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@GoblinQuester
Is this a soil screen for #gardening?
#gardening @Hteph

Dahlias
#BloomScrolling #gardening #photography #nature
A vibrant dahlia flower in soft shades of pink and yellow, surrounded by green leaves, with a budding flower nearby.
#photography #nature #gardening #bloomscrolling

Can we all stop using and recommending peat based composts please?

It takes so long to make, peat is a non renewable source

It does far more good storing carbon in the ground in situ than it ever will do in a garden, yes, even for growing food.

I’ve just seen a website recommending using peat based compost😭

Peat was introduced as a cheaper filler for compost mixes within the lifetime of people alive today. It was not always used. We can switch away

#Gardening #ClimateDiary

#gardening #ClimateDiary

My two fellas #gardening their respective patches.
In the foreground a cat is inspecting his cat grass. In the background a man wearing a yellow vest is inspecting his tomatoes and strawberries, which you can't see due to a huge pumpkin patch that's taken over the path and most of the view.
#gardening

Headphones is also gardening today. Here he is inspecting his cat grass and catnip patch. Stay for the kisses! 💋

#mainecoon #mainecoonsofmastodon #CatsOfMastodon #gardening #Cat

#catsofmastodon #cat #gardening #mainecoon #mainecoonsofmastodon

Tell me, #gardening types, how can I have standing water for hover flies but not have standing water for mosquitoes?
I tipped out water yesterday I figured had the wrong sort of larva wriggling in it. In Dublin, Ireland if that makes a difference.
And if anyone has the secret to filling my garden with dragonflies and damselflies , let me know. A pond is on my medium term plans
#gardening

There's a potato growing from the bottom of my pepper's grow bag.

#Gardening

Photo taken outside during the day of a collection of pots and grow bags. The centre black grow bag with a tall pepper growing in it has the start of a potato plant sprouting from the side of the bag, through the fabric.
Close up of the potato sprout.
#gardening

#BloomScrolling #Gardening #Devon

I'm really enjoying the high purpleness in the garden, with oodles of Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and abundant second flowering of Wisteria, complimented by the deep pinkiness of Veronicastrum virginicum 'Fascination'. In there somewhere is also self-seeded Purple Toadflax. All a magnet for pollinators. I'm relishing them while I can, as they may not last in this heatwave.

P.S. This is a tiny garden, so plants like this have a real impact.

Part of a garden with numerous plants, most of the image taken up by three in particular. On the left is a tall plant with whorls of green leaves topped by spikes of dark pink flowers. On the right is another tall plant with darker green leaves and spikes of purple flowers. Across the back of the image is a climbing plant with lots of dangling purple flowers. In the foreground are several other small plants, one of which has a spike of orange flowers. A fern is just coming into the frame from the left.
#gardening #Devon #bloomscrolling

Melissa's crazy Italian squash has claimed the entire side yard. It's now called New Squashland.

#gardening

A squash plant covering our entire side yard and climbing the fence.
#gardening

Would you look at the size of my first ever pumpkins!!! If they're this big now are they going to be GINORMOUS in October?!! 🎃 there's like 30 of them as well. Might open a pumpkin stall out front if they're gonna be awesome.

#gardening #pumpkins #farmersofmastodon

A magnificent baby pumpkin. It's still green and looks a bit like a mini water melon. It is the size of my hand.
A magnificent baby pumpkin. It's still green and looks a bit like a mini water melon. It is the size of my hand.
My pumpkin patch running wild across my garden because I want to see how nuts it will go. I have started trimming the tertiary arms though because I fear our new overlords.
#gardening #pumpkins #farmersofmastodon

Every year, my Echinacea purpurea put forth dozens of blooms. Almost as fast as they form, something starts methodically removing the florets, leaving each flowerhead a ragged mess. I've never actually seen what is doing it or if it is being done by multiple visitors. The bees seem not to mind anyway.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Heat
#BloomScrolling
#Echinacea
#Pollinators
Close view of a bee on the flowerhead of an Echinacea purpurea, Purple Coneflower. Many of the florets are missing or ragged.
Close view of a flowerhead of an Echinacea purpurea, Purple Coneflower. Many of the florets are missing or ragged.
Close view of a be on the flowerhead of an Echinacea purpurea, Purple Coneflower. Many of the florets are missing or ragged.
Close view of a just opening flowerhead of an Echinacea purpurea, Purple Coneflower. Many of the florets are missing or ragged.
#gardening #newengland #heat #bloomscrolling #pollinators #allotment #echinacea

Green thumbs. #grickledoodle #gardening #horror #husbands #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
A cartoon illustration of a older woman working in her garden burying a dead man. Caption reads "If her second husband was anything like her first, the cucumbers were going to be lovely this coming year."
#art #funny #humor #drawing #horror #gardening #cartoon #grickledoodle #husbands

Things I found growing on stuff.

