I am retired and #gardening in #Zone4b in #Minnesota. However it was Dakota territory. I am interested in #Vegetarian cooking and #Fermentation. My interests include pollinators and native plantings, #Pollinators, #Nature, #Wildlife, #EcologicalCollapse, #ClimateChange, #Biodiversity, #Sustainability, #Rewilding, #Hummus, #Fungi, and #Mushrooms. He/him.
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Last Notes npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The plants have a wonderful start. The sunshine and hardening off shuffle is a fun responsibility. Sunshine for you and you and you. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The blend got to the hot range right quickly. #compost. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators It’s a good question about soil blocks. The ingredients and moisture can be varied to get more robust soil blocks. #SoilBlock, #gardening, #allotment, #compost npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Congratulations. Your sense of whimsy survives. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The seed packages can be sorted again and again. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The video covers organic matter, fungi, nitrogen, and regenerative agriculture. Very nice. #compost, #vermicomposting, #nodig, #gardening npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators February 6, 2026. Gardening report. Winter season pruning of our apple trees is happening. The temperature was a pleasant 1 C in southern Minnesota. There was a lot of growth during the 2025 season. Some of the waterspouts at the crown are two meters long. Pruning can be a time of zen. #gardening, #apples, #Zone4b npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators January 31, 2026. Imagine a Minnesota Attorney General investigating rouge ICE agents for human trafficking. The Minnesota concentration camps are opened. The innocent people are rescued. #iceout, #WhippleBuilding, #humantrafficking npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The conflict is everywhere. It is all the people versus all the oligarchs. Your family is bearing witness. Thank you. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Offering best wishes teaching Canadians to jailbreak the DMCA anti circumvention law. And soon please. Local right to repair is a good thing. #johndeere, #hpprinters, #righttorepair, #repaircafe npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators We love this variety. We are done shucking dried beans from the 2025 garden season. These lovely heritage beans are the Hidatsa Shield variety. The bean variety is from the Indian tribes of the Missouri River in North Dakota. The supplier is Seed Savers Exchange of Decorah, Iowa. We had hundreds of the lighter color pattern and a surprise with a few of the darker color. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #growyourown, #nodig, #gardening npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Natives are beautiful. We are growing as many varieties as we can. The idea is to have a diverse ecosystem with a seed bank. The positive thinking is that hundreds of varieties will add resilience for nature. These lovely seeds were collected from a two year old swamp rose mallow. We are doing cold moist stratification in damp sand for many native plant seeds. It is an activity that helps the soil and the pollinators. We need them. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #Zone4b, #compost, #pollinators npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Well. These eleven female runner ducks are irreplaceable as the gardening team. They forage in the vegetable garden from spring thaw to winter freeze up. Ducks and no till gardening are compatible. And in mutual aid, they share their eggs with us. #minnesota, #ducksofmastodon, #growyourown npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators December 30, 2025. The runner ducks are foraging during the mild afternoon. They are trooping through the new snow looking around the stems of the raspberries, asters, witch hazel and such. They vocalize excitement at the possibility of foraged food. This is five of eleven. Everyone has molted. They are healthy and happy the days are getting longer. #minnesota, #ducksofmastodon,#growyourown, #composting, #nodig npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Summer clearly loves beach adventures. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators December 27, 2025. The garden seeds arrived! The photograph has a few interesting varieties. Purple cabbages were successful in 2025. We will expand with the Copenhagen variety. The rocket arugula will be planted in many more spots than last year. The Suyo Long cucumbers produced all growing season. They are back. It’s a big carrot year in the spiral notebook planning. We added a summer squash for fun. And we added another Arikara bean variety. #gardening, #minnesota, #nodig, #Zone4b npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The library is a paper art champion and your alt text is too. #libraries npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for sharing all the different December compost. And your plan is to use the very best of the compost for the soil blocks for starts. The Mastodon composting enthusiasts inspired us to get buckets of compost inside before it’s frozen. This will be our third winter of this step and our second season using soil blocks for the vegetable starts. Thanks all. #compost, #nodig, #minnesota. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Yes. It’s rewarding to observe nesting in the dry stems of native plants. We do some pruning to harvest seeds and collect hollow straws. Insects often use the cut ends remaining at the plant. We observe a hole after the insects have hollowed out a cavity for egg laying. Also a plug of nesting material when they are done if we are observant. #nativeplants, #pollinators, #minnesota. