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#DIY #gardening #veggies #planting #GYO #GrowYourOwn
Do you see what I see?! 🤩 The bell pepper is blooming! ❤️
(No idea which variety. I put a few seeds in soil, when I eat a veggie from the supermarket :) Windowsill-kitchen-scraps-garden =D) -
We might have a butternut squash problem. I'm not sure I have enough storage space. This is all the "ButterBaby" variety that isn't too big and therefore just right for meals for the two of us.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn
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Sow now for a spring harvest! Plant hardy veg like spinach, winter lettuce, turnips & oriental greens. Consider using cloches, a cold frame, or fleece to protect your seedlings from the worst of the winter wet and cold. This simple step makes all the difference for an early crop!
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Just because why not: started a #butIHaveNoSpaceGarden 2.0 ^.^
#garden #gardening #veggies #veggieGarden #GYO #GrowYourOwn #resilience #selfSufficience #DIY
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Went over to the #CommunityGarden today (planting more sunflowers, beans, squash and onions), and was delighted to see that the #PlantSwap has started! I picked up a couple of #Blueberry plants and will be leaving some #SunGoldTomato plants for others!
#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #CommunityGardens #FoodSecurity #GrowYourOwnFood #GYO #GrowYourOwn
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My beautiful mess of a #HomeGarden . Leaving some #WildStrawberries and other flowers there to attract #pollinators. The #ButternutSquash is a wash, but I have #JapaneseCucumbers and #SummerSquash almost ready to plant. I dug up the #SweetPotatoPlant, which did produce a teeney weeney potato, but not worth the space (and wasn't doing well). However, the #BlackOilSunflowers and #HopiBlueCorn are doing quite well (and I have more to plant), and so are the #AnasaziBeans!
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient
Mark shows #HowTo assemble, fill and plant a self-watering #RaisedBed
(...but ... but ... but Mark! ó.ò That's all PLASTIC 😭 )
The DIY & #planting ideas are 👍 though ^.^ we still can build our own self-watering planting box out of other materials 🙂
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Growing #HopiBlueCorn from Bliss Farm
"Welcome to Bliss Farm, where tradition meets sustainable agriculture. Here, we take pride in cultivating Hopi Blue Corn, an ancient variety that’s not only rich in history but also in flavor and nutrients. Whether you're a home gardener or a curious chef, this guide will walk you through how we grow and care for our Hopi Blue Corn and how you can do it too!
We hope you enjoy your corn and remember; 1 SEED HAS THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING 100's OF NEW SEEDS!
Why Hopi Blue Corn?
Hopi Blue Corn is more than just a crop; it's a cultural treasure that has been grown by the Hopi people of the American Southwest for centuries. Known for its striking blue color and high nutritional value, this corn is prized for its versatility in the kitchen, from making tortillas to cornmeal, and even for brewing traditional beverages.
Key Benefits:
- Rich in antioxidants: Blue corn has a higher antioxidant content than yellow corn, making it a healthier choice.
- Cultural heritage: You’re growing a piece of history, connecting with ancient traditions.
- Diverse uses: Whether for baking, cooking, or decorative purposes, Hopi Blue Corn is as versatile as it is beautiful.
How We Grow Hopi Blue Corn
At Bliss Farm, we believe in sustainable, organic farming methods to preserve the purity of this heirloom variety. Our growing process is a mix of tradition, respect for nature, and modern agricultural practices.
1. Planting Season
We plant Hopi Blue Corn in late spring, once the soil has warmed up to at least 60°F. Corn is a warm-weather crop, and this variety thrives in sunny, well-drained soil.
2. Soil Preparation
The success of Hopi Blue Corn starts with the soil. We enrich our fields with organic compost and natural fertilizers, ensuring the soil is rich in nutrients. Corn is a heavy feeder, so this step is critical for a successful harvest.
3. Spacing & Planting
Each corn stalk needs space to grow. We plant the seeds in rows 12-18 inches apart with 24 inches between rows. This allows the plants to reach their full potential without competition for sunlight and nutrients.
4. Watering
Hopi Blue Corn is drought-tolerant, a trait that has been passed down through generations. However, in the early stages, we make sure the plants get plenty of water, particularly during germination and pollination. After the corn is established, it can survive on less water than most other varieties.
5. Pollination
Corn is wind-pollinated, so proper spacing is important for effective pollination. At Bliss Farm, we allow nature to take its course, ensuring that our crops benefit from the natural environment around them.
6. Pest Management
We use organic pest control methods, such as introducing beneficial insects and practicing crop rotation. This reduces the need for synthetic chemicals, ensuring that our corn remains as natural as possible.
Harvesting Hopi Blue Corn
After 100-120 days, the corn is ready for harvest. We wait until the kernels are fully mature and the husks have dried. The corn is then carefully hand-harvested and laid out to dry further before it’s ready for use.
