#food garden

[cottage-and-castle]

Alison Jenkins’ garden

#house and garden #alison jenkins #somerset #england #garden #food garden #garden design #vegetables #herbs #countryside #cottagecore #sustainability

[thoughtportal]

#article #pawpaw #fruit trees #garden #gardening #food gardening #food garden #DIY gardening #DIY Garden #DIY

[wholelottabotany]

Food Growing Friday: Raised Bed Basics!

    Raised beds are a very simple, manageable, and accessible way for people to establish their own gardens. It is not as daunting as it may seem, and it can be as DIY as you want. To start, all you need to focus on is the Frame, the Fill, and the Flood.

    Frame: To start, you need a solid wood or metal frame. If you’re building your beds yourself, a great long-term wood choice is Cedar, which is naturally rot-resistant and not a bank-breaker compared to other woods. If you’re choosing metal instead, especially in wetter climates, you’ll wanna go with Galvanized Steel to avoid leeching and rust. Water Troughs are a great choice for this. You can customize the height of your bed to fit your accessibility and price needs, lower beds are more cost-effective, but higher beds are easier to maintain for people with disabilities and difficulty bending down.

You can also purchase easy-install raised bed kits from your local garden or hardware center, and not even worry about all this.    

Fill: Your soil mix can make or break your gardening experience. You have to make sure that you’re not sacrificing cost for quality, and vice versa. To do so, it’s good to mix about 50/50 with cheaper topsoil, and organic compost. The compost you can source from a bag, or you can make it yourself if you have the resources. Also keep an eye out for local compost bins that you may be able to source from. Topsoil also can come from a bag, or any construction and landscaping projects in your area. Never be afraid to find resources in the community around you!    

Especially with taller beds, it’s also smart to start with a layer of mulch, logs, or branches. Anything organic that can break down, but that takes up plenty of space in order to slow weed growth and lessen the burden of soil on your wallet.

Flood: Water! Water! Water! A garden can grow nowhere without it's beloved moisture. Different beds will have different watering requirements, depending on how well the soil drains, and how much the plants need. But for now, the set up. I have personally found the best way to irrigate a small bed is by drip watering, because it avoids issues like powdery mildew and water spots caused by overhead watering. You can either purchase grids to go across the entire bed, or you can get flexible irrigation tubing and directly target your plants.

#food growing friday #garden #gardenblr #food garden #veggies #agricultural science #earth science #botanical science #gardening #grow your own food #horticultural science #permaculture #plant biology #plant science #raised bed #garden tips #garden help #self sustaining

[crazyskirtlady]

Doing some foraging in my backyard

#foraging #backyard #garden #food garden #plant witch #nature #green thumb #my photography #welcome spring #also yay saw some bees #🐝

[capfulofstars]

#oc #container garden #food garden #plants #plantblr #garden #gardenblr

[coyote-mints]

Santaka peppers are SO good- they taste almost exactly like siracha sauce

#peppers #hot peppers #santaka peppers #chili peppers #asian peppers #my pics #work plants #2023 #September 2023 #food plants #food garden #food gardening

[rustbeltjessie]

Garden updates:

Friday, we harvested the turnips/turnip greens, mustard greens, and kale. We washed and separated all of them, gave some away, and the rest we vacuum sealed and froze for later use. We already used the turnips themselves, and I’ve got plans for some of the kale (gonna make a kale pesto).

Today we picked a bowl full of cherry tomatoes, and our first heirloom tomato!

And our pumpkins have taken over half the yard, so yes, we will have the most sincere pumpkin patch.

#rust belt jessie #my photos #my garden #food garden #homegrown #harvest #turnips #greens #tomatoes #the most sincere pumpkin patch

[robpyne]

Not all fruit grows on trees;

#food garden #food gardening #urbangardening #tropicalgarden #tropical gardening

[mentally-illenial]

Worked on the yard today. Repotted plants in repurposed water bottles, including my surprise pumpkins! They've wilted a bit in transport, so hopefully they get comfy tonight and keep on trucking. One already had a blossom!

#personal fitblr #fitblr #health & fitness #healthblr #fitspo #gardening #homesteading #urban homesteading #cottagecore #farmcore #self sustainability #self sufficient living #sustainability #prepping #food garden #puppies #dogs #texas #pumpkins

[thenaturalpet]

Not my usual content, but I got my garden all planted, today, except for my little patio tomato planter, as I grossly underestimated the amount of dirt needed for the containers (the one with dirt in it is potatoes, which I will be adding more dirt to as they grow). I also figured out that I can fit one more tomato into the main garden 👀 I’m hoping we don’t get another frost. We had one just last week, when last frost here is supposed to be in late March.

#my plants #gardening #food garden

[forest-woman]

Heart shaped potatoes 🥔

Grown with love.

#cottagecore #cottage aesthetic #gardening #potatoes #food

[cottage-and-castle]

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#house and garden #garden #food garden #vegetables #green

[whats-in-a-sentence]

'By the time we arrived,' Captain Warner wrote in his memoirs, 'the boys had set up a small commune with food gardens, hollowed-out tree trunks to store rainwater, a gymnasium with curious weights, a badminton court, chicken pens and a permanent fire, all from handiwork, an old knife blade and much determination.'

"Humankind: A Hopeful History" - Rutger Bregman

#book quotes #humankind #rutger bregman #nonfiction #peter warner #captain peter warner #memoir #ocean of light #ata #island of ata #stranded #shipwrecked #commune #food garden #rainwater collection #water storage #gymnasium #badminton #chickens #fire

[allthingssoulful-garden]

Another weekend, another tomato harvest.

#smaller this time #we're getting close to the end of the season #heirloom tomatoes #tomatoes #harvest #home garden #gardeners on tumblr #grow your own food #gardenblr #edible gardening #garden #gardenblog #gardening #gardencore

[capfulofstars]

#container garden #garden #gardenblr #plantblr #food garden #oc

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

traditional knife 石镰shilian specially used to harvest glutinous rice

#china #fun #video #miscellaneous #the same stone knife was unearthed in liangzhu culture良渚文化 #op says they chose manual harvesting is because the glutinous rice isn't that much #glutinous rice are not necessary staple food #terrace farming in mountainous areas also makes machine harvesting inconvenient #others say it's just for video #anyway i think this knife is very practical in home garden #i'm not good at caring for plants #there are often withered stems #shilian must be easier to use than ordinary scissors