gardening

149d

The pond on the allotment. #Gardening #Allotment

A small container pond on an allotment with some slates and stones around the edge. An iris is protruding upwards from the pond. The water level is low and needs topping up but rainwater is a sought after commodity here at the moment. The water surface is covered in small green leaves from the pond plants. The outside of the pond has been planted up with some white flowering alyssum, purple lobelia and red and yellow french marigolds. Yet to flower is some borage, common oregano and cosmos. The pond is partly surrounded with a wood chip mulch.

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My instincts to start making ollas this winter were spot on. We’re experiencing intense drought that began late fall 2024 and this, along with our sandy soils, has made #gardening challenging. Last month, I made this large custom olla to deliver rainwater to my plantain pups. Since then, they’ve steadily put on new leaves. I companion planted sweet potatoes & marigolds beneath the plantains and everything is hydrated & happy, using about 70% less water than surface watering. #OllasByOsa

A photo of me standing in our yard on a bright, sunny day, holding a large, spherical hand-crafted terracotta pottery jar with a decorative knob, wearing gloves and a gray t-shirt. Only my chin down to my knees are visible behind the large pot. Green tree leaves and a bit of blue sky are blurred in the background.

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171d

Salsify flower.

#bloomscrolling #foraging #gardening

Bright yellow flower resembling a dandelion, with ray petals only on the outer edge and a center full of pollen tipped anthers.

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200d

we’re getting some consistent open garden hours going!
someone will be around on Fridays and Saturdays this month, tending to the garden, working on projects, and happy to answer questions or visit with neighbors. foundseed open garden hours are welcome to anyone, to come by, help out, donate, or sit on our rug with us.
We plan to do a biochar lesson this Saturday, after dusk, so come by if you want to learn! 🌱

#CommunityGarden #GuerrillaGardening #PNWgardening #biochar #gardening #pdx

blue sky with yellow flowers, white letters:
garden hours
may
Saturdays 5-8pm
4/26, 5/3, 5/17, 5/31
Fridays 1-4pm
5/9, 5/23

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191d

The enemy. So pretty. So hungry. Eating my tomatoes and looking gorgeous. #insects #hornworm #lepidoptera #gardening

Artistic photo of a poised green hornworm, sitting upside down in the curl of a tomato leaf.

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208d

New batch of ollas coming down the pipelines. The repetition of creating these simple forms is grounding, calming. If you haven’t seen my previous posts on these #SustainableGardening tools, check #OllasByOsa.

#pottery #ceramics #gardening #irrigation #AncientTechnology #WaterConservation

A wooden shelf displaying several clay pots with lids in various sizes. The pots are unfired and exhibit a natural brown color. The background includes a light blue-green wall and an electrical outlet.

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185d

Did you ever gild #moss? I did! Look behind the scenes of producing my podcast episode about moss and how moss took revenge (I don't know why): https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/5d8402be-ad02-4d23-8c3b-4e42daf6a9b0 Of course you can listen to the episode now! And I interviewed a quite seditious tardigrade!
Just search #NatureMatchCuts on your podcatcher.

#NatureMatchCuts #podcast #ReconnectWithNature #mosstodon #MossMonday #tardigrades #carbonSink #climate #biodiversity #plants #gardening #lawn #nature #sciComm #natureLovers

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162d

I’m working on completing a batch of ollas before I leave for the #ceramics symposium in Virginia next week. We’re finally having days of consecutive rain, marking the beginning of storm season and hopefully the end of our two-year drought. That means I get to give the ollas in my garden a rest for the time being while other regions, particularly out West, move into a dry season during which ollas would be a helpful, sustainable irrigation solution. #OllasByOsa #pottery #gardening

A pottery shelf displaying several unfinished clay pots and lids. The items are arranged on wooden shelves, each one virtually identical in size and form. The clay is brown and has a soft sheen to it, as it is still wet. A collection of smaller pottery pieces (fired test samples) is visible to the upper right of the photo. The background wall is a very light blue-green.

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167d

Don't mow your lawn - enjoy the wildflowers!

Red poppies watercolor painting:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/red-poppies-karen-kaspar.html

#wildflowers #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #watercolour #creativeToots #poppy #poppies #red #flowers #gardening #garden #floral #nature #NatureLover #natur #aquarell #aquarelle #flowerpower #handmade #bloomscrolling #noMowMay #BuyIntoArt #artwork #plants #color

Red poppies is a handmade watercolor painting in contemporary square format by artist Karen Kaspar.
Poppy flowers in vibrant red are dancing on a sunny yellow background.