#mosstodon #nature #photography #fungiFriends #lichenSubscribe #gardening

Damp red sandstone mottled with black, sprinkled with young feathery candleflame lichens.
A bit of rotting lumber with what I think is staghorn's fungus rising up like skeletal fingers.
iNaturalist tells me this is Xylodon flaviporus growing on my porch, but all I can see is what looks like a little bleached corral reef covered in algae.
I like to take regular photos of the golden fan shaped jelly fungus growing in the cracks of the green paint on my old bench. I only get to see it after a few days of rain, it always looks so pretty.
#photography #nature #Mosstodon #gardening #lichensubscribe #fungiFriends

In other news: TINY FROG SEASON STARTED!

🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸 🦖 🐸 🐸

#gardening #frog

Tiny four legged friend on my hand
#gardening #frog

The new rock garden I created in April is coming along nicely, and some of the wildflowers are starting to bloom in and among the rocks. 🌼🪨🪵

#gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #Colorado

A rock garden filled with large pieces of red sandstone and large, weathered gray pieces of wood scattered across the ground, tall green ornamental grasses in between, and some pink, yellow, and white annual wildflowers plus their greenery blooming here and there throughout the space on a cloudy afternoon.
Closeup of a partially blooming, orange calendula flower with daisy-like petals plus an unopened bud next to it in a rock garden, with other greenery and the edge of a large sandstone block blurred in the background.
A mixture of different annual wildflowers growing in a small soil space between pieces of red sandstone rock angled next to each other. The plants have different shades and textures of green leaves, and one is blooming with a yellow, daisy-like flower.
Another small corner of the rock garden, with a yellow daisy-like flower in bloom next to another annual with very tiny white flowers on thin, branching green stems, with pieces of red sandstone rock, weathered gray wood, soil and mulch, plus other greenery blurred in the background.
#Flowers #colorado #gardening #bloomscrolling

My milkweed appeared on its own when I stopped mowing the lawn a few years ago. This afternoon the fragrant blossoms were a magnet for bumblebees.

#NativePlants #GardeningForPollinators #Gardening #Massachusetts #Bumblebee

Mauve and very light pink blossom head of milkweed with a bumblebee gathering nectar.
#gardening #massachusetts #nativeplants #bumblebee #gardeningforpollinators

One seed planted years ago. Today it feeds families.
Land is wealth. Land is food. Land is legacy.
I’m on a mission to plant more. Join me. 🌱 and we grow our food in this running project
This jackfruit took years to grow. Imagine what we could do with more land.
Help me secure land to plant food & hope. Every dollar plants a future.
#FoodSecurity #Agripreneur ##landisweath #gardening #environment #climatechange #fruits #solarpunk #nature #foods
I was behind at the Jack fruit tree and holding a big jack fruit
Plenty of Jack fruit in the tree
Plenty of jack fruit
#Environment #nature #ClimateChange #solarpunk #gardening #fruits #foods #FoodSecurity #Agripreneur

Portrait of an iris

#bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening #macro #photography

Macro photograph of a Siberian iris flower bud, about to open, but with its blue and white petals veined with green still curled and ending in a long point. Strangely, the iris resembles a person's head, with a turtleneck, a pointed hat, and wavy bangs. Another, smaller bud is located to the right and behind. The background is green. Photographie macro d'un bouton de fleur d'iris de Sibérie, sur le point d'ouvrir mais ses pétales bleus et blancs veinés de vert encore enroulés et se terminant en une longue pointe. Étrangement, l'iris ressemble à la tête d'un personne, avec un col roulé, un chapeau pointu et une frange de cheveux ondulée. Un autre bouton plus petit se trouve à droite et derrière. L'arrière-plan est vert.
#photography #Flowers #macro #gardening #bloomscrolling

Harvest time.
#Gardening
A bowl of freshly picked spinach and lettuce. Red and green.
#gardening

Harvested the Green Mountain multiplier onions today. They are all shapes & sizes. Some are red which is interesting! Put 22 plants, grown from seed, into the raised bed last summer. I seem to have 40 bulbs. Some sent up scapes, so those will be eaten/ chopped/frozen. I think I planted them too early. I hope to save & replant some. Over all a good experiment!

Seeds from ExperimentalFarmNetwork.org

Advice on selecting bulbs to replant welcome 🙏

#growyourown #permaculture #Gardening

Green onion tops laid out on two woven ottomans. White and red bulbs with bushy white roots are on the ends. My bare feet and white dress are at the bottom. I had to hold the phone way up to get the picture so the framing isn't great!
#gardening #permaculture #growyourown

Peonies

#gardening #bloomscrolling

#gardening #bloomscrolling

They look so snug and cosy. 💚 Almost feel bad for waking them up…

#food #nature #gardening

A photograph of a hand holding a half opened bean pod showing the tiny light green beans inside the fluffy interior. Garden in the background.
#nature #food #gardening

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