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators https://files.epicure.social/epicure-social/media_attachments/files/115/579/246/351/682/862/original/673d89e998d2aaed.png npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators This pollinator has managed to survive five frosty nights in southern Minnesota. The middle of November is late to be an active Question Mark butterfly. An unripe squash, not pictured, has been gnawed by critters. This is the food source for the solo butterfly. There are habitat benefits to leaving the plants in the nodig garden nearby. #minnesota, #zone4b, #pollinators, #gardening, #compost npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Good morning. The alt text description is wonderful. The butterfly can be imagined from the alt text. Recreating the image is almost possible without seeing it. #AltText npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Good morning. It is an alt text champion butterfly. #pollinators npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The killing frost held off one more night. Thus allowing us to harvest more greens. This is lettuce, nasturtiums, and soft purple asian greens. We also harvested the last of the red onions, yellow Parma onions, and shallots. We will cover the purple cabbages as the killing frost is forecast two more times. The purple cabbages look like a success. We started cabbages from seed, potted up, planted out, and paid attention. #minnesota, #gardening, #nodig npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The simultaneous garlic harvest then seed short season crops was bountiful. This was a mastodon suggestion. The crookneck yellow summer squash and the Peking Ta Ching Kou Pai Tsai Asian Greens were great. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators That’s very nice mixed greens and browns from the tree surgeon. We placed the last of a stockpile of wood mulch around two young apple trees, a Monarch and a London Pippin. The seasons are changing to the frozen one. Frost is forecast. We are harvesting the tender vegetables. #nodig, #minnesota, #growyourown npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators October 18th. Field report. St. Peter, Minnesota held an afternoon NoKings event along both sides of the main highway. Marie Antoinette was in charge at one corner of the city park. The rest of the crowd was in free style. The supportive atmosphere led to cheering as cars honked in support. #nokings, #minnesota, #growyourown npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators You have been a wonderful steward of the old allotment plot. I can see the mycorrhiza for miles and miles. Thank you for all the old plot inspirations! #compost, #nodig, #gardening npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators October 12, 2025. We are dehydrating hot peppers. These varieties are Challeano, Georgia Flame, Maules Red Hot, Cyklon, Joes Long Red Cayenne, Hot Portugal, Wenks, and Jalapeno. We started the seeds inside on March 20th. These are Seed Savers of Iowa seeds. Their growing season continues through this week. The plants are quite robust this growing season. Thank you rains and compost. The garden is a no dig garden. #minnesota, #gardening, #fermentation, #compost, #growyourown, #rempah, #sambal npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The fresh ginger root is wonderful. Thank you to the Boulder farmers market. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators One thing leads to another. Next season you might find the spiky caterpillars. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for sharing. These are very nice photographs of a beautiful gulf fritillary. #pollinators npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators It’s nine nasturtium leaves for the Vietnamese coconut soup. The nasturtium leaves are photogenic. This is our first season gardening with nasturtium. We are sorry to be so late to the party. #gardening, #minnesota, #nodig, #growyourown, #Rempah, #nasturtium, #squash npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for sharing the sights and smells of the hike. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators I understand. Each adventure has potential. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The diving is such fun. As you know, one photograph isn’t enough. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators @npub1rgf…7ecj Yes. The Hidatsa Shield Bean are good looking beans. The backstory of these beans has the indigenous people starving. This is a common theme with the history of seed saving. They are being planted in this photograph from spring. The no dig garden was top dressed with our lumpy compost. #nodig, #minnesota npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators @npub1rgf…7ecj Vaughly nutty is just right. Your varieties are inspiring. We have a few climbing bean varieties. Cherokee Trail of Tears, Hidatsa shield, and Scarlett runner beans. The bean growing season is going well. #nodig, #compost, #minnesota npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators @npub1rgf…7ecj Congratulations. The chickpeas reproduced. And others did well. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Hello Schleswig-Holstein. It’s good to hear from you. This is our first season of these. The Ethiopian Eggplant seeds are from Seed Savers of Iowa for any research. The Solanum Aetheopicum germinated and transplanted well. The Italian Eggplant plants have borne single medium eggplants as a side by side look at the fruiting in mid August. Our gardening goal was to extend the eggplant harvest earlier into the season for more eggplant deliciousness. #gardening npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators August 17, 2025. This Ethiopian Eggplant harvest is bright orange. We have three robust plants. The eggplants are quite firm. The cookbooks are going to get a look through. Oven roasted eggplant with Tomato Kasundi is the backup recipe. #minnesota #gardening, #growyourown, #nodig, #kasundi, #eggplant npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators And the bumblebees love these blossoms. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators I love looking at the details nature is using. Its patterns in patterns. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators It’s wonderful to see the beautiful bee details. They are shiny with the naked eye. They are visible on the mountain mint blossoms this week. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators You’ve represented the day in the life wonderfully. #pollinators npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Let’s see if your grandson believes that you learned about Linux on Mastodon. Home made pop tarts are your opening to talk computer with him. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators You and Summer share a communication wavelength. Does she have a way to communicate to you, “no, try again?” npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Summer has great communication skills. