#garden update

[southernsolarpunk]

Currently in progress: building garden beds for free! (Aside from the cost of an axe & hatchet) I really had my heart set on raised garden beds but ultimately it would be too expensive to get the supplies right now, and we need to thin out the trees in our backyard. (Lots of skinny trees in high density) the previous owners left all those plant pots and grow bags in the picture, my son likes to play with them for now. :) (soon they will house my peppers!)

The sun stays on the left side of the yard, and luckily that’s where the highest density trees are, so once we cut them down it’ll open up the canopy and let in more light. I’ll have to get some topsoil though, the soil here is compacted as fuck!! (Seriously, I’ve never seen soil so compacted) where it looks like a bush behind the beds ( it’s trees we cut down) there’s a natural dip in the ground about 1-2 ft and I’m planning to put a wildlife pond there using a no-liner method.

Most of the light green growing in this picture is Chinese privet I haven’t yet cut down :/ and now I can see alllllll the poison oak that’s popping up :))))))) (I’m very allergic)

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Front yard!

I got a packet of wildflower seeds and they’re just starting to pop up so I took a picture to compare to when they are more/fully grown! I also got some moss phlox (native) and snapdragons (favorite flower).

#garden update #gardening #solarpunk #solarpunk in action #yes it’s a mobile home I live in the south

[a-daisy-in-the-dark]

an orange blossom update 🍊

#cottagecore #cottage orchard #spring cottage #cottage living #cottage #cottage aesthetic #cottage vibes #gardencore #garden fairy #garden update #cottage garden #spring garden #springcore #spring cottagecore #spring aesthetic #orange flowers #flowers #orange blossoms #orange blossom #cozy cottage #cottagestyle #cozyvibes #gentle living #slow living #hygge #hygge aesthetic #hyggelife #hyggevibes #country life #country living

[obsessiveplantlady]

June garden update

Omg, so many things have changed since May, but I try to do my best to summarize:

- Planted tomatoes, paprikas, eggplants and cucubers. They are looking pretty good now!

- Created a raised bed, I used the hugelkultur method

- Lettuce, tomatoes, zucchinis, and sunflowers are getting HUGE

- Ruccola is not growing very well, I might have to find a less sunny spot for them

- Coreopsis just started blooming

- I got hooked on growing microgreens, I will post a separate little article about it later

#solarpunk #gardening #garden #sustainability #permaculture #garden update #vegetables #container gardening #growing food #balconygarden #raised beds #self sufficiency

[letsgogardening]

FRONT GARDEN UPDATE 11/29/2023

Full side view

Row 1= a pumpkin, variety of sunflowers and Valor beans

The pumpkin has two fruits on it at the moment! I'm gonna post a few pics of what it looks like currently a little further down.

For the sunflowers we just mixed a bunch of different ones together so there's some Mammoth, Boss (black oil sunflower) and some stuff we had left over from the last sunflowers we grew!

Row 2 = nasturtiums further away and cabbage

A little view of row 2

Row 3= Armenian cucumbers and egg plants

The Armenians aren't spreading out too much but that's more our fault than the plants, it's not in a super sunny spot and it tends to do better when it's slightly sunnier spot in the winter.

Row#4= more valor beans closer with some remnants of cabbage, carrots and radish.

Close up of the pumpkins!

One of the eggplants is starting to show signs of getting flowers/fruit.

A valor bean on the plant

While they aren't really branching out one of them does have a lot of little cucumbers starting!

And some bees on some of the blossomed sunflowers!

#gardening #letsgogardening #homesteading #urban homesteading #self sufficient living #garden #urban gardening #potted plants #thestudentfarmer #letsgointhegarden #lets go gardening #eggplant #carrot #sunflowers #sunflower #bee #garden update #frontyardupdate #food rights #food is a human right #beans #variety bush bean #valor beans #cabbage #nasturtium #edible #edible flowers #edible plants #anyone can garden #raised garden beds

[forestgreenivy]

Pruning the Buttercrunch today! Looks like I’m having salad for lunch. With a little spinach too.

