Alex Akselrod
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World’s tiniest ripe currant tomato? 🤔
World’s tiniest ripe currant tomato? 🤔
Brought our winter squash in to cure today. I could have left them on the plants a bit longer but the leaves were mostly gone, so risk/reward, I thought they should come inside.
They're Crown Prince squash - first time growing them here, and they've grown better than the butternut squashes, so I'd consider it a success. (The butternuts are fine, just small - their plants are still healthy though so we'll leave them out until the first frost warning).
Antanicus
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Picked the first capsicum from the garden.
Chopped it up, and sauteed some with some mushrooms, tomato, and spring onions, then added it to some baked beans on toast for breakfast.
The aroma when I cut it open was Fucking Amazing... it's so easy to forget how good food is meant to be until you grow your own.
Picked the first capsicum from the garden.
Chopped it up, and sauteed some with some mushrooms, tomato, and spring onions, then added it to some baked beans on toast for breakfast.
The aroma when I cut it open was Fucking Amazing... it's so easy to forget how good food is meant to be until you grow your own.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/
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@pluralistic Thank you for helping solar power get to people. As you share, the fossil fuel and technology sectors are trying to add choke points to solar power systems. #solar, #solarpunk, #offgridsolar, #balconysolar, #growyourown, #solarpower, #solarpanels
And here is the first batch of apples!
Yes, they could have waited a little more, but I was impatient/ anxious that some unpredictable pest (worm) woud eat them before me.
They are delicious with nut butter.
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#apples
#GrowYourOwn
We got a very ripe bittermelon this evening! They turn orange right before the fruit explode like peeled banana. I got lucky that this small orange one was still intact. 🤗🧡
Regarding to other harvest, we had the biggest zucchini of the season. You see, zucchinis hide so well in plain sight and we missed it for a week. Promptly, I gave this beautiful monstrosity to one of the lucky neighbors who love zucchinis! 💚
One of the heirloom tomatoes is huge, too. I can’t wait for them to turn red!
And the green beans! “Kentucky Wonder” produces so well in a tight space.
Cleaned and snipped bunch of green beans on the gray kitchen counter next to a clear plastic container holding a bunch of Lacinato kale and arugula leaves upright. There are some herbs and spices in the background.
Four regular sized zucchini are neatly laid on the gray tile floor next to one humongous one that’s twice as long and three times wide, along with one big green heirloom tomato and a bag of other harvest—grape tomatoes, small heirloom tomatoes, a jalapeño, a few okras.
We got a very ripe bittermelon this evening! They turn orange right before the fruit explode like peeled banana. I got lucky that this small orange one was still intact. 🤗🧡
priryo@linernotes.club
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Other recent haul from #gardenPlot14. I only grow what grows well without much effort* in my plot.
*compost, water and lots of sun—that’s about it
Descriptions are in the AltTexts 😉
Various just-washed, leafy greens placed on the red rectangle tray on the gray counter. From left to right in clockwise; they are a few stalks of rhubarb, curly parsley, sweet basil, Lacinato kale, and arugula.
Washed very green celery leaves and stalks neatly placed on the kitchen counter.
A big bunch of cleaned and snipped green beans on the gray kitchen counter.
Neatly placed six zucchinis, one yellow squash, and four bittermelons on the gray counter. One of the zucchinis has some critter bite marks at the bottom.
Other recent haul from #gardenPlot14. I only grow what grows well without much effort* in my plot.
*compost, water and lots of sun—that’s about it
Descriptions are in the AltTexts 😉
Various just-washed, leafy greens placed on the red rectangle tray on the gray counter. From left to right in clockwise; they are a few stalks of rhubarb, curly parsley, sweet basil, Lacinato kale, and arugula.
Washed very green celery leaves and stalks neatly placed on the kitchen counter.
A big bunch of cleaned and snipped green beans on the gray kitchen counter.
Neatly placed six zucchinis, one yellow squash, and four bittermelons on the gray counter. One of the zucchinis has some critter bite marks at the bottom.
Tomatoes are coming in! 🍅✨
The neighboring gardener gave us some heirloom tomato seedlings, and the grape tomatoes were grown from the seeds of the supermarket ones we’ve been eating! They’re all growing wild this summer. Tomatoes love it hot n dry!
Angela Antunovic
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Look, I know computers are great and everything, but these lovely fuckers sink carbon, produce food and oxygen, stabilise the soil, help prevent flash floods, attract wildlife, self replicate, smell nice, and don't have an AI chatbot interface.
A long raised bed with a mixture of flowers and vegetables. You can see tomatoes, corn, mint, celery, celeriac, pumpkins, strawberries, and a potato plant
Raised beds with an abundance of edible plants growing. You can see courgettes, summer squash, borlotti beans, globe artichoke, sunflowers, cucumbers, gherkins, carrots, and beetroot.
Look, I know computers are great and everything, but these lovely fuckers sink carbon, produce food and oxygen, stabilise the soil, help prevent flash floods, attract wildlife, self replicate, smell nice, and don't have an AI chatbot interface.
A long raised bed with a mixture of flowers and vegetables. You can see tomatoes, corn, mint, celery, celeriac, pumpkins, strawberries, and a potato plant
Raised beds with an abundance of edible plants growing. You can see courgettes, summer squash, borlotti beans, globe artichoke, sunflowers, cucumbers, gherkins, carrots, and beetroot.
cotton flower! 😍
