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  1. From yesterday. Applied the hydrated alfalfa pellets, cold mulching natural fertilizer, to several transplanted starters & seedlings. I have only used 1/4 of bucket -> it fed 30 transplanted starters & 60 seedlings.

    Today, I'm feeding our fruit trees/shrubs/more food/flower plants & putting some where I had recently broadcast sowed more alternative cover crop seeds.

    #HomemadeFertilizer #NaturalFertilizer #Alfalfa #Mulch #gardening #FrugalFertilizers #FrugalGardening #SolarPunk #fertilizer #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #FoodSecurity #PlantsCare #GrowingFood #GardeningPhotos #Saanich

  2. From yesterday. Applied the hydrated alfalfa pellets, cold mulching natural fertilizer, to several transplanted starters & seedlings. I have only used 1/4 of bucket -> it fed 30 transplanted starters & 60 seedlings.

    Today, I'm feeding our fruit trees/shrubs/more food/flower plants & putting some where I had recently broadcast sowed more alternative cover crop seeds.

    #HomemadeFertilizer #NaturalFertilizer #Alfalfa #Mulch #gardening #FrugalFertilizers #FrugalGardening #SolarPunk #fertilizer #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #FoodSecurity #PlantsCare #GrowingFood #GardeningPhotos #Saanich

  3. From yesterday. Applied the hydrated alfalfa pellets, cold mulching natural fertilizer, to several transplanted starters & seedlings. I have only used 1/4 of bucket -> it fed 30 transplanted starters & 60 seedlings.

    Today, I'm feeding our fruit trees/shrubs/more food/flower plants & putting some where I had recently broadcast sowed more alternative cover crop seeds.

    #HomemadeFertilizer #NaturalFertilizer #Alfalfa #Mulch #gardening #FrugalFertilizers #FrugalGardening #SolarPunk #fertilizer #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #FoodSecurity #PlantsCare #GrowingFood #GardeningPhotos #Saanich

  4. From yesterday. Applied the hydrated alfalfa pellets, cold mulching natural fertilizer, to several transplanted starters & seedlings. I have only used 1/4 of bucket -> it fed 30 transplanted starters & 60 seedlings.

    Today, I'm feeding our fruit trees/shrubs/more food/flower plants & putting some where I had recently broadcast sowed more alternative cover crop seeds.

    #HomemadeFertilizer #NaturalFertilizer #Alfalfa #Mulch #gardening #FrugalFertilizers #FrugalGardening #SolarPunk #fertilizer #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #FoodSecurity #PlantsCare #GrowingFood #GardeningPhotos #Saanich

  5. From yesterday. Applied the hydrated alfalfa pellets, cold mulching natural fertilizer, to several transplanted starters & seedlings. I have only used 1/4 of bucket -> it fed 30 transplanted starters & 60 seedlings.

    Today, I'm feeding our fruit trees/shrubs/more food/flower plants & putting some where I had recently broadcast sowed more alternative cover crop seeds.

    #HomemadeFertilizer #NaturalFertilizer #Alfalfa #Mulch #gardening #FrugalFertilizers #FrugalGardening #SolarPunk #fertilizer #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #FoodSecurity #PlantsCare #GrowingFood #GardeningPhotos #Saanich

  6. @richpuchalsky I blocked a local white saviour woman here, last year, for being a 'Karen' about me/Mom using cardboard to mulch/kill off unwanted weeds/suffocate unwanted lawn grass. She was trying to tell me that all my efforts are killing the environment & telling me to use shit that most poor folks can't afford to buy in large quantities. I informed her that I've worked on multiple small farms that also use cardboard mulching methods because they also can't afford to buy a bunch of shit to deal with larger acreages where there's too many unwanted weeds/old lawn grass. She said, they're all destroying the environment too by using cardboard 🤡 White saviour types like her are condescending as fuck towards POC & small farmers, in general.

    STFU, sit the fuck down. Unless you're offering to buy us all the shit you think we should be using - recognize that you have more privileges than most of us who have been doing food security, rewilding & Indigenous planting for decades - without spending a ton of money that we don't have to spend.

    #AsianMastodon #POCGardeners #Decolonization #ShutUpKaren #FrugalGardening #POCVoices #WhitePrivilege

  7. @richpuchalsky I blocked a local white saviour woman here, last year, for being a 'Karen' about me/Mom using cardboard to mulch/kill off unwanted weeds/suffocate unwanted lawn grass. She was trying to tell me that all my efforts are killing the environment & telling me to use shit that most poor folks can't afford to buy in large quantities. I informed her that I've worked on multiple small farms that also use cardboard mulching methods because they also can't afford to buy a bunch of shit to deal with larger acreages where there's too many unwanted weeds/old lawn grass. She said, they're all destroying the environment too by using cardboard 🤡 White saviour types like her are condescending as fuck towards POC & small farmers, in general.

