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Got the last of the arugula from my community garden plot this Raturday. Some of them have gone to seeds, I’m hoping to find lots of baby arugula, come spring?! 🤞🌱🌿✨😋

#GrowYourOwn #arugula

Washed green leaves that resemble something between spinach and dandelion greens — they are on a round tray, still wet.

Used these greens from my fall greenhouse crop in tonight’s meal. On December 1st. Gardens are magical.

#GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #CanadaZone6b

A metal bowl full of different kinds of baby greens (spinach, kale, and mizuna).

Nasturtiums gallery 🌸

Apart from providing wonderful colour in a small garden, nasturtiums are the gardener’s favourite for encouraging beneficial insects into the garden…

https://kitchen-garden.be/diary/nasturtiums-gallery

#Garden #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #VegetableGarden

Bottled honey wine today. 25 750ml bottles, and 2 1.5 liter bottles.

Grapes from the 100 year old vine. Honey from the bees. 5 gallons from the grapes and 5.5 lbs of honey plus water to top it up and another 1.7 lbs of honey to back sweeten it.

It tastes pretty good actually, not dry and not sweet.

More details in the ALT.

#wine #winemaking #GrowYourOwn #mead #honeywine #homebrewing #alcohol #RedWine

A photo of 4 bottles of wine with the sun shining through them. Two large bottles in the middle are clear glass and two on either side are green glass. The sun shining through chair backs causes a striped effect. The wine is red and clear. Details of the process below.

Day 0 Pick grapes.

Day 1 smooshed grapes.

Day 10 grapes strained 5 gallons, 3.94 lbs of honey with water 1.25 gal added, and bentonite.

Racked on day 19, topped up with 1.5 lbs honey in water totaling 64 fl oz.

Day 61 racked again, FG 1.001, added sorbate and de-gassed.

Day 62 back sweetened with 1.7 lbs honey in water totaling 32 oz fl oz. and pasteurized topping up the carboy and adding chitosan.

Day 64 added some pectic enzyme to get rid of what I suspect was pectin haze.

Day 90 Bottled.

The hand-pollinated yellow pitahaya fruits are developing nicely. (The rainbows were a coincidence.)

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(Selenicereus megalanthus)

#dragonfruit #pitaya #pitahaya
#GrowYourOwn #veganic #cactus
#fruiterrarist #fruiterrarism
#rainbow #fruit #fruits #gardening
#FoodForest #FruitForest #FoodFreedom

Yellow pitahaya (dragon fruit) flower cactus sprawls its branches in three directions from atop an irregular wooden post that leans into the right side of the photo. A flower bud is visible at the tip of one branch of the cactus. Each branch has one developing fruit, and the fruit on the largest branch (in the foregrond in the upper left of the image) is turning yellow. At least two trees of Rollinia mucosa and one magenta-leafed ornamental plant are visible just behind the cactus, and various other fruit trees and other vegetation rise in the background of the image. The entire landscape is illuminated by the yellowish late-afternoon sunshine, and there is a double rainbow in the sky above.

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is A good autumn

https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/a-good-autumn/

#Allotment #Blog #Flowers #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #Perennials

A few bare aster flower stems planted in a black p[astic pot

November 29, 2025. We have an Indonesian hot sauce theme for this southern Minnesota snow day. The kitchen smells wonderful. Some of the fermented Sambal is getting a coconut and spices upgrade to become Sambal Kelapa. It’s four pint jars! The pan toasted coconut and spices upgrade is in the silver bowl. The straight Sambal is continuing to ferment in the brown crock. These recipe ideas are from #adelaide. #fermentation #minnesota, #sambal, #growyourown, #nodig, #compost

We see a luxurious orange paste in a brown crock. The wooden label handle is pointing to fiveoclock.

We are trying to see the looks of the jarred chilies and the lids. Sambal Kelapa 11-29-25 is written on the lids.

@econads There is one simple thing that took us a while to work out.

We tend to plant enough potatoes to keep us self-sufficient for around nine months of the year.

With such a lot of the same crop it makes the harvest easier if you plant seed potatoes over a period of weeks. A bed at a time.

This avoids the problem of having a garden full of potato beds that all need to be harvested and processed for storage at the same time.

#growyourown #gardening

A November 28, 2025 milestone. The shredded carrot fermentation is jarred after nine days on the countertop. The late November fermentation went well without fruit flies or bits of mold making a scene. The recipe is in the Kirsten Shockey “Fermented Vegetables” cookbook. We use this in baked savory muffins and more. It’s also a substitute for sweet potatoes as we leave sweet potato growing to other gardeners. #fermentation, #minnesota, #growyourown, #nodig, #Carrots, #Zone4b

We see two clear jars from 3/4 above. The silver lids say “Carrot Ginger 11-28-25.” We see shredded carrots in vibrant orange.

The Meyer lemons begin to ripen, little jewels on gray days.

I've found many cranberry sauce recipes call for oranges. I now always use lemons because they are getting ripe just in time for the holidays.

