Love it!

Thanks for sharing your beautiful plant!

Well that’s awful news.

VTC was home to some of my favorite people and communities on Lemmy. Nothing but love for you all. I hope you’re able to find new homes around the fediverse. 💚

That looks so delicious!

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That’s awesome. Are you growing it as decoration or as a food source?

I’ve been playing around with Japanese Maples. I know practically nothing about them but we have some adult trees on the property that my partner adores so I started learning and experimenting. I started a few weeks ago gathering seeds, and shortly after had a few little maple saplings. Since I have no self control when it comes to plants the numbers quickly swelled and I don’t actually know how many trees I have anymore. We have some larger saplings/baby trees that I dug up and brought inside, I started a bunch more seeds, took cuttings of our adult trees, and I transplanted tons of the little maples growing in my garden spaces. Now I have them growing in all sorts of different mediums, planted in little maple gardens, and I started playing around with making bonsai trees. Oops.

I think I mentioned kittens in another one of these updates? Two of them are now part of our family, and the other animals are slowly coming to accept that they all share the house now. We ended up taking in the two female kittens after we saw their dad trying to mount one of them… Spending time getting to know them has been really fulfilling. The one that was the most shy has become my little girl. She’s very vocal and affectionate and unbelievably brave. Every day her and her sister do so many things that make us smile and laugh and it’s a joy to have them around. Their brothers still roam the neighborhood and come to visit us regularly. I’ve had to change my vegetable setups outside to keep the cats from trying to use them as litter boxes. A bit annoying but I think we’ve got it solved now.

Garden stuff is all going crazy. I swear the peas double in height every other day. Indoor mint and balm plants are all being cut at least once a week and it’s already more than we can store. Makes for lots of delicious drinks though! The beans and other edible plants are all doing really well thanks to a lot of rain and a humid spring. The decorative stuff is doing well too. We started a jumbo Elephant Ear bulb this year that has probably 20cm of green bits sticking out from the middle and some smaller growth popping through the dirt from the sides. I’m hoping the growth really explodes once some leaves make it out and open up to soak in the sunlight. Succulents are all doing great indoors and out. I’m doing my best to not buy more by directing that energy towards the maples lol.

What sweet babies 💚

What an awesome gallery of gardening. You have such a wonderful variety of plants in your space, thanks for taking the time to share with us.

Honeysuckle is one of my partner’s favorite spring time plants. They are EVERYWHERE here and often cover our entire fence line with their powerful smelling blooms. Supposedly you can drink the nectar from them but I’ve never tired. I’ve been very tempted to go take cuttings of them to try and I keep indoors year round. If it grows out of control I can always use it to make fertilizer or something. Maybe today…

Looks like a healthy boy! 💚

Black Krim, Chefs Choice Black, Dwarf Tasmanian Chocolate and Momotaro.

Black Krim are so good.

deer-proofed

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Lots and lots of plant things happening.

I’ve started collecting succulents which has spiraled out of control as it often does. There are way too many beautiful varieties and I can’t help myself when I find neglected plants. We’ve had a lot of rain this year and all the outdoor succulents at the local stores are drowning in their pots. It’s hard not to bring one or five home every time I leave the house…

A bunch of the indoor plants became outdoor plants when the temps warmed up and everything is popping off. I’ve already been harvesting potatoes and onions, and the strawberries are putting out ripe fruit daily now. All kinds of other veggies are either started or well into their growth and I’m already running out of space to add new things. It’s a good problem to have!

And in other news, our neighbors cat had kittens recently and they tossed them outside so I’ve been spending a lot of my free time playing with them. I spent yesterday setting up a bed for them and gave them bowls of food and water. They probably need to be wormed and definitely have fleas. One or two of them may eventually make it into the house but we’re enjoying getting to know them as friends. There are 2 males and 2 females, all adorable. The boys are very adventurous and friendly, the girls are a bit more guarded. Slowly but surely we’re winning them over. I just wish they would stop digging in my plants! Bug netting used as ground cover seems to be working for now.

Awesome space as always. Looking forward to what you get growing this year!

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What an awesome haul. Plants are perfection. 💚

Oh my god dill on mashed potatoes is cheating. So good. Looks great!

Very cool

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Tbh the main reason we didn’t bring any home is that we already have too many (lol) similar succulents and I’m not sure we have the space for the baby burritos too.

They’re parked in the back of my mind to go back and check on when they’re being marked down later in the season. That gives me time to think about where they might live hahaha.

Saw these at a big box store recently and almost took some home. They’re very cute plants!

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