    STFU, sit the fuck down. Unless you're offering to buy us all the shit you think we should be using - recognize that you have more privileges than most of us who have been doing food security, rewilding & Indigenous planting for decades - without spending a ton of money that we don't have to spend.

    #AsianMastodon #POCGardeners #Decolonization #ShutUpKaren #FrugalGardening #POCVoices #WhitePrivilege

  8. @richpuchalsky I blocked a local white saviour woman here, last year, for being a 'Karen' about me/Mom using cardboard to mulch/kill off unwanted weeds/suffocate unwanted lawn grass. She was trying to tell me that all my efforts are killing the environment & telling me to use shit that most poor folks can't afford to buy in large quantities. I informed her that I've worked on multiple small farms that also use cardboard mulching methods because they also can't afford to buy a bunch of shit to deal with larger acreages where there's too many unwanted weeds/old lawn grass. She said, they're all destroying the environment too by using cardboard 🤡 White saviour types like her are condescending as fuck towards POC & small farmers, in general.

    STFU, sit the fuck down. Unless you're offering to buy us all the shit you think we should be using - recognize that you have more privileges than most of us who have been doing food security, rewilding & Indigenous planting for decades - without spending a ton of money that we don't have to spend.

    #AsianMastodon #POCGardeners #Decolonization #ShutUpKaren #FrugalGardening #POCVoices #WhitePrivilege

  9. @richpuchalsky I blocked a local white saviour woman here, last year, for being a 'Karen' about me/Mom using cardboard to mulch/kill off unwanted weeds/suffocate unwanted lawn grass. She was trying to tell me that all my efforts are killing the environment & telling me to use shit that most poor folks can't afford to buy in large quantities. I informed her that I've worked on multiple small farms that also use cardboard mulching methods because they also can't afford to buy a bunch of shit to deal with larger acreages where there's too many unwanted weeds/old lawn grass. She said, they're all destroying the environment too by using cardboard 🤡 White saviour types like her are condescending as fuck towards POC & small farmers, in general.

    STFU, sit the fuck down. Unless you're offering to buy us all the shit you think we should be using - recognize that you have more privileges than most of us who have been doing food security, rewilding & Indigenous planting for decades - without spending a ton of money that we don't have to spend.

    #AsianMastodon #POCGardeners #Decolonization #ShutUpKaren #FrugalGardening #POCVoices #WhitePrivilege

  10. @richpuchalsky I blocked a local white saviour woman here, last year, for being a 'Karen' about me/Mom using cardboard to mulch/kill off unwanted weeds/suffocate unwanted lawn grass. She was trying to tell me that all my efforts are killing the environment & telling me to use shit that most poor folks can't afford to buy in large quantities. I informed her that I've worked on multiple small farms that also use cardboard mulching methods because they also can't afford to buy a bunch of shit to deal with larger acreages where there's too many unwanted weeds/old lawn grass. She said, they're all destroying the environment too by using cardboard 🤡 White saviour types like her are condescending as fuck towards POC & small farmers, in general.

    STFU, sit the fuck down. Unless you're offering to buy us all the shit you think we should be using - recognize that you have more privileges than most of us who have been doing food security, rewilding & Indigenous planting for decades - without spending a ton of money that we don't have to spend.

    #AsianMastodon #POCGardeners #Decolonization #ShutUpKaren #FrugalGardening #POCVoices #WhitePrivilege

  11. I'm that neighbourhood weirdo who went around my 'hood, with little leaflets, asking for unwanted fish parts/meat bones/coffee grinds donations for my gardening purposes. I have no shame when it comes to trying to source free useful stuff for my gardening efforts.

    #FrugalGardening #FreeIsMyFavePrice

  12. I started this huge pot of #sorrel from a small handful of free seeds, 4 years ago. I've been harvesting/eating from it, year round ever since! I keep roots mulched in Winter. It keeps providing fresh healthy food, every single season 👩‍🌾💚👍

    #Gardening #GrowFromSeed #GrowFood #FoodPlants #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodSecurity #FrugalGardening #ColdHardyFoodPlants #SaladGreens #Vegetables #LeafyGreens

  13. I started this huge pot of #sorrel from a small handful of free seeds, 4 years ago. I've been harvesting/eating from it, year round ever since! I keep roots mulched in Winter. It keeps providing fresh healthy food, every single season 👩‍🌾💚👍

    #Gardening #GrowFromSeed #GrowFood #FoodPlants #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodSecurity #FrugalGardening #ColdHardyFoodPlants #SaladGreens #Vegetables #LeafyGreens