#gardening #FensterFreitag #GrowYourOwn

Looking in the fogged side windows of a glass greenhouse. Each window pane is tall and skinny, with pale green sides and white bird decals. While the plants inside are only partially discernable, small, bright yellow lemons on a potted tree inside the greenhouse glow through in the center of the photo. To the left is another potted tree without visible fruit and to the right more potted plants are evident. Fall leaves dot the gutter immediately above the windows.

Building a new raised bed gallery 🪚

The key point in constructing a raised bed is to ensure the overall bed is level. This is for aesthetic reasons and practical reasons…

https://kitchen-garden.be/diary/building-raised-bed-gallery

#Garden #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #VegetableGarden

I made tea from scratch!
The black actually tasted like black, just very weak. The green was a lovely soft taste, but the hojicha had a somewhat off-putting aroma.
#GrowYourOwn #Tea #BalconyGarden

The tea camellia in bloom - a creamy white five petalled flower with a million and one yellow-pollen-tipped stamen clipped tightly to a spindly woody stalk and dark green leaves.

The three teas drying - top left is hojicha (pan roasted, but still very green, starting to crumble on the edges), left is green (steamed, softer and more supply leaves), right is a very weak black (hand crushed and left to oxidise for a few days, torn and crumbly in a washed out green). Leaves resting on baking paper on a kitchen bench.

Preparing three small cups for a taste test - three small green tea cups have wire mesh baskets either leaves and hot water in them on a kitchen bench. The square glass jars with dried leaves inside and labels stuck to their silver lids sit behind - this was not a blind test.

Today's Flighty's plot blog post is One of my...

https://flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/one-of-my/

#Allotment #Blog #Flowers #GrowYourOwn

Yellow centred pink, red and white cosmos bipinnatus flowers

Slugs and Snails 🐌

Adult garden snails lay an average of 80 eggs at a time into the soil and can lay eggs up to 6 times a year. They can live for up to 6 years…

https://kitchen-garden.be/gardening-why-garden/slugs-and-snails

#Garden #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #VegetableGarden

#diy #gyo #growYourOwn #garden #gardening #sustainability #selfsufficience #selfsufficient #SelfSufficientMe

Experiment: #Howto grow potatoes in paper bags

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxSRVlZ-Mg

A very friendly former colleague of mine gave me this bundle of willow branches to use as bean stalks instead of bamboo sticks.
#gardening #allotmentlife #allotment #growyourown #nodig #nodiggardening #potager #willow #beans

A bundle of willow branches lying on a garden path at an allotment plot.

Growing beans gallery 🫘

Beans are fun to grow, tasty and a great choice for novice, expert and children gardeners. They are the ideal city garden plant as they require little space…

https://kitchen-garden.be/diary/growing-beans-gallery-1

#Garden #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #VegetableGarden

I had sort of forgotten we had this incredibly useful tool for assisting in apple processing for crisp/pie (peeling, coring, and slicing thin). It's really quite clever!

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #baking

A yellow, peeled apple attached to a metal arm is over a wooden board. The apple is still attached but is in slices and the peel lies on the board beneath. Behind is the box for the tool, called an Apple Mate 2, with a picture of the red and silver metal tool in use anf a claim that it "Quickly Pares, Cores & Slices in on easy motion!". On the left is a white bowl filled with sliced, peeled apples

#Montana - #StoneChildCollege dedicates new #FlourMill

by Tim McGonigal, Sep 24, 2025

BOX ELDER — "A flour mill nearly a decade in the making was officially dedicated at Stone Child College on the #RockyBoyReservation on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, marking a significant milestone for tribal #FoodSovereignty and health initiatives.

"Tribal and state leaders joined agricultural experts for the ribbon cutting ceremony, celebrating the completion of a project that faced several delays, including disruptions from COVID.

"#BigSandy organic farmer Bob Quinn collaborated with tribal stakeholders to secure the grant funding that made the mill possible. Quinn specializes in ancient #KamutWheat, which is now being grown on the reservation and serves as the primary ingredient for the mill's flour production.

"The flour mill represents more than just agricultural infrastructure for the community. Leaders hope the locally-produced flour will contribute to improved health outcomes on the reservation, where #diabetes and other diet-related health issues are growing concerns.

"The project demonstrates the potential for tribal communities to develop #sustainable food systems that address both economic development and public health challenges through locally-controlled #agriculture.

" 'So we're able to actually grow it, bring it in, mill it, and now we're developing the food chain around it and getting it into the schools and getting it into the commodity program and into the lodge and to the casino. Any place where there's food distribution, we should be there with our with our food. And so #Kamut flour is just, one of the value added products that we're doing,' said Jason Belcourt, #RockyBoy Sustainability Coordinator."

#SolarPunkSunday #LocallyGrownFood #FoodSovereignty #GrowYourOwn #FlourMills #TribalFoodSovereignty #Montana #BoxElderMT #NativeAmericanMonth #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NativeAmericanFoodSovereignty

Has anyone dried or otherwise preserved Cuban oregano (Coleus amboinicus)? I've found it easy to grow in pots but I some of the older plants could use some trimming back to encourage new growth. It would be nice to save the off-cuts for something if there is too much to use fresh.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn

#growyourown

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