Friday, May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019 at 09:22AM
Hard to see, but there are dozens of baby currants in this pic 😀 The clove currants have set really well so there’s lots of yummy blackcurrant juice in our future! . . #blackcurrant #blackcurrants #ribena #greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #growfruit #growyourownfruit #growyourown #gardeningknowhow
Video Friday: Permaculture Gardening Harvest, Backyard Sustainable Food Forest
The Permaculture Food Forest is still producing a lot of food and it sure is delicious. This is beyond organic gardening. This type of gardening is as close to natural farming as you can get. At this time of year the amount of food each week is to … Read the rest
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019
May 29, 2019 at 08:28AM
Comfrey, buzzing with bees. This is the Russian or Bocking 14 kind that doesn’t self seed itself all around the garden, but you can still propagate it by digging up and dividing, or taking root cuttings. Great stuff for making compost or “tea” to feed other plants. . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #flowergarden #flowergardens #herbgarden #herbgardening #compost #composting #gardeningknowhow #comfrey #comfreytea
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 at 07:54AM
And here are the the other three pea batches. On the right, the far half of the bed is Green Arrow planted Apr 1, near half is Green Arrow planted May 1. There’s about 6” difference in height now, they will both grow to 30-36”. On the left, Carlin soup peas planted Apr 15. These will be about 6ft high eventually. I need to get some strings on that trellis frame asap 😀 . . #peas #trellis #carlinpeas #greenarrowpeas #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #gardeningknowhow
Monday, May 27, 2019
How to Grow Strawberries (that taste great!)
Growing Strawberries for Real Flavor!
Those red things you can buy in the supermarket in winter do not taste like real strawberries, and they are crunchy instead of melt-in-your-mouth. Growing strawberries yourself is a great way to get that real, old-fashioned strawberry flavor – and it’s easy to … Read the rest
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May 27, 2019 at 10:52AM
First batch of peas (Meteor, planted mid-March) are flowering well and just starting to set pods. The supports are some green wire fences that fold up for storage, and that I got for free at the end of a garage sale years ago. They were a great buy 😀 . . #peas #shellingpeas #englishpeas #greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens
Friday, May 24, 2019
May 24, 2019 at 06:21PM
This is a beautybush, Kolkwitzia amabilis. We discovered after planting that it can grow 15ft high and wide! This one is at about 7ft and very lovely in flower. . . #kolkwitziaamabilis #greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening
Video Friday: Container Garden Harvest & Update #2
May 31st Harvesting Fresh Vegetables from the Container Garden and the raised bed square foot gardening spraying bt caterpillar spray and neem oil on the cabbage worms and aphids insects tomatoes kale collards beets sugar snap peas radishes butternut squash raw food salad
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Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Starting a Garden, Herb Garden Edition
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May 22, 2019 at 08:37AM
This what one of the sunflowers in my profile@pic looked like once the petals,dried out and the seed head expanded. It was nearly 2 ft across! Unfortunately in our damp fall climate it never dried out properly and it went moldy 😢 . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #gardeningproblems #sunflowers
Monday, May 20, 2019
Plan Your Vegetable Garden part 2: What Type and Size of Vegetable Garden?
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May 20, 2019 at 08:46AM
Rain, beautiful rain! We’re having a period of warm sunny days interspersed with rainy ones, which is great for the garden. My favorite peas are growing like gangbusters 😀 . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #herbgarden #herbgardening #herbgardens #rainyday
Friday, May 17, 2019
Video Friday: Urban Agroecoloy: 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre – Urban Homestead – Urban Permaculture
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Thursday, May 16, 2019
Plan Your Vegetable Garden, part 1: Where to place your vegetable garden
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May 16, 2019 at 09:44AM
What to do with all the rhubarb leaves you get when you harvest the stalks? You can just put them in the compost, but they also work great as mulch on places like this access path under the cherry tree. . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #rhubarb #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #containergardening #containergardens #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #compost #composting #newgardener #gardening101 #gardeningknowhow #gardeningnewbie
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
May 15, 2019 at 10:10AM
If you have an old laundry sink sitting unused, it’s a great place to grow mint while keeping it under control! This one is concrete and weighs a ton, but plastic ones will work too. Comes with a built in drain hole. We set this one up on some concrete blocks because the last time around when it was just raised up an inch or so off the ground, the local tree roots grew up into it through the drain hole and hogged all the nutrients! Handy tip on mint varieties: this apple mint has a slightly fuzzy leaf and doesn’t suffer from “rust” (a kind of fungal disease) late in the summer like the non fuzzy varieties do. . . #mint #mintleaves #applemint #laundrysink #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #containergardening #containergardens #herbgarden #herbgardening #herbgardens #gardeningknowhow #gardeningforbeginners
Monday, May 13, 2019
May 13, 2019 at 08:09PM
Sweet cicely growing and flowering merrily. We have one plant of this which had a pile of woodchips accidentally dumped on top of it. It’s now twice as big! I just wish I could get them to grow where I want them, rather than (or as well as) where they feel like it😀 . . #sweetcicely #myrrhisodorata #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #herbgarden #herbgardening #herbgardens #gardeningknowhow
Sunday, May 12, 2019
May 12, 2019 at 01:23AM
Rosemary bushes flowering like crazy! Bees love them too, look close to see one 😀 . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #herbgarden #herbgardening #herbgardens #gardeningknowhow #rosemary #rosemaryflowers
Saturday, May 11, 2019
May 11, 2019 at 11:24AM
This is a purple sand cherry, flowering for the first time. It’s taken a long time because it got moved around a few times before we found a place it likes! . . #purplesandcherry #sandcherry #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening
May 11, 2019 at 03:33AM
Baby peaches too! So far we had exactly ONE peach off this tree, hoping for more this year. . . #peachtree #babypeach #peaches #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #gardeningknowhow
Friday, May 10, 2019
Video Friday: How to plant garlic
To make garlic planting easy soil should be well prepared first, placing your garlic cloves at the right spacings and planting them the right distance below the soil can help to ensure your garlic will grow well.