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166d

Here we go. My new free garden blog post. I am a beaver, Canada come get me and take me home.

#gardening #nature #pollinators

https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/after-the-storm-i-went-full-beaver-so-new-free-garden/

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Half of the raised bed at home. This is where we grow the majority of our salad crops in small quantities of cut and come again harvests.

I’ve tried to remember what we’ve already harvested from or are now growing in this bed so far in 2025 in the alt text.

The point being, it’s possible to grow a wide variety of food in growing spaces at home than maybe we think we can.

This is in southern England, zone 9a with a mild winter. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Gardening #NoDig #GrownForagedHarvested

About half of a raised bed of salad vegetables alongside a house wall. The bed is netted to protect crops from pigeons and cabbage white butterflies. Various crops are growing in the beds in small quantities with constant succession and intercropping where possible in the growing year. The bed is in full sun but the path to the side is in shade. A brindle boxer dog is watching on from the shadows. In 2025 this bed has already harvested or is now growing: carrots, cavolo nero kale, scarlet kale, red mizuna, mibuna, komatsuna, Wong bok Chinese cabbage, pak choi, tatsoi, mustard greens, sage, shallots, mooli winter radish, Spanish winter radish, green luobo radish, turnips, four types of lettuce, spring onions, Welsh onions, rocambole, chives, wasabina, rocket, broccoli, red cabbage, filderkraut summer cabbage, horn of plenty, red mustard, beetroot, beetroot leaf, lovage, skirret, babington’s leek, white onion, Chinese celery, tree spinach, Chinese amaranths, basil, parsley and summer radish.

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Last year I planted fragrant sweet peas with little success. This year I'm doing much, much better at it. Turns out you need to actually water them. 😏
#Gardening #BloomScrolling

A long row of flowering sweet pea vines growing up a trellis. The flowers are pink, white, lavender, red, and magenta. They smell heavenly.

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175d

I've been taking pics of seedlings in our mutual aid garden and labeling them in our signal chat so that folks know what we might want to keep versus what's okay to weed out. Thought it might also make a short but useful thread.

First up, marigolds. I can never tell whether a marigold seedling is one of the ginormous ones or petite, but it's always identifiable as some kind of marigold once it's got its first true leaves (as opposed to cotyledon leaves).

#garden #gardening #bloomscrolling

Marigold seedlings. Two seedlings with distinctive red stems and leaves that feather out with two symmetrical prongs and one long prong at the tip. Behind them is straw for mulch. They're in a bright blue container. My left thumb and forefinger is visible on the left side, holding the plants apart.

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169d

#3GoodThings #Gardening

1. Both of my cherry tomato plants gave forth their first blooms! They're still very small plants but will grow to become mighty warriors of the garden. (photo attached)

2. Harvested some leaves off all six basil plants to add to a homemade pasta sauce for dinner tonight. And it's not even June, yet! Insects are attacking but they're still edible for humans. (photo attached0

3. Sweet Pea the Ewe is doing a good job guarding the snap peas. (photo attached)

View of three of my six basil plants growing in their raised garden beds. They're still small and the leaves are full of holes from insects feasting on their deliciousness. I've been down this road every year, and they'll do just fine.

A ceramic sheep with black head and white wooly body is standing guard over the growing snap peas in the raised garden bed. I named her Sweet Pea the Ewe. A friend made her for me in exchange for ceramic knobs.

A close up photo of one of my two cherry tomato plants with a red circle outlining the location of the cluster of newly emerged tomato blossoms. I'm hoping for a bumper crop.

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160d

Garlic update: we're 5-6 weeks from harvest, after which I pile on more compost and plant bush beans to milk our long summer/fall for all it's worth. #gardening #garlic

A wood-framed raised bed filled with tall, leafy garlic plants in a 5 x 16 grid. Rhubarb lurks on the back left, zucchini on the right.

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158d

The roses are going to fade in the coming hot temps so I tried to capture their beautiful spring colors in the early morning light today
#BloomScrolling #gardening #RoseCity #pnw #Cascadia

Three creamy yellow blossoms in varied blooming stages. The rose is called Jude the Obscure

A cluster of Royal Pageant blooms in vibrant shades of yellow and salmon

A new rose for me this year but it has a history from a few doors down lol Beautiful delicate pink cabbage style blossoms

This is the rose everyone stops to admire. It bursts into bloom every spring with hundreds of pink and salmon rose blossoms that are clustered in groups of 15 to 20 blooms. Absolutely spectacular.

