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A few stragglers of asparagus pop up in our garden beds occasionally from Dave’s first attempt at growing them. We welcome every one. Wonderful flavor fresh out of the ground. #asparagus #garden #gardeners #gardenblog #gardenbloggers #homemadefoodjunkie #foodie
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Pickles and cukes growing up Dave’s double trellis. He’s always planted tomatoes here. The cukes like it too. And the volunteer nasturtiums always grow around wherever they want. #homemadefoodjunkie #gardenbloggers #gardenlife #gardenblog #trellises #verticalgarden #greenhouselife #greenhouses #cukes #foodie
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Opening day at Pacific NW Growers. Kayti and I did a flower run. A bit poorer in $ but much richer in vibrant Spring colors soon at our house. #flowershopping #gardenblog #plantingsoon #containergardening
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And LOOK!! I was sure the oak leaf hydrangeas died in the winter storms. Not a sign of life. All dead. But today Dave found new shoots! Happy days!! #oakleafhydrangeas #garden #gardeners #hydrangeas #homemadefoodjunkie #gardenblog
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Dave is getting our garden started! We are ready for garden fresh veggies. How bout you? Want to start a garden? Now’s the time. #homemadefoodjunkie #gardeners #gardenblog #foodies #foodiesoul #foodie #gardenliving #gardenlifestyle
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Hello tiny tree. So happy our baby Magnolia tree is going to bloom soon. It survived our winter when other bushes didn’t. We lost our two oak leaf hydrangeas for sure. Looking forward to years of lovely spring blooms with this lil one. How did your garden get through winter this year?#homemadefoodjunkie #gardeners #springwatch #magnoliatrees #instagardener #gardenblog #gardeninglove
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We transplanted the clematis vine again. Poor thing it’s been moved three times in the last four years. Dave built it a concrete container wall to keep it moist and the roots cool. We hope it loves climbing on the garden fence on THIS side of the garden better that the other. #garden #gardenwork #transplantingtime #clematisvine #homemadefoodjunkie #gardenblog #gardenblogger #instagardener #instagardenlovers
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Our Concord grape vine all pruned and prepped for the growing season. Which is just around the corner it seems. Makes the best grape juice!! #homemadefoodjunkie #homegrown #healthyfood #grapevine #concordgrapevine #garden #gardening #instagardeners #instagardens #winterchores #wintergardenchores #gardenblog #gardenbloggers
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Fellow gardeners please read!
I am extremely interested in pursuing career and/or education dealing with plants. It’s my most central passion, but I’ve had such a hard time trying to figure out what I can do to follow through with it.
My biggest goal is to be able to own my own business in the future, but for now I was wondering if there were any specific degrees or practices or any other educational paths that would be worth my while. I would like to stay out of large agricultural or landscaping businesses if possible. I also just wanna be cool and have a title I’m proud to tell people.
TL;DR: please decide my future in gardening for me.
One of my favorite ways to preserve produce from the garden. Might be the lazy option, but they keep their bright colors even in the middle of winter and that makes me happy.
Also that blackberry drawer is deep. Baked a few pies already and there are still enough for a many more.
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Speaking of things that taste better once frostbitten: onions. Especially the red ones. We grow onions that last us almost all year round and we always put the crates we store them in outside for a few nights of light frosts. The harsh bite of the raw onion goes away almost completely and they get so much sweeter.
Look how big the blackthorn berries are this year. I picked these a couple of weeks ago and while the weather was warm and gorgeous that day, they were frostbitten just right. Sweet and barely astringent anymore. Perfect.
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I had a couple of hours to go to the orchard on Sunday and I was lucky, the weather was perfect. It was raining when I left the city, but by the time I turned on the road to the orchard, the clouds started clearing and there was a rainbow over the creek across from us.
The garden is now empty and ready to be tilled. Can’t take credit for anything there though, my dad cleaned it up all on his own. All I did this autumn was cut the grass a couple of months ago.
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A little photo collage to recap 2021 and remind myself that even though this fall wasn’t what I wanted, it wasn’t a bad year overall.
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Work has been brutal lately so I missed the apple-picking season. And every other harvest this month, actually. I thinks it’ll be a few more weeks until I’ll have the time to get back there and by then all that’ll be left to do will be the end of season clean-up. Not really the autumn I expected.
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Finally harvested these tomatoes after putting it off for over a week.
I really don’t feel like dealing with them though, so I’ll give some away and put the others as they are in the freezer.
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My daily snack of blood peaches, kinda look like beets :) They’re bigger and the color is darker and more vibrant than last year and I love it. Wouldn’t mind if they’d get better with each year, as the tree continues to mature.
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It wasn’t a good year for cauliflower & broccoli. I planted so many and this is one of the only 2 purple cauliflowers that actually produced any heads. A while back I also harvested 3 regular white ones, but no broccoli.
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My biggest luffas this season. Still nowhere near starting to dry, but I’ve peeled plenty of green luffas last autumn and they lasted just as well so I’m not worried about it.
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Harvested the potatoes last Wednesday and I wanted to document it here, because it’s been a long time since we last had potatoes this small. We’ve been lucky, there were a few years when our neighbors had pretty bad harvests and we didn’t, so I guess it was bound to happen to us as well. It’s been a cold and weird year and they didn’t get to mature properly.
Also had to harvest the volunteer sunflowers that popped up among the potato rows.
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Planted my dahlias today. This is my second year growing dahlias and somehow I ended up with 28 varieties. Ooops.
They did so well last year, even in a shaded spot. This season I’m giving them full sunlight, can’t wait to see them in full bloom.
Eggs dyed with red onion skins and decorated with plants gathered from around the garden.
It’s Easter for us tomorrow so I spent my evening doing this. It’s been years since I took the time to decorate them as well, but it was so much fun. I wish I could have dyed more, but I ran out of eggs :)
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Blood peach and cherry blossoms blended together. There’s a bit of a slope between them, still, the blood peach grew so much. Was planted around 5 years ago, while the cherry around 10. And I remember the day I planted both. I wasn’t serious about either of them, figured it wouldn’t hurt to give them a try and look where we are now.
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I have yet to sow my tomatoes outside in the greenhouse, but I did till and rake the garden in preparation for planting them.
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