#gardening

#ThreeGoodThings

• I saw a blue fairy wren yesterday! It's quite unusual to see them in town, so it felt like a real gift

• the mulberries are starting to turn! Now let's see if the birds leave some for us when they're ripe

• friends who care and ask about the things they know are challenging you, even when they're facing their own challenges

#nature #friendship #gardening

new feature that lets me filter by the seeds i bought and then never planted because i'm terrible like that. #gardening

#macro #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #fallcolors #autumn #photography

As we creep up on the end of the year, I'm creating an #introduction post because .. apparently I didn't have one :) I'm Dawgeth aka Matt. I'm a husband, dad, software architect, engineering manager, tinkerer, gamer, and generally curious person who has a hard time leaving well enough alone. A few things you'll find me talking about: #Technology - Software architecture, engineering, automation, and figuring out how things work. #Linux - Self-hosting, homelabs, open source, and running services just because I can. #Gaming - Steam, GOG, Xbox, and more .. I bounce around a lot! #Programming - Building little projects, experimenting with new ideas, and occasionally turning a five-minute problem into a weekend project. #Politics - Hanging out on the left, progressive, interested in local government, civic engagement, and making things a little better for everyone. #Community - Building spaces where people feel welcome, whether that's online, in the neighborhood, or around a table. #Makers - Small business adventures, creative projects, crafting, and supporting people who make things with their hands. #Gardening - Growing food, learning as I go, and maintaining the illusion that I know what I'm doing in the garden. #Family - A big family, a busy household, and plenty of reasons to appreciate the little things. I'm a firm believer that curiosity is a pretty good way to spend a life. I have too many interests, too many projects, and probably too many browser tabs open. Happy to meet new people, exchange ideas, talk shop, or just enjoy the occasional bit of internet nonsense. Here's to another year of figuring things out!

Leaf mold is an excellent additive to plant beds and pots. It can be used as a potting medium, either on its own or in a mix by adding other elements like perlite, vermiculite, peat moss–based potting soil, sand, etc. Obviously it’s wonderful to make your own potting medium, from both a financial and a footprint-reduction and peatlands-conservation perspective. Plus, it’s great fun and not much work. #gardening #rewilding #fall

I am @rjg@tech.lgbt on Pixelfed if anyone wants to try out decentralised instagram with me. I will likely post #veganfood and #recipes, and day in my life type stuff which is app dev, #cooking, #gardening, and #nature. https://pixelfed.social/rjg #Pixelfed #introduction

Hello, I'm Manda. I've actually been on Mastodon for a while under my cross stitch business account, @infinitybear@mastodon.infinitybeardesigns.com, but I wanted to be able to post more casually, so that's what this account is for! Aside from cross stitch, I enjoy cooking, gardening, reading, making open source indie games, and I'm just starting to get more into poetry. I'll mostly be trying to post or boost joyful or cozy things I come across or make. #introduction #CrossStitch #PlantBased #GameDev #Gardening #Books #Art #FediArt #MastoArt #PixelArt

Water is indeed life. I uncovered the banana olla so I could refill it and for the first time, noticed it crawling with life. The roots of the sweet potato vine have crawled inside the neck and the exterior is spotted with fungi. How awesome to see this clay #irrigation pot integrating itself into the environment. #OllasByOsa @gardening@fedigroups.social #gardening

Israel is not just committing genocide of people but also cultural and ecological genocide. 90% of Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed in the last few years, farms and livelihoods destroyed. A network of Palestinians and allies seeks to preserve Palestinian heirloom seeds and cultural heritage. See below to support this group, order seeds, raise awareness and offer to be a seed saver. https://www.palestineheirloomseedlibrary.com/ #solarpunksunday #solarpunk #gardening #garden #jardin #garten #Palestine

Our #olive tree meant business this year and produced a single olive! 🤯 It's one of those mini trees with a slim trunk, in a pot. We were given it as a house-warming gift when we moved here and two years ago, we thought we'd killed it. We basically shaved its head as a last-ditch attempt to revive it and voilà, a few months later, it came back! I should probably prune it in spring to keep it going. #FrüchteFreitag #FruitFriday #Olivenbaum #oliveTree #olives #Oliven #Garten #gardening

#3goodthings

1. Drafted an introduction to my memoir about #gardening.

2. Bonded with some fellow shoppers at the supermarket, all of us looking for deals. #Affordability

3. My kids are really excited about their weekend flea market events, where they are selling beautiful #plants in beautiful pots (or in nursery containers if that the is the customer’s preference).

New instance, new #introduction! Hi, I'm Rudie. I'm just outside Richmond, VA and I love #plants and #gardening! I work at a local plant nursery, love to play guitar, travel, karaoke with friends, and do landscape photography. I've been active in several local groups like Sunrise and the Richmond chapter of DSA. Proudly progressive and socialist!