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators A compost category at the fair! This is a great thing. Thank you for sharing a photograph. We are making the planet healthy, take that fossil fuel billionaires. #composting, #compost, #gardening npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators From August 1, 2025. The obedient plant is Physostegia virginiana. The plants are blooming profusely! The long flower spires develop from the bottom upward. The pollinators choose a blossom size to match their body size and climb in and out of each open flower. Therefore a variety of pollinators are present, which is good for diversity. Obedient plant spreads rapidly by rhizomes, it is aggressive that way. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #pollinators, #rewilding, #gardening, #Zone4b npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators This St. John’s Wort variety is Hypericum Prolificum. I wonder if you have the same variety. #nativeplants. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators July 27, 2025. Nodding Onion. These clumps are flourishing. We grew nodding onions from seeds two seasons ago to split and transplant. These root clumps split easily for spring transplanting. The pollinators like this variety in the habitat. #nativeplants, #pollinators, #minnesota npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators July 27, 2025. Shrubby St. Johns Wort. The bumblebees love the golden blossoms. They race across the new blossoms. How are they getting any nectar at such speed? Their pollen baskets fill up as they run. These are good plants. Oh that every yellow blossom shrub was a St. John’s Wort. #nativeplants, #pollinators, #minnesota. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for being part of the survey of the home plastic to trash. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Look at the cabbages! npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The golden alexander is a good habitat plant with early blooms. Tiny caterpillars and frass are also clues that the swallowtail was laying eggs. #pollinators. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for sharing the harvest. The first vegetables harvested are vibrant colors. #mutualaid, #growyourown. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators @npub1emv…wnhu The purslane ferment is mostly onions. Each 700 ml jar got plain salt brine. Then a heaping tablespoon of fermented garlic paste and a heaping tablespoon of fermented Rempah. The Tulsi basil plants shared dozens of leaves to add. #fermentation, #minnesota, #growyourown, #nodig. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Six new jars of raspberry jam is good. Some grandkids enjoy picking fruit and canning jam. It seems possible, however I don’t know this from direct observation. We don’t keep up either. We freeze some raspberries, aronia, blueberries to can later. Our Minnesota summer goes by fast. #growyourown npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Smudging with prairie sage is using the smoke from burning it to purify a room or person. Theoretically smudging could purify a whole county. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators June 23, 2025 southern Minnesota. The Prairie Sage seems white from the fuzzy hairs. Several stalks have ants and soft bodied life forms doing mutual aid. This is exciting to see. Prairie sage is also used for smudging. We will need a lot of smudging. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #pollinators npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The medicines are working. Summer is a natural healer. Your family lives to love. 🙏 npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators they are very cool. Prairie Turnips are underutilized native plants. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The evening sun compliments the prairie turnips on their individual artistic expressions with blossoms and leaves. These are fun little plants. The ants are present. The bumblebees have looked on but are not present. These plants were started from seed. They are not going to take over the world. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #pollinators npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Is New England getting the wind and rain because of blocking from the northerly loop in the weakened jet stream? npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators You think the family is all clear from the exposures from the hospital time… npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators May 25, 2025. The Equisetum Hyemale Affine is the one of the oldest species around. It continues to be distinctive, practical, and whimsical. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #gardening. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators May 23, 2025. We have trouble in the garlic bed, send help. A dozen consecutive plants are twisted and discolored. They were not visibly ill yesterday. The next rows are healthy at this time. The soil temperature is 55 F, 13 C. Nematodes and thrips are suspected. We sprayed three rows with neem oil this afternoon. We have a four year crop rotation. #gardening, #garlic, #minnesota, #nodig, #nematodes, #thrips. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The Flatirons are in the distance! Does a bimble have a maximum elevation change? npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Yes. Thanks for sharing views from the bimble. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The pride flag is right at home. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for gardening sharing. Do you have annual defenses to help reduce cutworm damage to the transplants? #gardening. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Wednesday April 30, 2025. Drama in the compost! The compost pile haa warmed up to 55 F (13 C). This will be the first flip of the pile since the material was covered with the fall 2024 leaves. #gardening, #compost, #minnesota, #zone4b, #growyourown, #sowbug, #centipedes, #Earthworms, #nematodes, #nodig, #allotment. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for the follow. You can follow scores of hashtags to find interesting people. Examples are, #Bloomscrolling, #LichenSubscribe, #gardening, #allotment. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Oak trees are great habitat. This one has an auspicious start. #nativeplants. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for sharing the swamp buttercup. There are more native plants to discover every season. #nativeplants. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Two fun examples are apples and onions. The dehydrated apple slices are a fine bite for us. And the dehydrated onion slices are concentrated onion flavor with a long shelf life. It’s a big year for the onions. We have been planting the onion starts out this week, at the same time we are almost out of the 2024 whole onion crop. The ferments and dried onions will last for months. #growyourown, #gardening, #minnesota. