Several sets of green seedlings in cardboard compostable trays, set into black plastic trays. They're sitting on a balcony with the sun shining down, and potting buckets all around it.
Took the 1st round of seedlings out for a field trip to the balcony so they can see their future home.
#UrbanGarden #ContainetGarden #DisabledGardener #GrowItEatIt #Garden #veggies
A large cucumber and a bunch of Swiss chard in a reed basket on top of a wooden table. There's a small container garden in the background
π₯ As a container gardener, I gotta say I'm pretty impressed this cuke was able to hide from me AND avoid the pests well enough to grow to 8+ inches long (yes, I measured it).
#UrbanGarden #ContainerGarden #DisabledGardener #veggies #GrowItEatIt #garden
A hand holds a large, glossy purple eggplant growing on a plant surrounded by broad green leaves.
Aubergine success! Just picked my first one of the season.
#allotment #allotmentgarden #gardening #organic #organicgardening #disabledgardener #Aubergine #eggplants
A cucumber plant with a cucumber growing into a small square of a metal fence in front of a white wooden balcony guard. There's a green lawn and trees visible in the background.
Unintentionally put the squeeze on one of my garden cucumbers!
#DisabledGardener #GrowItEatIt #UrbanGarden #ContainerGarden #veggies #garden
A square bamboo plate with two cucumbers on it, as well as a few green beans and one yellow marigold flower. Behind it is a thriving cucumber plant with green leaves and yellow flowers.
π₯ My cucumbers are finally getting some traction! I've beaten the powdery mildew β so all I have to do now is scare away the spotted lantern flies every day.
#ContainerGarden #UrbanGarden #DisabledGardener #GrowItEatIt #KitchenGarden #curcubits #FrederickMD
A vibrant vegetable garden showing healthy tomato plants staked with green supports, small green tomatoes beginning to form, and yellow blossoms on the vines. The ground is covered with straw mulch to retain moisture.
Tomato update: mulched and trimmed! Now it's time to watch them flourish
#allotmentgarden #GrowYourOwn #gardening #gardening #organicgardening #nodig #disabledgardener
A healthy Mrs Lewis Purple Pod bean plant climbing a green trellis in a raised garden bed. The plant has vibrant green leaves, some with a purplish hue, and is surrounded by straw mulch.
A close-up of a hand holding several mature Mrs Lewis Purple Pod beans hanging from the vine. The beans are a deep purple color and surrounded by green leaves, with straw mulch visible below in the raised bed.
Update from the allotment! Just cleared my early peas and mulched the bed. And look what's ready for tomorrow's dinner... my delicious Mrs Lewis Purple Pod heritage beans! π΄
#allotmentgarden #organicgardening #GrowYourOwn #gardeninglife #gardening #nodig #raisedgardenbeds #disabledgardener
Rows of young tomato plants. One row has a trellis, one row has a wobbly trellis partly in place, the last row has no trellis yet
A weedy garden with a row of young tomatoes under a trellis, some tomatoes mulched with straw, and some garden boxes with broccoli and kale growing in them
Two parallel rows of wood chips marked out with pink flags down the center of a garden, with barely visible baby kiwis planted in the wood chips
A contraption of dairy crates and boards protecting tried of tomatoes. The frost cloth has just come off the boards in preparation for trellises going in, and the chenopodium weeds are luxurious and almost hide the tomatoes
Trellises slowly going up. It's very hard on my body but hopefully they stay there once they're in. 7 for tomatoes, 2 for actinidia kolomikta. Concrete reinforcing wire or cattle panels plus t-posts.
I may have dislocated my pinkie slightly.
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#NorthernGardening #DisabledGardener #MyHappyPlace
A warm wooden table outside on a balcony. On the table is a flat read basket with a bunch of spinach, Swiss chard, and a few strawberries. In front of the flat basket is a handful of beet greens with stems on.
Good harvest this Friday afternoon: rainbow chard, spinach, beet greens, and a few strawberries.
