#GROWING ORGANIC FOOD

[cottagebff]

Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute

10/15/23

Basalt, CO

#permaculture #crmpi #central rocky mountain permaculture institute #horticulture #organic gardening #colorado #cottagecore #grow food not lawns #grow food #biodiversity #save our earth #naturecore #my photos #rocky mountains #greenhouse

[wildrungarden]

9/19/23 ~ Hydroponics at school. Those cucumbers grew super fast 😳 and some Romaine Lettuce!

#indoor garden #container gardening #sustainable gardening #vegetable gardening #starting seeds #grow organic #grow your own food #organic gardening #tomato garden #green witch #greenhouse #greenhouse nursery #plant nursery #hydroponics #growing cucumbers #romaine lettuce #sustainable agriculture

[vela-pulsars]

Some doodles from playing with friends (and hosted by @slink-a-dink hii), I'm having a lot of fun, so definitely buying it when Downpour comes on switch or I get a better computer !

#rainworld #looks to the moon #five pebbles #rainworld iterator #rainworld downpour #im playing survivor because I don't wanna deal with a bazillion controls yet but ngl my slugcat is growing on me #nicknamed it the anomaly as a placeholder #i love how lots of iterator organisms got these tendril feelers they can connect so i imagined a dlugcat that somehow got them #realized afterwards that it's rot colors so technically the anomaly is yet another rot slugcat #doesn't help that i try getting as much food as i can

[petula-xx]

This isn't even half of the potato crop from the garden. And just like that I suddenly have a huge glut problem.

Am beginning to regret not planning this out better.....

This photo does illustrate the importance of the home vegetable grower though. About 60% of this crop would not meet commercial standards and would be thrown away. The home grower uses everything. Zero food miles, zero waste and maximum value from water inputs.

#potatoes #vegetables #garden #gardeners on tumblr #plants #self sufficiency #home grown #organic food #grow it yourself #food miles #minimal waste

[turtlesandfrogs]

I am so excited about legumes this year. So. Excited.

I'm doing three new kinds:

The Beefy Resilient Grex, edible lupines(!), and cowpeas that are supposed to do well here. Just look at them! So cool!

I love legumes. Edible lupines!!!

#gardening #grow your own food #beans!!! #organic gardening #omg beans! #vegetable gardening #edible gardening

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Collard greens are one of my favorite vegetables to grow in the garden. Lovely leaves, right? And so tasty when cooked!

#Mine #Plants #Permaculture #collard greens #organic gardening #pnw gardening #lovely leaves #grow your own food #healthy food

[spoofyleaf]

sometimes I remember the fact that at the ripe age of 9, I felt ashamed for watching and loving Lego Ninjago, bc I felt like I was "too old" for the show, and it was targeted for a "younger audience". (this went for most of my in general) and how Older Me would look back and cringe at the fact I enjoyed these "children shows/ things".

And now, as an Adult, I see how absolutely ridiculous that sentiment was. And to this day I still enjoy "children shows/ things" (LMK, TOH, mythology, dinosaurs, etc.,).

Like no- now all i want to do is look back and whisper "you will still enjoy these things in the future, and you will even create so much art of the things you find interesting. You will go to college for some of these things. Enjoying harmless things isn't childish."

#i wish i could go back and tell younger me that i was literally the target audience for the shows i was ashamed for watching #and literal /adults/ made the media. they spent so much time and energy and thought into these things #adults still look at the stars and wonder what life could look like on other planets #they still wonder what dinos looked and acted like #/i/ still wonder these things #its almost like its human nature to pour your heart and soul into the things that you deeply enjoy #its almost like we're on a floating rock and food grows out of the ground #and the thing that living organisms need most of all to survive falls out of the sky after being gently scooped from the ocean and flora #none of this makes sense and one day out time here will end. so endulge in the things that you enjoy #because yea in the long run none of this will matter- but that's the beauty of it. isn't it? #in this essay i will- #hey guys. im Spoofy and tonight? I'm feeling emotions. specifially the weight of my own existence #spoofy rambles

[emulating-life]

Lettuce and cucumbers growing beautifully <3 I’m so proud of these, know they’re going to taste great

Be sure to heal you inner child at least once a day. This is my first ever garden that I’ve started after I moved out, I always wanted to grow my own food but never really had a chance to. And how wonderful it is to put my hands in the ground!!

