Sulphur cosmos and Cosmo caudatus are both edible. Garden cosmos are not. Happy to share seeds of both edible varieties.

I love these sulphur cosmos for salads and pastries. They have such a beautiful hue. One of two edible varieties I grow. Spectacular. 🌼🌼

I don't know who needs this but: TOUGHER THAN TOM MOSQUITO TNT IS 25% OFF THIS WEEKEND.

Listen, I'm not an influencer or a sponsored lady.

I'm a human w/ skin & blood that is irresistible to mosquitoes. Toms works. IT WORKS. I'm a gardener in the deep south. IT WORKS. 🦟🚫👩🏽‍🌾🌱

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When you vote for trash, you get trash.

I'm learning canning. It terrifies me. But I'm getting there.

A variety of freshly harvested tomatoes. Red, green, orange, yellow and striped tomatoes laid out on a black towel.

It's #Tomato Thursday! And guess what? More #tomatoes have been harvested. This photo is titled, "Tomato overachiever found buried alive under masochistic amount of tomatoes." Gardening is hard work. Tomato recipes welcome. 👩🏽‍🌾🍅🌱

#gardening #organicgardening #organicgarden #FloridaGarden #GrowingFood

Newsletters from @jefftiedrich.bsky.social catch me up on everything and let these gems embed themselves into my brain forever:

"worst case, you end up like Zelensky, tag-teamed by Donny and some shithead who fucks furniture."

Ty for your service, sir. 🫡

Ty for identifying yourself so I can block you. ✅ I can't stand people like you who spout nonsense with confidence.

Not to mention I planted a bumper crop of 15 paste tomato plants lol WHY AM I LIKE THIS?!

I would gladly give you so many tomatoes. There is not a person who I see that don't force a bag on. Fed ex guy? Tomatoes. Mailman? Tomatoes. Solicitors trying to sell me a new roof? Tomatoes. Kids walking by on their way home from school? Tomatoes! Lol I'm gathering the amount in this photo daily.

As a Florida gardener I grow all of these and I must say, the mosquitos are not repelled. The one true mosquito repellent I grow is American Beautyberry, Callicarpa americana. The leaves/berries repel mosquitoes. You can make spray or crush the leaves and rub them on. Makes a hell of a jam, too.

A variety of freshly harvested red, orange, yellow and green tomatoes. Cherry sized and small, medium and large heirloom varieties.

The Great #Tomato Harvest of 2025 is here. Each year I plant too many & then collect them & complain every day until May. (Our season is from Sept-May, opposite of everyone else's.) This year, to add to my tomawoes, I planted a bumper crop. 'Mater Masochist in the house! 🌱 #OrganicGarden #Gardening

A basket of different cut flowers. Sunflowers, Zinnias, snapdragons, marigolds.

Today's basket of joy. 💐❤️
I like growing food, but as my gardening journey has evolved, I grow 30% flowers amongst the fruit and veg. I get higher yields, more pollinators and happiness year round. Here's a little color for your eyeballs. 👩🏽‍🌾🌱 #Gardening #CutFlowers #MyGarden #Gardener #FloridaGarden

I know right? So photogenic for such a total dick lol 😆

Outside my window: My nemesis, the invasive #iguana. #Iguanas destroy our gardens, native plants, native species, microclimate ecosystem and spread salmonella. I plant blue pea everywhere so they eat the flowers, not my garden, but they're real fucking dicks. 🌱 #gardening #Florida #garden #pests #FL

In another time, knowing a celebrity or someone rich and connected in Miami was a flex.

In this time, knowing the organic egg plug from the chicken farm in the Southwest Ranches is the most Kardashian thing you can be doing with your life. 🌱
🥚 #Eggs #BuyLocal #Community #LocalFarmers #FloridaLife

A harvest of bunches of ripe yellow bananas and green bananas.

This morning's #banana harvest. Did you know that when you harvest #bananas you have to knock down the whole tree? Yep. They are one timers. But they put out little baby trees, too. So it's a cycle. But also, a damn mission. Lol 🌱 #gardening #floridagarden #greenthumb #gardener #harvest #growfood

I grew some like this too! They were called black nebulas I think. Mostly all the red, purple and black ones I grow are super hairy lol for some reason these dark ones went brown in the cake. It was disappointing. I really thought I was about to make goth cake lol 🤣

Making new friends in the garden. #SulphurButterflies are born and grow into adult #caterpillars in my candlestick #cassia. Then they travel over to my strawberries and form their #chrysalis. I do it all for the ecosystem. 👩🏽‍🌾❤️🌱

#FloridaGarden #ButterflyGarden #Pollinators #MyGarden #SkyGardens #Hi

Today was a sad day as I discovered that purple/black carrots do not actually yield purple/black carrot cake.

Alas, In the end, all carrot cake becomes carrot cake color.

Luckily, it remains delicious.

But now I have baskets of purple/black #carrots to process.

Lol #gardening is fun. 🌱 #garden

It was so good. It's my favorite lemon pie bc the salty crust really cuts through the sugar and acid. It's so...bright. 🍋🥧

Lemon pie, salted sourdough crust w/ #ClitoriaTernatea flowers (butterfly pea/ #BluePea) from the garden. Double blues, double lavender, light blue & single blue flowers we picked this morning. W/ popcorn as packing peanuts so the pie wouldn't shift around. 🌱 #FreshBaked #Gardening #EdibleFlowers

I'm glad to be of service to the good people of the North. ♡

I make blue pea/Clitoria lemonade every week. We bottle it. And I can't stress how amazing it is in bread. The Double Sky Blues grow along the window of my office. They're so beautiful and ruffled. I'm sure you will enjoy them.

Done. Ty for posting and also, I hope you take a moment to acknowledge yourself for using your voice for empowerment and kindness in these perilous times. It takes courage and conviction to be good of heart and you, sir, are leading by example. Thank you for elevating goodness. Yeah, Boy!!! 🦩💕👩🏽‍🌾

Garden patch with broccoli, flowers and moringa trees.

Garden views: Our front lawn - no grass just flowers, broccoli & Moringa trees we use for food, medicine and green manure. I can't stress enough that you can grow food on your lawn and you should. Grass is for fools. 🌱 #Gardeners #MyGarden #FloridaGarden #GrowFood #Gardening #GreenThumbs #👩🏽‍🌾

Lol I love Clitoria Ternatea. I grow the purple, white, blue and double blue ones. Do you make tea with them? Great for anxiety. I also use them to dye my sourdough.

Garden beds with onions, papaya trees and tomatoes on a trellis.

Happy Valentine's Day 💘
Garden Views: this is our backyard garden. Onion beds covered in cattle panel to deter the garden cats and a papaya tree in each bed. We also have a wild growth of sungold tomatoes and about 40 banana trees back here. ♡👩🏽‍🌾 🌱 #MyGarden #Gardening #Gardener #GreenThumb #growfood

In FL it is legal to convert your front lawn into a garden. Most people who do this in HOA environments do it with a wide array of brassicas & ornamental varieties. As well as root veg. I've also seen them use creative domes for their tomatoes (they look like bushes). I'm rooting for you. Do it. ♡

View of a lush garden.

Garden Views: this is my front lawn. No grass. Growing onions, carrots, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, yucca, broccoli, herbs, berries, peppers, eggplants, flowers, canna edulis, ginger, turmeric and moringa. 🌱 #MyGarden #Gardening #Gardeners #FloridaGarden #OrganicGarden #GrowingFood #GreenThumbs #ItMe