last of the fresh tomatillos for the season.
Sure, society is collapsing due to bad education, but if teaching doesn't pay enough, we'll never have proper education ever again. #education #teacher #teaching #librarian #gardening #gardener #library #activism #anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #anarchism #socialism
Tatsumasa Murasame, who grew up in Sweden before finding his calling as a gardener in Japan, shares the unique appeal and importance of greenery and nature in Tokyo, as well as the potential of its gardens. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/12/05/lifestyle/murasame-tatsumasa-swedish-gardener/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #lifestyle #gardening #tatsumasamurasame
believe in nature's seed bank. a handful harvested today in late fall. tomatillos and yellow pear tomatoes grown from 10 + year old seeds 馃挌
#gardening #zone10b
Sure, society is collapsing due to bad education, but if teaching doesn't pay enough, we'll never have proper education ever again. #education #teacher #teaching #librarian #gardening #gardener #library #activism #anticapitalism #EatTheRich #FeedThePoor #anarchism #socialism
last of the fresh tomatillos for the season.
The hand-pollinated yellow pitahaya fruits are developing nicely. (The rainbows were a coincidence.)
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(Selenicereus megalanthus)
#dragonfruit #pitaya #pitahaya
#GrowYourOwn #veganic #cactus
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The hand-pollinated yellow pitahaya fruits are developing nicely. (The rainbows were a coincidence.)
https://amazonrestore.codeberg.page/volunteer/finca-del-soul/
(Selenicereus megalanthus)
#dragonfruit #pitaya #pitahaya
#GrowYourOwn #veganic #cactus
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#rainbow #fruit #fruits #gardening
#FoodForest #FruitForest #FoodFreedom
believe in nature's seed bank. a handful harvested today in late fall. tomatillos and yellow pear tomatoes grown from 10 + year old seeds 馃挌
#gardening #zone10b
The influence of immigration and weather on culture is so much clearer when travelling around the country.
Just one example: gardening.
Melbourne, at least the north where there's been a lot of southern European and middle eastern immigration, has just tonnes of food gardening in back and front yards. Olive and lemon and pomegranate trees are standard front yard staples, backyards are very often mostly made up of veggie beds, and there are plenty of permaculture-ish "nature strips" or verges. A lot of the weeds are edible too, and people collect them (mallow leaf, nettle, wild fennel).
Less in the rural areas as you head north, because farms. Then in Albury and the towns in Southern NSW it starts up again, but the vegetable patches are smaller and there are fewer olive trees.
Canberra seems to be getting more into veggie beds since I left in 2009, but the weather there isn't super kind to water-and-warmth loving annuals.
Cabramatta, where the dominant culture is Vietnamese, is back to the Melbourne-ish gardening. Different plants due to weather and culture, but every little space is used.
In Newcastle it's hard to find any real evidence of food gardening at all. I suppose it's more British, historically? The weather would be great for it, if you could handle the rain. Mangoes grow here! There are a few little community gardens in the hipper areas, but none of the visible margin-gardening I'm used to at home.
I'm not saying I fully understand what's going on exactly, but the difference is clear.
We live in an old house and one of the two previous owners planted a gardenia under the bedroom window to catch morning sun at this time of year and bring fragrance into the room. This morning is the morning that gardener was dreaming of.
Times are times. Keep going gardeners.
We live in an old house and one of the two previous owners planted a gardenia under the bedroom window to catch morning sun at this time of year and bring fragrance into the room. This morning is the morning that gardener was dreaming of.
Times are times. Keep going gardeners.
Rhetoric: grow your own food in your garden!
Reality: we grew too much squash, and we can't give it away. Food banks do not want perishable foods, even when (as with squash) they will last unrefrigerated for 3-6 months.
#gardening tip: you probably want only 8 squash plants for personal food (2 hills, 4 seeds in each)
Mrs. F returns from the garden with tonight鈥檚 veg. #gardening #homegrown