  14. I started this huge pot of #sorrel from a small handful of free seeds, 4 years ago. I've been harvesting/eating from it, year round ever since! I keep roots mulched in Winter. It keeps providing fresh healthy food, every single season 👩‍🌾💚👍

    #Gardening #GrowFromSeed #GrowFood #FoodPlants #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodSecurity #FrugalGardening #ColdHardyFoodPlants #SaladGreens #Vegetables #LeafyGreens

  15. I started this huge pot of #sorrel from a small handful of free seeds, 4 years ago. I've been harvesting/eating from it, year round ever since! I keep roots mulched in Winter. It keeps providing fresh healthy food, every single season 👩‍🌾💚👍

    #Gardening #GrowFromSeed #GrowFood #FoodPlants #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodSecurity #FrugalGardening #ColdHardyFoodPlants #SaladGreens #Vegetables #LeafyGreens

  16. I started this huge pot of #sorrel from a small handful of free seeds, 4 years ago. I've been harvesting/eating from it, year round ever since! I keep roots mulched in Winter. It keeps providing fresh healthy food, every single season 👩‍🌾💚👍

    #Gardening #GrowFromSeed #GrowFood #FoodPlants #GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodSecurity #FrugalGardening #ColdHardyFoodPlants #SaladGreens #Vegetables #LeafyGreens

  17. I make homemade banana peel liquid fertilizer, weed teas with comfrey & weed cuttings & fish/seaweed fertilizers - all natural. I don't buy fertilizer - no need to spend money on any, when I can make my own. I use large old food grade buckets to make my various #NaturalFertilizers.

    theherbprof.com/how-to-make-ho

    #FrugalGardening #SaveMoney #ZeroWaste

  18. Some of our homemade #compost #soil. It's like gold to us gardeners 💚👩‍🌾
    Prepping some large pots with it, to get ready for transplanting of my tomato plants in 2-3 weeks. I put a fish head & banana peel at bottom of each large pot.

    #SoilHealth #Gardening #FoodSecurity #NaturalFertilizer #ZeroWaste #FrugalGardening

  19. Some of our homemade #compost #soil. It's like gold to us gardeners 💚👩‍🌾
    Prepping some large pots with it, to get ready for transplanting of my tomato plants in 2-3 weeks. I put a fish head & banana peel at bottom of each large pot.

    #SoilHealth #Gardening #FoodSecurity #NaturalFertilizer #ZeroWaste #FrugalGardening

  20. Some of our homemade #compost #soil. It's like gold to us gardeners 💚👩‍🌾
    Prepping some large pots with it, to get ready for transplanting of my tomato plants in 2-3 weeks. I put a fish head & banana peel at bottom of each large pot.

    #SoilHealth #Gardening #FoodSecurity #NaturalFertilizer #ZeroWaste #FrugalGardening

  21. Some of our homemade #compost #soil. It's like gold to us gardeners 💚👩‍🌾
    Prepping some large pots with it, to get ready for transplanting of my tomato plants in 2-3 weeks. I put a fish head & banana peel at bottom of each large pot.

    #SoilHealth #Gardening #FoodSecurity #NaturalFertilizer #ZeroWaste #FrugalGardening

  22. Some of our homemade #compost #soil. It's like gold to us gardeners 💚👩‍🌾
    Prepping some large pots with it, to get ready for transplanting of my tomato plants in 2-3 weeks. I put a fish head & banana peel at bottom of each large pot.

    #SoilHealth #Gardening #FoodSecurity #NaturalFertilizer #ZeroWaste #FrugalGardening

  23. Morning transplanting is done 👩‍🌾💚👍
    There's bok choy, sui choy, Chinese mustard greens & baby bok choy.
    All transplanted to remediated soil area - it used to be lawn grass with crappy soil with too much clay. Now, I'm growing food on it 😁

    #AsianMastodon #AsianGreens #Food #FoodPlants #AsianVeggies #GrowFood #GrowItEatIt #SelfSuffiency #FoodSecurity #GrowFoodNotLawns #DisabledGardeners #FoodGarden #GrowYourOwn #FrugalGardening

  24. Morning transplanting is done 👩‍🌾💚👍
    There's bok choy, sui choy, Chinese mustard greens & baby bok choy.
    All transplanted to remediated soil area - it used to be lawn grass with crappy soil with too much clay. Now, I'm growing food on it 😁

    #AsianMastodon #AsianGreens #Food #FoodPlants #AsianVeggies #GrowFood #GrowItEatIt #SelfSuffiency #FoodSecurity #GrowFoodNotLawns #DisabledGardeners #FoodGarden #GrowYourOwn #FrugalGardening

  25. Morning transplanting is done 👩‍🌾💚👍
    There's bok choy, sui choy, Chinese mustard greens & baby bok choy.
    All transplanted to remediated soil area - it used to be lawn grass with crappy soil with too much clay. Now, I'm growing food on it 😁

