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From seed vs starter plants #gardening #containergardening #raisedbeds #fallgardening https://www.diningandcooking.com/2854099/from-seed-vs-starter-plants-gardening-containergardening-raisedbeds-fallgardening/ #VegetableGarden #VegetableGardenVideos #VegetableGardening #VegetableGardeningVideos

I am now too tired after digging up the potatoes to cook them.

Really should have thought that through better. 😄

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden

From 10am, this morning. 8 of my cherry tomato plants are still fruiting. These are 2 of them.

#iGrowFood #tomatoes #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl

How To Grow #SwissChard Indoors (Seed to Harvest)

Published on October 16, 2021 ♛ By Melissa J. Will

"This shows how to grow Swiss chard in containers indoors year-round at home for baby greens and delicious, colorful stalks."

Learn more:
https://empressofdirt.net/grow-chard-indoors/

#SolarPunkSunday #GrowYourOwn #GrowYourOwnFood #IndoorGardening #ContainerGardening #EatTheRainbow #RainbowChard #GrowingChard

October watermelons harvest.
4 small, homegrown watermelons in a medium laundry basket, for us to eat.
2 tiny watermelons, for the squirrels to eat.

#iGrowFood #Fruit #Watermelons #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowFruit #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl

Well that's the best news I've woken up to in a while!

It's like someone sprayed PeaceBondBeGone(tm)!

😄

Anyway, back to the tomato mines.

Making salsa all night, and now I'm going to make some green tomato mince meat, because it did frost last night, and there are way too fucking many tomatoes still around that need to be picked ASAP before they get mushy.

I'm somewhat sad I did not follow through and grab the strange black icicle volunteer growing in the compost yesterday before the frost. I hope it manages to produce seeds anyway.

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden #harvest #CarymaSad #CarymaNgo

Why are you awake in the middle of the night tonight, Gigi?

Making salsa.
Today it threatens to frost at last, so I picked almost every tomato that was left on vines and brought some of my pepper plants inside for the winter.

I'll be good goddamned if I try to start another Carolina Reaper pepper plant when I can just overwinter it. FIFTEEN SEEDS to get one plant! This motherfucker is like my baby now.

Oh yeah, those aren't in the salsa. In fact, the salsa only has some bell peppers, garden salsa peppers, and jalapeños. Though for mine I'm adding some chopped up purple masquerade at the last minute before I seal up the jars.

This year I added a step, and when @GPJohnston described how he goes about making his salsa, I realized that I should have been doing this all along. I pureed 1 L of roasted tomatoes as a base instead of just relying on the chopped tomatoes in the mix.

Anyhoo, back at it.

#CanningSeason #canning #preserves #gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden

It's early October & my okra plants are still flowering & fruiting.

#iGrowFood #okra #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #Autumn #Bloomscrolling

This post contains several requests, so I will try to organise them in a meaningful manner. I am seeking the following materials. The more stars, the more I want it. I am fully capable of reading things at Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, particularly in html and txt formats, but some of this is a bit specialised, and as regards braille music, those options won't work. Note that there is an Intro To Braille Music available, but it costs several hundred dollars!

1. Old course catalogues and books from Hadley School for the Blind. In particular, courses on *** Latin, *** container gardening, *** braille music, *** crafts, *** home economics, *** cooking from a blind point of view, *** general recreational activities, and other things that may interest me (for those who know me or have read my profile).
2. The following books in hard copy braille. I would prefer to avoid UEB and to use either American Grade 2 or Standard English Braille.
*** First Theory by Angela Diller, by the American Printing House for the Blind (also other books in the series, or other good music theory books in braille, including anything by Ebenezer Prout, whom I am currently using in txt format)
** Hadley: Braille Music Reading
*** Who’s Afraid of Braille Music? by Richard Taesch and William R. McCann (found, must make sure it's in Grade II)
*** Maeve Smith, A Course in Braille Music
** Edward Watson, A Guide to Braille Music Notation
* Bettye Krollick, New International Manual of Braille Music
** BANA, Music Braille Code (prior to 2015)
*** braille books on learning the classical guitar using traditional methods i.e. holding, finger positions, notes, scales, exercises, chords, and songs, not just chords and songs
*** braille books on singing, using old methods breath support, notes, scales, arpeggios, vocalisations, exercises, ornamentation, etc. then arias (I don't even know if they exist in print, but I had to add them)

