Freedom Gardening and Foraging

RIP to the original Freedom Gardening Group, may this new start bring just as many useful posts on self sufficiency, gardening tips, and lively discussions. All gardening, homesteading, foraging, and related self sufficient content is welcome (canning, soap making, herbalism, etc...)
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Garden Update 1. Concord 2. Valiant 3. Cranberry 4. Honey Dew #harvest26

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Fig Moving Day Last night we had a frost warning so we moved some plants indoors. Hopefully the figs will mature this time. There are 5 on the tree currently. I also topped up the soil in the fig planter and I am trying the sand method to prevent fungus gnats from multiplying. I will also use the yellow sticky tape.

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Garlic Bulbils We have been adding a few of these to our breakfast every morning lately. #harvest26

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Pink oleander flowers. People think of Las Vegas as too brutally hot for flowers but oleanders everywhere here and they explode with blooms in Spring through Summer. This is one of my 8 container grown oleander shrubs. I use 5 gallon industrial buckets.

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Spuds Harvested some of our potatoes. This is less than half. We planted them in new raised beds this year. #harvest26

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🌧️ Today’s rain’s not stopping them! 🌸 This summer, our drooping flowers could only offer minimal sweet treats to the bees. 🍯 But now with the rain, could there be a bountiful effusion of flower-juice in the neighbourhood? #wantagehoney #rain #Beekeeping #HoneyBees #Rain

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Humble Harvest

This is my dry bean harvest (so far, there are more on the vine) from my blue shackamaxon beans. And i say humble because hardly anyone is ever like "I can't wait to harvest my dry beans!" But they are one of the easiest winter storage items. I've got some dry limas too, they are prettier but not near as abundant and most are still green.

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The activity here is amazing!

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Yellow Transparents Harvested our neighbour's tree as she isn't using them this year. We will be making apple sauce and fruit leathers with them. #harvest26

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Please enjoy the random chaos pumpkin I didn't plant but it chose the perfect spot to sprout. I think one of the pansy eating possums dropped off the seed.

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RIP to the original Freedom Gardening Group, may this new start bring just as many useful posts on self sufficiency, gardening tips, and lively discussions. All gardening, homesteading, foraging, and related self sufficient content is welcome (canning, soap making, herbalism, etc...)