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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Raspberry Patch This is my mom's raspberry patch. When I was over there this weekend I used some rocks and a piece of wood to define the area. Then I added a couple inches of good soil. Next time I'm in the city I will add some mulch and this area will take off next year.

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This year's harvest is spreading all over the house now. It has been a really good season overall. However, two nights ago during a wind storm the roof of our greenhouse ripped all the way across the whole structure. So we had to go out with headlamps on to tuck tape it closed the best we could with the wind still howling. Good times. #harvest25

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Got some girthy carrots this year. #harvest25

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Harvesting

Picture of mixed items is only part of today's harvest. The beans are a rare variety of dry pole bean I got from one of the seed suppliers I like. Didn't get enough of those to eat this year, but hopefully the saved seeds will give me a better harvest next year. But I do think they are pretty, the variety of appearance is really cool. Basically, has four types which is the pale almost white beans, the cream colored ones, the yellow ones, and the red ones, each with different amounts of speckling.

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Honeydew Melon We have two of them growing in the greenhouse. #harvest25

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Valiant Raisins We made some of our Valiant grapes into raisins. They are pretty good. #harvest25

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Amaranth and Tobacco This picture is from a week ago. The tobacco are really small because we planted them incredibly late. This area is by our alley so we don't grow food here.

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Today's Bean Harvest

Did I mention I had a set of bean vines I planted in spring that waited until September to start producing? Well, I can't complain too much because they are making up for list time.

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repeatReminded by David O'neil

Fig Forming This is a Chicago Hardy and it's the first time this tree has had a fig get to this size.

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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...)