#accessibility #blind #books #braille #BrailleMusic #ClassicalGuitar #ContainerGardening #cooking #gardening #Hadley #HomeEconomics #music #MusicTheory #opera #recreation #singing

Ugh.
It's Sunday and I still have so many tomatoes* to pick and process.

But no, I have to go make sure that people have legal support at the fucking Nazi rally.
_________

* And peppers.

#GardeningWithAnarchists #gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden

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So I now have some thoughts about these organza bags. I bought them to stop the mice and slugs from eating holes in my tomatoes, and then I ended up using them on peppers eggplants, pretty much anything that would fit, so I got a second set.

For starters, I now have three different sizes of otganza bags:

🔸️ 10x15 cm (4x6") for individual tomatoes, and let me tell you that you should probably stick to icicle, cocktail, or plum tomatoes for these.

🔸️ 15x20 cm (6x8") for a small trusses of cherry tomatoes or larger individual tomatoes

🔸️ 20x30 cm 8x12 in for everything else, including large fruit like eggplants and larger trusses of tomatoes.

I think they're great — except for one big caveat, which I'll get into in a minute.

You really have to watch the tomatoes as they grow, or start out by picking the right size bag for the full size tomato. A couple of the tomatoes got way too big for the size of bag they were in and I had to cut them off. The variety should have been predictable as they were items such as Japanese Trifele and Ardwyna, which are paste tomatoes, but they can get very plump. I probably should have started those out in the medium size bag.

Depending on the size of the fruit that you're putting the bag on, it feels a bit like you might be planning to rendition some tomatoes or a melon. And then there's the eggplants. With the long skinny eggplants, it's much more evocative to put the organza bags on them.

So the aforementioned drawback:
I don't know why, but bold spiders really love to put their eggs sacs on them. You know the big black jumping spiders with the orange dots on their backs? Those. Ugh.

So far I've just been throwing the organza bags on the ground when I take the tomatoes out because I don't want hundreds of baby spiders inside, but also I don't necessarily want to kill all the spiders.

No, I guess I kinda do, but that seems super unkind since they're in the yard and all.

Anyway, I've also been having some issues with cross pollination. I got a couple of really cool tomato varieties out of them, and in doing a little bit of research, it seems like that the culprit is the white currant tomatoes.

I didn't get the bags early enough to try it this year, but apparently, you can use the bags to help prevent cross pollination. The technique is to put one of the organza bags on a set of tomato florets to prevent bees from landing on those and mixing pollen types. Which means of course that you have to shake them to make sure they pollinate.

But then you need to mark that particular cluster of tomatoes with a ribbon or something, so you only save seeds from those ones.

(It took three days to finish this post because I am just that swamped. 😕)

#GigiTips #gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden

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So yesterday, there was a vague threat of temperatures dropping to within frost range, so we decided it was a good time to pull as many of the bigger green tomatoes as possible.

So I clipped back as many of the tomato plants as made sense to grow hydroponically for the last leg. Then we filled one of the baskets in the afternoon, and THEN I went out to LO at a protest and dinner, which left us hunting for tomatoes in the dark when I got back.

Now that it's light again, it's wild just how many very large tomatoes we missed last night while hunting with a flashlight. 1 star. I do not recommend this technique.

I'm also very glad to see that it didn't quite get down to frost levels last night, and that the decision to leave the smaller tomatoes to see if they would have a few days to get bigger was a good call.

I wish I had the time today or tomorrow to cut back the empty vines for the compost and cluster my remaining tomato plants so that I can do a poly-tunnel type cover for them, I've got to finish a bunch of work today for a meeting at 5:00, and tomorrow is the Grassy Narrows River Run, so that's totally shot. I barely have time to put the pepper plants back out in the sun.