#UrbanGardener #veggies #ContainerGarden #GrowItEatIt #DisabledGardener #garden #agriculture
A flat basket sitting on a window sill. In the basket is a handful of spinach and a bunch of rainbow Swiss chard.
Tonight's balcony garden harvest β garlic-sauteed greens are on the menu!
#GrowItEatIt #UrbanGarden #DisabledGardener #veggies
They wouldn't tray sitting on worn blue wooden boards. On the tray is a bright red radish with green radish leaves attached. There is also a handful of green kale, green spinach, and rainbow shard with red and yellow stems.
π«π₯¬πΏ Good harvest from the balcony garden today: radish & radish greens, swiss chard, baby kale, and spinach.
#UrbanGarden #veggies #garden #ContainerGarden #DisabledGardener #GrowItEatIt
Oh shoot BORAGE. I FORGOT TO PLANT BORAGE. gah. #BrainFog #CognitiveBullshit #DisabledGardener
A garden with straw mulch and wooden rectangular frames marking the beds. Tiny plants follow the snake shape of soaker irrigation hoses.
Many flats of tomatoes and peppers and a little tobacco on a sundeck
The base of a tree trunk with several small suckers (sprouts) coming off it
A cluster of daffodils and small blue squill surrounding a couple-inch-high apple seedling. The nearly invisible tiny apple seedling is circled on the photo.
Finally planted out broccoli and kale (wooden beds to keep dogs out)
Hardening off lots of tomatoes and peppers, taking them in and out everyday
Thinking about making a stool bed out of apple suckers
Bulbs successfully mark the first year baby apple trees π±
#NorthernGarden
#DisabledGardener
A red radish with green leaves sitting on top of a gray countertop
Bread toasted and sitting on a green plate with butter and thinly sliced radishes on top. It is sitting next to you a cup of coffee, and a few plants. There is a balcony container garden in the background.
This radish wanted "uppies" sooner than expected, so I obliged. There's nothing better than a fresh-from-the-garden, thinly-sliced radish on toasted bread with sweet cream butter & sea salt on top.
#DisabledGardener #UrbanGarden #garden #ContainerGarden #GrowItEatIt
I have to slide down the hill and use crutches at the bottom to get to this spot but I can read the markers and see the plants with binoculars from up top π©Όπ©π»βπ¦½ββ‘οΈ!
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#nativeplants #nativemeadow #disabledgardener #habitatrestoration #michiganativeplants
A single green bean in the middle of the screen, surrounded by leaves and stems, planted in dirt with a fuzzy background of trees and a white railing.
π« First bean of the season!
#UrbanGarden #food #plants #garden #ContainerGarden #DisabledGardener #GrowItEatIt
A tattooed thigh clad in black shorts
A big round leaf over half the size of someone's palm on a happy looking plant under lights inside
A small clump of grass next to an impression made by a piece of plywood set on the ground. The plywood has been moved to show three foot long grass rhizomes traveling from the small clump under the board
Several flats of large happy looking plants outside a patio door. The plants are mostly tomato and pepper
Today's gardening was warm enough to do in shorts. Body said no wheelbarrowing and just a little tilling (yay for rear-tine tillers). Tobacco is growing huge fast, I was reminded of the meaning of grassroots, it's hardening off month for the first starts π±
#NorthernGardening #DisabledGardener
Wheelbarrows of compost spread out over some dirt. A tiller is in the background.
Two white and one saddleback geese posing in a child's pool shaped like a turtle. The biggest one, the gander, looks inquiringly at the camera.
A huge white dog buries her entire muzzle in freshly tilled soil.
An orange cat looks attentively down. He is surrounded by tall dead grasses.
Yesterday's gardening: wheeling manure up to the field (only a couple a day), geese bathing with an attitude, Solly found something interesting in a freshly tilled bed, Siri exploring the summer frog habitat.
The goal is an hour a day of capacity as a priority over media.
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#DisabledGardener
A gray blue balcony deck with white railings and a white building wall. There are several pots and containers of dirt and seedlings that have just been started. On the right there is also a canvas stool and a small cold frame.
