GardenSelfie

Apartment Gardening: Plants, Projects, and Recipes for Growing Food in Your Urban Home | Amy Pennington

No safe way to take a #GardenSelfie when your plants are on the other side of your balcony railing, so this will have to do! Left basket is green onion bulbs from our CSA that we replanted; right basket is flower seeds that were our library Summer Reading Program sign up gift!

#SummerFun @StayCurious @4thhouseontheleft

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jenniferw88

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This probably won't count, but I wanted to make you laugh! Here's my #gardenselfie - I'm growing a cat! 😂😂😂

#summerfunbucketlist @4thhouseontheleft @StayCurious

Erofan 😂 4y

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VeganCleopatra

House Plants | John Brookes

#GardenSelfie #SummerFun

This is a view of my laundry room. I couldn't decide what to share so I decided to share some of my houseplants in addition to my previous garden photo. This is a small part of my indoor plant collection, with more propagating on the washer. 😬

StayCurious, alisiakae

That-Bookish-Hiker Your plants! 😱😍😍 they are so beautiful! I have a few indoor plants. I‘ve used up all my window sills for books and plants and have no more room lol. 4y

sprainedbrain Oh I love this! What a great room. ❤️ 4y

Hufflepuffle I have serious plant envy 💚😍💚 4y

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VeganCleopatra @That-Bookish-Hiker Thanks! You'd be surprised how you can continually find more spots for plants...I've thought I had no room so many times. 😏 Don't you worry your books will get bleached on the windowsill? 4y

VeganCleopatra @sprainedbrain Thank you! Makes laundry a bit more tolerable! 4y

VeganCleopatra @Hufflepuffle Ha, thanks. If it helps, they're all a bit needy and sometimes I wonder why I have so many only to then...propagate more. 😆 4y

julesG Just seeing this. This is great! I love propagating plants and finding new spots for the babies. 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG Thanks! They're finally in soil homes and will hopefully handle the transition. What plants do you like to propagate? 4y

julesG Mainly succulents, the ones with the funny names: gollum, hulk, etc. And spider plant and pilea. I try to get orchids to bloom again, with mixed results though. Found some sanseviera in the organic waste bin the other week. My neighbour had just dumped them, so I took three of the plants in. They seem to be doing fine. Would love to have really full shelves like yours, but my cats are doing research on the law of gravity too often. 😬 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG Ah cats, hadn't considered that. I may be in for a rude awakening when I hopefully adopt a cat in the next few years (I currently live where cats are not allowed and miss having them terribly). I just won't think of the potential disasters right now. lol Your neighbor threw out perfectly good snake plants? How sad. Kudos for the rescue. I think most pilea hate me? Ha. 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG And my husband is into succulents but I don't feel like we have enough light. I do love their look but I often struggle with them getting leggy. And spider plants! I have so many...they just never stop reproducing no matter how often I do birth control in time. I complain but they're so easy to take care of so 🤷‍♀️ 4y

julesG Cats take care of birth control with spider plants. At least my cats do. They eat the young plants. Now that I'm typing this, it sounds rather cruel. My neighbour had a whole flower box full of snake plants and threw 2/3 out. I could never throw out perfectly healthy plants that's cruel. She has agreed to let me take in any unwanted plants she might own in the future. 😁 Succulents seem to need lots of light, but I have a few that thrive in... 4y

julesG "darker" corners. I also managed to grow coffee out of three unroasted beans I snagged from the floor of an artisan coffee roasting café. I thought my pilea hated me, but then I gave her a larger pot and a place with direct sunlight in the evening only and it exploded with leaves. I also fertilise only once a year in spring and use organic fertiliser for herbs and vegetable plants. I'll take a few pictures of my plant hospice for you. 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG Lol I hadn't thought of the fun a cat could have with the spider babies. It sounds like you'll be getting future plants then. I wonder what they'll be? 😏 When I spoke of the succulents I was thinking of the ones my husband always brings home but I do have a section that I always keep under a plant light that like me (string of dolphins, pearls, buttons etc). But some are super finicky. (edited) 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG How clever to think of doing that from the coffee shop. I don't know if I should mention that to my husband, he loves trying things like that and then I have to find places to keep them. Ha. Changing my pilea pot did help but she's in morning light...she's definitely happier but could be moreso. I wonder if they actually prefer your light. I actually have other pilea species, like baby's tears, that love me...so there's that? Ha. 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG BTW loved the photos! Thanks for sharing. Oh and regarding your coffee beans...did they all sprout and grow? How long did they take? 4y

julesG The coffee beans took ages. It works best with freshly harvested coffee cherries or green beans. The beans I had were not fresh off the tree. I soaked them in water for a day, then planted the beans in a mix of sand and pumice. Keeping the soil moist is important, but excess water must be able to drain off. 4y

julesG They didn't all sprout and grow. I have 2 plants. They were close to dying about two months ago. The climate is not ideal for coffee. Too cold and dark (inside the house) in winter, too hot and too harsh sunlight in summer. But I enjoyed the experiment. 😊 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG So sorry for the delay! Interesting! I really wouldn't have thought they would have worked from a coffee shop at all. I totally get the experiment part...that's the part I think my husband likes the most too. We've tried tons of different tree and fruit seeds over the years just to see how it goes. We've been trying to grow aspens for years from seed but they are so stubborn. 4y

