Right?! I am absolutely going to grow this way from now on. Watch this vid, he's a funny guy. Around 11:30min mark he shows you what the roots look like (and they are why I wanted to do this instead of trays!)
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Picture of my large plastic tub filled with various seed snails happily growing.
Surprise! Woke up this morning to find one broccoli peeking out and a whole snail of perennial arugula growing. Weeeeeee! It’s a new surprise everyday. Love it.
Seed snails FTW!
They totally work!
And I’m expecting much better root systems than I would get in seed trays. 👏👏
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#GrowMoreFood Makes sense; Cities Pay Big Money to
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Photo of green okra packed in clear plastic containers on a grocery store shelf. An oval blue sticker on the package says, "Pero Family Farms freshwrap Okra"The displayed price under the okra is "$2.99 12oz pkg Product of USA" The text at the top says, "Grow your own fresh okra instead of paying $4/pound for old okra"
#GrowMoreFood! Now is a good time to plant some okra (Abelmoschus esculentus), a fast-growing, heat-loving annual crop in the mallow plant family (Malvaceae). It's quite productive, so we freeze the extra. I build okra swales for best results. Read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2022/08/okra...
Photo of a bunch of fresh zucchini flowers (small green fruit with large yellow flowers) laid in a woven basket in a farmers market. Leeks & potatoes are in the background. Text says, "Every pound of food you grow or buy locally offsets up to 2 pounds of greenhouse gases. Plus. fresh food provides unique options such as these beautiful zucchini flowers, so fresh the bees are still working them."
#GrowMoreFood or buy from local markets, because commercial agriculture is not earth friendly. It wastes more than 30% of raised food & transportation in cold trucks emits greenhouse gases.
My book "Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida" can help:
floridapress.org/978081306876...
Overhead photo of a neighborhood with houses with green lawns and fences between them lined up along two roads. Drawings of various fruit trees and crops have been added to each yard. Text says,"What if we grew food instead of grass? Every community is a local food economy waiting to come to life. The answer to climate change, the health crisis, and the worsening economy is right outside your door. Join the movement… Every community is an economy."
#GrowMoreFood What if we grew food instead of grass? This is an answer to climate change, the health crisis, & the worsening economy. Growing some of your food makes your family more resilient in times like these, but whole neighborhoods growing food crops is a better solution. We can do this!
#GrowMoreFood While my articles and book focus on vegetable gardening in Florida, there is enough general information to be useful for gardeners anywhere. Every lb of food you grow (or buy locally) offsets up to 2 lbs of greenhouse gas emissions. Spring sale now: floridapress.org/978081306876...
Photo of a woman wearing a flowered shirt crouched down in front of a a vegetable garden and holding a basket of freshly picked lettuce, onions, broccoli, & more. A white house is in the background.
#GrowMoreFood! The price of fresh produce has increased dramatically in the last few months. Growing some of your own produce is a positive action that's good for the whole family.
I can help decrease the learning curve: read my articles here: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/p/green-reso...
Picture of homemade tempeh + avocado toast. How is this so delicious??
Picture of marinade ingredients and some frozen blocks of homemade tempeh. Simple base marinade for so many things: a salty, a sweet, a spicy with some vinegar and oil for depth. Chef’s kiss! Then, if desired, add whatever seasonings required for the meal you’re making. Though this marinade is also perfectly delicious!
The *only* thing that can make avocado toast better is homemade tempeh.
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Cool! “All bush beans were bred from pole beans, and under certain circumstances their ancestral vining trait awakens. Inadequate sunlight, high-nitrogen soil or excess water can all cause a bush bean to take off like a pole-ster.” #garden #growmorefood
#GrowMoreFood Garlic chives (Allium tuberosum) is an easy-to-grow perennial crop that supplies harvests all year in North Florida. It has flat solid leaves & so is on the garlic side of this genus. The onion side has hollow leaves. greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2014/08/garl...
We need a plan.
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#plantbaseddiet
‘As #climatebreakdown makes it harder to grow fruit and vegetables in southern Europe and north Africa, due to extreme weather, countries such as the UK which rely heavily on imports for fresh produce will suffer.’
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Photo of a wilted female squash flower atop a green, immature squash fruit shaped like a butternut squash. Green leaves are out of focus in the background. Text says, "Cucurbita moschata"
#GrowMoreFood It's time to think about planting squashes. They have male & female flowers on each vine (this is a female). Pollination must occur for the fruit to mature. Nearby pollinator gardens help. Seminole pumpkin grows well in Florida. greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2017/09/end-...
Cartoon of a bowl of fruit including yellow bananas, a bunch of purple grapes, 3 green apples, one lime, two lemons, three purple plums, and one red tomato, which is saying, "I was born a fruit but I identify as a vegetable." All the fruit have little faces looking toward the tomato, while the face on the tomato is looking back at the other fruit.
#GrowMoreFood The tomato is classified as a fruit (a berry), but in 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it's a vegetable so tomatoes would be subject to a tariff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._...
For more info on tomatoes as a crop, read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-...