π± Got the seedlings in pots yesterday: radishes, nasturtiums, marigolds, spinach, kale, mint, parsley, strawberries, swiss chard, green beans, cucumbers, a volunteer hickory tree. Once I get more soil, the beets & green onions will go in too. #DisabledGardener #garden #UrbanGarden #ContainerGarden
Day 2 tilling. I've done maybe 300 sqft, maybe 400. Wheelbarrowed fertility for a third of that from the animal area. Can't remember my total tillable sqft but it's several thousands. I plan on doing this mostly daily until the beginning of June (last frost). π± #DisabledGardener #NorthernGardener
Two trays of seeds and dirt placed long wise on a warm wooden dresser top. In between them are too glow lights placed in a jar with a few seed packets in front of them. To the right is a round stained glass light with leaves and berries. On the wall behind it is a brown framed photo of Moorcroft ceramic patterns.
Mini seed station: Activated β
This year's balcony container garden is for eating: swiss chard, spinach, beets, radishes, green onions, cucumbers, green beans, nasturtiums, marigolds, and kale.
#UrbanGarden #ContainerGarden #nature #garden #gardening #DisabledGardener #GrowItEatIt
A box, a dairy crate, and a sleeping orange cat on top of a bed. The box and dairy crate are full of hundreds of baby food jars, pill jars, tiny plastic bags, big paper envelopes, etc in a jumble with a different tomato variety name written on each one.
Protip: if you know you're gonna crash and have trouble moving much, go to bed with *mumble*hundred types of tomato seeds to sort and the best cat.
#TomatoBreeding #TomatoGeek #DisabledGardener
#GardenPlanning
A small balcony garden filled with potted plants and flowers. On the left, a wooden planter box overflows with vibrant purple flowers. Behind it, a large terracotta pot holds leafy greens. In the center, a blue ceramic pot and several smaller containers house a variety of herbs and plants, some with fresh green leaves sprouting. To the right, a wooden stool supports additional pots, and a small greenhouse cabinet sits against the weathered white wall. A dark blue fabric is draped along the railing, partially shading the space. Sunlight streams in, casting warm shadows on the floor and highlighting the lush greenery. Beyond the railing, a view of trees, parked cars, and a suburban street is visible.
Q: What to do on a rainy, dystopian Friday?
A: Start planning this year's garden: swiss chard, spinach, beets, radishes, green onions, cucumbers, green beans, nasturtiums, and kale. #UrbanGarden #ContainerGarden #DisabledGardener #garden #plants
What are you considering planting this year?
A balcony with white walls and railings, and light blue wooden floors and roof. There are flowers hanging from a basket in the foreground, and lots of flowered plants around the perimeter of the balcony.
Photo of a balcony with white rails, white walls, and blue wooden floors. In the foreground are two wooden chairs with white cushions, and a warm wooden table between them. On top of the table is a small container of lavender. In the background, The perimeter of the end of the balcony is filled with potted flowers and other greenery.
#UrbanGardening I ended up with (mostly) store-bought plants this year, as squirrels dug up & ate *all* of my starts & πͺπ― π΄πͺπ΅πΆ seeds. So, this year's garden theme is simply "pretty," rather than my typical theme of "practical."
#garden #BalconyGarden #plants #nature #flowers #DisabledGardener
A close-up shot of a tomato plant, focusing on the yellow flowers. There is a large pot and a sunny, blue sky in the background, but the background is out of focus.
On this #EarthDay, my tomatoes are starting to blossom. πΏπ
#ContainerGarden #UrbanGarden #gardening #DisabledGardener #plants #tomatoes #garden #flowers #GrowItEatIt
A wicker basket full of small vegetables, including onions, red and yellow tomatoes, green peppers, and beets. The basket is sitting on a windowsill in front of a sunny window.
Beets, onions, peppers & tomatoes β the final harvest as I break down my balcony garden following an enjoyable growing season. π±
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