-Anna (unicorn)

#flowers #pink #nostalgia #grunge #skincare routine #skincare tips #skincare #notes #college life #grammar #garden #growth #growing food #plants #plant photography #plantblr #plantbased #plant blog #vegan #organic #freshingredients #vegetarian #foodie #food #foodlover #whole food plant based #whole foods #writer things #writerscommunity #writers on tumblr

[avalon-princesss]

Grow a garden. That's it. That's the post.

#ragnorak #off grid #nature #natural living #organic #grow your own food #garden #gardening

[starredforlife]

If you fucking morons cared one ounce as much for palestine as you do for this horrid little show.

#SO YOU CAN ORGANIZE. #i am sick to death of people who love media more than real human people #I hope this show gets erased from streaming platforms and I hope everyone who donated to this instead of relief for an ongoing genocide- #-never feels anything but a deep sense of shame forever #ofmd renewal #star’s stuff #dl #HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTIONS DONT NEED YOUR FUCKING MONEY. #I’m sorry but also like. people just around you are suffering to. can you imagine what this 20k would do for a local food pantry #*too #it’s not so much where people’s individual money is going but it is. it’s the priorities. it’s the effort. #somehow your entertainment matters more to you and this is what you prioritize #y’all are sick in the heart genuinely #you all need to grow up and learn how to write and draw for yourselves to make what you wanna see instead of wasting your fucking money #commission an artist or fic writer with this money. you are doing more to help a fellow human out that way!! #and you get it tailored exactly to what you want without doing the work #AN AVERAGE OF $33 PER PERSON. holllyyyyyy SHIT

[chokrihizem]

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#gyo #lovegardening #gardening uk #gardening tips #gardening #garden #gardenchat #organic gardening #vegetable gardening #backyard #home and garden #gardenblr #gardencore #gardeners on tumblr #gardens #my garden #urban gardening #vegetable garden #plants #watermellon #watermelon #growyourown #grow your own food #starting seeds #seedstarting #planting seeds #seedlings #seeds #lol #gardenersofinstagram

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

Sorry for being really passionate about the quality and mission of american girl dolls. Do you still think im hot

#what growing up with an antivaxxer pbs organic food only mother does to a mf ...... #hollyws

[wildrungarden]

5/4/24 ~ letting the bebes get some fresh rain 🌧️ 🌱

#indoor garden #sustainable gardening #container gardening #vegetable gardening #starting seeds #growing food #plant life #plant mom #veganuary #homesteading #grow food not lawns #edible gardening #grow food #gardening tips #gardening 101 #organic gardening

[polarfarina]

Made some easy meat tomato sauce for dinner and mmmmm even though the tomato part was pre-done it was still so so good and satisfying. Look

So filling. So delicious

#ghostly posts #food #I say 'easy' but it took me like two hours because I had to clean the counter and the stove and the pan and spatula for the sauce #and then chop garlic and onions (and then realize there are no more onions) and add mini sweet peppers #and then I dug around the potato drawer (weird) and found a shallot so I chopped that up. and I did it all super fine to avoid large chunks #in the sauce cause I'm picky abt that I guess #then you gotta cook the meat most of the way and then add the veggies and cook That for a while and then add the tomato sauce and cook and #season all that and make sure you can boil some moisture out of it without burning the sauce #anyway. there were a lot of steps but I simplified it a little by using pre made tomato sauce #my favorite kind = Newman's own organic marinara. my parents used to get it a lot growing up #so it's a bit comforting #takes me back to an era where I was really young. before I got really sensitive to tomatoes like I am now #(still made and ate this sauce because it's good)

[petula-xx]

I planted far too many seed potatoes last season and have been struggling with a produce glut ever since. My freezer is well stocked with frozen mashed potato portions!

These little odd bods are the last of the great glut event. They are soft and were sprouting. They were a bugger to peel. But I hate food waste. So tonight they found their way into a potato and leek soup. Simple to make and delicious to eat.

For the first time in months I am now a household without potatoes.

Hooray!!!!!

#vegetables #garden #gardeners on tumblr #self sufficiency #home grown #grow it yourself #organic food #gardening #potatoes #potato and leek soup #cooking #food waste #minimal waste #zero waste

[balkanradfem]

On rain-related pests in the garden

So this year has decided to have one of the most rainy springs I've seen. It's been raining for a week and a half, and the prognosis is rain for another week. It reminds me of the first year of my gardening; we also had incessant rain for almost a month, and everyone was saying it was the absolute worst year for gardening yet. Me, who has not gardened ever before, thought it was the best year ever because I had garden produce like never before in my life (because I never gardened before), and was extremely pleased with it.

So, what does constant rain mean for gardening?