#garden update #gardening #patio garden #food #fresh food #herb garden #cottage garden #vegetable garden #fruits and veggies #foodphotography #food and drink

[argyleheir]

September 12 | Garden update. Nearing the end of the line, will go all in on the Thai basil soon as it’s never going to get any better…. Have also reached Peak Mosquito™ and I’m lunch 🩸

#garden update #container gardening #my garden

[balkanradfem]

Garden update and slug damage

So, since it's been raining for a while and I haven't been able to get to the garden to pick off slugs at first, when I finally did get to it, I had found some damage! My genious plan to plant beans directly into the strawberry patch seemed foolproof. However, it seems that slugs had also been, in the strawberry patch, waiting for strawberries and multiplying, and their favourite food, is beans. So some of my beans ended up looking like this:

If a baby plant gets all of her first leaves eaten off like this, she can't survive, so that kills it completely. This isn't the first time this happened to me, so I was ready for it – I saved some of the seeds of every bean, just in case something happened, and I can re-sow them after the rain has passed. Here is the culprit on the third picture!

A neighbour gardener had told me that these brown slugs are not native to the area, and that they've in fact been imported from america. She added that it had been done on purpose, to destabilize our crops, in a conspiratorial voice. She has been very outspoken anti-american activist, and in fact so focused on blaming americans for everything, that I worry she's missed a very real problem on the balkan: the slavic people. So I don't know how much I trust her story. But, I can see that these slugs outnumber the white slugs by 50:1, and that they eat everything, I've seen them eating even nettle. They'll go and take bites out of tomatoes, they're not shy of getting poisoned. I wonder if anyone knows the accurate lore of this slug?

(I looked it up, the slugs got imported accidentally, with vegetable imports from Portugal and Spain in 1950s, it's called the 'spanish slug' and it spread over all Europe)

Anyway, not all beans have been ruined! In some areas with less strawberries, they've been growing just fine:

And I'm picking slugs off every evening, and relocating them to the wilderness. Hopefully nothing else will get badly damaged!

The rain has made a difference in tomatoes; the first picture shows a tomato I've planted out weeks ago, it already got used to the cold and the wet, it already figured out how to draw nutrients from the soil and it's growing quite nicely! The other tomato, the purple one, has been only recently planted, and immediately turned purple because of the rain. I got it used to the cold, but then it got colder, and it couldn't draw nutrients in colder weather, that's why it's purple, it's a nitrogen deficiency and cold protest. It's going to recover with sufficient sun and fertilization, I had a few like this and they all recovered just fine. Even 2 days of sunshine would fix this!

The rest of the garden is doing fine! Here's some pictures:

#garden update #growing food #gardening #community garden #self grown food #spring garden #slug damage #rain garden #beans #green beans #squash #strawberries #potatoes #peas #cabbage #chives #chamomile

[dashhomestead]

ACCIDENTAL POTATOES

#i threw them out and now they're growing really well #garden update #garden 2024 #potatoes #raised bed

[angrypaperearthquake-tbbb-main]

🌱Garden Update🌱

Y'all, the summer season is already coming to an end 😭 It looks like someone sprayed weed killer on my garden, since everything is dying 🤣

But do not fear! I planted some fall stuff such as: bush beans, peas, spinach, lettuce, carrots, beets, radishes, kale, bok choy, and giant swiss chard 😁

Here are some harvest photos:

San Marzano, Kentucky Yellow Beefsteak, and cherry tomatoes. Yellow squash, zucchini, and cucumbers. I harvested some red jalapenos this morning but forgot to take a picture 😒

Here are some growing pics:

Top left - spinach

Top middle - baby chinese cabbage (this thing survived EVERYTHING; it shouldn't be alive, but it is)

Top right - radishes, bok choy, and kale

Middle left - mini butternut squash (only one that survived)

Middle right - sugar pumpkin (I now have 3!)

Bottom left - pickling cucumber

Bottom middle - sugar snap peas

Bottom right - purple bell pepper (this thing is literally 2 months late)

#personal post #garden #garden update #summer garden #garden 2022 #harvest #tomatoes #cucumbers #pumpkins #squash #zucchini #peas #peppers #lettuce #spinach #bok choy #radishes #kale

[anyotherstar]

skypixel hyblock. 5pm. pumpkins. you agree. reblog.