julesG No worries. I should say, I was in Hamburg in a shop situated in the still active warehouse district. So they have truly green beans fresh off the cargo ship. I'd probably have a harder time with green beans from the coffee shop around the corner. My next experiment is ginkgo. I know where there are a few trees that will have seeds in autumn. (ginkgo trees in bloom smell awful BTW, the total opposite of coffee trees in bloom). 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG I haven't smelled a ginkgo tree in bloom I don't think. How would you describe the smell? 4y

julesG Like rotting butter. It's the female trees and it's the fruit that stink, not the flowers. Did not want to badmouth the flowers. The fruit are small round fruit that give off the smell. 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG hmmm, does rotting butter smell like soured milk? 4y

julesG Worse! 4y

VeganCleopatra @julesG 😬 4y

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VeganCleopatra

Gardeners' World Vegetables for Small Gardens | Lynda Brown

#GardenSelfie #SummerFun

Part of our garden...mostly veggies.

StayCurious, alisiakae

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cwarnier

Summer of '69 | Elin Hilderbrand

#gardenselfie indoor garden
#summerfun
@StayCurious @4thhouseontheleft
I know this was for last week, sorry I am a bit behind.

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BarbaraBB

Valentine | Elizabeth Wetmore

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Rust, dust, poverty, church, heat, racism, and oil. That is Odessa, Texas in a nutshell. It‘s the 20th century, men rule, girls get pregnant, nothing changes. But this is is the story of some strong women who stand up for themselves, against tradition and bigotry, who change things a little bit.

All ingredients are there for a very good book and most people do love it but somehow it didn‘t do much for me. Between a pick and a so-so

Cuilin, StayCurious, alisiakae, caittfin

BarbaraBB
#LitsyBitsy #WildAnimal
#Summerfun #OnASummerReadingGuide #Summerfunbucketlist #Gardenselfie 4y

sisilia Intriguing.... 4y

StayCurious What a nice summery picture though 🤗 4y

readordierachel Great review. And I love this cover. 4y

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vlwelser

Gardenista: The Definitive Guide to Stylish Outdoor Spaces | Michelle Slatalla

I love plants. I try really hard to keep them alive. This is a spring cactus. It's having a tantrum because it got repotted. It's actually about 10x bigger than when I bought it about a year ago.

#summerfun #summerfunbucketlist #gardenselfie
@4thhouseontheleft @StayCurious

StayCurious Reminds me of my garden 🐛 4y

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Hufflepuffle

Vegetables: A Biography | Evelyne Bloch-Dano

This is my #gardenselfie for #Summerfun 💚
Two veggie patches, a strawberry patch, a rhubarb patch, herbs and tomatoes. I am super lucky and have a side garden and a large back garden, but this bit is my happy place 🥬🍅🍓🥕🌱

StayCurious, alisiakae

TheAromaofBooks I love your garden!! 4y

MemoirsForMe Your garden is beautiful! 4y

Hufflepuffle Thank you @TheAromaofBooks and @UwannaPublishme 😊 4y

Mitch Love your garden ♥️ 4y

Hufflepuffle @mitch Thank you 😊 4y

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Mitch

Grow All You Can Eat In Three Square Feet: Inventive Ideas for Growing Food in a Small Space | DK

We‘ve used the tagged book lots to try to squeeze lots into our little veg plot. We‘re only doing small batches of lots of things - tonight the freshly harvested purple beans and radishes are taking centre stage 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Catherine_Willoughby Too late to start my garden project for Summer. I hope to start later on. Love this 4y

Leftcoastzen So beautiful! I bet the results are worth the hard work. 4y

Bookwormjillk Beautiful and I love your greenhouse. 4y

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Chrissyreadit 😍😍😍😍 4y

rockpools That looks wonderful! 4y

robinb Gorgeous...so healthy looking! 👏👏👏👏 4y

KarouBlue Gorgeous! 4y

squirrelbrain It all looks wonderful! 4y

Mitch @Catherine_Willoughby it‘s never too late! Grab some seeds and give it a go! We‘re novices and subscribed to a Kitchen Garden magazine that gives you few seeds with every issue. Our whole garden comes from those free seeds! 🤣 4y

Mitch @Leftcoastzen we‘ve had more time than normal to try out some new stuff this year. We‘ve been super grateful for the garden during lockdown 4y

Mitch @Bookwormjillk thank you. It was a surprise birthday present from my husband last year ! 4y

eraderneely Do you do anything in containers or is it all in the ground? 4y

Mitch @eraderneely about 2/3 in the ground - the rest in containers ( carrots, parsnips, fennel, kohl Rabi, dwarf beans are all in containers). 4y

StayCurious Hey! This counts as #gardenselfie for #SummerFunbucketlist! Another entry for the prize! 4y

Mitch @StayCurious 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 4y

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