Oh yeah, shit, tomorrow picking up two full bushels of San Marzano tomatoes, so I'm going to have to process those Thursday overnight.

Sleep? Who needs sleep.

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden #harvest

How to make a potted #FoodForest for small spaces | DIY Garden Projects | #GardeningAustralia

Oct 18, 2022

"Hannah creates potted productive plant combinations, to show how you can have a food forest in a small space.

"A food forest aims to have all plants on a site working together. The classic model has seven layers: #CanopyLayer (large fruit trees), #understorey (smaller nut and fruit trees), #shrubs (berries and large perennials), #herbaceous (herbs and plants), #rhizosphere (root crops), #groundcover (clover and strawberries) and #vines (climbing beans, peas etc.).

If you have a small garden or live in an apartment, this can seem a bit overwhelming! But it is possible to follow the same basic principles using pots."

Featured Plants:
Rosemary - Salvia rosmarinus cv.
Garlic Chives - Allium tuberosum
Creeping Thyme - Thymus cv.
Dwarf Avocado - Persea americana cv.
Calendula - Calendula officinalis
Strawberry - Fragaria x ananassa cv.
Tea Plant - Camellia sinensis
Native Ginger - Alpinia caerulea
Mountain Pepper - Tasmannia lanceolata

Learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbQoVx-CTk

#SolarPunkSunday #ContainerGardening #GardeningInAustralia #GrowYourOwnFood #DIYGardening

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These were actually yesterday's pictures, so I'm putting them with yesterday's thread. Before I got caught up in work, I decided to take out some squash.

I'm hoping that one Grey Ghost pumpkin is okay despite the battle scars. It clearly could not fight back against whatever beclawed beastie took it on.

I wanted to deal with some of the tomatoes, but I did not have time because of a meeting I had at 5:00 and then another one at 8:00. I think the only tomatoes I ended up grabbing were the ones that were clearly needing to be removed from the plant.

Also, I mislabelled the variety of corn that the skunk got into. It was, in fact, Stained Glass corn rather than Tuscarora as I put in the alt text.

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden #GardeningWithAnarchists

Mid-September In The Garden

https://padraigdeburca.com/2026/09/19/sos-september2026-week3/

It has been a busy week and I have been extraordinarily neglectful of my garden.

First up: the skunk and I are no longer friends.

I don't care how cute you are, you little bastard, you don't actually have to take out my corn.

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden

#aquarium #plants #moss #containergardening #underwater

Our girl "Caribbean Queen" in full bloom #bloomscrolling #homegrow #outdoorgrow #containergardening #cannabis

First chilly night of the season (5-6ºC, low 40's ºF). Deciding what stays and what goes, moving some plants indoors, while others are destined for the compost...

#SolarPunkSunday #HomeGardens #ContainerGardening

My Thai chili peppers & jalapeño peppers are all doing well.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #peppers #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl

When you forget to check on your dill cucumber plants for 4 days. They just made more baby dills.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #cucumbers

We've got about another 2 weeks of harvesting left on our tomato plants.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #tomatoes

Basil & parsley seeds sowed recently have germinated really well. I have tons of seedlings now. I'll split & transplant when they're a bit bigger/stronger.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowHerbs #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #basil #parsley

I cut down 12 spent cucumber plants & chucked them into compost mulch pile. The garlic & snowpeas planted in the same pots are doing well. I'm sowing dragon tongue beans this weekend.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl

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I think I've finally nailed a system down for tracking what variety of tomato I'm saving the seeds for. It relies on two things I've been given, as well as one additional change I made to how I grow things this year.

I was given a label printer, just one of the little heat labeller ones that prints out small labels like for spice jars or seed packets.

I've also started using little organza bags to protect my tomatoes from the slugs, snails, and rodent fuckers that have been nipping or biting holes into my favourite tomatoes.

So I print out labels for all of the tomato varieties that I want to save the seeds for, then I make sure I put the corresponding label in the organza bag when I harvest it.