#hypixel #hypixel skyblock #garden update #small streamer #minecraft #stream promo

[garden-my-seedcrets]

Semi-current pics of my garden! (Not shown: a hanging planter full of producing strawberry plants.)

#gardening #garden #garden update #vegetable gardening

[southernsolarpunk]

Garden update!!!

YEAH BABEY I GOT (at least) THREE NATIVE PASSIONFRUIT IN MY YARD!!! ILOVE NATIVE PLANTS!! (Really interesting side note, it’s amazing how quickly you can pick out certain plants after studying them- the yard is a bit overgrown so I was actually surprised how I managed to see them!)

I also have a wing leaf sumac growing as well! I might have to make sumac lemonade :)

My fig tree is starting to leaf out, I thought I killed it over the winter so yay!

And!! Only one of my blueberry bushes flowered but it is producing blueberries! Just a handful but it’s only the second year I’ve had the plant so!!! I can’t wait for the future harvests!!

I planted out my biggest tomato seedlings! The other ones need to grow a bit more to be planted :)

And I don’t know if I mentioned it but I got a Catawba rhododendron! I love the flowers and so do native pollinators! (Peep the poison oak in the background yuck)

#garden update #gardening #I gardened during the eclipse :)

[a-daisy-in-the-dark]

time to harvest all the pears 🍐💛

#cottagecore #cozy cottage #cottage living #cottage life #cottage dreaming #cottage aesthetic #cottage vibes #cottage garden #pear orchard #pears #harvest season #harvest #summer harvest #summer garden #gardencore #garden update #garden #garden harvest #self sustaining #preserving #food preservation #homegrown #homesteading #homestead #summercore #summer crops #summer #slow living #gentle living #rural life

[obsessiveplantlady]

Covering the soil 🍃🪱

A few days ago I started to cover some parts of the garden with compost and mulch (aka less rotten stuff from my compost). I’m planning to plant more stuff here later on.

Why covering your soil is important?

Coverage does a lot of great thing to your soil:

Keeps your soil moist, so you need less watering

Protects soil from erosion thus prevents loosing valuable nutrients

Moderates soil temperatures

It provides an excellent shelter for various insects and molluscs, which in return soften the soil

What to use as coverage?

Any kind of organic plant material can be used as mulch! I use unfinished compost. My mulch consists mainly cut grass and some leaves.

If you don’t have enough organic waste for covering your garden beds, don’t buy mulch! You can approach some parks for grass and leaves or just ask your neighbor if you can get his grass next time they mow their lawn. Or depending on your temperament, you can also steal your neighbor’s organic waste bags! 😄

#garden #gardening #permaculture #sustainability #soil #soil health #mulch #compost #garden update

[letsgogardening]

Garden update 03/27/2023

I'll keep it short and sweet this week :)

Front part

Side view

Row 1 = Corn and a left over pumpkin.

Row 2 = carrots and kale, some side spill of the nasturtiums

Row 3 = a carrot and nasturtiums

Row 4 = peppers closer to screen and the continuation of the lentil experiment started by @thestudentfarmer for soil amendments.

Side view from the otherside

Close up of one of the carrots that we're letting seed

Some misc pics from the flower patch, these are Lilly's, mint and grass(we are slowly working on revamping this section)

Hollyhocks

Close up of the nasturtiums

We're in the process of revamping the back yard, when we start getting everything more put together I'll start updating with pics again!

#letsgogardening #gardening #urban homesteading #homesteading #self sufficient #self sufficient living #urban gardening #flowers #garden #raised garden beds #nasturtium #hollyhocks #mint #carrot #lentils #pumpkins #corn #thestudentfarmer #work in progress #garden update #growyourown #growbeds #frontyardupdate #03/27/2023

[forestgreenivy]

Garden update! Lots of growing since my last one.

Figs have been popping up on the tree, I now have some citrus that I’ve added to the bunch. The herbs are doing well, and my leafy greens have been doing so well in the box!

#garden update #patio garden #gardening #herbsandflowers #plants and herbs #herbs #fresh herbs #outdoors #nature #fresh vegetables #fresh food