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23d

I finally got around to moving the compost pile for the first time in 6 weeks. I started making this compost in December and it’s looking pretty nice. It will make a good mulching compost for some of the beds next spring.

The hot compost has hit the red zone so🤞will continue to stay above 55°C for two more days when it will be turned again. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment

Two piles of home made compost either side of a plum tree on an allotment plot. Beyond the tree is a mini wall of comfrey which will be cut once it has stopped flowering. A selection of lidded dustbins are being used to store tapped water and allow it to chlorinate off. A wheelbarrow is next to the bins. The plot is surrounded by greenery. Trees and a hedge are to one side with trees in the distance. The compost piles are in the shady side of the plot. Sunshine hits the other side.

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A compost thermometer is in the red zone marked hot. The temperature is almost hitting 58°C. Grass and wood shavings make up the outer layer of the compost pile which the thermometer has been placed into.

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56d

My summer job is bringing in some new followers, so it's time for a new #introduction post.

Hello! I'm Axiom / Jay, and I currently work as an intern at an #OrganicFarm! I've been passionate about #farming and #agriculture my whole life, and I anticipate the bulk of my posts will be work-related until I go back to my day job in August.

I also post a lot about my #FiberArt projects (#knitting #HandSpinning) and general #homestead activities (#gardening #AngoraRabbits #GrowYourOwn)

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54d

Half of the raised bed at home. This is where we grow the majority of our salad crops in small quantities of cut and come again harvests.

I’ve tried to remember what we’ve already harvested from or are now growing in this bed so far in 2025 in the alt text.

The point being, it’s possible to grow a wide variety of food in growing spaces at home than maybe we think we can.

This is in southern England, zone 9a with a mild winter. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Gardening #NoDig #GrownForagedHarvested

About half of a raised bed of salad vegetables alongside a house wall. The bed is netted to protect crops from pigeons and cabbage white butterflies. Various crops are growing in the beds in small quantities with constant succession and intercropping where possible in the growing year. The bed is in full sun but the path to the side is in shade. A brindle boxer dog is watching on from the shadows. In 2025 this bed has already harvested or is now growing: carrots, cavolo nero kale, scarlet kale, red mizuna, mibuna, komatsuna, Wong bok Chinese cabbage, pak choi, tatsoi, mustard greens, sage, shallots, mooli winter radish, Spanish winter radish, green luobo radish, turnips, four types of lettuce, spring onions, Welsh onions, rocambole, chives, wasabina, rocket, broccoli, red cabbage, filderkraut summer cabbage, horn of plenty, red mustard, beetroot, beetroot leaf, lovage, skirret, babington’s leek, white onion, Chinese celery, tree spinach, Chinese amaranths, basil, parsley and summer radish.

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59d

Various climbing beans are in the ground and the allotment greenhouse is planted up. With some peppers, marigolds and basil still to be added. #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #HomeGrown #NoDig #Allotment

A bed of lilac phacelia flowers and comfrey
form the border to three growing beds of climbing beans and peas within their rows of bamboo canes. Some dwarf french beans are under a white enviromesh cover. There are several plants of many varieties of beans which mostly are grown for dry storing their beans. There are three mainstay varieties of climbing french beans, two butter bean types, four heirloom varieties of climbing beans from the heritage seed library, borlotti beans, three varieties of bush beans and also carlin peas and Latvian peas.

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A greenhouse planted up with six tomato varieties, three cucumbers, aubergines and two melons. Four green ex-food waste recycling bins are now used for storing harvested rainwater at greenhouse temperature. They and a green watering can are in the centre path.

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2y

I guess I never did an intro..

Hey, I'm Tim, a Scottish Fractal/3D artist with a love of the outdoors & photographing what I find there.
Keen gardener & grower of veg, trees & shrubs.
In particular posting #fractal #Trees #Fungi #Insects #Macro #Infrared #Gardening #GrowYourOwn

A solitary twisted hawthorn on a hilltop captured in infrared making the foliage and grasses white and the scene semi black and white and slightly surreal.

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78d

Some perennials or self sown annuals that need very little work.

Also some growing beds being prepped to be planted up probably a month from now.