    #AsianMastodon #AsianGreens #Food #FoodPlants #AsianVeggies #GrowFood #GrowItEatIt #SelfSuffiency #FoodSecurity #GrowFoodNotLawns #DisabledGardeners #FoodGarden #GrowYourOwn #FrugalGardening

  26. Morning transplanting is done 👩‍🌾💚👍
    There's bok choy, sui choy, Chinese mustard greens & baby bok choy.
    All transplanted to remediated soil area - it used to be lawn grass with crappy soil with too much clay. Now, I'm growing food on it 😁

    #AsianMastodon #AsianGreens #Food #FoodPlants #AsianVeggies #GrowFood #GrowItEatIt #SelfSuffiency #FoodSecurity #GrowFoodNotLawns #DisabledGardeners #FoodGarden #GrowYourOwn #FrugalGardening

  27. Morning transplanting is done 👩‍🌾💚👍
    There's bok choy, sui choy, Chinese mustard greens & baby bok choy.
    All transplanted to remediated soil area - it used to be lawn grass with crappy soil with too much clay. Now, I'm growing food on it 😁

    #AsianMastodon #AsianGreens #Food #FoodPlants #AsianVeggies #GrowFood #GrowItEatIt #SelfSuffiency #FoodSecurity #GrowFoodNotLawns #DisabledGardeners #FoodGarden #GrowYourOwn #FrugalGardening

  28. Making some weed tea with #comfrey leaves. One of 6 buckets of natural #fertilizer tea.
    Some will be used as topical plant spray & rest used as soil drench at plant bases. I put the spent leaves at bases as part of mulch after.

    #FrugalGardening #Gardeners #DIYgardening #NaturalFertilizer #HomemadeFertilizer #PlantFood

  29. Making some weed tea with #comfrey leaves. One of 6 buckets of natural #fertilizer tea.
    Some will be used as topical plant spray & rest used as soil drench at plant bases. I put the spent leaves at bases as part of mulch after.

    #FrugalGardening #Gardeners #DIYgardening #NaturalFertilizer #HomemadeFertilizer #PlantFood

  30. Making some weed tea with #comfrey leaves. One of 6 buckets of natural #fertilizer tea.
    Some will be used as topical plant spray & rest used as soil drench at plant bases. I put the spent leaves at bases as part of mulch after.

    #FrugalGardening #Gardeners #DIYgardening #NaturalFertilizer #HomemadeFertilizer #PlantFood

  31. Making some weed tea with #comfrey leaves. One of 6 buckets of natural #fertilizer tea.
    Some will be used as topical plant spray & rest used as soil drench at plant bases. I put the spent leaves at bases as part of mulch after.

    #FrugalGardening #Gardeners #DIYgardening #NaturalFertilizer #HomemadeFertilizer #PlantFood

  32. Making some weed tea with #comfrey leaves. One of 6 buckets of natural #fertilizer tea.
    Some will be used as topical plant spray & rest used as soil drench at plant bases. I put the spent leaves at bases as part of mulch after.

    #FrugalGardening #Gardeners #DIYgardening #NaturalFertilizer #HomemadeFertilizer #PlantFood

  33. #FrugalGardening tip.

    I collect flat shaped medium sized rocks. They're very useful for helping plants that need a lot of heat. I leave rocks in sun to heat up all day. After evening watering, I put the sun warmed rocks at bases of heat needy plants. This helps them to grow faster & healthier, without spending money.

    I heat rocks in fires, in Fall & Winter & put into clay pot, bottoms up, lidded incubators to heat greenhouse with zero electricity.

  34. Once upon a time, many folks told me that #lupines can't be #propagated by cuttings because they're very sensitive.

    I decided to challenge that with #PlantPropagation experiments. I tried to propagate lupine cuttings in water, with rooting powder, with raw aloe vera gel & with raw honey & cinnamon. This is a successful new plant from honey/cinnamon rooting! I did it!

    I'm so happy about this🥰

    #Saanich #Gardening #botanical #foliage #FrugalGardening #PacificNorthwest #Zone8 #VictoriaBC #PNW

  35. Our #RoseBuds are starting to unfurl. Lots of #rose blooms are coming out soon 😍
    Almost all the roses we have growing in our gardens, except for 1, were all propagated from free cuttings.

    I'm not a rich woman so I'm quite huge on #FrugalGardening. #PlantPropagation from cuttings is one of my fave ways to grow free #plants 👍

    #Saanich #bloomscrolling #Spring #flowers #YYJgardens #Zone8 #WhatsInMyGarden #florespondence #VancouverIsland #VictoriaBC #Flowers #BCblooms #PacificNorthwest #PNW