Phone refuses to identify this banger of a flower Kind of looks like a hybrid of a muppet and a dragon fruit? #BloomScrolling #Gardening

BREAKING NEWS! 🚨😂 A chicken has officially claimed my shoulders as its permanent residence! 🐔😭 Should I charge rent or just accept my new boss? 🤣👇 #funny #poultry #birds #gardening #farming #agriculture #photography #mastodon #Fediverse #linux #biodiversity #environment #Sustainability #Caturday #Monsterdon #nature #chicken

First post, so let’s start with the obvious: our spaces should support the lives we’re actually living. Sometimes that means too much stuff has to go. Sometimes it means the space needs more life—food, soil, learning, people. That’s why I started Common Ground. We help with everything from organizing and estate liquidation to Home Grown gardens and youth programs. So—who else still plays in the dirt? #Introduction #Oregon #Gardening #FoodResilience

Fledgling crows: Day 35. Only random sightings of the gruesome twosome this week. The parents are keeping them on the go, flying and foraging. Itchy gets tired of waiting for a parent to come by with a snack but Dozy seems content to sit in one spot until the lunch wagon appears. No idea if this happens with crows, but Dozy behaves in a less developed way than Itchy. Itchy is almost a full-fledged crow but Dozy is either under-developed or just plain lazy. #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Gardening

I wanted to add an interesting note about the gruesome twosome: both of them are leucistic, that is, they both have some pure white feathers on the undersides of their wings. That's how we've been able to tell them apart from the adults, there's a flash of white each time the youngsters spread their wings. https://corvidresearch.blog/2014/07/09/crow-curiosities-what-causes-white-feathers/ #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Gardening

Gardening In Small Spaces "Every tiny patch of wildlife-friendly garden is one more link in the chain. Your pot of marigolds on your window-sill could be just the right pitstop for a passing bee. Your front door rosemary bush could be exactly what those ladybirds were waiting for. Your bare concrete yard could be transformed with just a few planters and ponds." https://mycoronationgarden.org/gardening-small-spaces #SolarPunkSunday #WildLife #Gardening #Nature #BioDiversity

#SilentSunday #harvest #gardening #stilllife #photography

The up side of #Gardening: at some point, you get a bunch of food that is fleeting in its longevity, but better than any you eat the rest of the year, all things considered. The down side: Sometimes they need to be processed quickly, and sometimes the whole day that it takes to, say, turn a bunch of fresh picked peppers into a bunch of Chiles Rellenos, arrives on the same day that for instance is your first day with a new music tool that you ordered and paid for almost a year ago and is finally here, a Behringer XR-18 specifically, which is here to end all of my headaches with playing live. Oh, I need to route the 58 through the outboard reverb and out, while the harp mic goes through my amp modelling device and a verb/echo, while the guitar switches between the piezo pickup and the electric ones? (push button) Let's do it. But even though I've done my C reading and gotten some outdoor cleanup/winter prep done and could now theoretically head out to the studio and start making plans about what sort of box I'm gonna tote my whole musical world around in from now on my other hobby has these peppers sitting around getting wrinkly and the only recipe I can think of is Chiles Rellenos, which is just a wild amount of work. You have to blister the peppers then let them steam while they cool, and meanwhile you have to roast your tomatoes and get your sauce ready which is a whole other afternoon-long ordeal I swear, even the youtube guy I'm following for this, he pauses halfway through and points out that what Usians pay for this dish at restaurants is, well, it basically amounts to labour theft. He didn't say that, but this is a lotta friggin work this anyways after the peppers have steamed and cooled, you gotta do some fuckin surgery on the fuckers, scoop out all the seeds and slimy innards, all being careful to save your stem to grab onto later, just enough slit to push all that cheesykaysow in there, and then, you're basically fuckin Jame Gumm at this point, you seal em back up with a skewer so they hopefully stay shut. Then do you bread these maybe, dip em in a nice batter? FUCK NO YOU DAMN DIRTY APE We're making a fuckin meringue is what we're dipping those tasty garden fresh little bastards in, and then we're deep frying those little fuckers real good, cause fuck you that's why. I feel like everyone should have to do this once, before they're allowed to order Chiles Rellenos in restaurants. I just finished blistering them on the bbq, they are now steaming together in a glass bowl with a plate over em. They all died with an awful sound. Strongly considering skipping the deep fry aspect, and instead preparing some sort of rice/meat/cheese filling to put in em, and they can then be roasted again with more cheesykaysow I feel like I'm letting myself down if I don't go all the way. I wonder if there's an air fryer way to do these, I totally don't mind the idea of doing a couple at a time on the counter, but I try to refrain from putting a lot of greasy vapour in the air so if I was gonna go deep fry it'd be out by the garage. The deep frying being another thing I need to build some sort of easily draggable box/grease catching undercarriage for...