I have a manual system (just a cooler, thermometer, some containers, bandanas and a heat mat) to grow koji and tempeh. By the end the koji becomes so solid that the probe is wedged inside a fragrant, lovely mass of koji rice!
Close-up view of thriving koji mycelium on short-grain idli rice.
You know your mycelium is ready when it engulfs and won’t let go of your temperature probe!
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We should all strive to be THIS AWESOME. Always fascinating! You’ll love this channel!
Pass it on…
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Fenugreek = even more awesome than I realized! And don't even get me started on the incredibly delicious licorice root.
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When you realize that everything in society has always existed to control and vilify women, history —and the present— begin to truly make sense.
I ❤️ fermenting! Do it not just for your health but for the deliciousness.
Interesting and never surprising:
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You see the top of a quart jar, floofy with white mycelium with bits of coffee grounds peeking out where it hasn’t been totally covered yet. If you look closely you can see areas where what looks likes coarse blue hills are forming. Those are blue mushroom pins— basically wee baby blue oyster mushroom fruits.
Forgot to label these jars. oops! With a little patience and just letting the mycelium do what it does best I am pretty sure I’m about to enjoy a large batch of oyster mushrooms. Hooray!
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Package says “sumac” but doesn’t specify which. The bag contains a beautifully dark reddish coarse powder. It tastes similar to the species we grow but is kind of darker(?) in flavor than our brighter(?) sumac.
While waiting for my sumac (Rhus typhina) plants to grow I purchased some sumac (Rhus coriaria) from a market in Augusta.
It’s not as tasty or citrusy as typhina imo but it’s still good! Hopefully next year my plants will have a larger harvest for me.
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Photo of a vegetable garden showing 2 broccoli plants. One with a a main flowerhead ready for harvest and the other where there are several small heads surrounded by stiff broccoli leaves with lighter green veins. Curly parsley is on the left side growing in the next row. Two pale green lettuce plants are to the right of the broccoli. A building is in the background.
#GrowMoreFood! Broccoli seems to take forever for the 1st head to form, after harvesting, leave the plant in place. Side shoots are quickly formed & they are sweeter. Keep cutting them off (but not the leaves) so the plant will produce them until the weather warms up. Side shoots are the main crop.
Fuyu permission seed sprouting.
Old cardamom seeds? Yes, please! I wasn’t sure if they were raw or even still viable. So I took a few seeds out of several pods as I made some spice mixes last week. They’re already sprouting! This is the ‘win some’ part.
We try to sprout (almost) everything we eat at home if it came with seeds, especially if we love it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
It’s always free!
Unsure if the seeds are viable? Try anyway! Why not?
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Mason jar with lid removed shows a floofy white layer of mycelium + straw surrounding cute little brown-tipped off-white pioppino mushroom pins.
Just bc I keep terrible records doesn’t mean my mushroom spawn will wait on my slow ass.
Pioppino were fruiting inside the jar because I took too long to move to a larger container. Oopsie. Guess these will be surprise jar #mushrooms. That’s ok too!
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Slide from a PowerPoint presentation: Test reads, "Carrot (Daucus carota) Queen Anne's lace Carrot Family (Apiaceae) 3 photos showing Queen Anne's lace flowers, which are actually a flower head with hundreds of small white flowers except for one purple flower in the middle of the head. One photo show a black butterfly on a flower head. A range map shows that its native region is Europe & south Asia and the introduced region is much of the rest of the world.
#GrowMoreFood Carrots (Daucus carota) are a great cool-weather crop. Here in Florida, we grow them right through the winter.
Read my article for more information on growing them in Florida and a bit about their interesting history as a crop. greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2024/03/carr...
Photo of a herbaceous plant with yellowish stems and star-shaped leaves all along the stem. There are drops of water hanging at the tips of most of the points on the leaves. Text says, "Salad bernet Sanguisorba minor"
#GRowMoreFood Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) is an easy-to-grow perennial crop in the rose family (Rosaceae). It's best to plant this with other perennial crops and herbs so it does not get in the way during crop rotations.
Read: greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2022/02/sala...
Photo of a base of celery stuck in the soil with new stalks growing from its center. Text says, "Come-again celery"
#GrowMoreFood! Instead of throwing away or composting the bases of store-bought celery, cabbages, leaf lettuces, and other cool-weather crops, you can grow new food. The base must include a root-bearing zone.
Read my article, "Food-from-scraps." greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2025/10/food...
Black raspberry bush is huge and I want to spread it to other areas. How? Instead of letting it walk I popped the top of 8 crazy-long stems into large Forager yogurt cups! In a few weeks I’ll cut off the new plants and move them. Easy peasy.
I can already see roots forming on the tips! Our weather hasn’t even been warm and I wasn’t sure this would work in autumn but.. hooray! It has! Theres no such thing as too many berry bushes imo.
It’s hard to express just how much my bramble looks like a silly, large spider wearing shoes right now. I swear, every time I walk by I have a little giggle.
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I’m holding a jar of coffee grounds that are being eaten by blue oyster mushroom spawn. Clearly it WANTS OUT OF HERE. The mushroom is sneaking out from the closed lid of this mason jar.
Impatient mushroom.
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