For the UK #allotment #permaculture #GrowYourOwn folk out there.. a big shout out for the lovely #SeedSavingNetwork folk OvMed gardens in London who offer all sorts of interesting seeds - 4 packs free and just pay postage. They are always looking for #SeedGuardians for any of you able to grow more and send seeds back. https://shop.omvedgardens.com/

For the UK #allotment #permaculture #GrowYourOwn folk out there.. a big shout out for the lovely #SeedSavingNetwork folk OvMed gardens in London who offer all sorts of interesting seeds - 4 packs free and just pay postage. They are always looking for #SeedGuardians for any of you able to grow more and send seeds back. https://shop.omvedgardens.com/

Seeds are magic. Put a bag of compost with plum and damson stones in the bottom of the salad drawer in the fridge several weeks ago to stratify.. completely forgot about them. All the stones are now sprouting happily. These were just stones saved from fruit we got at the #CommunityFridge so will pot them up, keep an eye and pass them on when they get a bit bigger. #permaculture #SeedSaving #allotment #gardening

Seeds are magic. Put a bag of compost with plum and damson stones in the bottom of the salad drawer in the fridge several weeks ago to stratify.. completely forgot about them. All the stones are now sprouting happily. These were just stones saved from fruit we got at the #CommunityFridge so will pot them up, keep an eye and pass them on when they get a bit bigger. #permaculture #SeedSaving #allotment #gardening

When your daughter is a botany professor and she brings beverages to the Yule festivities, you get some interesting (and quite delicious) choices. I offer here a selection of Apple and Gooseberry Birch Sap seltzer, Black Currant and Thoroughwort Birch Sap seltzer, and Mulberry and Nettle Birch Sap seltzer. all quite refreshing.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Yule
#Solstice
#Botany
#Feast

When your daughter is a botany professor and she brings beverages to the Yule festivities, you get some interesting (and quite delicious) choices. I offer here a selection of Apple and Gooseberry Birch Sap seltzer, Black Currant and Thoroughwort Birch Sap seltzer, and Mulberry and Nettle Birch Sap seltzer. all quite refreshing.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#Yule
#Solstice
#Botany
#Feast

With the gardening season done and all the tools cleaned and tucked away, BeetBear is leaving me on my own to get all the apple trees pruned over the winter. He's napping by the fire with instructions to wake him up for the Wassailing later on.
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#Apples
#Orchard
#NewEngland

With the gardening season done and all the tools cleaned and tucked away, BeetBear is leaving me on my own to get all the apple trees pruned over the winter. He's napping by the fire with instructions to wake him up for the Wassailing later on.
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#Apples
#Orchard
#NewEngland

It's been a while coming, but we are now starting to harvest carrots that we planted in April.This variety is "MoonRaker" and they average about 4 or 5 inches in length (100-110 mm). All planted in a pot ~ 18 inches/ 450mm in diameter and 16 inches/ 400mm deep. It took A LOT of watering to keep them happy during the summer heat, but we now will be able to harvest carrots as needed almost to December. 😀
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#carrots
@gardening
@allotments

It's been a while coming, but we are now starting to harvest carrots that we planted in April.This variety is "MoonRaker" and they average about 4 or 5 inches in length (100-110 mm). All planted in a pot ~ 18 inches/ 450mm in diameter and 16 inches/ 400mm deep. It took A LOT of watering to keep them happy during the summer heat, but we now will be able to harvest carrots as needed almost to December. 😀
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#carrots
@gardening
@allotments

Here is the monthly photo looking up the allotment. Today's visit was the first for a month due to health reasons so it will have to do for August and September. The runner beans have finished cropping, the potatoes have been lifted and the wallflower plants in the foreground are nearly ready to be moved back home. We have started picking the apples (out of shot) with a view to making cider next month.

#Allotment #allotments #beans #vegetables #gardening #garden #apples #cider

Here is the monthly photo looking up the allotment. Today's visit was the first for a month due to health reasons so it will have to do for August and September. The runner beans have finished cropping, the potatoes have been lifted and the wallflower plants in the foreground are nearly ready to be moved back home. We have started picking the apples (out of shot) with a view to making cider next month.

#Allotment #allotments #beans #vegetables #gardening #garden #apples #cider

Well most of the garden is done for the year, but the tomatoes, peppers and eggplant are still going strong. This was the very last of the sunburst squash, as the plants are now in the compost, hopefully cooking out all the pests remaining on the leaves and in the stems. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening
@allotments

Well most of the garden is done for the year, but the tomatoes, peppers and eggplant are still going strong. This was the very last of the sunburst squash, as the plants are now in the compost, hopefully cooking out all the pests remaining on the leaves and in the stems. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening
@allotments

Squash cleanup: BeetBear goes on ahead to rescue any remaining squashes for sharing out. He also checks the few blossoms that are left to make sure any dozing bees are encouraged to move over to the eggplant flowers so Dad doesn't ruin their day with the chopper. We're about 75% done now so one more push tomorrow will finish it up. Just tomatoes, peppers and eggplant left producing now. Season has flown by! 😀
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@span gardening
@span allotments

Squash cleanup: BeetBear goes on ahead to rescue any remaining squashes for sharing out. He also checks the few blossoms that are left to make sure any dozing bees are encouraged to move over to the eggplant flowers so Dad doesn't ruin their day with the chopper. We're about 75% done now so one more push tomorrow will finish it up. Just tomatoes, peppers and eggplant left producing now. Season has flown by! 😀
#BeetBear
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@span gardening
@span allotments

This from our admin: "The Fediverse groups feature offered by gup[.]pe is no longer available, and the domain name has been acquired by a third party. We are suspending the domain from toot.wales and any group you were following will be removed. "
Looks like the @gardening group is gone so I will no longer be adding the group mention to my posts.
Perhaps someone knows of other gardening groups we can use?

#gardening
#Allotment

Things are winding down now, but BeetBear still found veg. to share with the neighbors today. It made our day when a young lady and her grandma stopped by with a thank-you note for us. It's very dry again. We have had no rain since a light shower on 20-Aug. Tomatoes are heavily mulched, so they're ok. Peppers, eggplant and yellow squash seem to be holding up, too.Will probably start to "deconstruct" the corn patch tomorrow. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#BeetBear
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening

Things are winding down now, but BeetBear still found veg. to share with the neighbors today. It made our day when a young lady and her grandma stopped by with a thank-you note for us. It's very dry again. We have had no rain since a light shower on 20-Aug. Tomatoes are heavily mulched, so they're ok. Peppers, eggplant and yellow squash seem to be holding up, too.Will probably start to "deconstruct" the corn patch tomorrow. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#BeetBear
#NewEngland
#zone6b
@gardening