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ysabetwordsmithThese pictures are from the left side of the Charleston Food Forest. See Part 1 Right Side.
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ysabetwordsmithToday we visited the Charleston Food Forest. I took pictures and rescued some plants that were growing in the paths so they don't get trampled. These pictures are mostly from the right side. See Part 2 Left Side.
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Photos: New Rocks
Mar. 15th, 2025 09:30 pmysabetwordsmithToday I planted most of my new rocks! \o/ I'm waiting to sink the pink mica rock until I get a second one to point the other direction along the road, to catch headlights from both ways.
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Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Mar. 12th, 2025 11:50 pmysabetwordsmithContinuing the photo tour of the yard, most of these are from the savanna and prairie garden.
See all of today's photography posts:
Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Photos: Back Toward the House
Photos: Garden Shed
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See all of today's photography posts:
Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Photos: Back Toward the House
Photos: Garden Shed
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Photos: House Yard and South Lot
Mar. 3rd, 2025 03:15 amysabetwordsmithThese pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight so the timestamp will say Monday. See the savanna and house yard.
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moonhareOur daffodils are beginning to emerge! Today I got outside and raked away the leaves covering the flower bed, and tidied up around the pups’ graves.
Flower bed close up. Icy!
Pups’ rest, before and after pics. If you enlarge the ‘after’ you can see the daffodils emerging at the foot of the grave on the right.
It was a lovely beginning to March - temp was 50°F today, but it will be ~11°F in the morning.
Flower bed close up. Icy!
Pups’ rest, before and after pics. If you enlarge the ‘after’ you can see the daffodils emerging at the foot of the grave on the right.
It was a lovely beginning to March - temp was 50°F today, but it will be ~11°F in the morning.
Photos: Savanna and Prairie Garden
Jan. 6th, 2025 11:37 pmysabetwordsmithHere are more pictures, mostly from the savanna and prairie garden. (See also the House Yard and South Lot, Midwinter Grove, and Heading Back Toward the House.)
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Photos: Testing Pens on Plant Labels
Jan. 3rd, 2025 08:10 pmysabetwordsmithThis set of photos begins documenting an experiment to see which type of pen will prove most durable for outdoor plant labels. I also took a few pictures around the yard, as long as I was out there with the camera.
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Photos: Hollies Planted
Dec. 21st, 2024 09:47 pmysabetwordsmithFor our Yule ritual this year, we planted our new hollies in the Midwinter Grove.
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American Meadows Order
Dec. 15th, 2024 11:56 pmysabetwordsmithI just found out that American Meadows has a 20-25% off sale going, so I scrambled to make my order. I usually do it in January. This place has some of the best native plants, although they also have some garden flowers like gladioli and peonies. It's worth a look early if you're into wildlife gardening or flowers. They have a lot of hard-to-find plants.
Landrace Gardening
Dec. 11th, 2024 05:23 amysabetwordsmithHere's a PDF of all the Lofthouse articles on landrace gardening. \o/ Go save the world.
Poem: "Earthlove"
Nov. 18th, 2024 11:02 pmysabetwordsmithThis is the free poem for the November 2024 ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from fuzzyred. It also fills the "green / yellow" square in my 11-1-24 card for the Sleepytime Bear Bingo fest. This poem is about autumn and gardening.
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crowdfunding Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from fuzzyred. It also fills the "green / yellow" square in my 11-1-24 card for the Sleepytime Bear Bingo fest. This poem is about autumn and gardening.( Read more... )
Permaculture Around the World
Nov. 17th, 2024 09:32 pmysabetwordsmithI got to talking with a friend about permaculture in Great Britain and it kind of snowballed from there...
These are permaculture design principles. They can help figure out how to build a mini-ecosystem.
Here is a handbook for Midwest North America tree guilds. Some of these, like oak and ash, will grow in many parts of the world; and a fruit tree guild can be customized for anywhere.
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These are permaculture design principles. They can help figure out how to build a mini-ecosystem.
Here is a handbook for Midwest North America tree guilds. Some of these, like oak and ash, will grow in many parts of the world; and a fruit tree guild can be customized for anywhere.
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Photos: New Shed
Nov. 6th, 2024 11:46 pmysabetwordsmithOur new garden shed arrived today! :D 3q3q3q!!! I'm so excited. It's made by Everlast, which has distributors in a bunch of places around central Illinois.
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Photos: House Yard
Nov. 2nd, 2024 10:36 pmysabetwordsmithToday I took some pictures around the yard. These are images from the house yard.
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Intro Post
Aug. 16th, 2024 02:22 pmnsfwordsName: nsfwords aka Brandy
nsfwords aka BrandyLocation: Mid-Michigan. Recently updated to USDA hardiness zone 6a.
Lot size: 0.40 acres of land in the suburbs, which is quite a change for this farm girl from the thumb. But, the yard backs up into an 8 acre county drainage ditch park, with a paved nature trail, so it's like I bought the woods for free!
I garden by "yard" - as in I've broken my land into vague chunks or areas, named them all, and now I'm doing different things with each one. Let me introduce you to my yards! Pic heavy post to follow:
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Scurrilous Website
Jun. 18th, 2024 07:59 pmmoonhareI worried that the garden supplies site I ordered from was a scam. But I found no negative comments online, it was an https site, it had a decent privacy section among all of its boilerplate policies, and it took PayPal: I trust PayPal for protection.
It was the great price for the item (a crop cage for my blueberries) that was borderline suspicious: not ‘too good to be true’ but so close. ‘Click click’ and I thought “Nice, I’ll get this in a week or so.”
The order confirmation was eyebrow raising, without site letterhead, the payee was an individual and not ‘the site,’ and I was *sigh* “Let’s see how this pans out.”
Cutting to the chase: after not getting any responses to my multiple inquires, over time, concerning the order progress, I submitted a claim against the site to PayPal, and PayPal refunded my $98 within minutes. Damn!
Thank you, PayPal. FU gardencheapest dot com!
It was the great price for the item (a crop cage for my blueberries) that was borderline suspicious: not ‘too good to be true’ but so close. ‘Click click’ and I thought “Nice, I’ll get this in a week or so.”
The order confirmation was eyebrow raising, without site letterhead, the payee was an individual and not ‘the site,’ and I was *sigh* “Let’s see how this pans out.”
Cutting to the chase: after not getting any responses to my multiple inquires, over time, concerning the order progress, I submitted a claim against the site to PayPal, and PayPal refunded my $98 within minutes. Damn!
Thank you, PayPal. FU gardencheapest dot com!
Photos: Cicadas
May. 14th, 2024 11:42 pmysabetwordsmithCicadas are hatching! I've seen a few hatch earlier, but this morning after the rain there are lots of them. The biggest concentration is around the forest garden and edges of the patio. :D These are red-eyed cicadas, technically periodical cicadas. Their carapaces are almost hard, their wings fully extended but still too soft to fly. It's a feast for everything that eats insects. Humans can eat them too. (I'm not planning to try that.) Usually what we get here are various types of the larger green cicadas, like the dog-day cicadas.
For maximum birdwatching benefits, keep an eye out on mornings after a rain. Once the nymphs shed their shells, they are soft and vulnerable. Many birds eagerly feast on them.
See also the poem "The Flying Jewels of Spring."
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For maximum birdwatching benefits, keep an eye out on mornings after a rain. Once the nymphs shed their shells, they are soft and vulnerable. Many birds eagerly feast on them.
See also the poem "The Flying Jewels of Spring."
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