How to Grow Hopi Blue Corn in Your Garden
You can easily grow Hopi Blue Corn at home! Here are some tips from our farm to yours:
- Choose a sunny spot: Corn needs at least 6-8 hours of sunlight daily to thrive.
- Plant in groups, not rows: This helps with wind pollination.
- Water regularly but don’t overwater: While Hopi Blue Corn is #DroughtResistant, it still needs sufficient water in the early stages.
- Watch for pests: Keep an eye out for #CornEarworms and other common pests. Organic #InsecticidalSoap can help keep them at bay.
- Harvest when dry: Once the husks are brown and dry, your blue corn is ready to pick."
Source:
https://www.blissfarmca.com/education/native-seeds#SolarPunkSunday #NativeSeeds #HeirloomSeeds #GrowYourOwn #GrowYourOwnFood #GYO #DroughtResistantCrops
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That's the solenacea (tomato, chilli, capsicum, eggplant, tomatillo, and cape gooseberry) germination run pretty much complete now.
Far too many seedlings. 😅
Some of the little pots have 2 or 3 in them, at a quick count there are 204 seedlings here.
We can fit in maybe 30 tomatoes max, and similar for chillies, plus a dozen each of capsicums and eggplants. And that's really quite a bit optimistic.
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#diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #SelfSufficientMe
oregano, rosemary, thyme, mayoran, mint
sweet potato, pumpkins, cherry tomato, fruit trees and bushes
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Romanesco broccoli is a stunning, spiral-shaped cool-weather crop. For best results, plant in early spring or late summer. Key tip: maintain consistent soil moisture to prevent small heads or premature bolting. Mulching helps retain moisture and keeps roots cool! #gardening #romanesco #gyo
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#ShortBreak #shorts #DoomScrollBreak #DIY #GYO #gardening #planting #SelfSufficience #CommunitySufficience #community
THIS! All of this! ❤️
by Mark #SelfSufficientMeC'mon, get out there, #GrowYourOwn! No excuses.
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Ooops, it has somehow been a whole week since I last posted about my chillies! Germination of the chillies in the previous post is now well underway, with nine pots moved to the #GrowShelf from the #HotFridge.
The varieties germinated so far are:
- 2x Biquinho Red
- 2x Biquinho Yellow
- 1x CC Jalapeño
- 2x KhangStarr StarrLing
- 2x Trepaderia Werner
Note that I count "per pot" rather than per-seed, so some of these I have more of and an option to grow-on extras, for example there are actually 3x seedlings of each of the 2x above.
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About half my chillies have germinated already - some time in the last 36 hours anyway. Chamomile soaked from 25th Jan, planted in pairs in mini pots on 28th Jan and popped into the #HotFridge, germinated circa 3rd/4th Feb.
If there is a race to be won here I guess the prize goes to the Chilli Chump "Kimchi Pepper" seeds — all 4 seeds strongly germinated!
Currently our no-shows are Chilli Chump Naga Morich, and also both Rocoto varieties (Marlene and Costa Rica, also both Chilli Chump, from last year.)
On the superhot germination front we have have a single Naga Morich from Fatalii and a single 7 Pot Brainstrain Yellow from Chilli Chump. That's pretty speedy for superhots really.
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#HotFridge LIVES! Had to replace a dodgy power board that was making disconcerting sizzling noises...
Fridge is set to high-20s for chilli germination.
Chilli seeds are in dirt after ~48h in chamomile.
That's the first seeds of 2026 in: 7Pot Brainstrain Yellow, Aji Habanero, Aji Mango, CC Piri Piri, Chupetinho White, Goronong, Habenero Hot Lemon, Kashmiri Mirch, Kimchi Pepper, Naga Morich from Chilli Chump, Naga Morich from Fatalii, Rawit, Rocoto Costa Rica, Rocoto Marlene.
Two seeds per mini-pot, four of each variety total, fiftysix seeds in. (There are a few more to come.)
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Allotment postcard 47 — end-December 2025 — solstice and fire 🌅🔥
Winter solstice root veg harvest, more garlic planting, harvesting chillies in December (?!), clearing the back of the new plot, burning old pallets, toasting marshmallows & roasting chestnuts over the coals.
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#diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #SelfSufficientMe
Experiment: #Howto grow potatoes in paper bags
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I got lazy and this year it is just going to be all my bets placed on a single ferment.... I'm calling it "all the red ones"... well, almost all, kept a few back for other purposes - and also in went some yellow Trinidad Perfume. I don't really do rules. I am chaos. (You should see the state of my kitchen, or pigsty as some may consider it. I just don't know how people do things and also have tidy and clean spaces, there isn't enough time to even just do the things as it is.)
Anyway... the chillies in the mash are, in approx order of volume: thunder mountain long horn, unknown red chilli, naga morich, trinidad perfume, cc piri piri... probably some others snooked in too.
Slightly under 1kg of mash, 2.5% salt by weight.
Now it just needs to sit for a few weeks/months/until-i-can-be-arsed-with-it.
