CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Why waste money on commercial, fossil fuel derived fertilisers when you can make your own? Very cheaply too. Give the garden centre aisles of horrific horticultural chemicals a miss and do your plants, our insects, wildlife and the planet a favour instead. Fermented nettle plant juice and lactic acid bacteria being made for the price of some rice and some brown sugar. #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment #ClimateAction

I kept this olla from the most recent batch because it formed a hairline crack in the neck. Imperfect but still useful. I’m using it to irrigate my favorite warm-weather leafy greens, giant red mustard. For best results, you have to dig deep and bury the olla all the way up to its neck, compensating for the fact that soil settles with repeat watering. You want moisture underground directed at the roots, not evaporating into the air. #gardening #OllasByOsa

Yay, made a wildlife pond! Emptied the full rain barrel in it (plus water and mud from the old pond and some tap water), will let it settle now and cut the pond liner later, than put the plants back in and order some more plants... #wip #workinprogress #pond #wildlifepond #vijver #garden #gardening #tuin #natuurtuin

@MyWildlifeAllotment I can't argue that trees are not messy-- I have to wonder how my birches are still standing after all the downed sticks I picked up this spring. One of the three little pigs thanked me for collecting them before he took them.

@tamami Swiss chard is *amazing*!

@SunnJax so fresh. And the heart shaped leaves

@richrollgardener Good work, BeetBear!

@thecalchemist What a gorgeous plant! Bromeliads are so pretty and exotic.

#Rhododendron schlippenbachii#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

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For the record, we were doing weed control on the only thing currently blooming in the perennial bed: Creeping Charlie aka Ground Ivy. I pull up the plants, and the kitty uses the smother method

@ianturton I know the feeling.

@Halcyonline This is very exciting! It will dramatically increase your growing season, and you might even be able to grow plants outside your zone.

@eugeneparnell This pic hits me smack in the heart. 🥰

@donray Nice Took this at a local park many years ago. There is a creek running through it and a LOT of Blue Bells in the flood plain.When you get flowers, watch for Bumble Bees scissoring in from the back. They can't reach the nectar from the front of the flower. "Nectar thief" is the nickname I learned for such behavior. Flower doesn't get pollinated when this is done.

@LifeTimeCooking Thank you Ganga

BeetBear reminded me that a year ago today I had to be hauled away in an ambulance because my gall bladder had burst. My daughter stepped in and kept the garden stuff going for a week or so until I recovered. ANYWAY... We started bringing stuff up into the greenhouse to make room for more stuff in the grow room. First up is the cabbage and lettuce, which is looking pretty good. Tomorrow we'll make some decisions on what comes up next.#BeetBear #Gardening #Allotment #NewEngland #Zone6b

@gladsdotter Ouch. I'm on my yearly magnolia bud watch.

While #StormTherese lingers around, frangipani has got other plans about spring #GranCanaria #Spring #HomeGardening #Gardening #Flowers #Frangipani #Plumeria #Nature #FlowersOfMastodon #FlowersOfPixelfed #Bloomscrolling

Things are growing in the backyard despite the continued #poolPond chaos.Rhubarb is sprouting fast. A daffodil held on near the hazelnut tree even with all the disturbances.And the young plum tree is budding! #Gardening #Spring #PortAlberni #Home #Pond #PandemicPond