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Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

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baby dinosaurs first day of freedom

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It was a solid evening in the garden 💪 I'm going to need plenty more soil, but I'm pacing myself. I planted some lettuce, purple green beans, calendula & carrots. I'm going to put a bunch of strawberries in the rest of that long raised bed 🍓 with chives because they're excellent companion plants.

Things are coming back with such minimal effort, which really gives me hope that I'll be able to keep up with it this summer 💚 Perennials are worth it because they just keep coming back, usually a bit thicker. I'm going to try to get a few artichoke plants to attempt to keep alive through the winter. Once they're stable, they can come back for 16 years or so. Kind of like asparagus!

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it was in a bit of a rush, but i made this pretty flower bouquet this morning before work! 💐

it's kale flowers, cilantro flowers, african blue-eyed daisies, and pincushion plant! 💞

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the greenhouse box is pretty full!

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its so windy my poor poor chickens are being blown around like dry leafs they look like this

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mmmmmhashbrowns.

Watching my mutual aid groups go "okay everyone please start growing potatoes so we'll survive under people intent on destroying everything and everyone we love" gives me a new appreciation for both my Irish ancestors, and why potatoes and gardeners hold such a big role in LOTR.

WWII food shortages, victory gardens to mitigate that...they weren't just tasty, they sustained life and gave hope

Thinking about the riff off the seeds quote, "they tried to bury us, they didn't realize we were potatoes".

Thinking about every human before us who cultivated and grew and shared these plants that nourish us and selected thousands of individual varieties adapted for every climate

Thinking about the fact it really does just take a chunk of potato with an eye on it, dirt, time, work, and water, to feed people

Thinking about this pretty comprehensive potato growing guide from the Farmer's Almanac

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personal post sorry not about gardening bye garden peeps but i wanna tell a story.

i've had a massive dose of the depresso expresso for like 3 weeks now and while like i kinda know why... it still sucks because when it hits me i have -125% motivation. which means that whatever i gotta do that has a deadline (like prepping for the market) i do at the very last minute. which has ruined my tea dates with @sagescented and that's not cool. when i don't have the depresso expresso aka normal me i am the absolute opposite - i HATE doing things last minute and get everything done as soon as i realize they need to get done so i have time to like think back or make changes to a project before deadline. so when i say i have no motivation know that it just makes me even more depressed.

hubs knows my biggest issue is just getting started. once i start something i'm good to go. when i got home from the market all sad which is also not normal at all i love market days he asked me "ok, what are two things you can do tonight if you could?" and i said start more seeds and take care of the chickens. we took our afternoon nap like we always do and i didn't think anything of it.

after nap... he gets up and starts puttering around outside. i'm following him like a puppy bc i just wanna be near him. he isn't really doing anything, and i ask and he says just organizing. but he kept going around the greenhouse area, which he has like nothing there. but at the time i wasn't thinking i was just sadge but i saw the soil and the seed trays and i was like... i guess i could work on this while he putters.

i filled all the seed trays i needed to, all 12. i cleaned up in the greenhouse, all the while he went back inside and did whatever. when i was done i came inside to wash my hands and he goes "hey i'm gonna take some things down to the coop" and he grabs like a couple things and i follow him like a puppy and then i get all excited to see my ladies and i hung out with them for like an hour and didn't realize hubs left to go back inside and do whatever and just...

guess point of the story is i love my husband. i didn't realize until this morning what he was doing. he was helping me do the two things i said would make me feel better if they got done. and now this morning i got my mojo back and i'm about to get ready and do so many things to catch up.

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but like... why only potatoes???

Watching my mutual aid groups go "okay everyone please start growing potatoes so we'll survive under people intent on destroying everything and everyone we love" gives me a new appreciation for both my Irish ancestors, and why potatoes and gardeners hold such a big role in LOTR.

WWII food shortages, victory gardens to mitigate that...they weren't just tasty, they sustained life and gave hope

Thinking about the riff off the seeds quote, "they tried to bury us, they didn't realize we were potatoes".

Thinking about every human before us who cultivated and grew and shared these plants that nourish us and selected thousands of individual varieties adapted for every climate

Thinking about the fact it really does just take a chunk of potato with an eye on it, dirt, time, work, and water, to feed people

Thinking about this pretty comprehensive potato growing guide from the Farmer's Almanac

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womever said to not get ducks because "they poop all the time!!" has obviously never had chickens.

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i do print the packaging with biodegradable paper and ink so ✨️technically✨️ you can eat them!

my seeds from @tomorrowsgardennc are here!!! im surprised they got here so fast though it might help i live like 4 hours east

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august 19, 2022 // female ruby-throated hummingbird

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My apple from seed

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California bee plant, dandelions, and coyote bush (amongst others) and the riot of green, April 11th 2025

For now the hillside is still quite green, although in the intervening weeks some of this growth has been mowed down as a fire-suppression measure. In the first photo the plant in focus center-left is a California bee plant (like in my last post) that just hasn't flowered yet. In it you can better see how the bee plant stalks are often dark, especially toward the bottom of the plant (the stalks are also square, although that is easier to feel than see). Also growing in that photo, though the bokeh has blurred them out, are a host of forget-me-nots and some bulb flowers whose name I always forget, a fair amount of poison oak, a beautiful buckeye, and a lot of different grasses (I'm so bad at grasses, although I'm trying to remedy that). I'm not sure what kind of clover that is in photo #2 and I'm still working on learning all the ground cover we get in this area. There are just so many little lives growing here, especially at this time of year. In the couple weeks since I've taken this photo, the foxtails in photo #3 have started going quite brown and some of the dogs on the path are now wearing protection, since foxtails can be quite expensive and dangerous to get out of vulnerable dog parts). I think the coyote bush they're growing out of made it through the big hack and slash. That path changes a lot from week to week, season to season, year to year, for all kinds of reasons. It's nice to be in one place long enough to continue taking note of these changes.

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Scribbles from this week.

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April Mushroom and Sage cultivar I saw yesterday.