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Roughly hand crushed dried red seedless chilli flakes... a selection including piri piri, thunder mountain longhorn, kashmiri mirch, bishops crown, and a bunch of an unknown variety (bought as Scotch bonnet, definite wasn't!) The result is so much richer and tastier than any store bought flakes I have ever tried... though pretty much a whole dehydrator load of chillies results in just this ~90g of flakes in one small jar.
Now to remember to be careful where I am putting my hands for the next day or so. 😅
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#Allotment Postcard #39 is up… this just being some waffle from after the weekend away for PyCon. There is a bit of a #chilli fruit round-up at about 6:09 — though not a comprehensive one.
Slowly catching up!
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #SelfSufficientMe
Another experiment! How to grow seed potatos from potato peel ^.^
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient
A morning walk through the Weedy Garden 🤩
(fresh young chickweed makes a healthy and tasty salad :)
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #snails #slugs
Dunno... I have a garden, also high humidity, but I like snails, I would not want to harm them. Although they often make swiss cheese out of my leafy greens -.-
But keeping slugs out of the raised bed with a double copper plate fence seems efficient. -
#FYI #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient
Some jumpy gardening advice 😂 for those, who don't have a garden.
Instead of a pot you can also have a hanging basket from the ceiling and let the cucumber (or tomato or zucchini) descend to the floor.
The cinnamon is against mold (also good against smelly shoes/socks, or cupboards :) -
#FYI #AmericanResiliency #EmilySchoerning #resilience #US #USA #gyo #GrowYourOwn #gardening #seeds #selfsufficience #communitysufficience #climatechange #TimesOfChange
Recommended seeds: tepary beans, black cumin, haselnuts
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability
#selfsufficience #selfsufficient
Weedy is experimenting! ^.^ How to make hot water with compost
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#gardening report: good news, bad news. I harvested a beautiful basket of tomatoes, and also carrots, collards, kale, green beans, onions, calendula, sunflowers, ageratum, zinnias, and a few potatoes. HOWEVER, the enemy that's been eating tomatoes, carrot tops, zucchini tops, arugula, and peppers has shown itself to be a groundhog. And, it will have the run of the place for awhile, but before the end of the month, the george haveAheart relocation service will once again go into action. #gyo #GrowFoodFromSeeds #share #criters #groundhog
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient
Weedy's short about how pests discovered his newly set up garden =D
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient
I like the smell of sawdust ^.^ Reminds me of the workshop of my grandfather, a cabinet maker.
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #compost #composting
Weedy short on how to build nutritious compost
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #communitysufficience #communitysufficient #community
Building a bench around a tree
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #communitysufficience #communitysufficient #community #bees #beehive #beecircle #natureismedicine
Setting up a new beehive to a bee-circle
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #SelfSufficientMe
=D THIS is happyness! ❤️ Digging in the dirt to find more and more little potatoes of the one you planted ^.^
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #communitysufficience #communitysufficient #community
😃 ❤️
Weedy explains, why not to wash fresh eggsHappy Easter everybody! ^.^
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#ShortBreak #shorts #diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #medicinalherbs #plantmedicine #phytomedicine
Lemon balm to calm the nerves: Uses + how to grow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85lhnNAPCxc
Melissa officinalis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_balm
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#diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #Weedy #TheWeedyGarden #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #communitysufficience #communitysufficient #community
THIS!
That's exactly, how the future looks like, mutual help and having huuuuge fun together.
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#gardening report: pruned the wisteria. Onions, viola have sprouted inside, and parsley may be up tomorrow. Now just sitting outside enjoying the sun and leaning against my let it be rock. #gyo #GrowFoodFromSeeds #sunshine #LetItBe
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@napalousa My peppers took a really long time to sprout on the heat mat, but they finally did it. Today, I am transplanting 56 tomato seedlings. There are so many because I'm sprouting for 2 others, but still...I don't have the courage to not transplant every sprout. Ha. #gardening #gyo #GrowFoodFromSeeds #transplanting #tomatoes #peppers
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Garden report: got row covers put up over arugulas, lettuces and spinaches. Last year these gave us salads thru the first week of Dec, and the spinaches and arugulas wintered over and we started harvesting in March. #gardening #gyo #GrowFoodFromSeed #RowCover #FallProtection
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Cycled the long route to the garden, 8 miles instead of 4, and did small harvest for lunches for the next 2 days. Excited to find Cherokee Purple and Black Krims ready for lunch today. The purplettte onions seem to have been waterlogged from all of the rain. #bikeeverywhere #gardening #gyo #growfood #growfoodfromseed #heirloomtomatoes
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Rain is promised, temps are moderate so great time to transplant, except the water hasn't been turned on at the crops garden so I'm hauling two 5 gallon containers each visit. The pic is winterbor and starboard kale. Also transplanted all of the lettuces and arugulas, the onions, the leeks, the collards and the broccoli. #gardening #kale #transplanting #gyo #growfood #growfromseed
