Would you like to pick up some heirloom seeds for seasonal presents? How about choosing from a whole bunch of local artists with unique gift ideas? Join us for Focus Fair this Saturday & Sunday at the Spill Cafe! For more information & links to the artists websites, check out our facebook event or follow […]
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Last Big Harvest – November
loads of carrots, some romanesco, cabbage, herbs & kale romanesco growing up. this sight made me oh so happy purple cabbage and fall leaves. gorgeousand delicious carrots
Late Fall Tomato & Pepper Harvests
Despite many september frost warnings, and October touches of frost, tomatoes continued to ripen on my table well into mid-November lots of peppers picked green ripening beautifully on my coffee table hot peppers: bulgarian carrot, jalapenos, and garden sunshine gorgeous peppers ripening in fall sunshine lots of basil! it’s off to the Night Kitchen […]
More carrots!
gorgeous carrots freshly pulled from my Lift Lock Community Garden plot x-large super carrot! so beautiful and huge no caption needed really this is what diversity looks like & why i grow heirloom pickled carrots
greens & lettuce growing seeds
beet seeds growing red romaine bolting, will flower soon & create seeds mustard seed pods about to fill with seeds coriander putting out lots of seeds drunken frizzy headed woman lettuce putting out tonnes of flowers from which will come lots of seed speckled lettuce bolting & creating seeds
Seed Saving – Greens, Flowers & Herbs
Seeds from greens and herbs are found in the flower heads. They will produce flowers at the end of the season. At a certain point, you may need to stop picking the food to allow the plant to flower. Once the plant has flowered, it will start to brown. It looks like it is dying […]
Weird & wonderful summer squash
lemon squash forming fruit – tastes just like yellow zucchini, but in a cute round package Yugoslovian finger fruit squash. one of the coolest looking veggies I have grown Squash blossoms getting pollinated
late July seed garden photos
can’t stop photographing this gorgeous drunken frizzy headed woman lettuce. Can’t wait to add it to my urbantomato 2014 seed collection First sunflower. I love having flowers mixed into my seed garden. Sometimes I collect the seeds, sometimes I love the beauty they add, and I always love that they attract pollinators mammoth purple cabbage […]
summer in the seed garden
garden plan basil is getting big & smelling great! Despite getting a late start in getting everything planted. things are growing like gang busters in the seed garden. i am trying to grow some exciting new things this season. growing five new types of lettuce for seed and working on an artichoke growing experiment. lots […]
Peppers
I picked a whack of peppers in anticipation of a cold weekend!
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