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May 10, 2019 at 09:46AM
These are clove currants, a kind of blackcurrant with larger fruit. Pretty flowers too! We juice these and freeze the juice, then I use the leftover pulp along with apple or pear pulp to make fruit leather. . . #blackcurrant #clovecurrant #currants #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #gardeningknowhow #juicing #fruitleather
May 10, 2019 at 02:18AM
See those little blobs? Them’s figs 😀 Alfie loves figs, and last year this tree gave us two as its first crop. This year there are about a dozen growing. . . #figtree #figs #figseason #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #gardeningknowhow
Thursday, May 9, 2019
May 09, 2019 at 11:02AM
I was just mulching this bed today and realized, there’s a lot going on here! 1. 18 Brussels sprout plants in a 12’x3’ bed. Actually the frilly leaved ones further away are kale sprouts (kalettes), a cross bywn kale and br sprouts. Plus a few lettuce which will be grown and eaten before the sprouts need the space-in fact I could have fitted in more than the three I did. 2. Drip irrigation, 2 kinds. On the left is drip pipe, half inch poly pipe with drippers built in every 1 ft. On the right, 1/4” soaker hose. 3. Slug defence: copper flashing in a ring round the lettuce 4. Cabbage root maggot defence: each brassica plant has a square of thick landscape fabric around the stem, weighed down by stones. This mostly stops the fly from laying the eggs that become root maggots. (Not the same as cabbage butterflies) 5. Grass clipping mulch from our lovely neighbors (we don’t have mowable grass) to keep weeds down and moisture in. 6. Bed was top dressed with the used soil from the trays I grew microgreens in over the winter. Pros: adds organic matter and some nutrients to the soil. Cons: any microgreens seed that didn’t sprout first time round, is sprouting now 😂 . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #backyardhomestead #vegetablegarden #vegetablegardening #vegetablegardens #compost #composting #newgardener #gardening101 #gardeningknowhow #kalettes #brusselssprouts #lettuce
Wednesday, May 8, 2019
May 08, 2019 at 09:01AM
Japanese quince looking lovely all mixed up in some big old rhodos. Unfortunately it only looks lovely when flowering, the actual shrub has been so hacked about over the decades, and it has such an angular growth habit anyway, that it’s pretty ugly the rest of the year. Also, spiky! . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #urbanhomestead #homesteadgardens #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #gardeningproblems #gardeningknowhow #japanesequince #chaenomelesjaponica #chaenomeles
Sunday, May 5, 2019
May 05, 2019 at 09:04AM
Salal and mint planted in the light shade of an existing ornamental cherry in the courtyard garden we’ve been working on this week. The trainees really enjoyed getting to the planting stage after all the prep! . . #Greenthumb #instagarden #gardenersofinstagram #frommygarden #organicgarden #urbangardening #gardenideas #instagardening #organicgardener #urbangardens #bcgardener #organicgardens #urbangardeners #urbanorganicgardening #gardenhomestead #flowergarden #flowergardens #flowergardening #herbgarden #herbgardening #herbgardens #newgarden #gardeningknowhow #salal #mint #mintplant #tradestraining #landscaping
Friday, May 3, 2019
Video Friday: Ask Ian: Container Gardening
Ian Cooke is a world-renowned horticulturist and has observed plants across 50 countries and received numerous awards from the Royal Horticultural Society in England.
“Container Planting” is the first of many from the “Ask Ian” video series on YourGardenShow.com
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Thursday, May 2, 2019
May 02, 2019 at 06:53PM
Working in a neglected courtyard garden this week teaching a landscaping course. This pergola was black with dirt and mildew but turned out to be made of concrete, so we power washed it and it brightened right up. . . #pergola #concrete #gazebo #powerwashing #rejuvenation #gardenrenovation
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