive, Swiss chard, coeur de boeuf tomatoes, nasturtiums, broccoli, green beans, cherry tomatoes, zucchini, and cucumbers. Good food from the vegetable garden again!
#moestuin #moestuingeluk #gardening #allotment #garten #gemusegarten #veggiegarden
Jalapeño relish. 🌶️😋
Everyone wants to find a way to propagate the ecologically important Hawai'i native tree 'ohi'a lehua (metrosideros polymorpha), but 'ohi'a lehua knows exactly where it wants to grow: 15 feet in the air, on top of a shipping container in the jungle, on the rotting 2x4 holding some solar panels. Just LOOK at how many 'ohi'a keiki were growing out of @saltphoenix 's solar setup:
(FYI, I gently pulled them out - along with their clumps of moss and leaf litter - and @saltphoenix and I split them between ourselves so we could both try to grow them down here on the ground 😅)
And if you'd like to read a little bit about why 'ohi'a lehua is so important, check out: https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/forestry/plants/ohia-lehua/
@plants
#hawaii #plants #propagation #gardening #JungleLife #offgrid
Who knew that the secret to growing beans is to just ignore them for a while? 🤷🏽♂️
And many thanks to @richrollgardener for the pot o’ carrots idea. It’s been a big success! 🥕
Spring has sprung into Melbourne! Over the last few years we have planted cuttings from my mother's crowded garden along this path - orange flowered clivea on the left and red geraniums on the right.
We are really happy with the result. Each year it is going to look better and better. This morning I planted a few more geranium cuttings further down the path.
#Melbourne #GardeningAU #Gardening
*sigh* Black swallowtails are really taking advantage of our generosity.
Goldenrod (solidago)season. #NativePlants #Ohio #Gardening #Bloomscrolling #pollinators
Sunset in the #NativePlants garden.
#Ohio #Gardening #Pollinators
Leafcutter bee getting a quick drink and a tummy tickle from the basil.