One bed was broadcast sown with a varied mix of a whole load of different salad and root crops. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #NoDig #Allotment #Gardening

Greenery on an allotment plot. A patch of self seeded phacelia in front, jostaberry bushes on the left and right with some tubs of sifted compost in between. In the distance is a patch of nettles, some raspberries and a greenhouse full of green manures.

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Some growing beds on an allotment in the process of being hoed and weeded. The bed on the right has had phacelia biomass chopped and dropped on it. The other beds have been cleared. Green foliage in the foreground is of finished spring bulbs being taken over by comfrey, daisies, feverfew and red clover. The beds have sawdust and wood shaving pathways.

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116d

The greenhouse full of soil blocks. It’s sow time. #GrowYourOwn #SeedStarting #SoilBlocks #GreenManures #Gardening #Allotment

An unheated greenhouse with plastic propagator trays covering a bench down one side and shelf units at the end and other side. The trays are full of soil blocks. Some have been sown, most will have smaller seed blocks transplanted into them when their seeds have germinated from warmer propagation indoors. Green manures of ryegrass and broad beans cover the greenhouse beds. Some over wintering crops are still to be harvested. Komatsuna are growing nearest the door. A brindle boxer dog is sitting inside the greenhouse looking slightly bored with the gardening antics.

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154d

Worm castings harvested for adding to the seedling potting mix. #GrowYourOwn #HomeGrown #Worms #Gardening #Allotment

Overhead view of the opened wormbox with the leave covering moved to one side. Harvested wormcasts are in a yellow trug and have been shovelled out with a mini spade which is lying next to the wormbox. Sawdust and wood shavings cover the pathways surrounding the wormbox.

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A wormbox buried in an allotment plot with a wooden lid fashioned from an old fence long ago painted blue but now faded. The worm box itself is made from pallet wood and covered wire mesh to keep wildlife out. Veg scraps and other organic matter worm food are added weekly to one side of the box. When one side is full to the top of castings the worm food is added to the other side of the box. The worms will migrate over to where the food is leaving very few worms still in the wormcast side when they are harvested.

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153d

Today was a good day. I did one of my favorite activities: making sure that the plenty from the land gets to the mouths that want to eat it (before it goes bad).

There's a lot of that that happens on the island. Harvests (whether of tangerines or fish) often bring in more than a couple people can eat, so to ensure that there's no waste, it's good to share it. Often you'll get some of whatever the other person has extra of, or they'll bring you something later once it's in season or they get a big harvest of it.

Here is some of the food I moved yesterday and today:

* 1 large durian that someone brought to gamelan practice yesterday. No one wanted it, but my pal @saltphoenix loves it, so I snagged it for her
* 1 big bag of frozen cow meat, dog grade quality. One person had too much in the freezer, and another has 3 large working dogs who would love treats made from the meat of a grass-ranging cow
* 1 dozen eggs, from @saltphoenix@kolektiva.social to the person who had the meat for her dogs
* A big bag of fresh-grown sprouts that were getting old and the person didn't want then, but I was happy to take them and turn them into stir fry
* Some tangerines and a large avocado from multiple people who brought their extras to share at gamelan practice
* Some other small items and leftovers

This is the work, comrades: making sure that the plenty gets to where it will be eaten and appreciated before it goes bad. And in addition to the gratitude I got (like some stinky-fruit-bearing Santa!), I got to try a bunch of the treats, feel good that I was not letting food go to waste, and also had an excuse to hang out and catch up with my pals. Keeping the noms circulating, and keeping the love circulating. 🥰

#food #GrowYourOwn #farming #gardening #sharing #solarpunk #offgrid #homestead #hawaii

Fruit for sharing that various people brought to gamelan practice: 2 durians, tangerines, and avocados

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Rice noodles bowl with tofu/eggplant/old sprout stir fry, tomatoes, and avocado

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1y

My tiny #avocado grove; all seedlings from store-bought avocados, all with new top growth. They really like it outside, although it's going to be tough in winter.

#gardening #growyourown

Four potted avocado seedlings, outdoors.

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324d

Choose your garden and the amount of life in it.

Even in the smallest pieces of land we can all act as wardens of life.