It means different things for different plants. Peas, for example, absolutely love it. Wet and cold is their ideal growing conditions, they're having a great time and growing visibly bigger every single day. Peppers are also having a great time! They love being watered and being watered constantly makes sure they'll produce some good roots. I've also noticed cabbage and kale doing very well in the rain, potatoes seem pleased, and all of the squash and the beans I've planted are coming out of the ground, and I'm guessing they're growing roots and waiting for sunshine to do better. Tomatoes, however, are not pleased at all. They're prone to getting sick if their leaves get water and then dirt on them, and since they're all small and close to the ground, they're getting dirty easily. They're also struggling to draw enough nutrients from the ground in the cold, so some are turning black, and others are a little frozen in time, just waiting until it's sunny again so they can grow.

There's a common problem in the community gardens, and people's gardens in general, where this much ran can cause a flood, meaning your plants can get their roots and stalks completely covered in water, and they do not enjoy or tolerate that. Plants that are drowning end up with their roots rotted away; it can happen to seeds as well, if they're completely underwater, they'll rot before managing to sprout.

There's another, equally big problem with this much rain – the slugs are thriving. Slugs have gotten into everyone's garden, and they're eating, well, almost everything in sight. I have had a good share of my baby bean plants eaten away, and I'm seeing big pieces of my baby cabbages missing. Beans seem to be their favourite, they're focused on annihilating them instantly, but they'll also happily eat strawberries when ripe, lettuce, cabbage, peppers, green beans, and anything that is pulled out of the ground and rotting. I actually found most of the slugs in my garden feasting on some old plants and weeds I pulled out that started rotting, there's something irresistible in it to slugs, apparently. So what can you do about slugs?

There's many tricks and methods commonly used and shared, like, put a container of beer in the ground, and they'll all drown in there. They can get picked off and eaten away by a specific variety of ducks. Some people will grow plants that are specifically alluring to slugs to distract them from their other garden produce, others will just go ahead and use diatomaceous earth or some kind of poison to get them to go away. I've never tried any of that; my true and tried method is picking the slugs off, and putting them somewhere else. It takes a lot of dedication and time, but it seems to work; if you're constantly in the garden and picking slugs away, they don't manage to reproduce, so you don't have to deal with their babies next year. With this much rain though, you'll get slugs no matter what you do, they can easily slide to your garden from any patch of grass nearby. Their eggs can also last for several years underground so eradicating them is completely impossible.

If you're trying to pick off your slugs, you need to know how to find them; slugs are not out there and eating your produce all day. They come out early morning, late evening, and after the rain stops. I will usually pick early morning or late evening to visit the garden, and pick them off once a day. It's good to remember to take some gloves so you do not have to deal with the slime (though apparently it's very healthy for the skin), and it's good to have a little container to put them in, so you can easily gather a lot before taking them away.

I found it's easier to find slugs if you're out there weeding and fertilizing, then you catch glimpses of them more easily than when you specifically go and look for slugs. We humans have the advantage of seeing the world from way higher above than slugs, and we tend to move a bit faster, so walking for 2-3 minutes and releasing slugs away from the garden, can disorient them from easily finding your garden again; it's likely they'll find something else to eat closer to their destination. I've never had slugs return in any significant number, it's more likely that you'll get new slugs who are just living closer to your garden.

From the book about 'pests' I've read recently, it's described that killing them largely does not work at all, because it's the food source for the animals that determines how fast they reproduce. So I don't think annihilation is possible, if you're creating a food source, they'll take it as a hint to reproduce at a higher rate, since resources are made available for them to do so. If you're introducing a species that is a predator, you have to count on that species reproducing massively as well, as you've put them in an environment with a large food source. Dislocating the food source, making it unavailable, or dislocating the animal that is eating your produce, so they can't find it again, could potentially hint them into slowing down reproduction, as they're not seeing any food source nearby, I think that's why this method works.

Another problem that is appearing in the garden as the result of the ongoing rain are ants. Ants by themselves are not that harmful to plants, but you know what they do? They'll farm leaf-lice on your plants. They'll find a plant and let lice put their eggs there and then guard the eggs and have bunch of lice eat all of your plants and it's terrible. So ants also need to get a little displaced and find somewhere else to build their farms other than your garden! I've not figured this one yet; I know you can mix 2 anthills in order to create an ant war and have them annihilate each other, but I don't want to make that kind of historical ant drama. I'll look into other options!

#garden pests #gardening #growing food #organic gardening #rainy season #gardening in the rain #dealing with slugs #dealing with ants #how not do go about pests #rain flooding the garden #significance of ongoing rain in the gardening season