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1y

Our first strawberry of the season is ready, woo! 🍓

A beautiful, perfectly red strawberry growing on a strawberry plant. There is a second, still fully green, strawberry next to it.

1y

The first ripe tomato harvest and some getting close.

Picked some orange cherry, and I spotted a Principe Borghese turning color, and the Flamme that will be orange will probably get picked this week.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #tomatoes #garden #harvest #MastodonOnly

An Orange cherry tomato in the photographers hand. The tomato is about 25mm in diameter and slightly oblong. The hand has a bandage on it from getting filleted by a beekeeping hive tool during a marking of a piece of wood operation a week ago.

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A Principe Borghese tomato that is turning color. It is shaded in the middle of the plant. There are other green tomatoes around it. The vegetation is very lush. It is about 30-40mm in diameter.

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A Flamme tomato turning orange which is it's ripe color. There are 2 other tomatoes in the cluster that are yellowish. This tomato is about 50mm in diameter.

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363d

Hey, I'm Lexi and this is an #intro post!

I'm leaning into wholesome living; #HomeCooking , #sewing , #making and #mending things, #composting and learning to #GrowYourOwn.

I'm rediscovering my love for #StarTrek and starting #gaming (#StardewValley style).

I'm wild about unicorns and love pink. Like, a lot. It's also unlikely you'll see me in anything but dungarees.

I'm late realised #ActuallyAutistic on the waiting list for a full assessment.

Alexis, a woman with bright pink hair tied back, wearing pink and white dungarees, leaning against a Triceratops behind it's frill. Behind them are trees.

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Bumblebees are on the blackberries and the sambucus nigra is showing off. #Gardening #Allotment #Bees #Pollinators #GrowYourOwn

A white tailed bumblebee with a yellow band on its abdomen and thorax is finding a lot to love about the wild blackberry flowers. The white flowers are on show with lots more flower buds getting ready to open.

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A blue shed in the background is partially hidden by a plum tree. A burgundy coloured sambucus nigra elder stands out against the green foliage of trees behind it. Its lighter coloured wide flower heads are clearly showing. Comfrey plants dominate the foreground underneath.

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51d

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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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.

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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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