#nature #gardening #growyourown

Three gardens each allowing more or less biodiversity. Next to each garden various insect species are shown depending on how biodiversity friendly the garden is.

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341d

having a midday smack form the balcony.

Got 4 #cucumbers today.. going to make #tzaziki with one.

#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #SouthOfFrance #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #France #GrowOwnFood

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1y

Hey, I'm Lexi and this is an #intro post!

I'm leaning into wholesome living; #HomeCooking , #sewing , #making and #mending things, #composting and learning to #GrowYourOwn.

I'm rediscovering my love for #StarTrek and starting #gaming (#StardewValley style).

I'm wild about unicorns and love pink. Like, a lot. It's also unlikely you'll see me in anything but dungarees.

I'm late realised #ActuallyAutistic on the waiting list for a full assessment.

Alexis, a woman with bright pink hair tied back, wearing pink and white dungarees, leaning against a Triceratops behind it's frill. Behind them are trees.

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1y

Planted up some seeds today as part of learning to #GrowYourOwn.

Potatoes I planted in February and some seem to have taken - am just hoping the compost is deep enough for them.

Garlic I planted in December and again, hoping it's deep enough.

Carrots in the wellies! lol! Broccoli in a pot. Kale and extra carrots in the space the potatoes and garlic didn't take.

#Gardening

A patio with a pair of wellies, a long plastic planter, and a smaller round green pot on it. The wellies have compost in them and the words "carrots" typed on them. In the far end of the long planter are some small potato plants, the opposite side are two garlic plants. On the compost is text reading "potatoes, kale and carrots, garlic." On the compost of the small round pot text reads "broccoli."

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1y

It's frustrating how many organisations are still using Twitter to announce important info to the public. There is no way for most people to see this info! Most people aren't on Twitter, and Twitter now requires a sign-on just to view profiles.

If you want to announce stuff to the public, the only way to make sure it's visible to everyone is to use your own website, your own blog, your own social media server. Anyone with an internet connection can see them.

#GrowYourOwn #SelfHosting #Twitter

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1y

#JohnnysSeeds arrived! Now, it is time to resort all of the seed packets, new and old, from alphabetical into planting order as the time is near for some to be started. #gardening #gyo #GrowYourOwn #GrowFoodFromSeed

A cardboard box full of new seed packets from Johnny's sits on an old oak table.

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1y

This is the article that the Torygraph are trying to use to rubbish home grown food. Take home messages are: grow tomatoes (tick); grow asparagus (tick) and re-use materials (tick) #allotment #urbanagriculture #growyourown
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-023-00023-3

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1y

A touch of colour and some hopeful buds. My choices of six things to show you from my garden #SixOnSaturday Come on, I'd like to see yours too.

More on the blog:
http://www.balmerino.net/geekygarden

#gardening #flowers #growYourOwn

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1y

Hey, I'm Lexi and this is an #intro post!

I'm leaning into wholesome living this year; #HomeCooking , #sewing , #making and #mending things, #composting and learning to #GrowYourOwn.
I'm also doing a depth year of not buying new stuff but instead rediscovering and loving what I already have.

I'm learning #BSL and rediscovering my love for #StarTrek.

I'm wild about unicorns and love pink. Like, a lot. It's also unlikely you'll see me in anything but dungarees.

I'm #ActuallyAutistic.

Alexis, a woman with short pink hair and a fringe, wearing a tie dye very fluffy jumper with "keep going" on the elbow, and pink cord Lucy and Yak dungarees with a patch saying "no books on a dead planet." She is standing beside a decorated Christmas tree.

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1y

Got six things to show from your garden or someone elses? Join us for #SixOnSaturday every week. You'll find my 6 favourites from my own 'sixes' from on the blog today:
http://www.balmerino.net/geekygarden

To tempt you, here's a six from April. I love daffs.

#BloomScrolling #Flowers #GrowYourOwn

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2y

If you have a flower garden, grow veg, have an allotment, come join us by sharing six things from your garden on a Saturday. here's my #SixOnSaturday, and on my blog:
http://www.balmerino.net/geekygarden

It'd be nice to get more folks to share, so please boost.

#Gardening #GrowYourOwn #allotment #flowers #garden