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Yes to all. Do you dehydrate any? We haven’t yet. This could be the year for more grow your own dehydrated powders. #growyourown. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Yes. The new greens of spring are good for the eyes. The rogue nettles are in the lead here, they shared their top four leaves yesterday for soup. And last week they shared leaves for a fertilizer water. Thank you Mastodon for the nettle enthusiasm. #growyourown, #nettles, #minnesota #zone4b, #gardening. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators And both of them continue collecting rain water. The allotment is looking green. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators April 20, 2025. A good gardening day. Tomatoes and basil starts were potted up. We moved back leaf mulch and added compost to the onion rows, then planted Ruby Red onions. The Yellow Parma onions were planted yesterday. The free range earthworm numbers are good. The garden has been a no dig garden for 20 years. Southern Minnesota has a forecast of 25 mm of rain overnight. #minnesota, #zone4b, #growyouown, #gardening, #nodig, #compost. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Does your hands off sign collection have anything for your Sweetie and Summer? npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Oh no. The critters are garlic curious in your area. The garlic planted in southern Minnesota stays planted. Raccoons and opossums dig up fat grubs but not garlic. The squirrels and chipmunks dig up buried treasures but not garlic. #gardening. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The Zone 5b gardening season is off to a promising start. Sprouted carrots are auspicious. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators It is a good front yard prairie storing moisture and biodiversity on the land. Thank you from the pollinators. I have wondered about fire management for native prairie. Does the mowing schedule match the burn schedule? #nativeplants, #pollinators, #prescribedfire, #gardening npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators April 12, 2025. Where we are transplanting native plants while a snapping turtle deliberately walks south feet from my feet. These three Dwarf Blazing Stars were grown from seed in spring 2024. The flower spires will be about 12 inches tall. These little plants are not going to take over the world. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #zone4b, #growyourown, #pollinators npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators An angry driver swerving the car at pedestrians is a bad business. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Yes. Adding organic materials like stalks is an ingredient to build soil. Wood ash and clay are also ingredients. I don’t know the details for wood ash. Coffee grounds are good for keeping the microbiology wide awake. The Regenerative Growers guide to Garden Amendments is a wonderful book about home made soil amendments. The book could be in the library system. #gardening npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Mastodon has great gardening enthusiasts, allotment enthusiasts, and compost enthusiasts. Following hashtags leads you to gardening around the world. #gardening, #allotment, #compost, #vermiculture, #permiculture, #growyourown. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Yes. Hello Florida. This Minnesota vegetable garden has been no dig and no till for twenty years. All the weed suppression is from harvesting lawn clippings, leaf mulch, compost, cardboard, and in recent years wheat straw poultry bedding. The earthworms eat the mulch improving the garden soil quality. The rain drops don’t directly strike the soil. It’s a good cycle. #nodig, #notill, #gardening npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The afternoon of April 4, 2025. This is a sample of what the garlic space looks like in the vegetable garden. The soil probe is eight inches into the soil. Most of the garlic is waiting for warmer soil before surfacing. These two garlic shoots have experienced freezing temperatures. This is a no-dig garden. #gardening, #minnesota, #zone4b, #garlic, #growyourown, #fermentation npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators April 2, 2025. It was planting day for the tomatoes. We held ourselves to twenty starts. These tomatoes aspire to be tasty. The soil blocks worked well. The outside world transitioned from snow covered to clear again today as last nights snow gradually melted. #gardening, #growyourown, #minnesota, #Zone4b, #tomatoes, #kasundi. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Welcome back to the action of gardening, spring 2025. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators The limited mobility will give you solidarity with disabled gardening enthusiasts around the world. It is good to have family in the botany. business. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Congratulations on gathering the sunshine in Wales for solar power while keeping bees. #solarpunk, #pollinators. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you and Ernie. We are going to make soil blocks for the first time after seeing them in action on Mastodon. The peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes starts will be our test vegetables. We have the ingredients. Though the leaf mould is not well aged. And the compost was frozen wedges. We are looking forward to the less stress potting up. #soilblocks, #gardening, #growyourow, #compost. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Congratulation on the 2025 spring gardening milestone of soil blocks! Can you share your starter mix recipe? Ernie is happy. This is his happy face. #gardening, #growyourown, #soilblocks. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators A thank you to Korean Natural Farming combining eggshell and vinegar to release the nutrients. #koreannaturalfarming, #compost. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators This is a wonderful raised garden. It’s wonderful aspen and willow weaving and tree of heaven Hugelkultur. Thank you for sharing the sequence of building the raised bed. #gardening, #hugelkultur, #compost, #growyourow. npub1c6r9qpz9u5g736r40wl5n8kq36c0603cqyy422qplfykzd3qqdnqs3q724 Pollinators Thank you for 65 years of homegrown blueberries. That’s inspiring.
