https://tech.lgbt/@SunnJax/113408719030458743 SunnJax@tech.lgbt - And a more “serious” photo with wonderful autumn colors and textures. 🍁🌞
#gardening
Permaculture
I watched a brief video yesterday explaining permaculture (permanent agriculture). It was interesting but quite limited as it was fundamentally an ad for the presenter's book on permaculture.
I'll not be buying the book but I may well investigate permaculture a little further.
Just by the by, I shan't buy it because my age related enfeeblement means an hour in the garden leaves me worn out and it would take many hours to achieve the results that appear in the small garden in the video.
That's my exculpation taken care of :)
It started with a small cutting from the park next to our apartment last year.
And now it is growing into a very big and beautiful plant with lots of babies (I have cit most of them and going to use them in the hydroponic tower I am building to give to my friend in Lyon.
PS. The pot and the holder are also items I found on the street 🥳🥳
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Trying a simple abd lazy compost solution..
Had a 1m pipe I was planning to use for hydroponics that I gave up and decided to try a lazy man's compost solution.
Made a lot of holes in the first 20cm of it and pushed it into a pot I used to have a tomato plant in. Placed some mints around it and put a small pot on top to work as the cover.
Whenever I have some #vegetables left over, I put them in the pipe and I'm expecting to have good compost in it by the summer as the worms in the pot can go in an out of the holes, eating the vegetable and turn it to fertilizer.
At the same time, I am going to have unlimited minteto have for tea or salad.
I may cover and paint the pipe, or emayeb cover ot with some wood I saved from orange boxes.
#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #SouthOfFrance #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #France #GrowOwnFood #Mint #Composting
Sorry not a very good picture, but I think I have managed to cross pollinate my Habanero and Serrano peppers.
I have a hydroponic set-up in the dining room by the window since 2021, it is pretty big with 3 peppers and one flower plants.
The only problem os that is have to hand pollinate it.
I usually use a dedicated qtils for each plant, but I think I used one on the #habanero plant on the #balcony and suddenly I have a habanero looking pepper on my indoor #Serranoe hydroponic pepper plant.
It will be interesting to see how it grows and how spicy ot will get.
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A cherry tomato fell into a small pot I have and it seems to have started to germinate inside the skin of the tomato.
Kind of cool. Will keep taking pictures of it to see how it develops.
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https://mastodon.nz/@FrancescaJ/113365397367477038 FrancescaJ@mastodon.nz - First #flowers on my native geranium (perlargonium australe) grown from a cutting. They are quite small about the size of a 10c coin and such a pretty pink #bloomscrolling #gardening #canberra
Remove the #mint from the #strawberry #planter because it was choking them and was amazed how long and deep the roots were in there. I think I removed all the roots, now going to plant it in a pot isolated from everything else with a plastic bottom to prevent it from spreading.
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This is a plant that started a couple of month ago after the other cucumber plant died. I'm not sure if it's the same plant or the second seed I planted in there.
But it's getting bigger every day, now it is over 2m tall and has lots of flowers. And to my surprise, quiet a few cucumbers as well.
I just hope it stays alive and produces until my kids come for the visit during the holidays.
#Cucumbers #Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #SouthOfFrance #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #France #GrowOwnFood
I will probably have one more gathering from the Shishito & Sweet banana peppers.
At this point I won't be hungry for more until next year.
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Found an uninvited guest on my Iranian basil plant. Have to look for others because it's my only surviving plants from the summer
(It's called Reyhan, ریحان it's a special, very aromatic type of basil used in west Asia, mostly with Kebab). It als can be used as easing the itchiness of mosquito bites.
#Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #SouthOfFrance #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #France #GrowOwnFood #Baail #Bugs #PersianBasil
Schönwasserpark
in Bockum (Krefeld), Oktober 2013
#Park #natur #Bäume #Bockum #Krefeld #Niederrhein #Schönwasserpark #foto #photo #fotografie #photography
#gardening #natur #trees
I guess these are the last #jalapeno àpeppers from the outside plant.
Going to freeze them for my kids to have when they come to visit over new years holidays.
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I don't remember planting any peppers, but have 3 of these growing in different pots and this little guy has already produced a little flower.
Have no idea what kind of #pepper it is.
It will be exciting to see.
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My garden has been putting out a late season surge of Shishito and Sweet Banana Peppers. Little grape tomatoes too.
From just 3 plants, which sort of did nothing all summer. Just in the last three weeks or so I have given a couple of bags away to neighbors.
I like Shishito Peppers sauteed in a little olive oil and spices, till they blister. A nice side dish.
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Mellie smelling the freshly cut Seranno peppers from the indoor hydroponic plant.
She was curious but not interested in trying 😊😊
Going to cut and freeze them for using on pizza when the kids come to visit by new year.
#Mellie #Peppers #Seranno #Gardening #BalconyGarden #ContainerGarden #SouthOfFrance #Hydroponics #GrowYourOwn #Plants #France #GrowOwnFood
A yearly milestone has been achieved.
I dug out the compost pile and sieved about 50gal ( 190l , or .5 bathtubs according to my microsoft calculator ) of fine compost.
In the spring I will empty my raised bed planter and fill some low spots in the yard.
Then I get to make up a new planter mix from the compost and other stuff.
Now I am clear to do one last grass mow with the first autumn leaves to start a new pile.
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