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I love the garden in early summer. #BloomScrolling #Gardening

Daisies ripple through a garden. Some are in focus others are blurred. Lilac salvia flower spires are reaching upwards in the middle. A couple of white tailed bumblebees are feeding on the flowers. The pollen basket on the bee’s hind leg is orange in colour.

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Compost maturing in the pallet bays. I find making compost a very therapeutic process. #Compost #Composting #Gardening #Allotment

Five pallets form three rudimentary bays on an allotment plot. The first bay is full of water butts and bags of wood chip. The other two bays contain compost. Two planters made from an old water butt are also filled with sieved compost and stand in front of one of the compost bays.

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125d

My lavender is filled with snoozing little fluffy male bumblebees snuggled up against the flowers this evening. It’s too darn cute. So, yet again, my harvest is postponed.

#bees #gardening

A fluffy bumblebee snuggled up with a lavender flower.

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148d

#3GoodThings #DogsOfMastodon #Gardening

1. After 4 years of encouraging the growth of white clover over grass, I have finally achieved more than 50% clover in my backyard. (photo attached)

2. My dog is often fearful of what lurks in our tiny backyard--usually bunnies and robins. But today, she pranced out there like a fearless champ! (photo attached)

3. My mini wildflower meadows are blooming. It will last through Autumn, with different flowers emerging over time. (photo attached)

A strip of soil in the backyard, against a red wooden fence is bursting with wildflowers, mostly pink and white Sweet Williams, some Coreopsis are popping up, and Echinacea are on the cusp of blooming.

Close-up of the white clover in my backyard looking lush and healthy. I kept throwing down seeds every Spring, and it's finally taking hold and out-competing the grass.

Black and white Pitbull is sitting in the clover, looking very relaxed and content. She is staring at the camera.

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148d

I finally got around to moving the compost pile for the first time in 6 weeks. I started making this compost in December and it’s looking pretty nice. It will make a good mulching compost for some of the beds next spring.

The hot compost has hit the red zone so🤞will continue to stay above 55°C for two more days when it will be turned again. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment

Two piles of home made compost either side of a plum tree on an allotment plot. Beyond the tree is a mini wall of comfrey which will be cut once it has stopped flowering. A selection of lidded dustbins are being used to store tapped water and allow it to chlorinate off. A wheelbarrow is next to the bins. The plot is surrounded by greenery. Trees and a hedge are to one side with trees in the distance. The compost piles are in the shady side of the plot. Sunshine hits the other side.

A compost thermometer is in the red zone marked hot. The temperature is almost hitting 58°C. Grass and wood shavings make up the outer layer of the compost pile which the thermometer has been placed into.

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I've been feeling helpless in the face of *waves hands* everything but I finally realized I AM doing something. I've been doing something for 20+ years, in spite of limited time and energy and nearly no budget.

I'm creating habitat.

There was nothing here when I arrived in 2003. I had ambitious permaculture plans, but quickly realized a "proper" project was well beyond my resources. So I've done my best, and I'm working with what thrives here – humble plants like wild daisies and day lilies, and spirea.

Red clover, lupins, and dandelion help improve the soil. I planted apple, plum, and pear trees (the hazlenut aren't doing terribly well, so I hope I can figure them out).

The rock walls I built attract snakes. I have at least one hare (found some droppings in the garden just a few minutes ago). The birds love it here. I have a small vegetable garden, even though I'm not great at growing vegetables. But still.

The garden evolves as I do. This is one section near the compound gate, a.k.a. Outer Space as far as the cat's concerned.

#Gardening #Bloomscrolling

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120d

I must have picked twenty #tomatoes from one #plant over the past two weeks. I wish I had someone to #share them with, because they're perfectly ripe and super flavorful.

My great-great-grandfather grew tomatoes for #survival money after he immigrated from #Sicily. The #FarmersMarket he sold them at is still around and one of my favorite places, but it's in a different place. It turns out that the local #DSA chapter meets near where it used to be.

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144d

#BloomScrolling #Gardening

There is a volunteer tomato plant growing in my wildflower garden. I've never grown tomatoes in that space. I'm letting it stay. Maybe it will be productive, but it will have to outcompete the nearby purple coneflowers that are reaching maturation. (photo attached)

The photo is focused on a young tomato plant that is surrounded by a dense array of wildflowers in various stages of maturity. The first to bloom are Sweet Williams that are visible behind the tomato plant. There are light pink, dark pink, and white varieties of Sweet Williams.

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142d

Turk’s Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus) now blooming in the back garden.

#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening

Color photo of a red flower with petals curled in a spiral shape with a long stigma extending up from the center with a crown at its tip. .

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