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#perennials

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Aurin needs 💸 📌

today, I be do EXPERIMENT from garden:

I be pluck some stinging nettle tops and small leaf, and make food from! (I also dig out as much of root as can, because is part of garden we want be able walk barefoot. is soooooo many root! very tenacious plant)

I not put picture of food, because look ugly. but taste good! 😋🍃

I wash nettle, then boil a bit. now no longer sting!
then I cut into small bits. if have blender, I be blend, but not have. I add salt, pepper, garlic powder, lots oil and little lemon juice (the cheap one from plastic lemon). I also add crushed sunflower seeds. I use mortar and pestle, because not have no blender. but it ok, it more work, but I be like have some small crunchy bit still. like crunchy peanut butter, but sunflower!

is be like pesto, only be differ. I be eat together of pasta.

is very nommy! Nam! 😋

#gardentooting#nettles#StinginNettles
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Aurin needs 💸 📌

🐼 The climate conscious bandit eats leaves and shoots! 🔫🍃🌳

some reasons for eating tree leaves (and using trees for staple crops too):
🌳 yummy! 😋
🌳 can forage wild for free 🕊️
🌳 connect to nature 💚
🌳 very nutritious - leaves of woody plants are on average much higher in key nutrients than annual vegetables 🥗
🌳 woody plants, especially trees, sequester carbon! ⤵️
🌳 they improve soil health and reduce erosion 🪱
🌳 climate resilience 🌍
🌳 trees are more resilient to fluctuating weather and climate conditions than annual crops 🌥️
🌳 they're better at soaking up and storing rain - important with increasingly unpredictable rainfalls 💦
🌳 increase water quality 💧
🌳 habitat 🐦
🌳 pollination 🐝 🦋
🌳 less susceptible to diseases and pests, especially in diverse systems (not monocrops) 🐞
🌳 reduced need for pesticides ☠️
🌳 they provide shade ☂️
🌳 less labour intensive 🏖️
🌳 great diversity, increases biodiversity and diversity of foods 🌈
🌳 they promote longterm thinking and concern for the ecosystem 🧓🤝👶
🌳 can be important culturally, especially to indigenous peoples 🧑‍🌾
🌳 there are species suitable to all climates and conditions where food is grown 🏜️ ❄️ ⛰️ 🌲

🧵 for some temperate examples off the top of my head

#climate#nutrition#agriculture
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Tina

#Garten #nitrogen_fixation #plants #stickstofffixierendePflanzen #mehrjährige #perennials #Permakultur

Weil ich grade ein englisches Posting zur Blauen Säckelblume gesehen habe, dachte ich, ich schreibe mal was über mehrjährige stickstofffixierende Pflanzen.
Es gibt dazu eine tolle Info-Seite von Lubera:
lubera.com/de/gartenbuch/knoel
Der Plan ist, alle diese Pflanzen so anzuordnen, dass sie die umliegenden Pflanzen und den Boden mit Stickstoff versorgen können.

In meinem Garten habe ich hiervon mittlerweile schon zwei:
Sanddorn
baumschule-horstmann.de/shop/e
und
Himalaya-Indigostrauch
baumschule-horstmann.de/himala

Geplant ist noch demnächst:
Säckelblume
baumschule-horstmann.de/shop/e

und in einigen Monaten, wenn der Platz dafür bereitet ist:
verschiedene Sorten der Färberhülse
baumschule-horstmann.de/faerbe

Zwei Bäume, die ich toll finde, können das ebenfalls:
Albizia
baumschule-horstmann.de/seiden
und
Ölweide
baumschule-horstmann.de/essbar

Da die Bäume aber beide recht groß werden, muss ich mich für einen entscheiden. Das kommt aber erst sehr viel später. :-)

Pflanzenversand und Gartenversand Lubera® | Ihr Garten-ShopWie Knöllchenbakterien Pflanzen mit Stickstoff versorgenKnöllchenbakterien - Diese Pflanzen binden Stickstoff ❁ Nützliche Helfer für deinen Garten ➤ Jetzt von den Lubera-Tipps profitieren
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elbowcrooker

There I was, trying to get a nice shot of our brunnera macrophylla, when Bella wandered into shot, determined to demonstrate one of her feline peculiarities, namely her bizarre preference for pond water over clean tap water.
The blue-flowered brunnera, by the way (probably 'Jack Frost') is a very useful shade tolerant perennial. It goes well with Dicentra and with decorative ferns.

#Caturday #cats #plants #perennials #flowers
#gardening #springflowersinbloom #bloomscrolling

Bella, the elderly tabby has a good long drink from the garden pond. Behind her, you can see the blue blooms and the pale leaves of the brunnera.
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🍄 mushroom mushroom 🍄

3 good things:

1) a couple years ago i bought a stovetop water distiller. it's stainless steel and can also be　used as a double boiler, stock pot and to render fat in.

it's *fantastic*! i use it on my single eye induction burner and i can get a gallon of water every 3-4 hours as well as humidify my house.

2) my perennials survived the winter! this is my third year experimenting with perennials in bins with lids over winter and they're doing amazing now that they're out of the garage and on my porch.

3) got some more degoogling done today. i'm deleting (backed up) photos from the cloud and it's been a fun trip down memory lane.

man, i save so many memes, lol.

#water#distilling#diy
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Artists Garden

Been busy all last week cutting down the borders. With the temperatures on the up, I reckoned that everybody is out now of their winter quarters in stems and seedheads.
The photograph is of the middle third of the #garden, viewed across. Behind the camera is the greenhouse, a little more space and a tall hedge.
Later in the year, this area is filled with tall, flowering #perennials, ornamental #grasses and #wildflowers - you cannot see from one side to the other. It is beautiful, undisciplined and overflowing with nature.
At this time of the year it is just flat. I am anxiously waiting to see what will come back.

On the left and in the background hedges and shrubs. The main section of the photograph is cut down borders and grass. In the foreground a stone sundial and in the background a stone bench.
#ArtistsGarden#ImperfectGarden#gardener
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