(The other tomatoes I just take out of the little bags, but the ones I want to save the seeds for, I make sure it stays in it.)

The last change I made was to use the Riviera yogurt jars I was given by a friend who had been using them to store spices in, to ferment my seeds. Normally I just do the paper towel seed save, but this year I'm actually going to the additional effort of cleaning the seeds properly and storing them in little plastic bags, with the label I printed.

So the first step is to put the label on the jar, only half peeled so I don't have to fight to get it loosened up later.

I think this system actually works for me, and my ADHD. Hopefully this means I won't end up with anything called "Unknown Cherry Tomato" or "Fat Brown Tomato" this year.

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden

Well rats... The #CommunityGarden is looking pretty sad (except for my plot neighbor's peppers). I salvaged the Mammoth Sunflower seed head, and the cosmos and zinnias are still blooming and the cornflowers are winding down. I'm still planning on planting some oats, barley and clover in my plot, but since the electric fence is either not functioning or the deer just jump it, I don't have high hopes for the garden continuing (I've seen this story before -- but last time we kept it going for five years). Anyhow, I talked to hubby about expanding the home garden so I can start doing proper crop rotation. I mean, who needs a front yard lawn -- especially since part of it (the other side of the driveway) is becoming a mini-wildflower meadow anyway.

#HomeGardens #MoreFlowersLessLawns #ContainerGardening #SolarPunkSunday

Backyard morning food harvest.
Picked these foods & need to wash & store them in fridge before heading off to the hospital again.

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl

I Grew a Vegetable Garden in 48 USED Uber Eats Bags! https://www.diningandcooking.com/2803817/i-grew-a-vegetable-garden-in-48-used-uber-eats-bags/ #ContainerGarden #ContainerGardenTour #ContainerGardening #ContainerGardeningIdeas #GardenHacks #GardeningHacks #GardeningTips #GardeningTipsAndTricks #GrowBagGarden #GrowBagGardening #GrowBags #GrowFood #HowTo #OrganicGardening #PatioGarden #VegetableGarden #VegetableGardenVideos #VegetableGardening #VegetableGardeningVideos

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Well, something good came out of the rain, after all. Unfortunately, I should have seen them earlier today, so I could have caught them all before they sporulated. But at least a couple of them are still good.

And now I'll inoculate another container, and some of my friend's garden with the hyphae on bottom part of the stipes. 🍄

#mushlove #mushtodon #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn

Wandering over to get a bubble tea after a long day.

Started with a bastard cat deciding I needed to be awake at 7:30. And ended with dealing with a lot of post rain tomatoes, which, in moderation is a good thing, but in yesterday's quantities not so much.

I've got cracking on some of the tomatoes, but was lucky enough to avoid it on the great majority, mostly because I tend to pull tomatoes off at the break point, when they start blushing rather than waiting for them to fully ripen on the vine.

The mushroom basket tomatoes are extremely prolific and the extra water weight was threatening to snap some of the branches right off.

I'm also questioning the wisdom of buying the GREEN organza bags. Sure, it probably does fool the birds and rodents into thinking those tomatoes aren't ripe. But I don't actually leave them on the vine until they're ripe anyway, except when I CAN'T TELL that they're ripe because they've got green organza bags covering them.

Anyway, ended up with three very close to fully ripe of the Alice's Dream tomatoes. Damn, they're gorgeous. Definitely growing them again next year, regardless of how they taste. Which was actually pretty good for the first one, but I haven't tasted these three yet so 🤷🏾‍♀️

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden

I made #kimchi out of our self grown #cabbage. #ContainerGardening #fermenting #gardening

Grow potatoes even with limited space! 🌱 Our latest blog shows you how to grow them in a barrel. Get all the tips and tricks here: vegplotter.com/blog/potatoe... #potatoes #gardening #containergardening

Grow potatoes even with limited space! 🌱 Our latest blog shows you how to grow them in a barrel. Get all the tips and tricks here: vegplotter.com/blog/potatoe... #potatoes #gardening #containergardening